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That’s all I’ve got really, in the absence of Missy Higgins threads and before Talk Like a Pirate Day … arrr.
Myf Warhurst has finally been redeemed in my eyes.
Blogwhoring is only incidental to this query, as I really am intensely curious: What’s the “Asia/Pacific region” in intertubes world? http://bitemylatte.blogspot.com/2008/09/asiapacific-region.html
Ha – she does look more than a little chuffed there, Shaun.
Why tig tog wears a mohawk?(upspeak)
Why paul walter wear no gravatar at all?
I’d have used the sulphur crest, but you beat me to it (weeps!).
You’ll note I didn’t spell Sulphur Crest, “Sulfur Crest”. You might take this as a clue that I am not American.
How f*cking disappointing is it that Possum and Pollbludger have misguidedly decided to hitch their respective wagons to the hopelessly dim Crikey star? Talk about aiming low.
BBB
D’you reckon, BBB? Why’s that?
Lee Marvin:
“Ho,
I was born
under a wonderin’star;
A wondrin, wondrin star”.
Just thought I’d share that.
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Since there is a real chance that the US will have both a gung-ho war president and vice, it is worth a visit to Ari Folman’s excellent animated documentary Waltz with Bashir. It would be good to get a peace president but not likely in my lifetime.
Recently I’ve been rinsing my old Amorphous Androgynous CD ‘Tales of Ephidrenia’. ‘Auto Pimp’ is totally awesome track!!!
Saw the following sign above a stall in a shopping centre last week:
WATCH
BATTERIES
INSTALLED
$12.00
I thought that was a bit on the expensive side, then realised that “watch” was being used as a noun and not as a verb.
Hi all,
Sorry to hijack a thread and all, but I’d like to check something with the Queenslanders around here. I just saw a couple of Labor guys manning a stall in Nudgee with electoral material and all that guff. Did anyone else notice stuff like that recently? If there are a lot out there it may be indicating an earlier than expected poll.
As for Pollbludger and Possum going Crikey, well let’s wait and see shall we. The extra resources might actually come in handy, and it’s not like they’re joining Fairfax or Newscorp.
PinkyOz
Yeah, Im totally puzzled by any outrage about Crikey. For starters, they’ve been controbuting there for ages anyway (well, Possum anyway). And 2nd, Crikey is one of the few independent media sources around. Ive really applauded their work CASA, eg. The rest of the media has trailed in their wake.
PinkyOz:
That’s probably just Wayne being made to do a Kev. The Kevmobile is often seen on Saturday mornings at shopping centres and retail strip footpaths throughout Griffith, working the room. Lilley’ll probably getting the treatment. Wayne must hate being told what to do, when he knows in his heart that it’s supposed to be him up there in the big chair. What must go unsaid between him and Costello?
Speaking of
Beattie-iteRuddistConstantCampaigningTMuber-retail politics, Anna starts rolling out the Q2community forumspropaganda barrel tomorrow afternoon in Carindale, which is in Kev’s electorate, He and Wayne might be there to fly the flag. Anna was certailnly there for Kev’s commmunity cabinet at Narangba.It’s a PR blitzkreig , with 12 venues being hit on the one day, Monday week. Can you imagine how much my-people-talking-to-your-people has gone into it to get that sort of a putsch sewn up? That’s the sort of thing you can do when you have an army of nearly 400 PR staff to deploy on message.
Anyway, if you’re up for a snag and sauce on a slice of bread, some red cordial, and a lot of baloney, it’ll be photo-ops at 3 paces from 1 pm at Belmont State School, Old Cleveland Road, Carindale. Be there or be orthorhomboid.
As to whether it all portends a rush to the polls before the NSW and WA and NT contagion catches, we’ll know when the bookies tell us.
danny,
Your probably right, I doubt Bligh is going to have a go. The only thing was it wasn’t Wayne’s material; it was Neil Roberts the member for Nudgee and our Emergency Services Minister.
The Q2 stuff is a bit interesting, if they are buttering us up for an election that would be one way to go about it, hold informal talks at the electorate level, run a state-wide ad campaign focused around renewal and hold the election when the turmoil around the LNP is at about its lowest, but still haven’t quite settled, maybe January or February?
Anyway, enough election speculation, thanks for the info though.
PinkyOz
IUPAC sez it’s spelled “sulfur”.
My impressions upon NSW’s local government elections from the inside of a red campaign t-shirt and from the top of a motorcycle overdue for a service.
1. Damn, turnout was low. General revenue is going to do good business in non-attendance fines.
2. How’s it going dk.au. Good to see you again.
3. Memo to the Greens: consolidate. All those people who voted for you? You need to get them into your Party or at least solidify the support. I’m just saying, that’s what I’d want to do.
4. Oooh, cool.
5. Comment of the day by a disgruntled voter, annoyed that he had to go back from Marrickville to Penrith to vote due to the lack of absentee balloting:
Two strong Queensland government/public service rumours:
1. Bligh was planning a Cabinet re-shuffle to be announced 5 September, but NSW ugliness stayed her hand. Welford and Mickel were to be on the hit list. Welford announces retirement following Monday.
2. Queensland Treasury has hoarded a fund to pay out a whole bunch of SES contracts.
Normally, I’d roll my eyes in a “yeah, right” fashion, but the chatter about this has been too loud.
Anybody heard anything similar?
It’s more about trying to force Judy Spence out.
I think you’ll find, danny, that Kev was doing a Wayne. Remember Swan was in Parliament from 93 to 96 and then lost. He’s never taken the seat for granted since. Whereas Rudd had his first (losing) tilt in 96.
# 19; that is because they are d-ckhead americans.
Maozze [22]:
No. Not exactly …. but there’s smouldering resentment of HUGE payouts for sub-optimal politicians and public servants and contractors and other camp-followers. Further [[expletive!]] resentment of squillions being wasted in Brisbane City on roads, etc. “Three hundered metres of Brisbane roads costs more than doing three hundred kilometres of roads up here” might be an exaggeration but it is a generally held belief.
Well then, wonder where people want the southern boundary of the New State for north Queensland to be these days? 22 degrees South? Tropic of Capricorn? Miriam Vale? Burrum Heads? or …. Caboolture?
Possible “collapse of more facts” about to occur tonight.
Good luck to those who might be sweating on keeping their jobs.
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http://business.smh.com.au/business/lehman-collapses-wall-st-fights-meltdown-20080915-4gse.html
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Is there a knowledgeable reader (Fyodor ? Katz? )who would like to keep others
up-to-date with what is going to unfold ?
I’ll second that request, murph.
Even just a reading on the fucked-o-meter, scaled 1 to 10, where 1 is “only the stupid are losing money” and 10 is “Thunderdome”.
Obviously Lehman Bros aren’t friends of Commisar Cheney. Otherwise the born-again Chifleyites of the Bush administration would have socialised them too!
Q: How could this happen? A: The quality people they got in the financial engineering “industry”… not:
“Adding to the jitters among local financial service stocks, former Babcock & Brown chief Phil Green has quit the infrastructure investment business’ board as the Sydney-based company reported a 30% fall in first-half profit and suspended dividend payments till next year. The announcement sent the company’s shares 16.8%,
“After stepping down as CEO and managing director of the company, Phil has decided that the transition from chief executive and managing director to a director role was a difficult move for him to make and not in the best interests of the company from a corporate governance perspective or his own personal position,” Babcock & Brown chairwoman Elizabeth Nosworthy said in a statement. He has therefore chosen to resign from the board.”
Good solid blokes, types you want in your corner when the going gets tough.
That Elizabeth Nosworthy will be the one that is the Qld water comissioner: that’ll partly explain how we managed to get so close to water supply catastrophe.
The ruling class just isn’t what it used to be.
The crisis is over. No more big choices to make.
Put your trays into the upright location and assume the crash position.
Katz [31]:
Very well put.
[I'm smiling because I haven't got any money to lose .... not so far to fall].
Liam, does that make 11 Beyond Thunderdome starring Tina Turner?