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Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas
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Frist! Second week in a row! I am such a loser.
Where ya bin Kim?
Hi Christine — I’m at home on a Friday night too. We’re not as young as we used to be.
Nyet. No one is.
Hey Mandy, check out my latest vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQGqklVJyuQ
Got any fags?
Oh that’s no good.
Prime Minister Francis UrquhartIan Richardson has died. http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2009598,00.htmlAll life and energy comes from the Sun. Thus sun worship is the least irrational of all religions.
Discuss.
Oh that is bad.
Vale FU.
On a pirate skills refresher course, Christine.
Tell that to people who use a lunar calendar!
At exactly 5.05pm on Friday afternoon I pinch a nerve in my neck and am confined to bed.
Thank god for lap tops and wirless intertubes.
That’s too bad, comicstriphero. Hope you get well soon. Have a smoothie and a massage.
Hypothetical question:
If you wanted to move – gosh, I don’t know – 4 boxes of width 100cm, length 100cm, and height 50cm, from, say, Melbourne, to Brisbane, what would be your recommended method of transportation?
It’s obviously not worth hiring a removal van, but it’s too much to take as oversize baggage on the plane.
Just a hypothetical question…
On the question of the least irrational thing to worship, I vote for happy puppies. We could learn a lot from them.
Cheerleaders axed by South Sydney!!
Anyone who has a city-based blog can submit stories to an upcoming Carnival of Cities – it will be published on February 19th (actually the 20th here in Australia)
Details here.
Everyone:
Hey, let’s do a swap with South Africa? Send them Johnny Howard to clean up violent urban crime before the World Cup and we’ll take Thabo Mbeki to handle our environmental and sovereignty problems. They mightn’t agree because we would be getting the better end of the deal – worth a try though ….
This hyperbole that exporting coal is the only useful thing thing that Queensland can do is driving me crazy. There are so many opportunities for employment and exports which don’t involve resources which will eventually emit CO2. Aiming for an economy which does this and guarantees security into the future is not the claims of someone who has “lost the plot”. It is the claims of someone who cares about you and your families future. Who do you trust to keep the economy strong?
I say, Christine and Mandy, how jolly good it is to see you putting yourselves about again. Johnny Profumo is throwing a little party for a new, but awfully randy Russian diplomat on the weekend at Lord Ponsonby’s place. Be simply capital if you two could make it.
“Tell that to people who use a lunar calendar!”
Lunar calendars are only for people without a basic grasp of astronomy. They are basically flawed from the outset due to the inconvenient fact that the moon gets further away from the earth every year.
Therefore, solar is better!
And solar worship has got to be the most rewarding – think about it.. “Dear God/Sun, please keep coming up every morning” Works every time!
The Amazing Kim
Sent one (similar) sized parcel from Launceston to Townsville using Australia Post – cost about $30, as opposed to courier quote of $90 – maybe worth checking ?
Anyone know Steven Conroys E mail,just want to challenge him on some crap hes been sprouting
Stephen Conroy’s contact details.
senator.conroy@aph.gov.au
This is just a heads-up on Keith Windschuttle’s latest diatribe on the left in quadRANT: Australian values in an age of deceit. Read it and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
His basic conclusion is that the Left views the working class as an enemy.
In line with his previous denials about poor-treatment of Australian Aborigines, he now insinuates (but does not assert) that the SIEV-X incident never happened.
I like to see any interviews of this guy by Tony Jones, with Robert Manne interviewed at the same time.
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Oh, and on previous SatSal comments
1. Lunar calendars can be useful for some males so they know when to lay low and avoid getting their heads bitten off.
2. Conroy spouting rubbish is hardly ever surprising. IMHO he’s not an asset of the left, but an airtime oxygen-theif.
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Pterosaur and Amazing Kim:
The much-despised “bureaucratic” Post Offices in a quite a few parts of the world are usually cheaper, faster and more reliable that “free-enterprise(wtf???)” parcel express (on an old donkey, perhaps?) companies and better than diamond-studded, gold-plated air freight.
Another thought. Do you know any truckies heading that way? Not exactly a Back Load but it wouldn’t hurt to ask
I would also post them, Another Kim. (It depends on what they weigh, of course.) But anything up to 115cm is usually ok to post.
Ted Haggard’s miracle conversion, also long essay about lawyer Melissa Hoffer and her Guantanamo clients. “If you have been a cook, studied martial arts or know something about computers, you may be considered a threat to US security.”
Re Graham 2007-02-10 1831 Comment 346243:
Information technology experience going back 30 years, experience in genetic engineering, trained in toxicology and how to handle assault weapons, and whistleblower from inside agencies of government: I’ve gotta be on the watch list! Oh, I am! Positively, covertly (and clumsily) vetted to head a project north of Adelaide in the 1980s: My “I’ll build a shield but not a sword” put me in their bad books.
After recognizing that I’d been broken into, a friend in one of the agencies said “If you’ve been to uni there’s a file on you. If you have infotech know-how, there’s a file on you. If you have weapons experience, there’s a file on you. You’ve got a HUGE file.”
For this century, I’d add “If you blog on non-trivial issues, there’s a file on you.”.
You’ve gotta love Echelon.
Apparently then I have a nice thick file too. Do they wipe it if you fail uni? Or make it doublethick? I used to work at the ABC, back before they infiltrated it with all the rightwing stooges to “balance” it. (Is Trioli one of those, or just irredeemably ordinary?) That would have bulked it up. Do I get credits for resigning?
What worries me is not that “they” are watching and scurrying and reporting but that they seem to be more or less the same “they” as ever, with more or less the same attitudes and values and agendas, no matter who is in power in various countries, as if there is some overarching global construct which assumes it has the political truth and merely tolerates democracy and free expression.
Clumsily expressed, I know. Paranoid, I know. (Just musing, Echelon; not talking about you, Pine Gap.)
Dave and Graham:
Well, well ……join the club …… now you’ll have to queue up for membership like everyone else …… and the end of the queue is around the corner and halfawy down the next block ….. be patient and don’t go queue-jumping
There is nothing wrong with a government keeping an eye on what is being done by whom inside their borders (IMHO).
The trouble only starts when some brown-nosing political toady or some poorly trained and inadequately supervised ratbag can’t tell the difference between verified information that has gone through a rigorous intelligence process on one hand and a mish-mash of idle gossip, wild guesses, vexatious rumours, half-baked suppositions, wishful thinking and ideological hysteria on the other.
GIGO (garbage-in-garbage-out) applies as much to government or organizational record-keeping as to anything else in life.
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I just tried that Ants and all I could summon was one little third order elemental who set fire to cat, nicked a half bottle of Stoli out of the fridge, told me I was no John Dee and then pissed off back into the fourth dimension. I think you may have accidently transposed a few digits there old chap.
Speaking of such like, if you like the idea of early Len Deighton meets HP Lovecraft, then this is the sorta thing you would like.
It’s nice to know your kids old school is in the news again. (made the second page of the Tiser) http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21195344-1246,00.html?from=public_rss
The asian vs fat kid debate is still up on Youtube but the little rascals seem to have changed the theme a bit.
Speaking of marijuana, this site shows the effects of several legal and illegal drugs on the brains of mice. Via Pharyngula and Grrl Scientist at scienceblogs.com (requires Flash)
Heh, I saw that too observa and I was totally shocked. Shit 20 years ago when I
was high school we never gathered in a group to egg on the fighters.
Crazy kids today with their youtubes, I don’t know.
One of the great inventions of the internet age: the self-incriminating crim.
Governments should cut police wages and spend the savings on videophones and internet connections for everyone.
Michael Caine as Abdul Alhazred, Nabs? I’m in. Apologies the wrong address for his greatness, I was working from memory on my air Gibson.
Zarquon. Great news! I think Tales of the Riverbank’s time has come.
Okay it seems to be storm season and I just have to get this media thing with ‘clean ups’ following various tempests out of the way. It is not a clean up in most cases – more like a ‘collect up’ – broken trees, branches, various flotsom and jetsom blown about. A clean up evokes scrubbing, maybe applies to flood damage with mud and water or an oil spill. But your normal run-of-the-mill storm, cyclone, windy woof just entails collecting up the crap that blows about. Any takers? Now I feel a whole lot better.
Finished my first real short movie for online viewing last night.
It’s about people playing ‘Jugger’ (Medieaval ‘football’ with huge padded weapons) in New Farm Park.