Lest We Forget.

"You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on our land they have become our sons as well."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (Father of the Turkish Republic).

I will not be missing this one!!!

The future today!

Here it is peeps. Now that evolution has finally been cast aside as rubbish, the religous types (read whackos) have been hooting like gibbons (hmmm) with glee. But wait, what is this? Hooray!!! Science has finally fought back with something that will push humanity 100 years into the future. German scientists have used lasers to create tiny eyeglasses for a housefly. Take that you gibbon-like fundamentalists.

She'll be right, mate!!!

It would do the people of Australia some good to read George Orwell. Tyranny doesn't happen overnight you know.

Whoa, ho, ho!!

Gold tainted by Tamsyn, says Jana

TRACK star Jana Pittman has offered to give her Commonwealth Games 4x400m relay gold medal to disqualified England.
...........Pittman said she was embarrassed by fellow athlete Tamsyn Lewis, who Pittman said had instigated the protest over a technical breach.

Nice try Jana but it won't work. People like Tamsyn, they don't like you. Tamsyn is Hot, you are not. Tamsyn is friendly and smiles, you are a sour bitch. You'll never win this fight even if you win an Olympic gold.

Up to scratch.

Just thought I tell a story.

Many years ago (well, maybe about 13) I was wearing a new pair of boxer shorts. They were good undies, I felt free and easy all day. After a day of wearing my smart new boxers it came time for me to take them off, so off they came, not unlike the way your lovers blouse drops gently to the floor. It was then that I saw It! Perched neatly upon the end of my prong was a small sticker reading "Inspected by 36". It was one of the best feelings of my life, I had passed muster, I was accredited. I don't, and will probably never, know who 36 is but, wherever that person is, I want them to know that I have been keeping John Thomas in good order.

I've been passed, have you.

Stupid Lede.

Giant child-eating snake seized


This was the title of an article in the Herald-Sun. Please tell me, when in Oz history has a snake eaten a child. Child-eating snake, MY ARSE. In my time, I have known 3 guys with large constrictors (don't giggle, you bloody adolescents) and they never ate any kids. I will admit that Oz does have the most dangerous snakes in the world i.e. the Inland Taipan (Fierce Snake) or the Tiger Snake or the Death Adder. Hell, Australia has a plethora of killer snakes, but we don't have child eating constrictors (we do have teh big pythons up-north but they don't eat kids). This is the type of bullshit article that gets the rubes believing anything they are told. e.g. John Howard has the best interests of the Australian people in mind.

Wolf lady.

As I said, she is an evil lookin' bitch. Fucking scary.

A Little More Joe?

You know, I've lived in somewhere around 15 dictatorships in my life, negotiated and threatened dictators in Africa and the middle east right to their faces. Given that,it's really kind of hard for me to take seriously a trio of clowns named Dick, Karl, and Scooter. I mean, c'mon.

Ha, ha, ha, aha, ha, ha!!

Kick Arse!!

This is brilliant. Joe Wilson (Husband of Valerie Plame) goes BALLISTIC. Woo hoo!!!!!!! Bring it on!!!!!!!!

UPDATE: I just read this again. This is one of the best fuckin'kickyouinthenutsyoumotherfuckers, that I have ever seen. And this guy has the credentials to get away with it. Beautiful!!

Love my use of grammar? Also beautiful. Correct me if you will, just make sure you correct me correctly!!

Make ya think?

Here is an interesting article.

I'm not sure how to approach this particular topic, so much of what happened seems suspect and that makes it hard to get a good grounding, I think this is important because there are no answers.

I remember where I was when I saw what happened on 11/9 (sorry not 9/11, I'm an Aussie) I was watching a documentary on Muhammed Ali on ABC (I think it was sometime around midnight) and some script came accross the bottom ot the screen, it said that a plane had it the WTC. I thought "wow, that sucks" I was thinking that some little Piper Cherokee had hit one of the towers (which I climbed when I was 14), so I kept watching the Ali docco when, all of a sudden, the screen changed to an image of the WTC and one was on fire, I thought "Fuck", then about 10 seconds after the image came on another plane hit the other tower, I thought "Holy Fuck!!!".

I will say a this point that I had had a few cabernets and about three joints, so I was pretty numb. It was a very strange feeling being numb and suddenly something that is not a drug makes you even more numb. After I saw that plane hit I couldn't move for about 5 minutes until I remembered that Uncle John lives in New York. I ran upstairs into Mum and Dad's room and turned on their telly (I was living at home at this time, I remember Dad looked a bit pissed when I ran into the room and woke him up) The thing I remember most was the look on Mums face when she realized what was happening (I'm not sure of a word that can describe horror, distress, worry, fear, terror, sadness, understanding and not understanding. I think closest I ever saw her face look like that was when Princess Diana was killed).

What happened that day? I don't know, but there are a fuck-load of questions.

Read this.

Read this. I'll say something later.
Now, I go to bed.

PLANGENT!!

Plangent.

Plangent.

Plangent.

I like it.
Plangent is my new word.
It means "loud and resounding".
Say it slowly. It's a cool word.

P.S. I found "plangent" in this Molly Ivins piece. I like Texas Rose Molly.

Caspar Weinberger Dies at 88

Good , that scumbag should have been pilloried.

The Games

The Commonwealth Games are over. HOORAY. Check out the medal tally, they should be called the Australian Games.

All that these games are is a chance for our track and feild athletes to actually win something. It's like we award medals to countries in order of importance. England 2nd (the Home country), Canada 3rd (great people, plenty of hot chicks), India 4th (rising power), South Africa 5th (Great at Cricket and Rugby, they are OK), New Zealand 9th (good excuse to hang shit on the Kiwis). All-in-all it was a great, big, multi-million dollar wank.
Of course, Tamsyn Lewis (see above, more pic's of Tamsyn in the archives. I can't link to them due to problems of censorship in the nation I reside.) is excused from any critique and, of course, the athletes from Sierra Leone who invented a new sport "Jutfab" (JUmp The Fence And Bolt). Well done chaps. I heard that one of the lads said he got the idea when his labradoodle took off over his back fence and he had to spend 3 hours looking for the mongerel which finally showed up when it was hungry.

Once again, HOORAY FOR TAMSYN!!!!

Blow-job.

Here is a couple of pic's of the damage done by Cyclone Larry. It was a reeeaaallllyy big mother-fucker of a storm. Big call out to Seano and Doggy who went through it.

What's in a name?

What?

The drug and its maker are being kept secret for commercial sensitivity reasons.

Read this article and consider the phrase "commercial sensitivity".

What's yo' angle?

She is an evil lookin' bitch, ain't she?

Call it like ya see it!

Saw these, and many more of these, forward looking quotes here (Fuckin' Morons!)

"Iraq Is All but Won; Now What?"(Los Angeles Times headline, 4/10/03)

"Now that the combat phase of the war in Iraq is officially over, what begins is a debate throughout the entire U.S. government over America's unrivaled power and how best to use it." (CBS reporter Joie Chen, 5/4/03)

Mission Accomplished?"The war winds down, politics heats up.... Picture perfect. Part Spider-Man, part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan. The president seizes the moment on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific." (PBS's Gwen Ifill, 5/2/03, on George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech)

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits." (MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 5/1/03)

"What's he going to talk about a year from now, the fact that the war went too well and it's over? I mean, don't these things sort of lose their--Isn't there a fresh date on some of these debate points?" (MSNBC's Chris Matthews, speaking about Howard Dean--4/9/03)

"If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a president fresh from a war victory?" (CNN's Judy Woodruff, 5/5/03)

Nagging the "Naysayers""Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?" (Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, 4/25/03)

Why can't those of us who thought the war was a bad idea (or, at any rate, a premature one) let it go now and just join in celebrating the victory wrought by our magnificent military forces?" (Washington Post's William Raspberry, 4/14/03)

"Sean Penn is at it again. The Hollywood star takes out a full-page ad out in the New York Times bashing George Bush. Apparently he still hasn't figured out we won the war." (MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, 5/30/03)

Cakewalk? "This will be no war -- there will be a fairly brief and ruthless military intervention.... The president will give an order. [The attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling.... It will be greeted by the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say, bring it on."(Christopher Hitchens, in a 1/28/03 debate-- cited in the Observer,3/30/03)

"Speaking to the U.N. Security Council last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell made so strong a case that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is in material breach of U.N. resolutions that only the duped, the dumb and the desperate could ignore it." (Cal Thomas, syndicated column, 2/12/03)