Tamsyn, Tamsyn, Tamsyn, Oi, Oi, Oi....

Tamsyn wins gold in Valencia

Good girl, well done....

Who da man?

33

I believe this means I can take a whole class worth of the little bastards. wo0t!!!1!11!1!

USA - a Maoist regime????

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It has recently come to my attention that one can accurately determine the political ideology of a person or group by cherry-picking certain actions and/or beliefs of said person/group and comparing them to another person/group of your own particular choosing.

By using this new form of revelatory research I have come to the wild conclusion and can prove beyond a doubt that the USA currently suffers in the grip of a repressive Maoist regime.

Exhibit #1.

a) Mao Zedong was the brains behind and leader of an agrarian based revolution in China.



b) George W. Bush likes to spend time on a farm.



Exhibit #2.

a) Dick Cheney likes to adjourn to the property of a friend and takes pleasure in small, specially reared birds falling in great numbers before his weapon.



b) Mao Zedong liked to adjourn to his bedroom and took pleasure in small, specially reared birds falling in great numbers before his weapon.

I rest my case.

The Golden Compass

It seems that the god botherers have found something to do this Chrismas.

"Every single religious character is a terror in these books," said McCaffrey. "There isn't one who isn't. And the heroes of the book – the children – are taught that churches are all the same and that they obliterate good feelings."

Irony, thy name is 'Ecclesia Catholica Romana'.

Reaching for the Stars.

Ta-ran-ta-ra!!!

There you have it. My blog reading level is genius and truthfully I'm not surprised, I've always felt that I soar in the mental stratosphere with the likes of Teh Editors, Atrios and Ken L. It's also nice to see the likes of Glenn Greenwald, Juan Cole and Jon Swift fluttering just below us at the college (post-grad) level. Lads, well done!!!

Also, a big "well done" to Michelle Malkin and Pammy Atlas who romped in at the high school level and to Glen Reynolds, Sweet Annie Althouse and Ace who surprised us all with an impressive junior high level.


h/t Roy.

Hoo rahhh

You know what to do.........

A Little More Can't Hurt, Can It?

SATELLITE images of the elusive North-West Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have ignited a diplomatic battle between Canada and the US.

The discovery that the entire passage is now ice-free, for the first time since records began, has started a scramble for control of one of the world's most potentially lucrative shipping lanes.

Images released at the weekend by the European Space Agency reveal a dramatic increase in the melting of sea ice. US scientists said it suggested the whole of the Arctic could be ice-free by 2030, far sooner than previously predicted.

The steady melting of the north polar icesheet has already provoked international tensions over the possibility of gaining access to the vast reserves of oil and gas believed to lie beneath the seabed.......

........Russia, Norway, Denmark, Canada and the US are among countries in a race to secure rights to the Arctic that heated up last month when Russia sent two small submarines to plant its national flag under the North Pole. A US study suggests as much as 25 per cent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas could be in the area.

No Virginia, you can't make this shit up.

Baghdad Burning

... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend...

Riverbend and her family got out. I hope they'll be ok.

Change

Using electroencephalographs, which measure neuronal impulses, the researchers examined activity in a part of the brain -- the anterior cingulate cortex -- that is strongly linked with the self-regulatory process of conflict monitoring.

The match-up was unmistakable: respondents who had described themselves as liberals showed "significantly greater conflict-related neural activity" when the hypothetical situation called for an unscheduled break in routine.

Conservatives, however, were less flexible, refusing to deviate from old habits "despite signals that this ... should be changed."

Yep.

P.S. Happy Birthday Joel!!

World Clock

Interesting

Sheedy and Hird: Genius and Magic

I was 8 when Sheeds became coach so I don't remember a time without him there. It's gonna feel really weird having a new coach, hopefully one of Sheedy's protégés (Neale Daniher, Mark Harvey, Mark Thompson, Tim Watson and now Dean Bailey all are or were senior coaches). Whoever it may be has got some big shoes to fill, not only did he lead the Bombers with top-line results he also revolutionised the game to the benefit of every player, team and spectator.

As for Hirdy, the Bombers have had other captains and champions in my time but, by god, the man was a fucking magician and it's sad to see him go. Hirdy, just by being Hirdy, would probably make a great coach and it would be nice to see him stay in footy. Hey Hirdy, I hear the Bombers are looking for a fresh coach...........

Thanks fellas.

Friday Morning Memory Blogging

1984 with a bullet. Here come The Takeaways....

Iraq WMD Cache Found!!!!!!!!!!

At last, President Bush, a man of unsurpassed genius and inarguably the greatest American president since Hoover, is proved right..... huh, wha?? Oh.

UN finds deadly chemicals

The United Nations found potentially lethal vials of a chemical warfare agent, removed from Iraq a decade ago, in offices near its New York headquarters....

Meh... better call John Bolton.

Tom Tomorrow

This Modern World: In 1969, a group of radicals hatched a secret plan...

Mimi stakes the high ground!!!

Mimi Smartypants says:

WHY DO I EAVESDROP IT JUST MAKES ME MAD

Speaking of heinous bitchosity, I was ready to castrate and disembowel these two DePaul-hat-wearing Chads on the El, as they went into an EXTREME and MINUTELY DETAILED critique of various girls' appearances. Is she hot? She's pretty hot. Well, her body is hot, her face not so much. You're crazy, her face is totally hot. See, I used to think her face was hot, but one day I noticed that her lips are really thin and like one side is kind of higher than the other. Yeah, and did you see her last week when she had that huge zit? What about Other Girl? Oh shit dude, she's gotten so fat. She used to be hot but now she's a cow. She's got great tits though. Her hair is so busted, man, she needs to quit coloring it or something.
AND ON AND ON AND ON until I shoved the headphones into my ears and tried not to bite my own tongue in half. I hate to break it to you morons, but it is not our job to live up to your standards of fuckability. Unless there is some magic potion that will turn you back into human beings, I hope you and all the rest of your brotherhood fall into a vat of pig shit and drown. Although I don't think pig shit is kept in vats. Why would it be?

Mimi, there is nothing wrong with having a bitch & whinge about the foul vagaries of the opposite sex, but get off the high horse.... or, as JC would have put it "Thems without, cast first."

As for storing pig shit in vats - fertilizer.

Naughty TRex

You can't do that.

Message from Rudy

We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Fuck me!!!!!!!!

Land of the Free, Home of the what?????

h/t Digby

A Gathering II: The Quickening

The boys are back



h/t TBogg

Angus Laidlaw Beveridge

August 25, 1976 - July 31, 2007.

The night too quickly passes

And we are growing old,

So let us fill our glasses

And toast the days of gold;

When finds of wondrous treasure

Set all the land ablaze,

And you and I were faithful mates

All through the roaring days!

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Henry Lawson "The Roaring Days"

Catch ya later, Nipper.......

His shit Does stink!

He may be a stuck-up old racist but in some small way Philip is a man after my own heart.