But Les Kennedy Must Live!!!

said a man named Wallid

A local hairdresser, who said her name was Sheryne

Jeffrey Anbinder Must Die!!!!!!!

Update: Not the Cornell Anbinder. Down here in Oz we don't know much about Cornell, although I've got a cousin who studied law there and there is a guy with the same name as myself who was in the step team(whatever that is).

Update II: Unless, of course, the Cornell Anbinder is also a prick. If so, then he must die as well.

Wolf Shown the Door. (Good riddance)

Greg Sheridan says

PAUL Wolfowitz is a good man brought down by a shabby, politicised witch-hunt. The terms under which he was forced to deal with his partner when he joined the World Bank may well indicate that he was set up for a fall.

Wolfowitz tried hard to avoid personnel issues surrounding his partner. He sought advice, and followed it.

The spouses of other executives had been allowed to keep working at the bank but the hostility to Wolfowitz, which is a displaced enmity for US President George W.Bush, exacerbated by Wolfowitz's exotic name and reputation as an architect of the operation in Iraq, was present from day one.

First thing, Greg: she was his mistress not his spouse and he has successfully managed to fuck her over with his unethical shenanigans.

Second thing, Greg: Wolfies rep as an architect of the fuck up in Iraq shows him to be a far right warmonger and, given the very predictable results of his draughtsmanship, a fucking idiot.

Third thing, Greg: "exacerbated by Wolfowitz's exotic name" Wolfie hasn't been fucked over because he is a jew. He has been fucked over because the behavior which is typical of his type (i.e. right-wing, neo-con); nepotism and wing-nut welfare.

The title of Greg's hagiographic wank is "Dedicated servant of humanity" a more apt title would be "Dedicated servant of right-wing extremism and un-democratic political goals."

Fuck you, Greg Sheridan! Wolfowitz is not a good man and neither are you!!!

Terrible News

Rare throat cancer linked to oral sex

A RARE cancer in the back of the throat is "strongly associated" with a virus transmitted during oral sex, US researchers believe.

This is not a good thing, hopefully a vaccine will be developed very soon. I'm willing to bet that even those cavemen in Texas won't block the free distribution to all females.

Still hampered by her injuries, Lynch walked slowly to the witness table. “The American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don’t need to be told elaborate tales,” Lynch said.

The thing is that the Bush Administration needed to tell elaborate tales to keep the public on it's side. Once you start lying you gotta keep lying. Tangled webs an' all that Shakesperian stuff.

Sunday Arvo

Blind what??

Early Tuesday morning memory blogging.

Leunig

Explosion rocks Iraqi parliament, 2 dead

BAGHDAD - A bomb rocked Iraqs parliament building in the heavily fortified Green Zone Thursday, killing at least two lawmakers in a stunning security breach in the third month of a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown on violence in the capital, officials said.

No mention of the peaceful marketplaces and all the schools that were painted today. Goddam librul media!!

Vale Kurt Vonnegut jr.

But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007.

I don't know why but I've always felt that there was something of the Pooh bear about Kurt.

They walked on, thinking of This and That, and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top ofthe Forest called Galleons Lap, which is sixty-something trees in a circle; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four, not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it. Being enchanted, its floor was not like the floor the Forest, gorse and bracken and heather, but close-set grass, quiet and smooth and green. It was the only place in the Forest where you couldsit down carelessly, without getting up again almost at once and looking for some where else. Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky, and whatever there was all the world over was with them in Galleons Lap.

Falling Joys, Lock It.

Thursday night memory blogging.

Fuck you Mr. Jones...... heh.

Century

The Fun's in the Fight.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.

Painters and Dockers

The mighty Painters and Dockers!!!!

These guys were the first live band I ever saw by myself (i.e. Without Mum and Dad or other elders) it was early 1989. I sang "Dirty Ol' Town" on stage with them three years running (Bendigo Uni 'O' week 91, 92, 93). The third time, after the song finished, I got thrown head first off the stage by a bouncer...... Ouch.

The More Things Change........

You may leave here for 4(0 years) days in space,

But when you return, it’s the same old place

I was just listening to this old lefty classic and realized that the only thing that has truly improved since 1965 is technology.

Does this make us more civilized?

How Quickly We Forget.

House costs segregate rich, poor

THE gulf between Melbourne's rich and poor is becoming more territorial as the lack of affordable housing forces people on low to average incomes to live in the city's outer suburbs...
...And the lack of affordable housing has caused greater segregation between Melbourne's wealthy and poorer residents, according to the report's co-author, RMIT's Professor Gavin Wood.

I'm sure that the "Rich" don't have a problem with this at all.

Advance Australia Fair?

Australian officials will speak to the Sri Lankans and decide whether they satisfy the test for refugee status contained in the Refugees Convention. From that decision there is no avenue for appeal; no right of judicial review; no means of correcting errors of bias, or stupidity, or corruption. The officials who go from Canberra to Nauru to ‘process’ the Sri Lankans will not be operating under Australian law, or under Nauruan law, or under any other law. Although paid by Australian taxpayers, they will apparently not be subject to the constraints of any laws.

If the Sri Lankans are determined to be refugees, which looks likely, they will not be offered protection by Australia. Instead, we will hawk them around the world to see if another country will take them.

Way back in 2002 I had a German mate who backpacked through Iran. At each place he stopped he asked the locals what they thought about various countries:

About Europe and Germany he got different answers at different places but the median seemed to be "They're Ok as they tend to stay out of our business."

About the U.S. the general answer was "There are many things we like about America, but, by Allah, they are nosey pricks and they seem to think that we all want to be American. We don't!"

About Australia the answer was always "Ahh... A beautiful country of friendly beer drinkers. I would like to see a kangaroo." It wasn't that long ago that so much of the world felt this way about Oz....... I wonder how they feel now?

A Gathering of Eagles

The American patriots/Hardcore-Spartanesque-Banes-of-Terrorists-and-their-Librul-Allies from the mighty Gathering of Eagles enjoy a well earned libation after their succesful defence of the Vietnam Memorial from evil americans who don't want there to be a need to build any more memorials to the noble dead of less than noble wars.

UPDATE: Deep insider "Betty" reports that the Parks and the Washington Metro constabularies added their strength to the Gathering of Eagles and their cause.

The adversaries were across Henry Bacon Drive aiming their blaring loudspeakers our way, playing inappropriate rock, latin and hiphop music over our Memorials and I’m sure it was wafting across the Potomac to Arlington National Cemetery.

We were also supplemented by the Park Police and the Washington Metro Police.

The Gathering of Eagles were posted on a very windy knoll at the East End of the Wall, where they had surrounded themselves with hundreds of American flags flying briskly in the breeze. No loud music, no complaining about the environment. Just there to defend the Wall.

Still no comment from the police on this but I'm sure they'll soon be trumpeting their involvment.

I do hafta say that I was surprised to learn that dead soldiers don't like music.

Krazy Khalid Kills Kittens (and Infidels).

Now I'm really afraid.

"Clearly he is responsible for some of the attacks. But I believe he is taking credit for things he did not have direct involvement in," said one recently retired senior FBI counterterrorism official.

"In my opinion, it's excellent," the former official said of Mohammed's occasionally rambling statement. "It proves the point that these people are not stable or predictable, but that they are lethal."

You fuckin' what? Excellent???????

It's excellent that these people are not stable or predictable, but lethal???

This stupid, fucking stupid, comment is made by a retired senior FBI counterterrorism official.

We're all gonna die!!!!!