Monday, January 01, 2007
“GOOD GRIEF, MISS MOLLY”
Didn’t visit over the weekend? Then you’ll need to check out one of the funniest comments threads to ever appear here. Although Terry Lane probably isn’t laughing.
AGREEMENT SHOCK!
GACK! ... CHOKE! ... GASP!
PETA BUILDS A BETTER MOUSE HUT
“When tiny guests stop by,” advises PETA, “turn compassion into action. Plastic trap catches mice alive and unharmed so they can be released outdoors. Be sure to check the trap frequently, so mice won’t suffer needlessly. Each trap is reusable so that you can catch and release each mouse for relocation.” For extra entertainment, relocate them near an owl.
UPDATE. Rick W.:
A mate of mine used to work in a pest control lab in the UK.
PETA “liberated” all their mice and rats one night. Naturally the mice and rats simply sat around outside the building.
The local kites, hawks and owls ate so many they couldn’t fly. In the end they were walking from one meal to the next.
WORLD’S FASTEST HIPPIES
Fidens emails: “Good news for envirothugs and petrolheads alike—we can cease the fussin’ and a-feudin’ over the merits of 40-year-old Volkswagens and modern Ferraris. Instead, thanks to Ken Prather and sorcery, we may now enjoy the best of all possible worlds.”
VIEWS OPPOSED
Bob Hawke, among others, was apparently once targeted by Palestinian kill-bots:
Thirty years ago, Bob Hawke, then Labor Party and ACTU president, faced assassination at the hands of Palestinian militants for his strong pro-Israel views, cabinet papers show.
He wasn’t alone. The Australian Security intelligence Organisation also believed prominent pro-Jewish figures, Isi Liebler and journalist Sam Lipski, were on the hit list.
Naturally, this was all a crafty Jewish scheme:
Australia’s spy agency was tricked by Israel into believing Bob Hawke was the target of a Palestinian assassination plot, the former Palestinian ambassador to Australia said today.
Speaking of Palestinian plots, here’s the SMH’s Paul Sheehan:
Stripped of all emotion and prejudice, right and wrong, one reality becomes clear: there is no chance of a sovereign, autonomous Palestinian state. Not within our lifetimes. No chance. None.
Not only won’t there be a sovereign Palestinian state, there can’t be.
It’s no longer viable. At every historic juncture since Israel was created in 1948, rhetoric has taken precedence over pragmatism in the Arab world. As a result, every one of these historic junctions has resulted, without exception, in material defeat for the Palestinians ...
And Israel? Through all the wars, terrorist bombings and threats of annihilation, and despite intense internal divisions, Israel has grown into a muscular economy of almost 7 million, with a per capita gross domestic product far higher than any Arab neighbours, including Saudi Arabia. The Jewish population has grown from 600,000 to 5.3 million, with a birthrate higher than those in Western Europe. Per capita, Israel has the most engineers and the most high-tech economy in the world.
Israel’s advantages don’t end there. All of this, as Al-Jazeera Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Sheikh recently complained, “hurts our collective ego.”
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post mistakenly credited Paul McGeough, not Paul Sheehan, for the above piece.
THEY’D KNOW
The hanging of Saddam Hussein “violates all international laws” ... according to international law-violation experts Hamas.
ULTIMATE EARTHMOVING BATTLE
In which a mighty Caterpillar is consumed by its slightly larger opponent.
UPDATE. Paco: “Well, I, for one, am totally bummed by this story of a red-blooded, All-American bulldozer being gobbled up by a German, Krupp-manufactured Gaia-slasher. We need to build an earth mover even bigger than the Krupp Blitzkrieg IV. And Paco Heavy Industries is up to the challenge. The Promethean Atomic Clay Obliterator is on the drawing board, and will be coming to an open-pit mine in your neighborhood soon.”