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#1: “Brad Pitt plans to rebuild ravaged New Orleans.”
#2: “I can unite the world on climate, says Rudd.”
“I can unite the world on climate, says Rudd.”
Good luck. In our office of 15 people, not one day goes past without an argument as to what the thermostat should be set at.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 04 at 09:46 PM • permalink“And the Oscar for best medium density housing project with good feng shui goes to…”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 04 at 09:47 PM • permalinkOops, don’t tell me Bali is going wong already
Poor Penny - “Shit, hang on Narelle, just how much is this bloody thing going to cost”
Penny would be a gem at an auction, the more the crowd cheer, the more often she puts her hand up, forgetting to listen to the auctioneer.
On the other hand, Rudd’s putting someone elses money where his mouth is.
Well, yeah. He’s the prime minister. Isn’t that how it works?
Posted by Jefferson Skates on 2007 12 04 at 09:57 PM • permalinkMore power to Brad Pitt. Seems he’s actually making, or trying to make, a difference. I prefer that to the usual empty platitudes and sanctimony that comes from Hollywood.
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2007 12 04 at 10:05 PM • permalinkThe temperature trend over land between 1980-2002 is estimated to exaggerate global warming during that time by 100%, according to a new paper by Ross McKitrick and Pat Michaels published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (December 2007).
McKitrick and Michaels write:
[We] have concluded that the manipulations for the steep post-1980 period are inadequate, and the global temperature graph showing warming is an exaggeration, at least in the past few decades. Along the way I have also found that the UN agency promoting the global temperature graph has made false claims about the quality of their data. The graph comes from data collected in weather stations around the world. Other graphs come from weather satellites and from networks of weather balloons that monitor layers of the atmosphere. These other graphs didn’t show as much warming as the weather station data, even though they measure at heights where there is supposed to be even more greenhouse gas-induced warming than at the surface. The discrepancy is especially clear in the tropics.The surface-measured data has many well-known problems. Over the post-war era, equipment has changed, station sites have been moved, and the time of day at which the data are collected has changed. Many long-term weather records come from in or near cities, which have gotten warmer as they grow. Many poor countries have sparse weather station records, and few resources to ensure data quality. Fewer than one-third of the weather stations operating in the 1970s remain in operation.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, more than half the world’s weather stations were closed in a four year span, which means that we can’t really compare today’s average to that from the 1980s.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 12 04 at 10:09 PM • permalink#4
Last thing we need is Kevni “AlGore” Rudd running around the world on a holy crusade!
Sounds to me like precisely what he should be doing - while he’s running around impotently doing nothing, he can’t change anything at home, and things might keep chugging along nicely. Can we get Gillard to accompany him on his trips?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 12 04 at 10:09 PM • permalink#1: “Brad Pitt plans to rebuild ravaged New Orleans.”
I plan to marry Katherine Hepburn and retire some day.
#2: “I can unite the world on climate, says Rudd.”
Doesn’t the climate already unite the world? I mean, looking out my window just now here in Colorado, I see climate. How about you folks down under? Is there climate down there?
Terrorism would feature in these talks. As opposition leader, Mr Rudd nominated the rise of militant Islam as one of the biggest issues facing the world.
Was it elected?
While there, he revealed, he will also seek to enhance Australia’s relationship with Indonesia when he meets its President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Having freshly ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Mr Rudd will personally hand Australia’s instrument of ratification to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.
Oh, that’s just swell. Rudd’s negotiating with Star Trek characters.
oh my, Gore’s carbon footprint is gi-normous
Maybe we can get Garrett to give hime a hard stare, since he isn’t allowed to speak.
Hm.
Rudd governs Australia, and all the world.
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Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!Dear Mr Kevni,
I live in Melbourne, but I understand you’re from Queensland and are willing to help.
I have a problem with the climate down here in Melbourne. Every day, I wake up and watch the weather report, and I dress appropriately according to what the weather report says.
But I always end up too hot or too cold. So, can I request a stable temperature of about 25C?
I know you can do it Mr Kevni.
Thanks in advance,
Ash.
INDIVIDUALS MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Man Accused of Swiping Blow-Up Dolls
God, what a wonderful feet…well arms, legs, breasts too.
Wonder if this dude has callouses on his hands?
#22 Maybe Gore can pay Garrett to stand quietly outside during the conference, reflecting sunlight off his enormous shiny head, thus lowering the planet’s albedo and compensating for Gore’s Gulfstream emissions. It’s well within Garrett’s capabilities and is about as economically and climatically sound as anything else Gore has suggested.
#14 GPE. Yep just had a look and then another to confirm and we have climate here. All is well, giant storm dumping on us at the moment which is good for the new tomatoes and the pool level. But this is Queensland and we get special treatment because Kevni’s here to help his own.
Saw a PACO shop in Dublin recently, but I didn’t have the camera on me. It was a chain of ladies fashion boutiques. Is there no limit to this man’s influence on either industry or nation?
Brad Pitt might want to ask himself while he needs to put five million of his own money in that wasteland. There has been enough money put in there to rebuild that garbage heap ten times over. But, like any good little caring liberal he won’t ask any of those questions. They never care about what could be done if the money were wisely spent.
80% of the BIA’s budget stays in Washington while little children on Reservations go to school in rooms with no heat. Bleep him and all his caring little friends and the horses and boats they floated in on.
Bleep New Orleans. Don’t get me started.
The homes are to be built initially in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward, one of the poorest — and mainly black — areas of the city.
Not mentioned in the article is any reason why this ‘hood in particular or N.O. in general was revealed by Katrina to be such a cesspool of crime, corruption and poverty.
The Democrats have ruled with an iron fist down there for decades—that is what “ravaged” N.O. It should have been a utopia, if the left’s ideas had any merit. But they don’t—they just have good intentions, (like Pitt), and the dire consequences can always be ignored or rationalized away.
One of the architects has designed a floating house instead of one on stilts, incorporating a lightweight concrete foundation held down by two pylons, which would rise with floodwaters.
And another architect who had a modicum of sense built a much cheaper traditional house in a part of the country that doesn’t flood, for pete’s sake.
Yeah, yeah—kudos to Pitt for the money, but he’s still a dipwit. I suppose it will be fun to watch the “progress” of this project…
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2007 12 04 at 11:59 PM • permalinkO/T slightly.
From instapundit, low dollar is driving European investment in climate risky Alabama.
Aren’t they afraid of GW and Hurricanes?
Reader Jim Dunn emails:
(I write for Business Alabama magazine, so it’s my job to know about these things.) Airbus is hoping to land the Air Force tanker replacement contract, true, but that’s been known for a while. What’s new is that they’re now considering building passenger aircraft in Mobile, Alabama, as The Birmingham News reported. Here’s a link to that story.
Also, I have to point out that German steelmaking giant ThyssenKrupp is already building a massive new facility in the Mobile area that will cost around $4 billion.Pitt has good intentions, but yojimbo and zeppenwolf are right…...billions have already been pumped into NOLA. The problem is the inept and corrupt leadership.
As a rule, if an area doesn’t rebound (in an economical sense) immediately after a disaster, it takes a long time to get back to where it was. It if ever does. People move away, and don’t come back because there are no jobs.
One reason why Clinton was so successful was his statement, “It’s the economy, stupid”. His master stroke was to convert FEMA from a slow and lazy federal autocracy (and I speak from professional experience) into a responsive federal agency. Some of that edge has worn off (again, I speak from professional experience), but their primary thrust remains kick starting the economy. About the only Clinton did not do was to have C130s fly over a disaster area, kicking out bales of $10 bills.
But Clinton was charming enough to be able to secure the cooperation of virtually anyone (heh, ask Monica!). Bush, for all his good intentions, not so much. Add in the BDS, and the Louisiana leadership didn’t cooperate like they should have. Layer on the ineptness and corruption of the local and state governments, and you can only have an area economically depressed for the long term. It sucks, but there y’go!
Pitt, for all his good intentions, does not realize this. Housing doesn’t mean s**t if there are no jobs. It’s a vicious cycle. Frankly, he’d do better to invest that $5 million into light industry, or some such. He might even make a profit, God forbid.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 12 05 at 12:29 AM • permalink#39 mehaul: Faith, and it would be this place you’d be talkin’ about? Aye, ‘tis just a little sideline, a shop where the colleens can purchase the latest fashions and fripperies and what-not.
#46 - The store motto is a little worrying: “Paco’s doing great things in womens clothing!”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 05 at 01:28 AM • permalink#14, GPE (pleased to make your e- cquaintance, by the way)
I only just this minute checked (to be sure) and yes, there is indeed climate occuring both nearby and as far as your deponent’s myopic eyes can peer.
Among the many quotes mistakenly attributed to Samuel Longhorn Clemens is:
“Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.”
[Charles Dudley Warner, same bloke who said “Politics make strange bedfellows”]Well, I’m here to tell you that the merest whiff of the a corporation’s Social and Environmental Objectives (and how they can be manipulated to pecuniary advantage)—that I made in a contract renewal presentation to a major water authority hereabouts—tipped the balance in my favour to the tune of and additional 30k/month.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 05 at 01:44 AM • permalink#51 - Oh my I just looked outside and low and behold there is climate happening here aswell. Infact unless my eyes deceive me it is precipitating.
Yes thats right you heard correctly precipitating. Now don’t get too excited everyone, I know that in this era of climate change and global warming that this occurance has become the stuff of legends and folk stories but it is actually precipitating outside my window - I wonder what this says about Al Gore and his very convenient scare mongering money maker
I’m with Yojimbo. F*** New Orleans.
Don’t American communities get flattened all the time by disasters? What was the name of that Florida town - Homestead? I guess the fact I can’t clearly remember means they quietly went about the work of rebuilding instead of sitting on their asses whining to Uncle Sucker.
F*** New Orleans.
#61 I have discovered that if you turn the shower on with the bottom full of buckets then wiat for the water to warm up you can generally get enough water to rinse your car off in about 4 minutes. Did I mention you need to blow out your pilot light first.
You may have miss out on a shower that day though - too cold and all that
41 yojimbo
This should set your hair on fire…:)
Katrina aid fraud nears $500 million
134,000 people ineligible for money got it anyway, administration admits
updated 7:34 p.m. ET, Tues., Dec. 4, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration now acknowledges it is trying to recover nearly $500 million from people who improperly received federal aid money intended to help victims of two deadly hurricanes, Katrina and Rita, along the Gulf Coast two years ago. It said the amount may increase further.I feel increasingly alienated. I. Don’t. Believe. In. Global warming. I just don’t. I’ve seen all the propaganda in film and newspapers, and I’m just not buying it. I really think it’s all mass hysteria, filtered down from the top, when you’ve got movie stars and politicians alike (a deadly combination!) striking fear into the hearts of children with their doomsday rhetoric.
#70 Hey Kae I think its because he knows he will only be in power for a short while and he is trying to beat Howard for the highest number of public addresses.
I just dont think he has thought too much about who what where when how or why.
He is just looking for a platform to launch his global domination campaign
#13 I had the same reservation re building in a flood plain. But if it is shown to be sound enough for building on, why shouldn’t Pitt donate his time and money to rebuild the area? He obviously cares about it if he lives there and for him it is clearly helping a place he loves be a good place for others and helping solve a tragedy.
I applaud him for his enterprise and goodwill. Bono is one man who could learn a good lesson about self-funded initiative.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 05 at 05:16 AM • permalink#28 Ash, actually I think the whole fuss about climate change came from the inability of anyone to predict Melbourne’s micro-climate(or weather) changes - fast as the shufflings of a card-sharp.
One minute hot, the next cool and damp, followed by a heatwave and then a light breeze…I think all the tourists got frightened and catastrophised it into worldwide propootions. Hence, climate change.That’s my theory anyway, and I’ve got quite fond of it.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 05 at 05:24 AM • permalink#78 - bloody global warming cost me an umbrella on the way home in that storm tonight. Blazing hot winds from the south pole broke it at the top of the stem.
Then I tune in to News Radio, and hear, I’m sure I did hear, the newsreader refere the the Dep PM as ‘Julia Rudd’.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 05 at 05:28 AM • permalinko/t and too late in the thread:
Individuals Making A Difference?
A lot more discussion of the NIE (the most important weapon unleashed on the popular mind this year) at Belmont Club.At least they got something right; sending the disabled black lesbian off to the puppet workshop*
* apologies to the poster of a few months back who reminded me of this beauty.
Krudman - our latest superhero. Watch in awe at his efforts to clean up this filthy planet. Mild mannered Prime Minister by day. Gaia saviour in spandex by night. With his trusty life partner Rein Woman, what evil carbon spewing nemesis can stand in their way?
Can we all join hands… We are the world…
Rats, you beat me to it Tim.
Who let Ruddles out of his play-pen. I notice much talk of gaps to be bridged, possible by the fork in the road.
Again, we see a return to
multilateralismsurrender to the UN despots and corruptocrats:Having freshly ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Mr Rudd will personally hand Australia’s instrument of ratification to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 05 at 07:03 AM • permalinkDespite the kruddslide I got sunburnt today.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 12 05 at 07:03 AM • permalinkOh PLEASE! First it was Pog and that old nursery rhyme, now I’ve got the image of Krudd in spandex to wash out of my brain. Where’s the compassion, for pity’s sake?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 05 at 07:05 AM • permalink#14 Yep, we got climate up herer GPB. Most of it from Colorado during the past 48 hours, I believe.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 05 at 07:06 AM • permalinkI am with Yojimbo on this one. Living on the coast of Florida I know alittle something about nasty weather. Charlie, Francis, Ivan and Jean. Now that was a summer. Don’t hear much about that. The difference between Florida and NOLA can be summed up in one word-corruption. The politicians in NO are milking the disaster to line their pockets. Mr. Pitt is using it to line his ego.
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“Having freshly ratified the Kyoto Protocol, Mr Rudd will personally hand Australia’s
instrument of ratificationtesticles to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon./fixed that for you.
I suppose selling off most of Australias future growth is a good way to combat inflation….isnt it?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 05 at 08:31 AM • permalinkClimate being committed around here. Waves from the big storm up north expected by afternoon local time. Eight to ten feet on top of a six foot high tide. With some beach side neighborhoods just 5 feet in elevation, this means some wet living rooms and kitchens. (Mission Beach has an average elevation of minus three feet.)
Rain this weekend, expected to be worse than our last one. (Seven inches of rain at Mt. Palomar.)
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 12 05 at 09:39 AM • permalinkmythusmage,
Our son is at Townsville, and he says the weather is OK, a bit blowy and some showers but not bad for the boat he’s delivering to Moolooaba. Seas not too bad. Weather forecasts don’t seem to be too bad either. It doesn’t match up with 8-10ft on the met bureau site.
He’s a calm boy, never gets upset about the weather at sea, so perhaps he’s understimating things. ??
“I can unite the world on climate, says Rudd.”
Not while there is one choking, dying breath left in my bloodied, bullet-ridden body.
Fuck off.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 12 05 at 10:28 AM • permalinkRight now, it’s global warmening outside my window, about four inches worth so far. Probably because we’re all sitting here using computers.
(h/t Lileks)
Yeah, the global warming is coming down here in Richmond, Virginia. Lovely white flakes of it.
Morons.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 12 05 at 12:03 PM • permalinkThis won’t affect the climate, much, but it may cool a few fevered brows by convincing them that they’re “doing something”.
#57,Dave S.
Exactly. Take Greensburg Kansas. The town was totally destroyed in early May of 2007 by an F5 tornado. In about one year they will be totally rebuilt. It would be sooner but they are “a progressive city” so they have to “plan” new green initiatives.
Congrats on the Bills win last Sunday.
#63, Cidster
#98, RuskinripIt’s not just the graft but the misallocation of resources that bugs me. The left never questions where the money has gone and why more hasn’t been done. I’m about up to here with these little brats.
That $500 million is 3,300 “Brads”!...)
El Cid. Are you back playing golf yet? And my hair is on fire most days lately!...)
Terrorism would feature in these talks. As opposition leader, Mr Rudd nominated the rise of militant Islam as one of the biggest issues facing the world.
Actually, I find this to be a good sign. If one goes by the statements of Miranda Divide and the other looney tunes of the left, militant Islam is just a made up excuse for the US to take over the world.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 12 05 at 02:01 PM • permalink109 yojimbo
That $500 million is 3,300 “Brads”!...)
Damn! Hell their only about 2 bucks a box, here at the hardware store.
Are you back playing golf yet?
Not regularly my friend. Since the half gainer happened ooooo, bout two years ago, everytime it turns cold (as in tonight, maybe with snow) it kinda’ aches. The rest of the time it’s just damn uncomfortable…:).
Yeah, I know. Tim’s busy writing his article.
More on the NIE at Powerline.This from two days ago, I believe…Weekly Standard 5 Questions concerning the latest NIE
Al-Qaeda Moves East….Strategy Page
Snippet…
December 5, 2007: Al Qaeda appears to be moving its main effort to Afghanistan, after operations in Iraq, North Africa, Somalia and Europe (not to mention North America) have all largely failed. But continued Taliban activity in Pakistan and Afghanistan has provided al Qaeda with one area where they might be able to have a little success. But that will require a change in methods.
@107 So teh enviro mentalists, after having taken our electricity, will come for teh candels.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 05 at 07:40 PM • permalinkMy, but aren’t WE full of ourselves.
Actually, Pitt’s efforts are quite worthy, although I can’t understand why they insist on rebuilding in the flood-prone Ninth Ward. I’m quite intrigued by the idea of a house that rises with the tides.
How much longer do you suppose the media will tag Rudd with the line “former diplomat and China expert”?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 12 05 at 07:44 PM • permalinkFight Climate Change, say NO to Rudd’s carbon-spewing classroom computers!
Mwuhahahaah.
Has anyone seen this in the Telegraph?
Rupert Murdoch takes over Sydney Morning Herald
In the latest hilarious stuff-up at its so-called “newsroom of the future”, the Herald has installed massive pillars at its new Pyrmont office depicting a huge etched image of the News Corporation chief.Mr Murdoch, of course, has much better taste in newspapers - he owns this one for starters.
And the fractuous Herald staff, whose dislike of Mr Murdoch is eclipsed only by their hostility towards their own bosses, Fairfax and Rural Press, are furious.
There are about 25 of the Murdoch pillars throughout the editorial floor, where Herald managers are making much of the company’s attempts to become an integrated media company.
The company spent millions on its move from Darling Park to Pyrmont, and one source said outside consultants were paid “a vast sum” to design the pillars to “make some sort of statement about modern media.”
The broadsheet ran a cocky editorial last month where it invited Mr Murdoch to visit the Herald while he was in Sydney to see what an integrated newsroom looked like.
Now the joke is on them, with Mr Murdoch keeping a watchful eye over everyone from David Marr to Adele Horin.
“It’s just typical of this place at the moment with Rural Press, the whole thing has been a disaster,” a source told The Daily Telegraph.
“The new building is a joke. It’s got no public transport, there’s no mobile reception, none of the staff were asked about any of the changes, and now we’ve got these Rupert Murdochs all over the place.”
As a reciprocal gesture, The Daily Telegraph is considering installing a small etching of Warwick Fairfax in its tea-room.
Theo Spark.
btw, can we (media) not glorify this latest mass murderer? Don’t publish his name, image or “issue”. Completely ignore him, other than saying a deeply disturbed man killed himself, but only after wasting 8 innocent lives, and publish those 8 innocent lives names and photos, and describe THEIR life in depth, and how wasted it was. FUCK the murderer - don’t give him 1 second of publicity identifying him.
eg I bet you all can recall that photo of the uni murderer, some even his name, but few, if any, 1 single victim (well apart from that jewish prof who was a hero). Sad the victims are just numbers, but the f’wit is remembered.
Then stop showing all these murder shows on tv. What do they achieve?
I’m sick of murders being held up as noteworthy, newsworthy and entertainment.
/rant!
rip to the victims
Brad Pitt plans to ravage rebuilt Angeline Jolie (or this is an extremely feeble joke, and she is one of the unBotoxed few?)
Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 12 05 at 09:58 PM • permalinkCongrats, El Campeador.
Heed thou the words of ‘Ol Ben: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 05 at 10:34 PM • permalink169 MentalFloss
First, it is really damn good to see those gifted fingertips of yours
Heed thou the words of ‘Ol Ben: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
As to the above, completely agree. That is another reason I have suggested a yet unnamed Group Blog. Yet not forgetting from whence we came (Tim Blair’s)
With the talent on this Blog of Blair…a Group Blog, would be el primo and in soon order.
Time vested, YES…but it seems we all have some time, to vest…as long as egos are checked at the door, for the greater good. Frankly I don’t see a problem with egos.
BTW…Your words at Crittenden’s…Brilliant, but then that is expected.
#181 Oy! Don’t get me started…and you bearing the name of the first ever to set light to the aforementioned oil…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 05 at 11:08 PM • permalink#184, Supplemental:
...for the purpose of worship in the desert Tebernacle…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 05 at 11:15 PM • permalinkLooks like Rudd has found some local allies in his war against global warming.
Tim,
It is now Wednesday night, almost Thursday, which would make it what - almost Friday on your side of the globe?
There hasn’t been a new post in two days.
(again, overstates the obvious)Get off your arse dammit and blog.
Christ, I really got to get a life.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 12 05 at 11:43 PM • permalinkThe glorious Rudd junta has finally cracked down on the dissenters. I expect Tim is being re-educated as we speak - possibly waterboarded by Phillip Adams.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 12 06 at 12:07 AM • permalinkSeeing as how this thread is fraying at the ends “ha ha”, how about you tell me what you are having for Christmas dinner this year.
I normally roast a goose, my European background showing through. This year I’m going the traditional Anglo Saxon and having turkey with all the trimmings. My cakes are in the oven and I still have puddings to boil.
Here’s a thoughtful article on Gore and his Nobel prize (the kind of thing I’d write if I was one of those brainy coves like Michael Lonie or Mental Floss).
197: Pogria, my family usually has the same thing for Christmas dinner that we do for Thanksgiving - namely turkey with all the trimmings. In the last few years however I have been successful in convincing my mom to do roast beef (a really good piece costs a bloody fortune but it is SO WORTH IT once a year).
128: El Cid, hey, cool blog! Congrats on joining the dark side! And I think a group Blair blog is a BRILLIANT idea. I could totally go for that.
#211: Good night, G&T; past my bedtime. Thank you for your kind words.
BTW, global warming gave us a blizzard in Washington, DC, today. We had to burn carbon-offsets to keep warm.
#212: I suspect you’re right, Ash. But you should never overlook the possibility of sabotage.
#125, actually, I’m surprised that anyone building on a flood-plain doesn’t just house everyone in Bouncing Castles. Lovely soft and fun habitation.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 06 at 01:15 AM • permalink216 Dr Alice
128: El Cid, hey, cool blog! Congrats on joining the dark side! And I think a group Blair blog is a BRILLIANT idea. I could totally go for that.
Thank you, very much. Ummm, I’m kinda dark (complected) anyway…:).
As mentioned, with the diversity of (no not that kind) brilliant minds here, (OK…leave me out of it) a Group Blog would in my estimation, be a smash hit.
#205 Paco, thank you. A very interesting article.
His points that follow also apply to the big lie that Jews stole Israel from the Palestinian Arabs.“Availability cascade” has been coined for the way a proposition can become irresistible simply by the media repeating it; “informational cascade” for the tendency to replace our beliefs with the crowd’s beliefs; and “reputational cascade” for the rational incentive to do so.”Very, very interesting.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 06 at 01:34 AM • permalinkMichael Leunig being interviewed now on Phillip Adams program ABC radio!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 06 at 01:41 AM • permalink#195 Kae, you are quite right.
The blessing common to all holidays (and other occasions or joyous events such as weddings, births, seeing a comet, the overthrow of Amalek’s children and their subsequent public hanging, a total eclipse, etc.) is know as “Shechecheyanu”, which goes sorta like this:
“Blessed art Thou, Lord our G-d, Master of the Universe, who has kept us alive and sustained us and has brought us to this special time”
What a woman!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2007 12 06 at 01:49 AM • permalinkAccording to Leunig, as per the interview,
the right can’t “do humour”. Tim Blair is apprently “snide” and the humour of the right is “self-delusional”.#232
Really it should be “Ochel ba li! “
ie “Food come to me!”Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 06 at 02:00 AM • permalink#233 carpefraise,
your comment is the perfect intro for the unveiling of what I believe to be the ideal theme song for Blair’s Blog.
Only we get to call him “TB”.
233 carpefraise
the right can’t “do humour”. Tim Blair is apprently “snide” and the humour of the right is “self-delusional”.
What a dumb ass he is. Never heard of “snide humor” eh? Made some of the great comedians, very wealthy. One comes to mind…Bob Hope, he owned a great deal of Mexifornia, at one time.
“self-delusional”. Is that what Leunig does in the bathroom, with the door locked?
#231 carpefraise, anyone who has enough control over their bodily functions to watch those two fawning on each other earns my admiration. Just the mental images I’m suffering are causing me some difficulty.
So our humour is snide and self-delusional.
Why was “projection” the first word to come to mind when I read that?not only is our humour snide and self-delusional, apparently RWDBs ‘sit forlornly tapping on our laptops’ because we ‘love’ Leunig and Adams et al, but because we can’t have them we try and destroy them.
apparently Gerard Henderson lies awake at night fantasizing about the duckman, or so the duckman says.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 12 06 at 03:16 AM • permalinkFor my 1000th self delusional, snide and humourless post I’m forlornly linking to Nicholson’s cartoon today about abc bias
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 12 06 at 03:52 AM • permalink
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“Brad Pitt plans to rebuild ravaged New Orleans.”
Uh, is that like the scene in Blazing Saddles where they build a fake Rock Ridge in one night?