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NYE OPEN THREAD
Begin the countdown to 2007, now only 19,000 seconds or so away. Have a great night; see you next year.
It can indeed, vexorg. And since my partying has been cancelled due to unwell rugrat, you’ll all no doubt get sick of me in here.
Cheers all!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 03:58 AM • permalinkHappy New Year!! A round of black-eyed peas (aka Texas caviar) and collard greens for everyone!
Posted by Sharon Ferguson on 2006 12 31 at 04:22 AM • permalink5 1/4 hours to go to 2007! What a wonderful New Year’s present from Iraq!
I’m joining Scott with a square bear.
Peace and best wishes to our host and everybody here!
Kaboom
Bottle of bubbly at the ready, sir, chilled and ready to fire!
I’m also happy to report that I have spent nearly $6,000 in post-Christmas sales.
Posted by David Morgan on 2006 12 31 at 04:53 AM • permalinkThis laptop is the only thing electrical on, the rest of the house is covered in candles and roses for when Dirty Harriet gets home from work.
33hours, 45 minutes until I get on the plane.
We’re just going to get sloshed on champers and maybe later go and sit in the spa for a while. A happy, and safe New year to one and all.
All the best and brightest to you.
Now, let’s get pissed (and maybe kissed!)Well, the Sydney 9pm fireworks were quite impressive. The kids I could hear around me were squealing.
More taxpayer provided explosions on the harbour than this night. and with less casualties thank god.
Let’s see what they can do at midnight. Nothing like seeing fireworks fired from the ‘coathanger.’
17. Eeniemeenie, you and me both.
I’m raising my glass to you, sir, and all the rest of the lurkers and commenters, from the House in the Heart of Bogan Central.
Okay, I’m early, but happy niew yare.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 07:49 AM • permalinksame back at ya nilknarf- hope your kid’s feeling better- where is bogan central?- im in white trash city myself
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 07:55 AM • permalink#17 Eeniemeanie, Nilk, Me too at the moment, Dirty Harriet has got a friend covering her from 11:15, so she might make it home in time. I don’t mind either way, the house is set up, and I am just waiting for her to get home. I hope your daughter is feeling a bit better Nilk. :)
I’m busy dealing with 50Kg of Malamute who’s scared of fireworks (which, despite it being illegal, are going off all over the place.)
You have no idea how hard it is to type with her trying to climb into my lap.
A pre-emptive Marvelous New Year to you both.thanks 185600- congrats on your forthcomng wedded bliss- will you change your nic to 185601 then? good luck with your deployment and come back in one piece after giving the bastards hell
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 08:11 AM • permalinkHNY to all! 10.15pm here in Brisbane and I’m already as hammered as a nail, with an additional two bottles of the cheap stuff set aside for midnight. :-D
Let’s hear it for another year of interesting and entertaining posts from both Tim and you guys in the comments section. A safe and happy NY to all. I love this site. <group hugs everyone>
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 12 31 at 08:14 AM • permalinkBogan Central, for those not in the know, is one of the outer eastern suburbs of Melbournistan. Out Dandy way, but not actually Dandy.
The froglet has a bit of a cold, and has come back from a few days away gallivanting around the city without me. Hence her routine is right up shit creek, and I reckon it’ll take me a week to get her back into line. Grr.
Oh well, you get that. Enough bleating from here.
185, you and Ms Harriet have a great time.
I’m anticipating a lot of changes in the next 12 months, so it will certainly be interesting.
I’m onto my second glass of plonk, so will no doubt be on my ear shortly, have the cheery and lively We Were Soldiers on the teev, and the kid is finally asleep. Yay!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 08:35 AM • permalinkWell on my way here in Brisbane.
185600 God speed [troop] sergeant. Be good and if not be safe, do your duty and if you can come home hale and hearty.
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2006 12 31 at 08:38 AM • permalinkMs Nilknarf, you’re in Melbourne? Me too!
Happy New year everybody, I never intro’d myself properly when I first popped in but it’s been a dark pleasure reading everyone’s (mostly) pertinent and hilarious comments this year - I trust there will more splendid commentary next year and look forward to it.
Have a safe and happy 2007.
Posted by carpefraise on 2006 12 31 at 08:49 AM • permalinkYes indeed, carpefraise, a denizen of Australia’s first police state, as I like to call the place here.
#26 Well said, JABL. God bless you, and your troops, 185, if I dont’ remember to say so before you go.
I’m thinking the wine is getting to me. Hmmmm. Bloody cadburys I am. When did that happen?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 08:53 AM • permalinkWell, it’s midnight here, and the bogans and ferals are letting off fireworks all round.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Enjoy what’s left of it those in foreign climes (that includes WA), and see you next year.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 09:00 AM • permalink#32 Nah, this time it’s the breatharians. All those anaemic, spindly creatures you see hanging around those dreadful ‘spiritual festivals’ or whatever they are called.
back at ya on the well wishes, too.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 09:08 AM • permalinkstill 11pm in qld- gonna join the olds talking bout their forthcoming grey nomads tour in an hour.drunk on a french port like substance.
fireworks? i wish- havent seen them since hawkey decided they were too dangerous for us plebs (ie trying to make us good little republicans by taking the fun out of queen’s birthday)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 09:09 AM • permalink185600, I had 22 years of soldiering, and more farewells than I care to remember, and they never got any easier.
My thoughts are with you and your Diggers.
I would give my left nut to be headed off on the same aircraft as you, but they don’t take half blind and unfit old men anymore, so all I can do is barrack from the sidelines.
Godspeed, drop us a line here if you can.
Needless to say, I am proud of you and your comrades.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 12 31 at 10:08 AM • permalinkThat thing about the sun possition in relation to a sailing ship’s yard-arm…that over, under, around, near?
Sun is no where in sight and it’s already 6:00. I have a whole fresh 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels to get through before midnight. If I waite till sunrise to start, I’ll have to work up to a sprint to finish in time.
Happy New Year, Tim! I’ve still got fourteen and a half hours (I think—“math is hard stuff” said Barbie) to go here.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 31 at 10:32 AM • permalinkhappy 2007 to everyone- thank you all for the wit , wisdom and plain common sense on display here.
best wishes to tim and trollblaster general andrea- you was robbed!- this is the best blog on the www bar none
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Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 10:34 AM • permalink#43
‘there is one fact which stupid people who speak the english language all over the world are prone to ignore, and that is- let us chaff and jaw and criticise one another as we please, when all is said and done, the Americans, and the English and their great outflow in Canada and Australia are all one’
Mark Twain , (speech at the yorrick club Melbourne 1895)
(dunno about ‘outflow- sounds like sewerage- but otherwise he had it right)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 10:45 AM • permalinkStill 2006 here. Tell us about 2007—are the polar ice caps still there?
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 12 31 at 11:07 AM • permalinkStill a few hours until the New Year here in southwest Ohio, but we’ve put the pork roast and sauerkraut on, the bottle is chilling, so HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY anyway! All those who are deployed or deploying, stay safe Over There. We’ll save a few self-important balloons for you to bust when you come back.
#51 the world hasnt ended yet- no sign of polar bears but this is the tropics
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 11:17 AM • permalinkHappy New Year, everyone! I still have 16.5 hours until 2007, so I’ll have to wait until that happy occasion. In the meantime, I’ll just watch the Aussies getting pissed….and no doubt kissed!
Good luck to all! Especially you, 185600, but certainly to all military personnel going out to meet the enemy.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 31 at 11:37 AM • permalinkgrimmy - i dont think even you would want asalt water crocodile as a pet
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 12:01 PM • permalink#60 nb -it is’ the least likely of crocodilians to become extinct due to its wide distribution and almost pre-colonial population sizes in Northern Australia’ ie it’s illegal here to hunt or otherwise kill them- so we get the biggest(20 ft+) ones
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 12:17 PM • permalinkIn the forever words of Jimmy Buffett’s 1973 song Why Don’t We Get Drunk…
AND to start the New Year off with a bang…I really do appreciate the fact you’re sittin’ here
Your voice sounds so wonderful
But yer face don’t look too clear
So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round o’ brew
Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screwChorus:
Why don’t we get drunk and screw
I just bought a water bed, it’s filled up for me and you
They say you are a snuff queen
Honey i don’t think that’s true
So, why don’t we get drunk and screw.Second Chorus:
Why don’t we get drunk and screw
I just bought a waterbed it’s filled up for me and you
They say you are a snuff queen
Honey i don’t think that’s true
So why don’t we get drunk and screw
Yeah, now baby i say, (lord!)
Why don’t we get drunk and screw…The Sydney fireworks were amazing (as always) and thrilled everyone who watched them.
I am so fed up with the losers who as predictably as clockwork every year, write to the newspapers suggesting they be cancelled and we spend midnight instead reflecting on how unhappy we could be if we wanted.
The tourists who watched the fireworks are guaranteed to tell their friends about their time in Sydney. This translates to big dollars in addition to big smiles.
Of course it’s even more annoying when the cynics live nowhere near Sydney or come from another state altogether.
I for one am having a very happy new year, which started with Saddam’s trapdoor swinging and has only gotten better since.
Hooray!
“AND start the New Year off with a bang…” As it were… :-)
13 1/2 hours to go here in South Texas, but I have been moved to cue up Jimmy Buffet on iTunes.
185000, Dirty Harriet is a very lucky woman, sounds like to me. Again, go with God, and come home safely.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL! Thanks for the humor, insight and all-around great commentary.
Thanks, eeniemeenie, but we’ve got plenty of crocodiles right here in Florida. They like to hang out by the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant. I don’t know if they’ve started to glow in the dark.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 31 at 12:48 PM • permalinkBe safe, 186500, in the new year.
It’s only noon on New Year’s Eve here. They have fireworks at midnight in this tiny Soviet socialist republic in which I live. I anticipate rampaging cats.
I see where salties are supposed to be more intelligent than lab rats. That means they’re smarter than hippies. When are you Aussies gonna give the salties the vote?
More Australian zaniness , via the always enlightening Blue Crab Boulevard.
I see no Resolutions above, maybe it’s not an Aussie thing.
I resolve not to cause anyone to wear panties on their heads.
I resolve not to kidnap and hold any hostages.
And if I do, I resolve not to behead them, or burn the bodies.
And if I should, I resolve not to show it all on al-Jazeera.Oh yes, I resolve not to set off any bombs in the coming year.
If everyone would just follow my lead, the world would be a better place in the New Year !
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 12 31 at 01:21 PM • permalinkI have managed to escape the bedroom for a moment, and if caught on this laptop, I am a dead man, but I just wanted to wish all of the people who comment here, both furrin (Grimmy, JeffS, Texas red, and so many others) a Happy New Year.
I wish all of you nothing but the best and brightest, and would like to thank you all for your good wishes. If I can whilst away, I will try to comment, we’ll see, if the Geekstapo let me. :)
Otherwise, see you in a few months, and I can only use another man’s words:“So sad to see the grieving of the people that he’s leaving
And he took the road for God knows in the morning
We walked him to the station in the rain
We kissed him as we put him on the train
And we sang him a song of times long gone
Though we knew that we’d be seeing him again
(far away) sad to say I must be on my way
So buy me beer and whiskey cause Im going far away (far away)
Id like to think of me returning when I can
To the greatest little boozup and to Tim Blair’s Comments Section.”
God bless all, and I hope to hope to see more of you guys in the new year (Paco, I need more of Detective Paco and his long cool women, I beg you!).
All the best to all of you, I had better get back to bed before this becomes the shortest engagement in history. :)
Good luck, friends.It’s about noon in Texas and now it’s the time for the Americans to take over the blog as our Aussie counterparts sleep off their hangovers. I predict a wild and wooley night on this side of the pond!
Young socialist son and princess daughter are safely ensconsed with friends which means that mom and dad will have their first NYE alone in about 14 years. Could get crazy in Austin!
Happy New Year to all, my wonderful cyber friends. I’ll check back with you all later and see how far it has come apart at the seams here.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 31 at 01:52 PM • permalinkOh and to 185600: Special New Year’s wishes to you and your bride. May you go in safety, my plain-spoken friend.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 31 at 02:01 PM • permalink#79 Grimmy: Oh, I’m not, she just finished work before she got home (just before midnight) mate, ambush 1 (spa and massage) worked, now, ambush 2 tomorrow morning, breakfast in bed. She’ll either punch me or love me, I guess. 24 Hours left, I’m betting on lovin’
Well, I hope. :) Off to bed now you furrin devil. All the best mate, have a good year.Damned Eastern Time Zone, all hella hours behind the ozzies! Gotta wait another tenanahaff hours til New Years! HURRY IT UP ALREADY!!!
But, good luck in 2007 to all denizens present on this blog; you are the funniest buncha hepcats I’ve ever hung with. In particular, good luck and many, many thanks to the brave souls who put their lives on the line for us to be able to celebrate days like this.
The next round of Thunderbird is on me!
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 12 31 at 02:34 PM • permalink#77 Happy New Year to all, my wonderful cyber friends. I’ll check back with you all later and see how far it has come apart at the seams here.
Come apart at the seams?!? My dear Kathy from Austin, what do you think we’re going to do? Drink until we’re cross-eyed, raise a ruckus, hullaballoo, chivaree, etc., possibly toast a vehicle or two on the barbie?
Oh… yeah…
So, this is a costume party with a “disaffected french yoots” theme?
Should be easy enough: Blue jeans, black hoodie and Molotov cocktail.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 31 at 02:59 PM • permalinkSPC J.R. Salzman
Thursday, December 21, 2006
3:16:24 AM
278 commentsit is hard for me to tell you all this but i was hurt by an ied here. my right arm has been amputated below the elbow, my left has four working fingers. my legs are fine so l can still logroll! i am on my way to the hospital in germany, then back to the states for more care. i am in high spirits. i am going to be ok, but i will have a long road to recovery. please remember me in your prayers, as well as those who were injured with me. i will let you know more as time passes.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
8:00:08 PM228 comments
I’m here at Walter Reed and I’m doing OK. I have surgery pretty much every other day. They are trying to close up my amputated right arm/hand, and they are repairing the smashed knuckles on my left hand. I’m in a lot of pain and it is making it hard to sleep and do normal tasks. It’s going to take a long time to learn how to do everything over again. Thank you all for your words of comfort and support; all the e-mails, all the comments, I can’t tell you how much they mean to me. My parents and my wife are here taking care of me. My wife will probably remain here with me the entire time. I just want you all to know that even though I am in a lot of pain and it really sucks undergoing all of the surgeries and treatments, I’m keeping a positive attitude. I will keep you all updated as time passes.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
9:10:15 PM66 comments
Good news! My right arm is finished with surgery, with everything going smoothly. I am still in a lot of pain but I’m getting better. I possibly have one surgery remaining on my left hand to fix my ring finger. Somehow in the blast my wedding ring tried to cut off my ring finger; maybe I should have listened to Josie and taken my wedding ring off. A huge thank you to all the well wishers not only here, but all over the web: little green footballs, blackfive, etc. Your words of support make the pain a little more bearable and the days a little shorter here at Walter Reed. I will try to keep you all updated as my condition improves. And for all of you wondering, my wife has been typing all these posts for me. It takes far to long to type with three fingers.
To all of you (and to the families that have or are suffering and to those that have given all) that serve, have served, plan on serving, or have orders to, regardless the nation and its forces…Thank You…for without you and your bravery, honor and precious sacrifices…there would be no typing.
*83 Rebecca: Let’s just say if recent history is any indication…..
And you, my lass, are one of the notorious ringleaders for such shenanigans.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 31 at 03:41 PM • permalinkRude Awakening in 2007:
It’s really annoying to wake up to the ABC carrying on about some heckling between Saddam and others at the hanging. As if this in any way cancels any of the evil the monster has done. Once again the ABC is taking its talking points from the likes of the BBC, AP, and Paul McGoo in the SMH, who wants to blame all failures of Iraq to thrive in the future on this hanging, and once more draws attention to the grim milestone of 3000 about to click over on the anti-action “we’ll make you pay for this” meter.
It made me think that this country seriously needs a proper news service. If ABC News Radio is just going to be a conduit for beat ups like the above, there is a real need for an alternative. Perhaps a web-based, regularly updated podcast news roundup.
The amount of hardware, spectrum, personnel and yes, money going into the ABC should give us a decent news service, not this relentless leftist seizing upon every opportunity to be .... contrary.Rib roast in the oven and bubbly on ice. A leak fried the thermostat on our water heater so no hot water until some time next week. Thank God we’re not going out tonight.
Happy New Year, one and all. May 2007 be a banner year for freedom-loving people everywhere.
Keep your powder dry, 185600.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 31 at 04:47 PM • permalinkI hate to sound parochial, but I heard Melbourne’s deputy Mayor say that the Melbourne fireworks once again proved that Melbourne is the “event capital of Australia and indeed the world”.
Excuse me deputy Mayor, but a few crackers on the Yarra is laughable in comparison to Sydney’s extravaganza. As final proof, (if any were needed), tell me where did PARIS HILTON choose to spend her NYE, eh, just where deputy Mayor? Not in Bleak City that’s for sure!
And, while the ABC news services are getting to grips with the annual release of 30-year old cabinet papers, perhaps they could cover this one too:
IMMIGRATION authorities warned the Fraser government in 1976 it was accepting too many Lebanese Muslim refugees without “the required qualities” for successful integration.
The AustralianBonmot,
Paris Hilton was in Sydney because she fits in so well there!
Happy New Year everyone.
Posted by curious george on 2006 12 31 at 05:38 PM • permalinkBlogstrop: Isn’t your media taxpayer funded? Like, nearly all of it, akin to the BBC. If so, that sucks. Why wouldn’t Rupert Murdoch start an Australian version of Fox News in his own country as he has in England?
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 31 at 06:15 PM • permalinkRupert’s FNC is a step in the direction of correcting an abomination of the industry of journalism, but it’s still way too much info-tainment in lieu of actual news.
And I am still having a hard time forgetting poor kid Butler, standing there in Afghanistan with video cuts to bomb drop footage of a bomber. Since the bombs were falling in a clumpy sting it was “cluster bombing” and then the scene cut to chase plane footage from behind the bomber in flight and he named the vapor trails the “entrails of the airplane”.
Then they dropped a larger munition and the dust cloud from it formed a vaguely mushroom shape and you could just see him staring to pee his pants thinking we’d dropped a nuke.How can someone be a professional journalist and not have clue one about what he’s reporting on?
And I doubt I’ll ever forgive them for Geraldo.
and how many more freekin crime of the week, former prosecutor/lawyer/defense attourney time slots can they shove into a day’s programming?#90 blogstrop; your suggestion for a proper news service is a great idea.
I had some hopes for ABC News Radio but, as you say, it has degenerated into a conduit for crap.
ABC TV will never lift its game and become cost effective while it’s taxpayer funded.
I was recently involved in an item on ABC TV News. A journalist and a camera-man interviewed me at my home for nearly three hours. Next day I drove to a location for another two hours’ recording. I provided a number of stills and some video footage for their story.
That night the ‘news’ item from all that effort ran for 90 seconds and they got it completely wrong.
There must be a better way of getting news to the consumers.A happy new year, but I’m downbeat about 2007 - I suspect that Labor will win in the NSW state election, the Coalition will lose seats in the federal election (but, hopefully, hold onto power), George Bush will continue to have significant problems and the situation in Iraq will not improve. Afghanistan will get worse become it gets better.
What do others think?
#66 Grimmy, I don’t knwo if you’re aware, but Komodo’s are venomous, too.
One way to ensure those pesky Jehovah’s Witless stay away.
Anyway, I am nursing a slight hangover from a whole 2 glasses of white wine, and reckon all those who’ve not reached the end of the year yet should have a great one.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 07:26 PM • permalink#94 Blogstrop. Hahahaha. Yet another No Shit Sherlock moment, there.
As for podcasting, I recommend Shire Network News for a good weekly listen. Brian of London, Meryl Yourish, Tom Paine from here in Melbournistan and more.
Interviews with the Sand Monkey, Walid Phares, Robert Spencer and more!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 07:30 PM • permalinkooh hangover- that french port like substance was not a good idea- looking after my 5 yo niece- its her birthday and im knee deep in my little ponies- 2007 looks pretty bleak at the moment
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 07:42 PM • permalinkeeniemeenie, My Little Ponies are verboten in this household, as are Care Bears. They are abomination and should be sent back to the furthest reaches of hell to play with Saddam.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 31 at 07:48 PM • permalink#104 Ian, you may be right on all your predictions but I hope for a more optimistic year.
It’s almost impossible for any individual to have an accurate grasp of what’s happening in the war on terrorism.
But my impression is that there is still a lot of good news available from Iraq and Afghanistan and if our media will just give the good news equal coverage with the bad, a different, more optimistic, picture will prevail.
There is a chance that Saddam’s hanging may take some of the fight out of his supporters.Because of the Blairites’ support of those doing the hard bits, this blog is an important part of the war.
To all of you wonderful men and women doing the fighting for us:
Thank you mates.
Without people like you, civilisation as we know it is doomed.
From the day after 9/11, this war was predicted to be a long and maybe even indefinite one. That makes it even more important that we win, and we will win.Don’t let the MSM do to you what they did in Vietnam. Remember that the great majority of
our people are not swayed by MSM lies and we fully support your efforts.
Proof? Bush, Blair and Howard were re-elected by the people, despite the MSM’s support for the enemy.I reckon 2007 is going to be a beauty.
Ian Deans
What do others think?
You could be on the button. The world propagandists, have a whole two years to get whatever sad sack “can’t we all just get along”...appeaser elected here in the U.S.
‘They’ will be hot and heavy on it…only fly in the ointment (and that will be downplayed, covered up, or outright ignored) IS the Democrats ‘they’ helped elect, can’t govern, have no plans other then the French plan…hands in air and the redistribution of wealth AND are even more corrupt then the Republicans, ‘they’ led our nation to believe, were the root of all evil.
The same could be in store for OZ.
If that didn’t come out quite right…the martini’s are great. If it did, I need to make them…..ummmm, extra, extra dry.
#92 Bonmot, Paris Hilton was paid to party on in Sydney for NYE. She is also helping Singo launch his new beer, appropriately called Blonde. People like seeing Paris the same way people like seeing fireworks. Maybe the money paid to get Paris to appear would be better spent on food for starving Africans?
Anyway, Paris did a turn at the Melbourne Cup a year or two ago. The “Paris of the South” isn’t above a bit of trashy celebrity worship either.
It’s only 8pm in my little bungalow on our ‘island’ in the middle of the city built in the swamp. But it’s been a long day & I have another busy one tomorrow, so I’m off to watch some Chicago Bears football & get some sleep.
May all of you have every good thing you need this year, and enough of the not-good things to keep you grateful & on your toes. You’ll never know how much you’ve improved my life since I first ‘discovered’ this terrific community. Thank you all for being here, be well, be happy, and fercrissakes, BE FUNNY! See ya in 2007!
btw, Godspeed, 185600 - we will not forget you, so keep in touch when you can, eh?
(((hugs))) everybody!
My gawd, I haven’t done that in years, please excuse the sappy shit, ‘k? It’s only New Year’s once a year…
Actually, I pretty much had my celebration last night, marveling at the mumchance mugs of the moonbats across the street as they heard of the tragic death of Saddam.
Of course, they may have been distressed by the way we were standing there with champaigne bottles in one hand and 6-foot US flags in the other, seeing who could get the loudest echo with SADDAM IS DEAD! and toasting the Iraqi people, George FUCKING Bush and the Fourth ID. Then we toasted Ramsey Clarke and spit it out in the gutter, and went off to a celebratory dinner of bacon burgers after they slunk away…
but happy new year to you guys, too.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 31 at 09:12 PM • permalink#109, 110 - Sadly I don’t think it’s just the media. My gut feeling is that there’s a lot up the bogger at the moment (even if it isn’t as bad as is being portrayed) and I don’t see any signs that there will be an improvement any time soon.
That said, I think that the Coalition of the Willing desperately need to fire their PR guys. If they want some good coverage, they could start by focussing on a hero and making a big deal of it. You wouldn’t even need mainstream coverage - seed it into the blogosphere and keep building him up. Personalise the war (like the Lefties have been - “oh the poor Iraqi children!”) and make people remember why we’re fighting.
Surely it can’t be that hard to do.
#108 Nilknarf: ha! ha! While you and your geographically hindered kin are struggling with your hangover, we stateside are just catching our buzz! And damn, it is a nice night thus far!
Sorry to gloat, but no hangover here, just much happiness.
Ian, you are young and good years come and they go. I think next year will be just fine, whatever it brings. Remember: things are never as black as they appear, nor as rosy.
Best to all!
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 31 at 10:42 PM • permalinkSee, Ian? Potholes, or the lack thereof, are a quality of life issue. It’s looking better all the time, wouldn’t you say? Full moon here, a little after nine, weather at a crisp 50F. Nice glass of bubbly. What’s left after that?
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 31 at 11:09 PM • permalink#117 Ian
I don’t think it’s just the media
You’re right, Ian. I forgot to mention the media’s whores from academia — the
expertsdoctors and professors hired by the media to support their lefty agendas.
As usual, you show wisdom beyond your years. Maybe there is a career path for you in PR for the Coalition?#121 - My day just keeps getting better. Today the local paper published my letter about the local council pissing $15mn on a cultural precinct while a quarter of our roads are unroadworthy. I’m suddenly hopeful that 2007 is the year of getting things down.
#122 - Wouldn’t mind it. Where would I submit a resume?
Or, a better, question - does anybody here know of any photogenic soldiers who have recently saved the lives of Iraqis? Please submit details to Ian Deans Media Relations.
#112 rebase
I know that old cobber. It’s a leg pull - one of those old fashioned things we used to do way back in the good old days of 2006.
BTW - One Night In Paris is one ripper home movie….. and yes I agree, Singo should donate all his zillions to the starving hordes of Africa. Just like Brad Pitt and George Clooney and Barbra Streisand and Bruce Springsteen did and aw, shucks, you know what I mean….
Actually, Paris was paid to flog Singo Jr’s beer - the partying on NYE was free.
Happy New year.
Hey Australia, my New Years’ Wish is that you’ll all swap places with those snotty ungrateful Canadians.
I mean your weather might get colder, but if you lived next door that way we could, you know, hang out and stuff.
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 01 01 at 01:43 AM • permalink#125 Here, here!!! Couldn’t agree more. Perhaps Kyda (I believe it was her) could reprise her map of the continent moving our way and supplanting other less favorables from our borders. Yes, Australia would do nicely up north. I think they are hardy enough to make it through a Canadian winter (they are, after all, the extreme sports crazies). We’d have to make do, though, for our friends up north like andycanuck and wimpycanadian who are honorary north americans, right? What about the Quebecians? Would we just make a clean sweep of it and plant them in France, where they belong? Hmmm…perhaps that is best for all concerned and a truly enlightened strategy. Gifted and genius, in fact.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2007 01 01 at 02:08 AM • permalink#126 Kathy from Austin
And what happens to Sergeant Preston of The Yukon - where do you put him? If Australia moves north we will take our GW with us. And the huskies, what about them… and the polar bears and the beavers? Unknown species to us I’m afraid….
BTW Australians are basically hopeless at snow sports, much better at beach sorts….
maybe to where mexico is- the climates more to our taste and we’d get pyramids
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 01 at 03:21 AM • permalinkI second Kathy on the article about Australia moving closer to the states.
eeniemeenie - as long as the Aussies keep the tequila around, they can cross our borders any time!
Sharon
who is pleasantly fizzed on Welch’s grape sparkling cider (there are teens in the house…what can I say?)Posted by Sharon Ferguson on 2007 01 01 at 03:49 AM • permalinkOK, a little late to the party, but a Happy New Year from the West Coast of the US, which is apparently about 24 hours behind the times on any given day. I have to admit to being too engrossed in video games (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) to notice the time, and since I’m up until 2 in the morning on a regular basis it’s not even staying up late for me. Boring, I know, but I’m not a big fan of the whole New Year’s party bit.
Ian Deans:
Do you, by any chance, ever happen to make the rounds of the many many many many many milblogs that are doing exactly what you suggest be done and have been doing for years now?
The msm is very much to blame. It is their duty to help fight the war, not tear down their own side. They msm is very much to blame for having gone over nearly lock, stock and barrel to supporting the cuase of the enemy.
The blogosphere has given a chance to fight back but the msm has bought itself a hella blood debt and that will have to be paid up someday soon if we intend to survive.
And yeah, it aint all 100% perfect and over and done with by the time the “microwave minute” mindests are bored with it therefor its all crap and cant be salvaged.
Happy New year everyone here and thanks for all your very entertaining comments!
I’m planning to get under the doona and hibernate until April because I just can’t cope with Morris Iemma and his bunch of incompetents running an election campaign and then winning the State election in March because NSW voters have been immunised against change
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 01 01 at 08:45 AM • permalinkRebeccaH—SMOKING?! In STUDIO CITY?! They hate us now, with a whining and bitchy passion (best they can do). We light up and they’ll be convinced we’re the Antichrist…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 01 at 03:34 PM • permalink
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