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It’s off-topic time - at least until work (and after work) is a little less busy. Comment on your offest and most topicless OT issues.
UPDATE. Or read this.
It is now no longer politcally correct to refer to someone as “from the stone age”.
..."stone age” is a term that has been used for many years to create an impression that such people are “backward”.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 03 07 at 10:16 AM • permalink# 4 - I am not sure. Perhaps “alloy challenged” or “plastics deprived”?
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 03 07 at 10:35 AM • permalinkThis is definitely on topic for an off topic thread:
Has anyone got a copy of the Captain Goodvibes Hot to Trot fillum? For some reason I’m missing the Pig of Steel in this Year of the Pig. Don’t ask me why because I dunno.
UBER-OT:
Try this - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49231637/
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 03 07 at 10:54 AM • permalinkOT but bugging me now I think on it…
Why do I have two hands and a mouth but breasts only come in sets of two?
As for the article, I’ve always said I never moved away from liberalism but liberalism moved away from me…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 07 at 11:00 AM • permalink"There was a tremendous amount of sympathy for Mr. Libby on the jury,” Collins said. “It was said a number of times: What are we doing with this guy? Where’s (top White House political aide Karl) Rove, where are these other guys?"
A juror in the Scooter Libby “trial” fails to mention - as does this entire San Francisco Chronicle report - Richard Armitage.
From early on, he said, he considered Mr. Libby a decent person, worthy of their sympathy. And he wondered why other senior Bush administration officials were not facing trial in the disclosure of a C.I.A. operative’s identity.
A juror in the Scooter Libby “trial” fails to mention - as does this entire New York Times report - Richard Armitage.
The right hand barrel on my 12 gauge shotty prints low left at 10 metres, but the left hand barrel prints high right.
Is this a hint from Gaia that I should use both barrels?
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 03 07 at 11:13 AM • permalinkMust not read articles like that in an election year, lest I start to think some on the Left have logical thought. Must find something to remove article from my sub concious. Where is that picture of Rudd I keep for just such emergencies? Ah! There’s the smug bastard. When you meet with political power brokers of dubious character and get called out on it it’s a political attack, not a personal one you moron, and that goes for your entire shadow ministry as well.
I feel better now!
Critics claimed the White House had deliberately leaked Ms Plame’s identity to ruin her career. Her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had publicly cast doubt on the Bush administration’s case for going to war in Iraq. It can be a crime to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent.
...Senate majority leader Harry Reid said: “I welcome the jury’s verdict. It’s about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics.”
A member of the jury, Denis Collins, said although jurors decided Libby was guilty they also had a “tremendous amount of sympathy” for him, and thought he might just be “the fall guy”.
“Where’s Rove?” he asked, referring to Mr Bush’s top aide.
A juror in the Scooter Libby “trial” fails to mention - as does this entire BBC report - Richard Armitage.
Trendy Bristol, UK is having a chic End-Times crisis.
This calls for a heavy dose of government sponsored New Age psychotherapy!
Posted by Copious Maximus on 2007 03 07 at 11:39 AM • permalinkThey’re going to make a sitcom out of the Geico “cavemen”.
The series is supposed to be based in Atlanta.
Now living near Atlanta as I do, I have to wonder what they are going to do for episode plots.
Episode (1) Go see “Stone Mountain”
Epsidoe (2) Go to “Underground Atlanta”
epsidoe (3) Go see Georgia Aquarium
Episode (4) Uhhhh. Done..that’s it, that’s all there is to do in Atlanta.Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 03 07 at 11:50 AM • permalinkre #12: The shampoo here works faster. My alternate theory was expressed when my stepdaughter chose to observe that I had a gray nostril hair. I explained to her that supposedly, the women in a man’s life give him gray hairs. His wife causes the gray hair on the top of his head, while daughters cause the distinguished graying at the temples. Stepdaughters are the cause of the gray nostril hairs. This didn’t play well for some reason.
Can someone name a good news story involving Indonesia and Australia from the last 10-15 years? Honestly, it seems that nothing good involving the interaction of those nations has occurred in that time.
(Although, I guess I am counting the conviction and jailing of Shapelle Corby as a negative, at the moment)
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 07 at 11:57 AM • permalinkIt’s almost like the Lad is trying to tell us something.
Like animas on the part of the journo/author/juror?
Or maybe the U.S. Attorney/Indy Prosecutor spent a bunch of time and money investigating something that he already knew the answer to?
Or maybe a decent man is going to jail because certain people were trying to get another high Administration officeholder?
I’m sure it will all come to me in the fullness of time.
O/t, I think the reason Ach’d left so quickly from his sit-down with Prince Abdullah was that he got notice that one of his top generals defected to America. Hee, hee!
And I hope and pray that we catch Bin Laden and that the mullahs fall before Bush leaves office, for the sake of Iranians and for ourselves, but to humble those soulless Democrats and pseudo-liberals of which the wonderful Australian article speaks.
If “tribal peoples” really are still in the stone age, how the heck do they know what the rest of us are calling them?
Has Hillary Clinton jumped the MSM shark? In yesterday’s NYT, Mark Leibovich did what most considered a pro-Hillary puff piece, but I saw a thinly disguised slam at both the candidate and her campaign. He reports, you decide. Then today, in the WaPo (via Real Clear Politics), Kathleen Parker writes this:
It may not be Hillary’s fault that her voice sounds like it was fashioned from metal, but it is her fault that she sounds like a car alarm when she’s handed a microphone. It is her fault that she panders—badly—to her audiences.
Her performance last weekend in Selma revealed more than atonality. Like a warped bell, Hillary Clinton rings untrue. [here’s some YouTube videos if you’d like to hear for yourselves--it’s truly wonderfully awful)
Is it all just one gigantic media Obasim or has the “anointed one” lost her mojo? Can Bill get it back for her?
In the wake of the Libby verdict, someone commented that it was but one more in a serious of blows that indicate the bad guys are winning. Do you think the bad guys are winning?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 12:31 PM • permalinkYou can’t go wrong when a story has a donkey in it. (Work-safe)
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 07 at 12:32 PM • permalink#21 joe-
Stripclubs. You go to Atlanta for the stripclubs.
The city’s status as third favorite convention destination took a real hit when they closed The Gold Club.Also the mecca for the, er… “civil rights” tourists, for lack of better terminology.
Serious history for the Civil War buff, or Railroad History buff. Coca-Cola. CNN. Aviation. Music. Museums. Theater. Lots to do.
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 03 07 at 12:37 PM • permalinkTen years ago, I set up a certain piece of software at work; it took a few hours at most.
Eight years ago, I set up the same piece of software at another job. It took maybe a half hour.
Six years ago, I set it up at home. It took maybe fifteen minutes.
Last week we decided we wanted the same piece of software at my current job. It took me five days to identify who I had to talk to. Two days later, I’ve seen a flurry of emails from people doing each individual step of setting it up, but after two days, I still can’t use it.
I hate bureaucracies.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 07 at 12:38 PM • permalink"Critics claimed the White House had deliberately leaked Ms Plame’s identity to ruin her career. Her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had publicly cast doubt on the Bush administration’s case for going to war in Iraq. It can be a crime to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent.”
Crap.
Plame and her hubby are traitors. They ought to be booted off the government payroll (no pensions for these assholes) and put on trial for nepotism/fraud, espionage and treason.
CIA employees don’t get paid to employ their relatives to release information calculated to embarrass the government WHILE enemy nations are shooting at our armed forces, they get paid to secure information for the executive branch of the government...and to keep their yaps shut unless they’re told otherwise.
What they did helped people who are trying to kill our military folks. Plame and Wilson are traitors.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 07 at 12:43 PM • permalink#30—Shenanigans and blarney, ye wee roaster ye.
Posted by Copious Maximus on 2007 03 07 at 01:08 PM • permalinkAnd yet another brave
Sir RobinTaliban commander caught in AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan soldiers caught a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint who was wearing a burqa, while NATO forces on Wednesday fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance’s largest-ever offensive in Afghanistan.
“It was said a number of times: What are we doing with this guy? Where’s (top White House political aide Karl) Rove, where are these other guys?"
Wow, you can just smell the impartiality coming off this asshat.
God, I wish I was in that jury. Me and Mr. Moonbat would have been like the last two contestants in a “keep your hand on the car to win it” contest. And any talk of the “letter of the law” would have been met by a lesson in jury nullification.
In the wake of the Libby verdict, someone commented that it was but one more in a serious of blows that indicate the bad guys are winning. Do you think the bad guys are winning?
Yes, it seems that way to me, Kyda. They have the advantage of being louder, more strident, more censorious and more violent. It’s a force-multiplier.
The good news (and bad news) is that their periodic ascendencies quickly result in their discrediting, since one thing they demonstrably do not possess is competence. Looks like a replay of the 1970s. Hopefully there’s a Reagan out there.
#38 Afghan soldiers caught a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint who was wearing a burqa
Note that he wasn’t “disguised in a burqa.” He was wearing a burqa.
Likely because it lets his twigs and berries dangle free and Osama said it was the one outfit that didn’t make his butt look fat.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 03 07 at 02:03 PM • permalink”...the Bush administration’s case for going to war in Iraq.”
Spare me. The United States had been bombing Iraq for years before Bush II even took office. You can’t go to war with a country you’re already fighting with.
One of the biggest lies told by the media and the anti-war clowns is is that Bush & co. took us to war.
It’s absolute nonsense, on a par with saying that the United States wasn’t at war with Germany until we invaded North Africa in late 1942, because prior to that date, we hadn’t actually invaded any German/Axis held territory, and all we were doing was bombing Germany. If anyone suggested that they’d be laughed out of town.
Here’s the truth…
We were already at war with Iraq
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 07 at 02:09 PM • permalinkI went to my first rock concert in 34 years last night - to hear the Pogues. I like Irish trad, and that band is really good. And they put on quite a show.
However, one detail put me off: the drummer had a hammer-and-sickle painted on his bass drum. Worse, it was a badly drawn hammer-and-sickle - the artist clearly had never seen a sickle in his life. (I use a sickle for several summers during college, when I worked as a groundskeeper in a cemetery, so I know whereof I speak.) What is it with rock musicians and puerile leftism?
I wanted to tell the wanker to put a swastika on his drum instead - it’s easier to draw, and the Nazis had a lower body count.
Oh, and to answer today’s survey question: “Do you think the bad guys are winning?” Yes.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 03 07 at 02:23 PM • permalinkEver feel anguish seeing a beautiful young girl on the arm of a gaudy bohunk?
Commiserate: Hot Chicks With Douchebags
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 03 07 at 02:33 PM • permalink”...just set up a recording microphone—then you’ll see that the twits do believe in private (intellectual) property after all.”
Communism don’t look so good, when it starts cutting into your profits.
Btw, my favorite rock band (The Grateful Dead) always let people record concerts...as long as you didn’t try to sell the recordings.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 07 at 02:34 PM • permalinkOT? Sure, I can do one for the team.
I heard a riddle when I was in the Navy. “What’s the difference between a fairy tale and sea story? A fairy tale starts with, ‘Once upon a time,’ and a sea story starts with, ‘Listen, damn it, this really happened.’”
This has crossed my recently, given how many recent claims have been made on “Truth.” Michael Moore will tell you The Awful Truth; Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth; Stephen Colbert, truthiness. I learned sometime ago to distrust people who put on the word “truth” like some kind of incontrovertible mantle. I’m reminded of that generalization more and more each day.
Hello. It’s 4am here in Sapporo, Japan. I’m slightly drunk.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 07 at 03:08 PM • permalinkDon’t you just love it: “It can be a crime...” to reveal the name of a CIA employee. Yes. It can. It wasn’t in this case, however, and that jury had no business concerning itself with that question. Libby wasn’t on trial for revealing Plame’s name. He was on trial for lying--well, actually, he was on trial for not saying “I don’t remember” nearly enough. Their concern over Rove, or anybody else in the Bush administration only shows the bias of the jury.
I’d be interested to know just what the bad guys think they are winning.
For Libby coverage, the Just One Minute blog is the (conservative) place to go. Read the comments, too.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 07 at 03:45 PM • permalinkFrom Tim’s update:
This is a theme that comes up frequently in the various writings of the dissident Left: the idea that those Left-liberal voices ready to excuse (or even support) Islamic fundamentalism or the Iraqi insurgency are directly descended from those on the Left who excused (and frequently supported) Stalin, and that the anti-totalitarian Left is directly descended from those who opposed him.
How true this is. And how sad that the anti-totalitarian Left is in the minority these days.
Mr. King writes well; y’all would do well to go and read it.
But especially, you anti-war/pro-terrorism Lefties should read it. The man is trying to help you. Time to get a clue.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 07 at 03:53 PM • permalinkI’d be interested to know just what the bad guys think they are winning.
A popularity contest. For most of these cretins, it’s all about memememememememememememememememememememememe
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mememememe!!!!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 07 at 03:55 PM • permalinkEpisode (1) Go see “Stone Mountain”
Epsidoe (2) Go to “Underground Atlanta”
epsidoe (3) Go see Georgia Aquarium
Episode (4) Uhhhh. Done..that’s it, that’s all there is to do in Atlanta.You forgot pull over in confusion as you realize that every third street is called Magnolia and your directions are useless.
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 03 07 at 04:11 PM • permalink#10 - Richard, you have touched upon an ancient conundrum. Fortunately you are in
goodbad company - Douglas Adams grappled with the problem and came up with the solution, at least in fantasy terms.Yes, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six.’But what is this “anti-totalitarian left” of which they speak?’
It doesn’t exist.
Far left is total government control of everything. Far right is no government at all.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 07 at 04:31 PM • permalinkIf we have to depend on finding another Ronald Reagan, Dave, we might as well just hang it up now. Ronald Reagan comes along once in a lifetime, if we’re lucky. No, I’m afraid we’ll have to work with what we’ve got. And we’re gonna have to do it with the deck stacked high against us. No help from academia, the media, the heels-dug-in federal bureaucratic careerists or most of the chicken-shit Republicans. I’m ordinarily an optimistic person, but, I tell you, I begin to despair.
Here’s a link to the WaPo editorial and a link to the excellent Clarice Feldman piece at American Thinker. Clarice, I think, speaks for all of us: I Call for Justice.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 04:38 PM • permalinkI can’t believe that I’m posting this cricket article as I rarely watch the game - I put it down to my non Anglo-Saxon ancestry In Praise of Cricket
#12 and #23: I always thought that gray hairs were given to you by your children. Mine sure were.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 03 07 at 04:56 PM • permalink#12 Aha! That and, I suspect, several other symptoms of ageing.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 05:00 PM • permalinkChrist, that book review is denser than a black hole. Can someone give me the gist of it? Does the left win? Did we put up a good fight?
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 07 at 05:07 PM • permalinkThat clever AM program on ABC radio came up with another flying buttress for the global warmening edifice yesterday.
No less than the Chairman of Lloyds - famed insurance group. They were thrilled that such a “conservative” group had seen the light and was talking the talk. It did not occur to them that they were taking instruction on disaster theory from an insurance salesman.You forgot pull over in confusion as you realize that every third street is called Magnolia and your directions are useless.
No, every third street is called Peachtree. At one point, I worked on Peachtree Street and lived on Peachtree Road. No actual peachtrees on either.
Posted by Brian O'Connell on 2007 03 07 at 05:12 PM • permalinkFairfax foreign affairs correspondent Cynthia Banham has previously been subject of some criticism at this blog, but I am saddened to hear she is one of the injured in the Indonesian plane crash...You wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 05:31 PM • permalinkMentalfloss is inventor of the term atroposify, which means to insert a post which kills a blog-thread.
I got to thinking that there are different types of atroposification:
1: RTV atroposification.
This stands for Ruin The Vibe of which #72 would be a good example. One minute we’re talking about shampoo, the next, plane crashes and the thread slows. Sorry.
2: CPOT atroposification.
Crazy Person on the Train atroposification is where someone posts something plain weird and you would rather not take the slim chance of having any interaction with them. 1.6 was a master of CPOT atroposification until we all got more used to her style.
3: DTWG atroposification.
Damn That Was Good - sometimes someone will express something so concisely and well that any follow up would pale by comparison.
Can anyone else identify other categories of atroposification?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 06:06 PM • permalinkLast week at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, they held Diversity Day.
Speaker Walter Gertz, a staff member of the Museum of Tolerance, explained the economic and social forces wrenching Germany in the late 1920s that led to the rise of Hitler. A member of the Guerrilla Girls, an activist arts collective, wore a gorilla mask while telling students, “Change doesn’t just happen. You have to make it happen.” An Vo, an exchange student at Brentwood from Ho Chi Minh City, led a workshop titled “Is Your Heart Big Enough?” about the continuing trauma from the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Jill Foley, who graduated from Brentwood in 1996, led a workshop on poverty and how it affects families and children. An attorney for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services, Foley said Velasquez’s commitment to diversity and social justice issues helped shape her career.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 06:06 PM • permalink#12 Blogagog:
"if you use shampoo on your hair for about 60 years, it will turn grey"
Several things wrong with your ‘theory’.
(a) It doesn’t take anywhere near 60 years
(b) In many cases the hair doesn’t turn grey at all - it falls out instead
(c) Entirely ignored by your post are the other side effects - wrinkling, weight gain, mental vacuity and crankiness
Perhaps we should just treat them like the machines they are.
Robotic age poses ethical dilemma
An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 07:03 PM • permalink#78
Robots can fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 07:04 PM • permalink#75 Kyda, who was on hand to pass out the kool aid and razor blades?
When my girl goes to school next year, the teachers will learn to fear me if she comes home spouting any of that drivel and misery.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 07 at 07:16 PM • permalinkThis is 1.618 reporting live from the Blair News Helicopter.
Try to avoid the Blog highway,as it’s heavily congested at the moment. I fyou take the Tim Tam Highway you’ll have an easy blog all the way until the next topic.
This is 1.618 reporting live( vrooooooooom chop chop chop woosh wooosh weeeeeeeee) from the chopper, and remember, Blair News it’s gutsy and it’s good!
Former model Erin Brockovich is in Australia campaigning for former model Mrs Fill-up Adams and her Beautiful People Against Coal and Mismatched Accessories Coalition. Brockovich also has a new TV show on pay TV. Sounds like Brockovich booked herself a first-class seat on the Climate Change Gravy Train?
Who are the climate change millionaires, those who have managed to turn the end of the world into the beginning of a life of luxury? Al Gore, Peter Garrett, Tim Flannery come immediately to mind. Gore’s movie making partner has to be another. Come on, folks, let’s name and shame.
Nick Cohen’s ‘What is Left’ is a scathing attack on today’s Left, made all the more powerful as Cohen has been one of their principal media cheerleaders for so long.
The Euston Manifesto is a worthy document. I’m one of their bloggers. Perhaps not too many natural allies here but it’s a good attempt by the Left to articulate policies for adults based on reason not emotion and anti-US hatred.
Australia’s Left has nothing similar as far as i can see.
Oh, and Happy International Women’s Day!
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 03 07 at 08:01 PM • permalinkRe #74
WTA atroposification
Will They Answer? Atroposification:
This is where someone addresses another commenter and everyone waits to see if there is a response. But it could be the person being asked the question considers the question to be rhetorical or has gone off for a pedicure.
Hey 1.6 - Keep your shirt on up there, you’re disturbing the office workers.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 08:06 PM • permalinkDid anyone ask him why he wearing wires and had a magnet up his butt?
Wired Iraqi man triggers scare at L.A. airport
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 08:13 PM • permalinkRobots think they are tough - Exterminate! Exterminate! Do your best, daleks, but I’m going upstairs.
Glorified freakin’ can openers if you ask me.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 08:20 PM • permalinkAnd what the hell was going on between C3PO and R2D2?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 08:23 PM • permalink#89--I’m betting Maurice Strong has himself well positioned.
#87--Maybe she got it from Meryl Streep: The dingo’s got MOI BAY-BEE!
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 08:25 PM • permalink#82 I would suggest private schools but unfortunately they are not immune to it. During a short fifteen seconds of
famemarketing-driven hype a few years back I was talking in schools often. In the library of a very posh Anglican school in Rose Bay some year 7 assignments were up on the walls. The assignment was on the Stolen Generation: ‘imagine you are a young aboriginal child being forcibly removed from your parents by white policemen. Write about this experience.’Who needs the Saudi religious police when we’ve got the left?
#101 Someone ought to make one with a vacuum cleaner attached.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 08:35 PM • permalink92 Kyda Sylvester
Did anyone ask him why he wearing wires and had a magnet up his butt?
Probably not, they could tell without asking, that the guy is an asshole.
Anyone heard from Mental Floss, BTW?
May be old news, BUT (no not an alluding to the asshole)...Denis Collins juror #9, friends with Tim Russert among others...AND
INSIDE THE JURY ROOM
By Denis Collins, Juror #9http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Libby paid dearly and in many ways, for a shit bag defense...and for Christ Sakes, Libby is an attorney. Maybe the judge played a part, but damn, Libby got sandbagged.
I mean #100. Preview stopped returning my calls yonks ago.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 08:38 PM • permalinkMe neither, Infidel. Still, you live in hope. Have a good one mate.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 07 at 08:45 PM • permalink1130.7m on the mole surfing. Personal best.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 07 at 08:49 PM • permalinkGeneral response:
The cylons are onto you lot. Watch out.
Geez, doesn’t everyone travel with a wired magnet up their butt??
The left of my Dad and my youth was anti-totalitarian and socially conservative. (I’m talking about the ALP, not the commos).
As someone pointed out earlier (jeffs??), the left left me, I didn’t leave them.
I didn’t leave the catholic church either. They left me when they didn’t come down like a ton of bricks on poofter priests.
jlc
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 03 07 at 08:49 PM • permalinkoh my, it looks like the echo chamber at leftwrites.net has taken the phrase “Jews for genocide” quite literally:
Unfortuately, the claim to diversity is not as well founded in the Australian statement, because it proceeds to recognize ‘the legitimate national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians’ [my emphasis]. In other words, the signatories assert that the colonisers somehow have a legitimate right to self determination. And it gets worse.
Indeed it does.
And ‘Israel’s right to exist’ again rears its ugly head, as if the whole idea hadn’t been comprehensively debunked over and over again, even in the Christian Science Monitor! But Jonathan Cook provided an earlier and much more detailed and cogent critique of the demand.
Now let us determine the degrees of seperation between the Islamofascists, leftwrites.net and nazis?
Stephen Oppenheimer seems to be suggesting that English is a fourth branch of the Germanic languages and not an offshoot of one of the other three.
Also, that the Scots, the English and the Irish are essentially all the same. And that they came from Spain.
#105--A new way to drink champagne. Take equal parts grenadine and vodka (a jigger of each is good for 2-3 drinks). Mix with ice to chill, discard ice. Pour in champagne flute. Fill with champagne. Gives the champagne a nice little punch.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 07 at 09:06 PM • permalink#115 Trick question. Quinoa Tabouli works the late shift at Bankstown Riteway.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 09:22 PM • permalink#118 - I thought he played loosehead for Easts?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 07 at 09:24 PM • permalinkIf you have a minute, duck over to The Australian’s Blog and leave a comment. Right now, there are about 6 people all ganging up on me, to insiste that it is I who is trying to intimidate.
Meat-loving cow eats chickens
March 08, 2007
Article from: Reuters via news.com.au
When dozens of chickens went missing from a remote West Bengal village, everyone blamed the neighborhood dogs.
But Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, eventually solved the puzzle when he caught his cow - a sacred animal for the Hindu family - gobbling up several of them at night.
“We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive,” Mr Ghosh said.
The family decided to stand guard at night on Monday at the cow shed which also served as a hen coop, after 48 chickens went missing in a month.
“Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, sneak to the coop and grab the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat,” Gour Ghosh, his brother, said.Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 03 07 at 09:55 PM • permalinkIt’s like crack, innit?
Worse than that, it’s like coffee and a cute waitress.
You just can’t stop at one…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 07 at 09:56 PM • permalinkSpeaking of piano accordions, French philosopher Jean Baudrillard has relinquished his carbon footprint.
#124 Onto it Dan, but jeez they take their sweet time.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 10:18 PM • permalinkCan I just say that I’ve been reading this site for about two years now (and commenting for a little over a year), and that it’s still as excellent as ever.
I think Tim does an excellent job - the posts make me think and they make me laugh - and I’d like to thank him for all the hard work he puts in here.
Bah. Member no. 2 thinks he owns this blog.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 10:26 PM • permalinkFor those of you who like raucous speed and the allure of death, here is the fastest ever lap of the Nurburgring in a road legal car. Unbelievable stuff. Watch for when he passes the Mercedes. A few of the corners a hairier than a Nimbin lezo in winter.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 07 at 10:29 PM • permalinkThanks to Rittenhouse at #46. Funny stuff!
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 07 at 10:30 PM • permalinkGod bless you Mr Tim and Ms Andrea. it is a wonderful job that you are doing and I am telling you this for nothing now you must jolly well go on doing what you are doing and jolly well do it for a long long time.
Whom is laughing at Mr Tim now. Not I and I am telling you this for nothing.
Rajiv Shankar
God bless and jolly good night. I am telling you this for nothing
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 03 07 at 10:47 PM • permalinkWhat about Louis Nowra on the suffering of Aboriginal children?
El Cid #104
Denis Collins is a neighbor of Russert. Has worked with Woodward and has evidently been employed by the Washington Post. He is also an author of a book on spying.
Rush did a whole piece on him today. It’s on his site. The question was asked as to why or how this guy was on the jury when both Russert and Woodward testified at the trial. Limbaugh asked some people close to the defense team that same question. Turns out that the jury pool was a lefty cesspool with even a few MoveOn.org people in there. They used up all of their challenges on these people and had none left when it came to Collins. They had to take him.
I’m certainly no expert(but you knew that!) on the Federal Judicial system but why would a judge allow a juror into the trial that had connections with people that he knew were going to testify?
Can’t be arsed linking but it is interesting to compare opinion pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian today for International Womens Day.
The bint in the SMH seems to think the big issues for IWD are basically more money for Australian women and their government departments and higher numbers of sheila MPs. (Horrors! One government office for sheilas is down to 14 staff!)
Pamela Bone meanwhile discusses genital mutilation and honour killings and how her sisters like the SMH airhead have lost all sense of perspective.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 07 at 11:16 PM • permalinkHere in Canuckistan the blogosphere is agog with the latest from the blog My Blahg which for years has been the unofficial site for our socialist New Democratic Party [NDP].
That is until the host posted the following statement from a visitor and his reply {the NDP has now disavowed this racist moonbat]
When the State starts rounding up my Jewish neighbours, I’ll speak up.
Not me. People like Klownsella, Chernyuk and Smeagol the Jew have taught me it’s not worth getting involved. When next they come for the Jews I doubt I’ll even be able to muster up a “what a shame”.
#145 - He said it, most of ‘em just think it.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 07 at 11:33 PM • permalinkJust went over to see how my Caddy’s geting on- new chassis rails are back and being welded into the frame, next week it’s getting rubbed back and done in 2 pack, with a couple of coats of laquer. It’s going to be extra pimpy.
Anyone want a couple of staffies? My little sods buggered off on Tuesday when gale-force wings blew the side gate open; never done it before, but they decided to take the opportunity. An hour roaming around the adjacent parklands, patrolling the 4 lane road 500m from our place looking for furry pancakes and peering into yards looking for dismembered cats/maltese terriers etc, and the buggers turned up, puffing like asthmatic traction engines, obviously having had a fat time.
It was tempting to take the swines to the Vietnamese restaurant we attended last night, to see if we could trade.
#148 - That’s a lotta money to spend on a caddy. I usually just chuck a couple of bucks at mine at the end of the round.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 08 at 12:39 AM • permalinkI have beren puzzling all morning over the video of Hillary Clinton at Selma demonstrating a southern twang.
Her mannerisms ,voice inflection and delivery I had seen before very recently, and it has just come to me that it was straight out of the TV series Elizabeth 1 starring Helen Mirren rousing her trrop to battle against the Spaniards. Almost cut and paste#124 - Holy Moses, it’s got looser than a wizard’s sleeve over at The OZ Blog. Marilyn’s off her meds and has gone so far off her chops the Hubble telescope’s lost contact. Fookin’ brilliant!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 08 at 12:47 AM • permalinkIT Re #124
Nice work over at the Australian. Hopefully we have helped out a few twerps build on their victim complexes.
Not that some of the commenters over there will notice, but the time delay makes it seem somewhat bizarre and indiscriminate.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 08 at 12:50 AM • permalink#160 - half way thru my tickertape parade and someone else demands to join in. I don’t get no respect.
#161 - Hey 1.618, good work in the chopper today. Where can I get some of your “helicopter petrol”? I’ve got a wedding on the weekend that needs livening up
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 08 at 02:14 AM • permalink#20 So I was thinking of getting an electric oven…
I take it you’re not the cook of the house
#78 Robotic age poses ethical dilemma
I’m waiting for the next book by Peter Singer, where he explains that robot lives are more valuable than babies, because at least robots will never vote for George Bush
Do you think the bad guys are winning?
no
#90 Oh, and Happy International Women’s Day!
HIWD to you too. I celebrated by whipping myself for having a penis.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 03 08 at 02:18 AM • permalinkDid you whip yourself using your penis?
Just heard on National Moonbat FM:-
Dull Guest:- "I just got back to town from Taree....."
Rude, Interupting On-Air Fucknuckle:- "Taree? My grandfather used to drive bullock trains up there in the ‘20s, with the timber-getters and loggers- of course that was SO WRONG, but different times...."
Me in Car:- Stunned mullet expresion, followed by monologue rant about using old growth timber as kindling for a certain national broadcaster’s overdue immolation.
For fucks sake, do these peanuts ever think outside their monocular obsessions?
um, 1.618, I don’t know if anyone’s explained this to you, but I think he’s already taken
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 03 08 at 02:24 AM • permalinkFlowers coming your way 1.618, you feisty little minx!
#166 - Daddy Dave, I’ve beaten myself since my teenage years for having a penis. I’m as one with the suffragettes.
Margos Maid - A doppleganger of yours is posting on The Oz Blog. I know it’s not you because of the apostriphication. Careful.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 08 at 02:27 AM • permalink#166 - I thought that was exactly the problem: that robots (or similarly mind-controlled automatons) do vote for Bush.
And anyway, don’t robots contribute to global warming during their manufacturing?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 08 at 02:34 AM • permalinkJericho, which was a pretty good show, just dropped off my Tivo. Of course the star is an Iraq vet who KILLED A LITTLE GIRL
Patricia, you might be able to save me some time here. I’ve got two Jerichos in the queue on my DVR. Last episode I saw seemed to indicate that the bombs were set off by Americans, possibly government. Not good. And this and previous episodes characterized private military contractors as psychopathic Whores of War mercs (tell that to the Africans they saved from rape and mutilation before Clinton and the UN put a stop to this uppity horning-in on ineffectual nation-state action). So it looks like more “we have met the enemy and he is us” happy horseshit from the “what’s-a-Whahabbi?” Hollywood crowd. Am I right? Should I dump it before I waste more precious hours of my life?
ah excellent article in Quadrant. I’m always amazed by the high standard of weiting in this magazine.
The Musim probelm in Australia
‘So while of course I welcome measures to deal with those superficial manifestations of our Muslim problem, it is vital to understand that the problem goes much, much deeper than that. It is indeed a problem not singular to Australia. It is a problem that is similar to the Muslim problem in all Western countries where a significant immigrant Muslim minority has been allowed to become established’Well the freaking Yojimbo has also hit 1500 how come I never get recognized?
Some animals are more equal that others, eh? My 1500 passed unremarked as well…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 08 at 03:32 AM • permalinkI heard the thing about rights for robots. I have a simple rule of thumb. Human rights should be available to all humans. Beyond that any being (artificial or organic) that can, of its own volition (although with suitable help with language, information etc from good old homo sapien), argue its case to a relevant body. Tends to rule out all animals exept those chimps that came back from space super intelligent. And at this stage I don’t see many computers/robots being able to do it.
Habib,
Rude, Interupting On-Air Fucknuckle:-
Fo a moment there, I thought you were talking about Hugh Hewitt’s “interview” of Andrew Sullivan, who apparently was allowed to blather on for the better part of an hour. Then I thought, Hewitt’s on in Oz? What?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 08 at 03:39 AM • permalink#89
The Fill-up Adams’ Family’s Climate Change Coalition of Crackpots party is also advocating compulsory Climate Change edumacation in skools by 2008 ... juz like Big Al Bore.Language, Literacy, Numeracy and Lunacy?
How about a Climate Change Coalification party?
Dan Lewis
In reply to your comments on Loewenstain when i mentioned the atrocious fraud of the Hesbulah film Industry, which of course was ignored by the Australian press.This year has seen an escalation in these stories, especially from the Middle East. Israel’s incursion into Lebanon in July and August gave it a devastating propaganda defeat thanks to the efforts of Hezbollah’s media managers and friendly journalists. Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah rocket launch sites were portrayed in the Western media as causing dozens of civilian deaths, principally of women and children. Internet bloggers have since revealed that many of the photographs and much of the television footage was fraudulent, with live civilians posing as dead, and the bodies of children who died elsewhere paraded around bomb sites for photo opportunities. Teddy bears and Mickey Mouse dolls were carefully placed on top of collapsed buildings to imply children had died there, when none had. The same actors posed at several different sites pretending to be dispossessed Palestinians. Photographs of Beirut showed the whole downtown area affected, whereas only the Hezbollah Beirut headquarters was actually bombed. Reuters news agency later admitted what several bloggers had pointed out: its photographer had added additional smoke to a long shot of the city using the clone tool in Photoshop. Meanwhile, the French public television network France 2 now openly compares the Israelis to the Nazis.
Keith windschuttle at Quadrant.
what oare the odds that the AJN will print it !
France 2 as you know knowingly perpetrated the Al Durah Libel in the first place#110
Following posted to that thread on Leftwrites site:“This has always confused me. As an “aging Marxist” with a “low tolerance for bullshit” how come harry feldman is such a despicible lying nazi racist cunt who champions the genocide of Jews, and only Jews, at every possible opportunity? How is it that an obviously nazi blog as this fuck-witted cunt effort manages to portray itself as anything other than the demented bunch of sick fascist pricks that you so clearly are?
“geoff”
#168
Rude, Interupting On-Air FucknuckleDo these guys get basic training in this ... ‘How to be an ABC Radio Nanny 101’ ...
RN’s Richard Aedy bossing around studio guests ... our ABC Local Radio (local Bush Pig) instructing the poor old BOM weather dude to immediately go off and turn off his barely audible radio in the background ...Whereas, back in the Big Smoke, did the BOM Sydney import a bunch of Eastern Bloc weatherfolk: their English-as-a-second-language has emhasis on the wrong syllables, it’s a real chore to discern what they’re saying, akin to: “What’s that on the road, a head?” WTF?
#180
Fill-up Adams must have got a scent of those climate change dollars. Fill-up is an advertising man, so there he is competely devoid of scruples. Remember Fill-up’s Life Be In It campaign back in 1975. Could almost be used again in 2007:
"Try it today. Here’s a simple walk to start with. Stand up, walk over here and turn off the telly. And then go for a walk outside. Go on! Go to the post office and mail Phillip Adams a large amount of money. We’ll still be here when you get back."[/quote]
Funny thing is that Fill-up, having invented Norm the lazy obese Australian, became him. So much for effective advertising
#162- IT - not your wedding by any chance?
#170 Don’t know why, but the Blair blog won’t let me apostrophise my name, but every now and then I splash out and use one elsewhere.
Almost certainly some kind of conspiracy involving Blair/Gates and my lack of computer skills.
#169
1.6, pay no mind
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 08 at 05:12 AM • permalinkAt times, a certain someone that I am very close too can be a humongous ass. This is one of those times.
I’m contemplating stabbing my brain with a ballpoint by inserting it in my left nostril and slamming my head against the desk. Or maybe I’ll just step in front of the next Deutschbahn train that comes along.Sometimes I think life was easier in Iraq.
Don’t worry, Texas Bob, it will pass. Life may have been easier in Iraq, but isn’t there something oddly cheering about the thought of inserting a ballpoint in your nostril and slamming your head on the desk? (hate to say it, but I found it pretty funny)
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 03 08 at 06:18 AM • permalinkPilots blame ‘huge gust of wind’ for Indon plane crash
However: Indonesia’s national police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto says a temporary conclusion has been reached that the crash was caused by human error.
Aussie (Airforce) passengers said they braced for landing as they could tell that the plane was coming in too fast ... hope the pilots are offlined (for the public’s sake) while the investigation takes place ...
Working with academics.
I sent this instruction:
Subject: To make your course available to students on e-learning
Go into your course.
Click on */Control Panel/*.
In Course Options box, click on */Settings/*.
Click on */Course Availability/*.
Click in */Yes/*.
Click */Submit/* (at the bottom of the page).
Click */OK/*. (If you get another OK click it, too)
Your course should now not display “*/unavailable/*” and should be accessible by students.
I get this reply:
Dear ***
I am trying to make Blackboard available to my students. In your advice you say ‘go into your course’ then ‘click onto Control Panel’. Could you be a bit more explicit please? By go into my course, do you mean going into it on e-learning? By click on the
control panel, do you mean on the Start menu?Thanks,
some academicHow can I soar like an eagle when I am surrounded by turkeys?
After reading your ball-point pen self-harm exercise, and not being one to self-harm, I thought about trying it out on various colleagues.
Unfortunately, my supervisor keeps telling me I am not allowed to hit, so I suppose that using pointy objects would also be out of the question - besides, the OH&S officer is off having an operation at the moment and no-one’s allowed to get hurt (nor, I assume, are they allowed to hurt anyone else). (But sometimes you just wanna HURT someone!)And Texas Bob, I hope I have brightened your day!
Dear Academic,
Open mouth, /breath in, pause, breath out/
(Repeat step one as required)
Open desk drawer (2nd down on the right) and obtain tissue. /Blot drool/
(Repeat step two as required)
If further clarification of the instructions above is required, follow steps one and/or two provided in comment #194Sorry to butt in here, but you know, I reckon we need a web resource where we can instantly ask an academic to explain the really big things in life. For example, as the storm clouds gather and pass and as the seasons cool and warm again, the Sirens softly call. Why can’t ordinary people hear that sound?
It’s, like, really high pitched and sounds like a dog whistle.
Gore dammit! I’m ordinary. I can’t hear it either.
Damn, splice, whenever you get yourself a new packet of textas, remember to remove the tops one at a time, not all at once.
Hang in there Texas Bob. When are you getting home anyways? What do people from Texas miss when they’re away from home?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 08 at 08:23 AM • permalinkMM, who knows? Probably be in Germany another year I imagine.
What do displaced Texans miss? I have a short list:
1) Other Texans
2) BBQ (preferably served at a BBQ Cook-off)
3) Chili (preferably served at a Chili Cook-off)
4) Proper footwear
5) Bob Wills music
6) The Alamo
7) Red dirt and pine trees
8) Manners
9) Bluebell Ice Cream
10) Folks who don’t talk funny…Get a load of this barbaric medieval goat fondler sipping on a McDonald’s shake for Christ’s sakes.
I reckon it’s got to be the picture of the week.#214—Uh, that sound is your blood pressure, son…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 08 at 11:05 AM • permalink"Am I right? Should I dump it before I waste more precious hours of my life?”
You have the plot line pretty well figured out. Jake is a psycho--and his dad, the Mayor, tearfully confesses he was driven mad by
Bushitler’s warWWII and killed a civilian too!
And the US Marines come next week to restore power and water, and they do, but it turns out they’re violent blood sucking Whores of War, driven mad by Bushitler’s war too! Tragically spoiling the stoopit believes of all thoseredneck hickspeople.Feh. I was so pissed off I wrote them an email about their freaking leftist cliches.
#215 7) Red dirt and pine trees
Be advised that pine trees are what East Texans miss. The red dirt, however, still applies.
#228, Patricia, a small correction: Mayor Dad’s war would have been Vietnam, not WWII. Every mention of the horrors of war conforms to the Vietnam template, you see, and Mayor Dad isn’t quite old enough to have fought in WWII.
That said, Jericho is lefty dystopia-yearning, best avoided unless you want to sit snarling at your TV.
#194
At times, a certain someone that I am very close too can be a humongous ass.
Texas Bob, I find it hard to be sympathetic with someone whose significant other is merely an “ass”. Everyone’s SO is an ass at some point. On the other hand, if said person is completely and uncontrollably psychotic, then we’ll have something to talk about.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 03 08 at 05:23 PM • permalink# 216 Thanks Texas Bob. I will check out a few of those things next time I’m in the US.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 08 at 06:24 PM • permalink#236
Don’t give up 1.6.
Any acquaintance of Tim’s is more than likely to tire of him quickly.
A few more helicopter sweeps should do the trick.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 08 at 07:40 PM • permalink
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