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The New York Times exposes a demonic Bushler scheme:
Iraq is a long way to go for a photo op, but not for President Bush, who is pulling out all the stops to divert public attention from his failed Iraq policies ...
Bush diverts attention from Iraq by visiting Iraq. How does that work, exactly? In other evil George news, the SMH seeks out local Presidential critic (and “nutrionist”) Vicki Flood:
A Sydney nutrionist is now chastening US President George Bush over his choice of food during an official lunch today.
Vicki Flood, from Sydney University’s Centre for Public Health Nutrition, said Mr Bush’s plate, piled up with surf ‘n’ turf with only a hint of vegetables, was a particularly unhealthy sight.
“The main concern with the plate is the quantity of the protein-rich foods, with a very small amount of vegetables and no breads at all,” Dr Flood said.
“The sausages are probably a higher-fat choice of meat and the T-bone generally is a higher-fat meat choice as well, so the meat choice alone, the quantity of the meat, is the concern.”
Hey, at least they’re not claiming the steak was plastic. There’s progress for you.
(Via Peter W., who emails: “He was at a BBQ, for God’s sake. What a pack of dribbling idiots.”)
UPDATE. Dubya toys with the SMH’s Annabel Crabb:
“Oh, you people are recording my every move here, aren’t you?” he drawled. “I tell you what, I’ll help you out. Here’s your first sentence. ‘The President takes a spoon …”’
“In your right hand or your left hand?” the Herald asked, slightly bewildered but happy to be in the frame for some high-level one-on-one, even if only on the topic of the cold buffet.
“Yes. Important. He takes the spoon in his right hand, and he takes some salad. But how many pieces? One, two … “
Whereupon the leader of the free world proceeded, as a friendly service to the readers of The Sydney Morning Herald, to count out pieces of spiral pasta as he dropped them one by one on to his plate. “Eight!” he concluded. “Eight noodles! There’s your story. Nice helping you out!”
There you have it. Chimpy McBushHitler is a master illusionist who eats meat at BBQs. I finally see just how evil he is.
Posted by Bill Ramey on 2007 09 05 at 12:05 PM • permalinkYou would think a Bush hater like Vicki Flood would encourage him to eat more high fat unhealthy foods.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 09 05 at 12:05 PM • permalinkLet’s see here, instead of claiming the food is plastic, they’re criticizing him this time for eating real food. How much do you want to bet if he’d chosen a bunch of veggies and a piece of chicken they’d complain that the chicken wasn’t free-range, or the veggies weren’t organically grown, or the carbon output from production and delivery was so big he should’ve gone hungry?
You would think a Bush hater like Vicki Flood would encourage him to eat more high fat unhealthy foods.
OTOH, Vicki Flood is acknowledging that Bush is a role model. Not deliberately, I’m sure, but there’s that.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 05 at 12:20 PM • permalinkWhere do piss-pots like “Doctor” *eyes roll almost irretrievably into back of skull* Vicki Flood get off, anyway? At precicely which train station do we get to punch their ticket? Or, do we have to throw them off the train while it’s still moving?
I don’t presume to tell her what to eat, so why doesn’t she just shut her pie hole? Or tofu hole, as the case may be.
Yeah, last night in a display of solidarity with Dubya and the troops I had for dinner a frito pie, which is pretty much the national dish of Texas. And before anybody complains about the lack of vegetables, it had chopped onions. And fritos are made from corn, yet another vegetable. So it was a totally Gaia friendly repast, unless anyone thinks I sinned by diverting corn from ethanol into frito production.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 09 05 at 12:28 PM • permalinkyou don’t make friends with sa-lad, you don’t make friends with…
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2007 09 05 at 12:31 PM • permalinkFrom the Times:
Mr. Bush’s only destination was an isolated, well-fortified air base in Anbar Province, not Baghdad where his so-called surge was supposed to bring stability and persuade Iraqi politicians that they had more to gain from reconciliation than score-settling.
The editorial board, which has to be the worst in America if not the world, apparently missed the symbolism of meeting in the Anbar Province, once perhaps the most dangerous acreage in Iraq.
Despite all Mr. Bush’s cheerleading, a new report by nonpartisan Congressional investigators tells a much grimmer and closer to reality tale, concluding that the Iraqi government has failed to meet 11 of 18 military and political benchmarks to which it had agreed.
The Times fails to mention that the very partisan Democrats ordered this particular GAO “investigation” and further instructed that it be done strictly on a pass/fail basis. If any element of a particular benchmark has not been met, it’s considered failed in its entirety.
For a different view of Dubya’s “photo op”, read Fred Kagan’s longish, but informative The Gettysburg of This War.
Chimpy seems an even-tempered, good natured sort. No doubt that’s served him well as he’s slogged through six plus years of vitriol. I found the Crabb piece to be rather endearing.
Steve—And fritos are made from corn, yet another vegetable.
I believe corn, a starch, is classified as a grain or cereal grass. But your onions are a bona fide vegetable so you go, guy!
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 05 at 02:46 PM • permalinkShoulda had the Chilean sea bass. That would have been beyond criticism.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2007 09 05 at 03:12 PM • permalinkCall any vegetable
Call it by name
Call one today
‘Fore they get off the train.
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you.
Shoop, shoop, la, la, la, la
The vegetable will respond to you.- Frank Zappa
Posted by nobody important on 2007 09 05 at 03:33 PM • permalinkAnd while the loony left focuses its gimlet eye on the President’s plate, Paintball for Jesus flies under the radar. All part of our Dark Master’s Cunning Plan.
That’s the worst they can say about him? That he doesn’t eat enough vegetables? Wow—next they’ll accuse him of parting his hair crooked. Do these people not have lives? (Rhetorical question—no need to answer.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 05 at 04:37 PM • permalinkDubya toys with the SMH’s Annabel Crabb
If Emperor McChimpy was stocking up at a seafood buffet, one might say that he was playing with his food.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 05 at 04:43 PM • permalinkIf the President was serious about counting noodles he’d have paid a call on Canberra’s press gallery.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 05 at 05:10 PM • permalinkel Cid #12 - I have periodic arguments with a good friend about the bean ration of chile. I maintain it should be precisely zero, he claims they are an integral part of the recipe. I counter that according to ICS competition rules, beans are a disqualifier, he counters by standing there with a stupid expression. Oh well, he’s still a good friend even if he doesn’t know beans (har har!!! - oh, I slay me!)
Anyway, whenever I make chile, it’s always sans legumes. I do a separate pot of red beans or pintos on the side, for people to mix in if they wish.
And Kyda #18, corn grows out of the ground and has leafy green things on it, and is not capable of running away from you, so if it isn’t actually a vegetable it may as well be one. And I say it’s spinach and to hell with it.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 09 05 at 05:22 PM • permalinkThis is on topic for yesterdays truther troll and this thread.
If you’ve ever thought that people like Jack Murtha, Charles Schumer, Kossacks, Huffingtonites, Truthers, MSM Journo-tards, and bumper sticker liberals were crazy, insane lunatics, well, you are really and truly technically correct: They suffer from a psychological disorder called psychopathy.
Everyone here should read this, as it is brilliant, and the medicine some of us need to come to terms with these morons: They aren’t just stupid, they’re mentally ill.
#24 - hey, don’t paint all us cyclists with the bloody Fairfax brush! I’ll have you know that I went for a two hour ride yesterday and I managed to get home without punching any pensioners, setting fire to any 4WDs or causing traffic mayhem in the CBD.
I feel that something is missing from my life…...
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 05 at 06:55 PM • permalinkHi MR President and CONDY and USA people!! (Waves)
Please shhhh while I sing with Marvin Gay the American Anthem for our special guest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A&mode=related&search;=
#1 No Jerry, he visited Australia to distract attention from it.
Really, the NYT has lost all semblance of impartiality, niot that it’s fig leaf was exactly showing before.
I suspect in 2008, the NYT will be telling voters to vote for Gore, not Bush.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 05 at 07:31 PM • permalinkTraceeeee is filling in on 2BL again this morning. Somehow a caller managed to slip through and point out the many ironies in protesting against democratic nations while letting China et al off the hook. But not to worry, there was soon an army of daftness to point out that China is, “slowly moving towards democracy,” and hadn’t invaded any countries ‘recently.’
Some broad wanted to share her pride in the young protesters who, “weren’t at all like Paris Hilton.” I don’t know though, they seem to have the same vacant look in their eyes.
Isn’t it wonderful to see Australian media representatives rising to this very important occasion?
And exposing their ignorance and stupidity to the world.
What about that other media idiot, Mark Riley from Channel 7, who yesterday tried to embarrass President Bush by drawing his attention to all the security in Sydney? As if George W. hadn’t seen it all before?
Riley made a complete fool of himself, and George W. proved that he has a lot more class and intelligence than the media who constantly try to put him down.
Re #31, thanks for the link, Hucbald. I’ve always suspected mental illness among those sort of people, but it’s nice to see others opinions.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 05 at 08:15 PM • permalinkBreaking News: Bush a folder not a scruncher. Environmentalists outraged by his use of paper and wanton flushing.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 08:18 PM • permalink#50 - He has to wear the shirt, 1.6. It sends a signal to… (thud)
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 08:55 PM • permalinkOn a similar, somewhat related note, I am sick and tired (to the point of writing bitching letters) of our media, ABC to the forefront, referring to “George W Bush” or “Mr Bush”. It’s “President” George W Bush, you dim-bulbs. What made it worse for me was hearing, in the same sentence, “Mr Bush met with Prime Minister Howard”.
Thank heavens the President has a sense of humour—he’s gonna need it with the retards we have posing as “media” down here.
As a courtesy to the SMH readership, Bush stopped before ten so as not to strain their counting ability…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 05 at 09:20 PM • permalinkwhy didn’t they tell us what he drank at the BBQ? sugary soft drink, juice of some kind or evil capitalist bottled water?
enquiring minds want to know
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 05 at 09:29 PM • permalinkWalks in, looks around, observes nothing but wholesome, well-adjusted, corn-fed RWDB’s
What, no trolls? Guess we’ll have to create our own subversive commentary.
#60 - He held the funnel while Johnny subbed 3 cans of XXXX. Funny as fuck when at George’s encouragement, Johnny parked a tiger in Condi’s handbag.
All the gang later attended a strip club. Very good tippers apparently.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 09:35 PM • permalink#63 XXXX?- how low will johnnie go to shore up his Queensland vote?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 05 at 09:42 PM • permalink“You are a chauvinistic parasite because you think that Cindy Sheehan is a deranged old hag!”
Thanks Paco, the People’s Progressive Truth Generator spewed out that little gem.
I needed cheering up, the effing Seattle Mariners pretty much blew their season tonight. Against the goddamn New York Yankees, no less, and in front of that human zoo known as Yankees fans. (I shouldn’t be too hard on the Mariners, I had no expectation in April that they’d be playing meaningful games in September.)
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 09 05 at 10:05 PM • permalinkBIWOZ: actually, there’s nothing wrong with calling the president simply by “Mr.” and his last name. “Mr. Bush,” “Mr. President,” and “President Bush” are all correct.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 05 at 10:05 PM • permalinkDo not miss out on visiting Paco’s link at #62, it is hilarious!
I just wasted half an hour generating random propaganda statements from hoWARd and Bu$h and emailing them to several known leftards of my acquaintance.
I will cack my daks in mirth when they email back with “Right on, Brother!” comments.
Waaa-a-ay too much fun.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 09 05 at 10:08 PM • permalink1.618,
I’ll be your secret Service man. I would keep you close and instantly dive on top of you at the first sign of danger.#52 It sends a signal to…
his pet parrot to come home?
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 09 05 at 10:10 PM • permalinkIn other food related news,
Grits ain’t groceries,
Eggs ain’t poultry,
and Mona Lisa was a man.Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 09 05 at 10:17 PM • permalinkIt has corn, everyone loves CORN for gods sake.
Corn has its place. As chips in/around chili. Steamed on the cob. Creamed, on occasion. As bread (and not that icky northern sweet cake-like substance), with jalapenos and cheese if you want.
No *in* chili. (And not in cream soups, if I have anything to say about it.)
My dad, a natural born Texican, taught me right, fortunately for me.
I fixed your tag, steveH. I presume it was the quote tag you wanted, not the bold.
BIWOZ: well, I suppose the ignorant journalist thinks he’s being daringly rude when he says “Mr. Bush.” It just makes me laugh because the truth is there isn’t any insult in that. It’s like going up to someone and saying: “You—you—human you!”
Well, my cats do think of “human” as an insult. I can tell by the way they look at me. And the little notes they leave me. “Human—you are inferior. We told you to get FRESH tuna, not canned.” Things like that.
The cats wrote that note. Cleverly using my handwriting. They’re sly, those cats. Especially the purple ones.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 05 at 10:45 PM • permalink#83 & 82 - He is not referred to as President Bush because he illegaly stole the 2000 election from the people’s real choice, Algore. 2004 was an anomaly and doesn’t count, because he should not have even been running. Choke on plastic turkey, chicken hawk biatches.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 10:53 PM • permalinkSeveral blogs are live-blogging the Republican presidential debate. Sorry, no disrepect intended (I happen to like one or two of the blogs participating), but the only thing more boring than a modern political “debate” is the live-blogging of same. The only two people who could live-blog a presidential debate - and whom I would read - are Tim Blair and Habib. And if they live-blogged together? I’d hang on every golden metaphor, every platinum wisecrack.
Why was she even charged? It’s our birth right to kick funny speaking, ovine oglers in the Jatz crackers!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 05 at 11:09 PM • permalinkEl Cid
“Holy mother of fuck… the fucking moon… over.”
I never fucking get tired of fucking watching that. I bust up laughing every fucking time.
I actually watched that live with my dad. He may very well have coined the term “fucking amazing” somewhere during that landing (Military officer/USAF pilot at the time: I learned all the bad words early).
“I am abso-fucking-lutely standing on the fucking moon… over.” ROTFL!!!
That dumb reporter wasted one of history’s great oportunities. Questions you could ask Mr Bush:
1) Why didn’t you charge the NYT editors with treason?
2) Immigration. What the hell?
3) Farm subsidies - Australians can make a go of it… are they Americans or American’ts? And why f*** it up for those who CAN?
4) When are we going to let old ladies have their nail files on planes again?
#40
Monaro
All day yesterday on local radio was about whether protests worked, or is their time over, because of the school children who were encouraged to take part by a uni student activist.
On and on about the number of cars in GWB’s motorcade, etc, etc, etc. Just crap, really.The gem was a phone in, a woman named, oh, Rainbow, or Sky, or Rain or some-such who fully would support her beautiful 11 year old daughter if she’d decided to protest. Because, you know,
“kids today are just so well educated and switched on. They are so passionate in what they believe and they should keep that passion. Yeah. Back in the 60s I protested when I was at uni, it was a way of life. Between lectures you’d just, you know, go and protest. Today because they have to, you know, study, the students can’t protest so much… it’s so bad that they can’t protest, it’s a right of passage at uni; it’s a right….”I’d have thought that going to uni in the 60s she’d be in her 50s now. And she would have grown-up.
I guess she’s destined to be a moonbat all her life.
We’re doomed.
Cid, this is a better pav picture and the instructions are simpler, but I prefer the strawbs, passionfruit and kiwi fruit.
OK, no more food from me!
101 yojimbo
FEMA’s not nearly the problem DHS and TSA are. I quit FEMA when DHS took them over. Friends of mine still with FEMA tell me DHS took all the “fun” and the - quite significant, IMO - “emotional paychecks” out of the job. Not to mention the REAL paychecks.
The job I did - both a Senior Supervisor Field Inspector AND a Supervisor Case Reviewer - does not even exist anymore. You can be one or the other, but not both now. Why? Jealousy: The GS-12 and GS-13 office chair-warmers were envious that us GS-11’s who did more WORK than they did made as much or more than they did (In a busy year, of course) due to all the overtme we got (But most of us got NO benefits because we were technically temporary part-time employees, and not permanent full-time employees).
Katrina didn’t help (After my time, but I got a blow-by-blow from friends): It seemed like nobody wanted to play hardball with the local politicians enough to point out the obvious; FEMA IS NOT A FIRST-RESPONDER. The Bush administration basically let FEMA take the heat - and Brown the fall - when it was Nagin (N.O. re-elected the fuck-tard) and Governor Whitman who were to blame for over 90% of the shit that went down there.
FEMA used to be a great agency to work for, and I was quite proud of the work I did for disaster victims - and trust me, a lot of times it was literally shit: You’ve never lived until you’ve inspected 40 basements in a day, all of which were just days previously filled with several feet of sewer backup - but DHS chased off all of the free-spirits like me and replaced us with bureau-rat functionaries.
Next time there is a “big one” it will be worse… because of DHS.
Hucbald
I fully accept your explanation. I agree that most of the initial blame should go to the local and state people.
Maybe I should have said rationalize the process because I have just about had it up to here with the whinning and bitching coming out of that twobit berg down there. Its been two years and and a great dealof it looks like ground zero. If you can’t re-build you’re bleeping house in two years give it up and let someone else have it.
I’m also less than happy with all of the smug little lefties crying about the “War” has drained precious resouces away from the area. Bunk. They have been spending money out the wazoo on that stupid area and I would like to know where in the heck it went.
Two members of the ABC’s The Chaser team have been detained by police while performing a prank at Sydney’s InterContinental Hotel, ABC management has said.
Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello, stars of the satirical ABC TV program The Chaser’s War on Everything, were detained late this morning during a stunt at the hotel where US president George W Bush is a guest during the APEC summit.
You’ll notice they chose the Canadian motorcade, as it was the one least likely to open fire on them.
Now let’s see them get through the checkpoints at Long Bay Gaol.
#108 - ...they were then summarily executed in accordance with APEC regulations. Everybody laughed heartily. President Bush had the veal with a slaw side.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 06 at 12:40 AM • permalink107 yojimbo
I worked in “that twobit berg” three times: Once when I was still with the agancy, once as an independent contractor for FEMA, and once as an independent contractor for HUD. All of that pre-K, of course.
What the FEMA field inspector experience taught me is that an incredibly high percentage of the applicants from N.O. are renters - most of them on other forms of public assistance and in HUD homes - who view FEMA as just more free government money, and they are not shy about lying to get it (We jokingly refered to our own agency as Free Easy Money Available).
I mean, I had - on multiple occasions - the cutest little old ladies stand in front of me flat-footed and lie their eyes out trying to get me to give them items they didn’t lose, and obviously never had to begin with. A seasoned inspector develops a nose for this stuff, but the green guys tend to have an over-abundance of gullibility to get over. Hence the incredible amounts of fraud.
The HUD experience taught me that there were a few landlords who owned multiple dwellings, and they would get them qualified for the HUD program to get these low income renters in: It’s really a government sponsored racket. They are basically SOL because all that’s available to them in terms of disaster assistance are low interest SBA loans. Since both FEMA and the SBA inspect to verify if it is economically feasable to rebuild the properties, they would have gotten a “destroyed” rating, and had to start over from scratch. I know: I was in hundreds of homes in the ninth ward, and the vast majority of them suffered from extreme deferred maintenance issues - it was hard for many of them to even pass the HUD inspections. Any significant flood damage, and they will get a “destroyed” rating on both their FEMA and SBA inspections due to dilapidation. In many cases, not gonna happen, because the landlords themselves will not even qualify for the loans.
As far as the infrastructure, that was under Public Assistance: Outside of my bailiwick, since I was an individual assistance guy.
For the relatively few owners who lived in their homes, FEMA has a cap: If you are above that cap (It was $10,000.00 when I was with FEMA, but last I heard it was up to $25,000.00), the balance will be available only through the SBA. Again, most of those folks will not have the financial standing to qualify, and so the lots will languish.
Don’t ask me about the lawsuits: They are legion, and that too slows the pace of recovery down to an incessant drip, drip, drip.
Yes, there was just a ton of fraud with Katrina: Many of the inspectors were wet behind the ears, if you’ll pardon the pun.
Hope this helps.
“Un-fucking-believable, Tranquility… over.”
#90 IT, as a funny speaking ovine ogler I must disagree with your view on this misguided girls actions. This should obviously have been treated as a hate crime with suitable serious punishment, a damn good spanking.
Mind you my wife normally nails me in the crown jewels every time we go to Starbucks and I order tea with mulk. I don’t take it personally though because I know she hates everyone.Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 09 06 at 01:00 AM • permalink#116 - Actually, considering how many times I’ve been kicked in the niagras, I must speak funny myself.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 06 at 01:10 AM • permalinkHucbald
I went through the big Los Angeles quake of 1994(and all of the other ones for that matter). That thing ripped us to shreds. It snapped the chimney in two, shredded our flat roof(spanish style home) and did wonders for the foundation. I did not go running to bleeping FEMA. I either paid for the reconstruction or did the work myself. So this whole process needs to get off its butt and move ahead. I’m sick of seeing these people whine and bitch on TV everytime they televise a football game down there or we come to some significant dateline. I’m just tired of hearing a lot of excuses.
yojimbo
Northridge was BEFORE my time with FEMA, but as late as 1998 they still had a full time fraud investigation and recoupment team working on it.
I hear you, brother. FEMA was an “edumacational” experience for me, that’s for sure. Many people like you I would meet in the course of my inspections and I’d beg them to apply, and they refused. I deeply respected that.
On the other hand, incredibly bad attitudes and a militant sense of entitlement seems to go hand-in-hand with the various forms of welfare. There’s no satisfying those people. They’ll piss and moan until their last breath.
Hucbald
Your last paragraph is as good a capsulation of the problem as any. If anyone wants to know what a Hillary Village would look like just take a gander at LA and NO. It has been engaged in welfare politics for decades.
You remember that Kansas town that was flattened by the tornado either late last year or eary this year. Two years out you will not be able to tell anything ever happened.
#71 David Crawford
I needed cheering up, the effing Seattle Mariners pretty much blew their season tonight. Against the goddamn New York Yankees, no less, and in front of that human zoo known as Yankees fans. (I shouldn’t be too hard on the Mariners, I had no expectation in April that they’d be playing meaningful games in September.)
All is not lost: the
LACaliforniaAnaheimLA Angels have a long and storied history of September collapses - including 1995 when they blew an 11-game lead and lost to… your Seattle Mariners.Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 09 06 at 02:18 AM • permalinkThe President has confirmed that the beef was excellent, but he still prefers babies.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 06 at 03:16 AM • permalink#66 Good therapy, my friend.
Absolutely, I’ve had a workmate with acute BDS driving me insane today and just thinking “the fucking moon” has been very effective.
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2007 09 06 at 03:27 AM • permalink31, thanks for that link.
I especially like his use of the phrase ‘cognitive malignancy”.
Perfect.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 09 06 at 03:51 AM • permalink#62, Paco, your link inspired me to create some cocktails:
Up Against the Gulag
Black Maria
Enemy of the State of Drunkenness
Diversity Daiqiri
It’s All Relative
Thought Police To Go-Go.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 09 06 at 04:02 AM • permalink#90, Infidel Tiger,
So a 17-year old Aussie girl kicked the shit out of a 40-year old Kiwi “man”? Gotta love it.
As to where I live, replace “17-year old Aussie girl” with “17-year old Tacoma girl” and “40-year old Kiwi man” with “40-year old man from Seattle”, and you’ll get the same idea.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 09 06 at 05:04 AM • permalinkNot sure if it was posted before, but interesting series of photos on BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6980372.stm
Picture Quote (picture 10):
“President Bush said he was sorry about the disruption and inconvenience that his presence had caused.”
Photo shows a bunch of school-children protesting in MELBORUNE! Not sure quite how they have been disrupted and inconvenienced…O/T but really annoying.
Am I being a grumpy old woman?Queensland Travelsafe have decided to recommend that the government legislate for new houses have the driveway fenced off and separated from the rest of the yard so that small children can’t be run over.
How about people watch their children. If you can’t watch your child, put your child in the car with you, or don’t move the car.
#141
Hmm.
I’m awful. Some time ago a woman in Sydney left her sleeping baby in the Beamer with the motor running (didn’t want to wake the little luvvie up and turn off the aircon). Went inside the shopping centre, leaving the keys in the car, and the baby. Some opportunist thief stole the car which was later found with the baby dead inside it from heat stroke (or the child died soon after he/she was found in the closed car).
They threw the book at the thief.
Sure, he stole the car and should be in trouble for that, but what responsibility did the mother have, leaving her child in the car?141 - so stupid as most times the kids are with the mother and waving goodbye from the garage door, when the kid runs off and neither see him or her.
it is really terrible, but instead of changing EVERY house, how about making it compulsory for 4wd’s and vans to have rear blind spot mirror or cameras?
And yeah - what you said re kids.
It’s a nasty, paranoid world that’s they’ve constructed in there. The more I think about that fence, the angrier I get. Who are these “leaders” who need such barriers? What kind of “freedom” is it that places snipers on the roof above where I walk in my lunch hour?
One of the chuckleheads from LavPav reaping the benefits of their own nasty paranoia.
(With mandatory Workchoices dig.)#133 Ash; Fred Thompson did just by finally saying he’s going to run.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 09 06 at 09:44 AM • permalinkHucbald—thanks for the insight on FEMA. I work for another Federal agency that often supports FEMA disaster recovery operations. I knew that FEMA was going downhill, but not why.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 06 at 09:57 AM • permalinkJeez guys, no offense but I couldn’t imagine working for a federal agency responsible for, heck, fixing things. It’s just so wrong, an inversion of what national government is all about.
You guys need to get into DoD, where we break things. With extremely loud noises. Hell, let the private sector make things better, what the feddle gubmint’s best at is creating catastrophic mayhem. And I am proud to be one of the little guys carrying the spear for the ass kicking mayhem inflictors.
Incidentally, pavlova is okay, but the best damn dessert for a barbecue is key lime pie.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 09 06 at 10:46 AM • permalink#130, Spiny
Oh! Spiny….Spiny….Spiny
That was just so unfeeling and unfair. All I can possibly say is bleep you and those historical standings you rode in on.
And just what did we have left to face an overly tall lefthander that playoff day? A very overworked Tawny Kitaen! Had she been fresher.
Geographically enhanced Angel fans demand a retraction.
/:)
Yesterday on my way home I heard a duet between Pavarotti and Sinatra. My Way. I had goose-bumps. I couldn’t find it on the tube - just someone miming it, yuck.
However, I found this. Pavarotti just opens his mouth, and unlike the other two, sings without apparent effort or strain.
It’s nice to see Cranky Frankie enjoying it, too.
Pavarotti singe Ave Maria by Schubert.
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Bush dropped in on John Howard also. Maybe OZ was the real distraction in this diabolical plot. Good thing we’ve got our top editors and journalists in New Amsterdam up to date and on the case.