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Last updated on August 4th, 2017 at 06:08 am
Latest column: more coldening.
Duffy was right. We did not learn about the 59 deceits in Farenheit 911 from the ABC either. Even if they had been telling us about it they would have spent most of the time arguing whether it was 56 or 59.
Understand. Better get Christof to cue the Sun, or banish it as needs be. I’m not too keen to live in such a manipulated society (Seahaven in the film) where the world is changed by whim.
BTW, I like Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind …
I have to ask, if we cool the planet, what will happen to tropical rainforests, and coral reefs and crocodiles and bananas and mangoes and indigenous people who don’t wear many clothes,and, well, polar bears?
How warm is too warm, and how cold is too cold?
There will be people having to answer this. I’m already laughing.
I have found that it’s too cold at about 5.30-6am. By 3pm, after the Besser blocks have been heating up all day, it’s too hot. At least it’s too hot inside. So I turn the aircon on. Usually. This year. In previous years, in the dry, it got hot inside at about midday, as opposed to 8am in the wet. This dry, for the first time in 12 years, there have been quite a few days when I didn’t need to turn the aircon on at all. So I’m thinking that this year is just plain too cold. For my comfort, that is. As far as I know, from reading anthropologist’s reports, the indigenous people hereabouts used to wear mud to keep the mosquitos off. Maybe they also found it useful to help keep them warm on cold dry season days. Down south, I believe, they used to wear furs. No matter what, we could do with fewer crocodiles.
#14 Janice, this is the first dry in 12 years we haven’t been up your way because floods have kept us here, cleaning up. Friends fishing up there tell us even the sandflies aren’t biting because of the low temperatures, and mozzies aren’t hatching yet. I did hear a rumour about crocs that there’s to be a hunting season opened again. What do you know? Personally, we find them a bugger to deal with out on the creeks. A tiny wee bit of shooting doesn’t hurt, we’ve found.
#12 Ash, its 24C inside the house,and about 22C outside. 22C is just bearable standing by the barbecue,but once it gets to 21C its time to fire up the patio heater (more of those dreaded emissions).
I also cook a great steak.Medium rare is the way I like it.About 30mm thick,black on both sides, and bright pink,warm and juicy in the middle. I am starting to cook them NOW!!
#18 Dave, I think I’m really, really jealous. 22C is just bearable?! Something about this seems really unfair, because I’m freezing here!
My steak is usually medium rare too, anything more than that is a waste of a perfectly good steak, and just cruel to the poor animal it came from. I cook mine to be medium brown on the outside, but it’s bright pink and delicious on the inside. Positively delightful.
Damn sun was so bright I had to flip down the visor (gerbil wooming) then I had to crank up the window a bit (coming ice age) then I got over to Redding and had to crank the window back down! I tell you this climate change will be the end of us all if we don’t raise awareness now!
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 21 at 07:12 AM • permalink
Ash, you should pay more attention to dudes on skateboards who advertise the local skateshop with green shirts (oops I mean raise awareness.)
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 21 at 07:55 AM • permalink
Janice and mareeS, you’ll get a laugh out of this.
Some program on teev thisafternoon about things to do in Brisbane. One of them was climbing up on the Story Bridge. The reporter (arrgh!), was saying how much you can see from the top of the Story Bridge in Brisbane. You can see Mt Cootha. You can even see all the way to the Flinders Ranges.
er, correct me if I’m wrong, but the Flinders Ranges are in South Australia? Golly, you CAN see a long way!
If you are on the Gold Coast, take a drive along Panorama Drive. It’s magnificent.
- Hi all,
Steaks were delicious.Although one which was slightly thinner ended up being medium instead of medium rare, which was a pity.As for the weather,we are expecting an overnight low of 17C…….Is that cold enough for all you southern folk? Right now, outside, where I “blog” it is about 20C and falling.
Tomorrow we are expecting a high of 29C. Once again, lower than usual for a daytime temperature – at least in my 30 years of living in Darwin.
Well I just changed my Weather channel desktop to show the temperatures in Celsius so I could speak your strange foreign language. It’s 8:45 AM and already 28 degrees. The high is supposed to be 33. Why is Australia so far away? And where is that instantaneous transport we were supposed to have by now? (Based on old scifi movies about the 21st century, that is.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 08:45 AM • permalink
I will take so much more interest in the ‘global warming disaster facing us’TM when the proponents of the theory actually refuse to leave the shores of whatever continent they have their home because it might damage the planet. Given people like Keith Urban (not that I want to pick on him but his example comes to mind) climb a plane from New York to Darwin the day after appearing in the New York-arm of the Earth saving concert to see his missus (a telephone call or Skype being insufficient for him to say ‘I love you Nicole’) appears to fly in the face of the (apparent) earth destroying problem. I remain convinced that the goal is to stop the rest of us from feeling comfortable, to reduce our carbon emissions, so that they can go on ‘burning the planet’. I’ll be buggered if I am going to subsidise their excess. And while I am in the mood why is no one making noise about the idiots around Kevin Rudd? For fuck’s sake! Julia Gillard with a budget is simply terrifying! That’s enough I am now going to get pissed and run the heater for hours in silent tribute to the poor, the weak and the clear-headed.
- #30 kae,
On a clear day from Mt Cootha you can certainly see a fair way. But they were saying that you can see the Flinders Ranges in South Australia from the Storey Bridge….WOW!! “I’d like to see that!!!”Anyway,I bet it is freezing in Brisbane tonight. Imagine being at the top of Mt Cootha right now! BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Kae, Flinders Ranges from the Storey Bridge? Tell her she’s dreamin’.
You can’t get across the Storey Bridge except at 3.30am, vewwy bad idea at 5.30pm as I discovered recently while visiting my sister at Chermside. And Mt Cootha’s a fond memory lost in the smog.
Inform me about Panorama Drive…what am I missing?
Current winners: Thanks to current economic growth I AM MUCH WORSE OFF!
- Can’t remember the suburb, one side is the Hinze dam, the other you can see Brisbane to the north and to the south, Coolangatta.
You can see Surfers in the middle.
It’s amazing.
People build there. The land is probably worth millions.
My brother and SIL took me there one time, they’d been all over looking for a place to buy.
They ended up buying in Mudgeeraba.And yeah, I’m pretty sure you can’t see South Australia from the Storey Bridge.(I left the e’s out up there, oops!)
#32 Ash, I still love you,even though you hate me.
Those cozy Melbourne bars with the guitar player singing a love song still hold a “warm” place in my heart! There is always something positive to be found even when the temperature in Melbourne is so low.
I was in Melbourne in October last year and the overnight temperature was 6C, but whilst indoors in heated bars and restaurants it was lovely. But when its time to go back to the hotel…..BBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!
I think I will stay here for the term of my natural life,but still visit all other parts of Australia regularly,including my home state of New South Wales, or what’s left of it after the Carr/Iemma disaster has finally sent it broke.
Actually I visit NSW every year to see my parents,and have witneesed the disgraceful mismanagement of my state of origin under Labor.
Alas, Hamilton wasn’t at the institute’s Canberra hut. He was on a break to do some writing, a helper told me, so had headed north to get away from Canberra’s freezing weather.
Hope he’s enjoying the walk; I wonder if he’s going by way of the Climate Spine. Let’s hope he doesn’t get trampled by any fleeing Ents!
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 07 21 at 09:36 AM • permalink
Ash_—I’ll trade your weather for mine any day. I own a sweater, I can take a little chilly weather. It’s too hot to go outside naked right now. That’s the thing about cold versus heat—cold at least you can bundle up; when it’s hot enough you can’t remove enough clothing to get comfortable. (And if you’re modest like me you’re screwed.) And I haven’t even mentioned the humidity, mostly because it’s unmentionable. Thank God for air-conditioning, Western Civilization’s greatest invention. They’ll pry my thermostat out of my cold (or rather, hot and parboiled) dead fingers.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 10:41 AM • permalink
#49 Maree, I think it’s even worse than that; NSW’s relationship with the ALP is an advanced case of the Stockholm Syndrome. The frightening thing is, like the virus you speak of, it seems to be contagious.
#50 Ash_—I’ll trade your weather for mine any day. I own a sweater, I can take a little chilly weather. It’s too hot to go outside naked right now. That’s the thing about cold versus heat—cold at least you can bundle up; when it’s hot enough you can’t remove enough clothing to get comfortable. (And if you’re modest like me you’re screwed.) And I haven’t even mentioned the humidity, mostly because it’s unmentionable. Thank God for air-conditioning, Western Civilization’s greatest invention. They’ll pry my thermostat out of my cold (or rather, hot and parboiled) dead fingers.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 22 at 12:41 AM • permalink
- Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 11:07 AM • permalink
#51 Ubique, the worst thing about the labor movement is knowing it from the inside. I was a union officer once upon a time, to my eternal shame, my father was president of a seriously militant trade union. There’s nothing like the hatred from the ALP when you go to the dark side. Fatwahs are minor stuff compared to what the ALP will do to destroy you.
The thing that gives me the shits is, Labor boys and girls are so exceptionally inept at EVERYTHING. They can’t run schools, hospitals, transport, taxation, anything in the public service. Saying so is the big no-no within the ALP.
#57 Maree, I know exactly what you are talking about, having been on the receiving end of an assault lasting five years by a particularly feral union, aided and abetted every step of the way by the responsible (Labor) Minister of the Crown and staff of union hacks. We lost our home and had to leave town but the workforce refused to be cowed and never attended a stop work meeting!
Ubique. I hate to admit this, but we actually got a hitman from the BLF (my second cousin) to sort the difficult ones in the ALP to be civil. All good now, they don’t monster us, we don’t talk to them.
Try to tell people in the real world how bad it is to be tangled up with the Labor Party. They’re murderous bastards when they don’t get their way. Just ask the last few people who’ve “committed suicide” at Watsons Bay Gap, or have gone overboard off boats near Broken Bay. Usually with a concrete boot.
- #50 & #52 Andrea, you will need more than a sweater around here if you go outside.
We are 12 miles from the ocean at the same distance from the equator as Tampa FL.This is what your almost-President has done to our cow paddock.
There have been several lowest-ever-recorded temperature readings around south-east Queensland this week.
Too many pointless comments again today.
same old thing as yesterday
Well I stood here before inside the pouring rain ..
or some such crap.
Who gives a fuck about how well you cook steak or what the fucking temperature is when you cook it.
Silly, pointless OT comments are going to ruin what we have here.
Yeah, I’m a fuckin’ curmudgeon and a RWDB as well
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 07 21 at 05:46 PM • permalink
- #66 Mornin’ Kae. Sure is.
We’ve had occasional frosts here over the last 20 years but this was the first time we have seen one like this.
When you live on a hill and there is frost on your roof like this you know you are deep in it.
We moved to Queensland to keep our old bones warm. A pox on Gore, I say.
- Skeeter, I haven’t seen frost on my roof.
I haven’t seen frost in the morning at home, but then again, it’s dark when I leave. It’s been below zero on many mornings lately and the last leaves on the frangipanis have gone brown with frostbite and fallen off. I suppose we should have guessed this would happen, hot and extended summer and the winters have been quite mild the past few years.
And AlGore.
Alas, Hamilton wasn’t at the institute’s Canberra hut. He was on a break to do some writing, a helper told me, so had headed north to get away from Canberra’s freezing weather. I hope he took his coat; it’s barely any warmer in Sydney and Brisbane airport this week recorded its first sub-zero temperature.
I hope Clive walked, or took some form of low carbon transportation.
Or he could follow in the footsteps of The Goreacle™, and fly to Florida to get warm. Perhaps Andrea could provide him room and board, through Provisions And Cots Organization™.
For a substantial fee, of course.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 21 at 06:28 PM • permalink
Silly, pointless OT comments are going to ruin what we have here.
I’m sorry, I threw out my ability to care when I moved. Honest, I thought I had packed it with the “gives a shit”—actually, that seems to be missing too. I do have a box of yawns, and also a tiny violin. Would you like me to play a song for you on it?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 06:29 PM • permalink
It’s raining here now. Finally a proper rain, not a bunch of ominous thunder and clouds that only squeeze out a few sprinkles.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 06:30 PM • permalink
Skeeter, yeah tropical fruits just don’t like frosts.
Hi missred. Yes, pretty photographs, but frosts on/near the Gold Coast? Sunshine/Beach Capital of Australia?
I live about 100k (60 miles) inland, maybe a bit more, and further north than the Gold Coast, and we get frost here. Maybe a few days here and there. I’ve seen frost in close to Brisbane when the sun’s come up. It’s probably good I can’t see it at home, I’d feel much colder.
Mr. Gore is welcome to stay with me. He can sleep on the balcony.
By the way, one of the people who live upstairs do their own home haircuts. I found hair bits all over my outdoor chair when I went out there today. (The balconies don’t have screens and the floors are just slats, not solid.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 06:32 PM • permalink
Skeeter: don’t worry, they’ll be back, if where you live is as fecund a place as Florida. We often have frosts here that lay wastes to any tropical plant. Most of them grow right back the next year.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 21 at 06:33 PM • permalink
- #73
Don’t you hate that. When clouds and so on promise a huge gutter-runner storm, and all you get is noise and a light show. The drought’s been so bad here for so long that we just haven’t seen the storms we usually get in the summer, the good ones that clear the hot air and cool things down before nightfall. We’ve had a few storms, but not like years ago.
Bloody climate change.#75
Yuck. Just what you need when dining al-fresco on your balcony. A hair shower.
- #51 and others, re NSW Labor.
Taking up the latest meme from the media, I wonder why we are not being told that the NSW ALP government has been around too long and run out of ideas. Oh, and they were never really reformers after all.
This is what I hear from the ABC/SMH arts/media complex every day re the Howard gov.
Credit to Michael Kosta for being game to (publicly) express his climate scepticism.
- #88
Naaaah. He’s not going to admit that he’s cold.
Up there preaching to us all, in the rain, hail and snow. In his dick-togs*. Oh, look. Here’s a picture of Al’s body-guards in Al’s natural habitat (which seems to follow him around the world!)*Dick-togs = speedos
I’m a little worried. It’s been an unusually cool summer here in North Hollywood. I actually napped through the hottest part of the day today…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 21 at 07:15 PM • permalink
If you cut that address back they were swimming in the Antarctic.
Here’s the link.
I’m sure we can find lots of interest*.
*Maybe even ridicule.
I think it’s some sort of last fling before the polar ice-caps melt…
I dunno, I haven’t read it. I wouldn’t usually bother with something titled “Students on Ice”, cos I figure it’s more of a Today Tonight/A Current Affair/60 Mintues/4 Corners type thing.
Canadian climatologists have discovered that water that existed for thousands of years is disappearing from Ellesmere Island’s landscape, prompting climate researchers to sound the alarm. The scientist’s alarming research, which was conducted over 24 years, was published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online journal.
The Globe and Mail ran the […]Der. Maybe it’s frozen?
- O/T – Nothing on Haneef, Tim?
So much effort is being put into the discrediting of the Feds (police & govt) over the evidence that some important pithy aspects have disappeared among the polemical trees.
The “jihadist doctors” phenomenon is not to be trivialised because it resembles a Dr. Who episode. This represents further negation of the usual red herrings put about, such as “disenfranchised youth” when the jihadis are home-grown, or “small minority of misunderstanders of Islam”. There are now so many categories of jihadi that the truth has to be faced: it’s the religion, stupid.
Regardless of the SIM card, Haneef has to be investigated for his connections to that group; and he was about to do an impeccably timed runner to a country which has some extradition difficulties. He should be extradited to the UK and they can sort it out. It all relates to events there.
An examination of the Willy Brigitte matter will reveal a degree of shizophrenic behaviour by our media. The first reaction was “hey, why didn’t you Fed guys pick him up sooner?” Then “How come you’re extraditing him to France – aren’t our laws able to deal with it, or has he done nothing wrong?” There was the poor little wife he left behind, and the suspicion that it was all a conservative beat up. Later, after France’s tough anti-terrorist judge had put the pieces together, it became accepted that this was in fact a dangerous organiser who we were fortunate to have got rid of.
Saturday’s SMH is full of the Haneef matter, and it is all following a rather predictable course.
There was the poor little wife he left behind, and the suspicion that it was all a conservative beat up.
It’s Deja Vu.
I’m afraid in
theany instance of suspected terrorist connections we cannot afford to take any chances.And when even people touched by terrorism beat the drum for the poor, downtrodden, misunderstood perpetrators, what hope have we got?
And it’s definitely the ‘religion’, stupid.
#38 – wreckage, although I am 10 times better off now than at the start of the boom, I don’t feel hugely better off because of bastard friends who have been working at Maquarie Bank and are now just so much richer than I am.
It’s not the absolute level of wealth that counts – it’s the relative level. I need to drop my rich friends and start hanging out with welfare mums and homeless people in order to start feeling better about my wealth creation efforts.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 21 at 08:15 PM • permalink
Ok, here’s something involving Australia, cold weather AND Harry Potter.
The reason for this is simple and the solution even simpler.
There is only a finite amount of happiness in the world. Therefore every happy person is, in essence, stealing from you. We all agree stealing is bad.You can counter this by inflicting meaningless misery on complete strangers to you thereby increasing your own and your loved ones overall happiness. Try by letting down a few car tyres in your neighbours driveways, smashing a hummer or burning a ski lodge.
Groups of leftists have been doing this for some time and it must be making them quite happy.This has been the policy of the PLO, Hamas and Al Qaeda for some time now, and look how well it works in the middle east!You can only achive true happiness when everyone ele is more miserable than you. (Also see headings under Gore, Al)
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 21 at 08:38 PM • permalink
Well you denialists can say global warming isn’t happening all you want. But it was 89 degrees farenheit here today, and it is supposed to be 90 tomorrow.
What’s that you say? The average temperature here in July? Let me check…oh…95? Never mind…
It’s been a very pleasant summer here in Memphis.
Posted by Furry Lewis on 2007 07 21 at 09:22 PM • permalink
I can’t decide, however, if you are the funniest smart guy I’ve ever read, or the smartest funny guy. Either way, if all journalists were like you, we’d be tied up in stitches all day, and the world wouldn’t be so buggered up.
I do think that if you and Lileks ever met, the whole universe would self-destruct in a riot of laughter.
It’s not only Jouranlists that help us to lighten up. There is a guy that blogs as Fake Steve Jobs, who writes like he is Steve Jobs. His blog is called ‘The secret Dairy of Steve Jobs’. Anyway, while a lot of his diary is Apple and IT related, he often has little digs at the AlGore (who happens to be on the Apple Board).
Today’s article is an absolute cracker. Here is an extract from a fake dinner party:
Al says, I actually never talked about global warming. That’s just not what I said. Jerry says, Actually that is exactly what you said, but anyway, if you’re going to weasel out of it now and talk about climate change, okay, be my guest. But tell me this. If you don’t like change, what are you advocating? That the entire planet’s climate should remain exactly the same forever and ever amen? No change at all in any direction can ever be allowed? Or what is it? We could have a little change, but not too much? How much would be okay? And who’s going to decide this? You? Or some panel at the United Nations? You really think we should get involved in trying to micromanage all these little microclimates and if they’re deviating in any direction, up or down, we’ve got to keep pulling all these levers and changing our behavior trying to just keep the entire planet the same, temperature-wise, for the rest of all time? One year things start to get too warm, we cut back on fossil fuel usage, but then if things get too cold, we do what, we burn more gas or something to try and bring things back to normal? And if Africa’s getting cold while we’re getting warm do we burn more gas in Africa but less gas here or what?
OT. A couple of weeks ago I foolishly extinguished a flaming shot with my hand. I now have a crescent of islam burned into my palm. I hope it fades.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 07 21 at 10:18 PM • permalink
#100 Blogstrop, I am not at all convinced this bloke was a raving terrorist. No doubt he knew his mates in the old country were up to no good, but I would not be surprised if he did not know the details. You know, like the moderates that do not stand up to the islamists. Perhaps he moved to the other side of the world to get away from them. I have read on other blogs posts by people (GC doctors) that know him, and have a high opinion of him.
It all comes down to when he decided he had to get a one way ticket to India. Was it booked well beforehand so he could visit his wife and new baby ( why was a heavily pregnant wife in India anyway?) Or was it when he heard about his cousins, and knew he could be implicated?
For master manipulation see Dr. Edward Morbius
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 07 21 at 10:19 PM • permalink
Hmmm, I’m afraid that I tend to agree with #65 Jack from Montreal.
There is a subtle difference between blog posts and chat-rooms. Ideally, a “Tim Lounge” would magically appear, along the lines of the “Lizard Lounge” at LGF.
Although the usual friendliness of almost on-topic chat creates a feel-good atmosphere, it is certainly not outside the realms of possibility that threads can be hijacked by well-meaning contributors chatting amongst themselves.
So, (going out on a limb here!) I don’t think Andrea’s put-down of Jack’s view was entirely fair.
Well, Kaboom, you can only ridicule lefties, AGW proponents and so on for so long before it all sounds the same. We seem to agree on so much there’s not much new we can say. We need to feed on more posts.
It’s all about tolerance.
(ducks behind cat)(I hope it’s a BIG cat, there’s too many of us hiding here!)
- Rare bit of sanity sneaks through in today’s weird-weather scare story in the Age:
Stewart Wortley, a meteorologist at the Met Office, refuted suggestions in front-page newspaper headlines that the storms hitting Britain resembled monsoons in India.“Whilst they are unusual to be widespread like this, they’re not totally unusual. They have happened before,” Wortley told AFP.
I do believe the individuals here are of the highest quality, (leave me out, please)in knowledge, pure intellect, wit, everydayness and humor.
It is also a place to collect, just as one would in a real everyday world.
The virtualness of Tim’s place and watched over by Andrea, make this no different. It becomes reality.
We also care. Right now I care for the answer to what in the hell, has happened to one of us…that one, is RebeccaH. (and of course, MentalFloss) but as of now, RebeccaH.
That cryptic post written as Paco mentioned, in the third person, signed by “RebeccaH”, isn’t good enough.
What has happened to RebeccaH?
#34 “When does the global warming arrive?”
This is a heads up, Global warming officially begins tomorrow at 0800 Pacific Daylight Time when I start my 1976 Ford F-250 pickup with a 360cc engine. Global warming officially ends when the pickup goes through a tank of gasoline, approx 5 minutes later. Hopefully you’ll be awake to enjoy it. After that we’re back to Ma Nature’s crap shoot. The world will be better for it, mother knows best.
Condor smugglers, Kae, condor smugglers…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 12:04 AM • permalink
And I still can’t find my gives-a-shit, and what do you know, my sympathy must have been in the same box. I have my tea though—but no sympathy. For anyone.
Have a cup of tea.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 22 at 12:21 AM • permalink
Oh, all right. My Picture
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 12:26 AM • permalink
Kae—what is this, Dennis the Peasant?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 01:37 AM • permalink
#100- My brother has been briefed by the minister in this matter- the Poms have supplied a shitload of info on him, and it appears he’s quite a naughty boy.
The mmeja is only going on what’s been leaked to them by his idiot barrister, who by the way is now in more shit than Michael Moore’s tapeworm. If he avoids contempt charges, the bar board is going to be all over him like Phillip Adams self importance, as he was 1/. not briefed by his client to release the interview transcript (and may have harmed his defence by so doing) and 2/. he had no permission from the court to release a priviliged document. I’d say bye bye to his licence to steal.
Most of the info is classified so the meeja’s never going to see it, which is unfortunate in that it gives the chattering classses an excuse to blather on about transperency and due process; what’s being ignored is that the only challenge to his detention is based on whether the minister has the delegation to order same- a colossal waste of court time as not only has the minister the power, it is delegated to all secondry migration officers and some gazetted customs officers, who can not only detain someone but can also cancel their visa and order their immediate removal.
I know the old saying that he who represents himself has a fool for a client is usually true, in this case I think Doctor Detonator’d be better served by pleading his own case, or maybe briefing Bryan Law to lead.
- Habib,, pray tell more (if you can).
I must admit though I am sick of this whole leaking crap though. The accusations that the feds are playing politics should result in charges if they arent substantiated. For far to long the stock in trade of journos and ratbags has been the authorities are evil. Most of them wouldnt know evil if it was 6 foot up their arse with lights and sirens on.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 22 at 02:58 AM • permalink
Oh my a naughty boy indeed. This is one of the problems with the media – and it follows a predictable pattern.
1. Police arrest terror suspect. Media salivates with excitement.
2. Police hold suspect. Media engages in wild speculation.
3. Police actually start the hard work of following leads and establishing a case. Media gets bored turns to defence lawyer.
4. Defence lawyer holds court. Media laps up his propaganda with a spoon.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 22 at 03:00 AM • permalink
Just had some Imam on CH10 news snorking on about Haneef, and how he should be released so the Islamic community “doesn’t feel like it’s being used as an escape goat”.
WTF? Is this some new fiendish development by Islamoblammos to flee the scene of carnage and destruction wrought by them, concealed in a conveyance camouflaged as a capra-like critter?
Can’t say much of what the info from the Poms is, as my brother hasn’t been told a lot (and of course won’t pass it on anyway) but Scotland Yard would like a chat with the doc as soon as we’re done with him.
I note the Free Hicks/Tibet/Cones crew has started turning out for Doctor Detonator, albeit in reduced numbers; there’s not that many people who can handle being repeatedly humiliated by their cause, then bounce back to defend some other indefensible idiot with the same inevitable outcome.
(I note serial lost cause defender and shameless media trollop Andrew Boe is on board, ensuring the good doc will be banged up with all his previous clearly innocent clients who’ve had their human rights crushed and been railroaded by a corrupt judicial system in the thrall of HoWARd and his bloodthirsty cabal of neocon jackbooters ).
Boe has always struck me as a little-man-wanna-be. A sort of ‘me too’ bloke. He occasionally writes for the Brisbane Institute which tells you where he’s at.
Frankly there is something slimy about him.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 07 22 at 03:30 AM • permalink
- Boe came here from Burma.
Brisbane Institute link.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen him represent anyone that I wanted to see win their case.Um. Brisbane Institute, their
ot – men of moustachioed appearance indulge in clan warfare
#50 Andrea is it ever really TOO hot to go outside NAKED?
Sure, if one has fair skin it may best to limit exposure to areas of the body that may not be sun-hardened. But natural nakedness on a hot day is almost always a pleasant experience.
Nakedness is not uncommon here in Darwin,as most of the time the weather is very conducive to such a state.
I imagine this is also the case in your part of the world.
I wonder if Al Gore in a posing pouch??
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 07 22 at 05:45 AM • permalink
#137 Habib, Doncha just hate it when the goat escapes?
Informative posts BTW.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 22 at 05:45 AM • permalink
Sorry. Rather dull around here at the moment.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 22 at 05:46 AM • permalink
…just back from Port Douglas to the Canberra weather…and feeling a bit frivolous…..
#133 – thanks for pointing that out Habib, but I reckon that anyone who has seen two episodes of Border Patrol could work that out for themselves (if they bothered to think about it).
I of course had not bothered to think about it. I guess that means most of the media has even less reason to think about it, given that I doubt that they watch one of the more popular shows on commercial TV.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 22 at 06:18 AM • permalink
- In haste, and just in case you missed them – a couple of links.
1. Matin Durkin re his show and its rabid reception by our ABC.
2. Paul Kelly appeared on the Insiders today and spoke about the Haneef case in terms of the possible problems for the government and the Federal police, but did not reflect his views in this article (published yesterday!) in The Australian, which casts it as the “war the legal profession is destined to lose because of its flawed intellectual position, its engulfing hubris and the ultimate reluctance of the Australian people to accept the legal polemic about the threat to our democracy.”
Curious disconnect there, I thought.
Quite right Maree. KK’s moustache story set me off, thinking “it’s no use, Let’s all just dance.” Oh well, back to work.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 22 at 06:27 AM • permalink
- #155 PeterTB: Not sure what the ship Tampa has to do with my comment. I was just trying to locate SEQ for our northern hemisphere friends. Tampa Florida is about 28°N Lat and Surfers Paradise is about 28°S Lat.
So both places are are about 1,680 nautical miles colder than the equator.
Melbourne FL is also the same distance from the equator but I thought that might confuse too many people.
Ah Andrew Boe … His firm acts for 2 kinds of people.
1. those who can afford his services
2. those who can assist his media profileI act for one of his former clients, in class 1, and not a very happy chappy too I might add. It will be interesting to see how Mr Boe’s firm justifies the fees charged by the firm in that matter.
I’d love to say more on Haneef – but my brother won’t tell me! Can’t wait for his committal hearing, so then we can chat!
There is a hell of a lot more to this one, and as usual, the usual media muppets are putting out press releases faster than you can say “He reminds me of David Hicks”.
Back to the topic!
We just ordered 2 more air conditioners – 1 for our bedroom and 1 for the lounge room. It worked out cheaper to have 2 units instead of 1. suck that gaia! Though we did get the converter option – 30% more efficient apparently. Can’t help being green sometimes.
I’m excited, got a kiwi trip booked for the first 2 weeks in November – we are taking our then 7 month old to see where they made Lord of the Rings and all sights in between, on the South Island. So need a holiday!
cheers all.
#165 Ash, I have been in Melbourne on those stinking hot summer days. I know it can get unbearably hot down there.
The trouble is that the next day or even that night the temperature will drop to some ridiculously cold level,and freeze your socks(b***s) off – for those of us who have them (socks that is).
- After a solid arvo and evening in the Rocks celebrating a misspent youth, all I can say is that I’m not feeling much at all.
It’s probably freezing, (and Dirty Harriet is already a’bed), but I’m quite toasty, thanks the same.
Don’t think I will be throwing on the budgie smugglers anytime soon though (help if I had a pair to put on!)
As I say over and over again,big government and the armies of expensive and pathetic “living dead” that it creates are one of the “sleeping” problems Australia faces.
Whilst the Howard Government unfortunately has also expanded its bureaucracy during their period in government,this almost pales into insignificance when compared to the massive bloated,inefficient and wasteful empires that have been created by state and territory Labor governments.
The public service is the last bastion of the old style, unionised, overpaid,underworked employeee who often knows “bugger-all”, loves to “strut his stuff”,could never make it in the REAL world,but will almost certainly vote Labor in order to keep their parasitic “job” going.
Clearly if Rudderless Kev becomes Prime Minister,federal bureaucracies will increase and expand, the economy will contract as the unions and the Greens exercise “payback”,GST and other federal funds will dry up as the economy shrinks and the state and territory Labor governments will be broke.
Without the successful Howard Government no-one will be around to keep the economy moving in the direction.
Skeeter (comment #61)—I live in Orlando, which is about an hour and a half drive from Tampa. So wear long pants and a sweater. It’s only frost—the sun will melt it away.
Okay, okay, and gloves. And socks. And get one of those dorky yarn hats—they make you look stupid, but they keep your head warm, and you can wad it into your pocket when the day gets warmer. Yes, frosty mornings are chilly. But if your climate is the same as Tampa’s (though they do have the Gulf climate to mitigate things, but the temps can drop there—it’s even snowed, if just for a few minutes, so I’m thinking your climate might be more like Orlando’s which is twenty miles or so from the Atlantic) then it will warm up soon.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 22 at 08:12 AM • permalink
- #177 Ash_
A little please, :)Funny thing, my barber (a lovely old Sicilian gent) told me that when he rang home the other day it was 40 degrees C, and expressed surprise that anyone there thought it was abnormal. When he grew up (about 50 years ago) it was a standard temp in Sicily. As he always says, ” People, they’re strange sometimes”. He also says “Where did that scar on the side of your head come from? If I cut it too short, people will think you are a crook or something!”
I explained where the scar came from, and his reaction was ” You shouldn’t get into fights, you young men, I swear”
dorky yarn hats
#176
I have to go to bed, or I will be a dead hanger-on at work tomorrow. (And there’s people I have to be nice to, more’s the pity.)
Semester 2 teaching starts tomorrow so it’s going to be a crappy three weeks. Traffic will be unbearable, until the students decide that they don’t need to attend classes any more, in about 6 weeks. Then things ease off a bit traffic wise.
Night all, will reply to forgotten emails tomorrow, before the proverbial hits the fan at work.
- #186 Ash_
Why thank you, I will. 🙂
Um, not sure, it was a funny fight, there were too many people involved?
But I know I was still standing at the end of it, and the only reason I went to hospital was because a mate dragged me there.
God I have to stop having birthdays, too many memories for such a short span of time. 🙂
Oh, and no budgie smugglers, ever. I prefer boardies for the freedom. 🙂
- #199 Ash_
I really can be that cranky, and my lads know it. I expect professionalism, the old ’ if I do it, you have to’ routine.
But in this game, you really are the old man at 35.
I am as soft as marshmellow when I am home, but at work, you have to be diamond. You cannot play around with that sort of thing. As I have often said to my boys, ‘I have enough mates”.
When they have done what my mates have done, then they can complain, until then, do the job.Oh, and at least with boardies you don’t have to wear undies, unless you are John Holmes or something. 🙂
#200 185600 I suppose when you’re training the soldiers, you can’t be soft with them. Otherwise the Iranians would have been able to capture those Aussies when they tried, rather than being told off.
Boardies are great on guys. Far superior to budgie smugglers. It’s terrible when there are old guys wearing them who are enjoying the view of the ladies a little too much. Shudder
Is it possible to enjoy the view of the ladies too much?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 12:42 PM • permalink
When you’re pushing 50 tell me, I might listen.
Wait ‘til you’re dragging it…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 22 at 06:00 PM • permalink
I’m not approaching 50, 50 is approaching me—like the headlights of an oncoming train.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 22 at 07:39 PM • permalink
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The whole cause is the sun. Now if the sun would stop shining all the problems would end. Can we organise a campaign to stop the sun shining?