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• Ray Smuckles has landed!

• How many people missed all the talk about an Australian election, didn’t confirm their electoral roll details, and now won’t be able to vote? About 143,000.

• Do visit Zombietime’s Hall of Shame. Sample:

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• An interesting speech from News Corp.’s Australian boss, John Hartigan.

• Afghans support the work of Western forces in Afganistan. Overwhelmingly.

• Some folks just don’t appreciate art.

• Colby Cosh farewells the Western Standard.

• Hey, ladies! Send your underwear to Burma!

• Another fine speech, this time from Tom Switzer, opinion editor at The Australian.

• Renovation bore Hugh Mackay meets his perfect match: “I was sitting next to an absolutely charming, articulate, professional woman who spent pretty much the entire evening telling me about the renovation of her bathroom.” Swoon!

• Can’t trust the BBC; can’t trust ITV either.

“We mean to end civilization.”

Jules Crittenden: “Hey, I wonder where I can get a cheap computer-generated animation program and start knocking out the Farouk, Achmed and Ali episodes, sell them to Hamas TV. Could be good.”

• England is just an endless Ken Loach film these days.

• Remember the religiously green Beavan family? They’re still at it.

• The Bunny is currently resting.

• “Peace,” writes Wes Pruden, “is what Al travels the world to disturb.”

Posted by Tim B. on 10/20/2007 at 01:36 PM
    1. Glass Monument to Che in Venezuela Shot

      Hee.

      Well that was worth a click.

      Indeed, that “monument” now seems like a tourist attraction worth visiting, a rare thing indeed.

      Posted by zeppenwolf on 2007 10 20 at 02:00 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Afghans support the work of Western forces in Afganistan.”

      Since when did dogs have any say in the matter?

      Posted by Hucbald on 2007 10 20 at 02:02 PM • permalink

 

    1. #2 hucbald:

      i heard that ridgebacks don’t like mugabe all that much either…

      Posted by benson swears a lot on 2007 10 20 at 02:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. Interesting how that “civilization-ending” Army of the 12 Monkeys at “Omnipresence Collective” has a website. That’s like an AA chapter weekly kegger, or an Amish custom car show.

      Way to live the dream, boys.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 10 20 at 02:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. Way to live the dream, boys.

      Dave, did you see the link to the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project at that “Omnipresence Collective”?  I’m trying decide on whether to laugh or cry.

      Or that “Actualize Industrial Collapse” poster near the bottom…I’ll be that “Go Feral” sounds cool to those yahoos until they realize that means the taco stand on the next block won’t serve any more of those bitchin’ enchiladas with the cold beer.

      Then I bet they’ll start wondering how they can gentrify themselves.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 20 at 02:55 PM • permalink

 

    1. Saw the Che statue thing on the Bolta’s site. Truly it is now a great work of art!

      As for the Bunny resting, he’s been doing so for at least a year now…

      Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 10 20 at 03:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. It’s a natural reaction – you see a Cuban commie thug, you shoot his ass. Instinct.

      Too bad about the broken glass everywhere, but they shoulda seen this one coming.

      Posted by mojo on 2007 10 20 at 03:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. Zombietime is doing a great job chronicling the proliferation of bag worms that have infested our society. A picture often really is worth a thousand words. It is my firm belief that the concentration of hatred and sheer weirdness that emerges from these photographs indicates a demographic whose motives are not so much consciously political as unconsciously neurotic and even psychopathic. Or, perhaps in many cases, simply evil.

      Posted by paco on 2007 10 20 at 03:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. In re: the shooting up of the Che windshield, Venezuelan state television claims that “the entire country ‘repudiated’ the vandalism.”

      That’s right. It was probably a bunch of trouble-makers from outside the country. Maybe Brazilian loggers.

      Posted by paco on 2007 10 20 at 03:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. 6.  Albury

      By any post-modernist atristic definition, that would qualify as a work performance art.  I expect the irony to be lost on the leftists though.

      Posted by Hucbald on 2007 10 20 at 04:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. I don’t know about sending undies to Burma, but someone must be sending my socks.

      One at a time.

      I will be very glad when this sock collecting collective collapses.  I have to choose between 12 white socks this morning and none of them match.

      Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 20 at 04:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. The TP-Free Freaks are still at it?  The blessings of Sheryl Crow must be upon them.

      Baking soda, vinegar and borax are used as cleaning products

      Wait – I use baking soda, vinegar, and borax as cleaning products… I have something in common with these loons?  The horror… the horror

      Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 10 20 at 04:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. If they go feral, what’s the bounty?  Lower than coyotes but higher than prairie dogs?

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 20 at 04:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. Re: An interesting speech from News Corp.’s Australian boss, John Hartigan.

      Auntie’s link to the mp3 is stuffed (surprise, surprise), correct URL:

      http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/local/sydney/m1463284.mp3

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 10 20 at 05:04 PM • permalink

 

    1. >As for the Bunny resting, he’s been doing so for at least a year now…

      Yeah, he’s frigging lazy that guy.

      Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2007 10 20 at 05:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. I wonder if the anarchists wanting an end to civilisation and industry understand the irony of running a website; using petroleum for their mo cocktails; and at the bottom of the page, copying a nike ad.

      Posted by entropy on 2007 10 20 at 05:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ever notice in those Zombie photos how the sign-toters all have crazy eyes?

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 10 20 at 06:09 PM • permalink

 

    1. Exactly WTF was Hartigan’s point? On one hand he condems the alleged crushing of journalistic freedoms and the other claiming that the plethora of information sources available is virtually endless. Just where IS the Hack Gulag, where thousands of destroyed journalists pound on typewriters, generating poorly worded prose and copy that will only be crushed by evil pollies?

      Posted by CB on 2007 10 20 at 06:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. That Hall of Shame is truly repulsive. It should have a warning or something.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 20 at 06:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. #8 Paco, fortunately they’re not breeding 🙂

      Now, I just need a woman who’ll ….

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 20 at 06:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. The Beavan family.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 07:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. #17 And the really good ones sometimes even manage to fit their words onto the placard.

      Re. the Beavans.

      Colin is planning to write a book about his year as No-Impact Man – his publishers are looking at sustainable ways of publishing

      Hey, toilet paper problem solved!

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 10 20 at 07:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. #17
      RebeccaH re: Zombietime hall of shame.
      How can anyone take these loonies seriously? They all look like they’ve just escaped from the assylum.
      How could you possibly take someone serious who is dressed in ridiculous clothes wearing a jester’s hat? Or harder to take seriously, someone naked who has grotesque* wobbly bits?
      I’d be laughing too much at them to take much noticed of their “message”.*Should be kept covered and only revealed under cover of darkness in intimate situations.
      Put. It. Away.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 07:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. I knew leftards never exercise their brains,but their bodies as well? – all that flabby flesh on display at zombietime near put me off my pancakes this morning.

      Can we get those guys who improved the Che memorial to come out here to Queensland and work their magic on the multi million dollar monument the Labor party is building to itself at our expense at Barcaldine?

      Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 20 at 07:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. bloody hell. where’d that extra d come from?

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 07:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. *What happened to Ward the fraud?

      *Anyone watching ABC Aus now? Costello is up the ALP union members for the rent…

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 07:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. Nice (in a sad way) to see the obit for the Western Standard. I was an early, two-year, subscriber.

      It received no government money, unlike the unread THIS Magazine, a lefty journal that maybe prints 5,000 copies of which 100 are read, mostly by authors of articles for teh magazine. You don’t find it in dentist’s waiting rooms like you did the Western Standard.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 20 at 07:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. #21 Kae, I’m not sure any of those definitions, close as some of them are, really quite fit. Hows about we add a new one:

      “Smelly, self-loathing little tragic, obsessed with compost. Still in search of an environmentally friendly butthole cleanser. Shake hands at own risk.”

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 10 20 at 07:25 PM • permalink

 

    1. #26- yes and isn’t Barry living up to the ABCesses reputation- wonder what seat he wants in 2010?

      By god they really think we’ll buy it that these activists represent ordinary people?

      Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 20 at 07:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Fran Kelly: ‘I’ve been very critical of the Labor party…’ HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA – good one piggy

      Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 20 at 08:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. Re #28, W.C., I’d say that #1 and #3 describe the Beavan family pretty well!!!

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 20 at 08:03 PM • permalink

 

    1. “We mean to end civilization.”

      Leftists are spoiled brats (sort of) grown up, but still believe everyone else owes them. Anarchists are what happens when spoiled brats go really bad.

      Why is it that they seem to congregate in places with highly restrictive gun-control laws? Because the citizenry they think they have a right to assault and loot are less likely to blow their asses away.

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 20 at 08:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m home from doing the Spring Cycle thing in Sydney.  86km to get to the start line, do the course and then get home.  Phew.  Not bad for a FOF*.

      Why is it that the activity of cycling attracts men who shave their legs and women who don’t?

      *FOF = Fat Old Fart.

      Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 20 at 09:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. Do you do the big bike ride, Mr Creosote?
      My family work on that. Radios, marshalls, etc.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 09:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. Kae, I think the Big Ride would be the end of me.  I would like to do it next year, but I will do lots of training on the hills beforehand.  The Spring Cycle is pretty flat most of the way – any goose can do it.

      Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 20 at 10:00 PM • permalink

 

    1. Do they get given big hands to wave around and point you in the right direction?  Do they have to hand them in at the end of the day, or can they take them home?

      eg – “Dinner is served.  The dining room is THIS way” (pointing using big floppy rubber hand).

      Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 20 at 10:02 PM • permalink

 

    1. They, the family, get their T shirts, and I have had a big hand from them (or maybe I’ve tossed it out…), and little backpacks…

      Should you expire on the Big Bike Ride be assured that you would have excellent care…

      ahem.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 10:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. #8 Zombietime is doing a great job chronicling the proliferation of bag worms that have infested our society.

      Or, did you mean “bag inflators”, paco?

      That “practioner of scrotal inflation” photo made my Little Richard & the Cocoanuts wince!

      Is there anyone left in San Francisco with at least two fully functioning brain cells?

      Posted by rinardman on 2007 10 20 at 10:15 PM • permalink

 

    1. I loved Margo’s reference to the “Blue Mountaions [sic] Artist Elaine Campaner, who took the author photo for the book”

      I wonder if she moonlights as a sub-editor?

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 10 20 at 10:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. Is there anyone left in San Francisco with at least two fully functioning brain cells?

      Yep, but AFAIK, they have jobs and families (i.e., a life), and thus no time for stupid demonstrations.  But it’s a good bet that the normal people are in the minority.

      Or in the suburbs.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 20 at 10:20 PM • permalink

 

    1. #23, *Should be kept covered and only revealed under cover of darkness in intimate situations.

      Kae, that should read:  Should be kept covered, under several layers, and never, ever revealed to anyone, even during periods of pitch black darkness.

      #11, mr. creosote:  I believe the sock fairy is playing tricks on both of us.  I keep finding mateless socks that I don’t remember buying.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 10 20 at 10:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. #41

      never, ever revealed to anyone

      You’re absolutely correct! Thanks.

      Ick.

      Posted by kae on 2007 10 20 at 10:49 PM • permalink

 

    1. There gonna’ need more than a shotgun to take out Canberra’s statue of Al Grassby, however, it should prove a more than adequate tool to provide the Territory with a new Chief Minister.

      Posted by monaro on 2007 10 21 at 12:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. #38 rinhardman

      #8 Zombietime is doing a great job chronicling the proliferation of bag worms that have infested our society.

      Or, did you mean “bag inflators”, paco?

      That “practioner of scrotal inflation” photo made my Little Richard & the Cocoanuts wince!

      Actually, the most “wince-inducing” photos zombie ever linked to were the “nullo”. I don’t think they’re on his/her site anywhere, but if you think about it for a moment, you realize what they are. I ain’t a-linkin’…

      ::wince::

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 21 at 01:30 AM • permalink

 

    1. And in other news, JK Rowling has announced that Dumbledore is Gay.

      Really.

      Posted by Zoe Brain on 2007 10 21 at 01:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’m sorry, but I simply can not take any of those people at Zombietime seriously.  I went from laughing out loud to shaking my head at what it means for a person to sink low enough to bare their pathetic bodies, which so obviously mirror their pathetic souls, to the world.

      My sign would read:  Do you know how to spell “thorazine?”

      Posted by saltydog on 2007 10 21 at 03:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Looking further around the BBC website I found this:

      Call to search more black people

      More people from black communities should be stopped and searched to help tackle knife and gun crime, a leading black police representative says.

      Keith Jarrett, the outgoing president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA), said he would be pressing police for such an approach.

      His call goes against the NBPA’s stance but he said: “The black community is telling me we have to… look at this.”

      Some senior black police officers have distanced themselves from his remarks.

      Posted by David Morgan on 2007 10 21 at 03:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. #47, David Morgan:

      Jarrett sounds like one of those folks trying to act white.  Disgusting.  I just hate those blacks who “aren’t black enough.”

      And yes, that is said with my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek.

      Posted by saltydog on 2007 10 21 at 04:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. #47; “…the black community…” i.e. churchgoers, business owners, parents & grandparents. “Some senior black police officers…” i.e. union lefty political types.

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 21 at 04:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Difficult to reconcile Hartigan’s comment about “comparing yourself to the best”, soon after saying that many had ready access to the BBC these days, with my own perception of that organisation as wildly variable from “professional and most interesting” through to “rabidly leftwing agendum driven”. Tim’s highlight of the bunny-name fiasco (Can’t Trust The BBC) backs this impression up. A test might be to see what the BBC is saying about the latest Lisbon Treaty (EU Constitution by stealth?) and compare it to what EU Referendum Blog has to say. Scary stuff!

      Posted by blogstrop on 2007 10 21 at 04:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. #5 TRJS

      Or that “Actualize Industrial Collapse” poster near the bottom

      which shows a poorly drawn feral with a molotov cocktail.

      “Blow harder Sunflower!!”

      “Eaton, I’m trying to make you a bottle for your molotov but I need you to get more wood or the fire will go out”

      “Hey! Screw you, man!! … Um, Sunflower, I need that bottle right now, I just discovered another industrial oppressor”

      Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 10 21 at 05:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Interesting Hartigan speech indeed.
      “In the league of great artists there are few better than Bill Leak. Is there anyone working today – or, I would suggest, ever – with a more acute commentary on social justice or the ability to tell a complex story with a few strokes of a pen. “I recall Bill Leak’s cartoon of the Israeli girls writing words on the rockets, an image he got from the newspaper story of that incident.  I told him personally that that photograph had been set up by the photographer and quoted my sources to him when he asked.
      I then asked him if he’d like me to send him pictures of actual murderous children to base his cartoons on, ie phalanxes of Nazi-like Hizbollah kids marching with rifles.
      He said:”No thanks”.“Acute commentary”, indeed.

      Posted by carpefraise on 2007 10 21 at 05:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. #30
      Fran Kelly: ‘I’ve been very critical of the Labor party this week …’Yeah, in the manner of: ‘my team’s not been performing so well in the run-up to the finals …’

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 10 21 at 10:11 AM • permalink

 

  1. That folsom street fair was HORRENDOUS!!!!, all those BITS and WHITE FLAB!!!, those people are just deluded fools living in a fantasy world of their own creation,they wouldnt survive 60 seconds in any other city on earth, those protester bastards on the other hand are Pure Evil.

    Posted by phillip on 2007 10 21 at 11:11 AM • permalink