August 31, 2004
ABB
I'm signing on for the "Anyone But Brown" campaign.
They are nuts, seriously. A lot of people don't know this.
If you consider voting for the watermelons, consider this:
The Greens manifesto backs official supply of the dangerous drug ecstasy as well as state-sanctioned heroin and marijuana sales at what it calls appropriate venues...
LAWS to force people to ride bicycles more often and eat less meat.
DRIVING farmers from their land.
MEDICARE funding for sex-change operations.
CAPITAL gains tax on the most expensive family homes.
AN OPEN door policy on asylum seekers...
They want a welfare program that allows people to remain on higher dole payments indefinitely without any requirement to look for a job.
The Greens also want the population cut by two million, and for unspecified farms, roads and buildings to be turned back into nature...
I have two cousins who proudly tell me of their votes given to this party.
The horror, the horror...
Latham and Tax
OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham today stumbled while trying to explain why Labor's plans to extend the superannuation guarantee levy was not a tax.
Mr Latham denied Labor would increase national payroll tax, but said it would extend the superannuation guarantee levy by 0.1 per cent to cover workers' entitlements for companies that went broke.
He said he was not splitting hairs between a tax or a levy, but could not give a definitive answer about the difference.
He's already stumbling.
From news.com.au
August 30, 2004
Hail the Nanny State!
What's the fetish people have with governments making apologies with events they weren't involved in? Now there's demand for an "apology" to children harmed in various institutions.
Huh?
Attention: The Government is not your fucking mother.
Bush/Latham 04?
Bush and Latham both to win this year?
Pray that it happens, if only for the hilarity.
Latham a puppet?
This is old but:
It’s the way Mark Latham keeps misremembering his boyhood that shows us what makes him dangerous. Take his recent speech to Labor's national conference.
"When I was young, my mum used to tell me there were two types of people in our street -- the slackers and the hard workers," he thundered.
In fact, his mum thought we were all either no-hopers or hard workers, as Latham explained in the draft of speech.
But then his shadow treasurer, Simon Crean, checked the draft, took out his red pencil and turned all those no-hopers into slackers -- presumably because he knew Labor delegates hate such judgmental language.
And that's what Latham ended reading out -- Crean's version of what Latham's mother said, and not the truth.
Hmmmm...
August 29, 2004
Hot or Not?
Who's the hottest D&D Iconic character? There was a thread at ENWORLD about this...
I felt bad about voting for the halfling Lidda...until I saw everyone else had voted for her too.
Heh.
And the top male was the gnome. What, does WotC have a secret "midget" agenda or something?
Heh.
Americans do political humour far better than Australians.
Election Madness
Apparently the federal election's going to be on Saturday, October 9.
Well, i'd better make sure I'm enrolled in the right electorate, so that I can give Mark Latham the job he so sorely deserves.
Opposition Leader.
August 28, 2004
Movie Madness
Saw the Bourne Supremacy tonight.
Not bad.
Probably would have helped if I'd seen the first one, though.
Neighbours, everbody loves good neighbours...
NEIGHBOURS, long regarded as a staple of family-friendly entertainment, is to jump on the pink TV bandwagon.
While audiences can see gay culture portrayed in shows including Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, The Block and Will & Grace, the producers of Neighbours are introducing the first homosexual character to Ramsay St.
Actor Bridget Neval, 19, will make her Neighbours debut as lesbian school student Lana Crawford on August 30.
Little, it seems, will be left to the audience’s imagination regarding the character’s sexual orientation, with a storyline seeing Lana kiss Sky Mangel, played by Stephanie McIntosh.
Can you say Jump the Shark?
From the Herald Sun via the Yobbo.
August 27, 2004
Bible Wackiness
What happened to Cain, anyway?
God says -
"A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." - Gen 4:12
But what happens is -
"And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, ... and he builded a city." - Gen 4:17
Curious.
Important!
Believe it or not, one of the most vitriolic debates within the Star Wars fanboy community is the length of the Super Star Destroyer.
8km, 12km or 17.6 km?
This could be the most crucial question of our time.
Personally, I think a far more important question is the sexual orientation of this character.
Stuff
Haven't posted for a while, a bit busy.
The spamming of the comments should be finished now. I hope.
Not much going on in the world. In the US Kerry's "Bring it on!" campaign revolving around Vietnam is now stumbling like a drunk due to the fact not every one of his "band of brothers" thinks he's that great.
In Australia, politics was briefly interesting while the ALP tried to dig up the old "children overboard" chestnut. Unfortunately for them, no one else outside the ABC or SMH was interested, so they let it slip.
Ah, politics.
August 22, 2004
The Advantage of being an Aussie
Courtesy of CurrencyLad
Still riding high on her excitement from the ceremony and being the friendly, enthusiastic person she is, she bolted right for him, with her hand extended and shouted, “Hi! I’m Australian!”
Of course, the Secret Service agents watching it didn’t see the international relations value in this behavior. I’m also sure it would have been tough to explain to the 43rd president of the US that his father, the 41st president, was attacked at the Olympics by a crazed statue.
They unceremoniously grabbed Maria, who in turn shrugged them off. Acting every bit the offended lady she was, she looked at the chagrined agents and declared, “Leave me alone, I’m Australian.”
Well, this seemed good enough for the former Prez. He told the rather surprised bodyguards, “Leave her alone, she's Australian.” He then proceeded to invite Maria to join him to watch the rest of the show.
And there she sat for the remainder of the evening.
Secret Service: She's crazy!
George H Bush: No, she's just Australian.
Well, that explains it.
What a world we live in!
Australian Soccer does it again...
Well, we lost the quarterfinals at the Olympics.
But if we had to lose, I'm glad we lost to Iraq.
See, take away psychotic ex-head of the Iraqi OC Uday Hussein, and the Iraqis can play!
Woohoo!
August 17, 2004
Weird Happenings
Got bugger all sleep last night. There was police at the units I live in from around 5 pm to 6 am the next morning.
I kid you not.
I think they were negotiating with someone who was inside with a weapon or some shit. Megaphone and everything.
"Richard, just come out with your palms facing towards us...then no one will get hurt."
Kept me up all damn night.
August 15, 2004
August 12, 2004
I for one welcome our new overlords...
From news.com.au
RUSSIAN scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion in Siberia almost a hundred years ago, the Interfax news agency has reported.
The scientists, who belong to the Tunguska space phenomenon public state fund, said they found the remains of an extra-terrestrial device that allegedly crashed near the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908.
They also claim to have discovered a 50kg rock which they have sent to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for analysis.
Finally! Bob Brown and Michael Moore can return to their home planet.
(As an aside, I'd like to remind our potential new extragalactic overlords that as a trusted Internet personality, I could be useful in rounding up other humans to toil in their underground sugar mines...)
"Sophisticated" Europe
30,000 Sudanese are dead.
1,000,000 displaced.
The response of the EUnicks? Not genocide.
Will the glorious UN, paragon of moral superiority charge in to save the day then? Not likely.
Two possibilities:
1) US intervention. US is castigated for its unilateralism.
2) Nothing happens. More Sudanese die.
Jesus wept.
August 10, 2004
August 08, 2004
I feel so inadequate
What's with all these people offering to enlarge my penis? Are they privy to something I should know?
August 03, 2004
Woohoo!
Found an mp3 of the Ghostbusters theme.
I love that song...
August 01, 2004
I have returned!
Back from a weekend in Sydney.
Highlights
- 5 pm to 4:30 am networked gaming session with beer, bourbon and pizza.
- Finding a good-priced 120 GB Western Digital HD at a Computer Fair (with 5 mins to go)
- Seeing my brother's new place
- Catching up with old friends
Lowlights
- Only getting 6 hours sleep in 3 days.
- Sleeping on a lumpy futon
So tired, so tired...Bed beckons early tonight.
When a Man Loves a Pre-Teen Witch
The Official Countdown Site to Hermione's Eighteenth Birthday
Yes, that's right.