March 28, 2008
The Great Australian Mass Debate
Ruddfest 08 steams on ahead, adding a former AFL footballer and the guy who played Wolverine to the "great minds" Dear Leader is assembling for what is surely about to become the biggest wankfest in Australian history.
Say what you will about the NSW Government - they may be criminally incompetent, with a level of corruption that would make Tony Soprano blush, but at least they can come up with their own ideas.
This about sums up the whole farce:
More from Andrew Bolt.
March 15, 2008
It's a sort of greenish-purple.
After the success of Hogfather in Xmas 06, SkyOne is adapting another Discworld novel for TV.
Well, two, actually - The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic, which form one story.
From the look of website it looks very well done.
Some amusing videos have been released to advertise it. Here's a teaser trailer, and here is a sample of a mock "tourist guide" to Ankh Morpork.
Fun stuff. It shows this Easter.
You only wish you were Gaelic!
Being Irish is not all its cracked up to be.
March 14, 2008
At least he survived the damn Tomb of Horrors.
In case you didn't know, Gary Gygax, father of the modern RPG, died recently. The Economist even did an obit for him - not bad for a gamer.
March 13, 2008
Resigns for telling the truth?
Former US Vice-Presidential Candidate has resigned, after being accused of racism for saying "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position."
Which is, actually, true. Without his mixed parentage, (why a 50% white, 50% black man is "black" is a question for another time), Obama is just another dull, left-wing politician churned out by the Chicago Democratic machine. But with it apparently, according to some, he's basically Jesus...or maybe some other superhero.
Rudd's anti-booze Jihad.
....is rightly ridiculous, as Miranda Devine points out.
Here's an idea, how about government gets out of the business of legislating morality and social engineering, and instead sticks to what it is good at.
Which isn't very much.
Doesn't UNderstand
This year is the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. For some reason, this makes a lot of people unhappy.
I guess they might be against states founded for people of a particular religious persuasion...well, that might be credible if they protested against Pakistan, a country founded at the same time, except for people of a different religion.
I've heard some gnashing of the teeth at the displacement of Palestinians. Well, if the Arab countries hadn't invaded, they probably would still have had the land that had been allocated to them and, indeed, would have probably been allowed to settle in Israel. You know, a similar amount of Germans were pushed out of their ancestral homes in the 1940s, and have since got over it. Luckily for them, however, Europe was full of liberal, democratic and competently run countries who had given up on race-baiting and so were able to reaccomodate their wandering cousins.
You might think the Arab nations, with their abundance of the most valuable resource in the world, could spare a few dimes to have Palestinian "refugees" resettled after the many decades they've left them rotting in camps.
But then...without the "Palestinian cause" to club Israel with, the Arab nations would have to return to more traditional ways of beating up Jews.
So, in the end, we're left with a whole lot of bullshit and not a lot of moral seriousness.
One claim of the moonbat protester at Parliament House stuck out though...
"What about the UN resolution?"
What indeed? Which one, precisely?
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181...which called for the establishment of an Jewish and an Arab state....which the Arabs rejected, not wanting those uppity Jews to have a country?
Perhaps it is the absolutely disgusting Resolution 3379 where "Zionism is racism" was strongarmed through the UN by a motley collection of the dictatorial, easily bribed, and idiotic.
Luckily it was repealed in resolution 4686, where the only 25 voting against the repeal were Islamic countries (who also refused to sign human rights documents guaranteeing personal freedom) and a few old communist countries like Cuba and Vietnam.
In the end, I guess we'll never know the obsession these people have with Israel's supposed "crimes", when surrounding said countries is a whole host of regime who engage in much more serious crimes on a daily basis.
On a final note...how many Islamic countries will this movie play in?