Monday, July 16, 2007
Goodbye, Good Riddance, Good Night John Winston Howard
Yesterday Man (I hope)
Thanks Nicholson in The Australian
Apparently he is popular on YouTube however. He must have an army of "admirers." So much so, that the comments are being wiped every two hours. More than a few not too complimentary.
Thanks Nicholson in The Australian
Apparently he is popular on YouTube however. He must have an army of "admirers." So much so, that the comments are being wiped every two hours. More than a few not too complimentary.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
UK Bombings the Australian Angle
Don't give your SIM card to anyone.
Dr Haneef, the Brisbane Doctor appears to have been charged with giving his SIM card to his cousin two years, therefore recklessly supporting terrorism. He could face up to 25 years in jail. Nasty situation, with an election coming up and the Government looking for angles to close the gap with the Labor Party.
Sounds a little desperate.
Dr Haneef, the Brisbane Doctor appears to have been charged with giving his SIM card to his cousin two years, therefore recklessly supporting terrorism. He could face up to 25 years in jail. Nasty situation, with an election coming up and the Government looking for angles to close the gap with the Labor Party.
Sounds a little desperate.
Murali Spin Destroyer
Murali is only 9 wickets behind Shane Warne's Test Record after taking 12 wickets in the Third Test against Bangladesh.
Many people devalue this achievement because of the issues with his action and the fact that many of these wickets were against weaker opposition, like Bangladesh, who Sri Lanka play more often.
He is however a fearsome competitor as this photo gallery shows.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Smugness Quotient set to Rise
The ABC showed the Great Global Warming Swindle this week, along with panel discussions and interviews with some of the players. Very PC in balancing inferred bias in the documentary with plenty of criticism from learned fellows. I didn't see much of it myself and I don't have a strong view, but it was clear that everybody in the audience seemed to have a very fixed opinion.
Pommygranate has a great summary of events. This video showed up in the comments. Regardless of where you sit in the debate it is very funny.
After the Surge
With the surge not succeeding, Democrats are pushing for a new strategy to dig out from the Iraqi Quagmire. Two thousand of these big boys have been ordered to level Baghdad and the plan is to start over at a new location to be named Bushville. All Iraqis will enter reeducation camp, where they will learn the benefits of the western way of life and be deprogrammed from their muslim beliefs. They will be resettled in the new capital city in the western part of the country. Prefabricated housing to be constructed by Bechtel is already being prepositioned.
OK. Maybe not, but it is hard to see any good exit strategies at this time, other than to admit defeat and leave quickly and politely.
Dubya draws up withdrawal plans.
Thanks Americatopten
Glasgow Bomber
Failed bomber Singe Majeep complains that every hospital meal consists of haggis, tatties & neeps.
Staff have reminded him that he's in the Burns unit.
Staff have reminded him that he's in the Burns unit.
Friday, July 13, 2007
First Hill Run for the Boys
Cameron and Gregor had their first Hill Run last night. More details here. http://carnegiehillbillies.org/177/mad-recce/
West Indies almost humbled by Scotland
The West Indies managed to sneak past World Cricket Power, Scotland in the Ireland yesterday. They managed to score the winning run with one ball left.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Ryan Grumpy Bum
He drew this recently after a bad day at school. He has very extreme doses of the grumps from time to time.
Where Are You From?
James from Nourishing Obscurity asked where our readers are from. My pattern is quite symmetrical. Who are the Unknown?
Source of that Giant Sucking Sound?
Everywhere we look and read it is a giant sucking sound as money is robbed from current needs by SA Labor, to feed the insatiable budget requirements of the proposed Marj Mahal Public Hospital and other vainglorious public investments.Hello we don't need White Elephant Memorials to your vanity, we need adequately funded public schools, suitably paid public servants in the front line like nurses, teachers and paramedics. We need regeneration of existing medical facilities such as the Womens and Childrens Hospitals and we need this now.
Who do you think you are kidding Mr Rannter and Mr Foney.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Zimbabwe Rotten Banana Republic
As part of a report this morning on the rotten conditions in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, the correspondent noted that today you can buy one banana (if you can find one) for the cost of an average home seven years ago. Now that is inflation.
The governments decision to halve food prices has meant that supply has dried up completely after a run on the shelves.
How long before he is taken out and shot?
The governments decision to halve food prices has meant that supply has dried up completely after a run on the shelves.
How long before he is taken out and shot?
Funny High School Analogies
I wish I had thought of some of these during my inglorious high school English career. My compositions were as interesting as reading the Shanghai Telephone Book.
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Thanks Writing English
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Thanks Writing English
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