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I recently discovered that the Queen Mum is dead. I did so by stumbling into a rather moving Board of Rembrance hanging in the members bar of the British parliament, to which I was recently elected to replace disgraced Tory Jonathan Aitken.
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Italian PM and crooked crooner, media magnate and tryant, Silvio Berlusconi, will hopefully be turfed from office within the next 48 hours.
Maybe then he'll get his punk arse thrown in gaol -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4793070.stm
Recently his behaviour has been erratic, Accusing his opponents of being “communist baby-eaters and baby-boilers” who “worship Stalin and Pol Pot”, and claiming “I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many testicles around who would vote against their own best interests.” – leading to a protest in Rome chasing him chanting “we are testicles”.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4707368.stm)
Even erotic – saying “seven out of nine” sex chat line girls he has called say they will vote for him.
His opponent, Romano Prodi, might be on to something…
“The prime minister clings to data in the way a drunkard clings to lamp-posts – not for illumination, but to keep him standing up.”
This election, ex-pat Italian citizens are voting for the first time. And soon, anyone with ONE Italian grandparent will be eligilble to be a citizen. I missed the boat this time, but in a few years will be voting in the Italian election myself!
The Italian diaspora is rising!
Sunday's 3rd anniversary of the attack on Iraq was marked with around 200 people protesting in Perth, a far cry from the 20,000 who took to the streets of Dullsville in early '03.
The speakers were sound, especially Anne Azza Aly and human rights lawyer Mark Cox, but none of them addressed the matter of the dramatically dwindling numbers.
National polling released last week indicates that 66% of Australians want the troops out either now or in the short-term future, but only 200 of them would march behind a banner saying 'troops out' in the streets of Perth.
Alexis Vassiley, who has been involved in the campaign since it started 3.5 years ago, told me that people had become “demoralised” and “pessimistic” about their chances of making an impact becuase the vast demonstartions held around the world in 2003 hadnt halted the invasion. He added that it was “still important” to make a stand.
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I understand Melbourne's rally was also small (though an improvement on ours). Any thoughts on why the movement has atrophied and why Howard will be PM for the next 20 years?
Latham’s lamentations bring one question to mind; qui bono?
Timed to perfection, his poisonous, bitter diaries have knocked the massively unpopular sale of Telstra – actual news – off the front page. It will also continue to serve as a stick with which the Liberals may beat their opponents. So Biff sells his book, Howard’s off the hook and Labor, and more importantly the Australian people, suffer.
Latham is the worst of all the rats, at least Billy Hughes believed in conscription and Joe Lyons got the prime ministership. Biff just gets a few dollars in royalties, and believe me Biff it will only be a few.
If the country desperately needs an end the Howard administration, Mr Latham, as you said it did during your brief stint as leader of the opposition – why fling a load of personalised and ultimately irrelevant muck on to the only alternative government?
Honestly – Kevin Rudd gets some stick because he cried the day after his mother died? Beazley has no integrity – so Latham put him on his front bench? The diaries are a demonstration of the politics of a desperately sore loser.
Biff never could handle the fact that his belief in his own hype proved to be misplaced, and now lashes out like an angry child at the people who he thinks stole his favourite toy.
It makes you wonder if he ever believed in anything other than Mark Latham.
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Or at least, that’s what I wrote to The West and the oz. I know Latham never believed in shit – there’s no wondering about it. And yeah, Beazley is a fucker, but what’s there to gain now? Revenge? What a cunt-throat.
This appeared in a London newspaper.
Dear Mr Bush,
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our National Guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren’t there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn’t want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don’t like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don’t let people criticize you for this – after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don’t listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers’ budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn’t cut the money to fix those levees, there weren’t going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them – BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn’t stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr Bush, you just stay the course. It’s not your fault that 30 per cent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C’mon, they’re black! I mean, it’s not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don’t make me laugh! Race has nothing – NOTHING – to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours, Michael Moore
There is a National Day of Action this Thursday with events in every capital city. For those in Melbourne there is a rally at the State Library at 2pm and then some live music at the Treasury Gardens which I believe is going to be mixed by our very own Fancy Dave Bower.
On a similar topic, the Melbourne Uni paper Farrago is doing an article on VSU and it’s effects on Western Australian universities and in particular, student media. I am putting together my thoughts on VSU and student media now, and seeing as though we have quite a few Guild types that frequent this site I thought I’d open up the comments section for discussion.. I will forward any submissions onto the Farrago team. See the ‘read more’ link for a list of the email questions.
Tomorrow is the final round of Dr G versus The God-King.
For Gallop to lose after the Liberal’s disastrous campaign would most likely mean the end of his career.
For Colin, going down after having the rabid backing of the only newspaper in the state would be a certain fatal blow.
In about 15 minutes I leaving my West Leedy abode and heading to the hills – the far East – to dress up the booth I am captain for. By the time I comment here again, we will know if the Doctor is in the house, or if the God-King rules over us.
My prediction? The Coalition to win by 2-3 seats with 49% of the vote.
“Beazley’s gone to the back bench, but don’t be fooled – he’s only 55 and he’s hungry. The roosters are on the march.”
- Giovanni Torre, in a letter written on October 16th, 2004.
Polling by The Kilbot Factory shows that a whopping 93% of Americans believe that George W. Bush sucks Satan’s cock…
Not to scale
… though it still might be some time before we know whether the American people think this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Support for sucking Satan’s cock is traditionally strong among Christian and homophobic voters, but this election sees a large number of young voters who are concerned that the president is becoming Satan’s bitch… the rest of the world can only watch.
EDIT (9.10pm EST)
America chooses the worst cock-smoker in living memory.
Kerry will (rightly) wait for the final outcome from Ohio, may be have a bit of a flutter in court, but it won’t change the fact that the Republicians have increased their majority in both the Senate and the House of Reps, and Bush has increased his overall vote.
And that’s about it really. In the semi-famous lastish words of Alfred Packer, “When things get really bad and the world looks its darkest, you just have to throw up your hands and say, ‘well, all right’, cos it’s probably going to get a whole hell of a lot worse.”
Giovanni posted an interesting article in the comments of the previous news item and Barney quite rightly suggested it should come up for discussion in its own right. In the article and the follow-up article, Linguistics professor George Lakoff looks at how conservatives use language to dominate politics… the articles deal with American politics, but many of the issues transfer easily to Australian politics.
The articles support a lot of the ideas that were discussed earlier on kilbot.net, including Gawain’s proposition for a Left-wing think tank and Fancy’s call for a campaign to reverse this misnomer of lefties being elitist… Lakoff doesn’t discuss my LSD theory explicitly, but he’s from UC Berkeley so you know he would agree.
13 Things that Don't Make Sense
by Michael Brooks
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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