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# The Riots in Maq Fields
If you've heard about the riots in Macquarie Fields, yes, I know where they are. They are in the next suburb over. The choppers hovering overhead keep me awake at nights. The rioters are dickheads treating the throwing of molotov cocktails at police as a sport. And dreaming up justifications such as the idea that the police rammed the kid into the tree.
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# A one man team doesn't make for consistency
My English friends will no doubt say it is sour grapes and…well…they'd be right. All the same. You can stick that fucking chariot up your arse! Come on, Scotland. And, well since dreams are free, go the Italians.
Meanwhile, the Reds look set to make me went to cry again, but the Warratahs looked good with a lot of room for improvement. And the Brumbies have more arse than the Titanic.
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# Trolling will commence in 10..9..
Gah, it's finally happened. Australian soldiers have shot Iraqi civilians. They're alive and recovering.
Now we just have to steel ourselves for the backlash. First the moonbat Left will scream that we shouldn't be there and that it is all John Howard's fault and he is der Führer. Then the trollish right will tell me that the left are anarchic communists – which is apparantly not the contradiction it appears – who want to spit on our troops and support the terrorists.
You know what it's like? It's like September didn't just not end, it escaped the confines of usenet and sprawled all over the web; political weblogs are just trolls and naive monkeys throwing poo at each other.
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# Links for 2005-02-26
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# Links for 2005-02-25
- Wired News: Solar Tower of Power Finds Home ✴
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# Willing Iraq to survive
As better than I have said before, if the Sydney Morning Herald won't publish your letter, why, do it yourself.
Kurt Anderson, via Miranda DevineEach of us has a Hobbesian choice concerning Iraq; either we hope for the vindication of Bush's risky, very possibly reckless policy, or we are in a de facto alliance with the killers of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
Ooh, the bifurcation logical fallacy. With a bit of strawman and ad hominem mixed in by Miranda as well. Lord knows, we couldn't possibly be appaled by both the White House's policy and the Iraqi insurgents. Maybe we hope Iraq will see an end to the insurgency while being all too aware that this doesn't necessarily mean Bush's aims will be met; once upon a time Zimbabwe had democratic elections as well.
I hope Kurt Anderson, and by extension Ms Devine, don't have and never have children, or at least don't have children that bicker. We now know that neither columnist would be able to take the stance that most parents adopt; sending both sides to opposite rooms.
Here's hoping Iraq and the Iraqis can survive both sides.
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# Links for 2005-02-24
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# Links for 2005-02-23
- Mr. Grimes Farewell to “Richard Grimes on .NET”
A rant, and like all rants, it is an inverted pearl ✴
- Mr. Grimes Farewell to “Richard Grimes on .NET”
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# Links for 2005-02-22
- The constituent parts of The Goodies have a new stage show
#Run. You better run. You better run. I’m coming to get you! ✴
- The constituent parts of The Goodies have a new stage show
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# $495 to tape the Luftwaffe..err..History Channel
The biggest cable television outfit in Australia is now offering a digital video recorder. If you are already a customer with them, it will only cost you $5.95 a month. Oh, plus the $100 installation fee. And the $395 one off fee. $495 + ongoing, that’s a fair chunk of change. They say they have wrangled agreement from copyright holders; who wants to bet me that that $395 goes straight to the copyright holders.
Anyway, it is a lot of money, too much for me. D and I will be doing pretty much what we did with broadband internet. We’ll wait for the early adapters to go out and adopt early and wear the cost and slowly bring it down. Might not happen, Foxtel don’t exactly have a competitor at the moment. But that’s our plan.
So. Jeh. Gonna go out and adopt early for me this time as well?
