February 2012
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I can't remember
what I’m supposed to think about Obama. From what I gather he’s a liberal, Nazi, socialist, racist, snob of an apologist tyrant.
I suppose Fox News and the Republicans want me to suspend my critical faculties (and general memory) and just allow the latest thing they say to shape my opinion (temporarily).
All I know for sure is that he hates America. and freedom.
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Tony Abbott
was a Rhodes Scholar. How did this happen? One of the standards on which you are supposed to be judged is “Truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship”.
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Liam for PM?
Can I put my name forward for the vote on Monday? Campbell Newman’s not in parliament. I wouldn’t mind being PM, I guess. I could certainly beat Tony Abbott, I didn’t stab any former Prime Ministers in the back, and my opinions on everything are always right. Enough to satisfy everybody!
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“Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck.”
– Donald Horne.
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tangara replied to your post: Lovely.
what store?
On Keira street. I can’t remember the name. Don’t you go in and steal all the lovely books though, they’re mine.
Lovely.
I went to a lovely independent book store today and bought some lovely books. It was lovely.
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I don't know
if I’m unhappy or not.
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I'm having fun
imagining all of the running around, shouting and furious strategising that is happening around the offices of the ALP tonight.
“I’m a prostitute robot from the future!”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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Is There Anybody Alive Out There?:... →
theheightsofmachupicchu:
Seriously the leadership spec today. I’ve only watched two channels so other networks’ coverage might be different. But both nine and ten showed footage of the PM saying she wished the media had turned up to hear about the education report, and then gave absolutely…
If Rudd is challenging, it’s doing neither him nor Gillard any good because there’s...
“Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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Disappointment
Corrimal Library failed to provide for me the other day. I always draw a blank when I go there, so this time I took a list of over 20 books to make sure I’d get something I wanted.
Of that list, only two were available and they were large print which I hate. They weren’t obscure books either. I was very unhappy.
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Watching a doccumentary on the Tea Party. They’re quite silly.
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Surely
Gina could have paid some poet a couple of million or so.
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Rudd's rolling was no mystery.
The corporate hotshots wanted him out, so out he went.
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This Helen Kroger woman is a little rubbish.
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Iron Lady
A movie that can make me feel empathy for Margaret Thatcher is certainly doing something well.
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I noticed,
heading into Canberra, a place off the side of the highway. The sign read Canberra boarding kennels, pet cemetery and crematorium.
Vertical integration?
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nunccognosco replied to your photo: I got really bored after question time today and…
For a result of boredom, they’re quite incredible. What sort of pen do you use? I also like the selection of names; especially the inclusion of Ezra Pound.
It was on paint. No pen except the nib tool on paint. Although I do want a nib fountain pen.
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I went to Canberra
yesterday. We drove up to parliament house with the Imperial March playing. As you do. Went to question time. Absorbed a bit of sass there. Left. Ate lots of nice food. Watched A Few Best Men in a lovely cinema (if they can have lovely cinemas in Canberra why can’t they have them here?). Minted, High Courted and War Memorialised. And arrived home this evening. It was a nice trip.
The end.
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“That Australia itself, professedly the new home of liberty and light, should...”
– Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land (1886), John Gribble.
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Going to Canberra tomorrow chaps.
For question time.
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I borrowed a cd from the library called Peter Cundall: music that moves me. Best cd. That’s my bloomin’ lot for the week.
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Why the West fears the rise of China
China has done very little (internationally) to cause concern over their rise as of yet, but of course if you were still only a rising power, you’d keep your head down too. They’re simply following the pattern laid down before them. What were the U.S and Britain before they rose to global dominance? Economic powerhouses that followed an isolationist international relations policy while...
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theelectrichorseman replied to your post: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Interesting, people were saying how excellent was for the reasons you’ve mentioned.
I’m being too harsh on it. It was good, but I went in with quite high expectations.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
I saw this today. I was thoroughly unimpressed. One of my friends told me quite excitedly and insistently that I should see it and would love it, but I went and… well, there were certainly a lot of shots of Gary Oldman walking around and looking out of windows. I didn’t find it engaging. There was almost no dialogue, very little music and not even much acting.