My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

By all means use whatever damn means you feel is necessary to beat the truth out of a prisoner you know is guilty - but make damn sure you know he's guilty first - AND don' t go in there under the false pretense of liberating/saving/freeing the world/iraqi people/America from terrorism - just damn well admit from the outset you're going there to lay the smack down on people who you don't like because they can't be leaned on to kiss your arse and give you cheaper fuel so you can take over the world.

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." - George Bush.
 
Hmm..if only humans could breathe in water...or fish breathe in air....
 
The funniest part is the question of why George thinks that humans and fish are currently fighting? Are they our enemies too?

I recommend every Australian see this website - sure it's been brought out by a labour staffer, but, they have sourced all references well so they are for the most part accurate:
 
www.johnhowardlies.com

The following entry has been rated "f" for excessive use of the word.
 
What in the  fucking hell do the state government do with our money?
 
The State Government (NSW) has sold almost all of its assets. Sydneywater, Staterail, Cityrail are almost entirely privately owned or operated - the money from the assets should still be in their accounts, and if they're not, addmitingly you can't make money from something you don't own, BUT, you can't lose money either so at worst case scenario it should be a nil to slight loss for them. 
 
The hospitals are falling apart. The education system is pretty dismal at the moment - even taking into account the damn near 40% pay increase the whinging teachers have gotten the past five (5) years that still couldn't be bleeding the state dry, afterall, there's not that many teachers - so where the fuck is all our money going?
 
Most of the large road projects eg. Sydney tunnel, tollroads etc are being undertaken by private industry for the state and they are going to make their money back by charging tolls etc for the next billion years. So the state government is shelling out bugger all money on the large projects at the moment. The federal government chips in for all of the large projects that private enterprise aren't doing.
 
The state government is selling off all of its national parks (that it created I might add) to the timber industry - so it's going to be making money with all of that. They were meant to have a budget surplus of shitloads. They're selling off everything they own for more money. They have all this money sitting around somewhere - but where the hell is it all going to? What the fuck are they spending it on?
 
They've cut back funding by up to half in most of the government departments - they merged them all and then halved their funding, places like, the EPA and the NPWS are now the DEC - in a time when environmental law is becoming the most stringent they half the funding to the enforcers of the policy?
 
Their official word is that 3/4 of their money is going into rural roads - but what roads? In my area and the surrounding areas most of the road projects are being funded by the federal government, private enterprise or council. It's ok to say that the state government usually gives council funding for projects, which is true, but not recently - funding has 1/4'ered compared to previous years.  The remainder of the money is being split up into other areas - another major project is disaster relief, that is, anti-terrorist measures, firefighting, etc. After my Bourke "incident" I've realise that the emergency services are getting less funding and training than they used to - they said this themselves. So NOW I know it's not going there, or if is it, it's getting poorly used.
 
So the government who has more money than ever before is spending it on what? Does anyone have any ideas? Anyone at all? Maybe? Perhaps?

The infamous Frenzal Rhomb interview:

Kyle: What's his name? Jay. Jay from Frenzal Rhomb, hey mate.
Jason: G'day Kyle, g'day Jackie.
Kyle and Jackie O: What the hell happened on the weekend?!
J: Well. What happened...I guess, we were about to go on stage, and it was already running very late. Our crowds are notorious for not putting up with any MCs, regardless of who they are, coming up on stage. And I guess from the best of my memory - which is quite clear because I'm a sober man these days - we were about to go on stage, we were already running very late, and we'd already had to cut a couple of a songs from our set, which we ended up having to cut about eight songs from our set, which must have pleased some people because you know, quite frankly, we're not very good. Then I guess it was the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory came out on stage and started to say some things and was really being shouted down by the crowd, and then we were about to go on and the next thing we know, completely unbeknownst to us, Jackie, you came out Jackie and started talking. We just went "Aw jesus, this is bullshit. We're supposed to be getting paid to play, so let's just go out and play." So I guess my friend Lindsay started playing Thunderstruck by ACDC over what Jackie was saying, then when we came out, Jackie left the stage. Then Lindsay started saying something along the lines of "Jackie O"...I think...it was something, "Jackie O? What the fuck?" or something like that. I proceeded to say, "Children, there is an explicit language content within our group, and I would just like to proceed by saying Popstars, Australian Idol - fuck 'em, fuck the lot of 'em, they can all go and get fucked". Then I amended that a little later on, I started talking about the current climate in Australia where original Australian bands are being pushed to one side for the sake of these cover artists, basically.
K: Right, but you don't think that, you reckon, what my problem was, is that I got a call...
J: Were you up there?
K: No, I got a call during your first song from Jackie in the background, crying. I just thought, what benefit is it to like, go out and just slag her...
J: Oh c'mon Jackie, are you that precious that you can't take a bit of heckling?
O: Well I just think, like, the crowd...
J: You haven't done the stand up circuit around town?
O: No that's not my thing, but I don't understand why my going out there, and then why you saying like, you know...
J: But you saw the reaction of the crowd, the crowd was very hostile and it wasn't just because it was you, it would have been anyone. They were just as hostile to the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. We've had shows where, in regional areas where we've had the MCs...
O: But I didn't have a problem with the crowd...
J: What's that?
O: There was no problem with the crowd, it was just you guys coming like and swearing and abusing.
J: I guess the fact was, I guess you were nine hours late for the show, you were supposed to be MCing the whole show...
K: Yeah, she was sick...
J: And as it turned out, you ended up coming just before. And it was unfortunate...(noise of someone yelling in the background something about Jackie O and nightclubs)
K: Who is that, who is that clown in the background?
J: It's my mate Lindsay.
K: Would he like to speak, instead of just yelling out?
J: No (laughs). We're just very passionate about the things that we believe in.
K: Well so am I, and I'm just saying that, like, your songs, ever played on this network, or Triple M network so far, is just not going to happen now.
J: Well the thing is Kyle, have you ever played us on Austereo ever before?...
O: Yeah, Triple M did...
J: ...Are you going to actually have to change your playlist not to play us?...
O: Not us, but Triple M...
J: ...If you ring up our record company, you people ring up our record company...
K: Yep.
J: ...Threatening to bury the band...
K: Yep.
J: ...Saying that we're never gonna get played on Austereo again...
K: Yep.
J: ...What the hell are we supposed to think? I mean, you've never played us...
K: Triple M, Triple M have, haven't they?
J: ...You've never supported us...
K: Have Triple M?
J: ...You don't support good, original Australian Music...
O: Yeah we do, but to suit the station...
J: You're not, you're a mouthpiece for the corporate music industry, and you always have been!
K: Oh mate, we're not going to...you're just like a fucking idiot that sits in the background not trying to get into the scene.
J: Oh come on, now who's trying to - I'm just trying to have a reasonable conversation here, you don't have to, you know...
K: Well mate, I'm just, you're just so lucky...
J: I never called Jackie an idiot, I never said anything disparaging about her personally...
K: Yeah you did...
J: I never said anything disparaging about you personally, all I said...
O: But you just come over the top of me and go "What the fuck, Jackie O, fuck Popstars", that's pretty...
K: It's just a joke!
J: Exactly! It's just a joke!
K: Yeah, but it's a joke to have done it. Not a joke, ha ha funny, it's just stupid.
J: I didn't think it was very funny either. But the fact is, we believe passionately about what's happening to the Australian Music industry at the moment. We believe that people like you guys...
K: Yep.
J: ...You're in this position where you can promote good, new, Australian talent, and you don't.
K: Well mate you know what, no one...
J: And on a festival circuit such as that one, which we play constantly...
K: Yep.
J: ...And we've been doing so for ten years, we go out and we see these shows being infiltrated by people...
K: Yeah but you've got to get over it, you've got to get over it.
J: What's that?
K: You've got to get over it, because there's going to be different types of music for different sorts of people. That's why you guys have been around for ten years, because you appeal to a certain group of people. Otherwise you'd be finished long ago. And so does Shannon Noll, and so do Popstars, everyone's got different tastes.
J: Exactly. How is Bardot going these days?
O: Well they split up...
J: Exactly.
K: Well who cares about Bardot?
J: They're back working in the same shoe shop that they were working in...
O: No they're not...
J: ...The day before they joined Popstars!
K: Look, who cares though? Who cares? We're not talking about Bardot!
J: I know, you know what I care about? I care about the fact that there are bands like You Am I, good Australian bands, that are being dropped from their labels right now because, to make room for not only the Australian Idol winner - and I know we're not talking about Popstars right now and it doesn't affect you directly - we're not just talking about the Australian Idol winner, which is full fair enough, we're talking about six of the losers, that are now being signed to these major record companies for what? For these completely short term careers...
K: Yep.
J: ...So the record company can make a quick buck...
K: I agree, that is...
J: ...These bands aren't being nurtured...
K: I agree.
J: ...And for us to get up on stage and say, "Popstars, fuck 'em, fuck the lot of 'em, fucking get fucked, I'll stand by that, and I don't think that that should be offensive.
K: I don't care about Australian Idol or Popstars, I only care about Jackie and the embarrassment that she had at the hands of your band.
J: Well Jackie, I'm sure that you're tough enough to handle a little bit of heckling from time to time, I mean everyone who gets on stage...
O: Not really. I gotta say, you know, I am actually, I should toughen up but I can't and I do take things, you know, I get quite offended by it and upset. I can't help the fact that you really offended me. I know I should toughen up in this industry but I can't, it's just pretty hurtful, you know?
J: Well, I'm very sorry if you felt hurt Jackie. It wasn't intended to make you personally feel in any way uncomfortable up there on stage. We were up there to do our show, this is what we do, we basically, I can't see very many people that are championing the cause of young Australian bands that are trying to get by...
K: By the way Jay, before you go any far, not once, ever, in my fifteen year radio history has anyone ever put any CD from your band in front of me and said hey, how about playing these guys or how about speaking with these guys.
J: Exactly, why would you?
K: But it's just never happened.
J: So what's your point, sorry?
K: Whoever's looking after you isn't putting your stuff in front of the right people. Screw the major record labels...
J: No no no no no, I think that you are the wrong people because you're not going to be playing our music anyway, regardless...
K: How do you know?
J: You're not going to...you listen, if you have ever listened to any of our records, most of it's completely radio proof!
K: Well, there's no such thing anymore.
J: As radio proof?
K: Yeah.
J: (laughing) Well, I'll be the judge I think...
K: You'll be the judge?
J: Yeah, there's a few things that, you know, no radio station will play.
K: Yeah, no doubt there is, but you've got to have something that someone would, that's all I'm saying.
J: No, basically - what, are you saying that without your support that bands...
K: No, no...
J: ...Can't have a career in this country?
K: No.
O: No.
K: No, I'm not. I'm just saying, don't go, don't pick fights with people that are like, that are female in the Northern Territory, just to be a hero...
J: Oh come on, don't bring gender into it mate!
K: That's what you were doing mate...
J: Come on, you know for a fact...
K: Let me tell you Jay...
J: ...That it had nothing to do with the fact that she's female. Come on.
K: Just let me say, if it was me up there, it would have been on for young and old from the start.
J: Okay, now for a start, I'd just like to say, Jackie - at the aftershow party at the Discovery, were you (in background Lindsay says, "During the show"), during the show, were you aware that one of your security guards threatened our guitar tech with the threat of violence - as you're doing now Kyle, "it would have been on for young and old" as you say.
K: Yeah, yep.
J: Did you know about that?
O: Yeah.
J: That security guard came up and threatened us with actual violence? Do you endorse that?
O: What, what was...
K: Yes, well I do.
J: You do? You endorse that? You would have come and punched on because we said something about Popstars and Australian Idol?
Kyle and Jackie O: No!
O: It wasn't about Popstars and Australian Idol.
J: Because you felt that somehow we'd offended you, or not given you enough time to speak up. You were nine hours late for your show...
O: Well fuck mate, at least give me a chance to say something. Like, it's so rude to just come in and say fuck you, fuck Jackie O and play the guitar over me. I was only going to talk for like, ten seconds, seriously.
J: If we're going to talk about rudeness, can you please just explain why your people are ringing up our record company telling us you're going to bury our band...
O: We're not going to bury your band...
J: And never getting played on Austereo again?
O: But yeah, probably won't get played.
J: (laughing in exasperaton) It never did get played!
O: It got played on Triple M.
K: That's because it was pretty much shit.
J: It got played at bloody midnight so they could fulfil their Australian content, it's bullshit.
K: Mate you are just so bitter, you may as well just take a new career path.
J: I'm not...(laughing). Okay...
K: You're sad, see you later, goodbye. (hangs up) Man, what a cock. Sorry everyone, we've got to go to the hot thirty countdown now.
O: We've run out of time.
K: I apologise to all the people that would have liked to have ring up and complain about the traffic today, and I don't like kids wearing seatbelts, but we had to sort that out because I loathe that situation.
O: Oh you, you do, god.
K: And the old, what are they called? Friends Of Rom? (snickering from both) They're dead to us. They're dead to us.

I just found out the other day how our top secret military bases work. There's a military facility in the North of the country, in a remote area, that does not exist. It's in an alcohol free community. Aboriginal mainly. So the locals are not allowed to drink alcohol - however - the people stationed in the military base that doesn't exist do. So they literally ship all the alcohol from the docks into a few 4wd and take it back to their camp. The funny thing is - backpackers and tourists turn up and ask where the army camp is because they heard it's the best place to go for parties! Every weekend they have a huge piss-up and invite certain locals out to the barracks. It's a top secret base that doesn't exist and yet they have a party and invite half the locals every weekend? Hmm. There's something not quite right there somehow.

Windows Xp shits me to tears. Ordinarily I'd not complain about an OS because ordinarily I don't have problems with them. BUT XP promised the world it would not crash - and yet it does all the time. My computer keeps resetting and telling me that windows XP fixed a very serious error...if it damn well fixed the thing - how come it keeps crashing?

I'm as psyched up for the national life expectancy test as I was for those other national tests, such as, the national iq test, I lasted 30 mins before giving up because it was sooooo boring; the national driving test, I lasted about 15 mins before giving up because it was soooooo boring.

Reality tv at it's finest, that is, complete crap.

ÅÐÅM___ (03:35 PM) :
it's as more their war than yours....
starkist infidelic (03:36 PM) :
it is
starkist infidelic (03:36 PM) :
and they're armed too
starkist infidelic (03:36 PM) :
so let them freakin defend themselves
starkist infidelic (03:36 PM) :
this is the future they warned us about
ÅÐÅM___ (03:36 PM) :
yeah...it's 1984
starkist infidelic (03:36 PM) :
when corporations would wage war

My friend Michelle's Journal - she's currently in Iraq... http://www.livejournal.com/users/gerring_magpie/:

it's actually really nice being here, because we're so far out that nobody bothers us. actually, we're so far out that we can see the lights from explosions in the cities on the horizon, but don't hear anything. we're surrounded by what's left of the iraqi wilderness (saddam had a lot of land from baghdad on south drained to keep the vegetation from growing and providing concealment for would-be assasins. a large portion of iraq used to be marshlands). so far I have seen (and heard) jackals, hyenas (saddam distributed them, along with other non-native animals to various areas throughout central iraq to provide him and his buddies game for hunting), bats, camel spiders, a weird fishing bird that looks and flies like a giant humming bird, an eel, some kind of carrion eating birds, numerous bats, a wild guinea pig (it ran across the road like a rabbit does back home), a viper, scorpions, these weird pink wasps they've got here, ants with longer than normal legs that run with their "rear end" pointed up (like a bad scorpion imitation) and appear to bounce as they move, ants that only come out at night, little water snakes, a freshwater (or whatever you want to call this stuff) crab, wild dogs, geckos (the house is crawling with them), and among other things, a carp almost as big as me that sea world would pay good money for (it just kinda slithered through the reeds in water I would have thought too shallow for a fish half it's size, slid up sideways real fast, and grabbed some amphibious (looked it anyway) animal I've never seen or heard of before, and dissapeared as quick as it came, leaving me standing there staring with my mouth hanging open. I have not seen a single camel, unless you count out the window while flying in to kuwait.

we've got a dog here named stains that was raised by the guys who were here before us. she is built like a wild dog, has orange eyes & the face shape, floppy ears, and coat coloration of a domestic dog, but has the black mask, ear tips, and blackened muzzle of the wild dogs. she's as gentle as any family dog, will let you do anything to her, we even bathe her all the time. she's so spoiled that if you give her scraps, you have to feed them to her by hand, she won't eat them off the ground, and she begs to come in so she can sleep in the ac. she follows me around a lot & if I sit on the floor, she'll put her head on my lap & go to sleep. she'll also do anything for even the smallest bite of beef jerky, especially if it's peppered. when she's not at the house, she runs with the wild dogs. if any jackals or other wild dogs try to come near the hooch (oh yah - hooch = barracks, house, tent, cave, whatever is home at the moment), her wild dog side comes out & she chases them away, fighting with them if she has to, to make sure that they don't come anywhere near. she'd make a really good pet, but unfortunately, has to stay here, as there's no vet to treat her and quarantine her for approval to go to the states, or I'd probably take her back myself. hopefully, somebody moves in soon after we leave.


oh yah
and here's the thing that's been bugging me for a few hours... I had to kill a little haji mouse tonight :(
they're all cute & tiny with a really really long tail & little buggy eyes.
I had to stomp on it :(
when it squealed real loud, I picked my foot up though & it took off . .. my 1sg ended up finishing it ...
I just couldn't kill something so cute that squealed like that ... :(
I think I'm going to get some live traps, to catch them alive, and find some chloroform or something so that I can make them pass out & then euthanise them in a more humane manner.
is it a bad thing that I don't have issues with shooting somebody, but I can't stomp on a little mouse???
argh

It seems I have been psycho-analysed and caught out. Even on here I still have a shield up, a wall around me. The trouble is it is a difficult thing to do to have a guard up for so long and let it down. Sometimes I wonder why I have a guard up - othertimes I wonder how I could not have one. I try to put as much of myself into these writings as I can, at times, I even let my guard down. I guess as my life and this site unravels the mysteries within the vast emptiness that is my head more and more of me will show - or less and less; either way I hope it works out ok for me. Do you have to take this "journey of self discovery" with me? Fuck no. You do whatever the hell you want to do. Read. Don't read. Read often. Read occasionally. Give feedback. Don't give feedback. The choice is yours. It doesn't worry me either way.

Where will my life take me? Only time can tell - but right now I feel crowded. I feel rushed. I feel an urgency within me to do something other than what I am doing right now. I gave myself three (3) years in this godforsaken cest pool of get-rich-quicker scheisters and retirees. Now I wonder if I will ever escape - and in the back of my mind is the doubt that keeps me here - what if I really can't escape? What if I escape into the same situation? Same shit, different town, different day, same shit. I find that the more I travel I realise fundamentally we are not only just the same but we even have the exact same thing in every town replicated over and over and over again. You go down the main street of any village almost anywhere and you see the same thing.

Will love set me free?

"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something." - Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull's team chemistry being overrated

Bush and Powell were sitting in a bar. A guy walked in and asked the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Powell?"
The barman said, "Yep, that's them."
So the guy walked over and said, "Hello. What are you guys doing?"
Bush said, "We're planning World War III."
The guy asked, "Really? What's going to happen?"
Bush said, "Well, we're going to kill 10 million Iraqis and one French nurse."
The guy exclaimed, "Why are you gonna kill a French nurse?"

Bush turned to Powell and said, "See, I told you no one would worry about the 10 million Iraqis!"

I'm watching the most bizarre thing I've ever seen on tv. It is some type of art-fused-modern-ballet-dance-jazz-hippy-circus-type-of-thing. Only god knows what type of drugs hte guy was on who came up with concept - probably the same drugs our good friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge was on or even Dr Seuss because this thing is about the same level of psyche.

Do you think Freud's reaction-formation as a form of defense mechanism explains my brother's entire existance? I have oft thought it does - but that would mean that it was pre-ordained and avoidable. My mother said she saw it coming but was powerless to stop it. Perhaps it was fate afterall.

Ich möchte meine riesige Schlange in Ihre kleine Lücke setzen

I've got a headache. I don't want to sound like a whinger (even though I realise I am one, and this blog is proof of that) - but it really hurts!. Usually when I say I have a headache it sort of just feels dull and lifeless more so than actually hurting - but not this time :|

I had all intentions of doing my work website this weekend - all I've managed to do is sleep and go to the gym - I feel terribly tired and exhausted - I must be coming down with something.

My boss informed me today he has gratiously decided to give me a pay raise because the minimum wage went up - I didn't have the heart to tell him that if he didn't give me a pay raise he would end up at the court of industrial relations.

How many new "latest technological advances in toothbrush technology" adverts do we need to be bombarded with? Our teeth, relatively speaking, have been the same for the past 40 years. (sure - they've been changing a bit due to evolution - but shite not that much) SO why in the hell do we get a new toothbrush every few weeks that is the best? Sure they need to keep continued patronage of their products - but toothbrushes only last a few weeks anyways - regardless of whether or not they advertise, their products will still need to be re-bought every few weeks. Now if only they can manage to invent a toothpaste that only needs to be used once a month - then we'd be talking innovation !

Ok...is it just me? or do the weather people/news/media not have a fucking clue what they're talking about?

A few months back it was: "the best start to a snow season ever - with pre-snow season falls some of the highest on record"

On the "official" start of the snow season: "global warming can be blamed for the lower than expected snow falls this year - at the current snow fall we will have one of the worst snow seasons on record"

AND today: "The falls today were spectacular making it the best snow season in at least 5 years!"

All at a time where they've re-adjusted climatic records to show that last century was an unusually wet one...and all these bullshit hippy droughts they keep talking up are actually stereotypical climatic occurances rather than a-typical droughts.

Silly silly people - "the sky is falling! the sky is falling!"

Some quotes from the football game tonight:

"I just stayed by Barrett and he showed me some ball"
in reply to that comment....
"I bet that tasted good to get some of that down your throat"

Ch-Check it Out - Beastie Boys

All you trekkies and tv addicts
Don't mean to diss
Don't mean to bring static
All you klingons in the fuckin' house
Grab your backstreet friend and get loud
Blowin' doors off hinges
I'll grab you with the pinchers
And no i didn't retire
I'll snatch you up
With the needle nose pliers

Like mutual of omaha
Got the ill boat
You've never seen before
Gliding in the glades
And like lorne greene
You know i get paid
Like caprese and with the basil
Not goofy like darren or hazel
I'm a mother fucking nick at night with
Classics rerunning that you know all right
Now remain calm no alarm
Cause my farm ain't fat
So what's up with that
I've got friends and family that i respect
When i think i'm too good
They put me in check
So believe when i say i'm no better than you
Except when i rap
So i guess it ain't true
Like that y'all and you just don't stop
Guaranteed to make your body rock

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out
What-wha-what-what-what's it all about
Work-wa-work-work-work-wa-work it out
Let's turn this motherfuckin' party out

Said, "doc what's the condition
I'm a man that's on a mission"
Said, "son, you'd better listen
Stuck in your ass
Is an electrician"
Like a scientist
Mmmm when i'm applying this
Method of controlling my mind
Like einstein and the rappin' duke combined
Hey baby bubba now what the deal
I didn't know you go for that mass appeal
Some call it salugi
Some hot potato
I stole your mic and you won't see it later
Cause i work magic like a magician
I add up like a mathematician
I'm a bank cashier
Engineer
I wear cotton but i don't wear sheer

Shazam and abracadabra
In the whip i'm gonna cruise past ya
Yo money, don't chump yourself
Put that shit back on the shelf
Light rays blazin'
You're out of phase
And my crews amazin'
We're working on the record yo
So stay patient

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out
What-wha-what-what-what's it all about
Work-wa-work-work-work-wa-work it out
Let's turn this motherfuckin' party out

Now, i go by the name of the king adrock
I don't wear a cup nor a jock
I bring the shit that's beyond bizarre
Like miss piggy
Who moi
I am the one with the clientele.
You say, "adrock, you rock so well"
I've got class like pink champale
Mca grab the mic before the mic goes stale

Don't test me
They can't arrest me
I'll fake right cross-over and shoot lefty
You look upset, yo calm down
You look cable guy dunked off of your crown
I flow like smoke out a chimney
You never been me
You wanna rap but what you're making ain't hip hop b

Get your clothes right out the dryer
Put armor all up on your tire
Sport that fresh attire
Tonight we goin' out set the town on fire
Set the town ablaze
Gonna stun and amaze
Ready to throw a craze
Make your granny shake her head
And say, "those were the days"

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out
What-wha-what-what-what's it all about
Work-wa-work-work-work-wa-work it out
Let's turn this motherfuckin' party out

Fender Guitar
Made in America. Parts from Japan. Assembled in Mexico.

So other than the packaging of the guitar - what could there possibly be left to be made in America?

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer." - David Acfield

I've got a webcam. Now, the only trouble I have is what the hell do I do with it? If I set it up like everyone else then you all see a head bobbing around while a supremely attractive individual hunt-and-peck types. Alternatively, I can just do whatever the hell I usually do, in that case, you will see an extremely attractive individual cooking dinner in between talking to you. And for an extremely cheap price of your current credit card details and expiration date - you can see an extremely attractive individual strip butt naked and yell "who's your daddy!" in a lurid way!

msn: paganic_soul@hotmail.com --> add me

SO, if you can't get the correct format for a DVD in this country because it's not for sale - can you buy the DVD in another format, burn a copy of the dvd to multi-format, then watch the DVD on any DVD player in this country as per normal? hmm I may have to investigate this - can you send me a copy of, say, the Red Green Show?

Why is it that when adults have multiple personalities it's schizophrenia, but when a child has imaginary friends it's cute? That is something I will never understand.

From www.newsoftheweird.com:

Let's Play "Guess the Explanation"

(1) House of Lords member Norman Tebbit told a radio interviewer in May that homosexuality in Britain is "intimately connected" to the rise in obesity. (His explanation: The breakdown of the family means fewer family meals and more fast-food meals.) (2) Florida state legislative candidate Ed Heeney told a Palm Beach County political meeting in May that homosexuality has made it difficult for him to enjoy his pastime of billiards. (His explanation: "(Y)ou have a situation where the lesbian community is buying restaurants and bars (and, presumably, removing the pool tables).") [The Mirror (London), 5-28-04] [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 5-15-04]

I don't know how that little man of Asian origin can keep winning the hotdog eating competitions. Hot dogs not only taste terrible at the best of times, but damn, he's not got the slightest bit of gut on him - where does he fit it all? Or am I over thinking this - is he merely the most famous bulimic out there?

Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue
By David Zucchino cited @ http://story.news.yahoo.com/:

It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue, the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi undertaking.

After the colonel — who was not named in the report — selected the statue as a "target of opportunity," the psychological team used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist, according to an account by a unit member.

Ultimately, a Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children.

It is funny the way the Americans deny all reports at the time, then, a few months later, come forward and agree with the original reports creating a newsworthy item of "Oh My God! the truth is really what everyone else was saying at the time! We were wrong!" - is George Bush running the country? or is CNN?

Saddam Could Call CIA in His Defence
By Sanjay Suri, Inter Press Service (IPS) cited @ http://story.news.yahoo.com/:

A report prepared by the top CIA official (Pelletiere) handling the matter says Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the massacre, and indicates that it was the work of Iranians. Further, the Scott inquiry on the role of the British government has gathered evidence that following the massacre the United States in fact armed Saddam Hussein to counter the Iranians chemicals for chemicals....

Pelletiere says the United States Defence Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report following the Halabja gassing, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis. "That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas," he wrote in The New York Times.

Pelletiere wrote that Saddam Hussein has much to answer for in the area of human rights abuses. "But accusing him of gassing his own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be justifications for invading Iraq, but Halabja is not one of them."

Does this really make American intelligence look any more un-intellgent than it already is?

Being whisked away to Bourke for an environmental, health, legal and contractual crisis is scary. There was a chance the entire town water supply may have been tainted. There was a chance that the environment may have been ruined. The results? The preliminary results indicate that the peaks quickly dropped indicating that the bulk of the pollutant was merely in the scum layer. This is a good sign. The repercussions? They are still to be resolved. The investigation outcome? I can only hope there is none.

Ah work is for chumps. Off to work I go.