A good read

Morning Post.

H/T SandiM

All good points... about retirement

Have a think and a chuckle.

Hilarious posts at Tim Blair's

SUPERLOVE SATURDAY

THE MEETING

Cold War scholars may be reminded of a mood that prevailed in the early 1960s, although the US and the USSR were never quite this hostile. Reporters following developments essentially found themselves in a siege situation:

Before leaving Melbourne, journalists were bused to an airport hangar only to see Ms Gillard’s commonwealth car drive past.

They were then taken by bus to a different airfield location to board a separate flight to Brisbane.

After landing, the photographer and video cameraman allowed to attend the meeting left in a media vehicle accompanied by a Gillard staffer.

They were told they would later change vehicles to a taxi.

Is this before or after the blindfolds?

The remaining media were bundled on to a bus to be taken to an undisclosed location, where …

… they were shot and dumped in a pit. Well, it wouldn’t exactly be a surprise. They knew too much. About the meeting! All of this was mere prelude to the meeting itself:

and the final post as at 8:44 PM

POPCORN TIME (a round up of many comments about the unfolding ALP circus)

The price of trendy guilt? Multiply base value by 60

From Watts Up With That.

Kiosks have sprung up at San Francisco Airport where you can offset your flight carbon. Another con! (What a surprise.)

Cruising the intarwebs, and International TV Drek

I noticed an interesting looking post at Rachel Lucas, who has recently moved with new spouse to Old Blighty.

She's having a bit of trouble with the drek from the US which is shown on UK TV.

Tell us about it, Rachel! It's the same here in Aus.

Half interesting programmes like The Shield are shown in the middle of the night, crap like the programmes she mentions, is shown in prime time.

Reading the comments I'm pleased that it's not just me who thinks that Not Everybody Loves Raymond.

There's so much good stuff that we could be watching instead of this crap and reruns of mouldy, hairy, balding, paunchy, ancient reruns.

Obamamessiah attacked by a Saint

It's good.

And it includes a link to the full-fisking of the speech.

Dr Albrechtsen has a chat... just lay down on the couch

Blog therapy.

It appears that blogging is therapy... for the blogger as well as the commenters.

Blogging, at least in my case, is akin to a public health service. It helps keep some people sane. Rather than kick the dog, or slap the girlfriend/boyfriend, they click on a JA blog and unleash their inner rage in cyberspace. Or, if they need to check just how high their blood pressure can rise without causing a health problem, they visit my blog and let the rising anger test the limits of their blood pressure. Of course, it doesn’t work for everyone. Christine, for example, had this to say a few weeks back: “I must be a masochist - reading even the little I do of your work makes me feel slightly ill.”

Causing the odd illness aside, mostly I detect a healthy need to vent anger among so many who comment. Like a good cry, a decent vent of emotion can leave you feeling much better. Even the masochist Christine surely felt a little better.

Provocation

Laughs here:
2008: Celebrities
2008: Politics
2008: Sport
2008: Australians
2008: World of Odd

These will make you angry, just work your way back through them.

Australia asked to take Gitmo inmates
Keysar whines
Al BeBeeCeera
Hamas cops it
Saudi papers refuse to print ads depicting abuse of maids

I'm particularly affected about the goings on in Sydney, as I grew up there.

And with regard to the Israelis blowing the buggery out of the Hamas "Police", boo-fecking-hoo.
We never hear a peep any more about the bombs rained on Israel by their death-cult following neighbours.

Update: BOAB covered the Sydney situation in Laugh Along With Trad.