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Hahn Ice Carlton Cold Strongbow Carlsberg	Live Whacking Permalink Archive click "Live Whacking" button for the latest entries 25-8-02 *Let's face it, the Soviets sucked at everything* except chess and vodka One of the unrealised fantasties of certain anti-american blubberpots was that one day the fearsome Soviet military would attack and teach those darned arrogant americans a lesson. Well as this fascinating essay argues, the soviet military wasn't all it was cracked up to be. (Link via Pejman) permalink I wonder how long before some idiot screams about this? The crisis in Zimbabwe is threatening to overshadow this week's Earth Summit in Johannesburg, with the West refusing to fund development for Third World regimes that abuse the rule of law. I can hear it now: screeching about western cultural imperialism (traced to the USA of course) and how the taxpayers of the west have a moral duty to support third-world tyrants. permalink Another Fairfax pants-wetter** Dingbat Melbourne academic Janet McCalman offers a seriously confused article in The Age, throwing in a random array of subject matter to say the days of evil individual rights are over, and we must concentrate on the wonders of communism. Is this the century of the community? Ask the North Koreans honey, they've been trying it out for a while. To start off, she trots out a rather hazy argument where she says we're not to blame for climate change, but it's all our fault anyway. Rarely has climate change been easy for people to live with, and the historical record is full of natural disasters, inundations, destructive storms and desiccating transformations. However, the modern world we have built is far less able to cope with sudden increases in severe rainfall: natural drainage has been blocked by buildings and roads; streams diverted underground; rivers dammed; marshes that once absorbed overflows drained and dried out; and everywhere the built environment leaves little open ground to absorb surface water. Ah, that's it. It's modern technology that is costing us so dear. We've all seen just how well "the natural method" works in preventing disasters in developing countries. She then blabs on about the ecological horrors of big cities. Then - naturally - she switches tack and starts blubbing about the evilness of the coalition. At the same time, Peter Costello, the man who would be prime minister, went to the bush to sell himself as the man of the future. He dressed the part, courtesy of R.M. Williams; he clowned; he boomed; he stood at the end of a long queue for a bush dunny; he hinted at the likely sale of the rest of Telstra; he assured us that while he was a true-blue conservative on family values, he's flexible on moral issues that are troubling some of his colleagues. Not once did he tackle the hard political and social issues that confront us as our environment dies under the onslaught of careless development. Not once did he show the intellectual leadership we need to face a future of too little water, useless salty land, dead orchards and thirsty cities. Not once did he reflect on the burdens of debt, income insecurity and poor education that condemn so many of our young people to lifetime poverty. Talk about a confused agenda: Non-man-made environmental problems, Peter Costello's clothes, the sale of a telecommunications company and urban poverty. It's kinda hard to see exactly what point she is trying to make overall, apart from maybe "why do you keep voting for the coalition?? We know better than you and you never listen to us!! Can't you see we're all going to hell in a handbasket?!?!?" What he believes in, we are told, is true liberalism: the freedom of the individual. And yet that sort of unthinking championship of the individual marks Peter Costello and so many like him in the Coalition as yesterday's men and women. The world has moved on. That rhetoric was appropriate in the 19th century when the political and religious rights of the individual had to be fought for. This is the 21st century, and the challenge now is the powerlessness of poor people. This must be the century of the community. She's gonna write some great stuff when she's out of loser-therapy I'm sure. The world has "moved on" from individual freedoms, and now we must go back to those wonderful progressive ideologies which resulted in tens of millions of deaths from communist terror, and untold environmental damage from those same, enlightened, non-capitalist folk. John Howard may be riding high, but he leads a party that has long passed its use-by date. Pity then, that it keeps getting voted back into office. I guess not everyone has the same nostalgia for 18% interest rates, double-digit unemployment and "white people are evil" Labor social policy. permalink Arrogant gits Tim Blair and Scott Wickstein have seen fit to do was it rightfully my job: bashing airhead "intellectual" Hugh Mackay. How dare they. permalink Mighty Wrighty Paul Wright has blessed us with a kick-ass piece on cultural relativism and the snivelling hypocrisy of the wretched "we have a lot to learn from the UN & the third world" crowd. I’m proud of what my country has achieved, and I want to hold on to what we have here. I will no longer sit quietly while this country’s legitimacy is questioned, and I will not allow comparisons to non-democratic countries, or to international bodies. I want my elected government to make the laws for my country, and I am willing to defend the right of other democracies to do the same. These decisions will no longer be outsourced to international bodies or opinions. Our values are better than others, our way of living is better than anything that has gone before. Citizenship in my country is a privilege that carries right to freedom, and the responsibility of maintaining it. Yowza. Somebody buy this man a beer. permalink Decor Über Alles Two years ago I purchased the DVD of Francis Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. I had fond memories of it from when I watched it at the cinema in 1992, and a viewing on video a few months later. Last night I finally got around to watching the DVD, and lordy, what a kick in the bollocks. Take out the awesome production design, pretty costumes and cinematography, and you're left with a howling, incoherent mess. Keanu Reeves gives arguably the worst acting performance I've ever seen in a big studio pic. Everyone else acts like a shopfloor dummy, except for Anthony Hopkins who spends most of his time yelling incoherently as screaming winds blow around him. Character development is non-existent, the screenplay fails completely to convey the simple-but-powerful Dracula storyline. Oldman & Ryder have zero chemistry as the tragic couple. Ryder is, well, awful. I still reckon Oldman's Count Drac is pretty damned good, even if a lot of his dialogue is unintelligible, though this was a problem for a lot of people in the movie: so much of the dialogue is incoherent yelling or incoherent mumbling. Somebody please give these geese some diction lessons and teach Coppola some basics in recording dialogue so that it can actually be understood. permalink No bestiality here To whoever found this site with the search string "snakes fucking people", I hope you eventually found what you were looking for. permalink Amir Butler's very important question Our own Taliban cheerleader Amir Butler asks..... Why be suprised that the FBI is acting like the FBI? Targeting minorities is part of their ignoble tradition. So then, the FBI are acting more like Muslims every day. Isn't that a good thing? permalink