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20
October 2004
Quote
of the day
Campari
& soda is very refreshing but when I drink it, I get the urge to
stop bathing & hate America
-
J. Baker
Quote
of the day II
You
know when you Grandfather started getting up there in years and started
talking about how he invented spoons? I think this is the case with
Jimmy Carter.
-
Danny Donovan
Quote
of the day III
Has
anyone seen my purse? Because I've been keeping money next to my tits.
-
Cantinera
Those
lovely Cubans again
I
wonder what excuses the Green Left
psychos, the Communist Party of Australia
and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
will make up for this:
Daniel
Orlando Gómez is facing doom.
On
September 26, the 22-year-old resident of Santa Clara, Cuba stood in
front of the local Communist Party headquarters and confronted Fidel
Castro’s totalitarian regime. "Fidel, you have electricity
and the people don’t," he declared, referring to the frequent
blackouts Cubans endure. (The Spanish word for blackouts, apagones,
figures prominently in contemporary Cuban vocabulary.) Gómez
also said, "Fidel has been deceiving everyone for almost 50 years."
Soon
after, police seized Gómez from his home and beat him and his
wife with batons. Gómez, who suffers from mitral valve prolapse,
required hospitalization after going into convulsions.
After
release, police charged him with "disrespect" of Castro, for
which he can be imprisoned up to three years. ("Disrespect"
also applies to other party functionaries.) Thus, the most basic political
critique is a crime in Cuba.
Noose.
Tree. Communists.
What
is it with this guy and "mini-nukes"?
Joe
Vialls and something about Zionists
and oil cartels.
Phillip
Island
I'm
back from the MotoGP race. Actually had great weather at the track for
once, though I got soaked on the freezing 730km ride home. Some brief
notes:
-
the bikes are fucking loud this year. It's the first time they've
run completely unsilenced. For the first time, I actually needed earplugs.
-
Watched the race with Paul Bickford at the 'Siberia' grandstand. If you
ever want to buy grandstand tickets for a race at Phillip Island, this
is definitely the place to sit.
-
Anybody who thinks Valentino Rossi is the 'greatest of all time' needs
some serious mental therapy. News dudes: beating Sete Gibernau does not
make you the greatest of all time. Gibernau is the guy who finished fifteenth
in the 2000 series, despite riding a factory NSR500. He finished behind
the TSR bike fer chrissakes.
-
The road from Sale to Bairnsdale is one of the most boring in existence.
Oh,
there he is
Richard
Neville has resurfaced after Labor's federal election defeat. Oddly,
he actually has a moment of clarity:
Cheer
up dissenters; three years is not eternity. Cool the hysteria. Beware
the tendency to moralise. Break free from the ghetto of groupthink and
learn to communicate a noble vision for humanity with grace, good humour
and deep listening - a goal that often eludes me.
I
don't expect him to follow his own advice, and he doesn't:
Yes,
the times are perilous. The world is burning, and we have rewarded a
government that adds fuel to the flames. Kyoto is spurned; Iraqi citizens
are murdered in their homes at midnight by skyborne cowards who are
treated as heroes. It is mad, it is criminal. Howard puts our nation
on the wrong side of history and is lauded by voters, cheered by the
majority of media mercenaries. That’s why dissenters lose their
cool. Rage and despair seems legitimate – ever more so the closer
you get to the truth – but it fails to win hearts and minds in
an age of shaky abundance.
And
it wouldn't be a Richard Neville essay without some cabal conspiracies:
US
efforts to control the future of oil has upped prices, already forcing
fishermen in Asia to hang up their nets, sell their boats and …
then what? Nothing is done to seriously promote alternative energy.
Everything is spin. The world is a sitcom and the neo-cons are writing
the script.
Wow.
Oil, Asian fishermen, neocons and alternative energies all in the one
paragraph. If Richard's mental development continues at this rate, he'll
be able to write graffitti in toilet cubicles any day now.
More
nice peace-loving communists
A
charming essay from the Australian group Socialist Alternative: "Why
Israel Must Go":
WHY
WOULD ANY decent person support a state which began its existence with
the dispossession, expulsion and murder of large numbers of the original
inhabitants, and went on to create an undemocratic society which favours
one group and discriminates against all others on ethnic and religious
grounds; a state which invades and occupies territory outside its own
borders, systematically terrorising the population and stealing their
resources?
Israel
is such a state. Yet Israel’s right to exist is defended not only
by right-wingers, but by some on the left and even sections of the Palestinian
leadership. Revolutionary socialists argue that the state of Israel
should be destroyed and
replaced by a multicultural, democratic, secular state.
[...]
To
create an exclusively Jewish state with a Jewish majority, the Zionists
had to destroy the Palestinian economy, steal the land and kill or drive
out as many Palestinians as possible, all of which was done with extreme
violence – and the blessing of all the great powers.
Yet
many who sympathise with the Palestinians still insist on Israel’s
right to exist as a Jewish state. The best outcome, they argue, is for
a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
But
such a state could never be viable.
Lovely
people. Lots of other nice "exterminate Israel" essays here.
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