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31 October 2004

Quote of the day

"Fuck you, Santa!"

- The Sopranos
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Unbelievable

There are certain groups in the world which right now are working towards the goal of wiping out a major American city with a nuclear bomb.

Given this fact, isn't it a relief to see how the Department of Homeland Security is spending its time?

Christ almighty....
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Happy Happy, Joy Joy!!

A happy birthday to my friend and uberchick Cantinera.

Cantinera always wants lots of mail to tell her how much she rocks. Send some to me at tex <at> whackingday.com and I'll forward it to her.
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Hamas

Me and my transexual pigs (Ummah and Osama) were doing some quiet web-browsing when we happened upon the friendly, helpful website of Hamas Online. My weekend is complete.

I was rather impressed with their collection of touching poetry. I really liked the "Mohammed-al-Durra" effort...

Sitting like captives in their own land,
Neither a stone nor a gun in their hand.
Barbaric zionist aimed and pleasure sought,
Pulling the trigger, aiming at the child, shot.

The bullet hit the father’s protecting arm,
The blood poured forth, red and warm.
A zionist soldier with a heart of stone,
Fired, ripping the father’s pelvic bone.

The next shot hit the child’s abdomen,
He slumped dying in arms of his dad.
‘Save me, save me, for love of Allah,’
‘They don’t’ shoot children,’ you said.

The child lay splashed in blood, dead,
From his ripped guts he had bled.
‘From his blood will a new Nation rise and stand,’
The mother wailed, ‘My son’s death is life for our land.’

I guess no one told them that Mohammed-al-Durra was actually murdered by Palestinians. Not that truth and the Palestinian cause ever have much to do with one another.

Anyway, enough of that, let's go back to see what else the child-murdering Hamas monkeys have to offer. Hey, how about a martyrdom poem?

Dear mothers, have courage as we hurl our stones!
Dear mothers, have patience when our bodies come home!”

With rocks in their hands and Jihad on their lips,
Our youth are defending Al-Aqsa Masjid

With their blood, and their lives as supreme sacrifice!
May Allah welcome them in the highest Paradise!

Nice. Enough poetry, how about a look at the Hamas Covenant?

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Muslim generations until Judgement Day.

Well, according to lots of enlightened leftists, this actually means that these fellas want to co-exist with Jews. Oddly, the Hamas boys don't seem too keen on peace conferences and such...

There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. The initiatives, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.

And there's a lot of Zionist conspiracies...

The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and despicable and repulsive ways to achieve its desires. It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions. They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam. It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion.

Mmmm...OK. But no fear, Hamas assures us their motives are benign:

Hamas is a humane movement, which cares for human rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions. It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards it, or stand in its way in order to disturb its moves or to frustrate its efforts.

Elsewhere, there's an interview with the late, unlamented, and thoroughly BBQ'd Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi:

Firstly, this is the custom of the Jews, for they are the killers of prophets, and the killers of the preachers who enjoin justice. Their criminal nature will never change.

How dare the Israelis build a wall to seperate themselves from these people!

If only those bastard Jews would let themselves be slaughtered by the pack of homicidal chimpanzees, all the problems in the Middle East would be solved.

(Update: I wish to apologise for my language: I mean no insult against monkeys and chimpanzees)
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Scooter!

Yesterday, for the first time, I rode the legendary Vespa Scooter. The GT200 four-stroke model to be exact.

Jumping from a regular motorcycle to an automatic scooter requires a considerable mental adjustment. Bloody fun though. This sucker might be the perfect urban commuter, and is a great machine for learners.

You need to ride a scooter very differently to a regular bike.....

- there's no clutch, so the bike never stalls and you never change gear. You just twist the throttle and the bike moves.

- there are no foot controls. The left handlebar lever used used to control to rear brake instead of your right foot, and of course you no longer change gears with your left foot.

- the automatic transmission means there is little engine braking, which requires a very different corner entry technique.

For the first few minutes, I was all at sea. Going into corners, my right foot kept moving to activate the non-existent foot brake. I kept thinking the bike was going to stall as the revs dropped, and rather than kicking down a few gears, rolling off the throttle, and using a bit of brake to go around a corner, I had to use the brakes alone to slow me down.

Thankfully, the little disc brakes are excellent and are more than up to the task. Once I got used to it, the Vespa put a big smile on my face. It's very comfy, the engine is terrific (easily up to the task of highway cruising), it's very easy to steer and it looks fantastic. Ironically, a learner would probably get to grips with a scooter quicker than an experienced motorcyclist.

There are few more practical city vehicles than the Vespa, despite its $8400 on-the-road pricetag. First, fuel economy is phenomenal (my guess would be around 30km/l), registration and insurance costs are low, as are servicing costs. The tyres will last until The Resurrection, you'll never, ever have a problem finding a place to park, and the engine has enough grunt to take a pillion passenger on the back.

Cost of ownership and the fun factor aren't the only strengths of his great little machine. There's tons of storage space under the seat and in the glovebox underneath the handlebars, both of which are lockable. Which means there's space to store the groceries, and there's a place to store your riding jacket & gloves when you're off the bike, which is especially a blessing during hot weather. Carrying riding gear & luggage around during summer shopping duties is not fun.

The one glaring flaw is that the under-seat storage will not take a full-face helmet. You'll need to buy the optional accessory topbox for that, though I'd advise doing that anyway as it's very handy.

When it comes to cheap, enjoyable transport, the mighty Vespa is hard to beat.
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Schadenfreude

I love watching lefties agonize over the election results. Here's "Serge" from aus.politics pining for his Labor heroes. After posting bunch of reviews about the new book on Paul Keating, he waxes lyrical...

(nostalgic sigh!)

God! How I miss him.

The Luminous Intelligence, the Language, the Wit, the Vision, the Engagement.

A time when our international standing was never higher. A time when our Parliament was a joy to listen to.

What have we got now?

The very antithesis of the above. A joke. A man who continuous to be a source of cringing embarrassment to this country.

God! Why can't the Liberals ever find men with the stature of a Keating, Hawke, or Whitlam. Names that strike a cord in the Australian psyche whenever they are invoked.

Can anyone recall any Liberal Party Prime Minister apart from that dull-witted fool Menzies?

No! of course not

Why are their leaders always so damn grey, dull, inward looking and bloody pathetic.

Ah! To return to the halcyon days of Australian politics.

Serge.

Yeah. Keating was so visionary and luminous he was voted out in a landslide.

With true believers like this, is it any wonder Labor has lost 4 elections in a row?
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Dopey as ever

As I expected, my statement of fact a few days ago has made serial dimwit Niall Cook rather cranky:

Either Smoking Too Much Or Simply Deluded

Here's an absolute classic from that den of dumb-dumbs.....Canberra. One wonders.....has Tex not heard of the Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, Pharonic Egypt, The Soviet Union, The Third Reich, The Mongols, Huns, Franks.....ad infinitum? I recall Adolph Hitler foretold his personal empire would last 1000 years. Time to change your preferred weed, Tex.

One could point out to Niall that none of those empires were free democratic capitalist societies, but I doubt he'd understand the relevance of that. Dictatorships, commie suckholes and absolute monarchies eventually decay, but the capitalist-democratic engine makes the USA more powerful as time goes on. Nor is the USA an "empire" - there are no vast spaces America is trying to permanently hold.

It's not going to be taken down from the inside, and there certainly isn't anyone outside America capable of defeating them.

He's right about one thing though: Canberra is a den of dumb-dumbs... it's full of people like Niall Cook. No wonder it's a safe Labor seat.
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There's an exception to every rule....

I have a theory which makes a lot of people very upset: old movies suck.

The actors sucked (sorry, but Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and John Wayne couldn't act their way out of a shithouse), the scripts sucked (modern daytime soaps have better dialogue) and they had the most godawful musical scores imaginable.

I think the oldest movie I've ever liked was Sidney Lumet's Twelve Angry Men with Henry Fonda. Other than that, anything made before the sixties is like a trip through hell for me.

So it was a rather big suprise to see an old classic on DVD which I not only enjoyed, but loved.

Roman Holiday, made in 1953 with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn is everything 50's movies aren't: well-written & well-acted, beautifully made, with clever, economical dialogue and wonderful, restrained direction.

There was no 50's histronic cheesy dialogue, very little of that excruciating 'old movie music', and it has one of the best bittersweet final scenes I've yet seen.

The plot: Anne (Hepburn), a spoiled Princess of some ficticious European country, runs away from her entourage during a tour of Rome, and winds up crashing at the home of second-rate journalist Joe Bradley (Peck), who only discovers her identity when he sees her picture in a newspaper. They basically hang out together in Rome with Joe's photogrpaher pal Irv (Eddie Albert), who secretly takes pictures so that they both can get the press scoop of the century.

Anyone who has ever watched romantic comedies can probably guess how the rest of this gem of a movie develops. It's sweet rather than sappy, often very funny, has a few wonderful Italian character actors and the Roman locations are terrific.

Oh, it also has the best-ever appearance of a Vespa scooter in movie history.

Check it out. This film got to me. It'll get to you too.
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A complete retraction

A while back I raved about a small local Chinese restaurant, The Oriental Express, saying it was the equal of any Chinese cuisine anywhere in the world.

A while later, I expressed my disappointment that the restaurant has changed owners and chef, and their version of a particular dish wasn't as good as before.

I really must have had my head up my arse.

Subsequent visits to The Oriental Express have seen me experience Chinese & Malaysian cuisine as good as any food on earth. On the last visit I consumed a dish of Sambal Chicken with Roti Cannai bread. I think I nearly creamed my pants gulping this stuff down. It was food worthy of the gods. The Chili Plum Beef ordered by my friend was equally sublime.

The owner & chef - Robert Wong - may be the friendliest restauranteur in the Southern Hemisphere. We always get a enthusiastic greeting and he'll happily talk for ages about various kinds of dishes.

If you're in Canberra and you want some seriously kickin' cuisine in a small, quiet establishment, you simply must give this place a try.
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