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Posted by Tim B. on 05/17/2007 at 10:48 AM

  1. Should we be feeling abandoned here?

    All alone, clinging to our open threads like a polar bear to ice?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 17 at 10:52 AM • permalink

  2. Trifler!

    Posted by mojo on 2007 05 17 at 10:56 AM • permalink

  3. My God.

    They got him.

    Murdoch had Juan Williams and Ceci Connolly from Fox News Sunday come and drag Tim off to repeated showings of An Inconvenient Truth to break his will.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 17 at 11:11 AM • permalink

  4. Don’t tell PETA Ash_. They might mistake you for Knute, and put you out of their misery.

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2007 05 17 at 11:26 AM • permalink

  5. I’m pretty safe there Blue Hen. I want nothing to do with PETA.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 17 at 11:38 AM • permalink

  6. What, no cricket post?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 17 at 12:03 PM • permalink

  7. Ash, Ash, dear lady,  the problem is the arrant arrogance of do-gooders: they demand that you bear the burden of their benevolence, and the inconvenient fact that you neither require it nor even want it means nothing to them.  What matters is what THEY feel; that’s the only real objective for them—you are simply a means to an end.  They’d nuke the ice floe you clung to, vaporizing a square mile of ocean in process with icy indifference, if they thought that would advance their warm/fuzzy overall agenda a millimeter along its way

    Posted by Celaeno on 2007 05 17 at 12:35 PM • permalink

  8. The Chaser’s interview with the Mad Mufti Shake Al-Hilbilly has been posted at Little Green Footballs. (on Tim’s blogroll at left)

    Internet Fame!!

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 05 17 at 12:48 PM • permalink

  9. #3 “They got him.

    Murdoch had Juan Williams and Ceci Connolly from Fox News Sunday come and drag Tim off to repeated showings of An Inconvenient Truth to break his will.”

    It looks to be true.  Here’s a picture of Tim that I just hunted down.

    Posted by kcom on 2007 05 17 at 01:10 PM • permalink

  10. Not to worry.  Paco and Liberace…er… Elvis…er, wronwright have rescued him in the last thread.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 17 at 02:47 PM • permalink

  11. Morning world it’s me !

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 17 at 06:09 PM • permalink

  12. Morning 1.618.  Raining up you’re way?  Canberra is receiving a wetting of divine proportions

    Posted by PeterTB on 2007 05 17 at 06:20 PM • permalink

  13. you’reyour

    Posted by PeterTB on 2007 05 17 at 06:21 PM • permalink

  14. null

    He looks really grumpy.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 17 at 06:29 PM • permalink

  15. Peter, I once had a dream about the dream. I prayed for rain, the nun in my dream told me to. She showed me ladybugs, and a rose. She had hands of water.

    Last night, I dreamt of a horse race and the horse fell.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 17 at 06:31 PM • permalink

  16. I didn’t mean to say all Canberrans go to bed at 7, it’s just that I didn’t see many of them out.

    Canberra is lovely place. Do they have nice men?

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 17 at 06:32 PM • permalink

  17. A picture for you.

    ;’;’; ‘’;; ‘;;’‘; ‘;’;;’;’ ‘;’;’;

    ;’‘;;’;‘liberal;’;’;’;’;;’‘;’;’;’;
    ;’‘;;’;’‘;’;’;’;’;labor;’‘;’;’;’;

    ;’‘;’;’;;’‘’;’;’;’;;;’‘;’;’;’;’;;’

    Pollie rain for Labor and Liberal! by 1.618

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 17 at 06:33 PM • permalink

  18. Actually, it should be Liberal rain. (Howard did)

    I don’t think labor prayed for any rain.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 17 at 06:36 PM • permalink

  19. 1.618

    You forgot the purchase price, for your divine creation.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 17 at 06:47 PM • permalink

  20. This is so uncool. There’s no satisfaction in hijacking an open thread.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 05 17 at 07:02 PM • permalink

  21. Must hear: BBC’s snooty John “I may be a commie, but I never that affect my line of questioning” Humphrys interviews John Bolton, Bolton rips him a new one.

    Magnificent.

    Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 05 17 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  22. bonjour triteness

    Magnificent.

    I’ll say…Bolton is proof positive that the shaggy dog look of his, doesn’t mean he doesn’t bite…and viciously.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 17 at 07:58 PM • permalink

  23. It’s threatening rain here on the Coast and my wife had taken the day off so we could go sailing on the Broadwater.
    I rang the seaway tower to get the forecast for both seaway and seaway entrance. That sounded OK but the 20-25 knot winds from N/NW and rain by midday didn’t.
    One son’s girlfriend got up at 5 to be here by 6 as she had never been sailing before and was EXCITED. We had sorted out the fishing gear as well as she had never been fishing either.
    That one son will now take the girlfriend fishing off a wharf and get wet.
    The wife will do the books.
    And the daughter will sleep in as we turned her alarm off.
    The boat will bash the moorings oblivious to the day that could have been.
    Sitting here with unexpected time on my hands, I’ll feel good about the farms getting wet, get angry with the ABC, the feminised education system and the thought of Labor leading in the polls.
    Now I wish Costello had taken the reins 18 months ago. Howard is looking decidedly older and lacking the punch he needs.

    Posted by Macosghair on 2007 05 17 at 08:28 PM • permalink

  24. #21 It’s Bolton’s tone more than anything. Exactly the right sense of amused detachment combined with rapier-sharp response. Like, ‘I really don’t give a shit about you or your pathetic superiority complex but if you want a smack in the chops, here it is.’

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 05 17 at 08:29 PM • permalink

  25. #21 - John Humphrey’s has some pressing issues to deal with - like which arsehole do I shit out of? ‘Cause he was just torn a new one.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 17 at 08:49 PM • permalink

  26. #21 Bonjour, bonjour. Thank you for that link.
    I’m not sure how Bolton found space on a such a large, pompous arsehole to rip another one, but he sure did just that to Humphrys.
    I’ve long been proud of my British heritage but I am starting to wonder if it is something I should now be hiding.
    If Humprys is typical of those in power at the moment, it’s obvious that the Britain that generated my heritage is dead and gone forever.

    Posted by Skeeter on 2007 05 17 at 09:02 PM • permalink

  27. What a turn-up it will be if the new leadership in France drags that country back from moonbat insanity before Britain manages to halt its downward slide.

    Posted by Skeeter on 2007 05 17 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  28. Skeeter

    I’ve long been proud of my British heritage but I am starting to wonder if it is something I should now be hiding.

    Absolutely not. Should you (or the rest of us, English speakers) do that, the other side would have accomplished its goal.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 17 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  29. #26
    Sir Humphry is a pompous git, but in his favour, he keeps interruptions to minimum, which is extremely rare in interviewers

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 05 17 at 09:20 PM • permalink

  30. #29 - Rather hard to interrupt whilst simultaneously putting your foot in your mouth and head up your arse.

    I wonder why the UN didn’t like Bolton? Probably thought goats were farm animals not pleasurebots.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 17 at 09:23 PM • permalink

  31. #27 - Skeeter, as bad as it seems these are not new problems for the Old Dart. I’m currently reading two of the best books you’ll ever while away the hours with - William Manchester’s biographies of Churchill The Last Lion. It’s spooky how similar the current situation is to what Churchill faced. Reading these two brilliant books is like suffering de’ javu. Only difference is I don’t see a Churchill on the horizon.

    Everyone should do themselves a favour and get hold of a copy. You’ll also be able to impress your friends by telling them you’re reading a book with over a 1000 pages.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 17 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  32. 31 Infidel Tiger, I never pick up a book unless it’s got at least, oh, 5000 pages.
    But will make an exception in this case. Manchester’s biography of Macarthur is also great.

    Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 05 17 at 11:02 PM • permalink

  33. #31 Thanks Infidel.
    My local council library does not include The Last Lion in its catalogue, so I have ordered a copy from Amazon UK for £12.52.

    Posted by Skeeter on 2007 05 17 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  34. 5000 pages? Pfft..I don’t commence to read unless it has an infinite number of words within. Ergo, I rarely read. Although Magrok’s story is yet to be written, and that is probably a team of drunk gibbons several years worth of work right there.

    Posted by CB on 2007 05 18 at 03:23 AM • permalink

  35. PS.

    19 ....E_Cid You’re right! I forgot!

    For sale $44.44 cents please cut and paste then send the cheque to Paco enterprises then Tim B then TB can send a kiss to me.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 05 18 at 04:39 AM • permalink

  36. #17 another fine effort from the Punctuation Art Collection Originator.  call in sothebys

    Posted by KK on 2007 05 18 at 09:51 AM • permalink

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