Looking Forward
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Over The Seas
Quick question: Which of these stories is more likely to be Joe Biden’s “manufactured crisis” where we won’t like what the Obama administration does to “fix” it? The one where Western citizens are killed wholesale abroad by terrorists commiunicating via satelite phone to Pakistan? Or the one where the king of Saudi Arabia decides that [...]
Tags: manufacture THIS
Tsar Vladimir To The Rescue
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Oddly Not Satire, Over The Seas, The Bad Old Days
It just keeps on coming, doesn’t it. The man is starting to sound like Kim Jong Il and his perfect score of 18 during his first round of golf ever. Now, Tsar Putin is apparently the hero yet again, taking down a charging Amur tiger that was trying to eat a film crew. It just [...]
Tags: Tsar Vladimir I
Plastic Bubbles For Everyone!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas, Zero-Zero-Tolerance
Ye gods this is nauseating. Belgian Gardens State School in Townsville, Queensland, recently banned all unsupervised gymnastic activities outdoors in what it called an effort to protect students from injury. ARGH. Kids get hurt, dammit, it’s part of being a kid. Wrapping them in cotton wool might save them but it also creates a nation [...]
Tags: use your head
Getting Away With It
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas
Wow, those IOC officials are just the most thorough investigators I’ve ever seen. And integrity? Boatloads of integrity. Where “thorough” means “half-arsed,” and “integrity” of course means “hey, cross my palm, comrade, and I’ll verify whatever the hell you want me to verify.” **Links via This + That, a nifty (apparently) new site that bite-sizes [...]
Tags: international, olympic games
Putin Along
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Chicken Little, Over The Seas, The Bad Old Days
*blink* Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States. If your first instinct is not to laugh your arse off at that notion, then I suggest [...]
Tags: still the bad guys, Tsar Vladimir I, use your head
Weep for the Future
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas
Ah England, bonny England…you’ve flat lost it. The Labour party wants 16 year olds to vote because they’re generally liberal little barstids and can be counted on to always vote the bread and circuses ticket. From the, er, horse’s mouth: Labour backbencher Julie Morgan spent the day in the Commons arguing for the voting age [...]
