Neo-con-logism

This is possibly no longer appropriate given the state of the Palin offspring of the same name:

Bristol fashion
PRONUNCIATION:(BRIS-tl FASH-uhn)
MEANING:adjective: In good order.
ETYMOLOGY:We know the term is coined after Bristol, England, but we are not so certain why. Some believe the term alludes to the prosperity of the city from its flourishing shipping business. Others claim that the term arose as a result of the very high tidal range of the port of Bristol: at low tides ships moored here would go aground and if everything on the ship was not stowed away properly, chaos would result. The term is often used to describe boats and typically used in the phrase "shipshape and Bristol fashion".

Oh the sharp, shooting irony. Or is that the terror that they may fall for SP? *shudders*

Lost in translation

Prime ministerial commentary on the Georgian conflict:

Medvedev branded Saakashvili a "lunatic" as he outlined tough terms to the French leader, in effect demanding Georgian capitulation to vastly superior Russian forces.
"The difference between lunatics and other people is that when they smell blood it is very difficult to stop them," Medvedev said. "So you have to use surgery."

Is that a threat?

Confusing.

The best LOL ever. EVER.

Voting with cuteness

Politics has changed. Srsly.

The way people engage with politics has changed. Srsly.

Do you think that the Ancient Greeks/forefathers in America or whomever you want to credit with our current democratic system envisaged a world in which a global communication technology could be used by a "fan" of a politician to offer kitten-shaped condolences after she lost one of the democratic caucus preselections?

I actually, rather in spite of myself I confess, think this might be a step in the right direction.

The little dictator who could

It seems no small irony that it is Kim Jong-Il who looks set to be the only member of the axis of evil who is not directly in the crosshairs of Uncle Sam.

- Iraq cooperated with weapons inspections to a reasonable* extent and despite the reports of
Hans Blix and others saying that their weapons program had been dismantled was still attacked due to it's possession of WMDS. Which were never found.

- Iran's president has been reasonably up-front about the state of their weapons program announcing loudly that yes, they were enriching uranium but no, they had no bombs. American spies have now come through with the shocking discovery that this was true. The US government response, rather counter-intuitively perhaps, is to essentially threaten military action just to make sure.

- In North Korea lil' Kim sends a couple of ICBMs flying over Japan, taunts the USA with the delivery systems it is designing for it's nukes. He's only one step from hosting his own Hello! world exclusive in one of the factories where he gently and fondly pats the bombs whilst extolling their weight, uranium content and possible destinations. He then offers to stop his program if sanctions are lifted and he can sit at the table with the big boys. And it works.

HE IS CLEARLY A GENIUS.





* No they didn't make it easy. But then again, when so much of the rest of the world (France, USA, Israel etc) is 'allowed' to have nukes it's rather impressive that they capitulated at all.

Wash colours seperately

The seeming inability of the Belgian political parties to actually form a coalition government is of slight concern it must be admitted. For all their differences I'm inclined to wonder why they don't just form a "Not Vlaams Belang" group.

Not just because they are parochial xenophobes ranting about a non-existent pure Flemish race and language but because they can't help but being Belgian on their posters and printing them in Flemish *and* French. One wonders why they haven't included German on there as well.

Unfeminism

I know women politicians often get judged on their appearances much more than their male counterparts. I know this is sexist/wrong/unfair and so on.

But seriously, People of Ukraine, how can you keep voting for this hair?


What a marvellous specimen Ioulia Timochenko is.

Who would you choose to run the country?

I thought the ALPs had conquered cool in politics with the preselection Peter Garrett. He is rather dapper and certainly has enough lefty cred to sometimes satisfy me..

But Russia has lifted the Iron Curtain to reveal the smouldering eyes and penchant for checks of the Elvis of Chess.

They're both well suited to politics in their very different ways but I bet Kasparov would scare the bejeezus out of whoever he was sitting across from in parliament..

He could be thinking about anything with that steel-trap mind. He's probably even friends with Uri Geller.

More power to him.