President-Elect Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was the inspiration for The West Wing’s #1 White House hottie, Josh Lyman.
(Interesting aside: After serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to Leo McGarry through President Bartlet’s administration, Josh Lyman became Chief of Staff under President Matt Santos at the end of the series. The eerie similarities between [...]
September 22, 2008 – 12:17
surge, noun — Throwing good after bad. Such as: money, lives, reputation, international good-will.
Recent examples of use: Iraq, Wall Street, deregulation, tax cuts for the top 1%, War on Drugs.
Every mother loves her baby, every baby is valued and Mr Rudd should value all babies equally. We should not live in Australia where Mr Rudd thinks that some babies are more valuable than others. It’s very, very important that Mr Rudd understand that every mother loves her baby and this should be an Australia [...]
“Only the impotent are pure.” — Gough Whitlam
In Australia, there is a key position — fundamental to our governance, and almost unique to the Australian political landscape — that we, the people of this nation, do not elect. As I say this, you may be thinking of the Governor-General, representative of our head of state, the Queen… but there is a far [...]
“Now, in ‘07, the task of the Australian Labor Party is to address and redress the growing inequality created not by neglect or drift or indifference, but by the deliberate infliction of a decade of the most ideologically driven regime in Australia’s history.” — Gough Whitlam, with Margaret, as the first recipients of the ALP’s [...]
February 22, 2007 – 14:06
“[The Premier of New South Wales] said state firearms regulations had been amended to allow Mr Cheney’s US Secret Service bodyguards to carry firearms during the visit because the vice president’s security was of paramount concern.” — Protesters warned over VP violence
Good to see we’re adapting our wonderfully stringent firearm laws to make sure the [...]
I say, why all the glum faces? *crickets*
And in my first act of bipartisan outreach since the election, I shared with [Nancy Pelosi] the names of some Republican interior decorators who can help her pick out the new drapes in her new offices. *crickets*
Thank you, voters of the USA, for making Bush eat humble pie.
The United States of America…
is armed to the teeth with nukes,
disrespects international law,
invades and wages war on foreign countries based on abject lies,
savagely ignores human rights,
has virtually buried habeas corpus,
supports institutionalised torture,
and finally, the USA has banned Vegemite!
This kind of behaviour tends to bring out the yobbos bagging Yanks mentality, even among ever-tolerant Aussie GNOME [...]
No chance I’m missing out on this… I just noticed that Jon Stewart is performing here in Boston on Friday night!
Go buy tickets for the 7pm performance, and we’ll have dinner afterward at a nearby restaurant — any locals have suggestions?
Update: Oh maaaan. The booking agent called me to say that the 7pm performance had [...]
