It's Wednesday!

Which means only a few more days 'til another long weekend (and Front End Loader).

That is all.


Nerds

Bowling Warner...

Seems serial texter Shane Warne is up to his old tricks again. Word has it that, having reconciled with wife Simone and promising not to cheat on her again, he accidentally sent her a text message rather than to his apparent paramour alluding to a clandestine tryst (is that a tautology?).

Simone's response? "You sent it to the wrong person, loser." Then promptly packed her bags and headed home to Australia.

Ah Warnie. Australia's National Joke. Maybe it's the new hair.

Chaser - APEC Security

speaking of war...these guys are at war with everything

watch out for the..

intersting sunday drive...

higher ground

Australia is definitely in election mode, even if it hasn't been called. Yo can tell because people are calling people nazis. As far as I know this hasn't been done for several genations of politics.

I hate Illinios nazis. But real ones are funny

The English Language

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Australian Political Issues - Your national identity card

In 1986 the (Labour) Australian Government proposed a national identity card. In 1987 it was almost put to the people at a referendum, but didn't make it due to the obviously overwhelming resistance by the people.

In 1992 or thereabouts the UK also considered a national identity card. Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher likened it to identity papers in NAZI Germany. It didn't get up.

In 2006 the (Liberal) Australian government re-introduced the national identity card with a new name; the Access card. It's not mandatory, but you'll need to have one to access welfare, education, health and other public services.

It's a triumph of the bureaucrats over the libertarians.

If Howard's Liberals lose the upcoming federal election let's hope Rudd's team cancel the initiative. Or put it to the people in a referendum.

Y0u can also read about the project in more detail at this site

You could get motivated about this issue. It's basically a choice between the cost savings and improved efficiency of one-card-to-rule-us-all versus a one to one relationship between citizens and services.

The Government will says it will reduce fraud, and besides; technology is inevitable. Well, smartcard technology is here, but so are land mines and no one I know things we should spread more landmines. Except maybe around Bar Cleveand.

I was pretty ambivalent about the whole thing until recently when I began to think about human rights abuses around the world, and how governments reinforce their power over the people gradually or quickly until the people are powerless and subject to... well all sorts of nasty things.

Or you could just forget about it. After all those Nazis sure could dress well. And they wore their boots over their trousers. That's supposed to be stylish, isn't it?

Want more? Read the background paper by the federal government.

And if this issue is important to you write to Rudd @ Myspace/Facebook

Bowling for Sandercoe

who the hell is sandercoe?

Peace One Day (Jeremy Gilley)

Rock-n-Roll Soldiers -

rockin even

Make way for the Iron Sausage?

The following photos are from the ABC and SMH websites respectively. Ah protesters, you gotta love 'em. I'm not sure if it's the wind that's made the second guy's willy a little odd shaped? Chili Peppers wanna be perhaps?

Where's Checkpoint Charlie when you need him?

Sydney's 2007 APEC (or OPEC, as President Bush calls it) Summit cost us a shit load of money (around $250 million in security alone). But it will probably be best remembered worldwide for the ABC's Chaser crew's breach of that same security, using a fake motorcade. I for one think this is not such a bad thing - I'd prefer to be thought of a bunch of witty (read as: smart-arse) ex-uni students dressed up as Osama than a race of people who run around screaming 'crikey!' while wrestling random forms of wildlife.... or worse still, as neither Kath NOR Kim (noice).

But anyway, perhaps the APEC security team could've learnt something by watching last week's episode of the Chaser's War on Everything (Wednesday nights, 9:30, ABC).





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Its for The PM

I would Hate to be the cleaner at this establishment
and those High Heel scuff marks in the glass damn near
impossible to get out with conventional glass cleaner

The other thing being you would have to lay down on
the down stairs floor to be able to really appreciate this one

"Honey, Late night at the office again! you have been
working so hard getting that presentation for the PM WOW !
OH Hon i am so proud of you and What! you have that
neck strain again you really need a nice shiatsu maybe
a pleasant ending"

Home Grown Roots Vol 2 Showcase at the Vanguard, Tuesday October 2nd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home Grown Roots Vol 2 Showcase at the Vanguard, Tuesday October 2nd.  

Following on from last years highly successful debut, Home Grown Roots returns for Volume 2 with an even hotter lineup of emerging and established Australian blues, roots and acoustic artists. Home Grown Roots is out now on Foghorn Records through MGM distribution.
After the sold out success of the Home Grown Roots Vol 2 launch held at the Vanguard on August 21st, another show has been added. Featuring performances by Cass Eager, Alex Roussos, Paul Turner, Van Sereno, Wolfe (The Honey Palace) with strings & Itu Taito.
Book early to avoid disapointment!

 Music from 8pm, tickets are $13 available from www.moshtix.com.au or the venue.
Help ensure a great night for everyone by spreading the word through your mailing lists and myspaces and encouraging early dinner bookings through moshtix.
Come along and support a night of great music!, hope to see you there.



If your local record store has to order it in for you, the details are:

Artist: Various

Title: Home Grown Roots Vol 2

Distributor: Foghorn/MGM

Cataloge #: FOGBB7017

Release Date: July 23rd

All good stores especially indie chains FISH, REDEYE, HUM, WOW, So Music Stock the Disc
If you would prefer to order online, you can buy the CD from the following e-retailers.

Waterfront Records

HMV

Sanity

www.foghornrecords.net

 

 

All tracks will be available for download through the following sites @ $1.50 per track.

http://www.itunes.com, http://www.bigpondmusic.com, http://www.martianmusic.com

(Apple Itunes Store HGR Vol 2 direct link)

                                          http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=260779671&s=143460,

 

www.myspace.com/homegrownroots

www.foghornrecords.net

 

Call the following request lines and bug them to play a track from HGR Vol 2

hear Sydney Nova FM Request Line: 133 969
Sydney Nova FM Request SMS: 0439 888 969

Triple J Super Request Line: 1800 055 536
Triple J Request SMS: 0427 222 555

Brisbane - 4ZZZ Request Line: (07) 3252 1555

Brisbane - Nova 106.9 FM Request Online

Byron Bay - BayFM Request Line: (02) 66807999

Melbourne - 3RRR Request Line: (03)9419 2066
Melbourne - PBSFM Request Line: (03) 5222 5947
Sydney - FBi Request Line: (02) 8332 2900
Sydney - 2SER FM Request Line: (02) 9514 9514
Perth - RTRFM Request Line: (08) 9380 3380

 

 

Foghorn Media
612 93310666
230 Crown St
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
PO Box 3262
Umina Beach NSW 2257
Australia

 

www.myspace.com/foghornrecords
sounds like cafe www.soundslikecafe.com
damien gerard studios www.damiengerard.net
foghorn group www.foghornrecords.net
 

Why Is The Reason?

ALERT

whats wrong with Facebook i did not see any FACE
come to think of it i did not even see a book