Why the ABC fails at everything

No, this isn’t a rant about bias, because I really don’t give a shit about such things, so read on.

THE BBC has been forced to apologise to viewers amid complaints that Britain’s public broadcaster is screening too much sport on TV.

More than 120 viewers complained after BBC One broadcast almost 12 hours of continuous sport last Saturday.

12 hours. This is why the ABC is fucked and doesn’t get ratings for anything but the Chaser (which isn’t even that funny anymore). When I become PM, and start stacking out the ABC board, the first man I’m going to appoint to it is Shane Warne, so I can finally realise my dream of a channel which runs 23 hours of sport and 1 hour of question time each and every day.

Hero of the Day 22/2/08

Just when you thought nobody could top Huckabee for religious fundamentalism, this nutfuck comes along and proves everyone wrong:

AN Israeli politician has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays
Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalising laws concerning homosexuals, AP reported.

Gay on.

Inflation and World Vision

We’re still being asked for a dollar a day, as are the kids in the states.

Barack Obama introduced this bill in the states:

S.2433 : A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Is it just me thinking that this is going to be a certainty not of wealth but of Inflation? Given how weak the US dollar has become, surely those in Africa will have to move onto $2 US a day in order to survive?

B&N Bounty #1

Okay, so here’s the deal.

The person that brings me the head of the person responsibile for the perpetuation of Japanese whaling gets a million dollars.

1,000,000.

One Million.

No shitting you.

Parasites.

You are fully aware who you are. Watch in dazzling technicolour as all three hundred of you baying simpletons rush towards canberra tomorrow, all in line to be the first to fellate the new MP, the overlord of the Right. You all dream to yourselves a dazzling kaleidoscope of tongue lolling one-upmanship. Your own moronic aspirations so crushed in a delectable irony as you gently tongue the scrotum of the man who would be king. All of you lumpen masses crushing into hired cars running to the border to be the first to provide any number of services to those who would destroy you and crush you merely for fun. Your service is not recognised, it is not lauded, it is parodied, it is laughed aside.

Your willingness to sacrifice whatever fleeting morals or individualism you have grasped to yourself during the purges destroys whatever creduility you think raises you above the others. Your own desperate scramble to be the first individual to congratulate, to curry favour, to beg makes you all the more pathetic.

Yet as you vampiric scum ascend upon our nation’s capital, hell bent on treading in the footsteps of your new God, think carefully. For whatever aspersions you have about the purity and sacrosanct nature of democracy and the representative process, your own plebian machinations slowly putrify the actual representative nature of the precepts we hold so delectably self evident.

So while you prospectors sell both life and limb to sell your souls, think to yourselves for a second, what do you stand to gain? A mediocre salary in a thankless job where the public thinks you are out to fuck them again and again? Do not, even for a second, kid yourself into thinking politicians hold any power, because that is, if anything naievly and laughably false.

If you rush to the Capital tomorrow, by hook, or indeed as most of you will, by crook, think not of what you stand to gain. But what your own integrity stands to lose. You so grotesquely suckle at the teet of self aggrandising nothingness that only a nihilist would be incompetent enough to see power in the rorschach pattern that is the life you have condemned your own talents to.

– Dan (Who is not Justin) [It’s funnier because I have far more money than all of you right wing puppets and I’m going to pay you to do my bidding, and fuck me if you’re not going to like it.]

I was saying Boo-Urns

I will, as in all situations, assume that this man molests children.

Seriously, though, this man is Duncan Hunter. The guy that were in all those polls. Actually, at this stage, fuck the Republicans.

We have McBain in the lead there with his “I no know economics no money I follow orsarma to the gates of Hell” geriatric bullshit. Wow it’s tiresome.

Wow I actually noticed I don’t care about American Politice.What I do care about is awesome webcomic winning nature ness.

Here is for you:

Jeffery Rowland is kick ass. http://www.overcompensating.com

On whose behalf are we apologising?

Let’s ignore all debates about whether it was right or wrong to take children from their parents, whether anyone can name 10 people to whom this was done or whether this ultimately led to a better life for those children in question. These actions were carried out by State governments prior to 1967 (the year when the Federal government gained the power to make laws relating to Aboriginals), and all State and Territory governments have apologised. The Federal parliament cannot apologise on its own behalf, because it hasn’t done anything wrong. It can’t apologise on behalf of past Federal parliaments, because they weren’t the ones responsible for such actions. It certainly can’t apologise on behalf of me, because the actions happened before I was born.

Who, then, is this apology on behalf of?

American Primary Future Winner

First order of business: Mendoza.