Something Worthy LOL

Wouldn't you know it? I used too many brain cells with the last entry and am now broke with ideas LOL.

Wow, look, Boeing have brought out a plane that can fly from London to Sydney or Sydney to New York non stop - goodbye LAX stop overs, I will not miss you LOL. Although a few interesting times - like the time I had a 12 hour layover going to Ottawa first time around LOL, I SHOULD have gone to Disneyland. And really, what are the chances of there ever being a Brisbane to Toronto non stop service - or even further afield, Brisbane to Saskatoon or Sault Ste Marie LOL - now you're just being stoopid Pauly.

And double wow, less than six months to go until the Olympics vote for the 2012 Games - yeah, yeah, I know how sad that sounds, but the excitement that comes into an Olympic vote mmm, nothing like it in the world of sports - not even which city is going to host the Superbowl, or which team is crap enough to get the number one draft pick LOL. Just think, twenty years ago, no one wanted to host the Olympics, and LA got in by default... anyways, the first of the bid city visits starts today, with the IOC approved visitors, we will never mention the Salt Lake City nomination ever again LOL, visiting London for four days.

Oh, and the whole thing on this former Lebanese PM getting assassinated. Lot of angry people in Beirut and Sidon. Biggest threat to the country's stability since the civil war ended in 1990 - I remember doing a History lesson, or was it English even, at high school on the Lebanese civil war - it might have been English, looking at the way the media portrays things, or something... anyways, the civil war had just been over a year or two at that stage. And the US saying to Syria get your troops out, yes, I agree they should, but how about Israel in the Occupied Territories, and the US itself in Iraq... no, I am not a Syrian apologist LOL, but just felt a sense of hypocrisy in there.

And the Israeli PM saying today that maybe the settlers he intends to evacuate from Gaza can get replacement homes in the West Bank. Grr, grr and thrice grr. The land behind the West Bank Wall may become the new green line, but no further, and it would be nice if you could build the wall on the actual border? And the extremists equating Sharon with Hitler, have they no memory of what happened to Yitzhak Rabin? No, nothing approaches common sense in the whole last sixy years in Palestine (using the name as it was in 1945)...

Hmm, this from a White House source, in a quite scary article about possible Administration overreach (Guardian article, peeps, so you know what angle to expect at least, but the QUOTE, migod!) -

'As one senior presidential adviser scarily informed journalist Ron Suskind: "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality ... we'll act again, creating other new realities ... We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."'

Hmm, having visions of either the Empire in the Star Wars trilogy, or Pinky and the Brain - what we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world LOL. Though which one is the Brain is up for question hehe. How much of a grip on reality do some of these White House staffers have? Ave Caesar indeed.

Oh mi god, now I am sure all of us agree that drugs can do all sorts of things, but this kid in South Carolina trying to pin his murder of his grandparents on the fact he took Zoloft, Jesus H Christ, the video game made me do it defence indeed. He got told off by his grandfather, he waited til they went to sleep, shot them both in the head, set the house on fire, drove away and claimed a stranger had shot his grandparents and kidnapped him. And the relatives saying to be lenient I'm just fucking incredulous here... yeah, let him out on the streets in anything less than thirty years time I think not... AND he was only TWELVE when he did it! Fuuuuuckkkkk...

Hmm, Congress has ordered that a third of all deep strike aircraft, plus a portion of ground forces, be robotic by 2010. Congress huh - where do they get these ideas, really? An article in the NYT about the robotic advances in the US military, and whether robots will really be able to differentiate between a school bus or a tank LOL. And I am sure that robots are just as easy to blow up with bombs as anyone or anything else - the human toll would go down, but the military budget would go up up up. And didn't Congress watch the Terminator series? If a project called SkyNet comes up anytime in the near future, I'm headed for the bunkers LOL LOL.

It's so sad - one of the four major North American sports leagues is going to sit out an entire year, and although the Canadian press is as mad as hell and everything, all you see south of the border is a shrug of the shoulders as the NHL looks like going under. The NHL and players are about $7 million apart in their negotiating stances, with hmm less than half a day to sort the whole sorry mess out. There goes the season. And the Stanley Cup won't be awarded since 1919 and the Spanish flu outbreak - now here's an out there thought, because the NHL is skating nowhere fast, why not offer the Stanley Cup as an extra prize at the Memorial Cup - after all, it did start out a purely Canadian thing...

Okies, think that might be about enough for this one :)

Later peeps
Pauly