Fourth Test from Trent Bridge on in the background - England 110 for 1 about fifteen minutes before lunch, and the Aussie attack looks pussycattish at the moment. Yes, I did just write that, and it does appear that way, I'm not just making it up.
What a snorter of a ball by Brett Lee just then, to clean Trescothick out - too bad it was a no ball.
Oh dear, Prez Bush is on television again, beating on the same drum as he has been like forever. The only way to stop the terrorists attacking America is to get them to fight our soldiers in Iraq - another two battalions to be sent to Iraq for the referendum, that is going to shred the constitution anyways, three provinces voting no is all it will take, with the Sunnis who have basically been ignored in the negotiations being the majority in four of the eighteen provinces. And the next rotation of forces will be skewed so 138,000 troops becomes 160,000 for a short period. And Shia groups are fighting one another in Najaf and Basra - oh, happy, happy days.
You have to wonder what would have happened with 9/11 and all if we had a President Gore or Powell the last five years. The second Powell doctrine, you broke it you fix it. Oh no, let's play Top Gun two months after an invasion and declare mission accomplished, and make the same speeches two years later when the military is planning for Iraqi operations in 2009 instead of have some semblance of reality. Grr.
Good piece from Maureen Dowd in the NYT yesterday about Bush deciding to holiday in Idaho for a couple of days - because, you know, holidaying in Crawford is so stressful, what with those peace protesters outside the gates.
Bird flu has been found in another region in Russia, bringing the Russian regions affected to seven, the most westerly being just the Asian side of the Urals. Watched on the news last night that the Europeans are fearing that in the northern autumn the flu will hit their shores. The Dutch have taken the quite extraordinary step of ordering all farm poultry to stay inside, so as not to mingle with the wild birds, who will probably be infected. If it gets to Europe, it will probably get to the Americas and Africa - just what the latter continent needs, another disease to worry about... and when will the whole virus cross the species barrier to humans?
Another quiet day at work - well, quiet in a social sense, the work itself came in fits and starts. Bumped into LNE in the lift, and she approved of my funky shirt LOL - hmm, was talking to LDU about it though, is probably better as a casual Friday shirt than with a tie, but to be told it was funky, and that all the guys in the office were dressing funky and all she was wearing was what she had thrown on blind, was nice. LNE is good good value, please transfer me up to her team sometime LOL.
Later peeps
Pauly
What a snorter of a ball by Brett Lee just then, to clean Trescothick out - too bad it was a no ball.
Oh dear, Prez Bush is on television again, beating on the same drum as he has been like forever. The only way to stop the terrorists attacking America is to get them to fight our soldiers in Iraq - another two battalions to be sent to Iraq for the referendum, that is going to shred the constitution anyways, three provinces voting no is all it will take, with the Sunnis who have basically been ignored in the negotiations being the majority in four of the eighteen provinces. And the next rotation of forces will be skewed so 138,000 troops becomes 160,000 for a short period. And Shia groups are fighting one another in Najaf and Basra - oh, happy, happy days.
You have to wonder what would have happened with 9/11 and all if we had a President Gore or Powell the last five years. The second Powell doctrine, you broke it you fix it. Oh no, let's play Top Gun two months after an invasion and declare mission accomplished, and make the same speeches two years later when the military is planning for Iraqi operations in 2009 instead of have some semblance of reality. Grr.
Good piece from Maureen Dowd in the NYT yesterday about Bush deciding to holiday in Idaho for a couple of days - because, you know, holidaying in Crawford is so stressful, what with those peace protesters outside the gates.
Bird flu has been found in another region in Russia, bringing the Russian regions affected to seven, the most westerly being just the Asian side of the Urals. Watched on the news last night that the Europeans are fearing that in the northern autumn the flu will hit their shores. The Dutch have taken the quite extraordinary step of ordering all farm poultry to stay inside, so as not to mingle with the wild birds, who will probably be infected. If it gets to Europe, it will probably get to the Americas and Africa - just what the latter continent needs, another disease to worry about... and when will the whole virus cross the species barrier to humans?
Another quiet day at work - well, quiet in a social sense, the work itself came in fits and starts. Bumped into LNE in the lift, and she approved of my funky shirt LOL - hmm, was talking to LDU about it though, is probably better as a casual Friday shirt than with a tie, but to be told it was funky, and that all the guys in the office were dressing funky and all she was wearing was what she had thrown on blind, was nice. LNE is good good value, please transfer me up to her team sometime LOL.
Later peeps
Pauly
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