England have started well - no, I am not putting the kiss of death on them, please - they are going at a run a minute at the moment, 86 without loss. Is good to see, and it looks like it is easy batting, despite the overcast skies and the first morning 'swing' - ie, bugger all. Fingers crossed the English can at least make it competitive today.
Apparently it is a War on Terror, rather than the downgrading that some Administration figures were kite-flying last week. It must be, the President said the phrase five times last night in a speech. Well, if it is a full scale war, then why is it only the armed forces that is bearing the brunt? If it is a full scale war, where at least are the victory bonds or some such? Oh, that's right, to win the war we have to cut taxes - it answered every other question, after all.
That bombing in Iraq yesterday that killed fourteen US marines was big enough to turn over a twenty seven tonne troop carrier. Geez. And it was the same reservist unit that lost six men the day before.
Grrr, just having coverage of Bush's speech from last night on SBS News, and he has that half smirk that really really annoys me. We are talking about 1800 dead American troops Mr President, please don't smirk at that. And apparently the troops won't come home until the mission is finished - would this be the mission accomplished, end to major operations that the President announced, Top Gun style, on the aircraft carrier (Roosevelt I think) in May 2003?
Oh, why do I bother, it just frustrates the heck out of me.
And yay, I got my name on the Guardian website, commenting on the cricket. Meanwhile, back at the Ashes, England are 132 for 1 at lunch, with the only wicket to fall, Andrew Strauss, unlucky to be out for 48 to the only ball that span from Shane Warne all morning. I would like to try out as a cricket commentator, I think I could be the next Richie Benaud LOL, I wish.
Please, please, don't call our tenth planet Xena. There were articles earlier in the week that the discoverers of 2003 UB313 wanted to call something in the universe after Lucy Lawless' character from that TV show, but in this article Mike Brown, the team leader of that astronomy lot at the California Institute of Technology, says that Xena was just an internal working name.
The IAU rules regards naming stellar objects should be pronounceable, non offensive, less than sixteen characters in length, be one word, and not have military or political overtones in the last hundred years. Oh, and no commercial names. So I guess 'Dubya Is A Wanker/McDonald's I'm Lovin' It' is out LOL.
Wow. Umm, this story, the thing about it that is amazing is not so much the fact that a braindead woman was kept on life support for three months to allow a baby to be born two months premature (although that is kinda weird scary) but the fact that a 26 year old could have such a debilitating stroke.
Yessss, Boston Rob and Amber LOST this season of the Amazing Race. Uchenna and Joyce won, yayyyy, didn't really warm to any team this year, apart from Rob and Amber losing. Was a nice touch how they wanted to pay the cab driver though, instead of just rushing in without paying.
Later peeps
Pauly
Apparently it is a War on Terror, rather than the downgrading that some Administration figures were kite-flying last week. It must be, the President said the phrase five times last night in a speech. Well, if it is a full scale war, then why is it only the armed forces that is bearing the brunt? If it is a full scale war, where at least are the victory bonds or some such? Oh, that's right, to win the war we have to cut taxes - it answered every other question, after all.
That bombing in Iraq yesterday that killed fourteen US marines was big enough to turn over a twenty seven tonne troop carrier. Geez. And it was the same reservist unit that lost six men the day before.
Grrr, just having coverage of Bush's speech from last night on SBS News, and he has that half smirk that really really annoys me. We are talking about 1800 dead American troops Mr President, please don't smirk at that. And apparently the troops won't come home until the mission is finished - would this be the mission accomplished, end to major operations that the President announced, Top Gun style, on the aircraft carrier (Roosevelt I think) in May 2003?
Oh, why do I bother, it just frustrates the heck out of me.
And yay, I got my name on the Guardian website, commenting on the cricket. Meanwhile, back at the Ashes, England are 132 for 1 at lunch, with the only wicket to fall, Andrew Strauss, unlucky to be out for 48 to the only ball that span from Shane Warne all morning. I would like to try out as a cricket commentator, I think I could be the next Richie Benaud LOL, I wish.
Please, please, don't call our tenth planet Xena. There were articles earlier in the week that the discoverers of 2003 UB313 wanted to call something in the universe after Lucy Lawless' character from that TV show, but in this article Mike Brown, the team leader of that astronomy lot at the California Institute of Technology, says that Xena was just an internal working name.
The IAU rules regards naming stellar objects should be pronounceable, non offensive, less than sixteen characters in length, be one word, and not have military or political overtones in the last hundred years. Oh, and no commercial names. So I guess 'Dubya Is A Wanker/McDonald's I'm Lovin' It' is out LOL.
Wow. Umm, this story, the thing about it that is amazing is not so much the fact that a braindead woman was kept on life support for three months to allow a baby to be born two months premature (although that is kinda weird scary) but the fact that a 26 year old could have such a debilitating stroke.
Yessss, Boston Rob and Amber LOST this season of the Amazing Race. Uchenna and Joyce won, yayyyy, didn't really warm to any team this year, apart from Rob and Amber losing. Was a nice touch how they wanted to pay the cab driver though, instead of just rushing in without paying.
Later peeps
Pauly
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