Lacking inspiration at the moment. Despite the riots happening in the Islamic world about The Twelve Danish Cartoons - European embassies getting torched, stoned and the like, while Western newspapers and magazines decide to keep printing them. My personal opinion is that the original newspaper, in Denmark, was silly to print them, and there is little excuse for the violence that has occurred in reaction - ten dead in Afghanistan in two days - but the papers in the last week printing the things on freedom of speech arguments, are just being provocative.
Surely they can see how angry it makes some of the demonstrators, and would they print pictures of dead soldiers in Iraq? I am sure there would be rioting in the States, the Saudi embassy attacked and such, and demonstrations around the rest of the West if something like that happened. Just because you can print something, doesn't mean you have to.
Or perhaps the news that an entire new eco system has been found in the highlands of Indonesian New Guinea. A region the size of Luxembourg or Rhode Island (as the Atlantist news agencies helpfully tell us Antipodeans), with the first new bird species discovered in New Guinea in sixty years, plus various frogs, butterflies, tree kangaroos and echidnas - maybe haven't ever seen humans before, because they walked around the researchers' campsites without fear. As the press has labelled it, a potential Garden of Eden. No doubt the poachers are already on their way...
I could mention the whole illegal wiretapping debate in Washington, the Attorney General giving a star performance of saying nothing in front of the congressional committee, but I won't. Nor will I really mention the AWB inquiry, where the government is saying they are full and frank to the inquiry, but stonewall in Parliament. Surely someone in Parliament knew something about the whole paying bribes issue? Or are they all going to blame the bureaucrats in their departments?
And I am only going to say one thing on the RU 486 debate - why on earth should anyone think that politicians, with their popularity contest short term electoral cycle attention span, have a better handle on how to handle and classify this particular controversial drug than the actual board that handles and classifies all the other drugs? Tell me a time when the Therapeutic Goods Association has fucked up in regards to a drug and then come back to me with the 'politicians know best' argument. Well, fucked up more than known scientific evidence or the FDA in the States...
Work is quiet - they laid off a team attached to us in another state yesterday. Well, announced lay offs, the team isn't due to go until early April. So that sent a shiver down everyone's spine I think, the company is in one of its lean and mean efficiency drives currently - whereas our team in Brisbane, I think they will just keep everyone on until we 'attrit' ourselves into oblivion. Of course, they will probably review us in another two months or something, but at a guess, I can't see anything changing for us, apart from perhaps our seats on the Titanic, in the next six months or so.
I could be wrong though.
Yeah, pretty quiet all in all, I need to get my enthusiasm back for writing that I currently have flowering for my photography :) And maybe I could get writing enthusiasm back if I write stories, or snippets from the past, rather than the drudgery of day to day.
Pauly
PS - oh great, it seems that the bird flu virus has finally hit Africa, running rampant in several poultry farms in Nigeria. Happy days are here again - sarcasm, people, sarcasm...
Surely they can see how angry it makes some of the demonstrators, and would they print pictures of dead soldiers in Iraq? I am sure there would be rioting in the States, the Saudi embassy attacked and such, and demonstrations around the rest of the West if something like that happened. Just because you can print something, doesn't mean you have to.
Or perhaps the news that an entire new eco system has been found in the highlands of Indonesian New Guinea. A region the size of Luxembourg or Rhode Island (as the Atlantist news agencies helpfully tell us Antipodeans), with the first new bird species discovered in New Guinea in sixty years, plus various frogs, butterflies, tree kangaroos and echidnas - maybe haven't ever seen humans before, because they walked around the researchers' campsites without fear. As the press has labelled it, a potential Garden of Eden. No doubt the poachers are already on their way...
I could mention the whole illegal wiretapping debate in Washington, the Attorney General giving a star performance of saying nothing in front of the congressional committee, but I won't. Nor will I really mention the AWB inquiry, where the government is saying they are full and frank to the inquiry, but stonewall in Parliament. Surely someone in Parliament knew something about the whole paying bribes issue? Or are they all going to blame the bureaucrats in their departments?
And I am only going to say one thing on the RU 486 debate - why on earth should anyone think that politicians, with their popularity contest short term electoral cycle attention span, have a better handle on how to handle and classify this particular controversial drug than the actual board that handles and classifies all the other drugs? Tell me a time when the Therapeutic Goods Association has fucked up in regards to a drug and then come back to me with the 'politicians know best' argument. Well, fucked up more than known scientific evidence or the FDA in the States...
Work is quiet - they laid off a team attached to us in another state yesterday. Well, announced lay offs, the team isn't due to go until early April. So that sent a shiver down everyone's spine I think, the company is in one of its lean and mean efficiency drives currently - whereas our team in Brisbane, I think they will just keep everyone on until we 'attrit' ourselves into oblivion. Of course, they will probably review us in another two months or something, but at a guess, I can't see anything changing for us, apart from perhaps our seats on the Titanic, in the next six months or so.
I could be wrong though.
Yeah, pretty quiet all in all, I need to get my enthusiasm back for writing that I currently have flowering for my photography :) And maybe I could get writing enthusiasm back if I write stories, or snippets from the past, rather than the drudgery of day to day.
Pauly
PS - oh great, it seems that the bird flu virus has finally hit Africa, running rampant in several poultry farms in Nigeria. Happy days are here again - sarcasm, people, sarcasm...
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