Who would be the weirdest person in the entire world to come out against Bush?
That’s right – her Maj.
And she has, in a manner of speaking.
“The Queen has made a rare intervention in world politics to warn Tony Blair of her grave concerns over the White House’s stance on global warming.
She is understood to have [...]

The fix is in on the missing 380 tonnes of explosives left unguarded at he†Al-Qaqaa†arms-storage facility.
“WASHINGTON‚Ć‚Äî‚ĆA U.S. Army officer came forward Friday to say a team from‚Ćthe 3rd Infantry Division took about 250 tons of munitions and other material from the‚ĆAl-Qaqaa (search)‚Ćarms-storage facility soon after Saddam Hussein’s regime fell in April 2003.
Maj. Austin Pearson said [...]

This weekend, I surrendered to broadband – to internode, recommended as one of the good ones by the excellent Australian tracking site Whirlpool.
I hung in pathetically for a while in the hope that Telstra or Optus would give me cable, since the damn thing feeds our television, but they refuse and refuse to explain [...]

PBS Frontline aired Rumsfeld’s War this week – a documentary about his secret(is) backroom war as Secretary of Defense to control the military and the resulting chaos in Iraq. It was made in association with the Washington Post.
It is a kind of respectable mirror image of Fahrenheit 9/11, and the “respectable” program that Sinclair [...]

Is this the sneakiest, snakiest bit of Right wing fraud in the current US elections? There are bigger ones to be sure, but this is truly twisty.., even more than registering Dems and destroying the forms as here, or scaring people into staying home with talk of terrorists at polling booths or corrupting private companies [...]

Sometimes you just find….stuff on the internet and you want to pass it on.
I think this person went to a blogmeet in Perth.

The ALP is saying bad, bad things courtesy of Laurie Ferguson, as noted by Robert Corr.
“Labor’s new immigration spokesman has clashed with refugee advocates, claiming they would have a more realistic view if they lived in areas where most refugees resided.”
What exactly is he suggesting here? That it’s an open secret in his electorate [...]

Just to remind you, the wonderful Laputan Logic is on song at the moment, paticularly on Titan.
The discovery of the Little People in Indonesia might explain why I always felt like a changeling.. why do we think they died out?
We live amongst you. Only on the internet can we be ourselves. I must send [...]

“The display, in the form of a military cemetery, serves as a visible reminder of the 1,000+ American soldiers killed in Iraq. The exhibit features brick “coffins,” each with the name, age, date of death and hometown of a fallen serviceman or woman.”
This is the work of local people in New [...]

“..Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist now wreaking havoc in Iraq, sees things in a similar way. “There is no doubt that the Americans’ losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons,” he wrote in a recent communiqu√à to [...]