Posts by Che Tibby
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Well, they did get their Pearl Harbour, though, it's not as if it happened by force of persuasion alone
although, the 20-20 hindsight applied to the pre-twin towers intelligence provides some pretty fertile ground for the conspiracy theorists.
i'm in the: "the spooks just didn't know what they were looking at" camp on that one though.
iraq otoh? if those neocon fkcers had been planning to murder an individual other than hussein they'd all be on death row for premeditation.
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This knuckleheaded approach is all the more remarkable when you consider that the authors are at least as paranoid about China as they are about any Arab state.
god... i remember that 1990s thinking from a former, academic, life. i couldn't believe that the US was willingly seeking to make an enemy out of china, if not only to justify that massive military spend.
back then the great civilisational clash was with "confucianism" not "islamofascists".
good to see that we've settled on the enemy being 'confusionism', and they've left the 2500-year old Weberian in peace.
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happy birthday bob!!
what a difference a year makes.
may you always be the curious chap we saw making a dash for the ladies at katipo.
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So he turned to his wife. “I said, ‘Hey, Vanessa, what are you doing tonight?’
actually... my first thought was, "he must have had her life insured"
</cynic>
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It's their classmates Finnleagh and Jorjah who will be google-stalked with ease.
heh. bogans really will inherit the earth.
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There was a guy on Cuba Mall playing Dylan songs a moment ago.
he that young curly headed bloke?
not too bad a muso, that chap.
and the MFC? "space station". every time i see it i expect cylons to walk out.
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the guys trying to sell CDs of their band on the streets?
first few songs actually aren't so bad. the rest? not so much.
second chef is notoriously soft-hearted.
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and kids with bands.
not all of them are kids. i've seen some sad old fckers who haven't given up the dream advertising on there as well.
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It doesn't have one.
civic chambers FTW.
we've got the mayor over the road, along with the cultural hub of the MFC.
that pub down the road lowers the tone a little though, what.
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@lyndon. interesting, as i thought, more women here at system and *marginally* more professional.
i'd bet money the ethnicity of readership would be almost exactly the same though.