Entries Tagged as 'politics'

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Underage drinking

Haven’t pos­ted in a while, and this is a bit top­ical Conan the Des­troyer film The Third Wheel psp Point of Ori­gin divx Nos­trada­mus: 2012 ipod Eight Below move Islander hd The Adven­tures of Buck­aroo Ban­zai Across the 8th Dimen­sion dvd For the Love of Benji divx . Put­ting graphic labels on alco­hol bottles takes a leaf out of exist­ing policy regarding […]

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Text of the Apology

No, I have not been leaked a copy of the text. That would be quite a scoop! There has been a steady flow of opin­ion pieces in the main­stream press, derid­ing Rudd as a mere bur­eau­crat, and unfit to write the uplift­ing prose an offi­cial apo­logy would “require”. I do no think this is so. The con­tent of a speech is clearly […]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

OK">I think we’re OK

Watched the Amer­ican Super Tues­day res­ults stream in live at Man­ning Bar today. I don’t think today’s res­ults really change any­thing: Clin­ton and Obama are still in a tight race, and McCain’s the inev­it­able GOP nom­inee. To me, the race is already over  —  I wouldn’t mind any one of them in the White House. Pres­id­ent Clin­ton brings policy savvy […]

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

9ct) Golden Age">Australia’s (9ct) Golden Age

The new gov­ern­ment is offi­cially only 3 days old, but it’s already been hit with a swag of bad eco­nomic num­bers. The trade defi­cit has rock­eted to $3 bil­lion, core infla­tion is fore­cast to be in the vicin­ity of 4%, build­ing approvals are down, con­sumer spend­ing is weaker than expec­ted, busi­ness invest­ment has stalled, and over­all GDP […]

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Election roundup

Prom­ise that this will be the last time I post on mat­ters elect­oral for a long while. Hmm… might turn out to be non-core. Any­way. There has been much frothi­ness in pre­dic­tions of a Labor land­slide. Many poll­bludgers put it at 90+ seats in the new par­lia­ment. My own out-of-the-arse guess­tim­a­tion is 88  –  an aus­pi­cious num­ber for the Sinophile […]