May 2013

QED.

Like that parable of the frog sitting in a pot on the stove, thinking it's lovely and warm right up until it gets boiled alive. 26 degrees two months into autumn is like getting a blow job at a christening - might feel great, but so wrong.

And now for the oompah band...

Fanbloodytatstic.

The reality of our 'beautiful' autumn.

The myth is still out there. But the truth is as well: "The conservatives did not spend conservatively at all, it turns out. Howard and Costello engaged in net new spending of $133 billion, and net tax cuts of another $117 billion, says Anthony, a former budget analyst with the Treasury and the Finance Department. This is an overall fiscal giveaway of $250 billion, funded mainly by windfall tax gains courtesy of the mining boom that arrived in 2004. Separately, the Treasury has estimated that the Howard-Costello government spent, or gave away as tax cuts, a staggering 94 per cent of the windfall gains delivered by the mining boom's first phase. Budget nights in the final years of Howard and Costello were like "Christmas night in the pirates' cave," Anthony observes."

Great initiative, I hope people support it.

"I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty six hours. I don’t even want to do anything that feels good for thirty-six hours." (Rita Rudner)

We should all be aware of how difficult economic times promote racism and guns/violence. The world's been there before, and we all stand up every year and sanctimoniously say "lest we forget", and then get straight back into the shit that causes wars in the first place. http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-global-economy-is-a-giant-ponzi-scheme/575/