Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Wednesday, August 23
Who Said That?
If we ever give up the desire to help people to live in freedom we will have lost our soul as a nation.
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My first take is that it's Lincoln, but I'm sure that it isn't. My second take is that it's Woodrow Wilson; it sounds like something he might have said. But that's probably not right, either.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, August 23 2006 02:58 PM (+rSRq)
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It is a US President, so good guessing there. But a more recent one.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, August 23 2006 06:22 PM (9OTrh)
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The next guess would be Reagan. But it could have been Kennedy.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, August 23 2006 07:36 PM (+rSRq)
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Interesting guesses. But wrong. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, August 23 2006 08:11 PM (9OTrh)
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It's amusing that no one has yet guesed the current president. I should not be this amused.
I would have thought it rather obvious.
Posted by: tommy at Wednesday, August 23 2006 09:10 PM (UynUa)
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Ding! We have a winner!
He said it off-the-cuff too, in answer to a question at a press conference. Started out awkward, but by that point he was really going.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, August 23 2006 09:38 PM (FRalS)
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I guess I overthought it. I heard that line at the press conference, but assumed that it was a quote and you were asking who had initially said it
Posted by: Chris C. at Thursday, August 24 2006 11:33 AM (2tRs7)
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Tuesday, August 15
Diplomacy Is
The continuation of war by other means."When Hizbullah violates the cease-fire, the world will see who the aggressor is and will understand us," a source close to Olmert said.
Yeah, because that worked so well last time.
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Monday, August 07
Perspective
Lebanon is smaller (10,400 km² vs 12,145 km²) and has a smaller population (3,874,050 vs 4,198,543) than Sydney.
Israel at 20,770 km² and 6,352,117 people is somewhat larger.
Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan combined are about the same size as the weapons testing range at Woomera in South Australia.
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So, in theory, we could just move the whole problem to Woomera.
Posted by: TallDave at Monday, August 07 2006 05:10 PM (H8Wgl)
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Lebanon is smaller than NSW, but I don't think it's smaller than Sydney.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 07 2006 10:43 PM (+rSRq)
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Turns out to depend on the definition of "Sydney". The Wikipedia article I grabbed that from apparently got it from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (a reasonable source, you'd think), but their Sydney statistical division includes adjacent towns and areas (Gosford, Wyong, the Blue Mountains) that aren't usually counted as part of the Sydney metropolitan area.
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thought it was a bit big...
Lebanon is much smaller than NSW - about 1/80th the size.
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So, in theory, we could just move the whole problem to Woomera.Well, we're not doing much with it at the moment.
The original Woomera base was roughly four times its present size - nearly as big as Texas. I guess they decided they didn't need it all.
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Anybody in West Asia who cannot tolerate the existance of Israel is welcome to move to Woomera. Woomera can still function as weapons testing range. One stone, two birds...
Posted by: Tushar D at Friday, August 11 2006 09:43 AM (tyRhL)
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Crapsprockets
Evil thugs throw my home town
into the spotlight again.
More here.
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I got an excitingly previously unseen error on the first link:
Precondition Failed
The precondition on the request for the URL /ee/index.php/weblog/comments/one_week_in_sydney/ evaluated to false.
Apache/1.3.34 Server at tim2.spleenville.com Port 80
Ahh, I remember the good old days when it was all 404s.
Posted by: TallDave at Monday, August 07 2006 05:12 PM (H8Wgl)
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Ah. Go to
ai.mu.nu and follow the link from there. Tim must have turned on referred spam filters, and it's blocking "a<i></i>mbien".
Latest new: An Israeli has been arrested over the recent murder of an Israeli in Bondi. So not - in this case - the usual evil thugs.
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Wednesday, August 02
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