George Bush


Kyoto who?

The Bush administration is not a puppet of the oil and logging industries, oh no, and they’re only stamping down on California’s environmental legislation for the state’s own good.

From drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to snowmobiles in Yellowstone, the Bush administration argues that they’re only supporting what locals want. But not in California. “Basically their position is, ‘we respect state authority, but only when the state agrees with the oil industry,'”


Star Trek

Yes. I am a fool. It is 7am in the morning and i am at work. Ok so at least i am barely working! Watched the season finale of Star Trek Enterprise last night, and I have to say the show did improve considerably over the first episodes. Time magazine has put together an interesting article about Star Trek – The Business, which highlights exactly how much you can make off sci-fi. We all know that you can make money off of anything these days, but what I really want for Christmas is the talking George Bush doll! Not only does he look as intelligent as the real guy, but speaks 11 phrases littered with those “maloproprisms”, which is supposed to be a sign of intelligence. I wonder.

Back to suburban white kids like myself. Although I am eminently influenced by hip hop culture, for shizzle ‘o the nizzle and be it all gravy and that, there is a web-site some fly tips for all the kids from New Jersey. Very informative and funny indeed. Now another fantastic part of being from the suburbs is that there is always something productive to do. Like steal real estate signs and place them on other people’s houses or the old mailbox baseball gag. But for us more technically inclined gents, working on a wire cube in four dimensions and then projecting it in 2D is much more fun.

Ahhh Ebay. What a fantastic site. Still has a few problems, but the story from this gentleman regarding getting ripped off is an eye opener. Very good story. Finally one of the good guys gets back at the chapeu d’aine.


The States

Funny how this is British blog, but most of the posts relate to the United States friendly, non-combative approach to revenge, err, regime change. Ok. The real post begins.

Apparently I had much to say this morning, but alas, all forgotten. First and most importantly, the 2002 Haggis Hunt is on! If you have seen this elusive beast, you could win a trip to anywhere in the world! Not bad for spotting a squinty eyed platypus looking thing on a distant moor. Not that my brain needs further right/left brain connectivity issues, but this is a good is example of how the grey matter operates.

News flash: George Bush gains further support from the far right for Operation Enduring Oil! Why does everyone loves this man so? He makes me want to move back to America and start spouting phrases such as “Yeeeehawwww” whilst wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of stetsons. I wonder if he has intern groupies yet?

That is all folks. And to the leader of this vile, immoral, right wing website – I will never spell check!


…….And I Feel Fine

The US announces its intentions to use nuclear weapons in retaliatory and pre-emptive attacks where WMDs are concerned. Scuds are on their way to Yemen. The glorious missile defence system has fluffed another test. And the piece of news that worries me the most? Tucked away in a BBC report about Total Information Awareness [thanks Mike], a comment by Frank Gaffney-

He says that it would only take one more terrorist attack and public support is assured.

“At that point there will not only be a willingness to submit to those sorts of infringement but a demand that they be infringed upon in the hope of trying to protect us.

“If there were no war on terror, this is not something that we would want to do.”

Somebody somewhere is planning that attack, and they may just be in the pay of the US government.


Conspiracy Theory Time

This pdf file is allegedly a suit filed against Dubya for harassment and pretty much every sexual misdemeanour going. And this is the subpeona for him to answer the charges in court.

I thought it might be a hoax, for once agreeing with the idiots at Free Republic, so found the Fort Bend County, Texas, County Clerk’s office and did a search for ‘Plaintiff: Schoeder/ Defendant: Bush’ and found the actual case.

The deposition is rambling and obviously the work of someone with all their screws loose, but people tried to crucify Clinton over testimony that was just as incredible.


Lunchtime Blog

(Because I only surf on my breaks. Honest)

It’s great to have a team, now I can visit my own site to find cool stuff.

Somehow, I don’t think that adding an extra lane to motorways is going to solve the country’s congestion problems, but the Government are spending �2billion on doing just that. For that sort of money you could build tram systems to take the strain from the most heavily used routes, or run light goods railways from all the major freight terminuses to industrial estates. Hell, for that kind of money you could start giving these away to commuters.

Tony, if Thatcher is praising you, then you’re probably doing something very wrong.

Not a late addition to my Christmas list, but you can now get a talking Dubya doll. How totally seasonamable.


Just finished- Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson It’s easy to see why Dubya called this book “unpatriotic and ridiculous”, with surreal stories of Gulf War Syndrome manifesting as a vestigial ear and hallucinations, military technology and doctrine taken to illogical extremes and Norman Schwarzkopf’s ‘raisin heart’. Not easy or coherent reading, more of a bunch of twisted allegories on the damage done by war.

Just started- Children of Chaos by Douglas Rushkoff. Snowboarding, video games and comics as a way to understand a fragmenting future. Hmmmm.


I wanted to be Dubya, I really did………




As dictators go, you’re kind of pathetic! Instead of military coup or systematic persecution to get power, you just happen to be the head of the only party in the UK that isn’t totally worthless! While not very impressive it is none the less effective! You can do whatever the hell you like without any chance of getting voted out of office! People know that the only alternative would have them eating their children if they ever got back into power! However, you still think that you are as loved as you were when you were first elected into power� News flash for you: You’re not!

What tin-pot dictator are you? Take the “What Dictator am I?” test at PoisonedMinds.com


Every few days I do the rounds of other weblogs, some randomly, some- like BoingBoing– because I know I’ll find something cool. Like this. Check out the film trailer.

Elsewhere, stuff like this slightly mad, but mostly justified rant, and commentary from this side of the Atlantic, make me think there would be no better time for my anti-technothriller. All the usual suspects would be there, a Dubya-ish prez, war mad generals and admirals industry interests, special forces, terrorists, hackers, the good the bad and unique. Only, instead of the terrorists incurring the wrath and B2s of an enraged USA, they actually set off a chain of events that would implode the power structure and produce a new, more equal and essentially stronger America. Don’t ask me how, just yet, but given enough research I think it could be made plausible that the ordinary people could defeat the internal and external threats.

Rant over, music on- Stereophonics- Word Gets Around, U2- The Joshua Tree, Duran Duran– Decade.