December 30, 2010 – 11:03 pm
Eye-candy du jour… A competitor in the 66th Sydney to Hobart yacht race heads towards a storm cloud. This year’s ocean race has been hit by thunderstorms and hail, but only one boat has withdrawn. Photo by Carlo Borlenghi, as seen in The Guardian
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Art, Australia, Environment, General, Media, Popular culture, Sport
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Tagged carlo borlenghi, eye candy du jour, photography, sailing, sydney to hobart yacht race
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December 25, 2010 – 5:28 am
To all of you! Thanks for reading our posts over 2010. I’d better get back to Christmas festivities – I hear much hilarity as the kids attempt to play their new board game…
December 23, 2010 – 4:46 am
US President Barack Obama has signed a landmark law allowing gay people serving in the military to be open about their sexuality. Mr Obama said the law meant that tens of thousands of Americans would no longer be asked to live a lie. He had campaigned to change the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Defence, Free Speech, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Personal liberty, Politics, Sexuality, Society
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Tagged america, barack obama, don't ask don't tell, gay rights, homosexuality, POTUS, US military, US politics, USA
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December 20, 2010 – 6:07 am
Australia is launching a criminal investigation into the Christmas Island shipwreck that killed at least 28 people, under people trafficking laws. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said more bodies may be pulled from the sea after a boat carrying suspected asylum seekers crashed into jagged rocks. She said the boat may have been carrying more than [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Australia, Defence, Economics, Funnies, Immigration, Middle east, Politics, Society
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Tagged asylum seekers, australian navy, christmas island, christmas island shipwreck, illegal immigrants, immigration detention centre, Julia Gillard, refugees
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December 17, 2010 – 2:04 pm
Used car salespeople generally have a very low rating in the public’s estimation. Some of you may remember the poster of Richard Nixon with the words “Would you buy a used car from this man”, a tagline credited to New York political journalist Noel Parmental. (I found a copy here.) I once discussed the purchase [...]
December 15, 2010 – 11:48 pm
Fan as I am of schlocky eighties sci-fi from my misspent youth (Predator: bestest filum EVAH!), I’ve been thinking recently of the Dolph Lundgren classic DARK ANGEL where a nine feet tall alien goes around pumping victims full of stolen heroin before harvesting the resultant endorphines with a spike for sale on the intergalactic drugs [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, History, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Society, Taxation, The Left, Welfare
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Tagged adult social care, benefits, birmingham city council, Danny Alexander, dark angel, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, disability living allowance, dolph lundgren, Iain Duncan Smith, independent living fund, maria miller, minister for disabled people, National Health Service, national insurance, personal care, science fiction, social insurance, the beveridge report, the poor laws, UK coalition government, UK conservative party, UK liberal democrats
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December 14, 2010 – 12:14 pm
Gerry Adams has denied claims on WikiLeaks that he was an IRA leader and had advance knowledge of the infamous Northern Bank raid. According to the latest US diplomatic cable leaks, the Irish government had “rock solid evidence” on the allegations. But Mr Adams said the claims were not new, that he had denied them [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Northern Ireland, Politics, Terrorism
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Tagged belfast, gerry adams, IRA commander, irish republican army, martin mcguinness, northern bank raid, provisional IRA, provos, WikiLeaks
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December 14, 2010 – 4:52 am
[SL: Joseph is an occasional poster and regular lurker on skepticlawyer, a PhD graduate in Economics from the University of Queensland, and a trader with Nikko. And as you all know, we often use the expression 'Borked' around the place to describe something terminally and utterly... borked. Robert Bork, however, is a real person, once [...]
December 12, 2010 – 8:53 am
I wrote a long comment on a lengthy LP thread concerning the Wikileaks brouhaha earlier. I wrote it because there is a great deal of what seems to be willful misunderstanding of the differences between Roman law and Common law jurisdictions. I have reposted it below. Originally I was going to do a detailed analysis [...]
