George W Bush has come out and said he wants American troops to occupy Iraq pretty much forever.
President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday.
The United […]

Yes I know what you’re thinking, the Howard Government believes in deregulation, free markets and private enterprise. However it’s flexible - especially when it comes to ethics and principles - so it’s prepared to make an exception when it suits. And it’s definitely suited in the case of industrial relations, where the latest changes to […]

Today brings more evidence that, contra David Brooks, we won’t have to leave Iraq before “every bad guy on earth [studies] and learn[s] [the insurgents’] techniques.” First, there’s this:

Eight U.S. troops were slain in Iraq on Monday in a deadly chain of events that began when a U.S. helicopter crashed, apparently shot down by […]

I wrote a post the other day. I pointed out that most of the rhetoric justifying WorkChoices relies on this convenient construct called ‘the employer’, an entity that is assumed to act rationally in its own interests. Once you realise that most workplace relations involve people not employers, and that people are prone to act […]

The news cycles in Iraq seem to be moving in a pattern of concentric circles - some might say a spiral. Whatever your preferred imagery, one thing is clear: it is taking less time for the various strategic plans/developments to complete their familiar arc across the desert sky and as a result, the plans […]

A skylarking Condi Rice pretends to mistake Dick Cheney for a quail and shoot him with her trusty hand gun.
Gosh don’t those two look good together?
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Listening to: Okay, dag city, but I’ve always liked the chord progression in the Led Zeppelin track, The Rain Song. Not just the progression, but the voicing Jimmy Page uses. I know a version using conventional tuning, but it doesn’t sound right. So I dug up a tab chart for it the […]

The story so far: faced with defeat in Iraq, President George W Bush sent modest reinforcements to his army. Except this was no ordinary reinforcement, this was a brilliant New Stragegy known as Teh Surge which would turn the ‘war’ around and deliver victory to the glorious CoW in bucketfuls.
You would think that increased troop […]

I remember - hell, this is so going to show my age - the Labor “It’s Time” ad campaign. I remember the Liberal response to it, too - a little cartoon man, the naive prospective Labor voter, being lectured by one of his betters on the disastrous events in store for him if he does. […]

“Forget about last year - it’s irrelevant. I don’t think about it and I suggest you don’t think about it because it’s entirely irrelevant, it’s ancient history.”

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