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Now known as the 'Grand Finale', there isn't a better track in the country upon which to sprint-race for the championship than Phillip Island.
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Sunday, and finals day for the V8 Supercar circus.
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Apropos of Darryl Mason's piece last Friday, I can't help but feel that the News Corp owner has issued editorial orders again.
While we're on the subject of editorial influence, I can't help but wonder of who's volition this comes from.
"On Saturday morning November 24, 2007, I (Caroline Overington) had an encounter with the Labor candidate for Wentworth, Mr George Newhouse, in circumstances that I sincerely regret. I hope that Mr Newhouse and I can put this incident behind us and I wish him all the best.The Australian regrets any embarrassment Mr Newhouse has endured and also wishes him well."
If Jennifer Love-Hewitt is deemed by certain papparazzi and so-called fashion sites to be less than a shining example of womanhood then might I simply offer right here and now that I wish every single woman looked like she does.
On a serious note, feminine body image is not well portrayed by fashion designers and those who flaunt their wares on the international catwalks have much to answer for. Waif-thin models with fried-egg breasts, boyish hips and legs which look like toothpicks in heels are not attractive to your average male and isn't that why women like to look good? To attract their preferred male? Sure, women dress to impress other women, certainly not to impress men. As a male, I can categorically state that while I really enjoy watching a well dressed woman walk on by, I'm actually admiring how her body compliments the clothing, not the other way around.
No one woman, celebrity or not, has the perfect body. As human beings none of us are made that way, and neither we ought to be. Vive la difference and let's promote variations, but please, please........don't go deploring someone's body image simply because he or she doesn't match up to the fashionista's propagandised perception of what everyday feminity ought to be.
As an aside, I note none of the sites berating JLH on her cellulite thighs and love-handles says anything at all about her fiance's lack of six-pack abs and muffin-top middle. Hypocritical? Extremely so, in my view.
.... and both eyes open, some real writing which is worth having a read of can be achieved. Well done, Piers. Now let's see if you can string two such articles together.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm sick to death of listening to George W. Bush spruiking on and on about what a terrible threat Iran is in regard to it's uranium enrichment program.
This is why I no longer work in retail banking, why I will never return to retail banking and why retail banking in my view is unlikely to ever return to the service ethos that I was taught by the NAB in the seventies and eighties.
....everyone has to grab a seat. Yes, V8 Supercar aficionados, it's that time of year again when the music of the season has ended and it's 'all change' for 2008.
I've categorised this entry under 'Blogworld', which is to say it's about blogs and bloggers, per se, just not the ones we usually equate with the Oz Blogosphere.
Apropos of yesterday's post on the Howard Huggers desperate to cuddle Kevin, is Dennis Shanahan's piece today in which he praises the PM for appearing to imitate the previous incumbent, while desperately attempting to draw a parallel between the current Labor position and the previous stubbornly negative conservative position on climate change.
W00t is apparently now an accepted word. For real. Frankly I find the way the english language, and it's attendant cultural vocabularies around the world, changes to be completely bizarre. Why use numbers in an alphabetical language?
Then there's the other so-called 'Word of 2007' - Locavore. So, if you're a candy fiend, are you a sucravore? If you're an avid home brew maker as I am, are you automatically classified as Diyvore?
I realise english is regarded as the most difficult language to learn fluently, but seriously, aren't we who speak it somewhat fluently, only making it more of an elitist undertaking to be viewed as such by those for whom it isn't their first? I know.....it's a plot by leftist anarchists to deliberately keep those who don't speak english out of the club by creating these completely bizarre and totally useless words. Damn those lefties, eh?
I'd urge all non-RWDB types in the 'sphere to go take a read of Janet Albrechtsen's bloggery in today's Oz.
While we're on the subject of the poor, hard-done-by so-called right in Australian journalism, here's Akerman
It goes on, still. We're now three weeks into the new, non-conservative, non-Howardian Australia, and still the conservative media commentariat refuses to let go of the past. So much so that I note Dennis Shanahan in today's Oz claiming that Kevin Rudd's stand on climate change negotiations in Bali is an echo of John Howard's.
Continue reading "Denial is a Newspaper Chain in Australia" »
Seriously, this really is becoming boring. Conservative pundits and former Howard-Huggers vowed and declared to draw the new Rudd Labor government in Howardian colours. Today, it's Paul Sheehan.
I leave it to you, reader, to wax lyrical on these sad reflections of non-partisan media commentary. I'm over it.
Inspired by an article in today's Oz on the slow death of the legislation formerly known as Workchoices, I thought to go looking for the definition of Labor's 10 minimum standard working conditions.
Further to the end of year musical chairs in the V8 Supercar circus, it's been announced that both Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes have re-signed with Triple Eight/Team Vodafone until the end of 2009.
For those of you who, like me, take an interest in your fellow human beings from an observers perspective, here's today's tip on body language and how we react.
Granted, not many women frequent "gentlemen's" clubs or observe the grip a pole-dancer can hold to that chromed bar, but it's fascinating to note that science has yet again revealed the inner truths about how and why we function as we do. Just another of the myriad of ways we impact on each other when we're not even aware we're doing so.
Hello Blogosphere....hope you all had a great Xmas and are looking forward to an exciting but peaceful New Year's celebrations. Mrs Bannerman an I have taken to the supposed serenity of the Aussie bush. Never again at this time of year as everyone else does the same thing. Maybe a 4WD is the way to go. Why do people take toddlers camping anyway.
See you all in the 'sphere in a few days. Have a safe NY and let's look forward to an even better 2008.
