advance notice of party - 20th October

Keep the 27th of October free. Hm - there's a clash with that date, and they got in first. So we'll have something on the 20th, instead.

There will be a party. Oh yes, there will be a party.

The reason? We're moving up to Sydney. My birthday's the next month, but we'll be gone by then. So yeah. Going away party and early birthday.

Details to follow once we've figured out a venue - our place is probably not big enough, so we'll find somewhere else to hold it.

niiice

madness

Tony Jones on Lateline is interviewing the absolutely bugfuck mental spacealien John Bolton about Iran's nuclear program.

It's fucking madness. He keeps touting the Israeli Osirak attack as "here's the obvious path" - despite the obvious problems here, like (thinking off the top of my head):

- Iran has no easily targetted central nuclear facitily that we know of
- What hints there are say any projects that exist are hidden, buried and widely dispersed
- He waves off any thought that Iran might get upset by this, and say, respond. See, in his mind, Iran's been at war with the US since 1979. (No word on why the Reagan administration then sold then weapons. Perhaps he can ask his AEI colleague Leeden - after all that prick arranged it)

Besides which, Iran's already responsible for all the evil in the world, duh. They're the New Hitler in the minds of these thugs. It makes perfect sense that heavily Shiite Iran is supporting Sunni Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Sure. And in the video games they've played, once you blow up the end-of-level boss, the bad guy is defeated.

Oh - and if Australia under PM Rudd pulled out troops? "Well, if you want to act like NZ, go for it". Ah, this sort of wit no doubt kills at Bugfuck Mental Standup Comedy Night. Besides, after the Bali bombing, clearly we should understand the reasons for keeping our troops in Iraq. Because Indonesia and Iraq are exactly the same.

It should be obvious, of course, that the closest John Bolton has ever got to military service are the weekly games of Risk at wingnut central. He dodged service in Vietnam, despite being in favour of it. I'm shocked.