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Officially signing on with my own rant from the land Downunder where the WTC was destroyed on 9/11/2001.


MUST have happened here, otherwise why for the next
week or more has every megahertz of Australian TV and radio, and
every column inch in our newspapers been set aside for second by
second, pixel by pixel examination and "commemoration" of
September 11. It starts tonight ... "9/11, The Firefighters' Story"
...and it's only 9/4, like they say "but there's MORE!" .

9/11 ... 24/7 ... 20/20 ... 50/50 ...9/11 ... 24/7 ... 20/20 ... 50/50 ...9/11 ... 24/7 ... 20/20 ... 50/50 ...
bugger me, there's a lot of this stuff about.

I don't diminish the horror of the event but fair suck
of the sauce bottle cobbers. Normal programming is being
suspended, live all night coverage ... yep, you've guessed it ...
from U.S. news feeds. And pardon me for being cynical, indeed
clairvoyant, but the coverage is going to be ugly. Maudlin,
hyperbolic, bathos, trite ... like Brian says, pure Oprah. The
victims deserve better than what I fear is going to be served
up.


To be ENTIRELY cynical, I could see that Dubbya might see
this period of grief and overweaning nationalism as exactly
the right time to start his bloodying of Saddam's shnoz.

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P.S. Nice tits Morgs, but I thought Hughes had embargoed
posting pics (even undoctored ones like the one below) of spouses.

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P.P.S. "This website aims to provide Americans with an education in cynicism, satire and wit."
Brian, it would be more efficacious to bypass the educational process
and go straight to the frontal lobotomy. Most Americans I have met who
have been lobotomised exhibit a greater awareness of the real world
than their great unwashed and unlobotomised counterparts.
(Most of them are amazed we speak Engalish down here in Austria.)

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