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30-11-02
Quote
of the day
Cats are little
bastards.......they're tiny used car salesmen with fur and fangs
- Penguinboi
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The latest must-have personal transport machine
The
Wheelman!! I gotta get me one......
Thanks
to Mommabear for sending me this
link
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Adams really loses it
Phillip
Adams' insane screeching may have just reached new heights in today's
column
So, congratulations
to bin Laden. The death toll in New York and Bali will be nothing compared
to the body counts in the Muslim world as the White House exacts its
terrible and opportunistic vengeance. Bin Laden is helping create the
imperial US he detests – his activities are calling it into being.
Behold the vortex of violence and hatred and mutual incomprehension
that will give us, if not World War III, then Armageddon in slow motion.
Just so you won't
have to read the rest of it, here's the synopsis:
Dubya's regime!!!!!...crushing
dissent!!!!.....world domination!!!!!.......we're all gonna
die!!!!.....he's gonna bomb Kyoto!!!!!...crushing liberties
worldwide!!!!...we'll all be invaded!!!!...axis of evill!!!!....rude
christian fundamentalists!!!!!...bullying the UN!!!!!....it's
all about oilllllll!!!!!.....lackey australian government!!!!!!......stolen
elections!!!!!!
There you go. Never
let it be said I don't provide a service for my readers.
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Poor deluded fool :)
The months of battling
with jew-hating conspiracy nerds has clearly damaged Damian
Penny's mind. The poor lad is lusting after this
car.
will do 0-60
in 5.6 seconds, the quarter mile in 14.2 and tops out at 153 mph. And
it's less than US$20,000. Car and Driver basically says it's a beast
to drive - but you simply can't go that fast for so little money.
Hahahaha. Try one
of these dude:
Kawasaki ZX-12R
0-60mph in less than 3 seconds
Top speed (measured): 180mph
Price: US$10,990
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28-11-02
Quote
of the day
Can't sleep...clown
will eat me
- Bart Simpson
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Wot he sed
Scott
Wickstein comments on our asian nature
Amen
brother
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Black Stalin
 Malcolm
Fraser's favourite African is up to his usual fun n' games: notably, starving
opposition supporters to death.
But the price
of such persistent opposition has been high. For three months,
the ruling Zanu-Patriotic Front party has blocked food shipments into
the
district, in a blatant and ruthless use of food as a political weapon
in the former
British colony.
Cradling her
baby in her arms, Ms Mwinde said she and her children had not
eaten for two days. They have survived for months on leaves, roots and
seeds
from the bush.
The food situation
is similar in scores of villages around the district. Standing
in the doorway of his one-room hut, Samson Munkuli, 48, says he has
not
eaten for days. The muscle and flesh on his arms and legs have wasted
away.
He is a living skeleton, but he will not live long.
Being
black and socialist, Mugabe fits nicely into the "politically correct
tyrant" category. Yet another nice person John Pilger, Kerry Nettle
and the SMH's letter-writers aren't too worried about.
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Blair on Pilger
Tim
Blair does
a nice dissection of John Pilger's latest TV appearance. If you ever
needed convincing that Pilger is a paranoid, dishonest, amoral lunatic,
this will convince you.
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Iraq horror
The Pilger-loving
crowd love to talk about the non-existent enormous casualties caused by
"sanctions". It's rather telling that they never like to talk
about this
stuff.
Frequently, confessions
are extracted by torturing not only the prisoner, but his family members
as well. His wife and daughters are raped, and sometimes beheaded, as
he watches. His children or grandchildren – in many cases mere
toddlers – are burned with cigarette butts; their eyes are gouged
out; all the bones in their feet are crushed; their ears and limbs are
amputated, one at a time. If no confession is forthcoming, the youngsters
are slaughtered. Moreover, some of these prisons actually house the
children of suspected dissidents – children younger than twelve
who are packed into cells and left to rot amid pools of their own excrement,
blood, and tears.
Ah, but we all know
Dubya is the most evil man on earth...right?
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Ennui II
Today was worse than
yesterday. I need a holiday.
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27-11-02
Peace
and lurrrve
We right-wing-ish
bloggers are a bitter, hate-filled lot. Fortunately, someone has come
along to set us right: please welcome healer, activist and guru Derek
Sapphire into the blogosphere. Man, I need to buy some crystals and
incense baybeee....
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The mighty warriors of Jihad
Brilliant cartoon
here.
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Ennui
Not much to blog about
today. Boring news day, and another shit day for this author in general.
I really need a holiday.
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26-11-02
Quote
of the day
To the world you
may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
- Unknown
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Why I'm glad this fella has won the last 3 elections
Prime Minister John
Howard's superb
open letter to the father of a Bali bombing victim. Just wait for
the usual parade of loons to write in complaining about this.
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Impolite questions for Osama & his appeasers
Bleeding Brain will
never make a good leftist with
this kind of attitude.
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Naughty thoughts on multiculturalism
Brilliant piece over
at Bovination.
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Death of woman provokes non-interest in sensible people worldwide
Crusading right-to-life
dingbat Margaret Tighe is predictably outraged. Strangely enough, so is
Tim
Blair.
What great horror
has inspired such passions? Lisette Nigot - a 79 year-old perth woman
- decided of her own free will to take
her own life. She wasn't ill, she'd just had enough.
But what really gets
the pro-statist conservatives and jesus-freaks outraged was the peripheral
involvement of euthanasia campaigner Dr. Phillip Nitschke:
Lisette Nigot
was not ill. She was not in pain. But she was 79 and, quite simply,
did not want to live to 80.
So last week
the retired academic took a fatal overdose in her Perth home, leaving
a suicide note describing the euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke
as her inspiration.
Yesterday, Dr
Nitschke released that note, which Ms Nigot had pinned behind her bed.
"After 80 years of a good life, I have [had] enough of it,"
she wrote. "I want to stop it before it gets bad."
Blair responded:
And when might
that badness have kicked in? Five years from now? Ten? Twenty? Nobody
will ever know!
Pardon me Tim, but
what exactly does this have to do with you? Her life, her decision. Her
hand was not coerced, she was not tricked, she was not brainwashed. She
made a decision which affected her own existence and endangered nobody.
So, let me ask...what exactly is your problem with this? Whether
she killed herself to avoid old age, stop pain, or avoid Big Brother
III, it was her own damned business, not yours.
(Maybe there's a danger
other old people will follow suit and make a decision of their own free
will. Gadzoots! Watch me while I yawn....)
For a bloke who blogs
consistently on the themes of do-gooder lefties, idiot bureaucracy and
excessive traffic rules, your apparent sudden faith in politicians, bureaucrats
and the clergy to make someone else's most crucial life decisions looks
a tad ludicrous. Freedom for me and none for thee, eh?
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Hooray for the bloody wogs
Just what we need:
another angry wog
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25-11-02
Quote
of the day
Beloved depressed
me, and I spent all night searching for a chinchilla in a mess known as
my room. My dog and cat were bugging me too. Why does my night feel like
a post-modern existentialist farce?
- Cantinera
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Idiot health scares
Our old mate Azza
Oakley has
a few words about the dingbats who began a health scare over - of
all things - Coca Cola.
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Sportsbike comparo
OK, back to writing
about - you know - motorcycles. Egad!
The most purely enjoyable
class of bike (outside of the USA, which still loves 1920's tractors
Harleys), is the hypersports class: the 1000cc four-cylinder pure sportsbike.
Earlier this year,
I went shopping for one of these machines, after deciding my beloved Triumph
Sprint RS just wasn't cutting it (beautiful engine, handled like a
bathtub).
After ruling out the
Suzuki GSXR-1000
and the mighty Yamaha
R1 (both because the dealers were gits and they were too bloody uncomfortable),
I decided to test the remaining two: the 2002 Honda CBR 954 Fireblade
and the 2002 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-9R. Here's the evaluation I made 5 months
ago.....
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Honda CBR 954
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The
Comparison
ENGINE
Fireblade:
954cc in-line four - injected
Killer! Instant
throttle response, with big grunt right off idle. Ferocious acceleration,
linear powerband. The fuel injection provides for remarkable throttle
response but at the expense of a very jerky ride, particularly on
bumpy ground. Some will like it, some won't
ZX-9R:
899cc in-line four - the only bike in it's class still using carbs
Very
different feel. Massive top end but not as much lowdown grunt as
the blade. Slower & heavier throttle than the blade will not
please many riders, but I much prefered it: less jerky ride while
still offering crisp engine response.
Feels weaker
than the blade until you start to hit 6-7,000 revs, where it really
starts to boogie. Probably has a stronger top-end but there's little
in it. And face it, this carbed engine just fucking screams
above 7000rpm, giving the yummiest sound in the bike biz, and ensuring
you're gonna be spending your riding time at higher revs
Being carbed,
the ZX-9R takes much longer to warm up in the morning and requires
a lot of dicking around with the choke, which is a pain.
HANDLING
& SUSPENSION
Blade wins here
on agility. Much quicker steering and an 18kg weight advantage (168
vs. 186kgs) means the 'blade will leave the ZX9 struggling in the
twisty stuff. The handling on the blade is - quite simply - stunning.
Blade wins also
on the suspension front, at least as pure "sports" riding
is concerened. Simply a firmer, tighter setup from the world go.
The Kawasaki
has very "road-oriented" suspension: softer settings for
a more comfy ride. Front fork dives a bit under very hard braking.
Still very much a sports bike, but definitely not as sharp as the
'blade.
Personally,
for road use, I much prefer the feel of the Kawasaki. Yes, it's
less nimble in the twisty bits but's it's still proper fast,
and the added comfort and stability more than make up for it's extra
bulk.
BRAKES
& OTHER GEAR
Both bikes have
massively powerful stoppers, with the blade having the strongest.
Again though, I prefer the feel of the Kawasaki brakes - this year's
four-pot stoppers have loads more feel than last year while still
being able to haul your ass to a halt in quick time. Eh, who cares
- they're both phenomenal in this area.
Instrumentation/switchgear:
The Honda wins easily - tidy dash with excellent digital speedo/trip
meters/clock plus a fuel readout & warning light. The Kwaka
looks dated, with analogue speedo, small LCD odometer/clock which
is blocked from view by the clutch cable. Looks messy and old.
The switchgear
on both bikes is excellent.
The kawasaki
has another dated feature: the bloody reserve switch. Give us a
warning light please Mr. Kawasaki. Having your engine stall with
a truck up your arse is no fun. Having a nice little light blink
at you gets the message across just fine. The bloody switch is impossible
to change on the move.
COMFORT
AND TOURING
Kawasaki wins
easily: it's a supremely comfortable bike: not too much weight on
the wrists or the ass, little vibration, a much nicer seat than
the Honda. The fairing offers much better wind protection too.
The blade -
while much more comfortable than the GSXR or R1, still has far too
much weight on the wrists - I was in agony after 30 minutes. The
seat is too hard as well.
Yep, the Kawasaki
is the go for the long haul - you'll still be riding while Mr. Honda
is stretching at the petrol station, and not just for comfort reasons:
the Kwaka has a much better fuel range
Both bikes carry
luggage well, but the Kawasaki has great fold-out loop straps under
the pillion seat, and quite a bit of under-seat storage space. Check
out the third photo on the right: two large bags strapped securely
to the seat without need for ocky straps: to Andy Strapz hooked
thru the fold-out luggage hoops worked a treat. The Kwaka has a
nice looking rear-seat cowl you can fit if you're not carrying luggage.
AESTHETICS
Looks-wise,
it's very much a personal thing. I love the gold of the ZX-9R but
the striping is crap. The 'blade looks awesome in red but crap in
the other colours.
The 'blade is
the more compact, "high-tech" looking of the two machines.
It definitely has a better looking cockpit. The ZX-9R is bigger
and has more "presence", despite looking a tad more dated.
Dunno, I guess
it's a tie as far as looks go, but as far as sound is concerned,
fuggedaboutit!!! The incredible sounds the ZX-9's carbs produce
when the tap are opened is unequalled in motorcycling. Produces
a yummy gurgling noise at idle too. By comparison, the blade is
whisper-quiet.
OVERALL
It's no secret
that I bought the ZX-9R. It's an inferior bike on paper: no injection,
heavier, slower steering, some dated features.
But the Kawasaki
is greater than the sum of the parts: it's something you want to
get on and ride.....all day. A great looking and awesome-sounding
machine, with a rock-solid chassis, great comfort and a stonking
engine.
The 'blade,
despite it's apparent advantages, just didn't stir the soul as much.
Don't get me wrong, it's a stunning piece of machinery, but it's
relatively uncomfortable ergonomics and narrow-minded racetrack
focus made this a bike I respect rather than love.
Still, if you're a more hard-core sports rider who doesn't do more
than a few hours of riding on your day off, you'll probably find
the 'blade more to your liking: sharper, meaner and leaner.
Regardless,
what you have are two machines capable of giving you a woody every
time you ride 'em. They are simply the best experience you can have
on two wheels.
If you have
the time, I highly recommend checking them out.
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24-11-02
Quote
of the day
You can rape me
but no touching my drugs baby
- Zoopie
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The new chess?
 At
last, a variant of chess that seems worthy of the name: Omega
Chess.
Most chess variants
are either gimmicky or unplayable, yet Omega Chess, against all the odds,
succeeds brilliantly at giving us a genuine "new" style of chess.
No wonder it's already been endorsed by Grandmasters Alex Sherzer and
Judit Polgar.
Omega chess keeps
all the classic appeal & strategies of "real" chess, whilst
adding all kinds of new elements to the game. It returns the game to one
based on instinct and skill rather than rote knowledge of pre-set openings.
I can't explain it
all. Go take a look, and play their sample game.
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New Socialist Goon is out
Don't
miss it. Yet another page-turner of commie hysteria and hypocrisy
(a communist complaining about "fascism" and "trampling
on democractic rights" is always good for a laugh). My favourite
is this
article, claiming the australian media are racists for coming to the
shocking conclusion that Indonesian Muslims were responsible for the Bali
bombing. Oh, there's also a howlingly bad romanticised reminiscing
about the 1917 revolution - the catastrophe which followed had - of
course - nothing to do with communism. Read it all, it's magnificent
stuff.
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I'll get to it, I promise......
Still weeks behind
on my e-mail. Thanks to all who have written in. I've read and appreciated
every one of them, and I'll be responding eventually. In the meantime,
keep the mail coming folks: tex {at} whackingday
{dot} com
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23-11-02
It's
always fun to whack bad celebs
What a hoot this is:
you get the impression Captain Scott doesn't
like Brittany Murphy?
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You gotta love governments
In London, a team
of fearless undercover operators has broken up some frightening criminal
activity: illegal
dancing.
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The "religion of peace" is at it again
Now 105
people are dead thanks to a lot of rampaging Islamic psychos protesting
against the horrors of the Miss World contest.
It won't be long -
of course - until someone suggests that this is all the result of insensitive
westerners. It's nothing to do with Islam, oh no....
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Another blog
This fella rides a
motorbike, and his blog is called
The Misanthropyst. That's two reasons to go look at it.
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The Madness of Bobby Fischer
A lengthy,
brilliant essay on the life, chess and insanity of one-time chess
genius-turned-psycho Bobby Fischer. Thanks to Pejman
for the link.
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