Comments for verging_on_random http://kenalovell.com/blog Guru = Pahlawan Tanpa Tanda Jasa Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:56:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 Comment on Dreams of Olympic glory by Lang Mack http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/21/dreams-of-olympic-glory/#comment-24963 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:36 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/21/dreams-of-olympic-glory/#comment-24963 Ken, there's one thing the Phil;people have that leaves all the Olympic user pay syndrome in the dust, honesty. Ok, they have a lot of brought to them problems,from outside, however, I couldn't give a stuff if someone can run, jump or swim, if you can't find an overall decency in a country that has had so much inflicted on them, who never give up.And that is the Philippine people. Any person,group or society who has been treated in an offhand or domineering manner, who have had their faith and life style brutally overridden the way the Philippine people have, especially in the last four or so centuries, and who remain basically who they have always been,their is an accolade that will never be given to them. Seems America is sneaking around Mindalao,again,get around these Americans,what!. Ken, there’s one thing the Phil;people have that leaves all the Olympic user pay syndrome in the dust, honesty. Ok, they have a lot of brought to them problems,from outside, however, I couldn’t give a stuff if someone can run, jump or swim, if you can’t find an overall decency in a country that has had so much inflicted on them, who never give up.And that is the Philippine people. Any person,group or society who has been treated in an offhand or domineering manner, who have had their faith and life style brutally overridden the way the Philippine people have, especially in the last four or so centuries, and who remain basically who they have always been,their is an accolade that will never be given to them.
Seems America is sneaking around Mindalao,again,get around these Americans,what!.

]]> Comment on The nanny state takes on Billy Bunter by Toaf http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/17/the-nanny-state-takes-on-billy-bunter/#comment-24626 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:17:54 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/17/the-nanny-state-takes-on-billy-bunter/#comment-24626 L-O-fucken-L. L-O-fucken-L.

]]> Comment on I hate the ATO by Bianca http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/05/03/i-hate-the-ato/#comment-24583 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:29:18 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/05/03/i-hate-the-ato/#comment-24583 Try medical expenses that are "suspicious" according to the ATO. I have years of statements from medico's where I left an absolute fortune, and they want to see every scrap of my private life spread out for all to audit for a few hundred bucks in return. I am a consultant using my own phone which I cannot deduct as I am using a pre paid plan so I control the calls somewhat. I should claim the freaking stress related expenses as I consult to the government. Comprehensive review, my arse. As you said, some people are easy targets. Try medical expenses that are “suspicious” according to the ATO. I have years of statements from medico’s where I left an absolute fortune, and they want to see every scrap of my private life spread out for all to audit for a few hundred bucks in return. I am a consultant using my own phone which I cannot deduct as I am using a pre paid plan so I control the calls somewhat. I should claim the freaking stress related expenses as I consult to the government.

Comprehensive review, my arse. As you said, some people are easy targets.

]]> Comment on Layers of misrepresentation by Doug http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/14/layers-of-misrepresentation/#comment-24521 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:05:35 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/14/layers-of-misrepresentation/#comment-24521 Ken, unfortunately neither do I believe that human institutions will be capable of acting systematically to meet the challenges of climate change. Perhaps individually some institutions could act, but collectively we’ll never agree to save ourselves and this world is doomed – at an alarming rate. I once thought that the demise of planet Earth would occur after I’m gone, and what a charming legacy we’d have left our kids and theirs, but it now seems it could happen in my lifetime. This year the Arctic Polar summer ice cap has melted for the first time, a catastrophic global disaster of such ghastly magnitude that it’s barely raised a whisper in world conversations or concerns. Instead of a collective gasping of astonishment and fear, the human race remains more anxious about mundane daily irrelevancies like their horoscope, TV soaps, getting richer, and their ridiculously infantile relationships. To confirm our ongoing credentials in idiocy, only a few responses to this melting of the Earth’s vital refrigerant system have been a cry of Yippee! from tour operators who can now navigate this new-found northern passage (that Cook and many others failed to discover) so they can exploit this virgin territory with legions of polluting tourists instead of sailing them the long way around the continents at greater cost, and exploration companies that are now rushing headlong into the Arctic the exploit the very bowels out of the region and dredge up more coal/oil/gas/minerals which will only further hasten our Armageddon. The absurdly named Australian Minister for Global Warming (an oxymoron) has not proposed one solution to this terminal result of human greed plus ignorance; neither has our greenie PM or Minister for the Environment. World leaders remain divided, as per usual, and world populations continue the ignorance as we all fiddle while Rome burns. In this case however, it’s not just Rome that’s burning but our blue planet Earth, the only inhabitable planet between here and eternity. On a grander scale, this is somewhat akin to the ridiculous claims that WW1 was the war to end all wars. Anyone with an ounce of common sense or grasp of human history would have spurned such preposterous pronouncements at the time. My deeply held distrust of the entire human race and its absolutely shithouse history tells me sadly that those ignorant and ill-informed claimants are just as wrong as today’s dangerously-wrong climate-change deniers, and that our lovely home stands precisely no chance of being saved from the impending cataclysm while ever humans hold the key to its survival. Unfortunately Albert Einstein was tragically correct when he said: Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. Ken, unfortunately neither do I believe that human institutions will be capable of acting systematically to meet the challenges of climate change. Perhaps individually some institutions could act, but collectively we’ll never agree to save ourselves and this world is doomed – at an alarming rate. I once thought that the demise of planet Earth would occur after I’m gone, and what a charming legacy we’d have left our kids and theirs, but it now seems it could happen in my lifetime.

This year the Arctic Polar summer ice cap has melted for the first time, a catastrophic global disaster of such ghastly magnitude that it’s barely raised a whisper in world conversations or concerns. Instead of a collective gasping of astonishment and fear, the human race remains more anxious about mundane daily irrelevancies like their horoscope, TV soaps, getting richer, and their ridiculously infantile relationships.

To confirm our ongoing credentials in idiocy, only a few responses to this melting of the Earth’s vital refrigerant system have been a cry of Yippee! from tour operators who can now navigate this new-found northern passage (that Cook and many others failed to discover) so they can exploit this virgin territory with legions of polluting tourists instead of sailing them the long way around the continents at greater cost, and exploration companies that are now rushing headlong into the Arctic the exploit the very bowels out of the region and dredge up more coal/oil/gas/minerals which will only further hasten our Armageddon.

The absurdly named Australian Minister for Global Warming (an oxymoron) has not proposed one solution to this terminal result of human greed plus ignorance; neither has our greenie PM or Minister for the Environment. World leaders remain divided, as per usual, and world populations continue the ignorance as we all fiddle while Rome burns. In this case however, it’s not just Rome that’s burning but our blue planet Earth, the only inhabitable planet between here and eternity.

On a grander scale, this is somewhat akin to the ridiculous claims that WW1 was the war to end all wars. Anyone with an ounce of common sense or grasp of human history would have spurned such preposterous pronouncements at the time. My deeply held distrust of the entire human race and its absolutely shithouse history tells me sadly that those ignorant and ill-informed claimants are just as wrong as today’s dangerously-wrong climate-change deniers, and that our lovely home stands precisely no chance of being saved from the impending cataclysm while ever humans hold the key to its survival.

Unfortunately Albert Einstein was tragically correct when he said: Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity.

]]> Comment on One born every minute … and they run the country by Lang Mack http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/03/one-born-every-minute-and-they-run-the-country/#comment-24013 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:58:30 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/08/03/one-born-every-minute-and-they-run-the-country/#comment-24013 Tim Johnston obviously was a student of various religions, I mean why not learn from the masters. Tim Johnston obviously was a student of various religions, I mean why not learn from the masters.

]]> Comment on Software deathwishers by Lang Mack http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/27/software-deathwishes/#comment-23754 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:04:36 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/27/software-deathwishes/#comment-23754 I would dearly love to add something on here that would astound. What astounds me is that the fan is working when I push the button on the tin box.Means that within a few minutes the screen will kick in. I'm a nerd. I would dearly love to add something on here that would astound.
What astounds me is that the fan is working when I push the button on the tin box.Means that within a few minutes the screen will kick in. I’m a nerd.

]]> Comment on Exit pursued by a bear by Caroline http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/23/exit-pursued-by-a-bear/#comment-23452 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:27:41 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/23/exit-pursued-by-a-bear/#comment-23452 I love stories like this. I loves the justice of it--nature gets its own. Sooner or later, however then comes to mind how problems like this will are routinely solved. Then they're not so funny any more. I love stories like this. I loves the justice of it–nature gets its own. Sooner or later, however then comes to mind how problems like this will are routinely solved. Then they’re not so funny any more.

]]> Comment on A precedent for Iraq? by Doug from the Gold Coast http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/20/a-precedent-for-iraq/#comment-23384 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:59:04 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/20/a-precedent-for-iraq/#comment-23384 The Filipinos were absolutely brutalised by the Spanish for 400 years, then won the good fortune to receive likewise treatment from the yanks. A beaten and cowed nation of delightfully lovely people who deserved far better. The Yanks only pissed off after Mother Nature finally stepped in and erupted the ancient volcano Mt. Pinatubo on June 15th 1991, right next to the Clark USAF airbase, virtually within the circuit area of the aerodrome. With the lease on the base up for renewal at that time, the Yanks were forced to slink off home after this greatest of eruptions, described as the world’s most violent and destructive volcanic event of the 20th century, smothered their precious base with two metres of volcanic ash. (A good indicator of what strength is required if you want to dislodge the US military from your own town or country.) The upside, I suppose, is this wondrous act from the heavens undoubtedly saved thousands of nearby pregnancies, diseases and traumas to the locals of Angeles City, the USAF's brothel town adjacent to the base. But with great misfortune, the Filipinos adopted Catholicism wholeheartedly from their Spanish overlords and now enthusiastically and stupidly endorse it by adhering to the dogma fanatically. Especially where the Pope commands them not to use contraception. As a direct result they live in today's fuedal ghettos of impoverishment where most families have 10-12 kids each which they most certainly can't afford to feed. Yes, I suppose this was a precedent for Iraq, akin to the endless list of other cowed nations that have felt the steel jackboots of America's giant steamroller military. I just feel saddened that they (the Filo's) didn't pick up the ball and run when the Yanks quit instead of wallowing in the retrogressive uselessness of religion which has consigned them all to permanent penury. The Filipinos were absolutely brutalised by the Spanish for 400 years, then won the good fortune to receive likewise treatment from the yanks. A beaten and cowed nation of delightfully lovely people who deserved far better.

The Yanks only pissed off after Mother Nature finally stepped in and erupted the ancient volcano Mt. Pinatubo on June 15th 1991, right next to the Clark USAF airbase, virtually within the circuit area of the aerodrome. With the lease on the base up for renewal at that time, the Yanks were forced to slink off home after this greatest of eruptions, described as the world’s most violent and destructive volcanic event of the 20th century, smothered their precious base with two metres of volcanic ash. (A good indicator of what strength is required if you want to dislodge the US military from your own town or country.)

The upside, I suppose, is this wondrous act from the heavens undoubtedly saved thousands of nearby pregnancies, diseases and traumas to the locals of Angeles City, the USAF’s brothel town adjacent to the base.

But with great misfortune, the Filipinos adopted Catholicism wholeheartedly from their Spanish overlords and now enthusiastically and stupidly endorse it by adhering to the dogma fanatically. Especially where the Pope commands them not to use contraception.

As a direct result they live in today’s fuedal ghettos of impoverishment where most families have 10-12 kids each which they most certainly can’t afford to feed.

Yes, I suppose this was a precedent for Iraq, akin to the endless list of other cowed nations that have felt the steel jackboots of America’s giant steamroller military. I just feel saddened that they (the Filo’s) didn’t pick up the ball and run when the Yanks quit instead of wallowing in the retrogressive uselessness of religion which has consigned them all to permanent penury.

]]> Comment on A precedent for Iraq? by Jack Dorf http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/20/a-precedent-for-iraq/#comment-23294 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:39:28 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/20/a-precedent-for-iraq/#comment-23294 <i>It started almost by accident</i> Oddly enough I believe (quickly googles) the Spanish American war of 1898. Which also saw the US get it's hooks into Guam, Puerto Rico &#38; Cuba as well as the Philippines started with the sinking of the <i>USS Maine</i> this was blamed on the Spanish. In 1976, a US Navy commission found it was probably an accident. This has been disputed since by a National Geographic survey. It started almost by accident

Oddly enough I believe (quickly googles) the Spanish American war of 1898. Which also saw the US get it’s hooks into Guam, Puerto Rico & Cuba as well as the Philippines started with the sinking of the USS Maine this was blamed on the Spanish.

In 1976, a US Navy commission found it was probably an accident. This has been disputed since by a National Geographic survey.

]]> Comment on A precedent for Iraq? by Anonymous http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/20/a-precedent-for-iraq/#comment-23293 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:38:22 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2008/07/20/a-precedent-for-iraq/#comment-23293 <i>It started almost by accident</i> Oddly enough I believe (quickly googles) the Spanish American war of 1898. Which also saw the US get it's hooks into Guam, Puerto Rico &#38; Cuba as well as the Philippines started with the sinking of the <i>USS Maine</i> this was blamed on the Spanish. In 1976, a US Navy commission found it was probably an accident. This has been disputed since by a National Geographic survey. Don't get me started on the USS Maddox!! It started almost by accident

Oddly enough I believe (quickly googles) the Spanish American war of 1898. Which also saw the US get it’s hooks into Guam, Puerto Rico & Cuba as well as the Philippines started with the sinking of the USS Maine this was blamed on the Spanish.

In 1976, a US Navy commission found it was probably an accident. This has been disputed since by a National Geographic survey.

Don’t get me started on the USS Maddox!!

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