good quote

I guess the problem that Australian voters have, and the reason why it's good that there is not a national election due for some time, is that our choices for Prime Minister are either Tony Abbott, the Shirt-Fronting Moron from the Liberal National Conservative Coalition, or Bill Shorten, aka Pure Filth Runt Sociopath, from the Australian Labor Party. The best thing about Democracy is the breathing space between electing odious destructive clowns.

SPA Delegation Leaves for Vietnam (KCNA) A delegation of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) led by Deputy to the SPA Choe Jin Su, left to attend the 132nd Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Vietnam.

SHOCK! HORROR! Rupert Murdoch Dies of Shame. Photo: Page 3. Weather: Page 9 Shipping News: Page 16

Meaning

"Mo Chara, it is a very lovely thing to find friends in the Great World. Friends make it all mean the something it can mean.  Flowing us all shimmering onto biscuit yellow beaches of  hushed sand, born from indolent sea green algorithms of Life; and the sound of friendship, to be sure, is the sound of these small waves cupping and breaking into each other, like our laughter, under this beautiful sun.  Love, friendship, meaning, this is the  lovely troponin spilling from our lonely harvest of hearts, not meant for forever,  but rather simply different to forever, unique, and equal to forever; designed perfectly for us, by us, Mo Chara.

Holdens

Every now and then I'd like to buy a new Holden Commodore, or Calais, or Statesman, a fully Australian made American car, reasonably okay in the world, quality wise, now that they aren't going to make them here any more. I doubt I would ever sell it/ not because of what it is, but because of what it meant once.

Understanding China isn't hard. If you stuffed 1.4 billion Irish men and women into China, before during and after the massive and bloody revolution, and they won it, proud, then you would understand China. It's amazing.