So did anyone watch the "great" debate tonight?

I did. For those who didn't watch it here is how it went:

Howard: tax cuts, interest rates will go up under Labor, Labor is controlled by trade unionists, more tax cuts if we are elected, Labor = bad, more tax cuts, Labor = worse, workplace agreement = the way to go, Labor = worst....

Rudd: tax cuts, invest in education, Howard = bad economic management, Liberal = bad, Liberal = liars, global warming, tax cuts, unionists = might be good, Liberal = worse, workplace agreement = the way to hell, Liberal = evil liars....

And that was pretty much what went on while I did pay attention to what being said before I lost interest and paid more attention to the graph thingy and then eventually to how funny Kevin Rudd's chin looked when he talked. Seriously, his chin was very funny in the debate. Howard attracted my attention too even though his chin was absolutely normal, his mouth was weird when he talked. I'm convinced that it was because of the dentures he wears. Do you know why I was convinced of this? The Alarmist didn't stop talking about dentures a while back and all I can remember about all those dentures talks was that Howard has dentures.

While we're on the topic of dentures, here's a pair of them, hand made by the Alarmist, photographed by the Alarmist. And yes, she did buy a camera phone to take pictures of wonderful things that she sees everyday while walking around or working in the dental hospital. One fine example of the wonderful things she sees everyday is below.


Back on the topic of the great debate. I think the audience was very biased, every time Rudd started talking the graph would shoot up even before he stated any point. Both of them raised some good questions when I did pay attention. I thought I've made up my mind about voting already, now I'm sure I need to do more research on this. I thought that Howard raised a good point when he said that if Labor wins it would be Labor all the way from Fedral to State government. It might not necessarily be bad though, at least they won't be constantly at one another's throats with politicking.

One thing I got out of the brief (1 hour) time that I watched this debate business, I have a new appreciation for politicians. I admire, yes, ADMIRE their composure. If it was me in Howard or Rudd's shoes I would be strangling the other debater and yelling out obscenities instead of politely objecting.

To way more interesting and way shorter "debate" watch Rudd vs. Howard hip-hop battle below. Check out Peter Costello ello ello eh eh eh at the end too. Brilliant!


That's it for this post, I need to go to sleep and do some more studying tomorrow.

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If I were a drug I would be....

An ACE Inhibitor. These drugs are amazing! They reduce both preload and afterload, they are used in all sort of diseases under the sun. OK seriously only in Hypertension, Heart Failure, Severe Heart Failure, Acute heart failure, and after myocardial infarction but that's a shitload of serious conditions already. And as a side effect you don't have to take potassium supplement. Yay, no bananas for me (I hate them!).

All this fuss about nothing

As is often the case with politicians, they create a war of words, which ends in no sides being the winner, over a presidential candidate's possible future plan.

So Obama has his sight set on being the first African-American President of the US of A. Good for him, I'm sure he's more sensible than the bloke who's running the office now but I'd vote for Hilary Clinton just because she's a female Democrat. I'm just curious about how the world would turn out without someone with testosterone in power.

Ok, back to Obama. His trump card seems to be withdraw all American troops from Iraq. And of course that doesn't sit well with John Howard. Mr. Howard, being the outspoken, promises-keeping, no-lie-telling, straight-facts-understanding [I'm still getting over his blunder last week in parliament about "the jury is still out on the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and climate change"] and not power-obsessed good bloke that he is, came to one conclusion, among other things, that Obama is the US president of choice of Al-Qaeda.

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

Sorry to bust your bubble Mr. Howard, prayers just don't work. If there is a god, George Bush wouldn't have been re-elected. What I don't get is why take the time and effort to slam Obama's possible plan? It's not like he's gonna be the Democrats' candidate and it's not like he's gonna win the election tomorrow. Did the PM see this as a fast and cheap way to show his loyalty to Bush?

We might never know the PM's motive but for sure Kevin Rudd's response to the PM's response to Obama's plan is just a ploy to gain more popularity in opinion polls. Rudd suggested that Howard's remarks had the potential to cause damage to the American-Australian alliance.

Let me just point this out, again. It's not like Obama's gonna win the election or a Democrats' candidate will. And the election is not tomorrow, it's next year and a lot can happen in one year. And it's not like the Liberal Party will win again in Australia. Besides, how can you be sure the Americans wouldn't dismiss Howard's remarks as some absurd comments from a senile old man? Jeez, politicians just don't know how to chill.

I expect we poor Australians will be bombarded with more of this nonsense throughout this week. Like I said, all this fuss for nothing.

P.S. I've just realized that I made quite some fuss on a post about gratuitous fuss. Man! the irony.

Costello hearts Howard

Another direct result of my getting up early this morning was I got the scoop on the Sunrise team's gossip on the 'conspiracy' behind Tom Cruise's daughter, Suri and caught a few pieces of news of the Howard-Costello relationship leadership debate.

The relationship between Howard and Costello at the moment is like a bad marriage. Both want to wear the pants but there is only one a pair. So after 10+ years, Costello has had enough and said "I want to wear the pants now before I'm too old to fit in them". Little John wouldn't want to hear anything about it. He's fond of those pants and he's grown attached to them these past years. So Costello called Howard a liar and the press got a field day.

Meanwhile, Kim Beastly Beazley is rubbing his hand and do that 'mwa ha ha ha ha' laugh that those evil villains do.

Seriously, Howard and Costello should have kept their feud under wrap. It's bad for the image of the party if their leaders are at odds with one another on national TV. But then they might have been keeping their feud under wrap for a few years now and Costello has finally had it. You can't blame Costello for it though. Poor guy, playing the bridemaid for so long in hope that Johnnie would kept his promise.

The whole thing just makes me wonder. So it's ok if John Howard lied to the whole nation [children overboard incidence] but it's not ok if he lied to the treasurer. Talking about double standard.