| 05 Jun 2009 - More High Speed Analysis for the Conversationalist on the Run |
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Goodbye Grasshopper... How will you remember David Carradine? Sagacious or Salacious? As the man who brought Eastern wisdom to the Wild West (backed up with liberal use of martial arts when required - which was most of the time) or for his Michael Hutchence style exit? Me? I'll always picture him walking serene and barefoot through unlikely material which he was able to make work because of an inner quality which transcended even fanciful scripts and black and white TV.
The Real Thing? Apparently not. Coke, bikies and a soapie starlet make for an excellent tabloid story setup, but the punchline involving five intruders - some with guns - didn't materialize. Herald-Sun blog comment asks if the name Fairlie Arrow strikes a familiar chord. Despite the no doubt considerable cost of lots of police turning up to what looks like a drug induced false alarm, there will be no charge of public mischief. If you're cute and connected does that make a difference?
Bridging Finance... I always admired BridgeClimb founder Paul Cave for getting that enterprise up and running if only because I have some experience with what it takes to get the bureaucracy moving. Sorry to hear he's taken a hiding with the collapse of Babcock and Brown. Still, anyone who can battle the mandarins of the New South Wales public service for ten years and win is obviously a force of nature and unlikely to let this setback make a permanent difference.
Petrolheads vs Airheads... This man - with his posthumous Peter Sellers as Clouseau like accent - wants you to believe not only that his car runs on air (there is only one brief reference to how what's in the scuba tanks under the vehicle only stores energy, it doesn't provide it) but that one day those same containers could be filled using air power. Perpetual energy could be just around the corner according to the pitch. Have we now so many simpletons who don't even remember basic high school physics that this will be believed by enough people for him to make money out of it? Is it a green thing, where you can make any old claim and get coverage because you're doing it for Gaia?
Barack Hussein Obama's Big Speech... The president is now referring to his Muslim roots and emphasizing his full name, something commentators were criticized for doing during the election. Will it help to establish a new understanding between the US and the Muslim world? Obama's great strength is his ability to make extremely effective speeches which push the right buttons with ordinary folks. He also enjoys extraordinary support from the MSM. Even as he says America must not expect to impose its ways on the rest of the world, he seems to expect the message to get through just like it does back home. It won't.
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