Is That White Smoke?
There's a new Pope, and guess what, its bloody Ratzinger! Of all the possible candidates he was the one I liked the least, the one I feared the most and guess who they chose? Admittedly I'm not a Catholic, or even a Christian, so his appointment does not directly effect me in any way, but it does effect the lives of millions of people the world over, and I don't believe it will be a positive effect. He's right-wing, he's conservative, he used to be head of the modern day Inquisition (the congregation for the Doctrine of The Faith)... I mean I can't judge what kinda Pope he's gonna be, he may surprise us all, but I'm not expecting any radical social or theological changes from the man. He apparently denounced all deviations from traditional Catholic teaching as 'trickery' during the his homily before the papal conclave, so I expect we're going to see the same ludicrous hardline stance on cantraception, abortion and homosexuality amongst others...In other vaguely political news, Tony Blairs ludicrously stage managed appearance is really starting to get on my nerves. Every bit of his behaviour is designed to make us think that he's a nice, genuine, working bloke. Whenever he arrives at a press conference or appearance, he takes his jacket off and rolls up his sleeves. He goes nowhere without a mug of tea. These are just idiotic little bits of branding that are supposed to be so subtle we don't even notice them, but are all designed to project the image of a regular guy just doing a job of work. I notice them though, and they piss me off.
As there needs to be some political balance, I'll just mention that in terms of stage managing Michael Howard needs some serious help, as the mask of pleasantry has been slipping quite a lot this week. He's a vicious little bitch when you get on his bad side apparently, and all you have to do to get on his bad side is to question any of his policies and he's off on one. Which is funny. Charles Kennedy... well he just needs ANY stage managing! No, not really, its his very ordinariness that has seen his personal appeal rise in the polls (last week he was completely unable to articulate one of his parties key policies, and I think the fact that he was obviously having a bad day was what endeared him to so many), he has what the pundits call 'authenticity', that very thing which Tony and his cups of tea so desperately try to fake...
I finally got round to watching my Predator SE today, which would've been nice, except that the disc in the case isn't the SE at all, its the old crappy regular edition! Not that it makes a significant difference to me, I don't have the hardware to appreciate the Dolby 5.1 soundtrack, but dammit I paid for Special, and I want Special! I shall be writing to Fox customer services with all alacrity. Well, with some alacrity anyway...
posted by BadMonkey @ 9:26 PM
1 Comments:
ha i like your blog...i think i had a comment but you're online now...so i forgot what it was
ganbatte yo
and FOR SOMEONE IF NOT GOD'S SAKE OR YOUR OWN QUIT EATING FOODS YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO!!!!!
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