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Clay Bennett for The Christian Science Monitor

Jack Ohman
Assisted Suicide is a hot topic here in Australia too, since Big Brother has banned us from talking about it. Freaking outrageous - as is the fact that the whole nation isn’t up in arms about it. I wonder what concepts they’ll try and expunge from the collective Australian consciousness next.

Happy New Year from Sydney!!
Best wishes to all for a happy and peaceful 2006.
We’re lucky enough to be able to see the top half of the harbour bridge (always the centre-piece of the display) from our window and this year the fireworks were especially fabulous, with a love & compassion theme - it would be [...]

Via Spontaneous Arising’s comments thread - click on the image to go to the full size version

Here at 12thharmonic we’ve been following Bush’s choices of public appointees and we’ve come up with a few suggestions for the remaining Supreme Court seat that we think he would approve of:

Delusional author Michael Crichton
Icon of Crap Ronald Macdonald

Bush’s chief advisor, Jack Daniels
Republican rent-boy Jeff Gannon

Who is Bianca and how does he know what she is going to ask? He is truly losing the plot. It certainly looks like the rumours are true, and that’s kind of scary.

Matt Wuerker

Bush’s note to Lizard Woman during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York

Yahoo via Crooks and Liars

Steve Bell for the Guardian

Via Norwegianity
“Thanks for all the help”

From Salon.com
“No one can say they didn’t see it coming”
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By Sidney Blumenthal
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 [...]