Katie this is just strange.

In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:

"Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader."

"res ipsa loquitor" - [the thing speaks for itself]

[barrk]

That is perfect!!! I guess you can't f**k with the hand of fate...no matter how many times you count the ballots!

1. "Home of greatest power" can have several definitions:

Moral Power -- Jean Chretain, Canada

Physical Power -- Putin, Russia (they have better
weightlifters)

Spirtual Power -- Whoever gets elected in Israel

2. "the millenium" I believe the calendar has changed
since 1555. Several days have been added. Thus the
millenium of Nostradamus could easily be sometime in Feb.
Furthermore, there are several different years: Hebrew,
Chinese, Vietnamese, Islamic, .....

Dangerous things, prophecies

[barrk]

It could easily be some time in February or even January...inauguration day maybe????

[Guv]

Is that the first time he has been wrong? I am impressed. He must have made dozens (or more predictions) which were right on the money.

You underprivileged foreigners do not have access to some of the knowledge easily available in the USA. I refer to the National Inquirer and similar publications, whose investigative reporters shame those of the New York & London Times.

I do not remember many of them, but as reported by The NI, Nostradamus has been reported to have accurately predicted many events of the 20th century.

Also missed by the NY & London times, but available to those of us who read the superior publications are facts like the following. The skeletons of Adam & Eve were recently discovered in Colorado Cures for cancer have been discovered innumerable times. Atlantis seems to move quite a bit. It has been discovered in various places in the last 50 years. Noah's Ark has been found many times, usually on Mount Ararat. For many years Russian and US intelligence agencies have made extensive use of ESP to obtain each other's secrets. I assume that you stupid British and European foreigners have ignored this technology, since I have seen no reports about similar exploits by MI5 & Interpol.
There are all sorts of other facts not available to everybody. I cannot list them all here. I suggest that you subscribe to the National Inquirer to avoid missing news of future important events. You should check back issues in a local library to catch up on what you have missed.

They still haven't realise that the US is currently shuddering from Bush's coup de' tat. Never fear ANZAC peace keepers will be despatched to return democratic rights to the people of this troubled land.

The ANZAC lead peace keeping force will consist of troops drawn from the regular armies of Serbia, Yemen, Granada, Mexcio, and of course Russia.

[paulw]

Luckily for us Brits, we can ignore Coups d'Etat in the US and relax in the knowledge that the US is simply trying to prove to the rest of the world that Baseball is better than Cricket. The only country taken in so far is Japan.

It is a shame that those antipodean colonials were so bloody keen on cricket. They should know their place!

Jethro: 13 wins on the trot - unbelievable, particularly after a Lara double century!

US Colonials: You will have no idea what I am on about - never mind.

Cheers,

P.

PS I'm joking...

[barrk]

A Zimbabwean politician was quoted as saying that children should study the US election event closely because it shows that election fraud is not only a third world phenomenon. To illustrate the point, he made the following comments:

1. Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third
world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (the CIA).

2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won
based on some old colonial holdover from the nation's pre-democracy past(the electoral college).

3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's "victory" turned on disputed
votes cast in a province governed by his brother!

4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district
heavily favouring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of
voters to vote for the wrong candidate.

5. Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in
near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.

6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were
intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the authority of the self-declared winner's brother.

7. Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that the self-declared winner's "lead" was only 327 votes. Fewer, certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error.

8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.

9. Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a major
province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation and actually led the nation in executions.

10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the high court of that nation.

None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything
other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power. All of us, I imagine, would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad tale of pitiful pre or anti-democracy peoples in some third world struggle.

[paulw]

Phew, thank goodness it was the USA and fraud couldn't possibly be suspected...

Katie, you really are sore, ain't ya?

P.

[barrk]

Yes...I am.

Thanks PaulW am winning some money from the bookmakers on this series. Correctly predicted that Oz would not have to bat again in the second test, and the three test would go into the fifth day.

Have just laid down a lobster at 5/1 on Oz only have to bat once each time in the remaining two tests.

Katie

Some definitions for you

V.I.P Village Idiot President.

Pommie Prisoner of Mother England. Actually the term pommie has been picked up by our local expat community as a term of endearment. Similar to the Italians now embracing the term Wog. Just goes to show every one that ends up down here learns to laugh at themselves.