Richard Cheese and Lounge Against The Machine: Personal Jesus
Every nation has its own Mexicans. And as the Christendom celebrates the birth of the most famous Mexican of all, I’d like to wish everyone, regardless of their faith or belief, peace on Earth and goodwill toward men. We’re going to need a lot of both in the coming year.
Ann Peebles – I Can’t Stand The Rain
OK, OK… Enough is enough. It’s been raining for two weeks straight here. A month, if you don’t count brief intermissions. I mean, this is seriously starting to get on my nerves. I feel like a fucking goldfish in a bowl. All that’s missing is someome throwing fish food at me. There’s more water in the air around me than on the ground and it’s freaking damp. You know the dampness that seeps right to your bones no matter what you wear? Well, this is it.
I’m getting cranky from all the water around me and you don’t want to be near me when I’m cranky. A couple more days of this and I’ll start violating other people’s human rights and there won’t be a thing anyone will be able to do about it. I mean, if it were up to me I’d pass a law limiting bad weather to two, three days in a month. But who am I kidding? Even if it passed we all know the state of the rule of law in this country. Fuck!.
An umbrella? It don’t matter if you have one or not, because it’s raining from all sides. Even upwards. I mean, seriously, people! If I wanted to go for a swim I’d board a plane for the Maldives. But the way things are now, I’m actually thinking of joinig the Jehova’s witnesses and dragging a raft on top of Šmarna gora (livecam), a hill near Ljubljana. Yes, it’s that bad.
You don’t believe me? Go see for yourselves. Visit The Firm’s website and click “Poslušajte v živo” (center page). There’s a panoramic view of Ljubljana after noon local time. And it ain’t pretty.
Just because I think there’s a hint of possibility that Dimitrij Rupel plays a role in a mind-boggling political gamble by PM Borut Pahor, it doesn’t mean I have to like him. Or that I like the fact that Pahor gave him a job. In fact, there are precious few things I like about Dimitrij and the fact that he seems to believe that he is somehow entitled to a senior governmental job is not one of them. In fact, I’m fed up with seeing his face all over the news for the past eighteen years. Given the fact that most of Slovenia went apeshit upon hearing that Rupel had at least one political life left and that Facebook groups are being populated faster than a rabbit hole during a swinger party, I was thinking of printing large amounts of anti-Rupel T-shirts and selling them over the net.
The sign reads: “I’ve ‘ad it with ‘im!”
But then again I’m struggling to post every day as it is. If I were to start selling T-shirts I might as well stop doing everything else for a while. Besides – after two months noone will remember any of this and I’d be stuck with a zillion T-shirts and a very angry Chinese guy on the other side of the phone conversation.
So I thought I’d just upload the EPS file for you to download and print as many T-shirts as you like. Click here to download the EPS file (14 MB) and don’t forget to send back a photo with the results.
Josip Broz Tito (sketch by Božidar Jakac)
Were it not for the good doctor, It would have slipped past me. But it didn’t 
Today is the 29th.
The picture is symbolic. Plowing services were scarse yesterday (source)
When driving from Ljubljana to Celovec, take the following into account
Lesson No. 1: Do not go via Korensko sedlo. Ever
Lesson No. 2: The above does not necesarily mean that you have to go via Ljubelj moutain pass.
Lesson No. 3: Lesson No. 2 applies especially in case of heavy snow. In which case use Karavanke tunnel
Lesson No. 4: There are still good people on this Earth. However, a certain subcontractor of ÖAMTC is not one of them. While he did tow me & my ride back to the Slovenian side of the border, he charged me almost 30 percent above what the operator said over the phone.
But hey… all is well that ends well. Noone was hurt and the plane took off with a full complement of passangers.
P.S.: We’ll get more political soon. There’s lots to tell…
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ElectoralVote.com has a lovely scenario of what can happen if China wants to cash in on the American nightmare:
Asian countries, especially China, own hundreds of billions of dollars worth of treasury bills. Now suppose the Chinese government decides it wants to get into the car manufacturing business so it makes a deal with Toyota, now the world’s largest car manufacturer, to buy GM outright for a song and move its factories to China to be operated by Toyota but employing Chinese workers. All they keep is the U.S. dealer network and millions of American jobs are lost. If the next President nixes the purchase of GM, the Chinese sell their treasury bills and the dollar collapses.
Could it be that the US administration is going about nationalising most of it financial market to drive out Mid-East and Chinese capital? And could it be that it is actively twidling its thumbs while stocks tumble, to get a better price on the companies it intends to nationalise?
Just a thought….
But the way things are going, you’re soon liable to go out to buy a toaster and it’ll come with a bank….(more here)
In other news:
Outgoing PM Janez Janša filed a suit against against three people because of the Patria affair: The Finnish YLE reporter Magnus Berglund, the author of the programme which claims Janša took a bribe and two people who appeared in the programme: Bojan Potočnik, former Chief of Police (under Janša’s tenure) and former Advisor to the President, last seen running for MP on LDS ticket and Milan Švajger, CEO of Sistemska tehnika, the company that lost the tender for APCs.
About effing time, he did. Just too bad he’s probably aiming at case being dropped as soon as he leaves the office. Janša filed a suit as PM, and since he will cease being one soon enough, he will probably lose legal interest and the case will be dropped.
While he will rant on about how he was denied justice…
Just a few lines to chew on:
The Court of Audit issued its audit of last year’s budget.. The gist of it? While the government claimed to have created a 37 million euros in surplus, the auditors discovered that they’ve created a 9 million euros in deficit. Ther reason? The government failed to declare a transfer of Telekom shares to state-fund SOD, which would (and indeed did) put the budget in red. Looks like pengovsky was right nine months ago. It just wasn’t NKBM.
The Prez decided to convene the new parliament on 15 October and gave a reception for members of the outgoing parliament and government, but PM Janša failed to attend.. So did two thirds of his cabinet and almost half of MPs. What the fuck? Your President hosts a party for you, thanking you for your service to the country and you can’t find the time? Jesus! I mean, I know defeats hurt, but this….?
Karel Erjavec of DeSUS needn’t fear for his future. If coalition talks fail, he will aparently film remakes of several H’wood classics.
P.S.: This post was initally supposed to be published on Saturday, but it somehow wasn’t.
