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blamebramptonThis is simply ridiculous. Three weeks and I still can't use my little finger to tension the yarn while I knit. Absurd! shiv5468's brilliant craft posts have me all inspired!
In other news, East Timor's president was shot and he is in serious condition in Darwin, but apparently this was not reported widely in the US according to my literate and reliable friends. Sigh.
The Australian Prime Minister will apologise to the indigenous population in just under six hours, partially for the whole dispossessing them against contemporary international law thing, mostly for the more recent stolen children thing, which ended some time after the previous Prime Minister was in Parliament, yet for which he always insisted he felt absolutely no personal guilt. Happily, new PM KRudd has a soul.
And I have shorter, chestnuttier hair, because I desperately needed to procrastinate today.
shiv5468's brilliant craft posts have me all inspired!In other news, East Timor's president was shot and he is in serious condition in Darwin, but apparently this was not reported widely in the US according to my literate and reliable friends. Sigh.
The Australian Prime Minister will apologise to the indigenous population in just under six hours, partially for the whole dispossessing them against contemporary international law thing, mostly for the more recent stolen children thing, which ended some time after the previous Prime Minister was in Parliament, yet for which he always insisted he felt absolutely no personal guilt. Happily, new PM KRudd has a soul.
And I have shorter, chestnuttier hair, because I desperately needed to procrastinate today.
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Date: 2008-02-12 05:37 pm (UTC)While it wasn't universal, it's the sort of thing that fragments communities. How do you believe you're part of a nation when that nation denies your basic rights? (Oh, look, gay subtext again!) To be fair, there was this wacky belief that the Aboriginals were a dying race. I remember school in England where we were taught the Tasmanian Aboriginals were extinct. Then I came here, went to Tasmania, and met a few who were very definite that having the odd whitefella in their family tree did not invalidate their existence.
(It's just below the top of my hips, so not short short by any stretch, but I was expecting a couple of inches more at the end of the process.)