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This dog could round up sheep just by amazing them.

Meanwhile…

Tonight Barry Hall has apologised for his “brain snap” ["It wasn't me, mate, it was me brain", which is strangely similar to the standard 'misspoke' gambit: "it wasn't me it was me mouth"] as he goes off to rest his wrist. We seem to have heard his apology before….

the Standard Form Mea Culpa – the script that is in the red file of every PR office in the world, the one that is pulled out on a weekly basis to help out Australian Rugby League and AFL footballers – “I’ve let meself down, Oi’ve let me family down and I’ve let the public of this great country down. I’m ashamed a what I done and oi’m gunna start a Foundation for Kiddies. I just ask for understanding from youse to leave us some privacy in this stressful time so that we can try to rebuild our lives.”

Actually Barry hall said he wants to “try” to better himself. There is no try. Do or do not.

And eslewhere…

via Club Troppo, we learn that George Bush is pretty much utterly condemned by history already. HNN reports that “an unscientific poll of professional historians…produced results far worse for a president clinging to the hope that history will someday take a kinder view of his presidency than does contemporary public opinion…In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period…98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.

“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.”

“…With his unprovoked and disastrous war of aggression in Iraq and his monstrous deficits, Bush has set this country on a course that will take decades to correct,” said another historian. “When future historians look back to identify the moment at which the United States began to lose its position of world leadership, they will point—rightly—to the Bush presidency. Thanks to his policies, it is now easy to see America losing out to its competitors in any number of area: China is rapidly becoming the manufacturing powerhouse of the next century, India the high tech and services leader, and Europe the region with the best quality of life…”

“…the current president combines traits of some of his failed predecessors: the paranoia of Nixon, the ethics of Harding and the good sense of Herbert Hoover…”

“…an ideologue who got the nation into a totally unnecessary war, and has broken the Constitution more often than even Nixon. He is not a conservative, nor a Christian, just an immoral man…”

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