The View From the Rathole

April 9th - No news is good news

2006-04-09T21:11:00.000+10:00

So I'm not bringing you any news today. It's all just too damn boring it's unbelievable. In fact what we present is more believable than what's going on around the world at the moment. To give you an idea how interminably boring the news is, the Prime Minister of Thailand has resigned. The French are still throwing chairs at one another over the labour laws, the Belorussians are just fucked. And

April 8th - And they gasped in awe

2006-04-08T06:19:00.000+10:00

Every now and then and because TVFR is your best source for the best news ever, presented the way you really want to read it, I lose track of what I'm thinking. And lose their INTEREST as you fall onto faulty sentence structure! Blasphemy Paul, blasphemy.But I have proof in front of me today that, despite the wishes and advice of people who know - and in absolute disregard for the national

April 7th - Martial Madness Day

2006-04-07T07:28:00.000+10:00

Bloomberg and others report the United Nations is forming a new council, the Human Rights Council to replace the old Human Rights Commission. We here at TVFR are moved to think back to such lovely and ultimately meaningless catchphrases like Versailles Treaty, Locarno Pact and League of Nations. No, remember we talked about this, only you are moved to remember shit that happened before I was

April 6th. TVFR Day

2006-04-06T11:35:00.000+10:00

Yes, that's right my pretties, it's TVFR Day brought to you by the numbers 36, 27 and 35 and the letters S.A.Y. N.O. T.O. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S.To quote a hypocrite, "Turn off the TV and go outside".The Chicago Sun-Times has given TVFR a gift and presented it on a silver platter.Really makes you proud to be anything but American doesn't it. At first I thought this was a very clever April Fools joke,

2006-04-05T14:09:00.000+10:00

Seriously crazy shit be goin down people. But is that really news? Today in the world there was some stuff that really rattled the cages. Wait, it should have rattled the cages, but it hasn't yet, and won't anytime soon. George Bush and The USoMNA? Don't worry, he knows you like the back of Laura's head, an intimate connection with the image he sees every time he fucks something (which, if Laura

April 2nd. The Day After.

2006-04-03T08:08:00.000+10:00

Who would have believed us if we brought you the News from The View yesterday, hmm?NobodyTired of picking on old subjects, save to highlight those we picked as having earned themselves Prize Clacker Awards, The Thai Prime Minister, the French Prime Minister and the Belarussian Prime Minister, to name but three and those three must be feeling like proper dopes now, I'm back in the saddle after a

2006-03-28T23:59:00.000+11:00

The news that broke the internet the other day, brought to you first by TVFR seems also to have broken the bank. The Sydney Daily Mirror reports Tom (I was a dick for dumping Nic) Cruise has been sighted almost sucking the dick of the new richest man in Australia, James Packer, in a bit to get some funds for the cash-strapped Church of Scientology. El Graspy Tomaso has suggested James donate his

March 27th - or the answer is 42

2006-03-27T05:38:00.000+11:00

The L.A. Times reports..."Scientists in northeastern Ethiopia said they have discovered the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus and modern humans."Haven't we been here before? They find a shard of skull an inch square and from that they can deduce the individual of whom it formed a part was 165cms tall, weighed 58kgs, had shoulder-length

March 26th - The News that Broke the Internet

2006-03-26T06:27:00.000+11:00

Starting off today with a little bit of trivia. I Tehcarp (Anton) write my comments after Paul writes everything with merit. Today however I have not the time to do the thorough go over I might have normally so you can all enjoy an all white (just how you like it) TVFR. I should be back tomorrow with some of "the good shit"May your village remain un-razed.-AntonScientology founder, L Ron Hubbard,

March 25, 2006 - homage to news that isn't.

2006-03-25T14:57:00.000+11:00

In it's continued quest to bring to the world The News That Isn't, The New York Times reported from Le Louvre on the paintings of one Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingues.TVFR can give you the link, but you won't see the whole thing unless you're a subscriber.Not a suggested course of action. Think of boredom, then think of having it e-mailed to you.Here are some of the more pompous quotations contained

March 24, 2006.

2006-03-24T07:16:00.000+11:00

And the propagandists saw the work thus done and verily did they cream their pants as one...The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Party reported on the attendance thereof by the People's Minister for Foreign Affairs today.If you thought all that "People's" nonsense was old hat and the Chinese government had outgrown all that hokey bullshit, think again. They're still up to their People's

March 23, 2006 on its head

2006-03-23T13:32:00.000+11:00

In the world of blogging, there are ways to do things and then there are ways not to do things. In England, Tracy Williams did the wrong thing for the wrong reason and now she's in TVFR.Or the right reason, if you take a spin on this. Tracy just did what people with no idea what goes on around them normally do. People like her just bitch about whatever is bothering them. We've just discovered,

22nd March, 2006. International Day of the Yawn.

2006-03-22T00:06:00.000+11:00

It's sleepy hollow here at TVFR today, where we break news like the wind, because we reported the rigged election in Belarus 3 days ago and at the time of this writing, 1851 news sources from around the world are still banging on about it.You may be expecting something along the lines of a year reference for the number 1851. January 1, 1851 was a Monday. There, happy? Also this was the year news

March 20th - ish.

2006-03-20T15:21:00.000+11:00

CTV reports of a massive bed bug problem.Since we know you want TVFR's perspective on this, and since Anton found the report before I did, it comes down to this:Lefty greenies have reamed you again."The current generation of exterminators has been caught unaware by these pests, which were all but forgotten for decades. They blame the comeback on several factors, primarily increased global travel

March 19th or something

2006-03-20T00:46:00.000+11:00

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the rightHere I am, stuck in the middle with you So say Keith Urban's lyrics but we here at TVFR tend to take a dim view when the clowns take up rifles in strategic vantage points around the central square where the president is making a speech to a disgruntled crowd.London's Times Online brings us news of vote rigging and strong arm tactics marking this

Saturday March 18th.

2006-03-19T05:08:00.000+11:00

Reuters, one of those two bastions of respectable wire services pumping out articles of interest and giving them the glorified status of importance for over 4000 years, reports from Paris what we here at TVFR brought to you last week - because we're just that damn good - that the students in Paris will do anything to avoid anything that gives the impression of being self responsibility.

Friday, March 17th 2006: A day to forget.

2006-03-18T09:19:00.000+11:00

Who is Carla Martin and why is she in trouble?My guess is she is a recovering crack whore.So screams the headline on CNN.comGuess I was wrong, still, crack for sex Carla? You know you want it. Carla Martin used to be a flight attendant and still is a single mother.Personally, I couldn't give a tinker's damn. Rat might not, but according

March 16th: One day early

2006-03-16T14:34:00.000+11:00

Taking a stab at the editorial side of TVFR, the cynic will be bringing you the article upon which Rat will pontificate.I will?Keeping this sort of thing in-the-know is important, freedom from America is at stake. Three weeks ago we had the American populace asking Canada to extradite one of our citizens for breaking an American law - from Canada. Our "Prince of Pot" is charged with selling seeds

March 15 2006 Theme: Politics

2006-03-15T18:48:00.000+11:00

Last night while the rest of the world slept, Italian TV audiences slept harder. Adopting the American model of the televised debate between the national leader and the contender for the top spot, Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi went head to head for the edification of political analysts and, it seems, nobody else. Do political analysts even watch these things? Honestly, how many of you even

Tuesday, March 14th 2006.

2006-03-14T22:36:00.000+11:00

Welcome to the first edition of The View From the Rathole. The View is a broad look at what's making news around the planet. So broad a view, it spans the Pacific Ocean and two hemispheres, north to south and east to west. The View provides real balance on real stories.If the whole two colour buisness is getting confusing remember that this blog has two contributers. The white writing is The Rat,