Hicks charges due ‘next week’.

After torturing David Hicks for 5 years the USA finally says it is almost ready to lay fresh charges against him.
Hicks, who was callously abandoned to his fate by the Australian government after all other US allies in the misguided war against Iraq had *their* captured citizens returned, has been ‘interrogated’ by methods the [...]

I hate online games.

A ‘friend’ sent me a link to Gridlock.
It’s a simple little game based on ‘Rush Hour’ where you move blocks about until you ‘release’ a trapped one… and then move up a level. I’m currently stuck solid on level 31… and cannot see *any* way out… it is *so* frustrating!
Gawd… no wonder I never get [...]

Financial Consultants… grrr…

The wife spent two and a half hours with one tonight… then he has the cheek to want her to pay him $600… personally I reckon *he* should pay *her* for boring her to tears!!

No change for P & O

The ongoing inquest into the lonely death of Diane Brimble is still ongoing, but it appears cruise line P & O are still unable to protect their passengers from predatory males.
The latest episode involves a 16 year old girl who claims she was raped on a cruise just a few days ago. She was prevented [...]

Skaf Gang-Rapes to become a film?

Funding has been approved by NSW state and federal sources for a film to be made about the effects on one of the girls pack raped by Bilal Skaf and his cronies.
I have severe reservations about this sort of film. There was a tv mini-series a few months ago about the horrific death of Anita [...]

Hurley gets his day in court

After months of suspicion of involvement in the death of Palm Island resident Mulrunji Doomadgee. He has already been named as being the ’cause’ of his death, but rather than live a lifetime under a cloud he is to have his day in court in order to prove his innocence.
At the same time the police [...]

Another lesson to be learned.

Yet another tragedy involving kids, cars and heat.
Two small boys aged four and fiveĀ died yesterday after spending several hours locked in the boot of a car in temperatures that reached 34 degrees. They were found by police and rushed to hospital but could not be revived.
There are a lot of questions surrounding this [...]

Want a tumour? Use a cell-phone.

Daily Telegraph printed a report today letting long term users of cell-phones know they are more than 40% more likely than non-users of cell-phones to develop tumours in a specific part of the brain.
I’m cutting down on mine… not that I use it overmuch for talking any more… but I have to wonder what effect [...]

Water… worth its weight in gold?

Two and a half billion dollars to help the Federal government take over and control water resources in all states. Much as I support ’state rights’, centralisation in this case seems essential. There is a huge amount of conflict about the resources of the Murray-Darling system which is controlled to a large extent by New [...]

The Senate Rebels.

Whether because of committment, principle or sheer bloody mindedness, the US Senate has refused to agree to the Shrubket sending more troops to Vietnam… sorry Iraq.
What effect this will have on his credibility and/or the ongoing onflict is yet to be ascertained.
Watch this space.

Bush apes Little Johnnie

With voter support dropping to levels not seen since the heady days of Nixon’s foray into Watergate, George Bush, aka shrublet, aka Dubya is desperately trying to win back some credibility for his lame duck administration.
He may still be the most powerful man in the world but he is still subject to voter pressure. For [...]

Out of the jaws of death – literally.

An abolone diver had a narrow escape today when found he was on his way down the throat of a white pointer shark.
Somehow, maybe reflex action, he hammered at the shark’s face and eyes with the tool he uses to prise the abolone from the rocks and for some reason the shark let him go [...]

The law is an ass.

Little 13 year old Caitlin Hanrick was on a crossing outside her school after a music lesson when she was knocked down and killed allegedly by Adrielle Faith. Faith is in custody facing a number of charges relating to the Caitlin’s death.

However, Peter David Mickelo, aged 19, who was a passenger in the back of [...]

NSW Liberals leap at bandwagon

The NSW Liberal party are unable to see a bandwagon passing by without leaping on it. This time they have taken up the non-story of a potential banning of the Australian flag at a concert event and called for it to be made illegal to ban the use of the flag.
If this is the best [...]

Goodbye Mandy

Possibly *the* most unpopular minister in John Howards government, Amanda Vanstone (Minister for locking Australians up and deporting them), has finally been dumped.
The reason?? Suggesting it’s top give the cabinet a ‘fresh look’ is pure crap. Little Johnnie has realised that Kevin Rudd is making serious inroads into his popularity and for the first time [...]

Bush – Clinton – Bush – Clinton?

Ex-First Lady, Senator Hillary Clinton, has thrown her hat into the presidential election ring to make her attempt at making history in so many ways. She has a damn good chance!
She’d be the fist female president, the first spouse of a president to take on the job etc etc etc. Thing is with a huge [...]

Death in Iraq

Bombs explode daily in Iraq killing and maiming scores if not hundreds. Soldiers also die regularly. Yesterday was one of the worst days for the USA army in some time with 32 of their forces killed.
How long the US public will allow this to continue is a clear concern. Having jumped into the quagmire wtih [...]

Mad dogs and Englishmen…

So the temperature was in the region of 44 degrees C today… so what did we do from 8:30 a.m. onwards?? Cooked sausages on a huge barbie of course. What else?
The wife decided she wanted to cook… God knows why… but she spent the best part of 6 hours poking sausages and interfering with onions. [...]

Castro fighting his last battle?

If reports coming from venezuala are to be believed, Fidel Castro is fighting his last battle. Reports say he is suffering from an intestinal infection and is close to death.
We’ve heard reports of his imminent demise for a while now, but this one seems real.
No doubt the USA administration will be glad when he’s gone [...]

The wife’s first week.

Well… not so much her job, just her first week from *my* perspective… and my opinion is that 5:30 a.m. is not a healthy time for *anyone* to get up. Time was when I used to roll *into* bed at that time. Times change.
Actually, she’s not done too badly so far. Out of [...]

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