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This is sick…..And STUPID 2006-12-24 02:13:09 Sick Bastards
LITTLE penguins in St Kilda have been butchered in a brutal attack.
Five of the birds have been killed in what researchers at the bird colony say is the most sickening brutality they have seen.
The killers climbed security gates at the St Kilda breakwater on Wednesday night.
The dead birds were repeatedly stabbed or had their [...]
BAH HUMBUG! 2006-12-24 06:37:20 OK so I am a cantankerous old bastard at times, but I have to comment on this. We watched A Christmas Carol with George C Scott in it last evening. I am sure your familiar with the story. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a business man. A pillar of society. A hard [...]
Seasons Greetings from Boz 2006-12-25 10:09:25 Seasons greetings to all of you! Mercifully, at my end it's pretty much all over.
Having said that I just thought I'd pass along a special message. Yes, it's sentimental but that's the type of guy I am...
Anyway, enough about all that. I take comfort in the fact that I'm not the only one who [...] Read more:Greetings
Spam 2006-12-26 10:52:44 The site has been hit by mega spam in the last three days, with one of the blogs collecting over 10,000 usless spam comments. This blog has got over 5,000. I have tightened the spam controls on this blog only (till I see how it goes). If you have trouble commenting, please [...]
Simple Paddy 2006-12-27 01:35:47 I am but a simple person, I confess it without shame or embarrassment. I guess that's why I do not understand the current recycled sewerage debate going on here in Australia. It seems they want us to drink our refuse water. All cleaned up and decontaminated of course. They tell us [...] Read more:Simple
, Paddy
Let It Snow 2006-12-26 23:38:41 Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It doesn't show signs of Pauseping,
And I've bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
When we finally kiss goodnight,
How [...]
Melbourne-The New Sudan 2006-12-27 06:49:30 Richard Kerbaj from The Australian newspaper claims that refugees are "turning to crime for kicks" on the streets of Melbourne
--In particular the Sudan
ese.
A guy called Akoc A. Manhiem is a Melbourne-based Sudanese leader. He heads the "Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia support network". Manheim is reported to have said that "young members of his [...]
Who Loves Ya Baby? 2006-12-29 17:04:35 Senator John Kerry went to Iraq. I don't believe the troops were too thrilled:
Caption: Jon Cary eating humble pie!
The troops had another visitor. Kid Rock has steadfastly supported our troops. His reception was a wee bit different:
Another Year Gone But Not Forgotten 2006-12-31 07:12:41 2006 seems to be somewhat of a dull year. No major terrorist attacks outside of the Middle East. Terrorist plot to transportation were stopped in the nick of time. That didn't stop airport security from terrorizing the average passenger in more humiliating ways. I'm not sure I find instant death by "baby bomber" worse than [...] Read more:Forgotten
You Took The Words Right Outa My… 2007-01-01 04:40:09 For the longest time I have had a problem with how poorly I am treated as a viewer by the free to air networks. A great example of this is the contempt with which Channel 9 have handled "Third Watch"--the best "emergency service" drama I have ever seen. Third watch has been shunted from time [...] Read more:Words
, Right
I'm Bored 2007-01-02 05:10:57 Not to worry, it seems I am not the only one. In last weeks Australian
LET'S get this straight from the start: just about every Australian has drunk recycled water. So it is hardly surprising that 70 per cent of Australians, as reported in the Boxing Day Newspoll, are not fussed about drinking it
In todays [...] Read more:Bored
TEXAS 2007-01-02 15:22:02 Imagine that you're asleep in bed and that you are awakened by the sound of intruders who are assaulting your wife in another room of the house--what would you do?
Would you pull the covers up over your head and pretend that it was all a bad dream? Would you say to yourself that "She'll [...]
To Each Their Own 2007-01-03 07:47:33 If your so poor you need a soup handout, you have little room to demand what flavor that soup is. If your starving and someone offers you a food you don't eat, stiff. Eat it or starve. Not so according to some in France (surprise surprise)
A FRENCH organisation with far-right links can [...]
Moralizing While Drunk 2007-01-03 19:04:07 One of the secretaries where I work has a serious drinking problem. She has had it for years. Her latest binge caused her to miss work for 3 1/2 weeks. When she showed up yesterday, she was still under the influence. It's bad enough that she was drunk and also suffering [...]
Not Good 2007-01-03 22:46:44 A newspapers job is to report the news. Nothing more, nothing less. Most newspapers these days seem to have trouble accurately doing even that much. They are not there to be "activists" they are there to (allegedly) keep us informed.
So whats this all about then?
SHOULD the age of consent be [...]
Predictable Paddy 2007-01-04 02:19:06 How predictable was this?
2007 could be 'hottest on record'
THE coming year was likely to be the warmest on record around the world, climate change experts at Britain's Met Office said today.
The global temperature was predicted to be 0.54C above the 1961-1990 average of 14C, it said.
It said there was a 60 per cent probability that [...] Read more:Predictable
, Paddy
Idiot Of The Year (So Far) 2007-01-04 14:41:09 "Moon Moon" was her name and she was a complete idiot. And why do I speak of Moon Moon in the past tense I hear you ask?
Well, it's because she decided to hang herself out of sympathy for the recently executed Saddam Hussein...
This from the Herald Sun...
A 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself [...]
"Primitive Weapons" 2007-01-04 14:08:31 "Primitive
weapons" is a euphemism given by the news media and a lot of supporters of Palestinian terrorists. These weapons include Molotov cocktails, stones, and Kassam rockets. I'm not even going to write about the numerous Israelis shot by Palestinian terrorists nor those killed by suicide bombers. One thing all these "primitive [...] Read more:Weapons
Global Warming 2007-01-04 13:53:08 That dastardly Global
Warming has claimed two more lives this very evening (Australia time)
The first was this unfortunate Japanese women
A 21-year-old Japanese student has been arrested over the death of his sister whose naked body was found cut into a dozen pieces at their home.
Yuki Muto was held on initial charges of mutilating a body, [...] Read more:Global Warming
I Rock 2007-01-05 01:32:37 Well it only took one day. In this post here I said
While we are predicting stuff, I have one. At some time in 2007 I predict a 100% probability that some "expert" will tell us this is the hottest, coldest, wettest, driest, windiest, stillest, wildest, calmest year on record.
One day after quoting British Meteorological [...]
*Sigh* 2007-01-05 01:02:11 Todays paper has a blurred picture of Marie Greening Zidan's rapist/killer. Apparently there is a suppression order against identifying him, because the judge thought it might harm his chances of rehabilitation. That would be a shame now wouldn't it. I am not going to prattle on about the case as a whole, [...]
No Sale 2007-01-05 12:25:51 Uranium to China a mistake, say Greens
THE Australian Greens say selling uranium to China is a mistake which will fuel regional insecurity, and is calling on the foreign minister to rule out selling uranium to India.
"Selling uranium to China is a mistake with potentially catastrophic consequences,'' Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said.
Would Greens senator Kerry Nettle [...]
Haiti 2007-01-06 11:16:35 The Republic of Haiti is experiencing overcrowding in their jails but bless them, it's all for a good cause.
This from the HERALD SUN...
HAITI'S prisons have grown so crowded prisoners must take turns sleeping as police step up arrests of alleged gangsters blamed for a wave of violence and kidnappings, government and human rights officials said [...]
Public Flogging 2007-01-07 10:33:41 A while ago I wrote THIS post about a time when jails were not used as punishment--they instead functioned only as holding pens for crooks until the appropriate punishment for them had been decided upon.
Well here we have a modern day story of public flogging and you'd never guess where it has taken place.
TEHRAN...
This from [...] Read more:Public
Secret??? 2007-01-07 23:04:22 Since when is this a secret???
Secret mission to nuke atomic plant
ISRAEL has reportedly drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment plant with nuclear weapons.
Well DUHHHHHH.
We all know if Iran is allowed to develop nukes, they will test them on Israel. No one else will have the balls to protect them, so of [...]
Lessons. 2007-01-07 22:59:52 Wait for the civil libertarians to bitch about this.
Bow and arrow man shot by police
POLICE have shot a man who was armed with a hunting bow and arrow during an altercation in Victoria's south-east overnight.
Ambulance officers went to an address at Sonia Court, Pioneer Bay, near Grantville, after a report of a man [...] Read more:Lessons
Snakes on a Plane (2006) 2007-01-10 14:43:33 Short Review:
A masterful effort at making the cinematic equlivant to a fart lighting contest. Inherently juvenile with some brief moments of flash, but in the end, the thing simply stinks.
Review:
This is a bad movie, a very bad movie. It's not even the good kind of bad movie that the filmmakers wanted this to become. It [...] Read more:Snakes
, Plane
Bush Must Not Back Down 2007-01-10 07:12:41 Con George over at Nemesis has written a sensational letter to George Bush regarding the war in Iraq. I suggest that you go and read it HERE. Con suggests that President Bush use "major military force" amongst other things--it really is a fascinating post.
Anyway, perhaps the President has read the letter because according to the [...]
Bag Man 2007-01-09 11:22:54 Ian Kiernan is the chairman of an organisation called "Clean Up Australia" whose mission is "to inspire and work with communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment."
Kiernan wants to ban all plastic shopping bags from supermarkets and I suppose everywhere else for that matter.
I think the idea is stupid...
Oh yes, on the [...]
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