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It's time to earn some Serious Cash 2006-10-22 11:11:45 Back in January, I wrote a post on R&R about setting up an investment club to invest in the stock market.
The rules I suggested back then were:
Here's what I was thinking:
1. 10 people
2. $110 startup for initial investing and costs.
3. $100 per month.
4. Monthly meetings.
5. Fortnightly update emails from whoever we decide to be club [...]
Balaclava Revisited 2006-10-21 07:55:51 Rachy over at Legless In Perpetuum--Not only is she back in action (which we're all delighted about) but she's on fire. Rachy has quite a bit to say about the disgraceful incident that took place recently involving Menachem Vorchheimer--An Australian Jew living in the Balaclava / St. Kilda East area of Melbourne.
The people involved in [...] Read more:Revisited
With a Grain of Salt 2006-10-20 17:37:43 This was in the comedy section of YouTube.
What do you think? Is the Sheik speaking truth to the power or is it a comedy sketch? I especially liked the bit about how long it takes men to think about even the simplest of things. Read more:Grain
Ahm Ina Jihad 2006-10-20 14:13:05 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Ahm Ina Jihad
for fun) is a complete tool.
However I do admit that there is a possibility that my harsh judgement of the man is based on what I have read about him.
I have never met this guy so who the hell knows...Good ole Mahmoud may NOT be a complete idiot. [...]
Wow. 2006-10-20 02:36:32 They look so normal and she looks so happy (and maybe a little stoned).
A HURRICANE Katrina survivor is believed to have murdered, dismembered and cooked his girlfriend before jumping from a hotel roof to his death.
A suicide note found on the body of Zackery Bowen, 28, led police to a French Quarter flat where they [...]
Jesus H Christ. 2006-10-19 15:21:06 BRITISH music star Sting says contemporary rock music is so stagnant he prefers to sing 16th century English ballads.
"Rock music has come to a standstill, it's not going forward anymore, it only bores me," Die Zeit quoted Sting as saying.
The guy sang "a do do do a da da da is all I want to [...] Read more:Jesus
, Christ
Fare thee well and get ye lost 2006-10-19 02:26:27 While at the Victims Of Crime rally last week, I happened to notice a group of people erecting banners on the steps of Parliament house, just to the left of the main speakers podium. "People Power", their unfurled banners proclaimed. Casual watchers were left with the very distinct impression that these people were [...]
Thank You For Smoking (2005) 2006-10-17 13:20:40 SHORT REVIEW:
Hollywood griping about the low morals of big tobacco. It's like having PETA being concerned The ACLU is too irrational.
REVIEW:
Satire is a delicate thing. If you push it to lightly, people will miss the point. Push it too hard you'll be dismissed as preaching. Jason Reitman manages his clever film [...] Read more:Thank
, Smoking
Christian Death Beasts 2006-10-17 12:35:08 Minister for stupidity an indignation Kevin "Elmer J' Rudd has once again performed his Tantric fence hopping two-step on religion that has got even the most astute critics scratching their heads. Only two weeks ago Labor's answer to Germaine Greer was urging Church and Christian
groups to get more involved in Australian politics, but with [...]
Bone-Head 2006-10-17 12:14:29 Aaahhhhh BONO. Most people identify him with that U2 band and most of those caring sharing lefty "save the universe" types no doubt see him as the new Messiah--Right up there with GELDOF the band-aid man and the rest of them! His political views these days almost overshadow the fact that in the end, BONO [...]
I find this troubling. 2006-10-23 01:54:14 Lay down the gloves
THE violent death of David Hookes, former cricketer and popular broadcaster, touched many people.
Family and friends were devastated. But it is fair to say that Zdravko Micevic, the bouncer with whom Hookes clashed outside a St Kilda hotel in January 2004, was also scarred by the experience.
Such is the legacy of violence [...]
Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 2006-10-23 15:29:09 SHORT REVIEW:
Previous generations got John Wayne, we get a self-hating drunk crying in his beer.
REVIEW:
Wake me up if they decide to make a movie about Iwo Jima. This about sums up my experience screening this distracted choppy, dropped ball of a movie.
Clint Eastwood's film has less to do with the actual battle in the [...] Read more:Fathers
This is great! 2006-10-24 01:24:26 This is one of the best things I have seen in years. This type of song is not uncommon in the US, but I know of very few (actually I know of almost none) from an Australian perspective. Although this is not my type of music as a rule, I hope it goes [...]
Majority Rules? 2006-10-24 07:34:11 Smith Street Collingwood has for many years shown great potential in becoming a groovy, appealing place to hang out in--Much like it's bigger (and better) brother Brunswick Street. Sadly, Smith Street has been forever held to ransom by the scumbag element of society who hang out there. This fact has brought the area into disrepute--one [...] Read more:Rules
, Majority
Just a bit of fun 2006-10-24 07:29:38 Father vows justice on DVD gang
THE devastated father of a teenage girl shown degraded and sexually abused on a DVD vows to hunt down those responsible.
The film shows up to 12 youths from the outer western suburb of Werribee attacking the girl, said to be intellectually impaired.
It shows members of the group urinating on the [...]
Donations Being Accepted 2006-10-24 23:27:58 Please help my dream come true. I've always wanted one of these. I only need around $5 million!!
I believe this built at Trinity Marine in Gulfport Read more:Donations
, Accepted
Whodunnit? 2006-10-25 02:39:57 Phar Lap didn't always look like a champion. Born in Timaru, New Zealand, in 1926, he was sold for the bargain price of 160 guineas ($336.00). When he arrived in Australia his new owner, American-born David J. Davis, was not very impressed with him. He was skinny and clumsy, with warts all over his head. [...]
37-6-18-5-14-19-3-11 2006-10-28 10:00:31 37-18-14-19-15-11...This isn't last weeks Tattslotto numbers; these are numbers that relate to a case currently making it in our newspapers here. When it comes to sentencing in this country the glass is always half empty in terms of my attitude towards it--I'm constantly dismayed at what violent offenders receive as punishment rather than being glad [...]
Please Donate! It's a Good Cause 2006-10-27 03:01:45 Hi all,
During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I'll be growin a moustache. That's right I'm bringing the Mo back because I'm passionate about changing the state of men's health.
Male health is a major issue, did you know:
Men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy of males is 6 years less [...] Read more:Please
, Cause
, Donate
One Of The Greatest 2006-10-26 15:57:36 The guys in this picture were responsible for one of the greatest hard rock albums ever recorded.
Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell.
Black Sabbath reunites without Ozzy
By Dean Goodman in Los Angeles
OZZY Osbourne's bandmates in British heavy metal group Black Sabbath have reunited without the singer for a planned tour early near year.
The threesome have [...] Read more:Greatest
Dead At Last 2006-10-26 13:07:42 Serial killer Danny Rolling is dead thanks to an all too painless lethal injection courtesy of the State of Florida. Known as the "Gainesville Ripper", this psycho raped mutilated and murdered five young women back in 1990. Read all about it HERE if you wish.
Mark Elliott--Spokesperson for a mob called "Floridians for Alternatives to the [...]
I agree 2006-10-26 03:21:40 DVD thugs 'shouldn't be identified'
THOSE involved in making and selling a DVD that depicts the sexual assault and degradation of a teenage girl by up to a dozen youths should not be named and shamed, Law Council of Australia president John North said today.
Copies of the DVD, which was filmed in the western Melbourne suburb [...]
Woman are evil….like a slab of raw meat. 2006-10-26 02:22:59 This beggars belief.
Muslim leader blames women for sex attacks
THE nation's most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals.
In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali also [...]
Mission Impossible III (2006) 2006-10-30 15:21:16 SHORT REVIEW:
The media reports of Tom Cruise's kid's feces being bronzed may be in error. As it turns out, it may actually be the shooting script for this film.
REVIEW:
There are two big issues with this Tom Cruise film. Issue number one is Tom Cruise. Issue number two is the film. I'm not the first person [...] Read more:Mission
, Mission Impossible
Whitepage 2006-10-31 06:04:09 One year ago yesterday I wrote this
There is a new kid on the block which claims to be the first Australian weblog hosting service. This is untrue as it happens. We and Gary Gravett came well before them, with the first weblog hosted but not written by us, being launched in late 2002. It was [...]
A Rant 2006-10-31 05:43:12 I haven't had a good old rant for months and months, but today is a good day to rant.
Harsh language follows!! You have been warned.
Firstly because I have been painting, I have paint from arsehole to breakfast time, under my arm and between my fucking toes fer Chrissakes. I hate panting. [...]
A.R.I.A. 2006-10-31 09:58:27 The Australian Recording Industry Awards (ARIA) aired a couple of nights ago--I didn't watch them. I was pleased to find out though that Wolfmother won three major awards. Their excellent blend of hard rock grooves in the tradition of Black Sabbath has actually attracted major success for the young lads--Good onnem!
Anyway, all that aside [...]
This guy was historys first suicide bomber 2006-11-01 00:50:36 This could turn into another rant, but I'll try and keep it more civil than the last one. Read this from today's Australian newspaper website (you will need to scroll down a little bit).
Award-winning writer Richard Flanagan in his new novel, The Unknown Terrorist, dedicated to David Hicks:
JESUS ... had no choice when confronted [...]
Little Known Worker's Holiday 2006-11-01 04:18:10 The Onion brings us word of this forgotten day:
WASHINGTON, DC—In workplaces as diverse as a Payless ShoeSource in Andover, NH, to Tyson Foods' largest plant in Emporia, KS, American workers joined their international counterparts Monday in commemorating the 10 millionth "Bring Yourself To Work Day" with brief, mandatory celebrations.
My workplace didn't even have a celebration!! [...] Read more:Worker
, Holiday
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