Freedom of the Press

I find it very interesting to read articles from various "respected" members of the journalistic community referring to the loss of the right to freedom of the press and freedom of speech with regards to the proposed terror laws and sedition laws.

They write articles to stir the emotions of the public and to say that if the laws get passed then the people of Australia will not be able to be informed like the were in the "good old days". What we effectively have are hacks bleating about the loss of THEIR rights.

These people have never given much of a rats arse about what the public had to say, nor have they had the common decency to report all the facts all the time without dribbling in a bit/lot of their own political slant in order to get THEIR personal agendum into the public eye.

For far too many years, every daily newspaper has put their versions of stories to print (as with the televisual and radio media) but have allowed absolutely NO right of reply to the vast majority with regards to their "reporting". My dear Editors: YOU are the sedition laws that you complain about. YOU are the loss of the right of freedom of speech that you fear you will lose!

What about MY right of free speech? What about MY right to say that I disapprove of the actions of a minority group without it being labelled as a racial slur? Why am I not allowed to reply in print to an editorial comment where the writer clearly has no idea about the facts? Why am I not allowed to comment in print about the bad behaviour or Un-Australian activities of those who govern us?

Journalists refer to Freedom of Information? There was no such thing in this country anyway! If there was anything that was even remotely delicate or could somehow have caused some politician to lose the next election, they would enact some sort of Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card that would allow their corruption to be swept under the carpet.

Where were the journalists and editors when the laws of every state were changed so that the basic tenet of the Westminster System of guilt needing to be proven was removed from every single individual in this country with a drivers licence? If you think you were caught unfairly by a revenue collector *oops*, I mean 'Speed Camera', and you go to court to contest it - you are deemed guilty and you must prove your innocence. Where was the media outcry when this went through?

THEN we have an article from the Gold Coast Bulletin passing comment about democratic behaviour & are trying to make the poor little journalists seem like the downtrodden heroes of the people. That the government want to restrict the flow of information to the people. HA! The GCB should not be throwing any stones in that glass house!

It is true though that these proposed laws are a danger to all people in this country who have an opinion to express (like myself) but to have the bottom-feeding, sea of ineptitude that passes for media and (dis)information in this country trying to champion the cause? Just how loud can you agree with someone while recognising their hypocrisy?

Brackistan

Top sort Nilknarf (dig the new photo, how does one spell a wolf whistle? :) tells me that the new laws being introduced into Victoria are causing many locals to refer to the place as 'Brackistan'. It seems now that you can get locked up for any sort of speech that may insult anyone or anything. Well, cop this: You bunch of wannabe-Taliban, inbred halfwits in Parliament down there - go your hardest! I'm not going to hold my opinion because it hurts your pathetic little feelings.

The reason for this entry is I've noticed a report on News.com.au titled Share a Bus Ticket - Get Fined $524. Apparently there are a range of "harsh" new laws that will see a commuter fined if they give away a ticket to another individual for them to use once the original owner has no more use for it.

"Brackistan" indeed.

So now you are no longer entitled to give away something you purchased regardless of whether Citytrans claims ownership of the ticket or not? You want to stop me in a public area to check my credentials after I have travelled?

"YOU ZERE!!! HALT!!! VERE ARE ZE TRAVEL PAPERS??? YOU MUST SHOW ZE TRAVEL PAPERS!!!"

(Sorry to all those of German descent in making this sound like a German accent. Unfortunately, I just can't think right now of how a Russian border guard would sound…. More appropriate. I like Germany too much to pick on the country or it's people - history is history and it doesn't need to be dredged up every time someone has a gripe with you).

Well, guess what people? I will make a point of finding an inspector and handing off my ticket to someone right under their noses once I am off Citytrans property. I will NOT be producing identification and I WILL be defending myself if they try to apprehend me for doing the right thing (that is: buying a valid ticket to travel). What I do with it afterwards is my business. If they don't like it, they can call The Salvation Army as I'm sure that they will give a shit. (Incidently, how about logging onto their site and donating something to a mob who really do care about the underpriviledged? Just a thought….)

While on the subject of fares, how about someone in Citytrans produce something like a checklist to help people work out how to buy a ticket on the trams? I have not payed for a tram trip for years because I couldn't work out those stupid machines, so I just rode for free. How about you clowns do something to assist tourists in finding their way around rather than the Stalinist attitudes that you show now?

Yet another Aussie due to swing….

Another Aussie is on the executioner's block? Boo Hoo.

Not a long blog on this as I just couldn't give a rat's arse about the individual involved. Was he thinking: "Hey, this is Vietnam and not Singapore - I should be OK to traffic some drugs here."

All I really wanted to say was: "Well done, Vietnam! Keep up the good work!"

Maybe these mules will discover that it just isn't worth the risks anymore and that their lives are worth NOTHING to both the dealers AND the authorities who seek their execution. If you want to live: leave the drugs alone - simple solution.

I fully expect to see my eldest nephew become a mule in the years to come as he is on the slippery slope to becoming a mule. I say the same thing if he gets caught: "string 'em up!".

"Don't set our boats ablaze: Jakarta"

Noticing a report in The Australian this morning: Don't set our boats ablaze: Jakarta. Indonesia is asking Australia to NOT burn the fishing boats of illegal fishermen caught doing what they do best: Treating Australia like a pack of mugs while they continue to steal from us.

I feel compelled to ask: "Why?"
Why does Indonesia not want Australia to burn the boats?
Is it possible that Jakarta is well aware of the situation where Indonesia has completely destroyed it's own waters and quietly condones the practice of stealing from neighbours? (and not just any neighbours but ones who supply a LOT of foreign aid amongst other things). I'm thinking that they don't want the boats burned so that they can be brought back and used again for the same purpose?

In any case: They have their laws which we must obey when we go there and we have ours. Keep the fires burning, boys!!

IF (and this is a long shot) Australia (not this little black duck!) decides to not burn the fishing boats - then hand them over to the local fishermen for them to use as compensation for their loss of income thanks to people who think we're idiots that are only fit to steal from.

Grrr-rrrr... IDIOT Journalism

When will I learn?

Yet again I have made the mistake of watching the usual load of SHIT that passes for television journalism in this country. Again I happened to see a segment on TURDay Tonight that made my blood boil - and all it took was a singular sentence from the IDIOT wannabe twinkie: Anna Coren.

Unfortunately I cannot quote the exact words as I have forgotten them in the midst of thinking of something to write here and muttering Dutch Sailor-like phrases at the trouble-making wench fronting that show. Why didn't I stick to watching the episodes of Scrubs that I taped from this morning?

I will paraphrase a bit here but the statement went something like this:

"The racists are the reason why the beaches are going to be closed this weekend.

(feel free to correct me if I'm wrong and I will correct this....)

What racists? You mean the ones who think that we, as Aussies, are 2nd class citizens and should allow Islamic rule to govern? Yeah - that's the mob!

What the hell is going through the mind of these people? (ask this question of a friend of mine and the reply is: "not enough lead!") What the hell makes them think that they can run the country BETTER than how it is now?
True - a monkey with siphilis could run Queensland better than the corrupt Joh Bjelke Peterson-wannabe that is there now, but handing it over to a collective of people who have a WONDERFUL history of totally FUCKING up every single country that they have ever run throughout the entirety of their history sounds like the perfect solution - NOT!!! If given the choice, bring on the siphilitic monkey!

Then again, maybe I got dear Anna wrong and she was referring to those who have been allowed to get away with inflicting their bullshit on the world and passing it off as religion. Somehow I doubt it.

So - now we have yet another GUTLESS politician who is afraid to stand up for the people of this country (you know them? They're the ones who pay taxes and fund your overseas "study trips") but will happily defend the 'rights' of those who want to happily bludge off the economy and then slag off at the hand that feeds them. I don't know about anyone else but I don't see too many Muslims* with jobs around the place!

Then we have a piss-weak Police Commissioner who referred to the rioters as being unAustralian. Yeah - OK, I'll give you that one ONLY because most of those morons involved in that were full of piss and bad manners and would have acted the same way if it was a cricket match. This isn't sport, you fools - this is for our country that REAL men fought and died for. You also don't turn up with 2,000+ people to beat up 6. The NSW Police Commissioner doesn't get off scot free though - he is still the one directing Police to collect road revenue and balance the budget instead of doing something about the gangs of youths* who seek to vilify our young women and beat up any male without a beard.

Oh... gee... there is that wonderful word: "Vilify". Am I allowed to use this when it is a pig-shit minority seeking to free themselves from the oppression of white Australia? My bad.

I tell you lot* what: How about you grab one of those countries that you already have judicial control over (eg: Indonesia) and you PROVE that you can take a third world country and make it into something better? How about that?
What's that? Oh... I see... you want a country where all the hard work has been done and you want to run *that* one? Well, you see.... there is a problem with that.... You useless stone-age rejects can't be trusted to run anything. Try working for something for once in your useless* lives instead of taking it and then whinging about how mistreated you are.

If you want to be accepted in this country - do like the rest of us have to do and accept everyone else for who they are and who they want to be WITHOUT expecting everyone to change everything just to suit some edicts handed down by some 'prophet'. Live your lives the way you should- by governing YOURSELF and nobody else!
Failing that; I can see very dire times ahead of us all.

*Obligatory Anti-Religious Vilification Clause:
I do NOT hate Muslims! My comments are not directed towards those who *can* live peacefully in a society of people of many religions. My disdain is intended for the DICKHEADS who want to make themselves feel special by demanding special conditions and dictating that the world change to suit them and their part-time beliefs (which only seem to come to the fore when it suits them).

Apologies

Apologies to all who have come past looking for new stuff. Not on strike or anything - just been flat out like a shit in a sandshoe.

Got some new blogs in the works - just need to finish them off.

Got a bit to say about:

- stringing up drug-runners (especially DUMB ones who do it to bail out a STUPID brother!)

- arrogant & inept Health Ministers in Queensland who get caught out doing what every other MP in Queensland does every damn day of their worthless lives.

- how I still don't give a rat's arse about the spawn of a tennis player and some bimbette actress (oh gee, damn - too late!)

- and some other stuff that I forget about at this point in time.

Stay tuned (if you're still awake! :)

"Hurray for Australia"

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Muslims or Media??

I noticed on the 'news' this morning that Muslim groups are (apparently) going off their tree about some drug-taking bimbette who goes to Bali and gets caught with some ecstacy tablets; says she is a Mulsim; is found guilty of possession; and gets to come home.

Is she a druggo? I don't know & I don't care. She's a model - this tells me that having a conversation with her would be slightly more painful than repeatedly stabbing myself in the eye with a sharpened house brick. I think it may be part of the job description to take drugs.
In any case, models are paid to look good and not much else - I don't know how anyone can live with a model unless they too happen to be just as much of an airhead (I will also acknowledge that there are some who *are* intelligent and can carry a decent conversation. Would both of you put your hands up, please?)

The question I have is:
Why are the Muslim groups complaining about what this woman is wearing and her imbibing of alcohol but nothing was said about the group of 5 dickheads who chose to beat up a cameraman outside court after they went and showed (idiotic) solidarity for accused terror suspects?

Also:
Is it OK for Muslim MALES (none of them are men! Childish pricks that they are!) to beat up someone in the street simply because he is an onlooker with a camera and that women must do as they're told and cover up?

And:
Did the Muslim groups kick up as much of a stink about the cowardly thugs but the media chose to ignore the statements from them because it wasn't as "Newsworthy"?

It seems that Muslim extremists aren't the only terrorists in this country while we have a media that thinks it has a god-given right to disseminate information that suits its own political agendum - something which is not too dissimilar to the one-eyed propaganda that a population were given thanks to the Taliban.

What makes it funnier is that the media are the most critical of blogs - something which has propagated IMMENSELY thanks to the ineptitude and incompetence of the media and their distinct inability to be fair and balanced.

Mini-sub mystery may be solved

The Mini-sub Mystery may be solved, eh?

I don't really know a great deal about the mini-sub ordeal as events like this are stricken from the educational curriculum in Australia as I think that, according to the higher-ups, it has the tendency to breed anti-Japanese sentiment.

What I do know is that there are people still around who were around back then during WW2 in Sydney. I also know that there are a lot of people around who claim to have served in various elite parts of the defence forces or were at events that are high-profile in our history when in fact they have not even served. While I firmly believe the following story to be true (as I know the teller personally), I have no way of authenticating it.

The lady in question became friends with my mum and would often come over home to do some ironing in order to make a few extra bob. One day she told us the story about how she was a radio operator down in Sydney during WW2 where they would listen for strange or different transmissions. On the day in question (that is, the day that the war came to Sydney), she heard something strange on the radio - it was a sound that defied all explanation. If I remember correctly, the story went that she asked others about it and nobody had a clue - she came to the conclusion that it had to be a mini-submarine in the harbour.

With this conclusion in her mind, the lady approached her superiors (in rank only, I might add) and put this information to them. She was told that she was talking absolute rubbish; that there was no such thing as a mini-submarine; that nobody would dare come into the harbour to perform such a preposterous attack; and words that flowed something like: "Go back to your post you stupid woman - you don't know what you're talking about!"

The net is the future

"The net is the future" - Murdoch

RUPERT Murdoch said yesterday it did not matter whether newspapers were being sold in paper form or online in 20 years; they would succeed as long as they retained a focus on quality journalism.

And therein lies the problem: "...focus on quality journalism".

Looking at this from the angle of reality, what Rupert has said equates to:

"Publication of the news is going to be around regardless of whether it is in print form or online. We're still going to only deliver either half the news and then it only be the bits we want you to know so that you will be swayed towards our left-wing bullshit ideology. We will continue to use half-witted morons who know nothing about anything to write this rubbish that you think keeps you informed. Truly a case of the blind leading the blind!"

Volunteer Hangman

Again, I'm a bit behind the times as I tend to only catch the news here and there and I'm being relatively productive at work by not looking at news sites when I should be working :)

Here is a piece that came out on the 3rd of November about a pensioner in the Northern Territory who wants to apply for the job as Official Hangman in Singapore to replace the 73yo bloke who wants to retire but the government over there can't find anyone to replace him.

Aussie pensioner volunteers to kill Nguyen

A NORTHERN Territory pensioner has applied for the job as Singapore's official hangman.

And Keith Sauerwald, 65, says he would have no qualms about executing convicted Australian drug trafficker Van Tuong Nguyen, who is waiting his fate in Singapore's Changi Prison.

"I hate drugs and I hate drug dealers," said Mr Sauerwald, who lives at Parap in Darwin.

"Nguyen has no right to live.

Amen to that!

If Singapore thinks that the bloke who wants to do the job is too old at 65 and if they're happy to pay me a decent wage (like what I'm getting now or a bit better) then I will definitely step up to the plate. Does it help that I know how to tie a noose and know how to locate it? :)

If it means that I can do my little bit to remove another drug trafficker or dealer from the face of this planet, then I am more than happy to do so! These people are the lowest form of life and they deserve to die in a little bit more pain rather than twitching at the end of a rope that just snapped their neck. My problem would be that I would get creative about it and think of ways of saving them up so that it can be done as a group session.

Of course, people would tend to not like my idea of leaving the carcass out on display (ie: near an airport) so that it will serve as a vivid warning of what will happen to human trash who have no qualms in trafficking death and bringing despair and grief to so many lives so that they can have lots of money!

Big Bludger

Oh SHIT!

It seems that the nongs of society have squarely convinced the nongs of TV programming that yet another sLeason (yes, I did type it that way) of Big Brother is in order.

I hate the show - it is utter crap! It is even lower down the entertainment food chain than Jerry Springer, Neighbours, Home & Away, and other shitty shows like this that bank on no-talent halfwits to carry them through season after season after season.

"Why watch it?" you say? I DON'T!! Why? Because it is the televisual version of diarrhoea on a most explosive scale. SHIT - and lots of it!! What makes it worse is that you can't turn certain radio stations on during the time that this avenue-of-fame for the most dimwitted-of-society because it is flooding the airwaves as well! Then you have life-lacking dickheads talking about and idolising these contestants - or *other* life-lacking dickheads! There is no escape!

Then there is the hostess. Sure she looks alright being the resident mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb but so can anyone when they apply make-up with a trowel and the network smears vaseline over the camera lens!! OK, so maybe that was a bit harsh - there is definitely worse in the world and I am definitely no oil painting. Fair is fair.

I seem to recall though that she came from a field of endeavour that required some form of intellect (don't remember what though) - so how the hell did she allow herself to stoop so low as to be a part of this parcel of steaming horse shite that seems to form the pinacle of television programming in Australia?

You may now be asking how I know that this tripe is starting again….. I know about it because a mate (I'm starting to wonder now) came to me at work and suggested that I audition for the show. "ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING????"

The thing is: other people at work heard him make this statement and all joined in and said that it would be great if I were to go on it. They said that the most opinionated ones don't last long (which means that I won't have to tolerate the pack of losers for very long) and it would be worth watching them all get told where they can go and what they can do with their stupid little attention-seeking egos. I think I would greatly enjoy telling the resident homosexual (they always have at least one - well, I think they do - every other 'reality' show has one for some STUPID reason) that I don't give a shit that they are gay. They can go suck dick day and night in public dunnies and be raped repeatedly in the arse by some bloke and his horse - but the point being that I don't give a flying frag about what they do. F*CK GAY PRIDE!! You wanna be gay and introduce infection into your bodies and do all sorts of injurious activites to your body - go right ahead - just leave the attention seeking side of it with the 50c that you're going to use to call someone who gives a rat's arse!

Same goes for carpet-munchers - piss off and write your number on the wall of the shitter and hopefully you'll meet that someone 'special'.

Besides - someone here at work said that there was a psych test and that I wouldn't pass it anyway. I have the real snakey suspicion that they are going to make me bet something or coerce me into trying out for it as I could really use the car……

International Security Levels

Sent to me via email recently. Looks to be pretty much spot on about the French and the Italians! :)

The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent bombings ... the level has just been raised from Miffed to Peeved. Soon though, the levels may be raised yet again to Irritated or even "a bit cross".

Londoners have not been "a bit cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from Tiresome to "a bloody nuisance". The last time "a bloody nuisance" warning level was issued was during the Great Fire in 1666.

Be aware that the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from RUN to HIDE. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing their military capability.

It's not only the French that are on a heightened level of alert ... the Italians have increased their alert level from "shout loudly and excitedly" to "elaborate military posturing". Two more levels remain, "ineffective combat operations" and "change sides".

The Germans also increased their alert state from "disdainful arrogance" to "dress in uniform and sing marching songs". They have two higher levels: "invade a neighbour" and "lose".

Seeing this reaction in continental Europe the Americans have gone from Isolationism to "find another oil-rich nation in the Middle East ripe for regime change". Their remaining higher alert states are: "attack the world" and "beg the British for help".

Finally here in middle England, we've gone from "pretend nothing's happening" to "make another cup of tea". Our higher levels are: "remain resolutely cheerful" and "win".

John Safran on SBS again.

I think this bloke is great! He says what he thinks and questions the practices of various religions while being a good Jewish boy.

Makes for good TV while everyone else is busy running around watching what they say for fear of insulting the feelings of some half-witted minority group.

Definitely worth watching :)

Program Details : Monday 7 November 2005
9pm - 9.30pm : Speaking in Tongues
Part 1
SBS
Comedy Premiere (Australia/English)

In this is 12-part series John Safran teams up with his maverick match in wit and weird wisdom, Father Bob Maguire. Father Bob and Safran continue their oddest of the odd couple television relationship in this current affairs-cum-chat show with a spiritual twist. This series is mould-breaking, demonically inspired television and will feature guests including cult-busters, scientists and a dog whisperer who has the ability to communicate with Father Bob's dog, Franklin. Different phenomena is explored in the series which features guests who have witnessed inexplicable events and lived to tell the tale, including one guest who experienced a golem-sighting in Prague.
(source: www.yourtv.com.au)

Philips Senseo #2

With regards to my previous post about the Philips Senseo, I have received a reply from a very helpful member of the Consumer Connections team of Sara Lee (who must own Harris Coffee, who must subsequently be associated with or own Moccona - not quite sure on the details though).

Many thanks for the reply:

From: {name deleted for privacy reasons}
Sent: Monday, 31 October 2005 2:19 PM
To: {my email}
Subject: RE: Philips Senseo

Hi {myname}

Thank you for contacting the Senseo Consumer connections.

We are glad that you are so happy about Senseo being available in Australia. As we are all here.

Yes we all very aware of Coffee Milk, unfortunately due to Food Laws in Australia, Customs will not allow the product into Australia yet. Maybe sometime soon.

We can only hope and wait.

We currently have 4 flavours available in Australia – Medium Roast, Dark Roast and Extra Dark Roast. Decaffeinated has just been released into WW supermarkets. Look for it next time you shop.

New flavours to follow next year (mid year) so keep an eye on in the coffee isle.

Yes, currently retailers have the $20 cashback of the Philips Senseo coffee pod machine available from most retailers. Best of luck in converting your friends.

If you would like to take part in promotions, research or receive information concerning Senseo newsletters, bulletins – please advise us, we would only be too happy to provide you with this information.

Kind regards

{name}

SENSEO- Consumer Connections

Sara Lee Australia
18 Forrester Street
KINGSGROVE NSW 2208
Tel: 1800 794 329

My further reply:

{name},

Thank you for replying to my letter.

Considering that I am so happy with the machine, I will gladly accept any information regarding it and participate in promotions and research.

I consider it to be very unfortunate that our food laws do not allow the importation of coffee milk as it really does improve the taste. I would suggest that we (as Aussies) would be more than capable of producing the product ourselves but there has obviously never been a need for it in marketing terms. The funny/sad thing about Australia is that if we don't know that something exists: we don't need it. I think I may write to Pauls milk and Pura and see if they have plans for such an item considering the proliferation of coffee machines on the market now (just open any Myer/Grace Brothers catalogue). I would encourage Harris (Moccona) to do the same as it will benefit not only myself but will also assist in market share once people become aware of the product. An Australian-made coffee milk product would be a wise route as well instead of an imported product. A win-win situation in my opinion :)

I hope that the future of Senseo is set here in Australia as it will mean that the machines with the larger water tank may make it here. I can understand the full range not being available at this time while the market is uncertain about the machine.

There have been a few people interested in the machine through my weblog so I will post your replies on there as well (slightly edited to remove contact details, of course :)

I hope to hear from you soon.

{myname}

Now I need to start petitioning the major milk manufacturers in the hopes that they are looking towards creating such a product. More to come on this very soon (I hope).

Bird Flu Stupidity

What the hell is going on???

Yes, tell me that I'm an idiot but I do like to turn on Sunrise on 7 in the mornings because the people are happy and a little bit forthright and it's entertaining (as opposed to the other morning show on the Packer network - piss off Richard Wilkins and that dickhead that does the weather - they SUCK!!!) It's nice to wake up to a smile while getting ready to go to work.

There was a report this morning about how Australia is going to donate some of it's Bird Flu treatment to neighbours to the north. Considering the talk in the media lately (scare mongering?) that Australia has not got enough stockpiles to be ready for the flu, there is talk of giving some away?

What about looking after our people first? More importantly, and this is based on their contempt for us, our fishing zones and our people even though our support for their tourism industry helps keep them afloat: Fuck Indonesia (if indeed the remedy is to go there).

I say that we help those who are willing to actually be friends and neighbours rather than bludgers who will take what they can while they can! I would say to send New Zealand as much as they want because at least they work with us and look to the future rather than pursue a life that is squared firmly in medieval times!

This post is NOT based on racism. I have NO problem with Asians or any other race (religion is a different matter though). I have a LOT of respect for the Japanese people because they have respect for themselves and are not into telling the rest of the world how to live or that they are infidels. The basis here is to look out for your FRIENDS and to tell the bludgers of the world to piss off!
This includes the members of The Great Unwashed who collect their dole cheques before going to the beach to surf or protest something new this week.

Death Penalty by Proxy

Mick Keelty has gone on the Lateline on the ABC to say that he refuses to apologise for informing the Singaporean police know about the drug smugglers on the way to their shores.

Mr Keelty made a decision of life or death over the lives of 9 individuals and has probably enacted a legal death sentence by proxy over these people.

GOOD ONE, MICK!! When are you running for PM so that at least there will be someone WITH a spine to look forward to running the country in the future?

People may say that John Howard is kissing Bush's arse but at least the little twerp can make decisions on what is right and wrong - as opposed to Captain Blunder who looks like he just stumbled out of an RSL after the afternoon on the bar!
Don't get me wrong - Kim Beazely has some damn good thoughts (it would help if you saw the Geoffrey Robertson Hypothetical on Terrorism a few months ago where he effectively showed a stance very similar to Mr Keelty), unfortunately his balls have been cut off due to having to run to caucus every time he wants to enact something. (Fuck Caucus! Arsewipe unions running/ruining the country with their dickhead brand of politics!)

If I were in the position of Mick Keelty, I would have done the same and I would NOT lose a minute of sleep over it.

People who traffic and deal in drugs are worthless. They are a debt to society and do nothing for anyone other than themselves. I say to churn them into worm food - the world will be a much better place for it!

I realise that it may be tough on the families of those involved but THEY made their decision and they knew the penalties. If it were your son or daughter that had their life f*cked up by drugs thanks to one of these people, you'd gladly be holding the knife to their throat yourself!

Police shoot-to-kill powers

In the war on terror, there is a proposal of giving police the power to shoot-to-kill.

I have mixed feelings about this one….

It is good in one sense that if there is some little sheet-head running around with his bomb strapped to his body, or even his proteges running around in groups pack-raping Australian girls simply because they are not wearing some shitty rag designed by a confused paedophile. In this sense, I am very happy for Police to have a Glock on their hip because there are 15 bullets that can be best described as "a damn good start!"

BUT, the problem with this is that Police *are* human and with human nature, mistakes can be made either inadvertantly or willfully. The Police have a damn tough job at the best of times (I was going to join myself but didn't think much of the idea of fronting up to a domestic to help some woman being beaten and looking down the barrel of a 12-gauge being wielded by some drunk. Don't scoff - it happens!) but there are officers out there who bend the rules they have because they have to in order to catch *someone*… *anyone* thanks to insipid laws that limit them in so many ways.

How many times have you heard and seen underage crims being sent on their way with a mere slap on the wrist simply because they have blue eyes/red hair/freckles thanks to their great, great, grandmother/father being a fullblood? Yes - you can claim 'indigenous' status with just 1/16 of the heritage in you. Does anyone think it strange that the noisiest 'activists' are almost as white as the sheets that the KKK wear? Almost makes me wonder if they’re a stooge placed in the 'ranks' in order to help the Knights justify their actions….

I say that the shoot-to-kill powers be extended only to Police Officers involved in Tactical Response Groups or in situations where it be deemed necessary: this being like in Port Arthur where they should have taken that demented freak, Martin Bryant, and filled him with enough lead to sink the Titanic - again (but no, instead they were instructed to hold off because the government saw an opportunity to disarm the people. On a side note: dictators are always the first to disarm the people because they are the ones who got to where they were by the sword and they will die by the sword - take away the swords and declare yourself dictator-for-life and you can pass all sorts of stupid and inane laws!)

Police Officers on normal beat duty should not have these powers because there are a minority (like in everything else) who will use the powers in the manner in which they were not intended and innocent people will feel the brunt of it.

Perfect example of abuse of Police powers: (which has happened to all of us or someone we know at some time)
Driver is pulled over for a minor infringement and driver debates that it happened (eg: excessive speed reading on handheld radar or laser speed detection device but reading has come off another vehicle or has been used incorrectly resulting in an incorrect reading (which happens more often than people think and Police will admit to)). Upon questioning of Police Officer, he/she realises that they are wrong and caught dead-to-rights on it. They will then 'create' a diversionary tactic in which to justify pulling the vehicle over - this usually involves doing a roadside safety check on the vehicle - something which 95% of all vehicles will fail in one way or another.

Unfortunately, the problem that exists was not created by the Police but due to lawmakers who create laws that are selectively enforced by Police because *they* get raked over the coals by idiotic minority groups for doing their jobs. It also doesn't help when you have illiterate morons in shitty 6-cylinder Commodores & Falcons, and 4-cylinder wannabe boy racers in pretty little girlie cars with big wheels and milo tin exhausts (that sound like explosive diarrhoea) giving the Police lip and attitude because they got caught for doing something stupid. No wonder the cops are humourless when you try to talk to one.

In any case, the willingness to abuse the law in order to help balance the budget is so ingrained now that it won't be swayed with some words from the Commissioner or anyone else.

So the end result now has to be: NO shoot-to-kill laws for beat Police!

Pauline Hanson & Ex-Gratia Payments

Well… look at that….

It seems that if you are a stooge of the Beattie Government, you can be sent to jail for corrupt practices and then sprung again on a technicality. You can then be on the fast-track to an ex-gratia payment of $475,000 and a typical bludger's job nearer to home where your ineptitude can continue unabated.

If you happen to be a political opponent who is a genuine threat to the union-driven pawns who sit on their lazy backsides and you get sent to prison on a conjured technicality and then freed because you shouldn't have been there in the first place, you get told to "bugger off" should the hand come out for exactly the same amount.

Can anyone see anything wrong with this picture?

I can just hear it now…. All the anti-Hanson-ites out there cheering and laughing at her for being denied the payment. Mind you, these are the very same MORONS who say that George Bush is illiterate and incompetent and only got to where he is thanks to daddy's money; that he started a war just to get oil, etc etc etc. Somehow I suspect that the mental midgets who rely on 'factual' information from their marijuana dealer who hasn't seen the business end of a shower for a fortnight, may not see the problem with this.

Do you want to know something? Do you want to know THE FACTS? Oh wait… I forgot that you left-wing, Marxist-types don't deal in facts - you deal in what you think the world is inside your head and that anyone who disagrees with this lovely, happy, friendly world view is a xenophobe, a homophobe, an envirophobe and maybe even a 'light globe' since you clowns have to have an 'obe' in any name you use.

Your so-called 'facts' are based on what the media tells you from their 'enlightened' position but continue to tell only the bits that suit their own political agenda.

Oh wait? You DO actually do your own research? Where? From the New York Times? From CNN? From the Michael Moore website? Yeah - good going… you looked for 'facts' in all the places where the opinion is the same as your own. If you were a truly objective individual and the free-thinker that you claim to be, you would have looked in other places where the opinion expressed actually differed from your own. You also forget that other people ARE entitled to an opinion and that opinion IS allowed to be different from your own. Welcome to the real world - on second thoughts, stay away - I don't want fools like you in my world.

The simple fact of the matter is that if you got your 'facts' about Pauline Hanson from some trashy rag like The Courier Mail, or worse, The Gold Coast Bulletin or The Toowoomba Chronicle, then you really have made up your mind about a subject without knowing the facts. Congratulations! You may now join the queue to get Senator Bob Brown's job down in Tasmania when his token, halfwitted, ill-informed arse rolls off to the big MELON* patch in the sky. (*Melon: What greenies in this world REALLY are: Green on the outside; yellow on the inside; gives everyone the shits).

Similarly, if you sit and laugh at GWB and claim him to be illiterate and everything else negative that you have conjured up about him based on the 10-second spot on the news that is shown on a weekly basis here (ie: exactly the same amount that I see), you either have ESP or are an utter failure at objective thinking (this means: making your mind up before knowing the full story).

The war in IRAQ is over oil? Holy crap! George TOLD you that? Man - that would be worth a fortune to the media to have the inside track on what he's thinking and he actually tells YOU and only you! I'm impressed. So, what am I thinking right now? Yep: "you're a total dickhead!"

The FACTS underlying here are:
- nobody really knows if Pauline Hanson is racist or not. She does and ONLY she does. You know jack shit about what she thinks and what her motivation is.

- Pauline Hanson was either denied true justice, or that true corruption exists at the state political level was the reason behind an inept judge getting that payment and PH being refused.

I'm betting on the corruption thingy……
Peter Beattie treats the public much the same way that Joh Bjelke Peterson used to, but at least Joh did some things for this state (as well as himself) as opposed to PB who just self-serves himself. He's just the same old bludger now as he was when he was secretary for the Station Masters Union when he was in Queensland Rail. The motives were driven by corruption then and they're driven by corruption now.

In memory of a very funny man.....

I was sent this as an email today stating that this was something that is attributed to Ronnie Barker (of The Two Ronnies). I can't find anything that says differently, so I will leave it as his.... for now....

This was originally shown on BBC TV back in the seventies. Ronnie Barker could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how many takes). Irony is that they received not one complaint, must have been that the speed of delivery was too much for the whining herds. Try getting through it without converting the spoonerisms as you read.

This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.

Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion. Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling shot. At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered.

The sugly isters were right bugly astards. One was called Mary Hinge, and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible huckers; they had fetty sweet and fetty swannies. The sugly isters had tickets to go to the ball, but the cotton runts would not let Rindercella go.

Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared. Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian. She turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks

The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise, there would be a cucking falamity.

At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when suddenly the clock struck twelve. "Mist all chucking frighty!!!" said Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping her slass glipper.

The very next day the prandsome hince knocked on Rindercella's door and the sugly isters let him in. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg and let off a fig bart. "Who's fust jarted??" asked the prandsome hince. "Blame that fugly ucker over there!!" said Mary Hinge. When the stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.

Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and a hig bard on.

He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking ferfectly.

Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a follen swanny.

Life Size Dolls

HOLLAND: New fast lanes for car sharers on Amsterdam roads have had an unexpected side effect - they've led to a boom in lifesize doll sales.
www.autoexpress.co.uk

...and with Amsterdam probably being the best place in the world to purchase a life-size 'doll'.... >:)

Heritage Building Society & Rewards Points #2

Good news!

It seems that NOT being abusive or snakey at people who are just trying to do a job has once again proven to me to be the way to approach issues.

I have a mate who works on intimidation and abuse (well, he used to) to get his way and would then progressively abuse more and more people up the management tree until he got the result he wanted.

I received a phone call a couple of hours ago and was informed that I will be reissued with new passes in order to use the points I earned from using my Visa card with Heritage Building Society.

Not only did they give me the 1 month I enquired about, they were also kind enough to reissue them for a further 6 months.

Thank you, Heritage!

Since there are no sick family members to deal with or other major issues, I just need to find someone who is willing to go with me.... :) I've got no excuse if the passes run out this time.

Hey Nilknarf *.... (just kidding... coming up from Victoria just to go on rides is silly - like something I would do.... :) Did I mention that I once drove 2 days each way just to spend a weekend in Adelaide? Never been there before so it seemed like a good idea at the time. It certainly blew some cobwebs out of the Mustang too! :)

Indy 2005

What a weekend at Indy down on the coast! *phew*

As per usual, there was the action that differentiates this event from almost all other race events around the world: girls on balconies who will display their 'wares' with the help of a bit of alcohol.

Of course, many of them are professional types as I see them enter the circuit in the morning and leave in the afternoon. They apparently make some good coin from it, so if they're happy doing what they do then I have no problem with it.

What makes me wonder about is the blokes with the beer on other hotel balconies and down on the street. Anyone would think that they have never seen a pair of tits before in their lives.

Yeah - OK - I tend to agree with Ron The Cable Guy (or was it Ron White?) (rent a copy of The Blue Collar Comedy Tour - VERY funny!) that if a bloke sees one woman naked, he wants to see the rest of them naked as well - even the old bikie molls with their bits hanging down around their waist. "Things that make you go..... Brrrr-rrrr-rrr *shudder*"

But to cheer and chant and then abuse a girl for not lifting her shirt? Maybe I'm just getting old or something. Hooties are nice to look at but treat them like the sun: have a quick glance and admire the scenery and then find something else to look at without making a big deal about it :) This is an especially handy principle to work on should the girl that they're attached to be hanging onto the arm of a bloke that makes your average testosterone-enhanced gorilla look like a 98lb weakling and has the temperament of your average man-hating, rabid lesbian whose 'cycle' lasts the entire 28 days!

There were some interesting things happening while working trackside - I mean, apart from the getting in for free and having a free pass to give to a friend to that they could get in for free as well. Who would have thought that it would be so hard to GIVE away a FREE 4-day pass into the Indy?? I have the FREE passes of 2 other people sitting at home with my own unused pass. Go figure...

Apparently there is also a big fight going on at racetracks all around the country now as those individuals who work the flags (Flaggies) are now seemingly not allowed to do their job and thus show the blue flag to slower traffic thereby allowing faster vehicles to pass. The order must now come from Race Control.

I don't care what anyone says - you can have your sensors on the track and be able to predict when and where a vehicle will pass but having worked on racetracks for the past 11 years, those up in the tower are NOT qualified to make a call about what is happening down on the track. Sure - they are very experienced people up in the tower but there is nothing quite like being on site. This "technology for technology sake" ideal that the wannabe technophiles have can be very disturbing at times. Will the computer push the cars or bikes out of the sand traps as well? I think not.

Anyway, with the events of the past year, we forgot to book the room for the extra night down at Sufferers Parasite (Surfers Paradise) and ended up having to get out of the room on Saturday morning.
Many, many, MANY thanks to Nick & Nora for being the most charming and pleasant hosts in putting us up for the night. I don't know how I can repay the favour but I'll keep trying :)

It rained on the first 2 days, but I can usually fluke it that I will be under a tarp somewhere. Failing that, standing in the rain is a good option as well. Why are people so afraid of rain? Are they all poms or something? Was there a bar of soap on the footpath? :D

It turned out that I was fortunate again on my corner with no major incidents happening. The crowd love to see crashes but some poor bugger has to pay for it! I was also a bit upset about one crew member from one of the V8 Supercar teams having a go at my dad in pit lane because his foot was about half an inch over the yellow line. He redeemed himself by apologising later so I won't make a big deal about which team and giving him a big raspberry over it. Being in a crew can be stressful when there is the money involved that there is and it doesn't help when you get *some* marshals who become wannabe cops when they go on duty (my dad isn't one of them).

So... anyone else want a job at Indy next year? I got my dad a job there and he is now based permanently in pit lane. I get a mate a job there and he's in pit lane in his first year. I've been there 7 years and never been in the lane once! Oh well...

One final note... isn't it amazing how everyone has a comment when they see something out of the ordinary but their comments are so lacking in imagination that you can hear the same thing called out 20 times from 20 different people in about 10 minutes! Since the Indy circuit is so long, we ride bicycles in & out of the circuit at the start & end of the day. It saves a lot of time and makes life so very simple. The mate whose first year it was on track had this loaner bike that stripped the thread on the pedal and needed a hand - so I hooked up a rope to the seatpost of my bike and towed him out and back as we didn't have bits to fix it. by the 4th day, he decided to ride it without a pedal on one side because it was easier to do that than listen to intellectual midgets so lacking in wit that it is almost impossible to put into words.

Politically Correct

Just a little social humour.

How to tell the difference between Liberals, Conservatives and Albertans (I know I'm not from Alberta but I really like the solution)

Pose the following question:

You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife, and charges. You are carrying a Glock 40, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.
What do you do?

*LIBERAL ANSWER*

Well, that's not enough information to answer the question!
Does the man look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids? Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this situation? Does the Clock have appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children? Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me? Does he definitely want to kill me or would he be content just to wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me? Should I call 9-1-1? Why is this street so deserted? We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this a happier, healthier street, that would discourage such behavior. This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for a few days and try to come to a consensus.

*CONSERVATIVE ANSWER*

BANG!

*ALBERTAN'S (& Jai's) ANSWER*

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! *click*.... (sounds of reloading)... BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! *click*

Heritage Building Society & Rewards Points

I've been banking with Heritage Building Society for a bit over 20 years now. Things have been pretty busy over the last 6 months what with work and the problems with mum having cancer and losing the battle. Let's see if they come to the party...

Hello!

I have a couple of passes that I have redeemed through Heritage Rewards for Dreamworld which have expired by 1 day.

I have contacted Heritage Rewards and was told (paraphrasing) "tough!".
Dreamworld have told me that they will not honour the passes because they say that they will not get paid if they try to present them to Heritage with an expired date.

I realise that I should have used them sooner but there are circumstances as to why this is. Feel free to call me to discuss these in the attempt to try and come to an amicable resolution.

I would like to add that I didn't abuse any HBS staff (even after trolling through the endless set of menus on the "help" line) and was polite but was still not given much help.

I will not get abusive now as it will not achieve anything but might I ask that the passes be extended by 1 month so that I may use them as they were converted from points I have earned and redeemed. Dreamworld have told me that Heritage gets billed afterwards for the passes so it's not like HBS is going to be out of pocket on this.

I am happy to make up the shortfall on points should there be a difference between when I redeemed them for the passes and now should there be a difference.

Thanks for your time. I eagerly await your reply.

ps: letter posted on my blog: www.spanishredneck.blogspot.com.au

Philips Senseo

My mate Nick Charles (complimenting half to Nora Charles) from The Thin Man Returns once advised me to post any letters on here should I write to anyone. I think this is a good start.

For those who have not seen the advertisement on TV, the Philips Senseo is a coffee machine that originated in Europe and has *finally* made it to Australia. I bought mine over there and brought it back because it is that good - even if it did mean that I would be relying on friends to mail replacement pods over to me.

I'm now down on my knees begging Moccona to import some decent coffee milk to use with the machine as well because there is no equivalent on sale here in Oz.

Hello!

This is not a complaint - about the Senseo anyway….

I was in Europe last year and managed to use a Senseo while in Holland. Upon my return, I approached Philips (email) and they put me through to Breville who said that there were no plans to import the device, so I purchased one in Germany and brought it back with me along with many, many coffee pods (Customs rolled their eyes at me but didn't complain :)

(stay with me, this is going somewhere….)

Anyway, upon my return, I discovered that Australia is …well… at the *rsehole of the world when it comes to coffee quality and variety and if Moccona and Philips *really* want to help this device gain a hold here in Australia (as opposed to the Russell Hobbes version which sells it's pods for a disgustingly expensive rate), I would like to make a suggestion that will be both advantageous to your company as well as myself.

Are you ready? Here it comes….

** Please, please, PLEASE start importing some REAL coffee milk like they have in Europe to use with the Senseo (did I say "please"? If not: "pretty please with sugar on top")

Using the Senseo (and the RussHob wannabe) is …uh… CRAP with normal milk. The same with cream. It is only bearable with 'The White Death' (Coffee Mate) - but NOTHING will sell this product like word of mouth and COMPLETING THE PACKAGE!! Senseo coffee is consistent and amazingly good when black but it is SO much better with the real deal in coffee milk. I can understand 'market forces' and supply-and-demand and such, but is there really a point to only half-completing a job? I see the Senseo dying on the market if left to be used with normal milk to be 'enjoyed'.

Please, do not think that you have seen the product of which I speak if you have never been out of Australia - it is not available here. I have been to specialist delicatessans and coffee manufacturers (local) and all sorts of places and people just DO NOT know what I am talking about unless they have been to the continent and actually used this coffee milk. I've even approached Aldi (supermarket) and asked them when or if they will be importing the milk. This is considering that they are based in Hannover (Germany) and even their smallest outlets over there have (maybe) 6 or 8 different brands available.

Shall I say "please" again?

On the upside, at least I won't be relying on friends in Holland & Germany sending me care packages of coffee pods anymore…. :)
I notice that there is a cash back offer on the device in Myer at the moment - I need to work on my mates getting one each so that I can have decent coffee when I go over there instead of (yecch) instant coffee [even though I assume that the Senseo *is* instant coffee, it is SO much better….]

Please be kind to this coffee addict.

Thank you for your time

**** *****
Ph: ** **** **** a/h
M: **** *** *** anytime

Ps: letter posted on my blog: www.spanishredneck.blogspot.com

Throwing good money after bad....

Those who know me know that one of my pet hates is that disgusting and foul waste of money that was constructed on the site of Lang Park in Brisbane. Of course I am referring to the Suncorp (Scumcorp) Stadium. $400 million of football stadium built out of QUEENSLAND taxpayers money so that BRISBANE can try to alleviate a bit of it's whiney I-wanna-be-like-Sydney-and-Melbourne disease.

We have hospitals that are having wards closed down (which started with the second most inept "health care professional" after "Dr" Jayant Patel: Wendy Edmonds. The minister for health who progressively closed down several extremely important wards at regional centres around the state. She's about 3 health ministers ago and pretty much the lowest on the "health care professional" tree. Here's a hint to what her qualifications were....

"Don't breathe - don't move. I'll just move behind this lead screen. (*bzzz* *click*) OK - you may get dressed and go now."

What does a stadium have to do with hospitals? How about Police? Teachers?

It all has to do with a fiddle-fuddling, jibber-jabbering, Joh Bjelke Peterson wannabe by the name of Peter Beattie (or Petie Beater if you see him for the feeder-of-chooks that he has proved himself to be on oh-so many occasions).

Here we have a state premier who seems to work on the old adage that if you surround yourself with fat people then you will look thin. His idea must have been that if you surround yourself with stupid people, the most gullible of people will think that you are not quite so intellectually challenged. Unfortunately, some of his ministers are obviously not as dumb as he once thought as for people like Wendy Edmonds and Liddy Clarke to be given ministerial positions means that they have the goods on him. If only I knew that info as well - I would make an excellent transport minister.

Before anyone says anything - don't go thinking this is a defence for Lawrie Springborg. This cretin should have been charged under the Domestic Violence Act about a week before the last state election but it is plain to see that he wasn't. Oh yes - remember the old days when people would say (while the state was in the hands of Joh): "Queensland Police: The best force that money CAN buy!"

Is there a point to this? You bet there is....

Here is Queensland. Broke. Screaming out for money. Can't afford police, nurses, teachers, hospitals, air conditioning for schools (or even to remove the asbestos off the roof of the schools). Queensland DOES have the money for ministers to redecorate their offices every time they move into a new one (WITH an upgrade of the air con system). They also have their fuel paid for when they wander aimlessly around the state while attacking cafe owners at Tin Can Bay, presumably not because of the environmental issue but most likely because the minister isn't scoring any coin out of the venture for the budget. Oh dear... seems the utter mismanagement of speed cameras in the state isn't enough to sponsor The Beater's 'study' trips overseas.

Now we get to the news of the last week (or maybe a bit more) where we hear that the Gold Coast is to get it's own football stadium. Fancy that... still short on police & teachers & nurses & hospital beds & the waiting lists are still at record lengths & illiterate halfwits labelled as 'heroes' by other illiterate halfwits (employed by Newscorp & such) get immediate medical attention after falling down while playing a game. Pity about those who actually NEED medical attention through no fault or stupidity of their own!

OK - since the last StuporStadium was handed over free-of-charge to The Donkeys who I detest not because they're not *my* team or anything pathetic like that but because everyone else thinks they are 'heroes' (simple-minded, gullible fools!)
Can you imagine what would happen if a father and son wanted to go to this PUBLICLY FUNDED venue to have a bit of quality time? Yeah - I know what would happen as well.

How many guesses does one need to work out if this new publicly funded venture down on the Gold Coast will have similar sized padlocks on the door?

I say that steps need to be taken to resolve important issues first. Empty out the senior 'executive' building at the end of George St and plonk in a few of those schools around the state that have been denied air conditioning because they are "just outside the boundary of those who need it" (ignoring the fact that the school is usually a demountable building with a perfect hiding place for brown snakes underneath while the outside temperature hits 40-degrees-plus.

Let us see how well parliament performs in those conditions while the future of the country and the world get a bit of luxury to help them learn how to run the world rather than learn how to run it into the ground.

Productive

I can't help it - I have to skite!

After this time of year that I hate so much (August/September) as it is so busy with something on almost every weekend (I know - I know - the answer is simple: "don't go to all those things!"). I just don't know what it is about that time of year that spurs everyone into action that they want to do things during these 2 months.

Anyway, I had almost a full 3/4 of a weekend to myself where I wasn't running around picking up stuff from one person or dropping stuff off to another. Not having to go to the local mega-hardware store to get building items while weaving between the blokes pushing prams with screaming kids (since when did a hardware joint become a shopping centre and thus a location for mindless wandering???)

After getting home on Saturday and avoiding going out again, I managed to relocate a 6' steel cabinet down the back and restock it with over a quarter-tonne of kitty litter (ask if you must :) and various bits destined to go on the hotrod, as well as reloading a huge kitchen bench with doors and wood onto the trailer to go to the investment property for when I rebuild the kitchen there.
Some heavy wood benches got set up in the garage and I managed to start the teardown of the engine out of the Mustang (which is in very good condition for a motor with 140,000 miles on the clock). The inside part of the split-system aircon has been hung on the wall; a few more movie posters were blockmounted, framed and hung; and another coat of paint inside the linen closet before I put the shelving back in.
All the while, cat-dog is following me around to supervise the work (I call her cat-dog because, being a persian-X, she is possessive and needs to keep an eye on me. It's good to feel wanted :)

Man it feels so great to get some of those jobs done.

It's a good start but there's still 515 more things on the task list to do. That's the main problem with having a PDA - you think of 3 jobs to replace the one just done and you can't conveniently forget about them.

I'm not looking forward to digging out half the yard to lay the concrete slab to go under the decks (yet to be built) but I think I will cheat and hire an auger to dig the post holes for me.

Now... back to me whinging about society again.... :)

More bombs.

So it has happened again....

Terrorists have again struck by detonating 3 bombs over in Bali and killed a significant number of locals and tourists.

What are they thinking?

"We must crush the infidel dogs by blowing up our own people!"

"I will get lots of virgins and a joyous afterlife by murdering innocents in the name of Allah!"

"I will blow myself up because I am far from being a man & are too cowardly to take responsibility for my actions!"

What this tells me:
- if Allah really does provide virgins and a joyous afterlife after attacking innocents in outright cowardice, then Allah is indeed a spoilt little child who deserves one hell of a spanking from a true and genuine deity.
- Allah is not good nor powerful if he/she/it condones this.
- If Allah is indeed good and mighty and powerful, one can only hope that those who murder women and children and people not interested in this pathetic fiction created by a confused paedophile (Mohammed) are facing an eternity of torture and pain commensurate with their acts, and then some.
- Those who are peaceful in their practices will be rewarded because THEY are the ones with the true enlightenment.
- Did I mention that suicide bombers are weak simpletons who pretend to wear courage as a mask for their inability to realise that they are a waste of oxygen and a blight on the name of their great Allah? Who would want a cretin to worship them? Not me.

So - this leads to the point about Indonesia and their treatment of criminals.

You have a known terrorist and the leader of an organisation who has no problem with attacking women and children and those unable to defend themselves (regardless of religion), and he gets a couple of years in prison.
You have a non-muslim who effectively imports ice into Antarctica and she gets 20 years.

Any amount of any drug can be purchased on the streets of Bali for a very cheap price but the law is tough on drugs coming IN to the country.

Hasn't anyone worked it out?

Here is a country that is rife with corruption but they choose to feign a justice-reigns attitude over one aspect of the law - what does that tell you?

It tells me that the criminals don't like competition.

I say: let the known Muslim terrorists stay in Australia. Let them live amongst us - just make sure that every town and suburb that has a football oval is left unlocked and accessible 24 hours a day. Why? So they can double as a suicide-bomb testing range.

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Last days at these prices (free!) Bring your friends! Bring your Mullah! Bring their friends too! Come and test your home-made device in the company of all your compatriots just to make sure that it works. If it does work - GOOD; if not, trade some notes and try again... and again... and again."

Today Tonight or just a C*** Of An Affair

So I take it that there is a man shortage in Australia at the moment if one is to believe Today Tonight on Channel 7.

What is it about these gossip column shows that seem to think that they are a news program? What is it about the presenters that make them think that if they have a stern look on their faces and go "tsk tsk" that their words mean anything to anyone? Do they think that they are able to change the attitude of the world with their limited experiences and half-baked opinions? I mean, they can't even correctly use simple terminology when they speak, let alone be a moral judge of anything!

OK - before I get sidetracked too much more: The Great Aussie Man Drought

Australia is officially in a "man drought", with more young women than men. To help women out, we found the suburbs with the most single men.

Let me guess how this story got started…. There is this newsroom in the land of Nod of almost-literate, wannabe-professional writers calling themselves 'journalists'. One of the females states that there are no good men left in the world after having done her latest Sex-In-The-City meaningful overnight interlude with someone whose name she can't remember, but it is obviously his fault somehow that she was left unsatiated. Someone thinks: **BOING** "we can make a story out of this!" (while ignoring the infinite number of stories that they could be doing that would actually mean something, like: why are the politicians seeking to introduce more laws for road-users when the police don't enforce the laws we already have?)
[Before anyone asks, I only saw this story because the TV was on for background noise while I happened to be working on something more important]

Maybe there is someone from Channel 7 who can tell me just what it is that makes a man desirable to a woman? Let me tell you for A FACT that it ISN'T having a decent job, a home to call his own, a nice car, clean habits, and good friends! In fact, it seems that in teaching oneself to cook, clean, wash, iron, sew (kinda), type, as well as the outside chores and being good with one's hands to the point that one can fix or build most things that he sets his mind to, apparently is a great turnoff for most women. I wonder if it has something to do with not actually being needed for anything other than companionship?
[Before I cop it about this one, when I say 'companionship': I mean just that. I don't mean 'sex slave' or any other kind of slave!]

The facts of this reality is that seemingly women want imitation bad boys. They want these skinny little freaks with poofy little tattoos. The little boys are the same height as the woman and wear with an overpriced, backwards-facing hat on their head and a ridiculous little car that "...looks so cute". The car isn't worth half of what they spent on it and could have bought a property instead had they had anything resembling a clue about what they were doing. Did I also mention that these women also like to be treated like dirt? The little boy that they chose to be theirs also (usually) has the attitude of a rottweiler in the frame of a chihuahua - and since the girl is the only one they can dominate, well you do the math.

As for the ones who don't want the bad boy, they're the ones that have already been used and abused and have kids already -or- have this notion in their head that spitting out a series of screaming shit-machines is the next thing they need to do with their lives.

Let me ask you this before we go any further…. Do you think that there are enough people on this planet already? Are there enough starving children in Africa and India? Instead of bowing to some should-have-long-been-bred-out need to procreate, would it not be far wiser to give some kid that has already been born a good start at becoming the next generation rather than allowing him or her to die simply because the one you wanted had to be your own?
Should you decide to have kids of your own, just remember that you are still 18 or 20 or whatever you are and still have the smarts (or lack thereof) of someone that age. Even though you may be called a 'mother', you have not gained the wisdom of the ages simply because you became a sperm receptacle while in a drunken stupor.

Anyway - back to the rant at hand… man shortage.

Here are my tips for a bloke to use if he is to want a nice woman in Australia today:

1. Hang around bars and be drunk. Spewing on the footpath shows that you like to have fun and makes it you look cool.
2. Use all the foul language that you would around your mates - she doesn't act like a lady so there is no way she needs to be treated like one.
3. If she speaks to a bloke she works with while out of the office, slap her around a bit and call her a slut as they seem to like that.
4. Treat her like she is your property. Start a fight and be immature about it when another bloke even looks at her.
5. Treat her like a sex toy. Pretend that you're not really gay when you tell her that you want to "roll her over". She even expects you to make comment about a threesome with her best friend.
6. Show her no respect at all. Her opinion doesn't count either.
7. Consideration? Forget it. Don't you know that it is the dream of all women to find the most moronic lowlife so she can "change" him into the perfect man. If you do show her any consideration, you must be pussy-whipped and have had your nuts cut off.
8. She will complain about you being immature and that she can do nothing with you. Ignore this - this is really what she wants (she must do - otherwise, why would she stay?)

[You think I am being sarcastic and are joking, don't you?? I am not! This is what I see every goddamn day!!]

What to do if a bloke wants to stay single:
1. Be clean.
2. Be resourceful.
3. Be honest and honourable and be willing to be there at her side no matter when she needs you. Your idea of being a 'man' and hers are vastly different.
4. Be respectful & courteous. Treat her like a lady.
5. Be remotely mature about what you do in your life before she gets there. If she can't give you guidance on what you should and shouldn't do, you are no use to her.
6. Think of domestic violence as being abhorrent. You should never lift your hand to someone weaker and smaller than you anyway.
7. Drink in moderation and maintain your dignity and composure when out in public with her. Being well-behaved in such a way that will make you look like a good couple is just not on!
8. Dress well and know which knife and fork to use when at dinner.
9. Going out to dinner means a nice restaurant that doesn't always have steak & veg. The restaurant should not have a drive-thru lane nor "fries with that?"
10. Don't be anything that resembles a civilised and well-adjusted male - she desires the challenge to train and teach you to be "perfect".

It's funny...

I wonder sometimes.... (yeah, OK - I wonder about a lot of things but this one might actually make sense to someone other than myself :)

Being an avid reader of the blog of Nick & Nora Charles and their latest post: Weapons of Mass Traction, I started thinking about my opposition to SUVs.

Simply put, I oppose these vehicles not on the basis that they are destroying the planet or use too much fuel or any other melon-headed reason to do with being a saviour of nature who wants to tell the world how to live.

I don't like them for a number of reasons - the main one being that most in this country are 4-wheel-drive variants designed for going offroad. Now, when going offroad, you have beefier suspension that floats a lot more to compensate for rough roads. You also have additional driveline components intended to help you get through those rough patches - all of which you pay a premium for. They don't go fast like a sports car and they definitely don't handle like a sports car - but how do you often see them driven?

Simply put, I think that anyone who spends a shitload of money on a vehicle that is not used for it's intended purpose (ie: actually going offroad as opposed to having some diminutive female/pussified male at the controls who wants to show off to the world and never leaving the blacktop) is a waste. It demonstrates to me that the owner (usually driver) of this vehicle is an impractical moron whose driving skills usually match their intellect.

I like SUVs and trucks and sports cars and motorbikes and station wagons and bicycles and all modes of transport - but I don't give away my hard-taxed money to impress some fool down the street. Who the hell cares about their opinion? Why buy something designed to do a job and then not doing it? That's like hiring a prostitute to live in your home and then have her wash walls!

In saying this, my next vehicle will be slightly larger than the car I have now (1987 SAAB 9000 hatchback), which, incidently, has gone further offroad and carried far heavier loads than most of the wankers in South East Queensland who own SUVs. It can also turn corners and drive at 200kph should I so desire (but I don't). I want a Ford F250 (or a Dodge Ram) because I have had enough of the cocksuckers in their pristine-clean, never-seen-a-grass-footpath, Toyota Landcruisers trying to push me around. I want a truck, so I'm going to buy a truck.

Let's see you maggots in your wannabe 'truck' show me who is boss then! (I would go bigger and actually drive something I am licenced to drive, but it can be difficult to take 20+ tonnes of truck into an underground carpark to do the grocery shopping).
I think I will also include a sticker on the back: "Taxi Hunter" with a running tally of those who ignore the road rules and stop dead in front of me to pick up or drop a passenger. Use a mirror you so-called "professional drivers"!!

Greed kills!

Never before has there been a truer statement when it comes to dealing with the enforcement of road rules in this country. Greed Kills.

I recently made a blog entry about electronic billboards over various highways in SE Queensland and how, instead of traffic information, display mindless & pathetic quotes about speed and how it kills and to rest and such. Did the taxpayers fund such an expensive and ridiculous form of advertising? You bet they did!

So - here are these billboards at maybe 20km (guess) intervals along major highways with their slogans on them when we approach the Gateway Bridge, or maybe I should say "Gateway Parking Lot" as it was a *very* nice view from the top of the bridge as we sat there in wall-to-wall traffic. I wonder if an electronic billboard just before the exit onto the Gateway motorway could have said "Traffic Chaos near Airport - try another route!". Sure - not much help to visitors, but it would help as those who know their way around could use alternate routes.
What am I saying? That would involve common sense - something that Main Roads and Queensland Transport consider to be an urban legend. Their ignorance is boundless sometimes!

Anyway, the reason behind the post... Greed Kills.
I had friends visiting over the weekend and they thought that they would go shopping in Brisbane on Saturday morning and then go down to northern New South Wales on Sunday. Now, while I abhor the idea of venturing into traffic on the weekends in peak hours (ie: while Obliviots are looking for shopping malls and outlet stores to piddle-fart around in), you sometimes make these sacrifices for your friends. Some sacrifices are too great sometimes.

In the entire time I was driving around playing navigator, there was an endless supply of *... what was that term again? "Obliviots"? Oblivious idiots? Yes - that's them! Cruising in the fast lane and flanking any other vehicle beside them so that nobody could get to where they were going at the speed limit. On top of that, there actually were police out and about but what were they doing? Enforcing the speed limit.

Since WHEN was the only road rule that was to be enforced, the fucking speed limit??? What about talking on mobile phones & cruising the right lane? Driving dangerously? It is becoming blatantly evident that driving on the roads is a free-for-all exercise provided that you do not go over that magic number in the red circle!

Utter, utter incompetence and ignorance of their duty of care to each and every user of the roads. People have a responsibility to share the roads with other users but it seems that driving like you're retarded is a part of that priviledge as well.

Do you know what the problem was in the end? What caused the 20-odd kilometres of traffic chaos? A shopping centre.
The exit to the airport cannot handle the traffic that needs to use it at the moment with you often needing to close your eyes and hope for the best in order to come out the other side alive - THEN a dirty great collection of outlet stores open in order to further congest the roads.

"Good politician! Sit! Stay! Rollover!"

While I grumble quite a bit about the lying, cheating, stealing, brotherhood of back-stabbers known as politicians, and even agree with a mate when he says that maybe a few should be assassinated as a reminder to the rest that they should pull their socks up and get on with the job instead of jobs for the boys - sometimes they deserve praise for doing what is right.

Shifty acquaintance, Nick, once told me that if I happen to write to a policitian that I should put it on the blog. Here is one sent to the Premier of South Australia regarding a hit-and-run case of vehicular homocide committed by an ex-police prosecutor and now high-flying lawyer. This lowlife ran over a cyclist while driving drunk and then ran away and hid for several hours while his blood alcohol content came down. He was not tested for BAC by the senior police officer when he finally gave himself up anyway. Can anyone say "Corruption"?

It just proves the point that if you get a gun and kill someone you don't like, you can look forward to maybe 12-20 years jail depending on the judge. If you get a car and kill someone, you can get like this fool did and receive a $3,100 fine and a suspension from driving for 12 months or 2 years.

Anyway, this note was sent to the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, for his part in getting the case looked at again as well as donating some public funds to a charity created in the name of a female Australian cyclist (Amy Gillett) killed earlier this year in Germany while on a training ride.

Dear Premier Rann,

I understand that you were the individual that pushed for the Royal Commission into the (murderer) Eugene McGee and his actions in the death in the cyclist, Ian Humphries.

I would just like to say a hearty "Thank You" for your efforts (and that of your government as well, I would assume) in pursuing this matter and not allowing the lowlife McGee to thumb his nose at the law & justice.

I have also been informed that your government has also made a donation of $50,000 of public funds to the Amy Gillett SAFE foundation. Thanks is also warranted for this act of good will.

It is acts like this that demonstrate to the public what compassion and justice are all about. I hope you continue to make similar judgements for the people in South Australia for many years to come.

As a side-bar, would it be possible for you to send some instruction on how this can be achieved to your peer, Mr Peter Beattie, Premier of Queensland, on how to handle cases of injustice as well as cases of vehicular homocide involving cyclists?

Thank you for your time.