Why Didn't she die??

Go on - call me racist - I dare ya!
If you do, then that puts you squarely in the typically-illiterate-numbnut-do-gooder category - that is: someone who hears a snippet of a point of a conversation and immediately springs to the defence of an individual if they happen to be one of the 'downtrodden' types.

One thing I have discovered is that those who charge to the defence of blacks / aboriginals / Africans / Mexicans / whatever stating that these people need special requirements to allow them to integrate with society - THEY are the racists! Instead of saying: "Hey - life's tough for everyone - pull your socks up and get on with the job.", these people will infer: "Hey - you're just a dumb coon that clearly isn't as intelligent as I am, so I will make special conditions so that my special mentally-retarded-through-race friend can integrate with us nice white folk."

Life is tough for everyone - not just minorities - and being condescending to people, regardless of race, is insulting and ignorant to those people. Many will notice that I dislike Islam immensely and I'm not about to change the way I think because I refuse to tolerate the bad behaviour that is propagated by a not insignificant number of followers of the Cult of the Paedophile. This behaviour is not "cultural" and the rest of the world shouldn't have to put up with it because some greenie thinks it's because the stone-chucker is stupid. It's not cultural - it's bullshit! They need to grow up as a people and realise that if they are to exist in a world with 5+ billion other people that the lies they believe are not the law for every single person on the planet.

Similarly - people who traffic drugs and are happy for others to die, thanks to addiction, and show no remorse for it - they too need to learn the hard way.

I just find it annoying that this story didn't have a happy ending. The kind of happy ending where the mule dies and the world is less one person willing to make life shit for others.

Woman charged over 'kilo of drugs in stomach'

November 27, 2007 09:54am

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police (AFP) have charged a South African woman with smuggling more than a kilogram of illegal drugs in her stomach.

The 35-year-old woman arrived at Sydney airport on Saturday and was selected for a baggage examination by Customs officers, the AFP said.

During questioning, officers became suspicious that she might have been concealing drugs internally.

The AFP took the woman to hospital for a medical examination and it will be alleged in court that she passed a total of 54 pellets weighing approximately 1.35 kilograms.

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Those who are soft between the ears and go mad at me for being racist obviously think it's OK to traffic drugs and deal in death if you're a member of one of their 'less intelligent' races who don't know the difference when it comes to working out right from wrong.

Labor Party = Corruption

I found this article as a printout while cleaning my desk the other day (yeah yeah - don't give me grief about having a messy desk. People with clean desks obviously don't have enough to do!)

Anyway - interesting little story to remind those staunch Labor supporters out there that if the state governments (all Labor) are going to be dishonest when it comes to financial matters: how much worse will it be when they get the national chequebook? (without trotting out the old "interest rates" chestnut).

Simple fact: The Labor party does NOT know anything about financial management other than spend, spend, spend until there is nothing left and then putting the country into hock while they spend some more - far too much of it going on aid to other countries with their own corrupt governments who pass nothing on to the people. Think: Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos.
Then we need to get the Liberals back in to make all the hard decisions and bring the country back into the black.

That is the difference between a government who manages the economy and one that works to keep their mates in the cooshy jobs; pander to the unions and keeping up a pretense that they support the people while living the high life themselves at the cost of taxpayers. Think: Bob Gibbs: The Beattie government stooge and cretin who is responsible for 1,500 people losing their (minimum of) $1,000 (each) when he decided to sell off Queensland Raceway when the three other Receivers (Queensland Govt being the fourth) had received advice from the government's own advisor to allow the track to trade out of its financial problems. One thousand people times $1,000 (individual life memberships) plus five-hundred times $1,500 (family life memberships) were not honoured by the new owners.

Incidentally, Bob "Cretin" Gibbs is now in Los Angeles as a "Trade Commissioner" for Queensland (why, nobody knows - more jobs for the boys...). I recall his meal bill a few years ago being around $80,000 because he eats at restaurants for every meal and refuses to eat anywhere that isn't rated at 5-stars. Guess who pays for all this as well as his first-class travel bill? Hint: it's not him.

But I digress... I will be updating the Wiki page for Queensland Raceway though at some time in the future....

Premiers squander $50bn tax bonus

By Samantha Maiden

June 05, 2006 07:51am
Article from: The Australian

THE states have squandered a $50 billion windfall on higher wages for public servants instead of cutting taxes or investing in infrastructure.
A new analysis, prepared by the Institute of Public Affairs, has found that since the GST was introduced in 2000, revenue distributed to the states has increased by more than 9 per cent a year, delivering an extra $22 billion to state governments.

State tax revenue over the same period was $28 billion more than expected, with big increases in stamp duty from property sales contributing an extra $4.1 billion.

However, this unexpected revenue growth has been pumped into higher wages for bureaucrats and public servants rather than being invested in infrastructure and delivering a new reform agenda.

The states' wage Bill has been rising much faster than inflation for the past three years, with a big increase in the number of administrators, leading the report to question the states' commitment to improving frontline services. "The main focus of the states' spending spree has been public servant salaries," the report finds.

The report, published on the eve of the NSW and Queensland budgets, is highly critical of the states' waste of what it terms the "reform bonus".

At the same time, spending on health and education has increased, waiting lists for elective surgery have grown and public school enrolments have fallen.

The report, Opportunity squandered: how the states have wasted the reform bonus, by the IPA's Mike Nahan, found the states also secured the unexpected windfall without honouring an agreement to cut state taxes when the GST was introduced.

"The funds received in the form of higher-than-expected GST payments alone have been sufficient to have allowed all states to meet their tax-cutting commitments under the inter-governmental agreement," the report states.

"But so far, none has done so."

As NSW Premier Morris Iemma prepares his first budget, the IPA report has found his Government has failed to invest the proceeds of state taxes and GST windfalls on infrastructure upgrades.

The public service wage bill in NSW has increased by 8.9 per cent a year since July 2003, the report finds. "NSW, which has been the most aggressive on the tax front in terms of raising taxes and reluctance to meet its GST obligations to cut taxes, received a grant-tax windfall of $14.3 billion - equivalent to 10.5 per cent more revenue than forecast at the time the GST deal was agreed," the report finds.

"The current crisis affecting NSW - declining revenue, budget deficit, public sector lay-offs, could spread to other states, with Tasmania, South Australia and the ACT being the most likely to follow suit, given their heavy dependence on conveyancing fees to fund large increases in wages."

State public servants' remuneration has been rising much faster than inflation in all states and territories since 2003.

The ACT leads the way with an annual increase to the wage bill of 12.6 per cent, with Tasmania close behind at 11.3 per cent.

The report also notes the growth in the size of the state public sector workforce.

Overall, the ranks of state bureaucrats swelled by 11.7 per cent between November 1999 and November last year.

"The states would argue that this spending was justified as it was used to attract and retain the best frontline professionals," the report says.

"During this same period, however, the states increased their administrator or bureaucrat workforce by 44,000, or 30.5 per cent. Clearly, therefore, frontline staff have not been the state's sole focus."

Peter Costello said yesterday the IPA report underlined the risk that the states' lack of action was holding back economic progress.

"The GST has brought a massive revenue windfall to the states," the Treasurer told The Australian.

"This windfall could have gone to accelerating the abolition of agreed taxes, particularly stamp duties.

"Far from accelerating, the states have lagged on the abolition of agreed taxes, keeping the windfall and delaying the abolition of offsetting taxes."

The states have traditionally justified the failure to eliminate or reduce state taxes on the grounds they need to invest in infrastructure or reform services.

However, the report finds only Queensland and Victoria allocated a sizeable share of record GST and tax revenues to capital investment or debt reduction.

Tasmania spent the entire windfall and NSW increased recurrent spending by more than its windfall from the GST and booming state tax receipts.

"Since the introduction of the GST, the states and territories have experienced phenomenal, indeed record, growth in revenue - far in excess of the rate expected at the time the GST was introduced," the report finds.

"The net result was that the states received $70 billion or about 14 per cent more revenue than expected over the first five years of the decade."

According to the report, payroll and land tax - the state's broadest-based taxes - grew on average by 6.9 per cent and 17.4 per cent over five years.

However most of their revenue growth came from elsewhere. "Revenue from stamp duties on conveyances grew over the period by a massive 73.3 per cent or by $4.1 billion," the report states.

"Revenue from stamp duties on insurance grew by 63.7 per cent over the period, thanks primarily due to the inflation in insurance prices following the collapse of HIH, the imposition of the GST."

While the states had forecast a 3.2 per cent increase in revenue, the GST grant income had risen by 10.7 per cent.

The GST is expected to generate an extra $14 billion for the states over the next five years.

The GST has entrenched the commonwealth as the states' "paymaster", assuming direct responsibility for collecting 45 per cent of state revenue, according to the report.

Another Dealer to Die.... WHOOPEE!! :)

*Sniff* it's the Good News stories like this that bring a tear to my eye....

I applaud the Vietnamese government for doing to drug traffickers what should be done to them all over the world.

I still dream of the day when I see my great plan come to fruition: Swing a Dealer a Day. Wouldn't that be great?

Death sentence for Aussie drug smuggler

By staff writers

November 22, 2007 02:37pm

A NEW South Wales man convicted of trafficking heroin in Vietnam will be put to death, a court has decided.

The People's Court of Appeals in Ho Chi Minh City reaffirmed the sentence for Tony Manh, 40, at a hearing yesterday after hearing no new evidence for a reduction in his sentence, a court official told the Associated Press.

Manh was convicted in September of trafficking 948g of heroin and sentenced to death.

He was arrested in March when security officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City found drugs hidden on his body as he was about to board a plane to Sydney.

State media said Manh was paid $US10,000 ($11,445) by a Vietnamese to smuggle the drug into Australia.

Manh has seven days to appeal to President Nguyen Minh Triet for leniency.

About 100 people are sentenced to death in Vietnam each year for drug offences.

Allah says: "Screw your attractive daughters!"??

Hmmm... Funny how when caught doing something a person knows is morally wrong - and that person is a devotee of Islam (that is: blessed with a subnormal intellect) - they think that a stupid, brainless lie will save them. I knew someone like this once but he was a catholic (in name only). He used his religion as a means of getting favours off people when it suited him.

So... A father in India marries his daughter; knocks her up; knows that it is a reprehensible act; yet tells the biggest load of shit story (ie: "Allah told me to be an incestuous paedophile") to his wife, who believes him and he thinks he's free & clear.

It's a good thing that Hindus aren't stupid like the followers of the war-mongering child-rapist, Mohammad. Maybe Allah told him to do the same thing all those years ago?

Indian Man Who Married Teen Daughter Saved From Lynch Mob

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

A man who married his teen daughter and impregnated her after he claimed Allah told him to do so barely escaped with his life when he was attacked by a mob of angry villagers, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Afazuddin Ali, 36, married his oldest daughter, 15, after telling his former wife that Allah had ordered the arrangement, the BBC reported. The ex-wife, Sakina Ali, went along with it, saying that Ali was a deeply religious man who “would not lie in the name of Allah.”

Not convinced of the divine order, outraged villagers in West Bengal, India, nearly lynched Ali for what they called a clear case of incest, the BBC reported. A police team had to rescue the couple.

"We wanted to smash his head, we were so angry,” village leader Sheikh Ramzan told the BBC.

The couple appeared before a magistrate in Jalpaiguri Monday but were released without being charged because the lower court has no jurisdiction over criminal matters, a sub-divisional officer told the BBC.

Sea Shepherd: "YAY!" Greenpeace: "Fuck off!"

I love this. At last there is an environmental group out there actually doing something about helping the endangered species other than collecting money to support the great-unwashed lifestyle of the Greenpeace bludgers and the Rent-a-Crowd mentality of the tree hugging hippies.

Singing songs; collecting social security and hassling celebrities (ie: PETA - for more info on what this organisation is really about, check out PETA Kills Animals.

If you want to donate to a truly worthy cause, then Sea Shepherd is the way to go.

Environmentalists vow to ram whaling vessels

November 20, 2007 08:39am
Article from: AAP

RADICAL environmentalist group Sea Shepherd has again vowed to ram Japanese vessels involved in the hunting of whales, including humpback whales, in the Antarctic Ocean.

Japan's six-vessel whaling fleet took off from the western port of Shimonoseki for its five-month voyage on Sunday heading to the Antarctic Ocean for a hunt that will include humpback whales for the first time.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says it will physically stop the hunt by ramming whaling vessels if necessary.

"Basically we're going down there to stop them," Sea Shepherd's Jonny Vasic told Channel 9 this morning.

"We're not going down there to protest; we're going down to directly intervene and put an end to this criminal behaviour.

"We've been known to ram a vessel that's engaged in illegal activity as a last ditch effort to get them to stop.

"We have a reputation of direct action and we mean business.

"We, too, are a non-violent group, but we don't have a problem with economic destruction when it's engaged in illegal activity."

During the last expedition, Sea Shepherd activists threw bottles of chemicals at the whalers in hopes of disrupting them.

The group was also involved in a ramming incident with the Japanese whalers.

Karli Thomas from the environmental group Greenpeace, said they were determined to stop the hunt once the fleet reached the Southern Ocean, but would not go to the same lengths as Sea Shepherd.

"We will do what we can in the bounds of non-violent direct action to stop them hunting whales," Ms Thomas told Nine.

"So that means putting ourselves between the harpoon and the whales, preventing them from taking a shot, and being able to save individual whales from the harpoon.

"We certainly have never rammed a vessel, and we don't intend to."

Humpback whales have been protected under a 1966 worldwide moratorium after years of overhunting.

Japan, which argues that whale meat is part of its culture, planned to kill 950 whales on the five-month mission using a loophole in a global moratorium that allows lethal research on the giant mammals.

Australia, Britain and New Zealand have condemned the decision to go ahead with the catch.

I noticed this article the other day about a woman in Saudi who was raped 14 times by 7 different "men".

Female rape victim gets 200 lashes and jail

From correspondents in Riyadh

November 16, 2007 08:45am
Article from: AAP

A COURT in the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail.
The 19-year-old woman - whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms - was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,'' the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.

A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.''

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.

Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shi'ite community.

But the woman's lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.

In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.

The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.

Mr Lahem, also a human rights activist, said yesterday the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.

He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December.

Mr Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and "contradicts King Abdullah's quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system.''

King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.

All this proves is that the stories I've heard about Saudi are true. There is NO legal system there other than what one of these goat-fuckers thinks might help him and his mates out at the time. I've heard from a few sources that if a Westerner is involved in a motoring collision with a Saudi then then Westerner is automatically at fault regardless of the circumstances.

Where the hell does this moron of a judge get off thinking that it is OK to punish the victim regardless of what she was doing? Was he a member of the Queensland "Justice" System recently? I say that it is now fair game for the family of this woman to cut the balls (literally) off the rapists once they are set free.

Can you imagine what the result would have been had it been Westerners that performed the rape on a Muslim woman?
Can you imagine how much worse it would be if the victim had been a western woman?

Oh, and I notice that our government is acting French again in refusing to denounce the punishment being handed out to the woman. This has resulted in one of the writers for the News.com.au site creating a blog/petition to be presented to (and most-likely ignored by) the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Save this rape victim

Wednesday, November 21, 2007 (01:13pm)

Politicians have refused to stand up for a gang rape victim sentenced to 200 lashes in Saudi Arabia.

So it’s up to us.

The US and Australian governments have effectively abandoned the woman, who was raped 14 times by seven men. US Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton has urged President George W. Bush to call on Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah to drop the charges, while Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has asked diplomatic staff to “raise Australia’s concern” over the sentence with the Saudi Government.

Compounding the obscenity of the sentence is the fact that it has been increased from 90 lashes. The victim, a 19-year-old who has become known as “Qatif girl” after the Shiite-populated area of Al-Qatif in the Eastern Province she comes from, has vowed to challenge the ruling, even though the judge has warned her sentence could be increased if she loses her appeal.

The politicians’ silence doesn’t stop us from speaking out for her.

Today we are collecting your comments and views in a petition that we will present to the Saudi embassy in Canberra.

Please post your comments below and we will pass them on to the embassy.

We also encourage Australians to protest directly to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. You can telephone the embassy in Canberra at (02) 6282 6999 and ask to speak with the Australian and New Zealand ambassador Mr Hassan Talat Nazer.

You can also send faxes to (02) 6282 8911 or post letters to:

P.O. Box 9162
Deakin ACT 2600

So, simply put: If Saudi Arabia considers itself to be a righteous, forward-thinking country with any resemblance of maturity, then they are wrong.
Who would have thought that a country with links to the oldest and smartest civilisations this planet has ever known could be so brainless and pathetic in their thinking: punish the victim.

I bet if a group of women attacked a male and repeatedly shoved a sex toy in his back passage that he wouldn't get whipped for his trouble. It is no wonder that many people, including myself, consider Saudi Arabia and the Middle East to be remnants of the Bronze Age with Stone Age thinking and that the world tolerates them only because the most effective way of dealing with them (ie: turning the region into a glass carpark) will irradiate the area too badly to get the oil out. If it wasn't for this, they and their reverence for a paedophile could have been eradicated generations ago and the world would be a much safer & pleasant place for it.

Remember this story the next time one of these Tent Merchants tells you that women are revered in Islam. They lie.

Bad Smokers! Bad!

Here is an interesting opinion piece where it is blatantly obvious that the author does not like smoking in any way, shape or form - and this is her method of attacking smokers. Maybe she thinks that if she does a but-what-about-the-children-?? piece that she will somehow shame some smokers into quitting and therefore not foul the air she wants to breathe.

In a way, she has a simplistic, idealistic view of how it should be when it comes to smoking - but she does make some valid points.

Some people just shouldn't have kids

By Rita Panahi

November 06, 2007 12:00pm
Article from: Herald Sun

LET'S be honest, some people just shouldn't have kids.
Criminals, junkies, the violent, the insane and smokers.

Yes, smokers.

They are a hazard not only to themselves but to the poor kids who are unfortunate enough to have them as parents.

Who cares if a smoker is a hazard to themself? If it is someone of legal age and they want to smoke then that is their prerogative.

The author appears to have a larger problem with smokers in society than criminals, junkies, violent people, idiots, and pretty-much any sort of undesirable.

If an adult with the full knowledge of the dangers of smoking chooses to inhale cancer causing toxins then that's their business but they have no right to expose unwilling children to their filthy habit.

This is very valid point that applies to many facets of life.

Yes - we, as adults, do have the right to smoke - but we do NOT have the right to inflict the by-products on anyone else. Just like I'm not allowed to shit on the footpath and then scoop it up and fling it at people (if I did, I would probably be issued with a Queensland Drivers Licence and sent on my way in some turbo 4-cylinder piece of junk. That appears to be where diminutive monkies with big egos hang out....).

What about the retards who think it's OK to turn their CRAP "music" up to concert hall volumes with the windows open (on house or car) so that everyone else has to notice their presence?

Certainly, a woman who smokes while pregnant is not worthy of having children let alone receiving a generous government grant for every nicotine-addicted baby she brings in to this world.

DAMN STRAIGHT!!
This point is extremely pertinent in many ways!

Why should I pay taxes so that some cheap slag can get a handout for spitting out a kid that will, in all likelihood, predisposed to illness?

If you willingly want to harm yourself then you have NO right to demand government handouts nor health care over and above someone who does not cause self harm.

Preferential care should be particularly prevalent for drug-users when they get picked up by the ambulance and taken to hospital. If an ambulance does not need to attend a genuine emergency and the hospital is not overflowing (thanks to yet another inept Labor Government cutting back on spending because they want overseas trips instead) then maybe the druggo can receive some treatment. My preference is that they die instead and remove the blight that they have become from the community landscape.

It's sad that in these enlightened times of children's rights the biggest single danger to a child isn't some unknown predator but the very people who should be loving and protecting them above all else.

There's one of those statements that the author thinks will make people quite because she is *such* a wordsmith. Sheesh....

The overwhelming majority of abuse suffered by children is at the hands of a parent; this damning statistic is also true for children who don't survive the abuse, with 81 per cent of child murders committed by a primary caregiver.

Don't these statistics relate to physical abuse rather than second-hand smoke? The author wouldn't be trying to suggest that a portion of the statistics relating to the harm of children comes from cigarette smoke, would she? Do stats on that even get kept? I doubt it...

Interestingly the data shows an equal proportion of mothers and fathers killing their children.

Yep - and all caused by second-hand smoke. There doesn't appear to be any reference to torture in the form of burns from the cigarettes; incest; beatings; carnal knowledge from the mothers boyfriend; or anything else that may harm a child included in this data.

It's easy to make a case against violent, unstable types having kids, yet latest research shows that smokers also pose an imminent danger to their offspring, particularly in infancy.

Generally, I've found that smokers don't really become violent unless some self-righteous prat preaches to them about giving up the smokes. Some get irate at the mere mention of it - others are more serene until the preacher starts shoving the filters up their bum-hole so that they might infuse the cigarettes with a genuine shitty taste.

What does make smokers violent, more often than not, is alcohol. It just seems that having a smoke and having a drink go hand-in-hand.

The leading cause of death among infants aged between one month and one year continues to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and a new comprehensive study from Bristol University has found that nine out of 10 babies who die from SIDS had mothers who smoked during pregnancy.

So now she trots out a study about how smoking can harm an infant rather than the dodgy stats listed above.

If that fact alone isn't enough to persuade selfish mums-to-be to butt out their final cigarette, then nothing will, short of legislation banning them from using nicotine-based products.

Ban alcohol first. I've never heard of a woman getting knocked up and left to raise a child on her own because she smoked too many fags and forgot which member of the team actually dropped his load in there.

Such a ban would be difficult to enforce but the clear message it sends - that smoking while pregnant is tantamount to child abuse - would hopefully shame a few more women into give up their nicotine habit.

Why pick on a legal drug when the author seems to ignore any mention of other substances that one may smoke and *genuinely* cause more problems in society?

Maybe then we will stop seeing heavily pregnant girls happily puffing away on their cancer sticks outside every shopping centre.

I don't really care if heavily pregnant girls puff away outside malls. It's the fat trollops that drop yet another kid to yet another bloke and continue to turn up to Centrelink with their chubby mits out wanting more money.

Perhaps shame will work where education campaigns, gentle persuasion and counselling have failed.

Not bloody likely. Have you seen some of these muffin-topped slags? If they can go out in public looking the way they do, they clearly have NO shame. I won't even go into how low their esteem must be if you see the trash they hang around with AND allow the unwashed bludger to put a cock in them.

Recent research suggests up to 30 per cent of Australian women smoke while pregnant, putting their child at higher risk of not only SIDS but a myriad other health and developmental complications.

You mean like the STD they got from being banged in the carpark of the Bottle-o while pissed by some Bogan and his brother?

Even women receiving IVF treatment aren't required to be nicotine-free before undertaking the procedure.

It may not be a requirement but I've noticed that when a woman goes for the silver-tube daddy, they want a family and will make the sacrifices needed voluntarily in order to get a child.

It doesn't augur well for a woman's mothering skills if she cannot make the smallest sacrifice in quitting cigarettes for the sake of her unborn child. Could there be a more selfish, un-maternal act than to knowingly harm your child to satisfy your own immediate needs of a nicotine fix?

Isn't that what society has become? "Me! Me! Me!"? It's all about what I want and I want it all now. "I want people to stop smoking so I'm going to write an article about it! Me! Me! Me!"

We've long known about the devastating effects nicotine has on an unborn child; it's time we tackled this problem without the constraints of political correctness and the usual hogwash from civil libertarians about personal freedoms.

I get the impression that the author is one of these civil libertarians when it involves a topic that doesn't irritate her so much - like rights for criminals over the rights of victims.

Laws banning pregnant women from buying and using cigarettes would have an immediate impact.

No they wouldn't.

A further measure can be the linking of the baby bonus to mothers remaining smoke-free for the term of their pregnancy, a simple test for nicotine can be conducted at the same time other routine blood work is completed during pregnancy.

I quite like this idea but it doesn't go far enough. The tests MUST also include checks for illicit drugs as well - that is: anything that is illegal. This include the "social" drugs that some people think are good to have at parties.

In fact, ALL recipients of monies through Centrelink should be subjected to completely random tests for illicit drugs whereupon their payments are IMMEDIATELY cut off and sent to DeTox upon detection of such substances. If someone wants to be a stupid prick and take drugs - fine - but don't stick your grubby paws out expecting MY tax money to help support your habit!

This year South Australia introduced laws that banned smoking in cars where children under the age of 16 are passengers.

Oh great... not only do the Police not enforce the road rules we have now except for speeding - here is something else that they'll have to look out for thanks to some idiot politician wanting to look like they're acting for the common good.

This legislation was as much about changing attitudes as it was about fining offenders.

Bullshit. The author just wants more laws to support her personal views.

This is exactly what is needed here: make it socially unacceptable to smoke while pregnant and enforce punitive measures to motivate responsible behaviour.

How about instead of giving more bullshit work to the law-enforcement departments that the funds for this be directed towards correcting more of the social ills - that is: ILLEGAL DRUGS!

I still say we should "Swing a Dealer a Day" - hang them by the neck until they are dead.
Who cares if it is painful or degrading? It's not like they cared about the lives they ruined or who they used in the process of them getting wealthy. Remove trash like this from the face of the planet and the planet will become a better place for everyone.

RITA PANAHI is a social commentator.

RITA PANAHI is only interested in what RITA PANAHI wants - and it's clear that she cannot direct her ability to get words to the greater public to help cure the ailments of society. She just wants less cigarette smoke around her cafe while she sips a decaf soy latte (blecch!!)

Another One Bites the Dust :)

I never got around to writing something about this story because I've been so busy lately, but I'm getting it off my chest now....

Skylarker plunges to death from 24th floor

By Paul Weston

September 09, 2007 12:00am
Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

TYSON Leader was a daredevil "clown" who loved to entertain his family and friends with his crazy stunts.

Sounds more like Tyson was just a stupid cunt.

But the Sunshine Coast teenager's luck ran out on Friday night when he fell from a Gold Coast highrise after hanging by one hand from a balcony on the 24th floor.

YAY!!!

The 18-year-old carpenter from Buderim had been at several Surfers Paradise nightclubs to celebrate a friend's 18th birthday before the group returned to their luxury holiday unit at the Aegean Apartments in Laycock St, Surfers Paradise.

Who cares what he was doing there - he's dead and the world is a better place for it.

His best mate Jimmy Atkins, 18, from Coolum, yesterday recalled how the birthday celebrations swiftly switched to a tragedy which has shattered the close group of friends.

Boo hoo.... I'm so sad... this has really broken me up as we*... he look - a seagull! Cool! :)

"It was one of our mate's 18th. We went out to a few clubs and came back. He was good old Tyson – the loosest of us, and he just went over the rail," Mr Atkins said.

He was pushed over the rail?
He tripped and fell and tried to catch himself?
It was an unfortunate series of circumstances that led to the death of a truly philosophical and wise human being who will forever be remembered as having a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him?
Whaddya mean "he climbed over the rail and fell?" So he really was *just* a stupid cunt.

"Tyson was like a cat. He had lives. He's cheated death plenty of times.

Maybe a retarded cat with 3 legs and no sense of direction....

"He doesn't think about what he does. I saw him – I was standing on the balcony and if I was a foot closer, I could have grabbed his arm."

That right: He didn't think - ever - and now he's dead. The world is a better place for it that he went and didn't take an innocent person with him.

Mr Atkins recalled how he had watched Mr Leader swing himself over the railing, holding on with two hands in a crouching position, then just one hand before he slipped and fell.

Did he say: "HEY STUPID! Get back in here! Don't you give a shit about your family and friends and everyone who cares about you? Jesus, that was dumb!"
I think he may actually have said: "HAHAHAHA! That looks cool! You're crazy, dude! Hey...? Where'd he go?"

Anyone who thinks this MORON was a top bloke almost deserves to grab him and try to save him - and then get dragged over the edge as well. The only truly sad thing about the whole incident is that he didn't land on one of those taxis driven by the usual shit-for-brains cabbie who stops anywhere and doesn't give a rats arse about how much traffic they hold up.

Another friend, Christie Marrett, said they were all in shock.

I could have told her to not look over the edge to see the splat....

"Tyson was the clown of the group. He was always doing crazy stunts," Ms Marrett said. "He was doing what he always does. It just went wrong this time."

He was definitely a clown.

Dying is what he did best? Great - just great! At least the retarded-cat-like-daredevil, STUPID CUNT could have made some money while he was alive by showing a few more Muslims how to do it.

Mr Leader's mother, Jan, agreed, saying her son had escaped a serious car accident in September last year and as a youngster had to be revived after almost drowning following a jump at a waterfall.

"Tyson is a daredevil," Ms Leader said.

Did he cause the car accident due to his "not thinking" and "daredevil" attitude? Who was at fault? Hmmm?

"He had nine lives. He lived life to the fullest.

Looks like lives 4-through-9 went in one hit. Anyone know if he bounced off a few balconies on the way down? I bet the coroner had a bloody tough time looking for brain matter even though his head probably didn't split open until it hit the ground.

"His life was just starting for him. He had just got a car. He'd just got a great job and he had a gorgeous girlfriend. Everything was starting to go right."

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Let me guess... I bet he bought a 6-cylinder Commodore; lowered it to the ground; put a fart can exhaust on it; and drove like he owned the road? Why do I make this generalisation? Hmmm... I only have observational evidence to confirm behaviour like this from MORONS like him.

At least now his "gorgeous girlfriend" might find someone with some smarts about him. Oh wait - young Australian female... she'll just go out and find another idiot like him. It seems that there are plenty to choose from.

Here we go again....

Here we go again....

What the hell is wrong with these DICKHEADS in the media???? This FOOL, Tony Keim... is he a dedicated cretin or does he just simply not understand the *true* definition of what it is the be a "man"?

Check out this example from the News.com.au site this morning....

Court told of girl's torture, rape

By Tony Keim

November 06, 2007 01:00am
Article from: The Courier-Mail

* Man charged with 10 offences
* Alleged torture over three days
* Victim assaulted with machete

A MAN cried uncontrollably yesterday as he fronted court charged with tying up his teenage girlfriend and then torturing, raping and molesting her while armed with a machete.

Oh yes - a big, tough "man". Thought it was OK at the time to torture and rape a woman but now cries like a little bitch when he gets caught out and faces punishment for his actions.

The 21-year-old man raised his shackled hands out to his family and friends seated in the Caboolture Magistrate's Court and, in an anguished gesture, begged them to "please" help him.

Yes - do! Please help him to become the landfill that he deserves to be. Preferably before the piece of shit breeds!

The gesture prompted a woman, understood to be his mother, to say: "I love you, baby."

This must be the trailer trash that brought it into the world. She must be ever so proud of herself.

Prosecutor Samantha McGee said police had charged the man, who cannot yet be identified under Queensland laws, with 10 offences after his arrest on Sunday night.

There it is again.... "man".... Grrr-rrr.

Police allege the man tortured and raped his girlfriend, 19, over a three-day period.

I hold absolutely no blame over the girl on this but I can't help wondering if she chose this gutter snipe because he was a "bad boy"? She is now laden with mental torture for the rest of her life because she, like every other stupid female in this country, want mental midgets who treat women like shit rather than trying to find a half-decent bloke that will treat her with respect.

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Prosecutors are expected to allege the teenage girl was assaulted with a flat blade machete, burnt with a cigarette lighter, assaulted with a knife and raped while her feet were bound for up to 72 hours.

The only consolation I have is that someone will hopefully do similar things to his arsehole once he gets into prison. If he's crying like a little bitch now, I can only sing with joy at the feelings he's going to experience when that first fist gets rammed up his date and he has to swallow his first load.

Solicitor Timothy Hishon, for the man, simply requested the matter be adjourned for mention on a future date.

"I can advise at this time there will be no application for bail," Mr Hishon said.

Yes - start his own rape sessions now. Why deprive the real bad buggers in society their own bitch?

The man said nothing but continued to cry while standing in the dock when told he faced counts of torture, rape, deprivation of liberty, assault with intent to commit rape, two of assault causing bodily harm and three of assault while armed.

"Boo Hoo! Boo Hoo! Poor me! All I did was deprive her of her liberty, burn her, torture her, rape her, leave her with mental scars for life, and quite possibly cause her to distrust any male in her life ever again - but what about ME? Oh Boo hoo - wahhhh...."

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Just before being removed from the court, the man held up four fingers to his friends and family and then stroked his thumb across his throat - a gesture normally used to suggest someone's throat being cut.

He wants to commit suicide before the trial and remove his oxygen thieving soul from the face of the planet? Where can I send the razor blade to? Does anyone have his address?

Outside the court, his visibly distressed supporters shoved a number of television cameramen filming them.

The supporters are distressed and are taking their anger out on reporters because they too have been caught out in that one of their own has shown his true colours and they were too stupid to put him down at birth. Nothing like having the world discover that you're genuinely stupid, no matter how carefully you keep it hidden.

Muslim "men" can't sleep or pray. Fuck 'em.

WOO HOO!!! There should be more of it!

Cleric: Women's Sexy Clothing Distracting Muslim Men From Sleep, Prayers

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia's Muslim men are suffering sleepless nights and cannot pray properly because their thoughts are distracted by a growing number of women who wear sexy clothes in public, a prominent cleric said.

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader of the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, said he wanted to speak about the "emotional abuse" that men face because it is seldom discussed, the party reported on its Web site Wednesday.

"We always [hear about] the abuse of children and wives in households, which is easily perceived by the eye, but the emotional abuse of men cannot be seen," Nik Abdul Aziz said. "Our prayers become unfocused and our sleep is often disturbed."

Nik Abdul Aziz has made controversial comments about women in the past, including that women should stop wearing lipstick and perfume to lower the risk of being raped. Women's groups have slammed his statements, saying Islam teaches both men and women to be responsible for modesty. They say comments like these encourage rapes because it puts the onus on women.

Nik Abdul Aziz's fundamentalist party has about 800,000 members. He is also the chief minister of northeastern Kelantan, the only one of Malaysia's 13 states that is not ruled by the moderate National Front governing coalition.

His party's Web site published an illustration Wednesday of how women should dress — in long, flowing headscarves covering their hair and chests and "baggy and loose" long-sleeved, floor-length dresses.

Most women from Malaysia's Malay Muslim majority wear a modest form of Islamic clothing, though younger women in cities sometimes wear body-hugging dresses or tight T-shirts and jeans.

In Kelantan, the Islamic party has fined Muslim women for not wearing headscarves in workplaces and implemented separate check-out lines for men and women in supermarkets.

How about this for a solution for these "men" of Islam?
- GROW THE FUCK UP and realise that YOU are responsible for YOUR actions.
- If a woman gets raped that it is YOUR fault that it happened and NOT hers.
- If you commit rape then YOU deserve to drown in a vat of pig shit for your efforts.
- You also need to have your worthless carcass dismembered and partially buried; partially burned; and the remainder fed to cannibalistic Jewish types (do these exist?) so that those virgins in heaven can see you for what you are.

[*Sorry to the Jewish types that aren't cannibalistic for the inference that such types exist and to those that are for offering to feed you the worst meal imaginable]

Child Killer wants to leg it

I found this a few days ago and it makes me think that I would so dearly love to be the Judge sitting on this case. Not only would I mark the case to ONLY come back before me on every appeal, I'd take great delight in pointing out to the child murderer that he should be thankful that he is still alive. Then I would add that he would get his prosthetic legs and he will get plenty of exercise with them - once he is placed back in general population with the knowledge being put out there that he killed an innocent child.

It would be his choice: prosthetic legs and general population or cop it sweet and stay where he is. He's not going to get life easy now that he is one of the "protected" criminal minority.

Idaho Child Killer Who Lost Legs in Suicide Attempt Sues After Being Denied Artificial Ones

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — A child killer who lost his legs in a suicide attempt is suing the state prison system for $1 million after being denied artificial legs in prison, saying he was promised prosthetics in plea negotiations.

According to the case filed recently in U.S. District Court, Barry L. McAdoo, 32, of Coeur d'Alene, is experiencing muscle degeneration and may never walk again if he remains confined to a wheelchair.

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McAdoo, convicted of beating his 15-month-old son Brandon to death, is serving 15 years to life at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise.

He told authorities that when the little boy stopped breathing on Jan. 14, 2005, he downed 50 sleeping pills and rat poison, left the trailer where he lived with his pregnant wife, Angela Cowles, and wandered outdoors in freezing weather for three days before he sought help.

McAdoo was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., where both legs had to be amputated because of frostbite.

McAdoo was given no promise the state would provide him prosthetics, Kootenai County Deputy Public Defender Lynn Nelson said, nor does the plea agreement signed by McAdoo, Nelson and Deputy Prosecutor Marty M. Raap mention the issue.

When McAdoo pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, 1st District Judge Charles W. Hosack asked whether he had been promised anything other than what was included in the plea agreement and McAdoo said he had not.

Nonetheless, Nelson asserted that McAdoo is entitled to prosthetics and has legal precedent on his side.

As for Kootenai County Deputy Public Defender, Lynn Nelson: I reckon this is the best solution for someone of their ilk who willingly defends such a creature as McAdoo.

Pakistani police baton-charge lawyers

By Augustine Anthony in Islamabad

November 05, 2007 04:08pm

PAKISTAN police baton-charged lawyers protesting against President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule today, as police continued to detain his opponents in the face of US pressure to hold elections in January.

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"Police beat lawyers with batons as they came to High Court in the morning. Many of them have been arrested," Akhtar Hussain, a former president of Sindh High Court Bar Association, said.

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Yeah, I know that the stories aren't linked and that the second one is about protesting about freedoms and unconstitutional acts but you have to admit that lawyers getting beaten with batons always has to bring a smile to your face.