"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.

News

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that complete SHIT passes for news in this country?? It must do:
- Britney (Shitme) Spears has a baby. Who the fuck cares???
- Rene Zellweger has split from her husband after 5 months. Don't bother wasting space telling me unless she has said that she's coming to knock on my door!

What WAS big news during the week was something that was reported on by the overly inept media of this country but they seemingly missed an underlying fact in the whole story.

• Bush Takes Blame for Slow Response to Hurricane Katrina

Mr Bush acknowledged the horrible suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and said he was ultimately responsible for Washington's widely criticised response.

What was the point that they missed? Quite a large one, in fact.
It seems to me that the only people in this country who really have an opinion about George W Bush are the same ones who say that he is an illiterate moron. These are the same people who are easily led by the nose and bindly follow the one-sided (so-called) reporting that occurs in the (so-called) news media in this country.

Had they sat back and actually LISTENED to what he said (regardless of how he said it or if he stumbled or had it in big letters written in crayon) - they would have realised that he was being A MAN!! He took responsibility for the actions of people that he had no direct control over but, due to the nature of his office, the buck stops with him. He knows his position and he accepts it.

Let's start a short list of who WOULDN'T have taken responsibility nor acted like a real man?
- anyone with 'Kennedy' in their surname.
- anyone with 'Clinton' in their surname.

Seems to be a bluish trend here....

Bankstown (Sydney) High School Maths Exam

BANKSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL CITY OF BANKSTOWN

MATHEMATICS EXAM

NAME .......................................
GANG........................................

Time allowed 1 hour

1. If Mohamed lowers his WRX by 2 inches front and back and puts on stolen 18-inch Zepter wheels, how many inches has he originally lost from the stock suspension?

2. If Con needs 3 razors a day to stay clean shaved, how may razors will he need before he goes to the gym at 8.00 pm?

3. If Mustaffa runs 10 km from the Police in Lakemba to Punchbowl, then steals a car and drives another 5 km to Bankstown, how many kilometres has he travelled if he ends up hiding in Wiley Park?

4. Omar has 2 ounces of cocaine. He sells an "8 ball" to Hamil for $320.00 and 2 grams to Akhmed for $85.00 per gram. What is the street value of the balance of the cocaine if he doesn't cut it.?

5. If Ahmed receives $200.00 per week disability allowance from Centrelink, also works as a builder for his brother who pays him a further $400.00 per week, and then claims $10.00 per week education allowance from the Government for each of his 75 children for school, how much more does he need to buy a smashed Tarago from the auctions?

6. If the average spray can covers 22 square metres and the average letter is 8 square centimetres, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?

7. If Soula needs 25 mls of wax per day to get rid of her facial hair, and Soula is only 19 years old, how many mls will her mother need if she is 47?

8. Mohamed has an AK-47 with 2 x 30 round clips. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attend before he has to reload?

9. If Jim changes the oil in his Fish & Chips shop deep fryer every 18 months and this costs him $400.00, how often should he change the oil if he wants to spend only $180.00 per annum on new oil?

10. If Abdo runs a Donor Kebab shop and works as a Taxi driver on weekends and earns $1,200.00 per week, how much does Centrelink give him for his job search allowance?

11. If Bankstown's ethnic community is increasing at a rate of 3.5% per month, the overall population increasing at 2.1% per month, at what rate are the Aussies leaving?

Ineptitude +

Seems to me that being a single white male that isn't in politics is definitely a disadvantage in this country.

Be a drug addict and steal a car and run over someone: 2 years + treatment and caring for your problem.

Be an Australian-society hating sheet-head and pack rape some girls simply because they are Australian and some half-witted deadshit flies to your defence because you practice the 'religion of peace'.

Be a corrupt and inept judge who bullies your staff and gets caught out doing it: get paid half a million dollars and get a cushy job to keep you quiet.

Be an ex- police-prosecutor and run over a cyclist while driving drunk and then run away and hide: get a fine and suspended sentence.

Be a minister in the Beattie government and run the health system into the ground while claiming to be a "health care professional" - payout and cushy job elsewhere.

Be a minister in the Beattie government and see to it that 1,500 people are ripped off on their life memberships to a non-football related venue: get a cushy job in Los Angeles with an extensive meal budget ($80,000 was it last year?) and a $250,000 pay packet.

Be a minister in the Beattie government and arrange for one of your loyal underlings to take the heat for you so that you don't get a grilling from the slopposition, then turn on the underling and see to it that she loses her job and cause much mental anguish to her simply because she supported you. Only do the right thing when the truth emerges.

Be the leader of the slopposition and knowingly break the law by announcing to the public that a candidate in a state election has a domestic violence order against them (even though it was known far and wide to be bogus), and then arrange for some 'other' charges to be laid against the complainant when it comes time for a formal complaint to be made against said leader. Leader of the Slopposition *could* be happy in the knowledge that the complainant has since died but not so happy to know that a monkey with brain damage could do his job more effectively.

Be a normal bloke in the street with a nice car and not drive fast or endanger the public; serve the community in various ways; etc etc - get slugged with excessive fines every time a minor breach of any pathetic little by-law occurs because "the people must be kept in line".

Seems to me that 200 years ago, criminals were loaded onto boats in England and sent out here. Present day: the criminals are still here except they're now running the country like an inept form for the mafia (at least the mafia will take care of people who side with them!)

Speed Enforcement Facts & Myths

This is an email I sent out recently to a couple of friends:

A site worth checking out in more detail…. One that (on first appearances) seems to be working towards safety on the roads rather than running a few advertisements on TV and collecting revenue and calling that "active road management".

It seems that, yet again, the Kiwis have beaten us Aussies at doing something constructive about tackling the problems and ill-informed slogans rather than giving the old shrug and saying: "yeah, but what can you do?" while more laws are created to make life difficult for people with unique vehicles, yet existing ones aren't enforced.

• Speed Enforcement Facts & Myths

In short, I am getting thoroughly sick & tired of the moronic bureaucrats who sit in offices all day with no idea of what it is actually like to be out on the roads, other than the times they are driving their single-occupant cars to work, of course. They build roads to suit cars only with no thought given to the Carriageway on which they build that road and they build the road using the technology of the new millenium with thinking from the 30's.

Driving around SE Queensland, I see a number of electronic billboards over various major stretches of roads. The concept of using these electronic billboards is brilliant - until you see the purpose for which they are used....
You never see "Accident on road ahead, use Exit X to avoid" or even notices about severe storms, that is: something that would actually be useful. No - Main Roads or Queensland Transport (whoever runs these things) only ever put their STUPID, ASININE, BRAINLESS, HALFWITTED slogans on there:

"Every K over is a Killer"
"Speeding or Drink Driving - What's the difference?"

...and the list goes on.

Yet again, the fools of this world think that nonsense slogans and advertising will take the place of actual education and teaching people to use the roads - and this is the reason why people will continue to die on the roads in hideously high numbers. No dumbarse journalist writing his 'inspired' piece in some rag will fix it - nor will some trained liar sitting on his fat arse in a huge chair in parliament have something resembling a clue on the complexity of the problem that even exists let alone any idea on how to fix it.
This is also why the vast majority of road users should be described as "car operators" and not "drivers". To operate a vehicle is one thing (that even a monkey can master) but to actually drive requires thought and intelligence - something that the monkey might have but car-operators in this state do not.

In short, it means people with some balls and some brains needs to get into the various ministerial portfolios of this so-called "Smart" state and they need to start kicking the heads of both the foolish 'advisers' below them and the halfwitted bureaucrats who procrastinate on everything.

Unfortunately, the solution will never be found while people elect fools to these jobs; while the power & money mad unions are allowed to dictate who can sit in parliament and who cannot; and while the politicians are not held accountable for their acts of ineptitude. Idiots in these jobs will continue to ignore the issues with a preference being to fatten their own wallets.

A friend of mine has suggested that you would need to assassinate only a couple of them before the others started coming into line. The idea has merit but it seems that those who pushed the gun buy-back scheme could see that the people needed to be disarmed before something along these lines actually happens.

R.I.P: me mum

Apologies to all who read this blog (oh wait - that's just me... :? ) but there's been a good reason for not being vigilant with the blog.

Approximately 5:05am, August 14, 2005 - my mum passed away.

I got the phone call at about 10-past-5 and went and woke dad up to go in to the hospital to see her. It's very strange seeing someone in that state - their body is there but you look into their eyes and the soul really is gone. It makes you want to believe that there is a better place for them to go and that they truly are at peace.

It's sad and I miss her a lot and there is now nobody there to call several times a week to make sure that I'm eating food and not just living on coffee and toast and that everything is OK, but at least she is not in pain anymore.
I think it's a fair trade that I can look after myself a bit better if I know that she's not being crippled by the cancer that spread to her lungs, spleen and spine.

An upside is that she was not a victim of the ineptitude of the public health system here in Queensland (in the state it is thanks to Petie Beater and his merry band of morons) and that she had the best medical care right up to the very end.

I just wish that I knew of a way that I could thank the staff at the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane for everything they did. Every last one of them are true professionals in their attitude towards health care and amazing people in their care for their patients.

Until I think of a better way: Thank you everyone for being there!

Cancer sucks

What is causing the massive increase in cancer these days?

I was reading a lot a few years ago about how leaded fuel was phased out because it was dangerous and made people sick - Yeah, sure, if you got down on the road and started licking it!
With the airborne carcinogens produced by unleaded fuel, anyone and everyone that takes a breath of air where a car has been will be breathing in their own little bit of cancer. Why? Because the FUCKING MELONS wanted it.

def:
Melon:
1. Wannabe Greenie.
2. Green on the outside; yellow on the inside; gives you the shits.
3. Airhead who thinks that talk solves all the problems in the world and most often picks fights with those that usually don't fight back. Usually a scruffy, unshaven, left-wing cocksucker who proclaims loudly that criminals have rights and that we should all change the way we live and become socialists who live on handouts from the government like they do.
4. Some sort of fruit that doesn't grow on trees but has a lot of people thinking that they hatched from a dog turd.

*oops... got distracted....

Just thinking about the cancer thing....
My family buried my eldest brother mid last year from it. They buried my grandad (mum's side) from it about 33 years ago. It's been discovered on my father's side of the family now.
... and it looks like it will claim my mum long before the end of the year.

What is it about Journalism??

Recently, a car-oriented site here in Australia ran a survey of drivers to find out the best and worst parts of driving in this country. A very worthwhile task indeed.

In my opinion, this would have to be the ONLY time in recent memory where a journalist has written anything resembling the factual state of the roads. It seems that editors deem that someone who has a drivers licence is qualified to write ABOUT cars and the state of the roads.

The results of the survey were published and everything was great until it came to the usual "Tell Us What You Think" segment. I have been sucked in by this before and I refuse to be sucked in again - especially considering that some clown thinks that he can edit the opinion of someone and retain, in full, what that person was saying.

I did respond, but this is what they got:
What is the point in commenting on the situation about the survey? I am very experienced on the subject of traffic legalities and how to fix the problems, but some junior-league wannabe-editor hacks to pieces everything I write.
Typical Australian journalism at work: sensationalize without knowing the facts!

The thing is that I DO know the subject I am writing about - moreso than the fools at Monash University with endless government grants who claim to test ideas and practices and come up with solutions. Truth be known, they are typical academics with no real-world knowledge.

Anyway - this blog is about journalists who think they know better than their readers and show their contempt by rewriting and editing the letters and comments, most likely to change the tone to suit their own political bias.

Like a good friend told me a few years ago: The only good journalist is one who no longer works for a newspaper (or TV). Funny thing is that he himself was a journalist for many years and knows the industry far better than I will ever want to.

The Rain in Spain falls mainly on the redneck

http://forum.justmustangs.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=21114#21114

I have just responded at length (checkout Matt51F1) to someone saying that cyclists shouldn't be allowed on the roads and that car drivers should be allowed to run them down or to get out and hit them.

Why am I such a threat as a cyclist?
Why do car drivers think it is OK to try and hit me off my bike? Is this sport or something? Would they think it as funny if I were to play cat and mouse with their classic car when I'm driving the truck? "Hey You! Get your old hunk of shit off the road! I'm bigger than you are - MOVE IT!!!"

I've included part of the exchange below....

LGC67 wrote:
Every morning I drive to work along a stretch of road bordered by a perfectly good bike path that my rates and taxes and I would suggest at least part of the 3 regos I pay each year helped to build for the use of the poor misunderstood bike riders (and I guess part of the bike riders taxes etc as well) Are the bike paths good enough for the bike riders .......................OH NO. The poor dears insist on riding on the F'ING road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Let me guess... You live down at Redlands? I think I know of where you speak....

Bicycle riders don't ask for bike paths. Those who don't feel safe on the road ride on the footpath. Those that are commuting and actually have somewhere to be (as in: going to work, like you, and not just cruising for fun) have to get there safely as well.
Simple fact is that bicycle paths are only built because politicians want the public to think that they are doing something for the community while they are lining their own pockets. Trust me on this: a LOT of cyclists say that cycle paths are a waste of public funds!

LGC67 wrote:
So to prove some moronic point, they battle with trucks and cars and slow every body else up (to well below the speed limit) risk not only their own useless lives, they risk my wellbeing and sanity if I happen to be the poor basta.d that knocks one of them of their mountainbiked 197 geared, dropped foreskin covered handlebared multicolored card in the wheel padded arse biked panted useless POS BIKE !!!!!(which some of them so richly desreve to knocked off)


True - the clowns who weave over the road and ignore the road rules *are* looking to get knocked off and *do* cause problems for those who are moving faster. The problem lies with councils and main roads who continue to build substandard roads and then sit back and fiddle with themselves while legitimate road users battle each other because most don't recognise who the real enemy is and the curse of Australian apathy allows them to CONTINUE to get away with substandard structures.

LGC67 wrote:
Why can't they use the bike path for Christ Sake???????


Consider the cost of a set of good quality bicycle wheels. One bloke at Harry's paid $4,500 for a set of 20" mags + tyres for his Mustang convertible. Would you ask him to drive along a potholed road covered in broken glass and gravel on every corner that causes him to slip off the road every time he turns?


LGC67 wrote:
What are they Olympic champions who are above the use of such of a perfectly serviceable bike path ?? F'ing wankers every man (woman and child) jack of them. It should be legal to stop the car, get out and smack them up side the head and lead them by their arrogant nose and rub their dumb arsed face into the concrete on the bike path till they wakeup to themselves.


Here's a thought.... Considering the standard of public transport in this country (pathetic at best when not in the centre of a capital city!) - how do people get around who can't drive; are afraid to drive; know they are a danger on the road and refuse to drive; have lost their licence; have lost their job; have been taken for everything by an ex-wife and can't afford anything?

Like I said - MOST automobile drivers DO NOT know the road rules and as such are not entitled to do anything to any other road user until they correct their own behaviour first!!

LGC67 wrote:
Have they not heard of “the right of might”? What, when they are lying in hospital crippled saying “I had the right to be on the road and bloke in the truck should not have run over me “That will show all those pesky car and truck driver who’s life is also now ruined by guilt and remorse because the dipstick bike rider had the “ right”to be on the road and not wise up and use the bike path. There should a bounty on every one of the sausage who rides on road way bounded by a bike path.


If the roads were constructed according to the Australian Standards like they should be, instead of being ignored by local councils and main roads (don't kid yourself - they do it every stinkin' day!!): would that truck have been anywhere near the cyclist in the first place instead of trying to overtake on a road whose width is indicative of Australia in the 50's???

I could halve the road toll in this country in a year. The politicians know what it would take but they refuse to do it because dead people don't blow out the health care budget! People who don't die get old and need to be paid pensions and get sick more often - doctors are needed to treat them - drugs are needed at subsidised rates to comfort them.

Think too about this.... WHY is one bloke on a bike in pretty colours holding you up for maybe 20 seconds MAXIMUM deserving of such ire?
Do you have kids? Do you have grandchildren? Have you ever been a victim of crime? Have you ever been sick?

Why are you not angry at the TOTAL F'ING MORONS who allowed $400 MILLION to be spent of STATE money on a stinkin football stadium that people up north and out west can never use?
Can you go and kick a footy there with your kid?
How many of the closed hospital wards could that money reopened?
How many nurses could be employed to care for those close to you?
How many extra cops could be put on the streets to help remove the truly dangerous drivers and criminals from society?
How many extra teachers and schools could that have helped pay for?
How come every time a minister redocrates their office, they get a new air conditioning system, but kids in Goondiwindi are told that they are outside the limit and have to sit in sweltering heat in a demountable all day? (and only then get air con because the city council donates a 2nd hand unit to the school!)
Should a child be treated worse than criminals in jail (who DO have aircon?)

I was born and bred here and I think this is a great country, but I see red every time someone shrugs their shoulders and goes "but what can ya do?" when faced with real issues. I know - they attack the cyclist who holds them up for 15-20 seconds while they go to work to pay taxes so that the George St bludgers can live the life of Riley!

To answer:
Yes - I have thought about running for office, but I know that a punch in the mouth doesn't come under parliamentary priviledge (which is something most of those fools deserve!).
This is also why I was on the committee of that halfwit association: MOCA - because I wanted to do something to help like-minded people both in the city and beyond. The fools running that club now have NO idea. The Townsville, Mackay, and Darling Downs chapters are all shadows of what they once were because the committee chose to look after themselves first, Brisbane second, and everyone else could go and jump in the lake - and the members allowed this to happen!

So.... if I'm not riding on the substandard path, that I and so many others didn't ask for, that runs beside a road and I get attacked by someone who thinks that roads are for cars only - then they had better use the car to run me down because I plan to use the 11 years of training in self defence techniques to protect myself and my property - right before I throw a match in their car!

Don't confuse me for the enemy here - I own a mustang and a hotrod (halfway there) and I love to drive my baby, but why should I get second rate treatment for something that wasn't my fault?

I have decided that in this fair state of Queensland, Australia, that I show now give up using the indicators on my car to demonstrate to other drivers that I am intending to change direction.

It has been proven many times over that road rules in this country are dictated purely by what is a profitable offence and what is not - since not using an indicator is not profitable, the offence is not policed.

Same goes for the BRAINLESS F$^#ING MORONS who wants to cruise everywhere in the right lane - better known as the overtaking lane!!! You clowns want to drive your way, then I will drive mine - and don't go crying to anyone when you get run off the road by someone who has had enough of your ignorance and arrogance!

On the plus side - a great big laugh goes to the Tribee who got his door kicked in at the local shops last week. Doing that one-wheel burnout through the crowded carpark in your girlfriend's car was super intelligent! It was also very wise of you to abuse my father. Try and fix THAT dent you halfwitted cocksucker!! :D