from a bit of the ABC …..

Ageing population the biggest threat to economy: Costello

So, federal water burglar & recovering lawyer, malcolm moneybags, has questioned why David Hicks did not try to negotiate a plea bargain earlier?

from the ABC …..

Garrett backflips on forest policy

‘Methinks we don’t – think, I mean, about anything outside our immediate visual horizon. Thinking is a poor way of understanding the world, which is too complex to be thought about effectively. That leaves hormones and unfortunate limbic wiring.

In the amount of time it takes to create a new-born baby David Hicks will be walking the streets of Adelaide as a free man.

True, he'll have to re-emerge from the political womb of the Yatala detention centre, and when he does he can't speak about it for a while. He certainly won't be saying anything before the election.

The US is like an incoherent drunk ….

I think Iraq will prove to be the source of its destruction. It has lost its capacity to reason; its capacity for insight. It’s ruled by fakes & phoneys on all sides of politics, with the corporate-controlled media acting as willing accomplices.

After the flood of emotions I"ve been through since receiving a post purporting to be from Shelley Kovco, I'm having trouble believing that it was from the same person appearing in the reports coming out this morning. On the strength of the report commissioned by the NSW Homicide squad, Shelley has called for the military finding of death by skylarking to be overturned. Kovco's mother is calling for an inquest.

from the New York Times …..

Bush Vows Not to Negotiate on Iraq Timetable

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

President Bush speaking to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association meeting today in Washingon.