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The British are coming!Ferchrissakes, the British version started under the name of the "Future Warships Project". I've summed up how I see the situation in a wee letter published in the Adelaide Advertiser on Friday:
idiots of a nasty halloween
This year's Halloween has been the warmest on record in the UK, BBC weather has said.
A temperature of 23.6C (74.3F) was recorded in Gravesend, Kent and Kew Gardens, Greater London, surpassing the previous record of 20.0C.
of the inequalities of economic fiddles...This in response to an article by Victoria Rollison as a comment on Russell Brand and Helen Razer complaining Russell has no economic qualifications or such...
phony tony .....
evolution and the fossilisation of god...The new pope is a cunning thieving idiot. Actually he may be a clever man but that does not excuse his latest elevated confused ramblings delivered in order to catch more flies... No, dear Francis, we don't believe that god is a magician who created the world with a magic wand in seven days... And yes, the big bang contradicts the divine act of creation, despite your uttering to scientists, to the contrary. To claim that the evolution theory and the dogma of creation are compatible or are both "right" is an insult to clear minded people. As an atheist, I mean it and I feel insulted.
Of War and ParadiseThe dragon's flame lights up the night as it pours to the ground while we can only run in fright as fire flays all around Five hundred of our warriors to Paradise have gone While we toil upon the earth till we can follow on
more lies more lies more lies more liesThe Abbott Government has finally revealed what it has long denied: the Plan B to its savagely unfair Budget — raising the GST.
we agree .....
we'll be rooned .....Remember the existential threat to our nation’s survival represented by Labor’s abject failure to rein-in the country’s spiralling, out-of-control debt?
lest we forget .....Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had "reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution". Whitlam ended his nation's colonial servility. He abolished Royal patronage, moved Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supported "zones of peace" and opposed nuclear weapons testing.
protecting whistleblowers .....
on casting the first stone ....The following 30 violent exhortations are drawn from Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures. The generic word "God" is used for all deity names, and names of places or people have been replaced with generic terms. How well do you know your Torah, Bible or Quran and Hadith? Can you tell which is which? Give it a try and then check the key at the bottom.
fractured fairytales .....
making gravy .....A Sydney restaurant owned by Tourism Minister Andrew Robb and his family is being promoted by a government-funded $40 million, 18-month Tourism Australia campaign that targets 17 key global markets to sell the Australian "foodie" experience to the world.
trust who ....
The New South Wales government has been accused of running a poker machine “slush fund” after it emerged that a $20m pool of club profits was spent overwhelmingly on community projects in Coalition electorates or to pay for Liberal-National party election promises.
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