To which the Chinese would respond: "didn't ya have floods of the century recently?..."

‘Look over there’ said the evil angel. ‘It’s the devil.’

That’s apparently why we have to vote for the evil angel Labor Party – to help ward off the Tony Abbott devil.

“Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.”

THERE'S a new phrase entering the political lexicon: "sensible centre". It's Tony Abbott's new favourite saying.

Tony Blair is a pariah because he colluded in an act of abundant wickedness, and untold hundreds of thousands died and millions more suffered monstrously in consequence.

Finance Department report shows former Liberal senator Helen Coonan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer’s money last year fitting out her personal office.

Time to face facts. Time to pull the pin.

Julia Gillard is leading the Australian Labor Party towards a catastrophic election defeat, probably the worst in its federal history. For the good of the party and the good of the country, she must quit the prime ministership or be prised out of it.

* Roughly 16,272 murders were committed in the United States during 2008. Of these, about 10,886 or 67% were committed with firearms.[11]

Previously unreported details, documented in Massachusetts corporate filings and other public records, show that Bain Capital was enmeshed in the largely opaque world of international high finance from its very inception.

There is controversy about climate change...  Yet, the serious scientists in both camps have clearly established that the surface of the earth has been warming up...

This warming is estimated at a certain amount (0.1 degrees C average) per decade (now around 0.2 degree C) for the last 150 years... Gus' present estimate is for a full one (1) degree C increase for the next 10 year. I could be wrong, but considering the sun is awakening and El Nino is about to come back, I may be right.