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When Being Mauled By A Shark, Always Go The Eye Gouge
Not RightAndrew Bolt's green hysteria is becoming deeply disturbing, and deeply offensive to those who view Hitler as something far more evil than merely a symbol to be used in political attacks.Weird, bizarre political attacks, using modern day Nazi propaganda like this :
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Howard's Rage
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson has tried being a shiny, happy person, as he toured Australia "listening", but with serial-killer levels of public approval, Nelson's remaking of the Liberal Party leadership clearly hasn't worked. Read more »
Loser Conservatives Can't Stop WhiningThink tanker Gerard Henderson lashes the "Australian conservative movement", whatever that is, for not being intellectual or influential enough in a humiliatingly whiny rant that is neither intellectual or influential and reads like a letter to the editor of The Australian. Read more »
PrioritiesFrom Sydney's The Daily Telegraph : Read more »
Australians Fear Terrorism Less Now They're Not Being Bombarded With Ads Telling Them To Fear TerrorismThe former Howard government's generous publicity campaign for Al Qaeda and terrorism fell off our TV screens and out of the newspaper ads some weeks before John Howard became the former prime minister of Australia. Read more »
Hemp Grower Calls Judge "Morbidly Obese", Jury "Sheep"A convicted alternative food, fuel and fibre farmer had his say in court, and outside the court as well : Read more »
Playing Rugby League Now "Like Being In The Army"This sort of overbearing control inflicted on the private lives of rugby league players, and plenty of other professional sportspeople, has gone beyond absurd and is now ruining careers and severely steaming the fan base, without which the sport wouldn't even exist. Read more »
The Universe Has Stopped Listening'The Secret' can easily lay claim to being the most successful independent book and DVD release in Australia's history. Read more »
Too much rain gets the mind thinking about West Australian beaches.
Hoax The NewsThis is for all those who find the endless demands from network news and current affairs shows for viewers to become unpaid freelancers - "if you see news happening, send us your photos and video so we can sell it to Reuters!" - particularly annoying and ethically irritating, UK e-mail news sheet, PopBitch, heralds the arrival of a new artform that should send shivers down the spines of news executives and editors : Read more »
Canberra Swamped By Sea Of Communist China FlagsChinese Embassy Helped Organise Pro-China Nationalism Psy-Op Read more »
Olympic Torch Anti-Freedom Farce ContinuesMedia Banned From Torch Relay Through Nation's Capital Read more »
Doctor Says Stop Terrorism And Criminal Networks By Legalising All Drug UseIn a summit full of ideas...well, 100 or so, including a few new ones, this idea was too shocking, too unimaginable for most to even blink at : Read more »
ED Day : 'The End' Is NighI'm a few days, maybe a week, away from The End of my online serialised novel, ED Day : Dead Sydney.While I've always had a vague idea of how I believed the story would end, not writing to an outline means I've often been surprised at how the tale has turned out, chapter by chapter. Read more »
Key Terror Trial Witness Heard Birds Telling Him Their Problems Read more »
Australian Researchers Discover Fun, Stress Relieving New Way To Fight CancerI look forward to seeing the Cancer Council's public awareness ads promoting this method of preventing prostate cancer : Read more »
Howard's Helping/Non-Helping HandBack home after his trip to the United States to collect six figures worth of Iraq War blood money from his NeoCon backers, former prime minister John Howard has offered a "helping hand" to demoralised, PTSD-crippled Liberals. Read more »
Bong Banning Fascists Pigs, Man
Hard plastic fruit juice and sports drinks bottles will soon see a sharp rise in sales in South Australia. At the same time, garden hoses left temptingly overnight in front yards will, each weekend, become a few inches shorter.
Super Fairy Penguin Survives Oil Spill, Doubles Life SpanA fairy penguin from a Tasmanian colony decimated by an oil spill 13 years ago has astounded experts by clocking up double the average living years of its kind, and returning to the scene of the disaster to die.From The World Today : Read more »
Hemp Nation
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Trendy New Psychosis Alert : Doctors Brace For Wave Of "Climate Change Mental Illness" Read more »
Sir Les Patterson On Kevin "The Dentist" Rudd 
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Mind-boggling. The senior ranks of the Liberal Party know less about the internets and the series of tubes that carry it around the world than they knew about the detail of their own WorkChoices policies.
In fact, most of the Liberal Party's old timers don't even know what those boxes with TVs on their secretaries' desks are all about : Read more »
Incredibly sad and beautiful paintings by prisoners on the walls of cells and exercise yards at Western Australia's infamous, and haunting, Fremantle Goal.
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Andrew Bolt Quits Blogging
Andrew "The Iraq War Is Won" Bolt has announced he is bailing on his thousands of online fans, devotees, disciples, critics and haters and is making the completely unexpected, utterly surprising, move into the world of politics. Stop laughing, this is serious. Read more »
Earth Hour Daily Read more »
The Carrington Hotel, Katoomba.March 22, 2007 Read more »
Help, My Brain Just Melted
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ED Day Update
I've posted some thoughts on finishing the ED Day : Dead Sydney online novel over at the ED Day blog.
How To Blow $60 Million
From King Of Online Porn to lord of mum's vacuum cleaner in only a few short years : Read more »
Rudd Vs The Media
Christian Kerr, formerly of Crikey, is doing some fine politics vs media analysis at The Australian, and nails PM Rudd for his purposeful denial of access by journalists and television crews : Read more »
Tim Blair has been having great fun with Labor barnacle Bob Ellis in the past few weeks, on whether or not he deserves to be voted for in the ABC's 'Favourite Australian' poll, and a recent column published at ABC Online where Ellis gruesomely mused on how the world might be a different, and better, place if Hillary Clinton had spent more time orally pleasuring her husband in the mid-1990s. Read more »
Drug Expert : Sell Cannabis At Australia Post OfficesPredicts Spliffs Will Replace Cigarettes Read more »
Coming To Your Living Room, Police-Enforced Alcohol-Free ZonesMany Australians agreed with alcohol bans in violence and sex-crime plagued Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. Sure, the meme went, such catch-all bans mean responsible drinkers in those communities have to go without, but if it saves a community from more alcohol related violence and sex crimes then, well, obviously it's necessary, isn't it? Read more »
ED Day EndsThe last chapter of my online novel about life in Sydney after a virus pandemic kills millions is now online. I'll update soon about what I'm going to do with the novel now it's finished (short of a few changes), and why I chose to publish it free online. Read more »
It's impossible to know if this is exactly what happened, or if the killer has watched too many episodes of The Sopranos. It reads like a deleted scene from Underbelly :
After he begged unsuccessfully for his life on a remote hill in Gippsland's Strzelecki Ranges, Stephen John Witham made two final requests. Read more »
32% Of Australians "Sick Of Hearing About The Environment" 1 In 3 Believe Media Exaggerates Threat Of Global Warming Read more »
In January, Tony Abbott opened his heart to explain how difficult life was now the Howard government had lost power and how he had to make do on only $127,000 or so per year, plus the world's most generous superannuation benefits, a free car and petrol and office expenses in the five figures.
`You're Cross-Eyed, You're Horrible, You Have A Lisp, And You Suck"Women presenting Australian morning shows and news broadcasts are discovering just how ugly it can get when viewers are able to instantly communicate their thoughts and opinions to the heads they see talking on the TV. Read more »
ANZAC Day : "90,000 Men Never Came Back Here"
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Tech problems from my end are stopping updates here this morning.But there's a feast of new posts over at Your New Reality
Book Wars : Howard Vs CostelloBiographer : "Howard Is This Automaton" Costello The Messiah...No Wait, He's Not The Messiah Read more »
China Sends 30 Paramilitary To Guard Olympic Torch In CanberraPolice Threaten To Arrest Any Paramilitary Who Lays A Hand On Australian Protesters Read more »
It's 2020, And This Is Your LifeWell, it's May 19, 2020, and Australia is a very different country to the far more chaotic nation we knew back in 2008 when World Government President Kevin Rudd, then prime minister, drew together 1000 of the "best and brightest" minds to "shake the trees" and dream up a better tomorrow. This tomorrow, today, here in 2020. Read more »
Australian Researchers Discover Fun, Stress Relieving New Way To Fight CancerI look forward to seeing the Cancer Council's public awareness ads promoting this method of preventing prostate cancer : Read more »
Anti-Bogan RevoltResidents in a Sydney suburb aren't too happy with the name of their street, Bogan Place, and they want it changed :
Tired of being smeared because of their address, 12 of the street's 16 residents have banded together to beg their council for a name change. Read more »
Dingbat Andrew Bolt pretends he never knew that a fat slice of his blog's readership are bigoted fuckwads. He posts on the decision Victorian schools to allow students to take gay partners to the formal dance, and gets bombarded with slabs of bile and disgust : Read more »
Not Just Friends, But True FriendsAustralian China scholar Geremie Barnie's views on PM Rudd's dealings with China during his visit last week were some of the more insightful, and went a long way to explaining Rudd's motives behind lightly, but significantly, chastising the Chinese regime over Tibet and what exactly he meant when he talked about "friends", "friendship" and particularly "true friends". Read more »
I'm Impressed, Your Journalists Are Like Frightened SheepAnnabel Crabb wonders if Kevin "Total Control" Rudd privately oohs a little awe at how China keeps its media in check : Read more »
China's human rights record, for Tibetans, and millions more of its own people, is appalling, and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Australian coal sales is not reason enough to blind eye how China deals with pro-democracy advocates and dissenters. China's repressive regime and enthusiasm for human executions should have ruled it out of even being considered as a host city for the Olympic Games. Read more »
Rough EstimateIt's refreshing to see that police try to play down the number of protesters, even when it's the police doing the protesting :
It's common for police estimates of demonstration numbers to vary widely from the figures put out by the organisers. But in Victoria today, it was police versus police when it came to estimating the numbers at a march on Parliament. Read more »
I have to agree with The Editor of GrodsCorp that this concrete monstrosity must rank as the most craptacular of all the Big Aussie Icons. And the competition is fierce : Read more »
Warm BeersWhat I expect to be the second to last chapter of the free online novel ED Day : Dead Sydney is now up. Here's a chunk of it : Read more »
Fingerprint ID Scans Forced On School ChildrenParents Called "Idiots" For Refusing Biometric Data Collection Of Their Children Read more »
Gangland Serial Killer Likens Himself To Soldier In A WarCarl Williams killed a lot of people, and he's proud of what he did.The Melbourne gangland war of the late 1990s and early 2000s was a real war, Williams insists in two extraordinary letters to his mother, written from the prison where he is now serving 35 years. He says he was fighting to protect the lives of his family, and himself. Read more »
Stone 'EngeBy December 21, Australia will have its own full-scale replica of Stonehenge, amongst the wineries of Margaret River, WA. Read more »
Most of the spam e-mail from African 'banks' helpfully wanting to cut you in on an incredible deal worth millions, millions I tell you! were polite, courteous, certainly they didn't threaten you if you refused their almost (almost) unbelievable offer. Read more »
It Sure Beats TVAre you one of the majority of Australians who now spend more time online than flopped in front of the TV? Read more »
Libs Cry Poverty Over $150,000 Pay Read more »
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