tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86098732011-08-13T06:28:02.525+10:00An Aussie’s ridgy-didge view of world affairs and popular culture.dave128http://www.blogger.com/profile/11178841801273836396noreply@blogger.comBlogger1771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609873.post-1149197240227834662006-06-02T06:21:00.000+10:002006-06-02T10:56:03.213+10:00

BBC: Ethics lessons for US Iraq troopsUS-led troops in Iraq are to undergo ethical training in the wake of the alleged murder of civilians in Haditha.For the next 30 days, they will receive lessons in "core warrior values", a military statement said. And there's no one more ethically inclined than the Ultimate Warrior.In a separate incident, US forces were accused of shooting dead a pregnant

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Step one: Get your favourite drink. Step Two: Find a comfy chair.Step Three: Wet your whistle, sit back and enjoy...Bush job approval falls to 29 pct in new poll

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Mullett a bully: secret reportBy Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard - May 13, 2006A new program to humiliate school bullies with bad haircuts?Sadly, no...POLICE union boss Paul Mullett has been accused of bullying and harassing colleagues in a damning confidential report that reveals deep divisions within Victoria's most powerful union.

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ABC: Russell, Webb walk from gold mineGreat news! After fourteen nights being trapped in the Tasmanian mine, the miners have been rescued and about half an hour ago began the drive to hospital. Though watching them walk from the mine shaft they appeared to be in excellent shape considering what they have been through.Though I had to roll my eyes at the people being interviewed on TV thanking god

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BBC: Radio host is new Bush spokesmanOh, lovely satire, we morn ye.I honesty have nothing witty to say about this. Apart from the fact that I’m not actually funny, how the fuck can you parody something like this when it in itself is a fucking parody.President George W Bush has appointed a new press secretary - conservative radio presenter Tony Snow. Mr Snow replaces Scott McClellan, who resigned

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Recently I’ve started to wonder if the Fox News Channel was turning into a porn network. They’ve had their little moments before, but lately they’ve been showing quite a lot of near-naked woman. Yesterday they went into overdrive. I saw, at least four times, various pictures of a woman in a bikini, in all kinds of poses, and I wasn’t even paying attention. I think it might have been linked to the

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Okay, so I haven’t updated for over a week, but it’s not like anyone reads this drivel*.I could spend a few hours writing a very articulate post about Libby’s testimony that Bush authorised the leaking of sensitive information, but that would involve research and articulation and other communistish shit. So I present for your enjoyment, some photos that I took earlier.* Except the CIA.A glorious

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I’ve just got back from my visit to Baghdad! It was so fun and totally calm. According to the media everything is going to hell, but now that I’ve had firsthand experience, I can tell you they are a bunch of liars. Nobody was blown-up, there were no dead bodies in the streets, all the buildings were perfect, and girls skipped along the pavement, singing. All of this was so heartening, especially

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… if it wasn’t for the 24-hour Simpsons marathon currently running on FOX8.Though I did manage to drag myself away from it to see a little of Bush’s third question and answer session with normal, everyday Americans*.I caught one woman saying that her husband brought back a DVD from Iraq showing hours and hours of good things happening there. She said if only these wondrous things were shown by

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CNN: U.S.-led raid kills civilians north of BaladA U.S.-led raid on a suspected site of terror network al Qaeda in Iraq killed 11 civilians -- including five children -- according to Iraqi police, but the U.S. military said the death toll from the strike north of Balad was four. In addition to the children, the youngest of whom was 6 months old, the dead included four women and two men, police

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The Age: Hello sailors: Rice hails democracy, even protestsBy Brendan Nicholson - March 17, 2006Dr Rice answered students' questions for almost an hour on issues ranging from levels of US aid to the war in Iraq and the injustices of Guantanamo Bay.Then came chants from two protesters who had infiltrated the gathering to shout "Condoleezza Rice, you are a war criminal" and "You've blood on your

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I couldn’t be bothered writing about something important, so lazily I present this: the TVGasm Snark-O-Tron 8300. You type in a name of a person, and it spits out randomly generated insults. Sometimes it’s funny because it’s genuinely funny. But most of the time it’s funny because it’s not. I found TVGasm by way of Seb. Check out his most funny (and sometimes touching if it has anything to do

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Or something like that.BBC: Top US evangelist targets IslamTuesday, 14 March 2006Outspoken US Christian evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has accused Muslims of planning world domination, and said some were "satanic". On his live television programme, The 700 Club, he said radical Islamists were inspired by "demonic power".So I guess it’s Christ’s love that inspires a desire to assassinate

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I’ve never been a huge fan of the Oscar Awards. So many stupid decisions over the years (such as Julia Roberts beating Ellen Burstyn) have resulted in me caring very little for it. But since this year there was an unusually high emphasis on good American films I had a little peak (and the fact that I’m a squealing Jon Stewart fan might have had a hand in it). I haven’t seen Brokeback yet, but I’m

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Well, thank goodness! I was really getting tired of all those dangerous and unnatural ways to bigger my size servants.More classy spam:Subject: SHY TO FCUK WITH UR SHORT GUN? L0NGER 3" INSTANTLY acrossevening latter teach wanted miserable whom. filled promised immediate shining again? gym least parents again, reference am similar reference use back? filled profession did leader sandwich benefit?

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Most likely it’s not. It seems they can do anything and get away with it. *Sigh*BUSH BRIEFED ON KATRINA: VIDEOA new video shows US President George W Bush and other top officials receiving strong warnings about the potential impact of Hurricane Katrina a day before the storm struck New Orleans. The video shows federal disaster officials warning Mr Bush and his homeland security chief in dramatic

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Costello faces backlash over dual citizenship commentsThe Treasurer Peter Costello set off a hue-and-cry today after a speech in which he said Australians with dual citizenship should be stripped of their Australian papers if they don't respect this country's values and laws. Mr Costello particularly singled out Muslims in his remarks, saying those who advocate extremism should move to countries

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No, it’s not from the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism, it’s actually for Australia.

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So I was surfing this morning and came across Channel Seven’s horrid morning show, Sunrise, and I saw this:Um, does anyone know why Mark Beretta is wearing a jacket of the Yemeni flag? On a somewhat related note, this is humorous.

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Guantanamo actors held at airportThe actors who star in movie The Road to Guantanamo were questioned by police at Luton airport under anti-terrorism legislation, it has emerged. On the subject of Michael Winterbottom, check this: The Road to Guantanamo, 9 Songs, Code 46, In This World, 24 Hour Party People, Welcome to Sarajevo. I love his diversity! This new film should be ace.US 'reclassifying'

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An entirely non-partisan poll from our friends at Men’s Health Australia.But a couple of quibbles in this completely un-Sydney-centric poll. Why refer to it as ‘Rugby League’ and not the NRL season, and ‘AFL’ instead of Australian Rules? And who determined the order of options? Why not alphabetically? And why is the Melbourne Commonwealth Games on the bottom? You could also be forgiven for

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Click HERE for a selection of some of the photos. WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS.Last night SBS screened photos and videos from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Most of the photos and videos that were shown had never been published.Needless to say, the photos are absolutely sickening. While watching the program I felt like crying. Can the conservative psychos, who went on and on about it

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Okay, so over the last week I’ve been watching that B-grade Marine action TV series, Pensacola: Wings of Gold. I think the actor who plays First Lieutenant Robert "Chaser" Griffin, Rod Rowland, is extremely cute.Anyway, I was surfing the web for sites about him, and found quite a delicious bit of info: his favourite writer is Hunter S. Thompson. Now that’s some serious awesomeness! [Note, from

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Yes, it’s crude, but we all like a bit of gutter humour now and then, don’t we?Via Prison Bitch Name Generator.George Walker Bush = Bung BoyDick Cheney = Fudge SuckerDonald Rumsfeld = Mouth-ManglerKarl Rove = Dirt DevilCondi Rice = Count SuckulaAnd what about our friends at Fox News?Bill O’Reilly = Cream of MeatSean Hannity = Bowel BoyDavid Asman = Fuck StickJohn Gibson = The RecptacleBrit Hume =

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CNN has contacted the Prophet Mohammed to ask him his opinion on the cartoon controversy. He said he wouldn't be drawn on the issue.* * *You know, these anti-Danish protests have been going on for days and days now. Yeah, they've been so drawn-out.

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Super awesomeness: Finally, a celebrity being completely and refreshingly honest. As you would probably know, The Rolling Stones performed at last week’s NFL Super Bowl XL (I think XL stands for extra-large, being an American sport after all). Before they took to the stage a pre-recorded interview was shown. The interviewer asked Jagger if playing at the Super Bowl had been a long time dream for

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… but it’s pronounced NA-GA-NO. Please, Channel Seven, get it right. Anyway, the Torino Winter Olympics got underway last night. Here are my thoughts on the opening ceremony.COOLEST THING THAT HAPPENED: 70s and 80s pop songs accompanying the arrival of the athletes. What is usually the most boring element of opening ceremonies actually turned out to be a groovy disco inferno. Freak out indeed!

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Most pupils see Muslims as terroristsBy Chee Chee LeungFebruary 6, 2006MOST Victorian schoolchildren view Muslims as terrorists, and two out of five students agree that "Muslims are unclean".Just over 50 per cent believe "Muslims behave strangely", and 45 per cent say Australians do not have "positive feelings about Muslims".So that means about five per cent think behaving strangely is cool? Cool

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Reuters: U.S. Capitol police arrest activist SheehanCindy has written an excellent response to her arrest at Daily Kos.This is heartbreaking:After I had my personal items inventoried and my fingers printed, a nice Sgt. came in and looked at my shirt and said, "2245, huh? I just got back from there."I told him that my son died there. That's when the enormity of my loss hit me. I have lost my son.

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More brilliant reporting on Fox News Channel this morning. On their third-rate morning program, Fox and Friends, the presenters talked about American troops who are angry that an American reporter, who was injured in Iraq, is getting much more coverage on the news than American troops hurt or killed in Iraq. Why isn’t the American media reporting the deaths of those brave American soldiers? Why

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On the issue of oil President Bush said the US faces a serious problem “America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," like the Middle East.It's like you're a drug, It's like you're a demon I can't face down, It's like I'm stuck, It's like I'm running from you all the time, And I know I let you have all the power, It's like the only company I seek is misery

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It seems like the talking points memo for conservatives outraged by this film forces them mention (at least once) the Marlboro man being raped. I guess they feel that a love story about two people, who just happen to be cowboys, is destroying the image of the ‘Great American Cowboy’. But what cigarette advertising (featuring, what I only suspect as fake cowboys) has to do with a beautiful love

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Planet Mercury, 350°CPlaces that are not currently hotter than Melbourne:Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 37°CJohannesburg, South Africa 27°CGuangzhou, China 15°CTehran, Iran 4°CCaribou, United States -9°CMosscow, Russia -18°C

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I was planning on creating a comic concoction that would have been absolutely hilarious.* I had planned on getting a picture of Disney’s favourite dog, Pluto. Then, you see, I would have added a picture of a dildo next to it. Comedy gold 101: Pluto probe launches from Florida. Utter genius! The only problem was that when I searched for dildo pictures at Google Image search I got sidetracked by

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Well, come on now, this blog doesn’t have enough crappy puns, and what’s a blog without puns? (Answer: a pretty good one, by the sounds of it).Anyway, last week my mother purchased a new vacuum and I was taken by some creepy pictures on the box. Was that a vacuum cleaning in a baby pram?! An alcoholic beverage sitting beside a… vacuum?! WTF??!?!Yes, well, I guess those modern marketing types can’

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Please note, some films were made in 2004 (or earlier), but were released in Australia during 2005.Best of 2005:1. YesterdaySouth Africa. Written by Darrell Roodt, Directed by Darrell Roodt.Heartbreaking but never sentimental, this beautiful film focuses on an African woman called Yesterday, who finds out she is HIV positive. The scenes between child and mother are some of the most heartwarming

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Hope you had an enjoyable festive period. Here’s to a great 2006.The nightly news has been filled with snow-related stories, and even with the sliding car thing I’d love to be there, especially today. Eek! I have a friend in Maine, where today it will be 35f (that’s about 2c). Here it will be 108f. You can watch a real time graph of Melbourne’s weather here. It really is quite addictive.If you

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I’ve been fascinated by North Korea for some time. The country is extremely secretive, so any outsider information is of great interest. The BBC is displaying several photos taken by a businessman who visited the country. I highly recommend taking a look, as there are some fantastic shots, especially the kids on the frozen pond and the almost deserted stretch of road.

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Well, this shouldn’t really come as a surprise. He never conceded that the race riots were racist (even though the mob of drunk white people were deliberately attacking anyone that looked remotely of Arab or Mediterranean descent). Now he won’t criticise the racists for draping themselves in the Australian flag while going on their racist rampage. That’s just fantastic.Though, there is support

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If The Shining wasn’t proof enough that little girls are creepy, this study proves it. Though, seriously, who hasn’t wanted to chuck Barbie into a microwave oven?

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With the War on Christmas under way in Australia, I decided to surf around the TV channels to see how the war is affecting Christmas television…

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I’ve seen a lot of quasi-homosexual football goal celebrations, but nothing this overt.

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I was feeling left out of things, what with the Americans fighting the War on Christmas, but now the War on Christmas affects the entire global community. Yes, the evilness has spread to Australia! But rest assured that Christianity won’t become even more of a minority religion than it already is, because John Howard is on the case:Howard in call to save XmasBy Tony Vermeer - December 18,

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On today’s episode of DaySide with M & J (Michael and Jackson? Meowth and James? Mary and Joseph?) on Fox News Channel, which tastefully opened with M catching a tossed plastic baby, both presenters and much of the audience sported purple fingers. How cute! Though in the interest of balance I hope they do a show with the audience waving around their stumps where their legs used to be. Oh, and

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Just caught the opening of Benny Hinn’s ‘This is Your Day!’ TV show. The large crowd were singing and then out of nowhere this horrible noise started emanating from the speakers. For a second there I thought it might have been the sound of Satan coming for me (apparently this wasn’t my day). After that second had past, and I’m damn serious about this, the voice sounded so much like a drunk Homer

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Bush conceded today that the Iraq invasion was based on faulty intelligence during another Oh Shit The American People Are Starting To Wake Up About The Horror In Iraq rallying speech.BBC: Bush takes on Iraqi war critics"Many intelligence agencies judged that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and it's true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," said Mr Bush in the

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Not long after succeeding Bob Carr as NSW Premier, it seems Morris Iemma has taken a further leap in politics…Professor Kim's News Notes: "Racial violence flares up down under""Dozens have been injured. and Prime Minister Morris Iemma has called an emergency session of parliament in an effort to secure new powers for police there."That’s super news, but has anyone told John Howard yet?

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Alan Jones: I'm the person that's led this charge By David MarrRadio doesn't get much grimmer than Alan Jones' efforts in the days before the Cronulla riot. He was dead keen for a demo at the beach — "a rally, a street march, call it what you will. A community show of force."He assured his huge audience he "understood" why that famous text message went out and he read it right through again on

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Now that summer is upon us again you’ll probably want to indulge in a favourite pastime - reading shitty books at the beach. There’s something romantic about getting a searing sunburn while reading idiotic prose. After you’ve negotiated the mob of white supremacists littered around the beach (Let’s do Hitler proud, let’s clean up the streets the Nazi way!) you can settle down to third-rate

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The world view of Australia used to be one of friendly, laidback people, and a diverse landscape populated with unusual indigenous animals. In the past few years that has changed. When people around the world think of Australia they almost always think of one thing: racism. It was during the Tampa crisis that I became, for the first time, deeply ashamed of Australia and many of its citizens. I

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This is cool: Inuit sue US over climate policyThis is not: Teen suspended from school for speaking SpanishThis is just stupid: Bushes' 'holiday' cards ring hollow for someAnd this is really ugly: U.S. military probes video of road violence - British contractors appear to shoot at Iraqi civilians

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I have a game for you to play today. Try to imagine no possessions. I wonder if it’s possible…Hmmm, okay, I think I can picture a world without possessions. Looking pretty good... oh, wait.John Lennon Sonic Mobileoooh! Gotta have that. And only 15 pounds! Bargain!Okay, back to imagining a world without possessions. Okay, I think I have a pretty good idea of how nice a world it would be. But not

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"I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Coulter told the crowd of 2,600 Wednesday.Stupider? Well, that’s debateable. But stupid? Oh yes! Some examples:Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism [BARGAIN PRICE]Slander: Liberal Lies About the American RightHow to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

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I just found out today that the excellent blog, Americans are Dumb, is no longer. The continual dumbanity (yes, I created a word) took its toll on Lt. Dan, and I can’t really say I’m surprised. In theory it’s great, but when you think about searching the internet for dumb things dumb Americans have done (which would take all of a minute) and do it every day, month after month, then I’m just glad

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Tonight the ABC screened a special program called My Favourite Film. A few months ago viewers were asked to submit their favourite film via the internet or phone. The results were unveiled last night. I can’t say that I was surprised by the winner, though I had expected a Spielberg to make the top 10.I couldn’t decide on one film, so I voted for two. They were Fight Club and the Australian

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Worst. Lyrics. Ever.I don't like cities, but I like New YorkOther places make me feel like a dorkOther cities always make me madOther places always make me sadNo other city ever made me glad except New YorkIf you don't like my attitudeThen you can F offJust go to TexasIsn't that where they golf?

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Brent Hartinger, author of the excellent Geography Club and The Last Chance Texaco, has had Geography Club banned by a school district of Tacoma, ironically his home town. The ostensible reason given was the fact that the main character meets someone from the internet in a park. This, apparently, will send every teen reader to the first porn site they can find and hook up with paedophiles in dank

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Please, tell me this is a joke.Is there anyone in existence that has a large enough mouth to fit that behemoth in? I feel my arteries clogging up just looking at it.

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Congrats to the Socceroos, who have finally qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years. I watched the game live on TV, and could hardly watch the ridiculously tense penalty shoot out. Only disappointments were the booing of the Uruguayan national anthem and some homophobic banners. I wonder how that translated in the Uruguayan media? Just remember, apparently a bus having eggs

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Via Sadly, No! comes this: Thank You, America. It’s supposedly a patriotic song, but sounds more idiotic than patriotic. Let’s forget for one moment about the horrendous vocals and just focus on the lyrics.The opening thanks America for defeating the Third Reich and thus Americans don’t speak German. Now, when they thank “America” for this I’m not too sure if they are thanking the actual landmass

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(Click the photo to make it larger.)On Tuesday November 8, there was a confrontation outside the Melbourne Magistrates Court between the media and alleged friends of men arrested in so-called terror raids. While scrutinising the footage I witnessed a photographer tip over a table in the direction of one of the men. The photographer was not provoked in any way. This is clearly a disgusting attempt

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Yes, I know spammers are dumb. But this is just ridiculously stupid:Gamespot News - PlayStation 3 announced for 2006. Oops.

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News of a possible terrorist attack in Australia, on the very day that the hugely unpopular Industrial Relations legislation is pushed through in Parliament. Wow, that’s one hell of a coincidence.Howard learns well from Master Bush.And the terror alert level wasn’t even raised! Even though there is credible evidence of a possible threat. Fancy!The Age: Terror threat overshadows IR debut

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(Hick's) says he was physically and sexually abused by Americans, soon after he was taken into custody.Hicks revealed the details to his father in a one-on-one meeting at Guantanamo Bay. His lawyers say they have witnesses and that US authorities have photographic evidence to back up the claims.Lawyers for Hicks first raised the allegations over a year ago but the US Defence Department banned

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Okay, I don’t believe that. At all. I wrote that deliberately provocative headline to illustrate the dangers of the Australian Government's proposed terrorism policies. If they are passed I would be arrested for writing and publishing such opinions as the one above. Of course we’re appalled by such opinions, but are you so offended by them that you would want the author of such comments to be

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Interesting coverage of the truck bombing in Baghdad today. While changing between channels it was funny how CNNI and BBC World were showing footage a little after 1:30am here. But News Corp’s Fox News had their presenters having a good chuckle while they yammered on about the impending hurricane. Sky News, also owned by News Corp., had a reporter in America talking about the hurricane, but at

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James Yee, a former Army chaplain with the US Army, has told Australia’s ABC TV that Australian terror suspect David Hicks was offered prostitutes for information. Devine Brown for the Devine War on Terror? Eck!Oh, and if Hicks is found guilty the long, long years he has spent in Guantanamo Bay will NOT count in the years he would have to serve in any sentence. The Age: Hicks was bribed: Ex-US

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Australian television network SBS has tonight broadcast video footage of American soldiers in Afghanistan burning the bodies of two Taliban fighters. The US troops said they had set fire to the corpses for hygiene concerns. However the area where the bodies were situated was not near any town or homes and posed little to no threat to sanitation. The bodies were also pointed towards Mecca, a

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Scott McClellan, White House Propaganda Secretary, is an arsehole. I’d articulate my criticisms of Scotty Too Fatty if I wasn’t so angry. This guy doesn’t answer simple questions, dances about the obvious and treats common sense and logic with contempt. Now he has sunk even lower by implying that reporter Helen Thomas is a terrorist sympathiser about she is against the invasion of Iraq. From the

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I’m actually quite surprised by this - Didge Politics (or as it was once known, Dave128) turned one-year-old on October 7. And I just posted my 100th entry. Let’s hope there are many more years of mediocrity to come!

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Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I’ve been incredibly busy working on a new short story. But before I comment about Fox News I just wanted to say my thoughts are with those in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan who have been affected by the massive natural disaster. You can donate to the Red Cross here (US), here (Australia), here (UK), and here (Red Crescent).I was watching Fox News Live

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The press are being grossly censored over their right to film the removal of the dead in New Orleans.Okay, here is a fun game to play. Try to spot the hypocrisy in the following statement:Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security director, hadsaid Friday that the recovery effort would be done with dignity, "meaning that there would be no press allowed."Yeah, it would be so undignified to film

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Stealing the election in 2000. Ignoring the impending terror attacks in 2001. Illegally invading another country and killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people. Attempting to write discrimination into the constitution. Inarticulate a ridiculous number of times. Ignoring the Kyoto Protocol and anti-environment policies. And now we have the Hurricane Katrina aftermath. If it wasn’t already

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Now you could argue that the “H” key and the “T” key are located diagonally across from each other and it’s very easy for a sleep-deprived graphics director to press the wrong key but I’m putting my money on this being a classic Freudian slip.

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Smile, George, smile! Can you smell that? It’s death in the air! The Commander in Chief really loves death. In fact he needs it to survive. Look at that smirk! It’s almost as dandy as his September 11 smirk. The people who accuse Bush of not caring really have egg on their faces now.

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New Orleans has been plunged into an apocalyptic nightmare, where murder and rape are rife and the dead lay in the streets. The living are not receiving adequate help and they are naturally getting anxious and distressed. Thousands of people have been trapped in the city for several days without clean water or food. Residents have had to steal water, food and other essential supplies from stores

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Thou Shall Not Kill… Blah, whatever. Anyway the correct phrase was Thou Shall Not Murder, and everyone knows killing, sorry, murdering the democratically-elected leader of a country is not really wrong. But everything’s okay, he didn’t really mean assassination, what Robertson meant when he said that Chavez should be assassinated is that he should be KIDNAPPED. Ah, that’s so much better. There’s

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If you haven’t been over to Church Sign Generator.com then you really should. Now you have the opportunity to create your own church signs, from the comfort of your own home. My creation is above. The site also has a collection of real signs. I’m quite ill at the moment and have felt pretty lousy over the past couple of days, but this site made me laugh. Recommended.

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The other day I was at the right-wing website People Political, and came across an article titled Why The World Is Supposed To Hate America. The article listed several ridiculous theories on why the world supposedly hates America, including the America-hating liberal media.“Could it be because when the leftists at the New York Times come across a story of a couple of night guards at a prison for

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I’ve written very few blog entries about my personal life, so today is a first of sorts. For the last five or six years I have been agoraphobic. I’ve been inside my house for all those years, unable to go out. In the past couple of months I have been getting treatment and have actually ventured outside. Today, July 16 2005, is the release date for the new Harry Potter book, and so I ventured out

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This week convicted child molester Brian Jones was released back into society. The home that he was to have lived in was plastered over the media, and now new accommodation is being looked for. The commercial television stations had a field day with headlines like: “Parents fear for children as paedophile released back into community”. The last photo of Mr Jones was taken over a decade ago, so

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In the morning:WIFE: Scott, what do you think works best, this navy blouse or this grey one?SCOTT: I really appreciate that you want to look your best, however I can’t comment on this ongoing marriage.WIFE: But you’ve done it before! Why stop now?SCOTT: As I said, I can’t comment on this ongoing marriage.WIFE: Dick.Just as Scott is leaving the house to go to work:POLICE OFFICER: Excuse me sir,

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We’ve just commemorated the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. Ten years later what has changed?It was after the Nazis massacred millions upon millions of Jews in World War II that the world united and said: never again. But then there was East Pakistan. And Cambodia. And Rwanda. And Bosnia. Then Srebrenica. Millions more dead. After the fact everyone is sorry, we should of done

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If you didn’t think Fox News Channel could get any worse, well it seems as if Fox desperately want to keep you perpetually shocked.When you first heard that there had been a terrorist attack in London what went through your mind? Oh god, not again. Shit, I hope no one dies. Fuck, those poor people. Odds are that 99.9% of people had thoughts simular to those I just listed. We can be sure that the

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It’s time for the Third Annual World Stupidity Awards, and you can participate by voting online. Here is how I voted:Stupidest Man of the Year: US President George W. BushStupidest Statement of the Year: “They never stop thinking of ways of harming America, and neither do we.” - US President George W. BushDumbest Moment of the Year: Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Night LiveStupidest Movie of the Year

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Never let the cowards win. Sending lots of love to London.

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In a deplorable trend several countries governments have demolished civilian homes and businesses, leaving thousands homeless.In Zimbabwe psycho President Robert Mugabe has ordered homes and businesses in areas of Harare to be destroyed, and his forces have been doing so for the past three weeks. The UN estimates that 200,000 homes have been demolished, leaving thousands homeless. Many of the

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A day in the life of Sophie Panopoulos

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It seems we can’t go a day without another story linking sporting stars and rape allegations. The latest case involves Dutch footballer Robin van Persie, who is currently contracted to English club Arsenal. Very few facts are know about the case so I can’t comment on it, but what I do want to comment on are the reactions of some fans on the internet. Most were shocked, angry and disappointed, but

dave128http://www.blogger.com/profile/11178841801273836396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609873.post-1117658578804708472005-06-02T06:42:00.000+10:002005-06-03T01:38:10.106+10:00

If by some horrible chance of fortune you have been living ignorant of Australia’s biggest story since, well forever, I have a little news for you: Schapelle Corby was found guilty, and will spend twenty years in jail.For those of you who have not been bombarded by the circus that was/is the Corby drugs trial (you lucky people) I’ll fill you in on the details. 27-year-old Australian Schapelle

dave128http://www.blogger.com/profile/11178841801273836396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609873.post-1117283680400797282005-05-28T22:32:00.000+10:002005-05-28T22:34:40.796+10:00

It's been awhile but I am finally back online. I've changed the name of my blog from the non-specific "dave128" to Didge Politics - The View From Down Under. I think it's a much better name. Thankfully it seems as if the old photos are still working.If you're new to my blog, here's what to expect: my opinions on Australian and international politics and affairs, hopefully humorous critiques on

dave128http://www.blogger.com/profile/11178841801273836396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609873.post-1107637032842457272005-02-06T07:53:00.000+11:002005-02-06T07:57:12.843+11:00

Organisers of this year's NFL SuperBowl have reassured the world that the half-time entertainment will be suitable for the whole family. Last year Janet Jackson was involved in what many Americans believed to be the worst blight on human history since the Holocaust. In a dance routine with former N*Sync singer Justin Timberlake, Jackson ripped off part of her dress, revealing one of her breasts.

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