From The West:

"The US Army major who killed 12 people and injured 31 others at a Texas military base is a US Muslim of Palestinian origin who joined the military against his parents' wishes and was about to be deployed to Iraq.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed at least 12 people in an attack at Fort Hood before being shot and wounded on Thursday, was a military psychiatrist who dealt with troops returning from combat and faced his own imminent deployment, officials said."

Talk about "Physician Heal thyself"...



 

I’m trawling through old celluloid photographs and copying them to file. Pictures like the following are best forgotten and yet, like a train wreck I find myself strangely drawn to it just because it is so bad.

This is not the worst picture of me but let’s face it, it isn’t pretty. I look like I just auditioned for a bad seventies B grade movie. And failed the audition.

I don’t think I could find the courage to post some of those pictures that are worse. It just wouldn’t be fair on you anyway.

I was listening to the news today on 6PR. News delivery has become so is so contrived in its ‘natural’ delivery style that it annoys the shit out of me. There was a time when a newsreader read the news and didn’t try to be conversational. “Not anymore!”, as Quinten Lynch would say. If he listened to the news (and I have doubts that he would).

Now, every newsreader wants to talk at you as if they were sitting across the dinner table making polite but inane conversation. So today we had a report about nuclear enrichment negotiations in Iran that went something like this:

“Negotiators are optimistic in their discussions about the handling of nuclear material for enrichment processing AND in America, police are likely to charge the family of the boy in the balloon blah, blah, blah.”

I thought the word ‘and’ was used to connect similar threads in a paragraph. It annoys me when it is used as a mindless segue into something totally unrelated just because the news service want it to flow in that chatty, rambling breakfast radio style that causes me severe diarrhea and has me diving for the off button lest I shit my pants.

There’s two things about it I don’t like. Firstly, it is contrived AND my cat has fur balls.

Curvy women have no place on the catwalk, iconic German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was quoted as saying, after a magazine said it was banning skinny models in favour of "real women".

"No one wants to see curvy women," Lagerfeld went on to say. "You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly," he added.

Karl... sweetie... There's nothing wrong with curvy women. Quite the reverse I think. Curvy and busty is just fine with me.

What Karl meant to say is that women don't like curvy women... Men have no problem with it at all.
 
Lagerfeld should be designing tents. He's as camp as a row of them so who is he to comment on what my half of the world want to see?

Civil liberties are under threat according to the Law Society. This less than esteemed organisation of bleeding heart boffins is upset at new police powers that allow our upholders of law to stop and randomly search people in designated areas and at specific times. It is an erosion of civil rights.

The West reports:

I agree that this change is a significant erosion of our civil rights and it can’t come soon enough.

When people like Tom Fuckwitt Percy pull their heads out of their arses and see how they have contributed to the undermining of the responsible use of authority in this state they might realise the part that they have played in this.

Of course, people like the media hungry bleeding heart piece of shit Tom Percy are far too clever to be wrong or culpable. Ever.

Anything that goes wrong is always somebody else’s fault. It is society, or the police or ministers of the crown. In fact, it is anybody and everybody else and these bleeding heart cockheads. These same cockheads who eagerly turn the bloodsucking scum of society back onto our streets as soon as they can. It is a game to them. Their job is a showcase for their enormous intelligence and wit it seems.

Memo to Tom Fuckwitt Percy: 

Pull your head out of your arse and see what a mess society is in and for once ask yourself - “Am I to blame in some way? Was I right in attempting to change the responsibility for what is wrong in society from the individual to those who try to keep these individuals from damaging society?”

Naturally, your answer will be “no”, because you really are too smart to ever get it wrong.

Did I mention that I think he’s a fuckwitt?

I regret the piece of legislation but more than that, I regret that we need it.

From The West:

I don’t know about you but I long ago tired of round the world lone sailors. She has the strident support of her family and I hope they are happy to stridently defend their position should she be washed overboard, attacked and God knows what by pirates or simply disappear and her fate never discovered.

I hate bailing out these people when they screw up but once again, I can only question the motive and the ethics of the girl’s parents. Parents can tend to live out their own unfulfilled dreams through their children but you would have hoped that the love and regard that you have for your children would have outweighed such selfishness. Parents such as these should have their children taken off them and yet, if the authorities ever tried it would cause an outrage. What does that say about us?

This world is fucked, in my not so humble opinion.

‘There’s one law for the rich and another for the poor'.’ It is so true and yet we, the poor (in relative terms) do little about it. It is akin to the way large numbers of drones accept that royalty has a place in our lives – not enough people question the fundamental fallacy that inequities such as this should be allowed to continue.

We continue to fawn because someone happens to have more money than us. Celebrities are the new gods. It no longer even matters how they became a celebrity. They could have been the last man standing in a house where everyone else was voted out by a bunch of 14 year old acne-faced sheep with a television and mobile phone in hand - and no parental guidance as to how to use it.

Whether a celebrity is innately good or selfless doesn’t seem to matter. Just so long as we can see these success stories unfold before our wide eyes and dream that one day it could be us, then we seem willing to be blinded to everything else.

The law has always deferred to celebrity. People are NOT equal before the law. Legal beagles are great at talking up their profession. They would have you  think that it is a profession built on integrity and fairness and that snobbery and elitism doesn’t exist. Do not for a moment give it any credence. If you haven't got money and celebrity, you will come off second best. Indisputable fact.

As proof of this, you only have to look at some of the cases that have gone before our legal system and then ask yourself, “How would the common man have fared?”

Brian Burke - We know the scope of his sins and yet he served only seven months in jail for rorting travel expenses and then later six months for stealing stealing before his sentenced was quashed on appeal. Nice to have syphoned off the money to do that. There are people still, in the dizzy heights of parliament who embrace him and allow him to insert himself as a figure of influence in this state’s dealings. Very sad indeed and it speaks to the ethics of a significant number of politicians.

Alan Bond – Served four years of a seven year term after he precipitated one of Australia’s biggest corporate collapses. This was after his family bought out his 1.8 billion bankruptcy by handing over a mere twelve million dollars. The man had syphoned off 1.2 billion dollars from Bell Resources. Oh.. he’s back in BRW’s rich list. Funny that. When you’ve been bankrupt and all…

Len Brush – Astutely placed to mismanage state funds by his mate Burke, he was found to have acted improperly but wasn’t charged. His wife Brenda was Burke’s personal secretary and was also coated in Teflon.

I could go on (and usually do) but let’s face it, there is no shortage of evidence throughout our ‘cherished’ legal system of how you are treated as an inferior before the courts.

The purpose of this blog entry was to comment on the granting of Luke Pomersbach’s extraordinary licence. The issue in one sense is fairly minor but the inequity of the system is really what is at issue here. No doubt brother Peter has an opinion but to give it voice could be somewhat imprudent.

I really hate spam emails and let’s face it – who doesn’t? I do find amusement though in the way some of them are constructed in (what I assume is) a way to attract your attention and arouse your curiosity.

So when Jay Daniel from motleys9644@sdatax.com (allegedly) wrote me an email the other day and the subject line of it was: ‘If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument.’ I was naturally curious.

The content of the email read as follows:

Would you like to have as many women so you could forget their names? All that would be possible if you added some extra inches to your beef stick. Just ask us how and we will help.

I was naturally curious as to what a goldfish has to do with beef sticks but of course, I will never get the opportunity to find out. Is there anyone, anyone at all out there who is so fucking stupid that they would set off for a journey through cyberspace trying to find these purveyors of penis protractions? Like those who believe there are fortunes to be made smuggling valuables out of Nigeria, you deserve to lose your money.

As for forgetting women’s names, I’m sure Linda can attest to the fact that the ravages of time will take care of that.

Alan Carpenter hangs up his boots today and steps out of parliament and into oblivion.

As much as I like Bob Maumill and his radio show on 6PR in the afternoons, I am very disappointed that he allowed his personal relationships with a number of Labor crooks to influence the way in which he conducted his radio programme.

The constant tirade he conducted against Carpenter was unprofessional. This from a self confessed mate of Brian Burke and Norm Marlborough. It lowers his standing to admit that too.

If the only thing Carps did was dilute the pervading stench of Burke and his cronies then I think he achieved monumental success.

People really need to remember the days of WA Inc and the long term damage caused by those years of institutionalised corruption. Some of those involved have yet to get their just desserts.

I salute you Alan!

This 'Mao's Last Dancer' movie has been getting pumped up big time in recent days throughout the media.

So I’m thinking it’s Bill Elliot all over again except with an dictatorial country leader instead of a dictatorial dad.

Oh yea one more thing. Everyone has slanted eyes and olive skin.

There’s a number people from the Afghanistan/Pakistan region who have decided that life over there doesn’t suit them. Well naturally I can understand that. Islamic fundamentalism isn’t everybody’s cup of tea. Fatwas and stone-age thinking leave a lot to be desired, even though getting rid of dancing, television, alcohol and Americans isn’t all bad, (especially if you’ve seen me dance).

We were however, brought up in a Christian culture of tolerance. We tolerate anything from rap music to the Ellen DeGeneres Show. There is even a wanky Islamic chat show on SBS that tries to show us how trendy and progressive Muslims are, even if they are sitting on camera with hijabs on their heads, and appear oblivious to the plight of women in the aforementioned Asian region. The show is crap and I have only ever seen it in passing. It is the cringe-worthy fodder on which government funded TV flourishes and it smacks of idealism.

The ever increasing number of people hopping on boats and heading towards our country because they don’t like their lifestyle, is quite alarming. According to some, the action of entering the country without visa passport and going through customs isn’t even illegal. These soft cock bleeding heart apologists think that they can create a Utopia and it is all going to start in Australia.

What is their resolution to easing the swelling number of illegals held in detention? Let them stay in the community while they are being assessed! Amazingly simple, to the point of simplistic.

There have been terrorist cells operating in western countries. Blending into our societies and laying plans for destruction and terror just because you and I who are we are, that we believe what we believe and we don’t oppress people who don’t cut off their foreskin or cover the heads of our women.

The mob who have proposed this piece of absurdity call themselves ‘A Just Australia’ and I can’t imagine what sort of blinkered moron gets involved in this sort of rubbish. These people have lost touch with reality and they think that the future can be shaped at will. Their will of course.

They would have us all sitting around the campfire, holding hands and singing ‘Kum Bi Ya’. Well, we might well be doing that if Islamic fundamentalists ever get their hands on our way of life. There’d be nothing left to do but sit around campfires.

What sort of person in Afghanistan has $15,000 to hand over to criminals to get them to Australia by nefarious means? Why do those bleeding hearts want to assume that everyone of them is innocent until proven guilty? I’ve seen first hand an Afghan thug aged 19 with a forged Australian passport. I only saw him because he had had to be dealt with by cops for an act of violence. He had been here for five years! I know of substantial rorts in our welfare system perpetrated by these people and encouraged and trained to do it by these so called volunteer help agencies who charter is to only look after their own.

Am I racist? No, but I am a realist. I don’t think there is a place in Australia for people of this ilk. It shouldn’t be a sin to think how I do and I have no doubt that the majority of people do think this way. We are the people and are, as usual, drowned out by Labor leftists and charitable organisations with an agenda to reshape Australia.

At least Rudd and Howard got that part right.

From MSN:

Was it really called ‘Grab-N-Go’? The mind boggles…

I wonder why it took two months to complete the investigation?

I am frequently puzzled by the designers of suburban roads. Councils seem to be employing engineers that spent a good part of their university years dabbling in psychedelic drugs. Diversions, inhibitors and the ever increasing roundabouts make driving in and around suburbia akin to driving around an obstacle course.

I groan constantly while driving through suburban streets (in a non-sexual way) whenever I see white chalk lines on the road. Sure as night follows day you know that your local council is about to fuck up another section of road with your rates money.

Personally I believe a lot of the money would be put to better use physically monitoring the hoons who inhabit our roads. They take over at night, do what they want, wherever they want and never get caught. How many damaged road signs and skid marks are there on your supposedly quiet suburban streets?

My council has an addiction to roundabouts. It is the panacea for all road problems apparently. They have sprung up everywhere and a simple drive to the shops now entails negotiating about seven of the bloody things in addition to speed bumps, narrowing inhibitors and bizarre diagonal diverters across the road.

As suggested earlier, the road engineers on local councils are ex LSD users and abusers and some are obviously still reliving their university days. Council road workers too are in a league of their own. I know they are not necessarily the sharpest tools in the tool shed and I always thought that those employees who hold up the ‘SLOW’ sign at road works were making some sort of personal statement. I never for a moment thought though, that they were quite as stupid as the following indicates they sadly are.

In evidence, I offer the following photograph. The picture was taken by me on a local council street that I use regularly. Though the council has now fixed the error, the remnants of the original glaring act of stupidity can be clearly seen.

The white horizontal band is where the buffoons covered up the mistake. Underneath this white band was the 'Give Way' white road markings. They did this on both approaches from the side street from which I took the picture.

What was originally laid down then, before the council hastily did their cover up was this:

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what is wrong with this but it clearly wasn’t evident to any of the road workers or their supervisors. It actually was operating like this way for a day or so. Amazing.

This story intrigues me. I understand that the former politician may also have connections with the recently murdered Michael McGurk.

NSW politics has been on the nose since the days of days of Jack Lang back in the 20s and 30s. Not much has changed, except some of them went into federal politics... Unfortunately, any more said than that could be libelous. It is a shame that the truth usually comes out after people die and this especially apllies to politicians. All the more reason to wish some of them a short life I guess. I passionately hate corruption.

It is well worth looking up articles on the following people:

Leanne Edelsten

Graham Richardson

Michael McGurk

Ron Medich

or even better still, Google different combinations of the names together…

Watch this space.

Today WA proclaimed the law that will provide for mandatory jail time for assaults on certain public officers.

As usual the bleeding hearts such as Tom ‘Make Make Me A Star’ Percy have crawled away from his lucrative connection with the criminal elements of Perth and jumped on the media soap box again. Naturally, the media and in particular 6PR love to give him a hearing. he’s controversial. Never mind that Tom Percy is a dickhead and reflects a minority point of view.

I doubt that the legislation is perfect to be honest, but surely having it is better than not having it? I’ve seen first hand how the young in particular confront the police when they are pumped with alcohol. It isn’t pretty.

Tom Percy’s argument runs along the lines that an eighteen year old smart arse has little in the way of life experience to draw on, or is perhaps not developed enough to control their emotions and behaviour, particularly when fuelled by piss. What a copout (excuse the pun).

Fronting up to a police officer and hurling abuse literally right under their noses (this is what happens) is not what this legislation is going to address (unfortunately). What it will address however, is that which needs to be addressed.

The line in the sand has to be drawn somewhere and should have been drawn a long time ago. If mum and dad can’t do it when they raise their brats and then unleash them onto society then they can bleat all they like when they get locked up for assaulting a police officer.

Actions have consequences and the consequences of inaction too, may well be prison.

Kevin Rudd. The phoney.

Mr articulate and slick in from of the media and Mr Pottymouth away from them.

It should be apparent that I have no particular aversion to the odd profanity. Time, place and circumstance. If however, I attended my regular work meetings and bandied around the F word, especially in anger at my subordinates, I would be in a spot of bother. It is a display of poor management skill. I wouldn’t inspire my charges and I would lose support very quickly.

The man is a sham (as are most pollies) and what really needles me about it is the double standard. Mind you, he is a politician so that should come as no surprise.

Fuck him and fuck the Labor party frankly. (Time, place and circumstance).

Oh dear!

“World Breaking News” trumpets news.com.au

I don’t care what they say her name is, this Zhou Juchang woman has to be American!

As for ‘World Breaking News’ I have to admit that my life is forever changed by this monkey business. To think only a week or two ago I was slagging the Murdoch press for the quality of their news services. In the words of a work colleague of mine, 'how did I get it so wrong?'

Friday night’s preliminary final between St Kilda and Western Bulldogs was an absolute nail-biter. Quite a cracker of a game.

I guess.

Sadly, the only place to see it live if you are a West Australian was to pay for a ticket, jump on a plane, pay for accommodation and hook up with the game at the MCG. In Perth, the game was on delayed telecast by Channel 7 and not available to Fox live. Why?

Three main reasons.

1. The AFL (who don’t give a fuck about devotees of the game ever since the sport was taken over by accountants and professional CEO’s) scheduled the game for a Friday night. It suits the network, so I suppose that is all that matters. Why bother looking for a weekend schedule that could suit everybody? It is only the number one sport in Australia and if a few hundred thousand people over there in the wild west are inconvenienced, I mean, who cares?
2. The AFL sold the TV rights to Fox and C7 with no real control over what and how the game is broadcast. Quiet the reverse. The tail wags the dog.
3. Channel 7 Perth are a bunch of myopic fuckwits who, like their counterparts across the commercial waveband, really don’t give a toss about providing any sort of service whatsoever. It is Channel 9 and cricket all over again. Advertisers rule. As with their commercial network counterparts, they are big on self promotion but very very short on delivery. Quite honestly, they don’t give a fuck.

Everything in life is driven by commercialism. Capitalism, the chase for the almighty dollar and then the chase to top it off with more. Peter Finch had it right. George Orwell had it right. I think we have arrived.

As for the football, well I didn’t watch it. Would have liked to but hey, I wouldn’t bother. Same reason I don’t watch one day cricket games. Furthermore. for those who sit down to watch TV news at night or earlier in the morning, I have to wonder if you haven’t got something better to do. The news is two hours old. News on delayed telecast. How can they even call it news? It certainly isn’t new by the time it gets to you so I doubt it could be termed ‘news’. Worse is to come for you in the next few weeks. It will soon be three hours delayed.

If it was worth watching, then I would be appalled. This is how West Australians are treated.

The days of quality free to air commercial television are numbered. The grave is being dug and the moronic, short-sighted television executives don’t even realise that they have been handing out the shovels.

I recognise that television and radio advertisements are a necessary evil. I'm even happy to acknowledge that at times you even find out something interesting or useful. Not often mind you. What I find absurd though, is this increasing trend that sees advertisers cover their chicken-shit arses at every opportunity.

In this world of increasing litigation (thank you America), advertisers seem terrified that some government watchdog is going to hoist their carcasses to a pole in every town square across the land because they told porkpies.

Goodness knows, they've been lying to you for years anyway, but now every second advertisement has a very annoying and largely unnecessary disclaimer. So wide sweeping are these disclaimers that they render the veracity of the statements pointless.

"Terms and conditions apply" is the most common one and yet, no one actually tells you in the ad just what those terms and conditions are. One of the conditions may be that they reserve the right not do it.

"Refer to the PDS" - and for such a long time I puzzled about what the fuck PDS was. Petrified Dog Shit?

“While stocks last”. (We have only got one item per store but we do have another item that will do the same job, but it costs three times as much).

What about those ads where they cram a disclaimer in at the end. You get someone reading what appears to be War and Peace condensed into three seconds of staccato speech?

Thank god for the internet and P2P which I’m told, enables you to download programmes that have been lifted off TV by some net geek, who has also removed the ads for you too. Apparently. So I’m told. It happened to a good friend of mine.

From the British Broadcasting Corporation:

Do they really need encouragement such as this?

I don’t think so!

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Last Thursday and Friday it was stormy as hell.  The weather bureau had forecast gale force winds and rain and no one in their right mind would go out sailing knowing that such a storm had been forecast.

And yet…

The read or heard from another news source that the man had said he didn’t think it was going to be a problem because B.O.M usually got it wrong…

What a fuckwit. They should have left him out there. The Bureau of Meteorology do not ‘usually get it wrong’. In this day and age of computer modelling and high tech satellite surveillance, they usually get it very right. It may have been true once upon a time to hang shit on forecasters and (we all did it) but things have changed.

What has not changed is the fact that some people are fucking stupid, are lucky to be alive and are a danger to their rescuers.

No doubt this moron (apologies to actual morons) will learn nothing from his death wish antics. People like this just don’t do they?

How does a moron like this get such a boat? I hope the bloody thing sank.

The BBC reports:

Jolie & Pitt, Madonna and now Reggie Dwight. What is it with some celebs? Can’t they just go buy a dog or something?

Just because You Gotta love Someone is no reason to think that the authorities don’t think you’re a Honky Cat. It was a silly ambition that has been snuffed out like a Candle in the Wind. Elton, it’s Easier to Walk Away. I know you were willing to make the Sacrifice but I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues. You may have pleaded to them “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” but Your Song fell on death ears. Perhaps they thought this was only going to be a Part Time Love for you.  I’m sorry for you (and Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word) but to be honest The Bitch is Back in me and I’m Still Standing back here laughing at you.

I have resisted the temptation to toss in Don’t Let The Son Go Down on Me. I wouldn’t be that crass. No - not me…