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jdbuzz
25 November 2009 @ 12:07 pm
There is talk amongst the population that firmer action should be taken to deal with people smugglers.

More important is - what are they going to do about budgie smugglers?

eeeeeew!
 
 
John is feeling: blank
John is listening to: Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum
 
 
jdbuzz
23 November 2009 @ 12:46 am
Driving around the coastline of the Perth Metropolitan area, I became aware of something that really needs to be shared with fat people.

I hope it helps...

If you are of a mind you get a dog and then take it out for a walk, make sure you get a big dog. A nice robust labrador, Saint Bernard or Irish Setter should do the trick. DO NOT get some wimpy little terrier! Avoid Miniature Poodles, Chihuahuas and the like.

Little dogs following doggedly behind their owners on a leash just make you look bigger and fatter. It is so much easier to look trim and fit when out walking your pet bull mastiff than it is walking a Jack Russell.

Besides, if you accidentally step on a small dog, it will be the very last caressing touch it will ever know.
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John is feeling: groggy
John is listening to: Carry That Weight
 
 
jdbuzz
22 November 2009 @ 11:41 am
From the BBC:

Bare Barbies in Knickerless cage

Entries have been invited for this year's Turnip Prize for bad art.

The award, an alternative to the Turner Prize, is presented by the residents of a Somerset village.
In what the organisers have described as "an insignificant development" pieces entitled Wallace and Vomit and Knickerless cage have been submitted.

Raw chicken
According to the rules, there are no barriers to entry into the competition, they simply state: "You can enter anything you like, but it must be rubbish."
Organiser Trevor Prideaux said the sculpture entitled Wallace and Vomit by Sick Puke had a good chance of claiming the prize.
"This is not art it's just regurgitation, which gives it a good chance of winning," said Mr Prideaux.
The entry entitled Knickerless cage by Sue She shows a collection of naked Barbie dolls encaged in wire mesh.
Previous winners of the gong include a raw chicken stuffed with leaves entitled Take a Leaf out of my Chook and sheep's wool stuck on top of a jar entitled Fleeced.




I love this type of humour...
 
 
John is feeling: amused
John is listening to: Mona Lisa
 
 
jdbuzz
17 November 2009 @ 12:41 pm
As reported in the West. (not that it makes it true)

Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.
Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.
Three homeless men with previous criminal records have been arrested on suspicion of setting upon a foe with knives and a hammer before chopping up his corpse to eat, local investigators said in a statement on their www.susk.perm.ru Web site.
"After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies," the Prosecutor-General's main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a statement issued Friday.
It was not immediately clear from the statement if any of the corpse had been sold to customers.
I always get the shits when eating kebabs and this story has probably sworn me off them forever.
 
 
John is feeling: Afraid
John is listening to: Fine Young Cannibals
 
 
jdbuzz
17 November 2009 @ 12:27 pm
From the UK Guardian:

Belle de Jour blogger unmasks herself as 'big mouth ex-boyfriend' looms

One of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when a 34-year-old research scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced she was the writer better known as call girl Belle de Jour.
The author behind the blog turned bestselling series of books detailing her secret life as a prostitute decided to come out to one of her fiercest critics, the Sunday Times columnist India Knight, after claiming anonymity had become "no fun". "I couldn't even go to my own book launch party," she said.
It does appear, however, that Magnanti's hand was forced after a former boyfriend appeared set to reveal her secret: Knight's interview with her today refers to "an ex-boyfriend with a big mouth lurking in the background".
Until last week, even her agent was unaware of her name. But now Magnanti, a respected specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol, has spoken of the time six years ago she worked as a £300-an-hour prostitute working through a London escort agency.
Magnanti turned to the agency in the final stages of her PhD thesis when she ran out of money. She was already an experienced science blogger and began writing about her experiences in a web diary later adapted into books and a television drama starring Billie Piper.

It just goes to prove what I’ve always said: “Neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology does strange things to a girl”.

True, I really have...

 
 
John is feeling: Flippant
John is listening to: Medicine Woman
 
 
jdbuzz
17 November 2009 @ 09:18 am

Poor old Lonely is even lonelier. Edward Woodward has passed on.

Both the news on the radio and on the BBC describe his career highlights and in so doing mentioned the TV series ‘Callan’ - almost as an afterthought. For me and no doubt many others, this show was the quintessential Edward Woodward.

Take the antithesis of the James Bond type of spy with the glamour, fast cars and beautiful women and this was our much loved Callan. What a great show in it’s time and the ability to act out the character’s strength and personal angst was for me and many of my vintage, Woodward’s finest hour.

Callan would strike fear into his adversaries just by walking into a room (dressed in his ubiquitous overcoat) and staring straight at them for what seemed an interminable time.

Who would? Edward Woodward would.

On that rather poor attempt at alliteration, I bid my final salute to a great man and a great character.

 
 
John is feeling: sad
John is listening to: The Spy Who Loved Me
 
 
jdbuzz
12 November 2009 @ 10:37 am

Boat people 'are emotional blackmailers'

Sri Lanka's ambassador to the United Nations has condemned the 78 asylum seekers aboard the Ocean Viking as emotional blackmailers.

"It is wrong for anybody to go to a strange land and then exert emotional pressure of this kind on the intended destination and expect people to react positively," he told ABC TV.

"I think this is emotional blackmail."

Dr Kohona said he didn't believe those aboard the ship were true refugees and called for them to be returned to Sri Lanka.

"They are economic refugees looking for greener pastures elsewhere," he said.

Pull up anchor and head for Sri Lanka… Easy fix.

Why is the Labor government wasting time pandering to a bunch of bleeding heart left wing do-gooders who form a miniscule minority opinion in Australia?

Remember that long gone era when Labor used to represent workers?

 
 
John is listening to: Those Were The Days
 
 
jdbuzz
12 November 2009 @ 09:53 am

From The West:

PM's secret Afghan visit

Kevin Rudd spends Remembrance day with Australian diggers, declaring troops will remain in conflict for the long haul.

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I’ve blogged about this sort of stuff before, I know…

If it was so bloody secret then how did the media get hold of it?

I know! Because Rudd is good at milking the media and can hand picks his photo opportunities with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. What gets seen and who gets hold of it is by royal decree. He controls the media (for now) to the point where you just don’t know who the man is. This much I do know – He is a slimy, smarmy head of government on an extended honeymoon with the media whores.

When the Liberals get their shit together, watch this man disintegrate.

Thank Heaven for small mercies - At least he hasn't got the camouflage kit on as if he is ready to pitch in and kill a Muslim or two.


 
 
John is listening to: Spamalot
 
 
jdbuzz
11 November 2009 @ 12:47 pm

78 Tamil would-be illegal immigrants are still holed up on an Australian Customs vessel in Indonesia. 

I can’t help but wonder what difference it would make to keep them on board the ship and set sail for Sri Lanka. We can dump them off and perhaps in so doing, help deter more of these insolent, demanding, disrespectful pieces of shit? God, we could have had them home by now!

Is there something wrong with this line of thinking? I don’t see anything inhumane about it. They’ve refused to leave the ship anyway, so they are holed up by choice.

Why do we have to have politicians who are over-sensitive to public opinion? Wouldn’t you just once, like to see a politician who is true to himself? How refreshing it would be.

 
 
John is feeling: aggravated
John is listening to: The Skye Boat Song
 
 
jdbuzz
11 November 2009 @ 12:22 pm

From various web news sites:

THE noise of their steamy lovemaking has got them into hot water and now they have been ordered by a court to stay apart tomorrow night... their silver wedding anniversary.

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Their loud two-hour sex sessions were driving neighbours bonkers and Caroline Cartwright spent three weeks in Low Newton Prison after allegedly breaching an Asbo three times in just 10 days with her moans and groans.

The accusations of morning wails, whines and bed-banging against the wall caused magistrates to lock her behind bars after she broke the four-year ban that prevented her from making excessive noise anywhere in England and Wales.

She was slammed in the same jail as notorious female convicts, while she claims her only crime was having an active sex life.

I’m thinking the noise is actually him trying to get away but then, he’s no catch either is he ladies?

This story makes me nauseous…

 
 
John is feeling: nauseated
John is listening to: All Night Long
 
 
jdbuzz
06 November 2009 @ 06:02 pm

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"...



 




 
 
John is feeling: calm
John is listening to: I Don't Like Mondays
 
 
jdbuzz
21 October 2009 @ 10:43 am

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.

ohdear

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.

 
 
John is feeling: flirty
John is listening to: Photograph
 
 
jdbuzz
20 October 2009 @ 09:07 am
The Melbourne Cup is almost upon us and I think it is time that to turn my blogging attention towards matters equine.

First discussion point is this:

What is it with Gai Waterhouse? It sounds like some sort of public toilet frequented by homosexuals. She needs a name change.

I am remind of that urban-mythical race horse called "Hoof Hearted".
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John is feeling: apathetic
John is listening to: Horse With No Name
 
 
jdbuzz
20 October 2009 @ 07:28 am

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.

 
 
John is feeling: apathetic
John is listening to: A Day In The Life
 
 
jdbuzz
12 October 2009 @ 10:37 am

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?

 
 
John is feeling: cheerful
John is listening to: I'm Too Sexy
 
 
jdbuzz
12 October 2009 @ 08:14 am

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:

The State Government's move to give police unprecedented stop and search powers was criticised by lawyers yesterday as an erosion of civil rights that would drive people out of entertainment areas and lead to a "police state".

The legislation, announced by Premier Colin Barnett at the Liberal Party's annual State conference yesterday, will allow police to stop and search people in designated areas at specified times without having to prove a reasonable suspicion that they had committed an offence.

Mr Barnett said the laws would be directed at entertainment precincts, in particular Northbridge, and events such as concerts in a bid to combat antisocial behaviour and violence. He said under existing laws which required a reasonable suspicion, offenders were "getting off on a technicality" after arguing over the grounds for the searches.

WA Criminal Defence Lawyers Association president Richard Utting said there was no evidence that existing search laws were a problem.

WA president Tom Percy said police appeared to be the only section of the community consulted over the legislation.

"They have not consulted the judiciary, the legal profession or the community at large as to whether or not these laws are required," Mr Percy said.

But Mr O'Callaghan said police had been seeking random search laws for some time in a bid to deter people from carrying weapons and drugs into some entertainment areas.

"They won't, obviously, be wanting to search everybody . . . because it won't be physically possible to do so," he said

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.

 
 
John is listening to: Overture from Tommy
 
 
jdbuzz
08 October 2009 @ 09:13 am
From The West:

Teenage sailor ready for solo challenge

Teenager Jessica Watson plans to leave Sydney this weekend in her attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

The 16-year-old adventurer made it to Sydney on Monday, after a five-day trial trip from the Gold Coast on her yacht Ella's Pink Lady. It was her second trial run to Sydney, with the first ending prematurely last month when her yacht collided with a 63,000-tonne cargo vessel off North Stradbroke Island on September 9.

Looking relaxed and confident at the official launch of her round the world trip on Wednesday, Jessica shrugged off criticism the collision was evidence she was not ready to take the trip. She refrained from elaborating on why her boat collided with the cargo vessel, but said she was better equipped now as a result of the incident.

"We've been over all the systems. One big thing is we've got a really big alarm now, so there's absolutely no chance of me missing a warning if a big ship is approaching."

Jessica plans to leave from the The Spit in Sydney's Middle Harbour on Saturday, but this may be delayed if weather conditions are not ideal.

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.


 
 
John is listening to: Girls, Girls, Girls - Sailor
 
 
jdbuzz
08 October 2009 @ 09:09 am

‘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.

 
 
John is listening to: The Alabama Song
 
 
jdbuzz
04 October 2009 @ 05:47 pm

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.

 
 
John is feeling: tired
John is listening to: Harold Budd - Pandas In Tandem
 
 
jdbuzz
02 October 2009 @ 09:40 am

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!

 
 
John is feeling: disappointed
John is listening to: If I Were A Carpenter
 
 
jdbuzz
01 October 2009 @ 10:42 am


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.

 
 
John is feeling: blank
John is listening to: I Like Chinese
 
 
jdbuzz
25 September 2009 @ 02:54 pm

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.

 
 
John is feeling: aggravated
John is listening to: Crying Like A Refugee
 
 
jdbuzz
25 September 2009 @ 08:32 am

From MSN:

US baristas accused of prostitution

Five Washington state baristas charged customers to touch their breasts and buttocks at an espresso stand where servers wear bikinis to draw business, police said.

The Everett Herald reports the women were charging up to $US80 ($A92) to strip down while fixing lattes and mochas.

During a two-month investigation, detectives also saw the women lick whipped cream off each other and pose naked for pictures at the Grab-n-Go Espresso stand in Everett, north of Seattle.

During one visit, a barista allegedly told a detective that for $US20 ($A23), she and another barista would give him a show. He paid and they bared their breasts and pulled down their undergarments.

The women also charged customers to play "basketball", a game in which customers threw wadded up money at the women, who caught the money in their underwear, detectives said.

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

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


 
 
John is feeling: bored
John is listening to: Feelings
 
 
jdbuzz
23 September 2009 @ 11:28 pm
It is 11:30 at night and as is my wont, I had a look around the world to see that everything is alright. Google, BBC online and Wiki are my friends at this late hour.

Wiki informs me that today was 'Bisexuality Day'. A day when people of this confused particular type of sexual perversion get up and proudly celebrate that very fact.

Kinnel, am I glad I missed that for 23 and half hours of the day or what?
 
 
John is feeling: cynical
John is listening to: Bi Bi Blackbird
 
 
jdbuzz
23 September 2009 @ 05:02 pm

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.

roundabout 

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

plan

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.

 

slow

 
 
John is feeling: amused
John is listening to: Long and Winding Road
 
 
jdbuzz
22 September 2009 @ 02:50 pm

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…

Leanne Edelsten, ex-wife of flamboyant former Sydney Swans owner Dr Geoffrey Edelsten, is threatening to write a tell-all memoir of their time together

The Edelsten's were one of Australia's power couples of the 1980s, notorious for a lavish pink-tinged lifestyle, including travelling around Sydney in a pink helicopter.

The former model, now an intensive-care nurse told the Sydney Morning Herald: "I've been surprised at the interest; it was a long time ago."

Ms Edelsten said it was"probably Geoffrey” who had most reason to be concerned about the book."There are things I have kept quiet about why I left the guy to start with,” she said.

The pair divorced 20 years ago and have spoken only once since then, she said.

The book plan comes as her 66-year-old former husband prepares to marry his 25-year-old girlfriend, Brynne Gordon, in November.

In a recent article in the Herald, Leanne Edelsten revealed she was offered help by a senior federal politician to get her then-husband out of trouble in return for "ongoing sexual favours".

Sydney agent and friend of Ms Edelsten, Harry M Miller, contacted her after the Herald story and has offered to help find a publisher for her book.

 

Watch this space.

 
 
John is feeling: awake
John is listening to: Money, Money, Money
 
 
jdbuzz
22 September 2009 @ 02:36 pm

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.

 
 
John is listening to: Jailhouse Rock
 
 
jdbuzz
22 September 2009 @ 02:03 pm

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).

 
 
John is feeling: bemused
John is listening to: The Great Pretender
 
 
jdbuzz
19 September 2009 @ 06:39 pm

Oh dear!

“World Breaking News” trumpets news.com.au

 

Monkey pushes woman who wouldn't share off cliff

By staff writers

NEWS.com.au

September 18, 2009 01:09pm

 

A MONKEY has pushed a woman off a cliff.

The woman, 60-year-old Zhou Juchang, made the claim after winding up at the bottom of a seven-metre rock face, fracturing her hip and breaking three ribs.

Now she’s suing her travel agent, who organised her trip into China’s Chengdu Wildlife Park.

The monkey allegedly flew into a rage when the woman refused to hand over the bag of monkey food which her tour guide recommended she buy.

A spokesman for the park said the woman’s mistake was showing fear.

“If you show fear a monkey will bully you,”

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?'

 
 
John is listening to: Hey Hey We're the Monkeys!
 
 
jdbuzz
19 September 2009 @ 06:06 pm

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.


 
 
John is feeling: annoyed
John is listening to: When The Saints Go Marching In
 
 
 
 

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