Activist wants reason for deportation - Breaking News - National - Breaking News

And so it begins.

Osama has actually won, although the pollies haven't realised it yet. Oh wait, am I being seditious? Probably.

Push to ban 'offensive' TV shows - TV & Radio - Entertainment - theage.com.au

Ms Draper said that once the minister had a reserve power to pull programs from the air, it would encourage broadcasters to better observe the code of practice.

"We don't have that power now, but once we do have that ability, the self-regulators on commercial free-to-air will certainly be examining the code a lot more closely so that they don't end up getting their programs yanked from the air.

"I am concerned about children in Australia, quite frankly, and in my electorate, and there are at least 20 of us in the parliamentary party who will be pushing for this."

Uh? Who the hell voted for Helen Coonan's morality view of the world? Australia you got the government you deserve.

President stirs debate with evolution remark - World - smh.com.au

A debate between scientists and religious conservatives has escalated after the US President, George Bush, said the theory of intelligent design should be taught with evolution in public schools.

The President said both theories ought to be properly taught "so people can understand what the debate is about".

Erm..... this is like a new dark age.

Telstra boss runs foul of Howard on criticism - Business - Business - smh.com.au

Oh the irony.

Telstra would not be allowed to play "regulatory roulette" with future services to the bush, Senator Coonan said as the Federal Government's battle with the company intensified.

Hang on a minute, the government is battling an entity of which it owns 51%? Are we to assume that the final sell off of Telstra will be a good thing? They can't have it both ways - enforcing regulations on a private entity to ensure that the rural area is taken care of. This is exactly why these services need to be public. Infrastructure 101 morons!

US takes offence at cartoon stamp - World - smh.com.au

Gee the US wouldn't be feeling guilty about what it used to do with these kind of images? The US should worry about it's own internal policies without trying to dictate to a FOREIGN government what it should depict on it's stamps.

Row grows in late-term abortion case - National - theage.com.au

The man is an idiot.

Iranian president linked with US Embassy siege - World - smh.com.au

So what if he was?

Last time I checked George W. doesn't get to decide who is president of Iran.

Oh wait, who am I kidding?

Is Julian McGauran Insane?

He is known as the anti-abortionist senator. Great claim to fame, given that the abortion debate was allegedly settled over 30 years ago. Not only does he gain access to personal medical records by dubious means, he also has an interesting take on foreign affairs.

In arguing for the Iraqi war - he disparages the French:

Today, without American intelligence and military backup, the war on terror could not be fought, and we would all be engulfed in its horror. The United States have spent a century protecting and saving the world from tyranny. This alliance is in Australia's best interests and should not be picked apart by irrational anti-Americanism—in particular by the French, whose anti-Americanism is nothing more than a political attempt to set themselves up as an alternative power. But we should not be too hard on the French because they cannot help it. They are inherently treacherous. After all, they betrayed to the stake Joan of Arc—one of their greatest—and they have not changed since 1441. Joan of Arc, who liberated France, they betrayed. So this is not a black day for Australia, as described by the leader of the Labor Party; this is a great day for the war on terror.

Speech to parliament March 2003

Inherently treacherous????

Hmm a look around his website shows he isn't exactly the most prolific of speech makers. Half a dozen speeches are linked on his website and media releases (covering important topics such as flags for schools)aimed squarely at his electorate are about it.

I am surprised there is not a link to the treacherous French blaming them for starting the war on terror.

Beazley fends off Latham attack - National - theage.com.au

Mark Latham the spoilt child of politics. Just cus he couldn't do it, why should anyone else. Even if he honestly believes those opinions, and part of me suspects that he does - and who knows some of it may even be true. What the hell good does it do to spruik off about it?

He just damages the party he claims to love so dearly.

Moron.

Howard's great crusade - Shaun Carney - Opinion - theage.com.au

The outcry from the media is deafening. Are they so used to being spoon fed from Howard and his cronies that they don't care? Or is it that editorial interference - let's face it, it's the big employers who stand to gain the most from driving down real wages - that is causing the lack of protest?

Maybe they are too focused on causing a rift with Indonesia to bother.

Democracry Hard at Work

So the house votes for it, but the president says nuh-uh, no way.

Nice that Democracy works so much like a dictatorship.

Less than 12 weeks to go

And don't I feel every bit of those 28 weeks. What the hell did I do to deserve getting morning sickness back in the third trimester?

Bleh.

It might have swung poll: Labor - National - www.smh.com.au

No Kim, it is NOT the fault of the AEC, it is the fault of the Labor party for not dealing with the issue of interest rates properly. Any well informed fool knew Johnny was stretching the truth. Seems the fools running the campaign weren't well informed.

Reserve feared it was used as election pawn - National - www.smh.com.au

The media are so outraged by the lies of the government that they shove this into a small story. Just goes to show the inadequacy of the Latham campaign, that they didn't seize on the unease of the Reserve Bank.

Hmm John Howard makes the Reserve Bank nervous, yet the public are happy to elect him again.

PM steps into Ashes row - Cricket - www.theage.com.au

Of course he does. But where is he in intervening in kicking out of the country a 104 year old woman?

Absent of course.

US robot troops to go into battle - World - www.smh.com.au

"The Pentagon is spending $161 billion on a program to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers' lives."

That would be without the loss of American lives. Obviously enemy soldiers don't count for anything.

So, I am wondering, do these count as Weapons of Mass Destructions and will UN Weapons Inspectors be despatched to assess the destruction potential?

16 Weeks down, 24 to go

Bush to take on 'darkest corners of world' - World - www.smh.com.au

Erm, last time I checked he was president of ONE country, not the world, not the UN and he certainly wasn't elected by anyone outside his own country.

This man is a menace and needs to be stopped.

Plan to convert orphans - Asia tsunami - www.theage.com.au

Arseholes.

Pivotal seats flooded with grant cash - National - www.smh.com.au

Where is the outrage?
Where is the questioning?
Where is the media?