Category: General Musings

Bunyip attacking the judiciary at his sarcastic best.

IT is a little known fact that we Bunyips have bladders larger than steamer trunks…Since the urge to urinate seldom arises until back at the Billabong, there is little reason to visit public toilets, meet some of Australia’s leading judges, and engage in critical discussions about the latest fashions in jurisprudence.

Hope you don’t have a reason to front court in the foreseable future Professor. Go read.

I’ll say this about actors. I like a lot of them when the are scripted but most lose me when they adlib. What is it with them? I’ve got a feeling they all start to believe their own PR and begin to think their opinions matter. Look at me – I’ve got an Oscar, obviously I know more than you non-actor types and my opinion is the one that matters. Bad news guys and girls, an Oscar, or a zillion teen-age fans only means you’re a good actor, or cute, or sexy. Don’t mistake any of those qualities for intelligence, rational thought, awareness of world affairs and don’t, whatever you do, think we care about your opinion about anything other than acting. Stick to feeding my fantasies of regained youth and power. Make me laugh and cry with your scripts and acting skills but, for God’s sake, stick to your scripts.

Study links oral sex to mouth cancer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t let the girls read this. Dress the editor of New Scientist in drag and kill, burn bash and bury the bastard. Withdraw all copies of the magazine and have a ‘burning of the books’ at some male dominated arena – the MCG maybe. Read the article. Remember the first principle of offensive action is to know the enemy. Where’s the censors when you need them?

A human interest story from Brisbane Craig and Rachael Halliday’s second son, Luke was born on the 22nd of Feb at 22:22 h, weighed 2.2kg and the birth notice cost $22.22. Go big on lotto guys, the number 22 has to come up. Full story here

A word to the wise about Telstra – don’t trust them! If you are looking at going Broadband take note of warnings from the industry. Telstra charge for uploads and downloads so the 200 mb allowance before 15c per Mb cuts in is very small indeed and can be eaten up without you knowing. I never download movies, never play games on the net, understand computers and still get caught with my 500Mb allowance. I exceeed the allowance by Feb 14 this month alone. You will get charged for just looking at pictures and if you hit F5 or refresh that will cost as well. They even charge for sending emails. Telstra has a corporate charter that is restricted to making money while a lot of small operators would like to build up a customer data base and try to offer a fair deal. More>>

From the New York Times

The 51 freight train cars — hauling sulfur, fuel oil and other industrial chemicals — caught fire and blew up outside Neyshabur, 400 miles east of Tehran, IRNA reported. The villages that were badly damaged were made up of mud brick structures and sat within what officials said was a 12-mile diameter blast zone.

Yep, 12 mile blast zone. Why worry about the expense of nukes. Ground zero is seldom that big. Google says 200 dead. These people do not need this.

Can’t understand it. One day I can link to Niall and the next I can’t. Does he make a decision every morning to block or not. What is it based on? Were we good little left wing vegemites the day before; did we leave disparaging comments on his site or are we blocked rotationally by some left wing software. You try, toss a coin, heads or tails, off or on. Niall, block me or don’t, but stop turning me off and on – it turns me off.

After behaving properly for at least eight months Dr Norton’s firewall suddenly decided, last friday, that my ISP people were bad and stopped me posting. I have apologised to my ISP for the slight and will now resume posting. Gary, from the Gravett empire saved the day again by pointing me to the firewall.

My daughter Liz sent me this pic. She thinks its fake, I’m not sure. Can any US or local readers comment? Capt Christopher Strickland ejects from a USAF ‘Thunderbirds’ F-16C less than one second before it hits the ground at Mountain Home Air Base Idaho, on Sep 14th 2003. Update: Wallace from Big Gold Dog says it’s true and who am I to argue with a Texan. See comments.

Janet Albrechtsen says ‘Marriage must matter’ and is happy that Latham mentions the problem. The Left can no longer claim a push for the return to the old standards of supporting marriage is a right-wing conspiracy aimed at leading us back to white picket fences. Latham has said it’s OK to support marriages.

Pointing to the 600,000 children who live in single-parent households, Latham has promised to set up a national mentoring program. He told the conference: “For boys without men in their lives this is a real issue: a lack of male mentors and role models teaching them the difference between right and wrong. I see this in my own community: boys who have gone off the rails. And lost touch with a thing called society.” These are fine ideas that will resonate with voters who were left wondering if judgment-shy politicians would ever catch up with the social problems inflicted by a 30-year experiment in fatherlessness.

The thirty year experiment in fatherlessness takes us back to social engineering days of Latham’s hero, Whitlam, and his partners in social disharmony, Cairns and Murphy who in paying homage to the gods of the left trivialised marriage. No-fault, easy divorces was a warm and fuzzy ideal that lead to the national trauma of the Family Court and a mentality that thinks 600 000 fatherless kids is cool. It’s not. It’s tragic. Relationship too hard – too easy – split – damn the kids. No committment become the order of the day. Married bliss comes and goes and if it is always bliss then it is only so because one or the other partner is ignoring reality. Thousands of years of experience in all cultures of the world has left us with one basic tenet for marriage – committment. The seven year itch, menopausal uncertainty, the instinctive proclivity of men to keep on ‘spreading their seed’ are, or were, all covered by ‘committment’. Settle down mate, think it through lady, the family unit becomes the driving force and anything attacking this should be repelled. If times are bad, they will improve. If love looks lost it will come back but not if you’re apart. Most understand this and marriages last. Some don’t and kids suffer. Obviously some marriages should never have been – wife beating, serial adultry and when it happens a split can be the only answer, but breaking up after a bloody domestic arguement is plain stupid. Janet continues;

As English conservative journalist Roger Scruton wrote last year marriage is more than the bond between one man and one woman in time. It is a social contract where the dead and yet to be born are also parties. It is “the principal forum in which social capital is passed on”. As with same-sex marriages, the push to equate de facto relationships with marriage is misguided. Co-habitation is not marriage. Most people, when asked, express a long-term desire to get married. They don’t say they want to settle down into a good de facto relationship.

Go read Janet’s article, it makes sense