I have been frustrated by the regular media attention about David Hicks and trying to make the public feel sorry for him. The latest in the long line of stories is millionaire businessman Dick Smith trying to get David Hicks a job, another in a long line of attempts it seems to get me to [...]

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I couldn’t help but notice a rather bizarre news report coming out of Israel that Homosexuality causes earthquakes:
AN Israeli politician has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays
Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalising laws [...]

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My favourite subject from school would have had to have been 20th Century history by far. It doesn’t mean that i was good at it since there was too many essays and the like but i like it for the fact that it had happened so recently. With two world wars, the great depression, rise [...]

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I for one am excited to read that in the early hours of the morning here that Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and is moving towards being its own nation.
Who can forget some of the shocking images that came out of the splintered Yugoslavia as civil war broke out along ethnic and religious [...]

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Call me shallow, call me mean but i am really getting sick and tired of every little thing that happened on the day that Heath Ledger died being big headline news. When i found out he had died my sole reaction was “Oh bummer, thats sad. He was a young bloke”. And then I moved [...]

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I see tonight that there are many people upset about the death of Heath Ledger and it is sad to see one so young dead. There is no shortage of links to stories about his death, glowing pieces on how good his work was and how he was linked to this drug or that drug [...]

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Good News - there is now only one more year of George W Bush in the White House. To Celebrate:

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Just looking at the pictures of the British Airways aircraft that crashed at Heathrow in the UK. The under carriage is just gone and its resting on its engines and looking wrecked the way only a formerly expensive aircraft can. Its a miracle that it didn’t end up more serious with only 13 passengers [...]

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