Column 8 die-hards falsify childrens' documents to justify views - Defy UN conventions

I thought that bit in Column 8 was a bit suss, when I was reading it the other day.

Column 8, Smh, 1-4-04

"It's amazing how intuitive children can be, suggests Marion, who was surprised to read the following prayer that her year 1 son had written in his school workbook-'Dear God jon houwerd was very noty to send our soljers to war he dosent cer a bowt eny body it sept his self. thec (thank) you jesses for dying for us...amen.

Great news for us....pity it has to come this far

@ 7:35pm

Several universities have already decided to raise HECS fees by 25 per cent, the maximum allowed under recent Federal Government changes.Several universities have already decided to raise HECS fees by 25 per cent, the maximum allowed under recent Federal Government changes.
But student unions are hoping to stop others from following suit, declaring today a national day of action.
In Melbourne, students have barracaded themselves inside the RMIT's administration offices.
Police say there are only about 50 students still occupying the vice-chancellor's offices on the seventh floor of the building.
Although scaling back their operation late this afternoon, some police will remain with protesters, monitoring the situation.
Another 70 students have occupied the foyer of the building.
Earlier, a peaceful march turned violent when students stormed the building and then clashed with a hastily set up police barracade.
At least one person was injured. Police say so far there have been no arrests.
It is believed the administration offices have been damaged, although it is not known to what extent.
RMIT says it is disappointed with the protest because a decision on whether the fees will rise is yet to be made.
A student occupation of the Great Hall at Sydney's University of Technology has ended peacefully.
A university spokesman says the 80 remaining students left the site this evening.
Earlier in the afternoon, about 400 students tried to storm the vice-chancellor's office, but were kept at bay by police using capsicum spray.
Students marched peacefully in Brisbane, staging sit-in protests at busy intersections.
Smaller protests were held in Hobart and Canberra.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1078289.htm

Cool.... how'd you do this? (new big titles)

Don't.....you'll make me feel sick.......
Grrrrr


Guess what? BYRON GOT A GREENS MAYOR!! :D http://www.abc.net.au/northcoast/news/200403/s1076662.htm 'bout time. Liechhardt got one too ;)

Bush - Finds suffering funny

Jester of the Free World

I read it online the other day, and tried to watch it on MSNBC (only place with video). They wouldn't let me watch it in Mozilla FireBird, but ended up having to use IE™ (capitalism eh?) - video ended up not working but got to listen to the stupid drawling voice of terristo numero uno cracking his stupid jokes.

Patronising tones not appreciated missy, so maybe I do deserve it (Re: comments)

That ABC thing sounds interesting.

Getting kicked off now, (family ganging up on me).

Of course they are James, I mean geez we can't have the public exhibit that not-to-be-named word "empathy".

Now for your daily dose of "this is so gross I am going to throw up" medicine.
From todays SMH "Spike"....." actually before I type it out.....here's another: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/29/1080412294509.html

Okay..... "They have barbequed, gone to war and promoted free trade together, but the PM stops short of sharing a good belly laugh with his US counterpart, George Bush, when the joke is about WMDs. At a black tie media event in Washington last week, the US president made fun of himself and his staff for failing to find hidden WMDs in Iraq. As a slide presentation flashed up shots of him looking under furniture in the Oval Office, Bush's narration joked: "those weapons of mass destruction got to be here somewhere". As another photo showed him looking through a window, he quipped, "Nope, no weapons over there." Dubya's clowning got a chuckle from the audience of journalists, politicians and bureaucrats, but Mr Howard told Channel 9 yesterday he wasn't amused. "I wouldn't have told those jokes. I wouldn't have," he said. "Every country has its own style but I'm an extremely cautious person about those things."

Great......now its a bad joke is it?

Oh by the way, 6:30pm ABC this thursday YOU *HAVE* TO WATCH. Its George Negus holding a discussion with a panel of half public and half private yr11 high schoolers. I have to get someone to tape it for me....

Terrorists are human too.

Now Howard wants to ban Australian citizens from writing books if they have any percieved terrorist links, stopping the public from being able to learn about what they did and why they did it.

[Howard wants Aussies] banned from writing books if they have trained with a terrorist organisation.

"Most people would regard it as pretty offensive that somebody can be associated with a terrorist organisation which has killed people including associates [who] may have killed our people in Bali and then they go and write a book about it," he said.
     - ABC News Online

So now we have state censorship and human rights abuses being planned for introduction into Australian legislature, It's sounds like the old rhetoric from Cold War days is being reversed and put into use as party policy over in Media Wash HQ.