Jammie Thomas fought the law and the law won. But, it's a lot of money so I've chipped in a few bucks to help her out. USD220,000 isn't a fine, it's life destroying. What about her kids? A USD220,000 fine is really going to ruin Christmas. People shouldn't have their life destroyed over a 2 albums worth of songs. Two albums! What would that be worth, say, USD50? AUD60 or so? Unbelievable! Anyway, help Jammie if you can.

Scary Mary!
Showing once again that most of our fear is of the packaging. :)

Kiva again. Because Oz 7 Lotto has jackpotted again I'm going to buy a ticket. So, that means it's time to lend some more money on Kiva. This is a strange rule but at least thsi means that gambling is doing someone some good. The Kiva account is way ahead of the gambling account. I am 98% sure of getting all of my money back with Kiva. With Lotto the chances of getting any money back at negligible.

I've lent to this lady because she is building up her business to contribute to the long term viability of her family. I would imagine that her children would be grownups by now. I hope that Nazkhanim's good borrowing habits will teach her children how to borrow well in the future.

Rhoades Car

I always like a wierd pushbike. These bikes really push the boundries.

Some poor dude who can't show his face:

MARINA CAMILA MIJANGOS GARCIA

Jeremías López Cruz

These are my previous loans:
Teina Teuila

I've made another loan via Kiva. I like this idea because it gives people with a bit of get up and go a chance to make their lives better. This is the 5th loan I've made. A small amount of the money has been repaid.



So, because this is a commercial loan, I've developed a few rules for my lending:
. the lender is allowed to take some interest as long as they are substantially below the local lenders. The local lenders are often little better than loan sharks.
. the loan has to be for sustainable practices. For example: I avoided a loan for agricultural chemicals as I believe that farmers should keep more traditional agricultural practices and permaculture principles. Introducing chemical fertilisers and pesticides will cause dependency. I want to fund independence.
. the lender has to have a nil delinquency rate. This indicates that they select borrowers carefully. I want to encourage fiscally astute people, not give a gift.

I prefer to lend to women with children because:
. if a woman with children borrows money to grow their business they will use all of that money for that purpose.
. if, on the other hand, you lend to a single man he will celebrate first and use the remainder for the business.
. women are often discriminated against fiscally. I want to level the playing field a little. I can only save my little bit of the world.
. in countries where women do not enjoy equallity, children suffer greatly if the father is gone and the mother is unable to earn a good living.

Our motorhome. We've done about 10,000 kms since Sept 06. It is fantastic! :D

Jail Paris Hilton. Yaaaaaay! She claims that she wasn't aware of her loss of licence. This doesn't explain why she was driving at 70mph, 45mph over the limit without headlights in the dark. I agree with petitions (here, here) calling for Ms Hilton to serve the sentence. Her fame is dependant on hoards of impressionable people. Enforcing this sentence might be the very best impression they could get. I look forward to abuse from Paris Addicts.

Bird lungs are amazing. I had an idea that they didn't work like human lungs but I had no idea! It's similar to the circular breathing required for didgeridoo with the air flowing constantly though one area while other areas fill and empty... obviously completely different but I saw the similarity. Remember, I only have to please myself.

From a speech said to have been given by Bill Gates at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

Honda has re-worked the passenger car diesel engine and come up with some major improvements. One startling outcome is the ad. :)

Oh yeah!

Discipline is being able to recognize that even though the setups
are skewed toward moving in a given direction more times than not,
there are times when they are not going to move.

Don Miller

No, it appears that this is just blogger's way of spamming users... oh well, I suppose they have to get satisfaction out of the free blogs they offer so they are seeking the dubious satisfaction of annoying people with spam. :P

In an exciting new twist for my blog, someone appears to have read it! Jordon's comments here...

I've got a Yahoo! mailbox. Until this day I didn't know that they were data mining. Fortunately, Yahoo! allows you to opt out of this data mining. So, head on over to Yahoo! Privacy and remove the cookie if you don't want Yahoo! to know where you surf. :)

The good folks at Angry Alien have just release a tribute to It's a Wonderful Life.
Don't forget to chip in a few bucks for bandwidth.

Did Hot Black Dessiatu's ship (that was so black) have a name?

Who am I quoting?
"To coldly place the pursuit of profit above all other considerations is to be indifferent to all notions of humanity."
My mother wrote this on a piece of paper and stuck it to the wall near the kitchen 20 years ago and I still remember it. Was it a quote or did she come up with it? :)

JFK Reloaded:
What I really like about this game is that it has really upset plenty of Americans. With many of the top 50 scores being from Americans the public obviously is not nearly as offended as their representatives.

An excellent sculpture.

Because everyone has time to kill, have a go at being God.

This is my first picture post using Bloggerbot. 

Puppy Curling.

I always liked the magic eye stuff and I know 3D photography is nothing new but I liked these photos and here they are...

I like the badger.

Sensis! What a waste of time. Fancy dragging your sorry arses into the news and claiming that you are going to take Google on as the preferred search engine when you offer Australian only site searching. It's called the World Wide Web not the Xenophobic Narrow-minded Web.
This is a dumb idea and a waste of time... but, then... I suppose you were trying to attract users via television advertising (news-tainment in this case) so you have no real idea of what the internet is so you are probably trying to attract people who are similarly incapacitated.
Luke :))

Alien has never been so fluffy.

"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
From: http://www.canadogs.com/

And the Jive from "Flying High".

A couple of Jive translators:
http://www.ighetto.com/html/jive.shtml
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
to Jive up your life.

Ebola virus has never been cute and fluffy.

To the NSW police force:

What the hell are you doing? Footballers are thugs and rapists. Sometimes they vent their aggression on the field. Some of them don't get it all out.

Talk to them for 10 seconds. They have little respect for women and believe that might is right.

Why are you letting these idiots off? These are male role models and should be punished heavily to set an example. Young male people are learning that pack rape is acceptable and that women want pack rape.

8 professional footballers rape a woman and you just walk away her, just like so many women are walked away from all the time.

Check out the Four Corners site.

Angry about this!

Luke.

The Ford SportKa Cat Commercial. I really liked these ads. I don't like cats at all, or cat owners particularly.

Another quiz... The picture didn't work but it doesn't matter. I'm sure you have an idea as to what a dragon looks like.

You're a dragon. You're smart and cunning, and
enjoy taking risks. Your need for independence
is an advantage, but sometimes it alienates you
from others. As far as *good* and *evil*,
you're pretty neutral--but you may have
something of a wicked streak.


What mythical beast are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

Sniffies! I like dog cam and these guys are obsessed.

The Exorcist Bunnies

Linux can now be installed to a dead badger.

Photoshop page with lots of clever images...

I haven't really worked out what my stumble upon web site is for yet.

This one is definitely a bit of viral marketing, but at least burger king has made something fun with their Subservient Chicken

I adopted a cute lil' fairy fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!

If everything is pierced and you just can't get enough body decorations, why not get some eye jewellery installed. I'm not spelling jewellery 'jewelry', that's not the way the Queen spells it, and she did launch this blog.

Lego Porn.

A quick guide to bogus science.

I just fallen into a patch of interesting things here!

Hangovers.

Wow! This is just amazing! If you ever felt like you had nothing in common with your neighbours - this will set you straight.

Fun and Games.

Porn videos for women.

It's been a while! I've been fixing the backyard up after a concrete slab was laid while we were on holidays.

The eastern quoll.

Rove's sexy railway scenes

religion and homosexuality

This'll get your brain working.

Spam poetry.

the online cheese comparator

Not sure where this is from but I enjoyed it.


By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace........the article read:
"The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." So I looked around the house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished...and before coming to work this morning I finished off a bottle of red wine, a bottle of white, the Bailey's, Kahlua and Wild Turkey, my Prozac, some valium, my cigarettes and a box of chocolates.
You have no idea how freakin good I feel....

Some people aren't really going for the christianity thing, and in doing so, they're offending some stray christians. It's all good.

More fucked companies appearing daily.

Just when you start to think that there is no hope at all for the USA you find the American Atheists.

Bankers and accountants have been found to be the most likely to have erectile problems.

craniopagus parasiticus twin dies.

100 things to remember

Tips for ordering pizza.

Church Bulletin Bloopers

Some bint is sueing for being offended by Nipplegate. I hope Jackson's lawyers eat her alive.

Questions you'ld like an answer to.

NobScan

Grannyd.com

go and spend the day here

Buffy episode guide.

allhatnocattle

An interesting animation that is not very complimentary of George W and a bit slow in the middle but worth sitting through.

Now this is a boob.

Some dumb stuff.
Help. My Husband's a sex maniac.
I've been cloned. and
Camel toe.

From December 2002, but it only gets more and more relevant.

I decided to cut and paste it just in case SMH takes it down.

Luke

Person of the year: The Ordinary Australian

December 13, 2002

Most memorable person of 2002

by Jack Robertson

"Yester-year upon the screen,

I saw a man who's never been,

He'll never be again next year,

I wish to God he wasn't here."

The Webdiary Meeja Watch 'Most Memorable Person of the Year' for 2002 is the 'Ordinary Australian'. Particularly impressive was his natural ability to hold two deeply contradictory positions on any given issue, and strictly according to opportunistic political imperative. Highlights in 2002 which contributed to the Ordinary Australian's overwhelming win (a victory naturally ratified via a national-wide opinion poll), included:

1. Victims of Taliban Oppression. His capacity to cheer loudly while our brave soldiers liberated the victims of extreme political and economic oppression in Afghanistan - and simultaneously cheer loudly while our brave politicians locked up the escapees of that same extreme political and economic oppression here at home.

2. A helping hand. His extraordinary ability to get stuck in and lend the less fortunate a voluntary helping hand in times of bushfire, drought, terrorist atrocity and national emergency - and his resolute unwillingness to allow desperate men, women and children huddling in small, leaky boats even to alight on our mainland shores.

3. A Love of Australian History. His capacity to bask proudly in the warm glow of historical triumphs in which he played no personal part - Gallipoli, Tobruk, Kokoda, Long Tan - and his refusal even to reflect properly upon historical failures in which he played no personal part - White Australia, the 1975 East Timor invasion, the Stolen Generations.

4. Honesty, responsibility, mutual obligation. His tough but fair insistence that a man should work for his dole, follow the rules, take personal responsibility for his situation, pull his weight and not expect a free ride - and his tough but fair acceptance that staggering share bonus options, multi-million-dollar executive payouts from collapsing companies, inflated salaries and outright corporate fraud are 'natural' elements of our competitive economic system and must be left for the 'market' to eradicate in its own good time, if ever.

5. Sound global citizenship. His shrewd 'Everyman' rejection of flawed, corrupt and elitist international organizations, covenants and laws on refugees, the environment, arms control and human rights - and his shrewd 'Everyman' championing of fine, idealistic yet commonsensical international organizations, covenants and laws on economics, trade, Robert Mugabe, Iraq and the extradition of terrorist suspects.

6. Religion, the State, and the Separation of Powers. His avowed opposition to Islamic fundamentalist encroachments into the mechanisms of overseas governments, and to political interference with their judiciary by foreign dictators - and his firm support for religious 'conscience' votes in Australian Parliaments, a cleric as our Head of State, and increasing political undermining of the Australian Courts.

7. Our fine soldiers. His respect and support for our soldiers' courage, grit and professionalism - and his bored indifference to our turning of them into political pawns, and their subsequent exposure, undefended by their civilian masters, to darkening Senate committee and human rights organisation accusations.

8. Elitism. His grounded, egalitarian contempt for contemporary academic, literary, intellectual, artistic, media and political 'progressive elites' - and his pride in claiming Manning Clark, Patrick White, Doc Evatt, Sid Nolan, Keith Murdoch and Gough Whitlam as Great Australians of yesterday.

9. Mateship. His deep love of the principle of Australian mateship - and his growing hatred of anyone who lives within five miles of the CBD.

10. Poor fellow, my country. Above all things, his deep, instinctive, and unfailing sense of what exactly this slippery thing called 'Ordinary Australian-ness' actually is: 'Me' but not 'you'. 'Us' but not 'them'. Yesterday's reffo - but not today's. The Last Anzac - but not Tom Uren. Peter Allen - but not Bob Brown. John Howard the PM - but not John Howard the actor. Noel Pearson - but not Eddie Mabo. Working class kids like Bill Hayden and Mark Latham who support mandatory detention - but not working class kids like Bill Kelty and Neville Wran, who don't. Middle class kids like Piers Akerman and Miranda Devine who think Reconciliation is just another soppy left soapbox - but not middle class kids like David Marr and Robert Manne, who don't. Toffs like Alexander Downer who scoff at the UN as unrepresentative - but not toffs like Malcolm Fraser, who don't.

And so the lying, anonymous, manipulative poll results just keep rolling in, and the Parliamentary division bell rings and rings, and goes on splitting the 'elites' and the 'non-elites' apart, whatever the hell 'elite' even means, anymore.

And the only voter in the country for whom that bell is really tolling is the only one who never even existed at all: this curiously-contrary 'Ordinary Australian', AKA a condescending and cynical political fiction, AKA The Man Who Wasn't There Today, and doubtless won't be again, tomorrow.

The Most Memorable, Forgettable, Miserable Un-Person of the Shithouse Year of 2002.

Nipplegate! All of this moralizing is just making the offended noisy minority look more and more ridiculous.

I just can't believe this crap. Football fans are rioting and killing each other, the Bush administration admits that they shouldn't be in Iraq, and Americans are still whinging and moaning about a BOOB!!

Families may have seen a boob!!! Breast feeding must be really difficult in these families. How do you breast feed without the child SEEING A BOOB!!!!????

Someone explain this to me, please.

Finally, the much publicized Homosexual Agenda is revealed.

How can people care his much about a boob?

You people just have to be kidding!!! Fuck!

"Children are watching..." Who cares!? They know more than you can imagine and aren't sure why adults are so secretive about it all. Have you ever tried to keep something a secret from a kid? It makes them twice as curious and determined to find out.

What is the point??

----------------

Shocked, hurt, betrayed.....

Fox News contributor and radio "personality" (if you expand the definition of "personality' to inlcude someone you've never heard of) Mike Gallagher is outraged and angry and even a little sad this morning about that "filthy display" last night:

The Super Bowl halftime show created the kind of rage and disgust in Middle America that was, I suppose, intended by those who staged the show. After all, when pop star Justin Timberlake pulled open singer Janet Jackson's top to expose her bare breast for the grand finale of the show, it was no accident. Teams of people had to be involved in the planning and execution of this single act of contempt for every man, woman and child who would find this crass and vulgar display offensive.
But strangely enough, I'm feeling another emotion besides anger. I feel overwhelmed by sadness at this most recent (and most prominent) example of the flush of our nation's cesspool we call prime-time entertainment. Sure, I was shocked and appalled by what these performers did. But I can't shake this pervasive feeling of sadness. So many people to feel sorry for, so much hurt and harm done by one tasteless, classless act on an international stage like halftime of the Super Bowl.

I feel sorry for Janet Jackson herself. One day she may have to describe to her grandchildren why she allowed herself to be treated like a second-rate whore in front of millions of people.

I feel sorry for Justin Timberlake. This simple, immature young man who was blessed with some marginal talent and great opportunities decided to go along with the plan to degrade and exploit the sexuality between a man and a woman in order to shock a worldwide audience full of impressionable children

I feel sorry for CBS-TV. An otherwise impeccable broadcast, complete with a down-to-the-wire finish between two fine football teams was forever tainted by the network's apparent desire to titillate and pander to the lowest common denominator.

Because, we all know, that the NFL would never pander to the lowest common denominator.

I feel sorry for parents all over the country who were sitting in front of the television with their young children. I think of proud dads watching the big game with their young sons for the first time and having to explain what happened.

...and then trying to coax those same sons out of the bathroom and , hey, what are you doing in there and why is the door locked?

posted by Tom at 8:32 AM

It's a shame that Janet Jackson didn't have that red bra on...

You don't have to be a screaming lefty to oppose Bush War II. Charles Goyette is a conservative that didn't see the reasoning either.

Janet's boob hasn't seen this much attention for a while.


The Concerned Women of America expressed... concern... obviously.

Maybe the Concerned Women of America should concern themselves with their own affairs instead of trying to imprint their morality onto others, such as innocent e-delinquents such as myself.

And what have they done to this kid to make him look so upset?? Did they threaten to smash his turtle with a hammer?

Kiss dog.

Another article failing to report on all the fun of streaking.

Ben and Jen breakup news.

I tried to watch julius and friends. I've found some really funny, fun animations online but this was just sappy crap. Maybe it gets better but if I'd watched another second I'd have puked!

The only sensible choice for president is Ronnie James Dio.

Well, I couldn't play Pacman the first time and nothing's changed.

What kind of goose refers to Janet Jackson's boob being out as a 'Wardrobe Malfunction'. Has Justin Timberlake got a thesaurus stuck up his ass? The look on his face makes me think that Jackson's boob is going straight to the spank bank... LOL.

I'm not sure if anyone is aware of this but:
EVERYONE'S NAKED UNDER THEIR CLOTHES!!!!

AAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

An article on Michael Moore in an Australian Newspaper.

Out in 'The World' (most Americans perhaps aren't aware that their country is only attached to the world, not the whole world) Mark Roberts is a very well known streaker.

'Now That's Sarcasm.' Homer Simpson

The world image is not mine and I don't know who owns it is so I can't give credit. Apologies to the artist. Try to take it as a compliment. I've been laughing about this for some time now.

Luke

This is too close to the truth for me. What else is in a hotdog? Not new but still laugh-worthy.

Will Bruce Willis save us? Will Aerosmith get the soundtrack or just one song? Will it be corny? Who'll save the world from the ASTEROID!!!??? It looks like a big nope from NEOP.

Panic away doomsdayers. You're about to meet your maker. Christians finally get to find out if the Jews were right.

I know I only cut and paste code into the html from the HaloScan site, but I DID IT!!!! I put comments on my blog!!! ME!! Me. ("){

Thanks to Ms Fizzle for doing before me.

Luke

George W wont like this but I do. When he can make his own blogs he can criticize me. (Yeah! George W could make a blog if he finds another 999 monkeys to type with him.)



:))

As a means of explaining irony to Americans:
When I spell check my posts, Blogger's own spell checker picks up the word 'blogs'.
Now this is ironic. 'Rain on your wedding day' is not ironic. This is just a bit of bad luck.