Old news now...

Yes, the party going darling of the dumb blonde set is making a recording with Memphis rappers, whom I won't name as their music is disgusting.

If this little lady wants to wrap her lips around a phallic symbol, she could look me up. Anyway, good luck as I am sure she is going to need it.

Free at last...

Rachel is now free from Rod so I am wondering how Rach would feel about my rod. This girl earned a fair quid from modeling and the moolah is flowing again, now that she has an undisclosed divorce settlement. I would bet it is a bundle!

Rach has wasted 7 long years waiting for Rod to pay up.

The girl has money, looks, (hopefully) intelligence and a fantastic pair of funbags. Not a bad looking babe for her age.

Still gorgeous...

Sharon Stone showed us what she ate for breakfast in the film Basic Instinct and shows more in Basic Instinct 2.

She has always been appealing and I would have no compunction while polishing my knob during a horizontal dance with Shaza, but this girl amazes me with her latest comments on sex.

Shaza says, “Young people talk to me about what to do if they're being pressed for sex? I tell them (what I believe): oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex. If you're in a situation where you cannot get out of sex, offer a blow job. I'm not embarrassed to tell them."

Hey girl, I am hoping you feel pressured by this article. 

I told you so...

Not long ago I mentioned the fact that Qantas, Australia's national airline, was planning to move all of their Boeing 747 maintainence facilities offshore to China and Singapore. Just before the start of the Commonwealth Games Qantas management stated the maintainence facilities would be moved to Avalon, Victoria. This of course averted any strike action by the unions which would have severely disrupted the Games.

I did mention that the unions were foolish to believe what Qantas management had to say and that after the games they would announce they were still moving maintainence facilities offshore.

Well they did. How Australian is Qantas? Not much!! 

A lot of trivial information that could come in handy someday...

So you think you know verything...

Here is a list of useless information, usless that is unless you are a contestant on Jeopardy or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, or is playing a game of trivia at a very boring party.

• A American ten cents piece (dime) has 118 ridges around the outside circumference.
• A Cat has 32 Muscles in each ear.
• A Crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
• Dragonflies have a life span of 24-hours.
• Goldfish have a memory span of 3-seconds.
• A Jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• Some species of Shark are the only species of fish that can blink with both eyes.
• A Snail can sleep for three years.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• An Ostrich’s eye is bigger than their brain.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Cats have over 100 vocal sounds while dogs only have about 10.
• Human babies are born without kneecaps; they don’t appear until the child reaches between 2 and 6 years of age.
• Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
• In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.
• Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
• No word in the English language rhymes with the words month, orange, silver or purple.
• Human eyes are always the same size from birth.
• Human noses and ears never stop growing.
• Peanuts are but one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• Rubber bands last longer if you keep them refrigerated.
• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed using only the left hand and ‘Lollipop’ using only your right.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
• The words 'race car,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
• Pigs have orgasms that lasts for up to thirty-minutes.
• There are 293 ways to make change for an American dollar.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
• There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• ‘Typewriter’ is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

Now a major hit in Australia...

Commander In Chief...

When will we get our first female president or prime minister? Soon I hope if they are anything like Geena Davis. The writers of Commander In Chief have done themselves proud!

A couple of weeks ago some members of the Australian public television viewing audience were beside themselves that yet another Yankee TV series was airing in prime-time slots and praying the program wouldn't last.

As always those idiots were proven wrong by the majority of intelligent Aussie TV viewers (thank God they were wrong as usual), Commander In Chief is a resounding success with very good acting, dynamic portrayals of fictional international scenarios with results only a good leader could imagine.


Geena and crew maintain the highest continual rating since airing. If the Yanks can come up with more programs of the same quality, well then, brings it on.

(Hey George W, this leaves you out. Perhaps you should watch the program so you would know how to handle any international situation properly.)

It's the Pitt's!

Rumours abound this weekend about Italian wedding to Pitt...

Will they, won't they? Who really gives a rats arse! If Brad does put a ring on Ang's finger, he will be getting his end wet, not me...nor you!

On ya Brad, except I am still wondering why you gave up Jennifer. Remember her, the one with the great fun-bags?

God I wish I was a movie star with millions of dollars. I'd be in it like a rat up a drain pipe. 

The good little devout Muslim girl who practices her religion...

Michelle Leslie has been framed...

Model Michelle Leslie has not commented on her fathers's allegations that Bali Police deliberately contaminated her urine sample with ecstasy.
Last year Leslie was arrested and charged with possession of two ecstasy tablets. Now, according to her father, some newspapers have obtained documents used in Leslie's trial clearly showing her piss test was negative at the time of arrest, but
a second blood and urine test, taken five days later while Leslie was in a Bali's Kerobokan jail, found high levels of MDMA - the chemical compound in ecstasy - in her system.

Leslie was released last November after spending three months in Bali jail for possessing two ecstasy tablets. She always denied the tablets were hers.

Leslie's father said yesterday the blood and urine tests were contaminated and his daughter had been set up.

While incarcerated, Leslie adapted to the Muslim way of dress for the judges. As you can see for yourself from the pictures above, Michelle is a devout Muslim. I would love to see many more photos of Muslim women who feel so devoted. 

How much wealth from oil do you really need?

You are forgiven for thinking the above pictures are of a 6-star resort somewhere on this planet earth. These pictures is the palacial residence of a Shiek in Dubai, UAE.

This dude also owns 3 Boeing 747 aircraft, two helicopters (one long range), 7 Rolls Royce's, two Ferrai's (plus other associated motor-vehicles) as well as many other day to day necessities, like butlers, maids and servants.

All this from over-priced petrol (gasoline).

I don't believe in wealth sharing. What I believe is, if people work hard for their money, I have no problem with them having everything they desire. What I don't argree with is these bastards, that milk us dry evey hour of every day just so we can earn a paycheck to paycheck living.

How about a fair go for us battling, struggling poor people! 

How Australian is Qantas?

The flying kangaroo is in danger of loosing it's identity.

Qantas has temporairly fooled the public and union officials by getting rid of 480 positions in its work force in Sydney by moving the airline's heavy maintenance operations to Avalon,Victoria to cut costs.

Airline management has not ruled out sending heavy maintainance on its fleet of Boeing 747's to China, cutting another 2500 jobs, but has decided to wait until after the Commonwealth Games to make that announcement. Of course this appeases unions for the time being and means the Games will not be disrupted.

I cannot believe the unions are as gullible as they seem to be by believing what Qantas management is saying and not realising Qantas is only delaying the inevitable announcement. But this deception apparently has worked as threats of industrial action disrupting next week's Commonwealth Games receded with today's announcement of a restructure Qantas says will save $100 million a year.

Believe me when I say an industrial brawl remains on the cards.

Qantas will review its position as it battles to contain costs in the face of $US60-plus a barrel oil prices, even though they add a surcharge to all tickets to cover the cost of fuel. My question is who believes Qantas, the worlds most expensive airline, is in danger of financial collapse?

How convenient for Qantas Chief Geoff Dixon to claim, "We have severe space limitations at Sydney and the limitations will increase in future years." Mr Dixon said the tone of his meeting today with union leaders was "very co-operative and very sensible". Asked if he anticipated industrial action in the lead-up to May's job losses, he replied, "No I don't, but I cannot predict that."

Qantas also rejected unions' concerns the job cuts could jeopardise the airline's safety.
AWU secretary Bill Shorten stated, "Our concern is how on earth can the airline (Qantas)maintain the same standard and take out 500 skilled technicians. Our warning to Qantas is, don't cut too close to the bone because you can't compromise the (safety) record that you enjoy of superb public confidence in the world's safest airline."

In todays economic climate 500 people, a lot of them with families, will be put on the unemployment scrap heap. Perhaps Geoff Dixon and some of his airline executives will take a wages cut to help keep the Qantas unemployment figures down. Oner could only dream!

I wonder if Qantas will change their logo from the flying kangaroo to the flying panda. 

I just wanted to share just one more shot of our Australian Princess Lara Bingle...

I hope to see a lot more of her in the near future!! 

Australian Tourist Campaign Banned in Britain because Lara Bingle asks, "Where the bloody hell are you?"

Yes, the Poms have bloody done it again, caught with their heads up their arse...

To be fair, not all the English are dodder-headed, pin-striped twits. A regulator in England known as Broadcast Control Authority has claimed the Aussie ad is "offensive" and banned broadcast of our latest $180 million campaign.

The phrase uttered by the beautiful bikini clad Australian model Lara Bingle "Where the bloody hell are you?" seems to have touched the senses of the prudish Poms. Of course Pommy television has never been known to utter offensive words or phrases.

Go to www.australia.com and view the advertisement yourself. Better yet, download the ad, save it to disc and forward it on to your friends around the world, especially those that live in Britain. There is no stopping an Australian when he or she gets their bloody backs up.

By the way, the launch of the 2006 campaign will go ahead Monday as planned. 

Single again...

Her bags were already packed...

Uma Thurman has moved to "splitsville", leaving her hotelier boyfriend Andre Balazs, who just happens to own the Standard Spa and the Raleigh Hotel in Miami, according to the New York Post.

Uma happens to be one of my favourite Hollywood personalities so I am naturally sad about her break-up with her beau. I didn’t watch the Oscars but evidentially she attended the event alone. Some say the ice-cream has been off the cone for a few weeks, but recently Uma and Andre got into a huge fight. That’s when Uma dumped him, saying he wasn’t what she was looking for in a husband.

While in LA for the Oscars Uma did not stay at her boyfriend’s hotel, the Chateau Marmont, but choose the Peninsula Hotel instead.

Uma’s publicist has said Uma and Andre remain close friends.

Hey girl, if you’re looking for a fun date and a willing man, call me!  

Who's your Daddy...

Mr. "Ima Billionaire", Donald Trump, is a very sick puppy.

Can you believe he said he would date his 24-year-old daughter, Ivanka, if he weren’t her father. He later claimed he meant the remark as a joke.

When Daddy was asked how he would react if Ivanka, a former teen model, posed for Playboy, Daddy replied, “It would be really disappointing…" Then thinking a little more on the matter he said, "Not really, but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine,” adding “I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure." It was then Daddy stated, "I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

Trump’s representative, Jim Dowd, told The Associated Press that Trump “was absolutely joking. He was making fun of himself for his tendency to date younger women,” Dowd said. “It’s a sense of humor that people don’t see (from Daddy Donald) all the time.”

With a face and figure like Ivanka has, I would be more than willing to buy the Hef's wank magazine to get a look at what the girl in her natural state (hubba-hubba). In the meantime Ivanka, better put a lock on that bedroom door. 

Why would anyone put these two people in the same sentence...

Seems Camilla Parker, the lady that looks more like a horse than Phar Lap did, has been considered by British Fashion Tatler Magazine, along with Kate Moss and Naomi Watts as a 2005 fashion icon.

Let’s face it, no one in the Royal family, from the Queen down, whether they are bloodline or happened to marry into the monarchy,are all “common looking”. Some are down right ugly!

No one was surprised Kate Moss made Britains Top 10 as her seemingly effortless style is revered by British women - but the fact that Prince Charles' wife joined her, well, that sent a horde of fashion conscience women to the pub for another gin and tonic.

Get this! Fifty-eight year-old Camilla is said to have wowed the fashion buying public in her red engagement dress, Philip Treacy hats and Robinson Valentine wedding outfit. Tatler actually said,"Camilla is suddenly stunning." (These people must be snorting some of Kates stuff!)

Joining her in the top 10 is 16-year-old Peaches Geldof, the daughter Bob Geldof. Rounding out the top 10 were artists Tracey Emin and Sam Taylor-Wood, model Yasmin Le Bon, stylist Charlotte Stockdale, actress Rosamund Pike and socialite Daphne Guinness.

If you have never heard of most of these people rest assured neither have most of us.

Please, let me end this article by expanding on my opening comment...when it come so fashion why not put a feed bag on Camilla and let Charles ride the night away.

Showing off her shoes...

Before you read the following article, particularly if you are male, you might want to transfer this photo of Paris Hilton to your photo enhance program and zoom in on her shoes...?

More on Paris...

On 7 February I wrote an article about Paris entitled, "An evening in Paris...
I am reposting this article because of the outcome of a trial which I will relate to you at the end of this article. I wrote:

"An evening in Paris…Poor old favourite blonde bombshell, I still love you and you can come hang with me anytime you like.

Get this, after calling one of her latest boyfriend’s closest friends “a lazy Mexican” and allegedly bombarding the poor lazy Mexican bastard with tons of telephone calls, lazy Mexican party planner and promoter Brian Quintana took poor Paris to court and won a restraining order against her so she would leave him alone.

This stupid, lazy Mexican arsehole has obviously not seen the Paris Hilton Sex Video she made with one of her previous boyfriends. I am confident that if he would have viewed the tape, or even had a look at the Carl Jr. advert (Directors cut of course), he wouldn’t have been frothing off at the mouth in the Los Angeles Superior Court, instead he probably would have been on the phone to Paris trying to get her to hang out with him.

For your information, Paris is now dating Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos. (I can’t wait to see the next home tape instalment!)

Lovely Paris Hilton, famous for a very nice smelling perfume and a television program “The Simple Life”, among other things, really is quite a simple girl, the truth be known. In a recent interview Ms Hilton regarding a British court case, thinks everyone in Europe speaks French, that there is nothing to see (as she is an American) and that she has never been to the U.K., but admitted she has been to London. She claims to have so many friends she cannot remember any of their names.

This truly is a blonde bombshell who is constantly in the mood to party, doesn’t really matter with who as she’ll probably forget you as soon as she walks to the other side of the room anyway. Paris seems to be a walking case of progressive Dementia. You hang in there girlfriend, I still love you! (If you haven’t seen the Paris Hilton Sex Tape, search Google. There you will find several links, or contact me. I will be happy to forward it on to you.)"

Well, today (09/03/2006) a US court has approved an unusual restraining order against Paris Darling, ordering her to stay at least 90 metres away from Brian Quintana, the event producer who claimed she threatened him, unless they are at a party together.

Quintana was granted the three-year restraining order against Hilton last month after he testified that she harassed and threatened him after their friendship soured.

Because Quintana, 37, and Hilton, 25, occasionally attend the same social events, their lawyers drafted an unusual restraining order that was approved by Superior Court Commissioner Tim Murphy.

The agreement stipulates that when they attend the same parties, "the stay-away distance may be shortened to 25 feet (7.5 metres). Hilton spokesman Elliot Mintz has said his client wants nothing to do with Quintana and is happy to keep her distance from this stupid, lazy, moronic Mexican arsehole with no brain.

Ten to one Quintana didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of scoring with Paris and is spitting the dummie.

It’s about bloody time…

Australian telecommunications company Primus has joined a growing number of Telco’s offering to provide internet TalkBroadband, featuring long distance and local calls for a flat rate of ten cents each.

International calls to the United States, China (including Hong Kong), Canada, Ireland, Greece, Singapore, Italy, the UK and New Zealand will be charged at 2.7 cents per minute. Calls to other Primus TalkBroadband numbers will be free.

TalkBroadband is one of a number of new IP telephony services that have brought conventional fixed-line service revenue under pressure.

Managing Director Greg Wilson said, "Primus is the first major telecommunications company in Australia to release a phone service using the internet to the residential market," Primus managing director Greg Wilson said, adding, "With Primus broadband plans starting at $9.90 a month, it is economical to consider a broadband connection solely for TalkBroadband."

Pricing for the basic TalkBroadband service would start from $9.95 per month while higher usage plans costing around $30 per month would be targeted at businesses.

With offers like this other Telco's had better get their act together rather swiftly.
 

He who drinks Australian, thinks Australian…

The Australian Way...

Greg, an Australian guy decides to travel around the Greek Islands.

On the island of Kos he walks into a bar, where Jill, an Aussie girl is working as a bartender. Greg orders a Fosters and as she is serving him notices his accent. Over the course of the night they get to know each other and at the end of Jill's shift, Greg asks her is she would like to come back to his place and have sex with him.

Although she is attracted to him she says, "No."

Greg then offers Jill $200 if she will have sex with him. Jill is travelling the world and is a little short of money so she agrees.

The next night Greg guy turns up at the bar again, orders Fosters and after showing her plenty of attention throughout the night asks if she will sleep with him again for another $200. Jill remembers the night before, how good the sex was and is still a little short of money so, she is only too happy to agree to a second tryst.

This goes on for 5 consecutive nights, then on the 6th night Greg comes in again, orders another Fosters and sits in the corner. Jill naturally thinks that if she pays Greg more attention then maybe she can then shake another $200 out of him.

Jill goes over and sits next to Greg and asks, "So, where are you from in Australia?"

Greg answers, "Melbourne."

Jill says, "So am I! What suburb?"

"Footscray." answers Greg.

Jill exclaims loudly, "Unbelievable, me too! What street?"

Greg says, " Cameo Street!"

Jill is now truly amazed at the coincedence, "Me too, what number?"

Greg tells her, "Number 18."

Totally astonished, Jill tells him, "You are not going to believe this but I am from number 22, just two houses away. My parents still live there!"

"I know." replies Greg. "Your father gave me $1000 to give to you." 

Cute but not cuddly

How to waste a courts valuable time…

It would be good if the idiots of British-based Vegetarians International Voice for Animals did a little research before they open their great cake-holes. These misinformed galahs think we have a shortage of kangaroos in Australia. Well let me tell you, we don’t! In a lot of areas in New South Wales, Victoria, South and Western Australia, roos are in plague proportion, knocking down stock fences and grazing the area to the raw earth. Kangaroos breed like rabbits.

While many Americans think the kanga is cute and cuddly, here they are used for food and their skins used to make Aussie souvenirs and clothing. If the kangaroo was truly endangered Australians would make sure they came to no harm. The Kangaroo, along with the Emu is a symbol on Australia’s Coat-of-Arms. It is the most identifiable emblem of our Aussie culture and history, and yes, they do make good shoes and boots.

I happen to have a pair of each. They are long lasting and very comfortable, although replacing them would be quite expensive.

California has a state ban on the sale of kangaroo products as well as other endangered species products. Sort of shows their ignorance of the facts! Anyway, it seems German sportswear giant Adidas has been charged with violating state law by selling kangaroo-skin football shoes.

Lauren Ornelas of VIVA’s Davis, California office said, "We look at this as an international corporation based in Germany violating California law while helping wipe out kangaroos in Australia.” She went on to say, "The number of kangaroos is dropping, and the animals are being killed with extreme cruelty."

Viva claims hunters shoot kangaroos at night, when it is difficult to distinguish which are protected by Australian law.

Lady, let me tell you, these hunters are licensed to shoot roos. Otherwise they would be arrested for breaking the law.

Better yet, instead of arguing with someone who knows little about what they are talking about, let me invite you to the Northern Territory of Australia for a swim in our seas and billabongs. Our crocodiles have been listed as endangered species too, but you’ll be swimming alone!”

Never smile at a crocodile but please, enjoy your swim ...

 

Tread lightly or prepare for obscurity...

Ahhh, the land of the free…

I want to state quite unequivocally what I personally believe, “President George W Bush has a lot of similarities to Adolf Hitler, who also wanted to conquer and dominate the world, who wanted to do away with democratic agendas."

"Adolf was right and so is George W, and everyone else is wrong! Neither Hitler nor Bush should ever have their motives or actions questioned. Both men were (are) not only above the law, they were (are) the law.”

What I have just written is surely bound to get me into a lot of strife if I ever try to cross the borders of the United States of America, even though I maintain duel-citizenship of both the United States and Australia.

Mind you I am only stating what a World Geography teacher in Colorado said to his class, and, I happen to whole-heartedly agree with him.

Jay Bennish, a day after George W presented his State of the Union speech addressed his class, “Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say. We're (the US) the only ones who are right, everyone else is backward and our job is to conquer the world."

Jay went on to say that American troops had spent 30 years fighting the drug war in Colombia and using chemical weapons to eradicate coca fields. Jay called the U.S. "probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth," saying it had committed more than 7,000 "terrorist sabotage acts" against Cuba.

During the class, Jay questioned why the United States was allowed to wage war in the Middle East but Palestinians were condemned as terrorists for attacking Israel. A student interjected that the U.S. did not single out civilians, unlike Palestinian terrorists. The teacher asked students how Israel was created, telling them that Zionists used assassination and bombings to create their state. According to the transcript, Jay concluded by telling his students, "I'm not implying in any way you should agree with me! What I'm trying to do is to get you to think about these issues more in depth."

Jay then thanked them for asking questions. Even though Jay made it quite clear he wasn’t equating Bush with Hitler, the damage was already done. One of his students recorded the lecture on a MP3 device and gave it to a local radio talkback program.

Such a fuss; the teacher has been suspended this past week on paid leave from his school district until a thorough investigation by the school board has been completed. Of course this raises the issue of the right of free speech (1st Amendment of the US Constitution). A spokesperson for the school board said, "Teachers do have the right to their own opinion, but it must be in the context of the material being taught and it must provide a balanced point of view."

The school lost about 150 students, who walked out of class Thursday in protest of Jay’s absence. Meanwhile Jay had threatened district official Friday with a federal lawsuit. Isn’t it the job of a teacher to present views that are intended to get students thinking about current events?

Perhaps it might not be the way the majority of the middle-class Americans think, but what if the rest of the world agrees with Jay? As one of the attorneys’s involved in this fiasco stated, if Jay had spoken strongly in support of George W, he wouldn’t be in the strife he is currently in.

A spokesperson for the school district, said officials were investigating whether or not Jay had violated a policy that prohibited teachers from intimidating students who held political beliefs different from their own.

It would seem, in America teachers have 1st Amendment rights to speak on matters of public interest in the general marketplace, but they don't have as great a level of rights when speaking inside the classroom on matters related to the curriculum."

Jay was initially gagged by a school administrator who told him if he spoke to the media, his comments would be viewed and considered as insubordination.

Since Friday Jay has backed away from his threat of suing the school district but will reserve his final decision will rest on the outcome of the district’s investigation. 

And my absolute final word on this years Oscar nominations and winners, "Who cares!"

 

Today’s quote from unknown author:

“There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

The original Papa stopper...

People have sex because it feels good…

A lot of people will come up with a lot of excuses for having sex. Some will say they bang away at each other because they are in love, or they’re allowed to because they are married or in a relationship, others will claim they have sex to fulfil their partner’s needs.

Well let me tell you hear and now, people screw each other because if feels damn good! Attach what ever you want to it, that’s it! Now that I have defined sex, let us move on to reproduction and disease, or better yet, how to have sex without the fear of pregnancy or STD’s.

Condoms! Yes, the little rubber sack that robs many of us from truly experiencing the joys of coitus, but a necessity in today’s age of various deadly diseases.

If you live in Canada, the United Kingdom or Australia, you can go right up to the counter at your favourite chemist, boldly and loudly proclaim to your apothecary your need for a packet of multicoloured, ribbed, glow in the dark, ultra-thin, natural feeling, extra large condoms (if the shoe fits?), if you so choose.

Nothing wrong with that! What is wrong is these little pleasure tubes are taxed. If various governments around the world really do want to cut down on the number of abortions, unwanted and teenage pregnancies and control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, why not take of the (tax) GST (VAT) off these making these little goodies cheaper, meaning more people will use them.

Last week ministers in England were embarrassed when figures showed that attempts to reduce teenage pregnancies by half by 2010 were well behind target. A teenage pregnancy unit had been established and £150 million spent on the campaign. At present rates, only a 17 per cent reduction in teenage pregnancies in the UK would be achieved by 2010.

Currently in the UK a 17.5 per cent VAT applies to the morning after pill and condoms. Remove that tax and you substantially lower the price of condoms and the morning after pill. In Australia the 10 per cent GST applies to condoms.

I hate condoms but if I have sex with beautiful strange women (which I hope to do a lot of) I will wear my little rubber sheath, like it or not. 

Scarlett Johansson showing off ample bossom

Don’t pet the puppies…
Scarlett Johansson defines the word “Babe”! To be lucky enough to see her in person would be terrific, to interview her one on one would be amazing, but to fondle her breasts in public, well, I’d be over the moon on my way to heaven. Of course no one with any scruples would dare touch this goddess’s fun bags, unless you were a creepy looking, sleazy, would be if he could be television personality with a name as queer as his personality, self-labelled fashion designer and guru Isaac Mizrahi.

Yes, this little fag inappropriately groped Scarlett on the red carpet at January's Golden Globe Awards. Scarlett says she is willing to forgive this little slime ball but added his touching the no-no’s was “definitely in poor taste."

The poor girl had been primping for over two hours, doing her hair, makeup, getting dressed, then someone she has never met before, using the excuse of questioning how her dress was put together, plays with her tits, obviously for his own satisfaction.

E! Cable channel hired this waste of human space to do pre-show interviews, but when he had a good look down Teri Hatchers dress and questioned Eva Longoria about her pubic hair, he just plain broke the boundaries of good decorum.

The 21-year old sex-goddess recalled thinking at the time, "Oh, my God. This is happening on live TV." And by the way, Scarlett doesn’t buy the openly gay bit that he was trying to determine how her dress was put together, adding “Like he doesn't know how a dress works."

She also stated she isn’t mad at him and won’t avoid him in the future as she knows how to take care of herself, being from New York City and all. 

Restricting "free TV" downloading...

There is no such thing as a free lunch…

You might well ask the question, if television is free to air, or if you are paying cable or satellite fees, shouldn’t you then be allowed to copy off your set without fear of retribution?

The answer is somewhat fuzzy but I would guess, not really! File sharing on the internet has long been the bane of the music recording industry. After the courts have agreed with the music recording industry and shut down many peer-to-peer sites on the net, it is the turn of television industry to argue “television is free, but not that free”.

Television executives are trying to figure out how to let people know they are breaking the law by downloading television programs to their computers, then making DVD copies. This is considered stealing in the industries eyes.

Because certain programs, i.e., Desperate Housewives and Lost seasons are different from that in America, people in the UK, Europe, Asia and Oceania (Australia), as soon as the last episodes are rolling off their closing credits, people download the new American season episodes off internet file-sharing web sites.

I personally don’t see what the argument is. It is true the $US billion “free” TV industry is supported by advertising. The people that can afford to upgrade their computers, have the gigabyte space required for downloading and can afford the cost of blank DVD’s, no longer have to put up with loud, sometimes crass, crappy advertisements. As technology is refined and redesigned with increased internet speed, this means just about anyone with a little nonce can get high-quality backup files of their favourite programs. Piracy has never been so easy.

All you really need to backup your favourite television programs is a media capture card, a good sound card and the address of a peer-to-peer file sharing website. By the way, you also can now download to your iPod and your mobile phone if you have the right equipment.

At the same time in America, the motion picture industry (MPAA), along with the television industry is flexing their muscles stepping up their efforts in stamping out movie piracy. Seven lawsuits against file-sharing and newsgroup internet sites for allegedly “facilitating illegal swapping of copyrighted files have been lodged with the courts.

A spokesperson for the Director of Worldwide Anti-piracy Operations stated, "Website operators who abuse technology to facilitate infringements of copyrighted works by millions of people are not anonymous. They can and will be stopped."

It would seem all entertainment enterprises are blaming the internet for a large downturn in sales and revenue profit, estimated last fiscal year to be $US5.4 billion.

Of course, when the courts shut down one file-sharing site, another one springs up, sort of like weeds, they are hard to control and get rid of. Kaaza, WinMX, Napster and many others have all been closed but we merrily migrate to others.

I personally never copy anything, movies, music, photos, articles written by someone else. What I do is backup my files. There is no law against protecting your files with a good backup program. Perhaps the entire industry needs to rewrite their restrictions.

We also have those that consider themselves the Batman of society, the civil libertarians, who correctly (first time for everything) argue file-sharing sites have many legitimate uses that should not be overlooked (I am still waiting for a definition on that one!).
As the Melbourne Age newspaper wrote, “Nevertheless, the MPAA said its international campaign had recently notched up some significant victories in Europe with the help of officials in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. In the last year it said it had shut down 75 Torrent and eDonkey sites around the world.”

Well, whoopee do!

None of my friends, as a matter of fact, I would go so far as to say no one in Australia pirates music anymore, since the Australian music industry has defined various channels for the music loving public of Oz to pay a mere pittance for their little slice of music. (Pardon my sarcasm!)

One must feel sorry for those poor overpaid Hollywood actors (?), those guys and girlies with the wonderful songbird quality voices, the studios, the producers, the directors, the networks, all under threat of going broke.

Poor Babies! Well, I’ve got to tell you here and now, someone has got their hand in their own pocket. What a mob of wankers!

 

Achieving their goal and now dominating American automotive market...

In America the results are in. Japanese brand passenger motor vehicles dominate the top 10 spots in new passenger sales. Here are the results according to the Consumer reports' annual auto issue by category and model:

Small Sedan - Honda Civic
Family Sedan - Honda Accord
Upscale Sedan - Acura TL
Luxury Sedan - Infinity M35
Small SUV - Subaru Forester
Mid-size SUV - Toyota Highlander Hybrid
Minivan - Honda Odyssey
Green Car - Toyota Prius
Fun to drive - Subaru Impreza WRX STi
Pickup (Ute) - Honda Ridgeline
Source: Consumers Union (USA)

Saftey features seemed to dominate market concern and trend this year, more so than in the past. Honday Motor Company, which offers more standard safety features than most other automakers was the big winner having five models among the 10 highest-rated new passenger motor vehicles.