| 16% of US school teachers believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old. | |
| Australian Food Inflation the Highest In the Developed World; Grocery Inflation 1996-2008 Australia 43.6% USA 25.1% New Zealand 23.4% UK 11.6% |
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| "The Australian Beef Association's John Carter said while Australian cattle prices were 25% lower than in the US, prices paid by consumers for beef were twice as much. We have a situation where the Australian consumer has really been taken for a big ride," he said. | |
| With petrol prices hitting an all time high, it is interesting to see “fuel saving devices” appearing everywhere. One such device, a hydrogen extractor, costs $20.00 for the plans and you make it yourself. This device was evaluated by scientists, motoring groups, petroleum companies, engineers and others. Their conclusion was that it is an “internet scam” that should be avoided, as the device will only save you 3% on fuel costs. ONLY 3%!! At $1.60 per litre, filling a 100 litre tank costs $160.00. 3% of $160.00 is $4.80. That’s a saving of 4.8 cents per litre. Why then are Shopper Dockets (save 4 cents per litre), a proposed 2 cents per litre saving on the fuel excise, a proposed replacement of part of fuel taxes and excise with a “green” excise and other pitiful fuel saving ideas ALSO not catagorised as “Scams”? | |
| Nothing alarms me more than the thought of an irrational person in the White House. I'm OK with stupid. I can live with venal. I can tolerate a womanizer, even a drunk, but a crazy person in command of our nuclear forces gives me the heebie-jeebies. Somebody who can't tell the difference between a nuclear-free Iran with no ICBMs and Russia with thousands of nuclear warheads sitting atop advanced intercontinental missiles has no business being allowed in the White House, even as a tourist. | |
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"The melting of the entire Greenland ice sheet would raise sea level by 6.4 metres. At the current, apparently record rate of melting, this would take about 12,800 years." |
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Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy
as possible on June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching
television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars." The point:
the group wants to "help Americans break free from the 'carbon footprint guilt'
being imposed by Climate Alarmists." That's right, the radical environmentalists with nothing better to do, have created a new crisis. This time it is the ocean. It seems that our man-made CO2 we have been churning out for the last 200 years, is turning the ocean acidic and that is going to melt all the shells of those little crustaceans who are part of the ocean food chain .......... they think ..... maybe ..... perhaps ..... well it's possible, isn't it? You can just tell with absolute certainty that another calamity is headed our way and the politicians can't wait to return to their capitols and submit a new funding bill to fund the research on this impending doom. |
| “I dance like a special needs kid with a sparkler.” | |
| One of the travelers who arrived at Tokyo's Narita airport over the weekend may
have picked up an unusual souvenir from customs -- a package of cannabis. A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as a training exercise for sniffer dogs Sunday, but lost track of both drugs and suitcase during the practice session, a spokeswoman for Tokyo customs said. Customs regulations specify that a training suitcase be used for such exercises, but the official said he had used passengers' suitcases for similar purposes in the past, domestic media reported. "The dogs have always been able to find it before," NHK quoted him as saying. "I became overconfident that it would work." Anyone who finds the package should contact Tokyo customs as soon as possible, the spokeswoman said. |
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| I've just spent the last 2 days installing a solar power system at the
Beechworth Correction Facility and if I ever need to go to gaol I'll insist on
going there. The place was built about 3 yrs ago in very pleasant surroundings and has excellent facilities, there is next to no security and the prisoners could walk out anytime they liked but no one does because it such a nice place and if they escaped they would end up in a high security prison instead. Apart from a lack of freedom, life isn't too bad as a prisoner in Beechworth. |
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| I'm sure some of us can remember when these shopper dockets first started. Fuel
was around 65c litre and if you spent $30 in the one transaction, you'd get a
4cents litre saving, if you spent $60 in the one transaction, the discount was
10cents litre. It appears those 10cents have disappeared for good. Now if 4 cents litre back then represented 6.1% then shouldn't, if the margin was to be maintained, the $1.50 litre should be carrying a discount of 9cents per litre. We are being ripped off again. |
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During a discussion regarding “green” cars; “so even if you say the batteries will last forever and even if you don't count depreciation, finance on the extra 12K and insurance costing, the difference in fuel savings alone will take over 17 years to make up?!!? ($12000 price difference divided by $680 saved per year) Fuck me, it's a joke!” |
| Bloke is talking to the head of the nuthouse. "How do you tell who stays and who goes?" "Well, normally, we fill a bathtub and hand the person a spoon, a cup and a bucket and ask them to empty the tub" "Oh, I see - a normal person uses the bucket because it's bigger..." "No, a normal person pulls the plug. Would you like a bed near the window?" |
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