AUSTRALIAN Diggers risking all on the deadly battlefields of Afghanistan are fighting on a diet of tasteless gruel.
...taxpayers are forking out thousands so Kevin Rudd is served a gourmet three-course meal when he's in the air, even on half-hour flights.
The Left is the party of government activism - the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, slimmer, taller, and take a dozen strokes off your golf game.
America has wound up with a charming leftist as a president. And this scares me. This scares me not because I hate leftists. I don’t. I have many charming leftist friends. They’re lovely people - as long as they keep their nose out of things they don’t understand. Such as making a living.
When charming leftists stick their nose into things they don’t understand they become ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey-doodle and baked wind. They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people’s money. They are the lap dogs of the poly sci-class, returning to the vomit of collectivism. They are pig herders tending that sow-who-eats-her-young, the welfare state. They are muck-dwelling bottom-feeders growing fat on the worries and disappointments of the electorate. They are the ditch carp of democracy.
And that’s what one of their friends says.
...France is a treasure to mankind. French ideas, French beliefs, and French actions form a sort of lodestone for humanity. Because a moral compass needle needs a butt end.
Whatever direction France is pointing - toward Nazi collaboration, Communism, Existentialism, Jerry Lewis movies, or running for cover in Afghanistan - we can go the other way with a clear conscience.
"I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because I don't deserve to have anyone feeling sorry for me," he said yesterday.
"I created my own problems. I made mistakes. I gambled and it got me."
"My financial problems started towards the end of my career. When I retired I had four properties, in Hawthorne (Brisbane) and in Coolum.
"I had a company, Dardon Financial Services, I invested in shares. And the shares brought me undone, and then I invested more and more, trying to get it all back. I tried to win back what I'd lost, and got hooked, and it got me.
"It was the old outlook -- if you lose it, you can always get it back.
"There were times I didn't take advice when I should have, but there were other times I took advice and it didn't work for me.
"I tried to work it out myself and went in harder and harder when I should have pulled away."
"When you're going through this, there is a lot of weight on you, and I know that that weight changed how I dealt with people," Cresswell said.
"It all happened before I knew it. I wasn't getting the footy dollars, the income was not coming in as it once did, but I was still living as though I was on the income of the playing days.
"I wasn't able to adapt to it at all. I'd bite at people. I know I carried a lot of anger around with me and my whole personality changed.
"I know people started to not like me from then and I know I gave them reason not to like me. And I now carry that. Some of those people may not think much of me, and that doesn't sit well.
"I regret the whole thing. I regret putting myself in the position I did. I regret everything."
"The reckless provocation perpetrated at a time when the military confrontation between the North and the South has reached an extreme phase is a vicious criminal act of seriously getting on the nerves of the servicepersons of the Korean People's Army and lashing them into a great fury," the North's official KCNA news agency said.
FOUR people have been charged with stealing fallen branches from the Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine in central Queensland.
Police say the branches were taken in the early hours of yesterday morning when four people got into a secured site where the historic tree is being reconstructed.
A $5 million memorial is being built after the tree was poisoned and died in 2006.
It is credited with being the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party.
Two Brisbane men, aged 19 and 22, have each been charged with two counts of stealing.
They will appear in Longreach Magistrate's Court on May 19.
A 19-year-old Mackay man and an 18-year-old Barcaldine woman each face one count of stealing.
Police say they found one branch in a house at Barcaldine and the second at the rear of a local business. Both appeared undamaged and have been returned to the site.
The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale. "Jeez, 105kg!" But we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 85kg. And socialists and fools -- to the extent that there's a difference -- think we can.
"The nine most frightening words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help."'
My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland and I'm here to help.
A CAIRNS teenager who allegedly self-aborted at two months with an abortion pill smuggled in from overseas has gained support from the pro-choice lobby.
Tegan Simone Leach, 19, is believed to be the first woman charged in Queensland in nearly 50 years for organising her own miscarriage and is facing up to 14 years in jail.
"She is our cause celebre," Ms Marsh said. "It comes as such a shock that someone can be charged with this offence in this day and age".
"We'd like to see abortion removed from the criminal code and be regulated like any other health procedure."
Any woman who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, or permits any such thing or means to be administered or used to her, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
Any person who unlawfully assaults a female pregnant with a child and destroys the life of, or does grievous bodily harm to, or transmits a serious disease to, the child before its birth, commits a crime.
REVISIONIST historian Fredrick Toben does not regret defying a court order to stop insulting Jewish people, saying "freedom of speech demands sacrifice".
The Federal Court, sitting in Adelaide, today found Toben guilty of 24 counts of contempt of court.
Justice Bruce Lander ruled Toben acted "wilfully and contumaciously" by uploading, to his website, articles implying Jews offended by Holocaust denial were of "limited intelligence".
Other articles claimed the Auschwitz concentration camp had no gas chambers, and that some Jewish people "exaggerated" the Holocaust "for improper motives".
Toben now faces a fine, jail time or both – under Australian law, the severity of those penalities are at the court's discretion.
WASHINGTON—More than a week after President Barack Obama's cold-blooded killing of a local couple, members of the American news media admitted Tuesday that they were still trying to find the best angle for covering the gruesome crime.
"I know there's a story in there somewhere," said Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, referring to Obama's home invasion and execution-style slaying of Jeff and Sue Finowicz on Apr. 8. "Right now though, it's probably best to just sit back and wait for more information to come in. After all, the only thing we know for sure is that our president senselessly murdered two unsuspecting Americans without emotion or hesitation."
Angel Galvan-Hernandez, 26, facing a long prison term after being convicted in a Seattle court, begged the judge in February to execute him, that he'd rather die "a thousand times" than be jailed. The reason, he said, was his fear of being raped in prison because of his petite frame and his history of being attacked as a youth. He admitted that he was a coward, "but I just don't want to be raped." His crime: He had pleaded guilty to raping two women. (He got 20 years.)
The notorious Construction division of the CFMEU has embarked in a high-stakes game of industrial thuggery and corruption that threatens to disrupt the upgrade of the West Gate bridge.
VEXNEWS has learned that the union is currently paying picketers - some of them from the ranks of a Geelong bikie gang - $1000 per week cash in hand.
The union has promised all of them lucrative jobs on the bridge should they “hold the line.”
* Contribute in a meaningful way to reconciliation, including flying the Aboriginal flag and inviting elders to give talks.
* Use "social inclusion puppets" and "persona dolls" to explore exclusion and ethical issues.
* Challenge and resist bias and discrimination.
* Take action in unfair situations and learn to act when injustice occurs.
* Assess and act on power dynamics as they get older.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL Quentin Bryce has defended her recent trip to Africa against Coalition claims it was a lobbying exercise on behalf of the Federal Government...
Speaking at the conclusion of her trip, the vice-regal said that while the Security Council bid was discussed at most of the meetings with African dignitaries and officials, her bipartisanship was not compromised.
"I think very deeply about these issues, I know how much Australian people value the bipartisanship of the governor-general's role,'' she told ABC Radio.
"I take on the responsibility of that bipartisanship very seriously and very thoughtfully.''
Of Australia's aspirations to gain a Security Council seat, Ms Bryce said she received a "polite and positive response''.
