A bit of lowbrow entertainment

Went to the flicks today and saw “Click”, the new Adam Sandler movie.  I’m not an Adam Sandler fan, but my daughter convinced me to go, and we had nothing better to do.   It was better than I’d expected, quite a nice fun movie, although quite sad in parts.

 

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Some New Porn for You

New Pornographers - Letter from an Occupant

Love this band and its music, particularly this song. Enjoy! I only found this video in the last week or so.

The singer is the delectable Neko Case. (Confession time … always did have a thing for redheads.)

Kylie

Must say I’m really impressed by Kylie Minogue with the short hair - she looks fantastic.

Not so sure about the glasses though!

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Style dilemna

I noticed some Superman undies at the local shopping mall this morning.  If I’d bought them, should I have worn them under my clothes or on the outside?

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mmmm….slave cooked meals …..delicious

I’m off to the Blue Mountains to enjoy some delicious slave cooked Indian food.  The owner of a number of Indian restaurants, including “Taste of India” at Faulconbridge, has been charged with people trafficking offences, plus a charge of “intentionally exercising control over a slave”.  Allegedly, Yogalingam Rasalingam enticed Anbalagan Rajendran to come from India to Australia, but when he got here took his passport, made him live in a tin shed, and worked him 11 hours a day, 7 days a week as a kitchen hand at his restaurants, without paying him a cent.

This beats the delicious taste of the food cooked by exploited overseas workers at a number of our local cafes and restaurants in Canberra, allegedly Zeffirelli’s, Milk and Honey and the Holy Grail.  There was also the rather bizarre instance of the alleged kidnapping of a Filipino chef who worked at Pangaea Restaurant after he complained of being ripped off and poorly treated by his employer.

Just when I thought food cooked lovingly by underpaid and exploited Filipinos was the bee’s knees, now we have the even better option of slave cooked Tandoori.  Yummy!!!

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Hopefully it doesn’t work again

Some idiot in Latvia bet his friend that he would cut off his own dick, for the equivalent of just over $2,000.

He won the bet.

Doctors sewed it back on, after the man took himself and his penis (in a plastic bag) to hospital - it will take about 6 months to assess whether it will work properly again. I’d hope, for the sake of improving the human gene pool, that it never does work again. Fuckwits like this should never be allowed to reproduce.

I wonder if he’s ever met this dickhead in Wales?

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Beirut - unrealistic expectations?

With all the anger being expressed by those Australians stranded in Beirut and the rest of Lebanon, and their friends and families back here in Australia, I just wonder how realistic their expectations of the level of help able to be provided by the Australian Government is?  All the stuff from the Lebanese community here about the government giving them low priority and treating them like second class citizens is a load of crap.

Its not as if Australia has instant access to the resources needed to get people out of Lebanon at its disposal in the area.  Unlike Britain, European countries and the US, we don’t have our naval ships nearby in the Mediterranean.  I’d also suggest that the Europeans have far better contacts with ship charterers and were able to snap up whatever was available more quickly because of this.  I doubt price of the charters was an issue - even though I’m sure the charter companies are charging like wounded bulls right now - I don’t believe penny pinching would come into something like this.  Basically Australia is stuck with getting hold of whatever transport we can get hold of down low on the food chain, and otherwise reliant on the goodwill of our “friends” to help us out.

So despite the government demonstrating its incompetence in many areas, I doubt the delays in getting people out of Lebanon are because of that.  It seems DFAT and others are doing as much as they can in very difficult circumstances.  I can’t see that people throwing around all sorts of accusations and firing up in anger helps anyone. 

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Kovco - stranger and stranger

The circumstances of Pte Jake Kovco’s death in Baghdad earlier this year are very muddied and may remain so as it seems to be proving very difficult to establish any real facts. The military commanders and investigators have not exactly covered themselves in glory. The room in which Kovco died was not secured properly, evidence was moved, and the room itself cleaned before proper blood samples could be taken, and there were significant delays in obtaining witness statements.

The initial versions of events suggested he accidentally shot himself in the head while cleaning his gun, then somehow caused it to fire when he dropped his laptop on it while standing next to his bunk bed. Now forensic evidence suggests he was shot while standing in the middle of the room facing the back window. Then we have evidence of some unknown person’s DNA on the pistol, including on the slide, grip and trigger. NSW Police now investigating the death are going back to Baghdad to take further samples - bet thats an assignment everyone’s putting their hand up for. Other evidence suggests the gun was fired from no more than 2 inches from Kovco’s head.

All very strange. And why was the initial investigation, not to mention the return of his body to Australia, so badly botched? Is it merely incompetence, or some intent to cover up the circumstances of his death by muddying things so much that it is impossible to prove anything definitively?

In other news from the Middle East and involving Defence, they are sending 80 people to Beirut to help co-ordinate the evacuation of Australians stuck in Lebanon. With their track record, they’ll probably end up shipping them to Iraq or Afghanistan or some shithole like that.

Update (21/7/2006): I think the odds are firming that it was a suicide.

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Casey Donovan dumped

Australian Idol winner from a couple of years ago, Casey Donovan, has been dumped by her record label Sony BMG.

 

Hardly surprising!  While the others who’ve done well on Idol are just as shit as her, at least they are marketable.  She must have been the label’s worst nightmare when she won … simply unmarketable.

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Human sewerage

I read this week about the death of a 3 year old boy who had been raped by a pedophile named Bill Clare.  It makes me wonder just how low and depraved people can be.  This case is truly horrific.  First, mum hands her two children over to Clare to look after.  Clare first rapes the 6 year old girl repeatedly then starts on her 3 year old brother, the injuries and trauma from his anal rape resulting in the boy’s death.  Read the articles linked above - I found them truly horrifying.

Clare got 16 years jail for the rape of the girl and was this week convicted of manslaughter over the death of the boy.  I would hope he never sees the outside of a prison again, and gets his just desserts in there.

In other news from the lower depths of humanity, we have this happy family from south western Sydney.  No doubt multi-generational welfare dependants and petty criminals.

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