24 July 2010: Today's feeling/Blog emotion: Moving forward Ms Gillard? Moving from where, to where? Moving into clichesville? It's come to this, has it? No, Ms Gillard. Moving forward simply isn't good enough. Nor is going forward the cliche to use. Nor is the call useful that was used so often in one of my primary school schoolyards, "Wake Up, Australia". What Australia does not need is more inarticulate politicians, we have too many already. Dare you to try some original thinking. Double dare ya! And moving forward on the issues, where is Wong? Has she been entirely sidelined as you discuss your completely nonsense climate-change policy? How and why? Ms Gillard, it's an increasingluy non-good look you are providing. Madam, get a life! Soon!

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20 July 2010: Today's feeling/Blog emotion: In the USA, Of course BP should be paying compensation for whatever damage the Gulf of Mexico oil spill problem has created. Why would anyone ever have thought otherwise? Why didn't BP assume this from day one? Why are corporations so irresponsible, and why are governments so irresponsible as to let them be so irresponsible? In the USA, only voters can decide this further! Meanwhile, congratulations to historian Simon Schama for his TV documentary now being screened in Australia, The American Future: A History. Marvellous viewing!

29 November 2009: Today's feeling/Blog emotion Climate deniers these days: Elaine McCarthy in Port Macquarie had a good idea for fixing the bacon of politicians who are climate-change deniers. Turn off the air-conditioning in Parliament House. Perfect, and very quick too, we think. (Sydney Morning Herald, Letters to Editor, 21-22 November, 2009)


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13 November 2009: Major-psychiatrist Hasan running amuk at Fort Hood, Texas: So by mid-November, Hasan has returned to consciousness and is not talking about conducting his atrocity. Investigations continue. This website feels it might be a good idea if the White House made some quiet phone calls to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), asking it to deliver a considered professional opinion on the psychiatric nature of the mindset of the suicide bomber (anywhere in the world), with particular reference to the Hasan case. This website feels that psychiatrists around the world have been sitting on their hands about this question as a mental health issue since 9/11, or earlier, since the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers invented the tactic. It would also be much less tiring and cheaper for the entire world if the "war on terror" could be reduced to a conflict between psychiatrists and misguided Islamic clerics. Who, who knows, may well deserve each other due to the mismatches of their sins of omission, which paradoxically and bewilderingly tend to finally dovetail with such evil elegance in the Hasan case. -Ed

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15 May 2010: Today's feeling/Blog emotion Circumnavigation congratulations of global proportions to JESSICA WATSON, solo sailor on Ella's Pink Lady. What a spectacularly magnificent young Australian lady!

Magnificent!! Magnificent!! Magnificent!!

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28 Feb 2010: Today's feeling/Blog emotion Inconvenient weather for climate change deniers: Winter Olympics in Vancouveur Canada but sadly, not enough snow in the area. Maryland USA recently had biggest single drop of snow since records began. Hectic rainstorms in Brisbane Australia, s/e Queensland. Hillside slip/landslide in Calabria Italy after heavy rain. Island of Madeira is flooded. February 2010 ends with coastal western Europe's biggest storm in 60 years. And floods in Queensland which might cost AUD$1 billion to clean up. And, is it true that climate change deniers have superior insurance to everyone else? Hmm?

Today's feeling/Blog emotion 22 October 2009: The Liberal Party/Wilson Tuckey Speaking Tosh Problem: Gasp Shock Horror! Western Australian Liberal Party politician, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey, suspects that various Sri Lankan boat people now arriving near Australia's indefensible north-western coast (which is what it is, totally indefensible) might be terrorists. Gasp horror! This website wonders if Tuckey has forgotten that Australian colonial authorities regularly received Irish political prisoners, who just might have wreaked havoc if let loose (aka Ned Kelly?). That is, Australia got used to difficult boat people arriving a long time ago - convicts, they were called. As to Western Australia, it invited convicts in for economic reasons. Some of them were Irish politicals, rescued by a ship sent from the USA named the Catalpa. Do not despair, Mr Tuckey! Remember the Catalpa! It finally made for very good TV! Above all, Tuckey, read a bit of Indian and Sri Lankan history soon. Like, get to know the neighbours and their problems!