Noel McNamara from Crime Victims Advocate has spoken out about suspended sentences in the lead up to the “Stand Up And Be Counted For Justice Rally” on the 12th of July. This from the Herald Sun;

“Noel McNamara said the courts were making a mockery of Government assurances of a crackdown on the use of suspended jail sentences.

Wholly suspended sentences for such crimes doubled last year, making a joke of an announcement three years ago that suspended terms for serious crimes would be abolished by the end of 2009.”

Read the entire article HERE.

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That is barbed wire attached to the top of the suicide prevention fences on the West Gate Bridge.

I can think of many reasons why attaching barbed wire to a “suicide prevention fence” fence is just silly.

Just think about it…

…I can also think of ($)20 million ways that the money this fence has cost could be better put to use.

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I feel I should say something about the worlds biggest news story, Michael Jacksons untimely death.

Although I was not a fan, in fact in his heyday in the 1980’s I, as a person who does not like, never has liked and never will like his type of pop music, considered him a musical anti Christ.

As a child though in the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson was brilliant. He was adorable, he was gifted, and man could he sing. Tragically though, somewhere between adolescence and manhood it all started to unravel for him.

At first we all watched and chuckled at his funny little ways, until his funny little ways became tragic and pathetic, and his behavior increasingly bizarre. His desire to be some kind of Peter Pan figure who could never let go of his childhood (presumably because he never really had one), led him down a path of disastrous facial reconstructions, skin bleaching to make himself white (even though he claimed in song “It doesn’t matter if your black or white”), and inappropriate behavior with children. (Just to clarify that, I am aware he was found not guilty of molesting children, but he did admit to sleeping in the same bed as other peoples kids and no matter what planet you come from, that is inappropriate behavior for a middle aged man).

His death is the final chapter of a life gone wildly off the rails. Even though I am not a fan in any way, one can’t help but be saddened by his decline into madness, his apparent lack of ability to “normalize” his life, and perhaps most tragic of all, his lack of real friends to intervene and deal him any reality.

Much like Elvis before him, Michael Jackson died a sad pathetic joke and a pale imitation of what he once was, and I guess that’s the greatest tragedy of all.

Here’s a headline you don’t see every day

The story

AN army recruit filmed himself raping and then spitting on an unconscious female friend at a new year’s eve party, a court has been told.

Timothy Alexander Jack, 21, was sentenced to two years’ jail in the Brisbane District Court today for assaulting his 16-year-old victim at a Brisbane house party on January 1, 2007.

Prosecutor David Nardone told the court the drunken girl had passed out when Jack used his mobile phone to film himself digitally raping her.

A short time later he also filmed himself spitting on her as she lay on the bathroom floor.

The court was told the pair had previously been sexually involved, but that the girl had refused Jack sex at the party.

Mr Nardone said the victim only became aware she had been raped when she was told Jack had been showing others the video.

The video was still on his phone when he was arrested.

The best bit

Defence barrister Paul Smith described Jack as an “ordinary, decent young man who made an extraordinarily big mistake”.

Soooooooooo this “extraordinarily big mistake” does nothing to diminish his standing as an “ordinary, decent young man” then Paul?

I know lots of decent young men, but off the top of my head I can’t think of any who raped, spat on and filmed a women on a dunny floor.

I’m not sure what to make of this story on todays Herald Sun website.

GREAT white sharks have a similar modus operandi to serial killers, a study has found.

Scientists have found that the marine predators and the human ones both kill their victims an in area radiating out from an “anchor point”, the TimesOnline reports.

Police use geographical profiling to find serial killers or rapists because they tend to commit their crimes in a confined area around an “anchor point”, which might be a home or workplace.

Using the same mathematical techniques scientists found that sharks also had an anchor point from where they concentrate their efforts.

The study of great whites hunting seals off South Africa was led by Neil Hammerschlag, from the University of Miam, and was published by the Zoological Society of London.

The “anchor point” used by a prowling great white tended to be 100m offshore the island where the seals lived and set out to do their own hunt from.

“Shark hunting patterns are extremely difficult to study and the work here will have important implications for our understanding of the ways in which predators hunt their prey,” said Steven Le Comber, an expert on geographic profiling at the University of London, told the Timesonline.

Now anyone who knows me will tell you maths is not my strong point. The very mention of “mathematical techniques” will have my eyes glazing over. However this seems to have produced a stunningly simple solution for all it’s suggested complexity.

Sharks hang out and hunt where food is at.
Serial killers hang out and hunt where victims are at….as long as it’s not far from home.

I wonder how much money went into this frivolous nonsense?

Things have become bad enough that even Eddie McGuire is starting to make some kind of sense! His article entitled “Let’s punish to fit the crime” is quite good. At least McGuire is highlighting the very serious issues this city has in relation to violent crimes committed by young crooks. But I don’t agree with his idea of chucking young violent offenders into the army. There is nothing new about that idea and as far as I’m concerned, nothing much good about it. The last thing our armed forces should become is a defacto parent or sort-of-jail for young crooks.

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Human Rights Watch: Muslim Rebels In Thailand Kill 115 Teachers

A human rights group says Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand must stop the “sickening trend” of attacking teachers, 115 of whom have been killed since the outbreak of the separatist rebellion five years ago.

Are they the moderate Muslims?

I never bother to read Jill Singer’s columns in the Herald Sun because I think that the woman is an idiot.

It’s also no coincidence that she’s a rabid lefty.

Anyway, her latest is entitled “Activists Are No Bin Laden” and I couldn’t resist reading it in the hopes of obtaining some decent ammo with which to fire back at her…

…And wouldn’t ya know it, I found plenty!!!!

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There is a bizarre story going around at the moment about a teenage girl Kimberley Vlaminck, asking for three little stars to be tattooed around her eye, but fell asleep during the procedure (!!!) and awoke with 56 stars on her face.

The man who did the tattooing, Rouslan Toumaniantz, claims she asked for the 56 stars and the deal only soured when her father and boyfriend saw her.

According to the story, her father approved of the original three stars and waited outside (eating ice cream no less) while his daughter was tattooed (and sleeping apparently), within.

At the risk of sounding sanctimonious and arrogant, all three parties are morons, and the girl should have to keep the ridiculous 56 stars that I suspect she did ask for.

First, the father approved of his 18 year old daughter getting tattooed in a very visible place and it seems he actually took her there, theres a brainiac right there. Not only that but rather than keep a fatherly watchful eye on his daughter he sat outside eating ice cream. Pure genius.

The girl actually wanted 3 stars tattooed around her eye (and I think she asked for the full 56 as supported by witnesses), what kind of fool wants that? Keep the 56 I say, it will lesson her chances of reproducing.

Finally the tattooist,

‘Nuff said.

Dear old Daddy let this guy loose on his little girl with a needle??!!

Bunch of bloody half wits.

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about Texas.

I don’t know why because there are always plenty of good news stories being written about the joint!

So anyway, it is with great pleasure that I bring you yet another good news story from the HOUSTON CHRONICLE…

Two 17-year-olds from Spring who were shot by a homeowner during a break-in in north Harris County Sunday morning have been charged.

Shalom Mendoza, of the 23000 block of Earlmist, and Gerson Jonathan Linares, of the 23000 block of Canyon Lake, have been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.

Authorities said the two were inside a woman’s home in the 24000 block of Briarcreek when the she shot them through a door.

Linares was shot in the left side and in the right leg and Mendoza was shot in the right shoulder. They fled after the shootings.

The teens then called police and reported they had been robbed and shot, police said.

Marvelous!!!

The Herald Sun informs us that;

THE Weddell seal lives 600m below the surface in ice-clogged Antarctic waters, hidden from the world.

What a cute little critter.

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It started out life as Global Warming. However over a period of time it began to be noticed that the globe was not actually warming at all, thus it became Climate Change. Oddly enough, a school of thought emerged that suggested that climate always changed, always had and always will, and was it such a bad thing if it did?

Like all things these days, to sell something politicians need more spin than substance. They need to see what words resonate with their victims electorate. We see this with our own insecure little leader trying to speak the language of the common man, or what his focus groups think it is.

These same forces are at work in the climate industry.

The non-profit PR shop ecoAmerica finally released the findings of its public opinion research today, bringing a trove of information about how on-the-fence Americans respond to different messages about climate change and energy.

The firm conducted an impressive amount of research in February through March—focus groups, a phone survey, an online survey—all focused on finding better talking points for wooing folks who are undecided about this whole global warming/clean energy/green jobs business.

Are you ready for the great unveiling of the all new catastrophic disaster awaiting the human race?

Ditch “global warming.” It makes people think of Al Gore more than anything else, too polarizing. “Climate change” is almost as bad. “Our deteriorating atmosphere” is the term soccer moms and other “environmental agnostics” respond to best, the report found. Likewise, people don’t want to hear about “cap-and-trade.” Too wonky. When you’re talking about cap-and-trade, call it “Clean Energy Dividend” or “Clean Energy Cash Back.” This fits a central theme of the report—the climate-action camp needs to learn how to translate think-tank language into kitchen-table language. To hear how this sounds in action, try out ecoAmerica’s blog post explaining the report.

I myself fear “deteriorating honesty” far more than “deteriorating atmosphere”.

U.S President Barack Hussein Obama recently described Islam thus

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance

One must wonder what planet he inhabits.

Last week we had the story of Muslims running riot over a Christian minding a copy of the Koran for a neighbor, today we have the story of a Christian beaten to death for drinking tea he purchased from a road side tea stall in Pakistan.

WASHINGTON, DC (MetroCatholic) – International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org) has learned that radical Muslims running a tea stall beat a Christian man to death for using a cup designated for Muslims on May 9. The young man, Ishtiaq Masih, had ordered tea at a roadside stall in Machharkay village, Punjab, Pakistan, after his bus made a rest stop.

When Ishtiaq went to pay for his tea, the owner noticed that he was wearing a necklace with a cross and grabbed him, calling for his employees to bring anything available to beat him for violating a sign posted on the stall warning non-Muslims to declare their religion before being served. Ishtiaq had not noticed the warning sign before ordering his tea.

The owner and 14 of his employees beat Ishtiaq with stones, iron rods and clubs, and stabbed him multiple times with kitchen knives as Ishtiaq pleaded for mercy.

The other bus passengers and other passers-by finally intervened and took Ishtiaq to the Rural Health Center in the village. The doctor who took Ishtiaq’s case told ICC that Ishtiaq had died due to excessive internal and external bleeding, a fractured skull, and brain injuries.

What a tolerant peace lovin’ people they are.