John Kerry is an M79 Whore Just Like Me

Previously I have been called an M79 Whore for using the weapon so effectively in Battlefield Vietnam.

http://domitar.blogspot.com/2004_04_18_domitar_archive.html#108254641350671361

It appears that John Kerry's first purple heart was a self-inflicted M79 shrapnel wound. He wrote in his journal 9 days after the incident that he hadn't received any enemy fire yet. One of his campaign spokesmen has now acknowledged that the wound 'may have been self inflicted'.

Quite funny, but he's actually gone up in my opinion. I love the M79, it's my favourite weapon, particularly exploding it at my feet with splash damage turned off. I believe this demonstrates his good tastes.

UWA Introduces Full Fee Paying Places

Finally sense prevails. We have Australians out there prepared to pay money to achieve an education. Why should we prevent them if they are putting in enough money into the system to cover the costs of increased places? If anything the University as a whole will provide a better service to the many HECS place students - which CONTINUE to exist. Blah blah thin end of the wedge blah blah (other Australian campuses have been offering these places for years).

"It's not like these guys are the Russian Mafia!"

Expect much more non-sensical equity howling, from elected student representatives (after all that's what they are elected to do) and from the Dimocrats. Unfortunately most of their arguments disintegrate upon contact with facts.

Nurses want more pay, yes 20% more.

/rant on

One thing I can't stand. Union Nurse Representatives.

They are the most incredibly whingy bunch of misfits in society. In fact I rate Nurses in general below Lawyers and Used-Car Salesman in society's hierachy.

I'm sure there are plenty of 'nice' nurses out there. But their Union representatives play on the warm happy feelings people have for nurses to achieve inordinate militant Union power.

While Doctor's regularly do unpaid overtime, from my observation, most Nurses are more concerned about their next tea-break than patient care.

/rant off

Where are we headed?

What a difference a month makes.

If you asked me a month ago what were the likely election outcomes I would have predicted the John's have it. John Howard and John Kerry.

I've changed my mind on this one. I'm now calling a Bush victory (As much as people hate Bush, the Democrats have picked the one candidate that can't beat him), and I have moved my Australian election result prediction to 'to close to call'.

Letters to the Editor

I wrote a few days ago that I was sorry for jumping on the PM resignation bandwagon far too early.

In Saturday's Letters to the Editor in The Australian you have this classic sarcasm:

GEE, if I had known the refugees hadn't actually thrown their children
overboard, but instead had merely sunk their own boat - effectively dumping
everyone into the water - I would have voted Labor. Andrew Brough Wingello, NSW