Category: Misc

Greens to control Senate if Labor wins: Howard – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Mr Howard says a Labor victory would deliver a big change in the Senate and the Greens would be likely to have the balance of power.

He seems to be saying that this would be a bad thing. As much as I don’t want the Greens to be in power I think them having far more power would be a good thing.

If the greens controlled the world we would (from what I understand)

• Close Lucas Heights (I believe this is silly because its small, safe and provides real medical products)
• Probably legalise marijuana (Which I understand is mostly harmless but is still not safe)
• Want to change society too quickly. As much as I agree we need to change, it needs to be managed so that economies don’t fail. We still need a strong economy to help new industries and provide ‘training’ for people like coal miners etc.

I don’t particularly like most parties we have available to us but I think a Labour/Green mix would be the least crap for now.

Years ago I started listening to audio books in the car. My daily commute to work consists of about 12 minutes of freeway driving with very short amounts of getting on and off. If theres heaps of traffic, it may even take 15 minutes however even this short time is enough to get a book finished every 2 weeks or so.

Now, about 50 or so books later, I thought I should share the idea and tell others to try it.

If you know me (and only people who know me read this :-) ) you should come and get some books from me to listen to. Just be sure to bring them back so someone else can borrow them after you. Or, if you want them in mp3 format, just tell me when you are listening to them so I can ensure no-one else is at the same time. I wouldn’t want to break any laws.

Anyway, If you pass the time just listening to rubbish on the radio, try some books.

Recently I purchased the Airhawk.

If you ride motorcycles (or even just sit still for long periods of time) This is really cool. While riding, anything over about an hour or so starts to get very uncomfortable. With the Airhawk on the seat, its still comfortable after 3 or 4 hours (and probably longer but I’ve not been on the bike for that long yet).

This would have won the ‘coolest thing ever award’ for this year but the remote just beat it.

Bush has previously asked “Is our children learning?”.

It turns out that most children look to parents, teachers and people of authority for examples. So in order to help the children more and to indicate what a great job he’s doing, he today pronounced “Childrens do learn.”

I’m struggling to think of a way to make this funnier but I don’t think I can.