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Two men who painted an anti-war slogan on the Sydney Opera House last year have been sentenced to nine months periodic detention.

David Burgess, 33, and Will Saunders, 42, were convicted of a charge of malicious damage relating to the painting of the words ‘No War’ on the landmark building in March last year.

In handing down the sentence, New South Wales District Court Justice Anthony Blackmore described the offence as serious because of the damage done to the Opera House.

He said there was a need for a general deterrent to discourage others from damaging public buildings.

Outside the court, defence lawyer John Doris said there would be an appeal against the convictions and the sentences.

God-damn youse terrorists! Damn youse all to hell! Is nothing safe?

The main reason I haven’t been posting much over the past week is, in between working and fixing university enrolment, I’ve been fiddling with my stubbornly idiosyncratic archives and working on some semblance of an About page.

If anybody tells you that one-day cricket isn’t the best sport in the world, you can punch them in the throat for me.

Meanwhile, at the Creation Science Super-Secret Volcano Island Base…

Unintelligent Design Theory

Now there’s a doctrine to make that smarmy, Godless Evolution via Natural Selection pee it’s pants!

I remember writing something similar when a barrage of Bible quotes were once used against me (normally I don’t even bother, but I was feeling particularly Bibliophilic at the time). The authorship is probably dated, but it happens to coincide with Bush’s reiteration of the grossly unconstitutional (being based purely upon religious bigotry as well as ignorance and insecurity and all) policy of codifying against homosexual marriage in the US (something Bush’s #1 fan and fellow god-fearing blue-blood, Australian PM John Howard, has eye-rollingly made reference to recently), so I thought it was just as pertinent today as the absurdity mysteriously continues to be perpetuated. Links inserted by me for reference.

It’s just unbelievable. One second you’re leaving a pub after celebrating your team winning a match against their arch-rivals. Some ‘rioded up, knuckle-dragging rock-ape of a bouncer takes exception to something you say (Hookes became a well-known and widely respected sports journalists after his retirement and was notoriously opinionated, so it’s reasonable to assume that’s what occurred, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it was something far more innocuous). He runs up behind you and punches you in the back of the head. Crack. Your skull strikes the ground and you’re clinically dead. 18 hours later your life-support machine is unplugged. And such incidents of assault are probably quite frequent given the fairly well-conceded fact that many bouncers seem to live in a provocative world of their own, where physical domination is more a matter of pride and ego than a last-resort method of earning your pay. I’ve mentioned in a recent entry that I don’t go out to bars and clubs very often, but even I’ve had the odd altercation with the puffed-up meatheads. I’m not physically diminutive by any means, but nor am I in the slightest bit interested in participating in their canine-esque, clenched-jaw territorial posings (I’m sure they’d piss on the doorways of the clubs they’re paid to control if they could get away with it). One got noticeably annoyed when his attempts to plant his hand in the centre of my chest and shove me backwards made little leeway (like I said, I’m not weak), while another screamed at me as if I’d just knifed his mother when I dared to misunderstand his barking monosyllabic neanderthal mating call. Philistines. My antipathy towards capital punishment is sorely tested when I hear about senseless, cowardly, murderous behavior like this. And the world is robbed of yet another genuine nice guy who, unlike his attacker, decided to make a success of his life.

I just watched what must have been a 2-minute loop of footage of John Kerry making a brief toking gesture on Fox News, shown with ultra zoom-in and repeated at varying speeds. You Yanks are a riot.

Unbelievable. 20 years ago it was amusing. Now it’s just pathetic. And, in the current international diplomatic climate, alarming. And I couldn’t give a shit about Indonesia, I’m talking about the increased possibility of this insane spawn of madmen coming into fruition. If a single cent of the federal treasury goes into this cockamamie stunt I just may fucking lose it once and for all. People are starving, homeless, unable to get a hospital bed in an emergency or afford childcare, and you’re seriously considering sinking billions of our dollars into this white elephant. You make me sick you puffed-up, self-righteous, lying, belligerent, arms-dealing, narcissistic, fear-mongering, arrogant cunts. You are the lowest form of life. You are the reason the guillotine was invented. Commit hari kari and stop sucking the life out of health and education you greedy, pompous fucks.

Defence Minister Robert Hill says the longer the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq goes on, the less chance there is of finding them.

An independent US report says it has found no evidence Saddam Hussein had stockpiled any weapons of mass destruction.

Senator Hill says it is easy to be wise in hindsight and a team of 15 Australians continues to search for the weapons in Iraq.

But he admits they have had little success.

“We haven’t… found weapons of mass destruction and the longer the search goes on without finding them, the more reasonable it is to doubt that they will be found,” he said.

That was the exact reaction I had when I read the headline Britney Spears Weds Jason Alexander.

Anyway, I’ve just been thinking about what an interesting little federal election system you Yanks seem to have. So, the big knobs in each respective party nominate themselves to run for President. They all tour the country (or rather, just the states with the largest swinging populations to save on time and money), drumming up support by appealing to the lowest common denominator, shaking hands and baby kissing and spouting off what the majority of the population want to hear (or rather, since voting is non-compulsory, a sizeable minority of the population, without offending any significantly powerful socio-economic lobby groups), back-stabbing and bitching about the weaknesses and/or questionable personal histories of their fellow party member running-mates at every possible opportunity.

…Verily I sayeth, ‘ware tequila, the foul milk of Satan…

…And The Lord said “Behold, for he who sups upon the firewater shall be consumed by the wiles of demons most horrible and base. And his punishment shall be embarrassment and a hangover most severe, whereupon he shall wish to soakest his head in a bucket of ice water for about a month”…

…The fool hath said in his heart “Lo, I’m OK to drive home”…

-Steve 23:11-13, King James Bible