Girl Dies Because Parents Pray

An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday. “She got sicker and sicker until she was dead,” he said. SOURCE I guess the fact that we only hear [...]

Question of the Day – 3/3

Why do the American people in huge number donate to candidates for the presidential campaign? They ‘politicians’ get enough money out of me already, no way in hell am I giving them any more than I need too.

World Cup 2018 in Australia?

Today the Australian federal government has put their weight (and money) behind a bit for Australia to host the 2018 football world cup. This is excellent news even though in my opinion England are going to be the ones to win the rights. Along with England, Australia will have the US and China to contend [...]

The Chasers Review of 2007

The Age has published on its website a awesome rundown of the year that was 2007. CHECK IT OUT

Nutters on Parade Again

$20,000 so that you can die quicker

It has been reported by the ABC in Australia that the US army is offering $20,000 (USD) in return for new recruits to ship out to Iraq and Afghanistan sooner. Out of 6,611 people who enlisted in the Army between the bonus program’s start on July 25 and August 24, a total of 6,264 or [...]

Rocca’s Bump in the NFL

Sav Rocca who used to play AFL football with the Kangaroos is now over in the US of A beginning his new career as a punter. Well in his first preseason match this happened: ‘A little different from Aussie football’ – yea in Aussie football we don’t wear any padding and we still get up [...]

Christian boot camps

The idea of a Christian Boot Camp scares the living bee-jebus out of me. A) because the idea of a ‘military style’ camp being run by the same people who have split so much blood in the past in the name of ‘god’ and B) because of this story which I found on all places [...]

Aussie slang is aggressive (apparently)

Saw this on digg the other day. If this is true then it just adds more fuel to the fire as to what is wrong with America these days. If it’s not then it adds fuel to the fire about how crappy the media is. For me its win win I can’t lose by complaining [...]

Not A Great 24 Hours

The last twenty four have have been very interesting in the world of football. Firstly, Australia was knocked out of the Asia Cup by Japan. Its just amazing how badly ‘we’ played. We where out played in all four of our matches and where lucky to scrape out of the group phase in second place. [...]