Anti-war demonstration in Sydney, 12 August 2006

Placard of George W Bush. Sydney anti-war demonstration, 12 August 2006

Before you buy that beach house, check out Thursday's press release from the University of Texas Austin concerning the acceleration of the melting of Greenland's ice cap.

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/11/austra13964.htm

Human Rights Watch, whose Middle East arm is so busy documenting all the Israeli and Hizbollah war crimes at the moment, has had to turn its attention to Australia as the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 winds it way through Parliament.

It's been an eventful week for Beazley comma B full stop. An amusing confrontation on the steps of Parliament House this morning between his Bomberness and that loosest of Liberal Party loose cannons, Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey.

Video footage at smh.com.au - nearly as funny as George Galloway v Anna Botting.

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=23764

Once billed as “the most dangerous man in Mississippi,” former Ku Klux Klan member and terrorist Tom Tarrants became a Christian while in prison for attempted murder and now serves as president of the C.S. Lewis Institute in Washington, D.C.

More of this story at the Baptist Press.

Kim Beazley Junior would make a better Prime Minister than John Winston Howard. So, however, would the average blue-tongue lizard or, in Bill Hayden parlance, would the average drover's dog.

Bomber Beazley demonstrated yet again in Parliament yesterday his unsuitability to lead the Australian Labor Party back into government. Not only does he blindly accept the nonsensical concept of a "war on terror", but he actually says that Howard pulled Australian troops out of Afghanistan too soon!

World to end on August 22 (Brian Whitaker, The Guardian, 9.8.06)

If it's reported by the Wall Street Journal it must be true!

PS: The comments on this blog entry are actually entertaining. I must try out the recipe for blackcurrant jam before the Apocalypse cuts off the electricity.

Sexually charged music directly impacts teenage sexual habits, new study says - (BP)

Who else but the Rand Corporation could do a report on the impact of music on teenage sexuality?

And who better than the Southern Baptists' media arm for us to look to for reportage of the findings?

The full Randy press release can be found here.

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

What happens when one of my favourite websites takes the piss out of another of my favourite websites?