A number of things in the newspapers interested me this morning and I can't be bothered to think too much about writing anything else blog-worthy, so decided to natter about news. Mmm, exciting.
Unbelievable win for Socceroos
Yay! *happy dance*
Beazley IR plan "kills ambition"
...according to the Prime Minister. But then we know how focused John Howard is on trying to sell the idea of Australia and Australians all being able to afford their own wide-screen TVs and travel in their own individual enormous 4WD vehicles ("aspirational Australians" - so feel free to focus on your self rather than the nation, please! The PM says it's fine to do so. It stops you asking questions about the Australian Wheat Board, disgusting treatment of refugees and sales of assets, etc). Plus it ignores the fact that workers are more at risk under the current IR laws with working agreements than they were before. But to get rid of individual contracts entirely is a bit silly ~ it works for some. Although I don't think that Beazley promising to do the job thing secures his job, as this article suggests.
Volcanic lake erupts in a riot of colour
A lake that was formerly blue-green is now bright red! Yay for science stuff and nature and interesting chemical reactions, etc.
Nation embraces "orphan" Huda
The Israelies, who kill three Palestinians for every Israelie who has died in the 60-year stupidity-fest that is the Israel-Palestine conflict, have given the Palestinians another "martyr" of sorts. But really, how insane is the situation? And how insane is it that the Israelies are always represented as being the "less naughty" party in this all? It's ALL stupid.
Generation Ink
Mmm, tattoos. Well... only "mmm" to good tattoos, really. I still want mine, but is it bad to say it ticks me off that they're so popular? *lol* For me, it's not about the "Oh, Heath Ledger has one, so I want one" because Heath Ledger also has hissy-fits about water pistols, and I definitely don't want one of them, but about it being a long-term goal and something symbolic. Plus it'd be quite an involved process.
Also coming to you in the Sydney Morning Herald AND The Age, the Sam and The City blog, remarkably the same in The Age and the SMH (meaning equally woeful). There's also the Jack Marx blog or whatever it is. Oh, plus the same letter on the letters page of both papers from some anarchist's organisation whinging about the Queen's Birthday like he's never appreciated public holidays.
But on the thing of letters, here's an interesting one from The Age:
SO WHAT did happen to al-Zarqawi? First we were told the Americans found him injured and handed him over to the Iraqis and he later died of injuries. The next day it was reported that he was dead when the Americans arrived. Then we were told that he was alive, but attempted to escape from the stretcher he was on and was manhandled back on to it. And now an Iraqi man is reported as saying that he saw the Americans "beating an injured man resembling Zarqawi until blood flowed from his nose" (The Age, 12/6).
Does it matter, or are we happy to accept any account of events served up to us, even when they differ from day to day? We seem to have accepted changing justifications for the war in Iraq - and now I learn that the suicide of three Guantanamo inmates was an "act of war". Long live spin.
Grania Poliness, East Kew
Also, just how many freakin' blogs can the SMH have?! Check out this page for the complete list. Although I have to say the Freedom of Information one looks like it could be interesting.
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