Tim's Bits and Pieces

Kim du Toit has an interesting article on racism on his new blog, Geopoliticus. My favorite quote from the article is this:

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Apparently the police seized a 66-millimetre "bazooka" on a farm in Queensland. My guess is that it is actually a spent M72¹ launcher, since real Bazookas don't come in 66 mm. Also the M72 was designed as a single use weapon so the spent launcher is pretty much just a useless tube, hence the title, and is about as dangerous as a spent bullet shell, ie not really at all. The police even said that it "is not operable". Also, it's nice too see that 12 years of our strict gun control laws still haven't got rid of the guns, since this guy had another 16 firearms and the police implied that at least some of them are functional, just lovely.

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Looks like bravery among the Brits is not yet extinct: Lance Corporal Matt Croucher "threw" himself over grenade to save comrades. While he didn't actually "throw" himself on the grenade, he did deliberately place himself between it and his troop, so good on him.

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"3 years jail for nursing home rapist". And really he probably won't even serve that, he was given a minimum of six months, so in all likelihood he'll be out significantly before the three years mark.

The Federal Opposition (The Coalition) is far from conservative. Case in point.

On the train last night, I saw this in a newspaper: "Dangerous Booze Blamed for Binge Drinking Epidemic"¹. Nope, can't be the binge drinkers' fault, most be the drinkies.

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This amuses me. Apparently the "Power companies say they need carbon trade compensation".

...and another for you.

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Well, this is interesting:

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Michael J. Totten's article on Iraqi Opinion Polls is well worth a read.