Bugger the tornado, I'm winning!
Pick the Aussies. In the face of what looks like a massive cateogory 4 tornado (in fact a waterspout - essentially the same thing over the ocean), two fanatic bowlers at Scarborough bowling club south of Sydney continued bowling the game of their life entirely unperturbed. Until the rain, apparently, then they called it quits.
Something very 'Francis Drake'-ish about the whole thing.
From SMH.
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A crocodile has also eaten a small Chinese boy who was pissing it off by throwing sticks and catapulting stuff at it.
A bunch of kids snuck into what sounds like a wildlife park to take on the Archaic beasts.
"One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu's clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles," Xinhua news agency reports.
One crocodile was shot on the weekend, and found to have the childs remains inside. What happens to the rest of the 'swarm' is not clear. Bigger sticks?
From SMH.
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And Captain Ahab -, no, sorry, that's John Howard, PM, (I get confused sometimes), has redoubled his attack on that white whale of climate change:
"But to say that climate change is the overwhelming moral challenge for this generation of Australians is misguided at best and misleading at worst," said the PM, apparently referring to the vast majority of the Australian voting population who do not agree.
"At the same time we know that independent action by Australia will not materially affect our climate" he said, shrugging his shoulders, "So why bother."
"Australia emits fewer greenhouse gases in a year than the United States and China emit in a month," he said.
Of course we have 1.5% the population of China, and 6.7% the population of the US, and so we should take nearly 7 years to match the monthly greenhouse gas output of China and the USA, and the fact we're managing to do the work of 7 years in 1 means we're a very productive country at making greenhouse gas. Must be all those hard-working coal miners Howard loves.
I think there's a scratch on this record.
From SMH.
Something very 'Francis Drake'-ish about the whole thing.From SMH.
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A crocodile has also eaten a small Chinese boy who was pissing it off by throwing sticks and catapulting stuff at it.
A bunch of kids snuck into what sounds like a wildlife park to take on the Archaic beasts.
"One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu's clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles," Xinhua news agency reports.
One crocodile was shot on the weekend, and found to have the childs remains inside. What happens to the rest of the 'swarm' is not clear. Bigger sticks?
From SMH.
---
And Captain Ahab -, no, sorry, that's John Howard, PM, (I get confused sometimes), has redoubled his attack on that white whale of climate change:
"But to say that climate change is the overwhelming moral challenge for this generation of Australians is misguided at best and misleading at worst," said the PM, apparently referring to the vast majority of the Australian voting population who do not agree.
"At the same time we know that independent action by Australia will not materially affect our climate" he said, shrugging his shoulders, "So why bother."
"Australia emits fewer greenhouse gases in a year than the United States and China emit in a month," he said.
Of course we have 1.5% the population of China, and 6.7% the population of the US, and so we should take nearly 7 years to match the monthly greenhouse gas output of China and the USA, and the fact we're managing to do the work of 7 years in 1 means we're a very productive country at making greenhouse gas. Must be all those hard-working coal miners Howard loves.
I think there's a scratch on this record.
From SMH.
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