Month: November 2005

VICTORIAN police were too trigger-happy and poorly equipped to deal with the mentally ill, the corruption watchdog declared yesterday, calling for drug and alcohol testing and urgent retraining of officers after a spate of fatal shootings.

What about calling for better facilities for the mentally ill. A succession of state governments with their wacko ideas of closing politically incorrect Mental Asylums have put the problems on the streets. General hospitals can’t and won’t handle the criminally or dangerously insane so it’s left to poor old Constable Plod to handle the problem.

His only answer to civilians, himself or his partner being in mortal danger from a mentally insane citizen is bang bang..two rounds…instant counselling and treatment.

Constable Plod is traumatized by being forced to kill to do his job and the politicians have the temerity to criticize him.

Not good enough.

THE Federal Government has offered a Melbourne man deported to Serbia temporary housing and medical checks, but is standing by its decision not to allow him back in the country.

The Left will go beserk over this one. Another case of some poor sweet innocent deported with claw marks on the tarmac.

Of course it could also be a case of a drug addict with a record of armed robbery being deported but that doesn’t make the government look mean enough.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Tom Cruise has made an unusual purchase for his fiancee Katie Holmes – one that will let them see the development of their baby.

A Sonargram worth anything from $34 to $270K

The 43-year-old actor said the couple would do their own ultrasounds to look at their unborn baby.

I hope he has better luck than me. When the twins were due, sometime last century, my wife and I went to have a ultrasound test of the babies.

“Look, see them?”, says the operator.

“No!”

“Can’t you see their hearts beating?”

“No!”

Disadvantaged, not being a sailor, I had never done a Sonar Interpretation course. All I could see was a whorl of grey lines.

Pre-birth snaps are quiet popular these days and when I’m shown them I say what all other savvy husbands say;

“How cute, a whorl of grey lines.”

From Arab News

JEDDAH, 24 November 2005 — About 85 percent of terror suspects detained in the Kingdom are in the age group of 18 to 25, according to Muhammad Al-Nujaimi, a faculty member of King Fahd Security Academy in Riyadh. He pointed out that 90 percent of these young people lacked proper understanding of Islam.

Do tell!