Wednesday 6 August 2008
I can't eat a web site, Mr. Rudd
"Grocery Choice" it's going to call it and this site will give us all a snapshot of the monthly cost of an average basket of groceries across 61 regions.
Fat lot of good that will do us on the Northern Rivers.
Where I live there is only one, that's right one, retail grocery store and it can charge what it likes and serve up whatever dubious quality of goods it likes.
The idea of encouraging competition and instituting unit pricing is a real laugh - since the beginning of the year this Coles store has offered at premium prices rotten potatoes, peanuts in the shell infested with insects, packaged tomatoes with splitting skins and mould, spoiled apples and cheese well beyond its shelf life.
"Grocery Choice"? Silly, silly, silly.
I can't see how Labor's Chris Bowen kept a straight face when he fronted the cameras over this one.
North Coast Pensioner
Visual feast from the NSW North Coast region
My favourite website disclaimer
Disclaimer found at an Alaskan version of The Flat Earth Society, "Deprogramming the masses since 1547".
"The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.
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Tuesday 5 August 2008
US 08: when fat counts at the ballot box?
Image from Cleveland.com
The Oklahoma Poll found that Republican John McCain has broad support in the state to lead Obama by 32%age points, 56% to 24%. Seventy-one percent of those questioned say they are firm in their decisions.
The poll, sponsored by the Tulsa World and television station KOTV, is a statewide survey of 750 likely voters that was conducted July 19-23. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3.58%age points.
2008 scenario for Aussie cartoonist heaven
Monday 4 August 2008
National Missing Persons Week 3-9 August 2008
In 2008, the focus is on young people as a significant group at-risk of going missing. Out of the estimated 35,000 people who are reported missing each year, approximately 20,000 are under the age of 18.
Ph: 1800 000 634 (toll free)