One of a series of nine 2004 pastels. I love this one, it's a charming little drawing with bags of bright colour.

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Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

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Bikies made me do it
By KAREN MICHELMORE
26 Feb 2005

A teenager told police he killed two Thai prostitutes as a "favour" for the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang, a Darwin court heard yesterday.

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Tests, Tests, Tests and more Tests, The biggest testing center in the world with personality, intelligence, relationship, career and mental health related tests.

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[format = N. Rockchild's Question
Rantzalot's Answer]

1. When a girl says "see you later", does it mean that she will see me later, or was she joking?
   If she is honest she will see you later, if she's dishonest she will not see you later, if she's unsure she might be joking.
2. Does your feet smell, or your husbands, wifes, boyfriends, or girlfriends?
   Yes my feet smell, my wife's feet smell and my boyfriend's feet smell.
3. Who’s feet smells the worst?
   My feet smell the worst of the group specified by Rockchild.
4. If you had three wishes, but couldn’t ask for money, couldn’t ask for a house or car, move somewhere else, or stop someone’s feet from smelling, what would you ask for?
   
   1. Wish 1 would be that I could indeed ask for anything without restrictions established by Rockchild
   2. Wish 2 would be that I have three houses - one in the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, one in the bush south of Darwin and one on Magnetic Island.
   3. Wish 3 would be that I have a pilot and an aeroplane (Wonder Woman and her plane would suit me just find - see last question/answer for more on Wonder Woman) to transport me from one abode to other two at my whim.
5. Was you ever told a secret, that you was suppose to keep secret, but you couldn’t keep a secret, so you told someone this secret, so it was not a secret anymore?
   Yes.
6. What was the secret?
   I told a dear friend's partner that said friend was taking said partner on a cruise from Australia to New Zealand and Fiji and back again as a fiftieth birthday gift - friend's partner really, really, really needed to know so as to arrange passport and get a Brazilian because it was a nude (i.e. clothing optional) cruise.
7. I love my grandma, but she has a problem, and I wont say it here, but what would you do if your grandma smelled?
   I'd tell her and then say, "Just joking Granny, it's your cat that smells, not you."
8. My friend Sally stuck her tongue in my mouth one time, what was I suppose to do with it?
   Push it to one side and stick your tongue in her mouth and wiggle it around a bit and then say, "Ooooh, that's so gross."
9. Did you ever get hit by a car and lived to tell about it?
   Yes, twice: one riding my bicycle at night in a heavy Monsoonal trough and once whilst walking across a Zebra crossing.
10. Which one of these Superhero’s would you like to be and why? Wonder Woman, Cat Woman, Spiderman, the Hulk, or Kama Sutra?
    I'd be Spiderman and my partner would be Wonder Woman and we could each use our various binding powers to tie each other up (and down and all around). When I was but a wee lad I wanted to get tied up by Wonder Woman and after all these years it's still a great fantasy.

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for lesbians who love bondage, discipline, sado-masochism and great fuckin' kink

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This post is a review of a Laila's Weblog - A Journey Through Life in order to either win Chips or gain BS$.

Laila's blog is, as she says, "...about her journey through life fulfilling unfinished business and promises, searching for the missing pieces that will soon complete her existence...". Laila's blog takes us through many of her life experiences (e.g. most recently the health of her brother) as well as provides us with some of the activities she gets up to online (e.g. BlogShares). Laila has used her skills on BlogShares to make real dollars in order to help fund medical treatment for her brother, Nasser.

As a user of FireFox, Laila's blog at time jiggles when using mouse over links (e.g. Monthly Archives to the right of her blog posts. This is most disconcerting whilst trying to read the blog but it doesn't - at least for me - when I power up IE (which I am loathe to do).

I find the static image (i.e. the flowers) to decrease the readability of the posts without having to scroll up and down for particular paragraphs. A lighter static image could help with this difficulty.

The boxes that appear on mouse-over are easy to read in FireFox but difficult in IE: a good example of the various implementations of CSS across platforms.

Whilst Laila's blog isn't one that I would read daily I'll certainly put it on my monthly list - just to follow Nasser's health.

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Forma Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson enta tha courtoom wit his defense attorneys Robert Nigh, left, n Clizzark Pimp before tha start of proceed'n at tha Creek County Courthizouse in Sapulpa, Okla., Thursday, Jan in tha hood. 20, 2005. Three indecent exposure charges wizzle filed against Thompson, who is accused of killa sexual acts while saggin' over court cases and yo momma.

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Pot Noodle was launched nationally in the UK in 1979, and is now the 23rd largest food brand in the UK.

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'I'm a bit too old to be fighting with kids' which is true, I am 23 this year. He replied 'F*ck off your not 23 this year'

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'You can make an ink-jet printer do just about anything,' says Cantu, who is head chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago, US, and a keen advocate of the high-tech kitchen. The printer's cartridges are loaded with fruit and vegetable concoctions instead of ink, and the paper tray contains edible sheets of soybean and potato starch. Cantu then prints out tasty versions of images he has downloaded from the web.

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

-- Albert Einstein

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She Weevils almost never bite - well only in the throes of love-making anyway - so don't be afraid to say hi.

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It's been a while since a blogSPAMlinking appeared on these rantz so I thought it best to delete the bugger of a thing but document its creator and the lame text that tried to flatter whilst promoting crap. Here be it:

The author was lisa and here is what she had to say for herself:

lisa sayeth -->>>

I like this weblog. I think I am gonna post my message here.
9:07 PM

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Once again, the Evil of the United States is making its Evil presence known to all and sundry by its attempts at banning needle exchange - even the concept of Harm Reduction - by doing its damned best to ensure that the United Nations doesn't promot - or even mention such measures.

First, read this open letter to the to the delegates of the Forty-eighth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) from Antonio Maria Costa - the head of UNODC - to Bobby Charles at the US State Department:

In a year when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is chair of the governing body of the UN's Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), we write to express concern about U.S. efforts to force a UNODC retreat from support of syringe exchange, methadone maintenance and other measures proven to contain the spread of HIV among drug users. Injection drug use accounts for the majority of HIV infections in dozens of countries in Asia and the former Soviet Union, including Russia, China, all of Central Asia, and much of Southeast Asia. In most countries outside Africa, the largest number of new infections now occur among injection drug users. As UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa noted at the July 2004 International AIDS Conference, effective responses to injection driven AIDS epidemics require expanded HIV prevention, including syringe exchange, rather than policies that accelerate HIV infections through widespread and indiscriminate imprisonment.

Unfortunately, recent events suggest that UNODC-under pressure from the United States-is being asked to withdraw support from proven HIV prevention strategies at precisely the moment when increased commitment to measures such as syringe exchange and opiate substitution treatment is needed. It is particularly alarming that the silencing of UNODC is occurring in a year when the agency is chair of UNAIDS' Committee of Co-sponsoring Organizations and in a year when HIV prevention is a focus of thematic debate at the 48th meeting of the CND. Among the events that have particularly heightened our concern are:

* Mr. Costa, who last year expressed support for positive changes in the Russian criminal code, expansion of syringe exchange in countries facing injection driven epidemics and other measures to reduce drug-related harm, has apparently been rebuked by the U.S. State Department. Following a meeting with Robert Charles, U.S. Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Mr. Costa pledged to review all UNODC electronic and printed documents for references to "harm reduction" and to be "even more vigilant in the future."

* In Southeast Asia, UNODC has suspended a program that sought reduce drug users' vulnerability to HIV prevention through approaches that emphasized public health and drug users' human rights, rather than punishment.

* Even syringe exchange, affirmed as an effective and essential part of HIV prevention by UNAIDS, WHO, and UN member nations, has become politically unpalatable. A November e-mail from a senior UNODC staff member asked junior staff to "to ensure that references to harm reduction and needle/syringe exchange are avoided in UNODC documents, publications and statements."

We recognize that UNODC is dependent on contributions from donor nations, and that the U.S. is the single largest donor to UN drug control. At the same time, the lives of hundreds of thousands depend on sound, scientific approaches to HIV prevention. Numerous studies, including U.S. government studies, have found that strategies such as syringe exchange and methadone maintenance demonstrably diminish HIV transmission and other health risks. The fact that U.S. delegates declare the evidence in support of syringe exchange "unconvincing," as they did in last year's CND session, should not be allowed to determine the course of the UN drug control and HIV prevention efforts, which are inextricably and essentially linked. Nor should UNODC-a co-sponsor of UNAIDS, and an agency with an essential role to play in the course of the HIV epidemic-be asked to refrain from public statements about needle exchange simply because they do not fall within the realm of what the U.S. deems acceptable.

Strategies that attempt solely to achieve abstinence from drug use do not constitute an acceptable alternative to programs, such as syringe exchange, that help active drug users protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Experience has shown that "zero tolerance" drug control efforts can have the effect of driving injection drug users underground and away from drug treatment and other health services. This is particularly true where, as in many countries, counter-narcotics efforts lead to false arrest, beatings and extortion by police, prolonged detention without trial, forced drug treatment, disproportionate incarceration in cruel conditions and, in some cases, extrajudicial execution. Programs such as syringe exchange and opiate substitution, by contrast, both prevent HIV infection and provide a bridge to other health services. Restricting these programs is a blatant infringement of drug users' human right to health.

As you gather this year to debate HIV/AIDS prevention and drug abuse, we respectfully urge you to support syringe exchange, opiate substitution treatment and other harm reduction approaches demonstrated to reduce HIV risk; to affirm the human rights of drug users to health and health services; and to reject efforts to overrule science and tie the hands of those working on the front lines. No less than the future of the HIV epidemic is at stake.

cc:
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
World Health Organization
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Second, undertake the following:

1. As an organization or as an individual add your support now to the Open Letter (the text follows below). It will be sent to delegates of the Forty-eighth session of CND.

To sign simply send your name, organisation, city and country and email to Jennifer Nagle Indicate whether this is organisational or individual support.

The letter will be delivered to all CND delegates and to Antonio Maria Costa.

2. Inform your media contacts of US pressure on the UN and encourage them to cover this story.

3. Contact your national delegations to CND (this will be your government department that deals with international drug affairs).

Inform them about HIV/AIDS and about this threat the HIV prevention. Briefings are very important as in many countries the national delegations comprise mainly of law enforcement representatives who are often badly informed on HIV/AIDS.

Inform them of UN commitments:
Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: http://www.un.org/ga/aids/docs/aress262.pdf
The UN position paper on HIV/AIDS prevention for drug users: http://www.cicad.oas.org/en/Resources/UNHIVaids.pdf

4. Use your NGO ECOSOC status if you have it, to attend CND and participate in the official NGO forum scheduled at the meeting.

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Former Creek County District Judge Donald Thompson enters the courtoom with his defense attorneys Robert Nigh, left, and Clark Brewster before the start of proceedings at the Creek County Courthouse in Sapulpa, Okla., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. Three indecent exposure charges were filed against Thompson, who is accused of improper sexual acts while presiding over court cases.

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