After the event, no one wants to know!

So they make all these outrageous claims of "benefits".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/state-government-hails-world-youth-day-a-success/2008/11/18/1226770451116.html

Now they are being asked to prove it, and they don't want to.

A reasonable person might ask "Why?"

A cynical response might be "Because they might be shown to have wasted the money."

No wonder NSW is doing so badly.

What next? They can't prove that spending millions of dollars on that V8 Supercar race in Homebush - we won't be surprised at that outcome.

Pirates, but of a different sort

So what have authorities been doing about piracy?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/pirates-are-very-good/2008/11/18/1226770413138.html

Seems that they're just paying up and encouraging this behaviour...??

It was taken 730km off the coast - that is a loooong way...

Apparently its been taken to their lair/port.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/saudi-supertanker-taken-to-somali-pirate-lair/2008/11/19/1226770486149.html

More costs to business being passed down to the consumer, because the companies didn't stand up to the pirates in the first place. Paying them only gets them better equipped for next time!

The Poms are idiots

Just read this - they're absolute nutcases.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24672187-23109,00.html

A parent should have the right to discipline their children and not have some nosey dim-witted twit report them for trying to get the child to behave properly. That the police get involved is even more stupid - go stop a thief, or even better - stop those teenage kids from stabbing each other!

These morons that let their children go wild should be the ones locked up now, because children raised without appropriate discipline will be the next generation of thieves, muggers, druggies, murderers, etc. Damn you slackers for dragging down the rest of society.

Useless nosey people, and useless cops!!