Things in the news

I didnt agree with his politics, but he could spin a hell of a yarn.

Author Tom Clancy, master of the modern-day thriller, dead at 66 - CNN.com

 

Security cameras could be installed on the homes of family violence victims under a plan being considered by police.Safe Futures Foundation, the not-for-profit organisation behind the proposal, has already installed the cameras on the homes of two high-risk family violence victims.
The organisation hopes their proposal, which would begin as a trial in high-risk parts of the state, will deter estranged partners from further traumatising family violence victims.The organisation's chief executive, Janine Mahoney, said the cameras would collect evidence that police could submit to court if a perpetrator breached an intervention order by visiting their former partner's home.

CCTV plan to deter domestic violence | theage.com.au

 

Breaking: Reports of shots fired on Capitol Hill – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

worrisome news

 

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This tragic story was all over the news yesterday. Initial reports indicated that the child was at daycare and someone at the business was to blame. Bloody reporters.
It is now looking like the father forgot to drop the child off & went to work with the infant in the car all day.

 

See, I've been telling all of you this for years.

'Drinking a pint of urine every day keeps me young. And it's delicious': Glamorous mother Sylvia Chandler, 63, tells Closer revolting beauty secret | Mail Online

see avie

 

Yeeesh. Hard to think of anything worse

 

Sir Bob Geldof: 'All humans will die before 2030' | Latest News | News | Daily Star. Simply The Best 7 Days A Week

In the event that Sir Bob is rc orrery, I suggest we party like it's 1999.

amirite?

 

Idiots at FOX News celebrate National Tacos Day

 

Sometimes posting on the iPad gives unexpected results. Was supposed to say incorrect. Not sure how that became rc orrey

 

This is great!!!

The Fagbug meets Equality House - Chuck Miller

 

Abbott one month on: too many excuses, too few surprises | smh.com.au

 

ive read a lot of things about explorers from the muslim world that 'discovered' the americas way before Columbus. Zheng He, the chinese muslim explorer was one of them. Who would have thought?

 

And whilst I'm posting about Australian criminals...

They have snippets of the letter with the story
Letter sheds new light on Kelly Gang's last stand - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

I'm currently reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, an interesting book that focuses on the founding of Australia. According to Hughes, Australia's founding by criminals that were 'transported' from England has been largely ignored and/or glossed over by historians. One interesting factor is Hughes technically was not a historian, he was best known as an art critic. While I'm sure that TFS has flaws and conclusions that could be contested, at least Hughes' writing isn't as dry as that of many historians (run-on sentences and run-on paragraphs drive me crazy).

 

Opps. I didn't notice lastnight, but the automerge monster struck again. Guess I should stop using my phones browser & attempt to work out Tapatalk.
I had a story about uncle Chop Chops death here before Ned Kellys story erased it.

NOTORIOUS Melbourne criminal Mark "Chopper'' Read has died after a long battle with liver cancer.
Read, who bragged of killing more than a dozen criminals, was surrounded by family when he passed away at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.But former homicide detective Charlie Bezzina declared Read's life should not be glorified, saying: "He's been revered, and people forget his violent past."
"You can never lose sight of the fact that he was a criminal, and spent 23 years behind bars."Read, whose life was immortalised in a film starring Eric Bana, was diagnosed in April last year.Mark "Chopper'' Read has died after a long battle with liver cancer.
The 58-year old's death comes just two weeks after he performed a sold-out stand-up show at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre.
He was admitted to hospital just days later butwent home last week to be with his familybefore returning to hospital.
Doctors had told the father of two that he would not live beyond Christmas.In August, Read told the Herald Sun he would prove the doctors wrong."I took great offence at that. I told her: 'How dare you predict my death at Christmas! I'll tell you when I'm going to die, not you tell me','' he said.
No Cookies | Herald Sun

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Chris Noyb if you are interested in Australias criminal past, I can recommend a book by Evan McHugh called "Bushrangers, Australias greatest self-made heroes"
It tells the stories of folk heros like Ned Kelly and villains like Pearce the cannibal.
Bushrangers - Australia's Greatest Self-made Heroes | Paperbacks | ABC Shop