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Ms Gillard sat and watched as Craig Thomson spoke to the House of Representatives for one hour carried live on television.

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Ms Gillard sat and watched as Craig Thomson spoke to the House of Representatives for one hour carried live on television.   She watched as Mr Thomson used the Parliament's time, the nation's time and a good deal of the parliament's standing to suggest that a union organiser Marco Bolano had set him up with "hookers" to ruin his political career.

Children watched this happen.   Aspiring leaders saw the result of toughing it out.  Many foolish commentators called the behaviours tough, bulletproof, gutsy.

But that's not what it was.  It was tawdry and cheap and beneath the dignity and privilege of the Parliament.

Like the Coat of Arms atop the Parliament House building, the virtues found in our character will endure.  They might be temporarily usurped by people of bad character, but like Gillard's government, that can only ever be temporary.

Today I hope we remember the lies, the bad behaviour, the coverups, the corruption.   Today I hope we mark a conscious decision to reassert our values, to reassert the privilege and responsibilities of the parliament and the people it represents.

It would be wrong simply to forget, to say it belongs to the past, to let it go.  Justice must be done and manifestly seen to be done.

I wish Tony Abbott and his ministry well.  While he might find it personally distasteful, he must make certain we don't forget what his predecessors did.   Or the consequences that should be coming their way.

Ready for the next 9/11? Israel is!

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At least two foreign companies play key roles in processing the information.

Specifically, an Israeli company called Narus processes all of the information tapped by AT &T (AT & T taps, and gives to the NSA, copies of all phone calls it processes), and an Israeli company called Verint processes information tapped by Verizon (Verizon also taps, and gives to the NSA, all of its calls).

Kill Oz, Vol. 2

Guess Who Gets To Go Through Airport Security Again Tomorrow? |

Guess Who Gets To Go Through Airport Security Again Tomorrow? |


I plan on asking every cab driver in whose cab I ride whether they did any of these things in the backseat:

- Changed a diaper
- Used hand lotion/body cream/anti-fungal cream
- Sat in the back after playing golf
- Got mud in their floorboards
- Ate bacon/hot dog/cured meat
- Drank water

See, “nitrates” in all these things will trigger the TSA’s Official Terrorist Alarm whilst I undergo their security screening and I don’t want to be held responsible for some terrorist cab driver’s water-swilling, hand-lotioning ways. I once accidentally took a bullet in my carry-on for a cross-country trip but look out, hand lotion.

This guy got a finger wagging from the TSA for showing the insipid weakness of their Backscatter machines. I thought the machines were perfect? To hear the TSA explain it, they don’t douse your body with a questionable amount of radiation, they pelt your body with cupcakes and sugar. Who doesn’t love cupcakes and sugar? Terrorists, that’s who. I kid you not, in Dallas I had a TSA agent shout at me that “radio waves aren’t radiation.”

Scientists spoke out against the Backscatters, but luckily the CEO knows the President well enough to fly around with him. I’m sure that helps in bypassing pesky health certifications.

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