WHAT'S MAKING NEWS TODAY? 2012 edition

[Hairs]

My other half is due to arrive in Port Lincoln tomorrow
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-20/another-sa-bushfire-threatens-homes/4381870

Hope all is well.
Some more pictures.
Port Lincoln Fires

[Clouty]

You'd be the talk of the town cruising around the cape and outback oz...
I think I've come to conclusion that I like it...

[bobnrob]

Here, let me help you out.  From the article:

"His Facebook friends said they had experienced similar encounters with police.

Some claimed police had listened in to mobile phone conversations before stopping them."

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police pulled him over for a random breath test after listening in on a conversation between him and his wife, who was also in the car.

One woman said "my friend got pulled over for talking on the phone, and he [the police officer] said he was listening in to the conversation and knew she was calling work to tell them she would be late".

Doesn't read like phone tapping to me!

Some claimed police had listened in to mobile phone conversations before stopping them.

This part could be taken as phone tapping, but with the vein of the story, I'm guessing also 1 sided listening!

He said police fined 46,667 motorists for using phones while driving in 2011, and had cracked down on the offence in recent weeks.

Again...only one side of a conversation needed to be heard to know the person's using their phone...unless the driver's a fruitloop talking to themself

But you read it your way, and I'll read it the right way!

[Heiny]

Bushfires threaten Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula, I wish them well and hope there remain to be no lives lost today.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/firefighters-brace-as-raging-fire-bears-down-on-port-lincoln-on-the-eyre-peninsula/story-e6frea83-1226520728951

[Bird]

Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of Dallas, died on Friday, the Dallas Morning News reported. He was 81.

Hagman died at a Dallas hospital of complications from his battle with cancer, the newspaper said, quoting a statement from his family. He had suffered from cancer and cirrhosis of the liver in the 1990s after decades of drinking


http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/larry-hagman-dies-aged-81-20121124-29zyk.html

[Black Diamond]

He was a great actor and that show was huge back in the day

BD

[Jason B]

Two of my previous Ministers are mixed up in one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit the NSW Government and the mining industry.

So much for leading by example. Pack of turds. They sack all the actual good loyal workers so they can feather their own nests. Should exterminate the top tier and let the workers run the joint. It couldn't be any worse.

Rant over.

I hope they both enjoy a view from long bay and get the silver service : a 6 foot 8 bikie dude offering to push their stool in for them twice a day. 

[Bird]

He was a great actor and that show was huge back in the day

BD

I just wanna know if he nailed Genie - if not did he not like girls

[Bird]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/jib-collapses-after-crane-catches-fire-at-uts-20121127-2a4e7.html
Love the commentary

VERY impressive noise when crane crashes to ground

[Bird]

if you ever doubted how bad this country is getting

A man has been robbed while having an epileptic seizure at a Brunswick West bus stop.

Moreland resident Mark Hendy, 32, told a local newspaper that he was "shocked, appalled and livid" by the incident, in which he was robbed of a bag containing a wallet, mobile phone, letters and iPod.

Mr Hendy was at the Moreland Road bus stop about 3pm on Thursday November 15 when he had the seizure.

He recalled seeing two other men at the bus stop then a "white flash and a black flash" as he had the seizure. After that he lost consciousness.

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When he regained consciousness, lying bruised on the footpath, his bag had vanished.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/epileptic-robbed-in-busstop-fit-20121128-2acr8.html#ixzz2DTNSa5oy

[Bunyip]

if you ever doubted how bad this country is getting

Oh dear, that is way past sad or annoying, in fact is is way lower than human behaviour.

If they are ever caught (not that I would count on that) then there is no punishment legal in Australia that would suffice.

Bunyip

[Top.ender]

if you ever doubted how bad this country is getting

As ditasteful as that is , and I know its easy said than done but.........its important to to keep telling ourselves that these things are rare and generally the world is full of decent people.....just like on MySwag

[cruisindub]

These things are rare?   Sorry mate, can't agree withyou there.

Today a blind man was beaten up for taking too long to cross the road. Guide dog in hand as well.

Sickening and disgusting.

Just as well guns are not allowed in this country. Be anothef gun statistic right there.
Sickening and disgusting ......!!!   Thats the state of our current society.

Forgive me ffr being a Tad cynical about this.

[achjimmy]

These things are rare?   Sorry mate, can't agree withyou there.

Today a blind man was beaten up for taking too long to cross the road. Guide dog in hand as well.

Sickening and disgusting.

Just as well guns are not allowed in this country. Be anothef gun statistic right there.
Sickening and disgusting ......!!!   Thats the state of our current society.

Forgive me ffr being a Tad cynical about this.

Sorry dub disagree, maybe if a good bystander had a " gun" that oxygen thief would no longer be stealing Air.

[cruisindub]

I think we do agree Jim.

I'm sure we are of the same idea.

Thats what I was referring to, justas well good citizens aren't allowed to carry, be another statistic right there
...........   

I'm sure there's a few who would step up and ensure justice is servved.....

[Bird]

How about this pearler!!!

The United States planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb during the cold war, according to reports.

The secret project, dubbed 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights' or 'Project A119', was allegedly devised by US military chiefs at the height of the space race in the late 1950s as a show of strength over the Soviet Union, scientists claim.

According to reports, the US would have used an atom bomb because a hydrogen bomb would have been too heavy.

A missile carrying the bomb would have been launched from an undisclosed location on Earth and travel to the moon, where it would detonate on impact.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/us-planned-to-blow-up-the-moon-20121128-2aejm.html#ixzz2DYGJUvwM

[cruisindub]

Awesome.
no more tides, howling wolves, excuses for crazy people, moonlit walks, lunar cycles, umpteen other things, ..... the mind boggles.

Is it really possible to blow up a moon.? Now there's a good experiment!

Mythbusters anyone?

[cancan]

Is it really possible to blow up a moon.? Now there's a good experiment!

Mythbusters anyone?

Now let me see...where did I put the nuclear missile that I was saving for a rainy day

[D4D]

Interesting, I never thought of parts being used overseas but it makes sense for global car models.
http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/stolen-car-export-business-booms-20121130-2al4n.html

[UIZ733]

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/11/rolf-harris-questioned-in-connection-to-savile-case-2505056.html

[D4D]

It would be great to join the Lovick's in a muster

Alpine cattle grazing is in the blood of the Lovick family
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/born-to-ride-in-the-forests-of-the-high-country-20121201-2ao4q.html

[Hairs]

Move to block foreign land sales
This is a good thing IMO.

Ausbuy on Wednesday presented 50,000 signatures from people calling for a moratorium on the sale of Australian farmland to foreign investors to the cross-party group.

I don't have a problem with leasing land, but I do with selling it.

[Bird]

Move to block foreign land sales
This is a good thing IMO.I don't have a problem with leasing land, but I do with selling it.

yea I agree.. but not sure you can stop it.

If someone offers you triple the market rate for your land (which may not be worth much at moment) for farming, I'd/you'd be pissed if someone stopped it - I would.. specially people who are just walkin off their land (I struggle to understand that concept)

[Hairs]

yea I agree.. but not sure you can stop it.

If someone offers you triple the market rate for your land (which may not be worth much at moment) for farming, I'd/you'd be pissed if someone stopped it - I would.. specially people who are just walkin off their land (I struggle to understand that concept)

Yeah, I realize that people will be very tempted to sell and especially when they don't have the capital to pump into they land to make it profitable, the dangling carrot of being debt free is hard to knock back.

[Barry G]

Not like they can actually take the farmland anywhere...
I have a bigger problem with the OS wealthy pushing up the price of housing by buying it up for their poor little rich children when they send them here to study, etc.
Such wealthy 'buy ups' put far more pressure on our housing and economy than do either rural land purchases or refugees.
... but thats OK folks, they came by air and with a fat bank account...