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1) Redneck Wonderland

So, young Aussies are showing their colours in Sydney:

A BARE-CHESTED youth in Quiksilver boardshorts tore the headscarf off the girl's head as she slithered down the Cronulla dune seeking safety on the beach from a thousand-strong baying mob.
Up on the road, Marcus "Carcass" Butcher, 28, a builder from Penrith, wearing workboots, war-camouflage shorts and black singlet bearing the words "Mahommid was a camel f---ing faggot" raised both arms to the sky. "F--- off, Leb," he cried victoriously.
It was one last act of cowardly violence on a sad and shameful day that began as a beach party celebrating a kind of perverted nationalism that was gatecrashed by racism.

Wicked.

You've got to wonder why any Lebonese went down to the beach when they must have been aware there were thousands of people there ready to try and lynch them.

Then again, how can you expect a nation's youth to behave intelligently or ethically when its leaders are so shamelessly bloodthirsty themselves?

If Australia as a nation doesn't have any qualms about attacking innocent people why should its public?

And when you deliberately treat your people like fools:

It was only the fourth time in more than three decades a sitting prime minister has been censured and the second in Mr Howard's seven-and-a-half years in office.
The motion attacked Mr Howard for failing to adequately inform Australians that intelligence agency warnings about a war with Iraq would increase the likelihood of a terrorist attack.
It also noted that no evidence had yet been produced by Mr Howard to justify his claims that in March this year, Iraq possessed stockpiles of completed biological chemical weapons that justified going to war.

surely then it is appropriate they behave like fools.

New Zealand is much more civilised we just throw water on them foreignors.

2) Investigate Reporting 101

Last week the NZ Herald threw all its investigative might into an expose on Marc Ellis' behaviour at a cricket match:

Sports and television celebrity Marc Ellis admits he stripped down to his underwear in a corporate box at the end of the troublesome one-day international at Eden Park on Saturday. However, the 34-year-old says it is "preposterous" to suggest he was one of the cricket fans on the verge of being kicked out of the ground for bad behaviour.

The story's headline "Ellis strips down to boxers at cricket" could possibly have been retitled - Who Gives A Fuck?

Speaking of not giving a fuck, TVNZ revealed yesterday that National is pulling further ahead in the polls. They don't mention the next election is 30-odd months away.

3) Stop Borat.com

In more interesting news there is an official Kazakhstani website to stop Borat taking the piss.

As they rightly say: "Do not make bad the good name of our country!!!!"

Borat has already formally apologised to the good people of Kazakhstan though:

"Since the 2003 reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized as any country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus. Homosexuals have no longer to wear blue hats. And age of consent has been raised to eight years old. Please, captains of industry, I encourage you come to Kazakhstan where we have incredible natural resources, hard working labour and some of the cleanest prostitutes in whole of Central Asia."

4) Jonah and the Whale of a bet

Centrebet has Jonah Lomu at $6 to play for the All Blacks in the 2007 rugby world cup.

5) Calling all people who haven't defected to PR, yet

For any hacks out there the 2006 Qantas Media Awards are open and entries being called for.