Rates Up... Howard Out

Well, Mr Core Promise has broken it yet again...

 

I am not arguing about the interest rates themselves, I am not too bothered as I am in a fixed rate and will be for some time, but the point is that Howard keeps arguing about how good it is for the average Australian and really it isnt.  We live in a world of credit and pay through the nose for everything due to compounding taxes (state based stamp duty is taxed by the Federal GST).

 

Petrol this morning was a $1.36 at Glenbrook this morning and the price of groceries is obscene.  I had to buy some spare razor blades for my razor - something like $24 for 5 blades?!  WTF is that?!

 

Rudd wont be able to correct the rises... my point is he wasnt the one saying that a Liberal government would keep rates low and that they'd go up with a Labor government... unfortunately he has been exposed yet again for the crock of shit liar that he really is.

Bindeez - GBH Shock

My girls love "Bindeez"... turns out they've been contaminated with GBH... sickos.

 

Story:  LINK

Repeat Post - Melbourne Cup Blows

This is what I said on this day last year.

 

My views have not changed.  However, to add to my bitter relationship to the Melb Cup, it appears that I wasnt added to some sort of email distribution list for North Sydney staff when I joined my new job 3 months ago and I was not aware today was a) Mufti Day b) that the Office Sweeps were drawn YESTERDAY and c) that there is a function on at 2pm that I had to RSVP to.

 

So my day is even shittier... 

Weekend Wrap

Well, the weather went from really crap through to really good yesterday and disappointingly my Saturday cricket was washed out... which meant I found myself at Bunnings on Saturday afternoon instead stocking up on things for the "odd jobs" that had been building up...

 

So, I found myself successfully re-valving the toilet in the ensuite, changing halogen lightbulbs that had gone out, fixing some door stops, put up a new curtain rod in Brookie's bedroom but the damn cold tap in the ensuite wouldnt budge when I tried to change the valve in that!  Can someone explain to me how you take off a bell cover off a tap when it has been perhaps cross threaded without destroying the white enamal?  I tried WD40, hot (boiling) water and all sorts of attempts to grip it but it wouldnt budge.  So the tap in the ensuite remains unuseable (its not dripping, no water comes out at all!).  Seems silly to call a plumber out for just one freaking tap, but thats what it may boil down to...

 

Also with all the rain, I found 4 big (and I mean BIG) funnel web spiders nesting in the eaves above the back door under the pergola.  Funnel webs that were 3 cm in diameter and black and evil looking were sitting in their funnel webs... now they'd be just eating bugs and flies, but they are nasty and if one of the kids were bitten it could be curtains for them!  So I carefully soaked them in bug spray... they got angry and rared up, but when the got sluggish, I flicked them off the eaves with a broom and then squashed them under my trusty sandals.... The kids were at the glass doors freaking out, but it reinforced the "no shoes, no play" philosophy.  I do recall later on the Sunday, Brooke calling out when she was on the trampoline because she had dropped her shoes and was now marooned on the trampoline, too scared to come down!  LOL.

 

Sunday, a much better day weather wise was spent with Niki's sister and family coming over for lunch.  Because the weather looked so bad on Saturday we cancelled any ideas of a BBQ so Niki made lasagne and salads... but in hindsight the day was beautiful.  The kids played on the piano, my nephew Alex was playing his clarinet and it turned into a musical day... mind you my headache later in the day was a bad side effect.  Our guests left at 5:30, but by 7pm I laid down to see off the headache... the next thing I knew it was 9pm and the girls were waking me up to say good night!!

 

Feel good today though... and the weather has turned bad again, we're supposed to get 7 days of rain apparently...

Martina Hingis Drug Test

Martina Hingis tests positive for Cocaine... and then says she's innocent, but then retires instead of defending herself.  Very odd behaviour of an innocent person... she is effectively pleading guilty via her actions.

 

And guess what.  She is guilty.  Listen to this world:

 

"Rich people who have more money than they know what to do with, take drugs!"

 

Is that so hard to understand?  What does a person do with millions of dollars?  They do the things that if they were poor they couldnt do and presumably that includes sticking cocaine up your nose.

 

Whilst I always enjoyed Hingis as a player when compared to the muscle bound behemoths that are the Williams sisters and Moresmo (sp?) she was a breath of fresh air... but you know what, she's only a rich girl with a drug habit in the end.  Sad, but true.

Jesus!

And I dont mean "Jesus!" in the "hallelujah" sense, but rather in the "Jesus Christ, what are they doing now!" sense....

An American Church has been picketing and protesting funerals for dead US soldiers from Iraq / Afghanistan with slogans such as "Thank God For Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates America"...

Link

US$ Craziness

The Aussie dollar has hit US 93 cents... that, in my life time is unprecedented and given when I went to the US at one stage with the rate at 43 cents, I cannot fathom how this change has come on... the US cut interest rates last night whilst ours will probably go up next week so I anticipate this rate differential will see the Aussie dollar surge past the $1 mark and we will be stronger than the US currency.

 

And why do I propose this macro-economic theory on Foreign Exchange and how its influenced by the differentials in interest rates?  Is it because I am concerned about our budget surplus isnt working hard enough to pay off foreign debt?  Am I worried about the "Economic Tsunami" that Treasurer Peter Costello predicted last week?  Am I worried that the floundering US economy may propagate further military adventurism from the US as they seek to gain resources by force??

 

NO!

 

I am thinking of all the shit I can buy from the US at huge discounts!!  For me, next month, I expect to place large orders at www.us.gamesworkshop.com; www.amazon.com; www.thinkgeek.com; www.wizards.com; and of course I will be browsing www.ebay.com for bargains as well!!

 

Happy Days!

 

It is my birthday in early December,.... dont say I haven't directed you to somewhere appropriate for all your "Clay Gift Buying" needs :-)