Update

I am going down for V's father's funeral. During the day I was still umming and ahhing, but rang her in my breaks and hearing how she was decided it for me. As she said, she would have been able to cope with it herself well enough I am sure, but me being there will add to her coping mechanisms. Have got verbal agreement from my boss to take two days off next week, the funeral will be Monday, will just have to run it past the agency and the bigger boss, but really, I'm not getting paid for any time off at the moment anyways, and I am giving them notice, and it is a very very valid reason (not just a self induced headache or anything) so why do I need permission?

The Air India trial in Vancouver ended yesterday, with the two people up on charges acquitted - from how I read it, it was mainly because the judge believed the prosecution witnesses were unreliable, rather than the fact that the accused were totally innocent, but still, no sense of justice for the relatives of the dead. I remember Lockerbie and the USS Vincennes shooting down the Iranian plane in the Gulf, but the Air India bombing was just a bit too early for me to be interested in international geopolitics - 1985 and all, nine years old LOL.

Thinking about the Irish issues at the moment, two months ago I am sure that Gerry Adams wasn't expecting a brush off from the White House, let alone Ted Kennedy, and alternately, the McCartney sisters couldn't have ever in their wildest dreams think they were ever going to meet Dubya.

With baseball mired in the drug hearings, hockey on a hiatus, and basketball turning more violent by the month, here is a good article about integrity in US sport, mainly on the topic of politics. Warning to any conservative readers, I surely must have some out there who stumble in here looking for Rebecca Twigley LOL, the story has a decidedly lefty anti Dubya slant in who it likes... but a good article for either side of politics if you can get past that... oh, no, that's right, sports and politics don't mix LOL, it was just a coincidence that there were protestors at the Springbok tour in 1981 and the fact that most of Africa boycotted Montreal because NZ was there lol - probably our greatest impact on international sport :) C'mon Kiwi c'mon indeed LOL...

Why on Earth did President Bush nominate Paul Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank?? A person who likes military hard power going into economics, like what the hell is going on? Is it a two fingered salute from Washington to the international community, the fact that in this era of HUGE budget deficits there wasn't anyone better qualified to nominate, or possibly with John Bolton going to the UN, maybe Bush is getting all the neo-cons out of the administration? That last one if true, let's rumour monger here lol, means international short term pain but if realists are back in control of the administration, hmm, what a double game LOL. Personally I think it is the fingers though...

On the day that GM gave it's worst profit warning in ten years, and oil just keeps going higher and higher, and I think I saw yesterday Greenspan noting that the current situation in the US economy is unsustainable? He wouldn't have been that clear, would he LOL?

Good. Scott Peterson got the death penalty for killing his wife. I am still unsure whether you can actually bring a murder case for someone unborn, but I agree with the verdict in relation to the wife. Not so much that Laci had a nice smile all American mom blah blah, but just the fact that he did a fake sob story and then tried to get to Mexico didn't impress me with his believability. Not that I actually believe in the death penalty, but just the way he tried to fake everything grrr.

Okies think that's about it from tonight - tomorrow night drinkies with workmates - with the V thing, will be more sombre than it was, but fingers crossed will be a few smiles and cute girls in there lol - as long as I look only it should be fine?

Pauly