The Australian cricket team whitewashed the Kiwis in the one dayers, five zip. For the second, now third best team in one day cricket in the world, to see how easily they dismantled us was quite depressing. I will cling to our one all result in the one dayers in November, with one game washed out, hmmph. Now to the test series, where we, NZ, are a lot worse than second/third in the world, eek.
Off track politics is never far away from the Formula One paddock, and here we go again with the FIA saying that the Australian courts shouldn't have juridstiction (spelling?) over what happens in the Formula One world - this is the court case that Minardi brought to get back into the race after being threatened with expulsion earlier in the week. The FIA has thrown the toys out of the cot saying that this action could have bearings on any other FIA sanctioned events in Australia, basically every motorsport event in the country apart from V8 Supercars.
On the track, was an interesting qualifying round - the track was wet but drying for the first half of the hour, and then the heavens opened, Schumacher tried intermediate tyres when really he should have gone for oars, yes the rain was that bad, and is near the back of the grid. New rules this year, the two qualifying times are added together rather than the second qualifying by itself hmmph. But Michael looked relaxed about being 24 seconds behind pole, and I thought, he has nothing left to prove to anyone in the sport, he has no money worries, he seems to have a happy life away from the track, pretty damned close to perfection. I picked the right horse when it was the Damon Hill Nigel Mansell Jacques Villenueuve options could have overshadowed Michael. Will be fun picking a new person to support if when Michael ever retires :)
OMG, four Mounties were killed today in a drugs raid west of Edmonton. When reinforcements arrived at the marijuana farm, they found the owner dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound, but the four RCMP officers dead as well, I would want to bring the killer back just to wring his neck. Hasn't been a Mounties death toll in one incident this high since 1885 - and will put a spotlight on Canada's pot laws...
Talking of shooting, hows about the US troops firing on that Italian hostage being released in Iraq. What a fuck up that was, and killed one of the Italian secret service agents - how to antagonise even your best allies, which Italy and Berlusconi is to Bush, what with the Dutch and Ukrainians the latest to bail from on the ground military presence, hmm how is that coalition of the willing holding up Dubya. Now is not the time to sabre rattle to Iran or Syria or god forbid North Korea LOL.
Hmmph, has been Star Wars Episode One on TV tonight - yes, the one with Jar Jar Binks LOL. That's the only differentiation basically between them all - start on one planet, go to another, and another and have a battle, which is only diversionary to a sneak attack to the Death Star, and insert Sand People, Ewoks, Jar Jars at your leisure LOL. Empire was the best one of the series - just let's cross our fingers that Part Three should be the fitting end (or midpoint, the way Lucas put them together turns my head around sometimes LOL) that the series deserves...
Hmm, another more local (well as local as Toronto is to Edmonton) story on those four RCMP officers killed in Alberta - for some reason, four police dying in Canada makes me think deeper than fifteen hundred American soldiers dying in Iraq - well, maybe it is the immediacy Paul - I am sure I have done deep thinking about specific news from Iraq, but it does sometimes get a drip feed feel about it all - in the train yesterday was thinking about how Madrid last March must have been, the train bombings, and the video footage of people rushing up the escalators before the next bomb blew... great, now I'm really depressing myself bleah... do the Mounties play the Last Post at their funerals?
Oh mi goodness, a state law in Texas treating unborn children as though they are already out of the womb has gotten a boyfriend of a pregnant girl up on capital murder charges. The girl encouraged the boyfriend to step on her stomach, and there was a miscarriage, but the girl isn't getting charged, just the boyfriend. Hmmph. And the co author of the law says that he feels sorry for these 'stupid immature people, but the law is the law'. Hmm, bet he wouldn't be saying that if it was his son or daughter. Nope, cutting too close to the abortion debate, I will shut up here LOL.
Later peeps
Pauly
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