I can't understand why the South Australian State Government is going to sock it to public transportation with the rise in fuel costs being passed on to the poor users of the (rather decrepit) system. Seems to me that we should be encouraging public transportation. Why not give public transport users a tax break to encourage them to use the system. Interesting to note that all the other state government charges are going up, including speeding fines. New South Wales and Victoria are planning increases more in line with CPI. They must have been planning to use the Snowy Mountain sell off to keep costs in line (Sorry that didn't work out). Must be time to balance the budget.
While Honest John flatly rejected claims that the proposed changes to immigration laws were a response to pressure from Indonesia, Senator Manystones repeated what she told the Senate on Tuesday: that the policy was a balanced response to three considerations.
These were Australia's international obligations, the need for strong border protection and "our foreign affairs obligation to keep good relations with our neighbours".
For Scotland it was always what coulda been. In 1974, in West Germany, the last time Australia were in the World Cup Finals, in a parallel with Australia's current group, Scotland were in a group with Brazil, Yugoslavia (Croatia was part of this Soviet era mega state) and Zaire. They managed to beat Zaire 2-0, drew with Brazil 0-0 and Yugoslavia 1-1. They still went out on goal difference to Brazil 3 scored 0 conceded) to Scotlands (3 scored to 1 conceded). Heartbreak for the nation.The hopes of the nation never really recovered from the confidence that they had in the team going to Argentina, enthusiastically talked up by Ally McLeod and the final result. Many Scots not only thought that the Scottish team would not only do well, but win the whole thing.Ally's Tartan Army
We're on the march wi' Ally's Army,
We're going tae the Argentine,
And we'll really shake them up,
When we win the World Cup,
'Cos Scotland is the greatest football team,We're representing Britain,
And we're gaunny do or die,
England cannae dae it,
'Cos they didnae qualify!We're on the march wi' Ally's Army,
We're going tae the Argentine,
And we'll really shake them up,
When we win the World Cup,
'Cos Scotland is the greatest football team,
All in a losing cause as Scotland had to win by three clear goals to eliminate the Dutch, winning 3-2 in the end (and going home).
I read recently that this version of the Scotland strip was considered one of the top ten World Cup Strips of all times and a major fashion item in Germany. Out of bad things at least some rays of sunlight. The only good thing about Scotland not qualifying is that they would not be able to inflict the soul destroying loss of hope that would accompany another poor performance on the big stage.
Although China insists it invented the ancient game, some of the countries leading golf executives have finally conceded Scotland has the better claim. Jeffrey Kao, general manager of Lake Malaren, Shanghai's leading private members' club, said: "After seeing the country and playing the historic courses I would say that the home of golf is definitely Scotland and in particular St Andrews."
Another executive agreed: "The Chinese may have hit balls with sticks before they did in Scotland but they didn't have golf courses and they don't have the tradition and history of the game."Scotland's main claim to being the home of golf lies in reports of play on the links at St Andrews for more than six centuries. The renowned Old Course is one of the world's oldest and is where the modern game was shaped.
A spokesman for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, the sport's governing body, said Scotland was the first country to "rationalise" the game and apply a set of rules. "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries in many countries," he said. "But we like to think that the game as we know it today with 18 holes, tees, fairways, greens and a specific target into which a ball is hit was invented in Scotland."Callum Todd, one of Scotland's leading course designers, said: "The Chinese may have played a similar game but it didn't evolve into golf. The acid test is where the first proper golf course came into being and it certainly wasn't China."
Todd said golf in Scotland may have evolved from a game played by the Dutch on ice and transported across the North Sea by traders sometime around the 12th century. "The first recorded game at St Andrews was in the 15th century but the sport had probably been around in the St Andrews area for a couple of centuries before that."
Glad that is settled. Now the Scots can rake in Chinese golf dollars without a loss of face for the guests. Chinese guests now rank just behind the Americans in average pounds spent on their golf vacations.
In the scheme of things, gas is not too expensive, but if if it ever does get unmanageable, we can always steal a little. I imagine that you would get home pretty quick if you lit up the other end.
One of Spotty's favourite activities is to go up to other dogs and try to play. He then gets them to chase him. Usually he is faster than them and wins respect when they give up. Last week he (stupidly) planned to do the same with a very large pit pull/mastiff/wild boar type of dog and his Alsatian side kick. I luckily caught him before he was ran over to be lamb to the slaughter and eaten. He gets to live another day. How could a dog be so dumb? So Spotty BE AFRAID!!!
Occam's Razor, attributed to a 14th century English Franciscan Friar states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in latin as:
which translates to:
Here in South Australia, the cops have pocketed almost a million dollars by nabbing over aggressive talker drivers. They are on course to pocket another million by the end of the year. That is almost $250 per offence. As the spokesman says, the increase can be attributed to "more stringent policing". Beware!
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Moderate |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | High |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Very High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Very High |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Moderate |
