Academy Awards 2005 Winners

Best Motion Picture of the YearWinner: Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading RoleWinner: Jamie Foxx for Ray

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading RoleWinner: Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting RoleWinner: Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting RoleWinner: Cate Blanchett for The Aviator

Best Achievement in Directing Winner: Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby

Dubbwa Wins Razzie

George W. Bush has won the "Razzie" worst actor of the year award for his performance as president in "Fahrenheit 9/11" but his moment in Hollywood's dubious spotlight was eclipsed by Halle Berry, who actually turned up to receive her embarrassing accolade.
Bush, beating such established Hollywood heroes as Colin Farrell and Vin Diesel, won the Razzie for worst actor of the year for his appearance in Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Bush, two members of his administration, Britney Spears and the storybook about a goat that the president was reading to children as the September 11, 2001, attacks were taking place all took top honors at the "Razzie" awards, now in their 25th year.

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Thats A Good Old Fashioned Spankin'

Young Bombers learn hard lesson

As expected, the scoreboard reflected the relative strength of the Richmond and Essendon sides that did battle at Morwell this afternoon. An Essendon side, minus arguably 18 senior players, went down to a full strength Richmond by 72 points. The match was never about the result but the Essendon coaching panel would still have been bitterly disappointed the team was unable to get closer to the Tigers.

Richmond 20 18 138

Essendon 10 6 66

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Our Urainium Will Be In Foreign Hands

Anyone that humoured me and read this article a couple of weeks back, might be interested in this.
To cut a long story short, Peter Costello has given the go ahead for a hostile take over of Western Mining (WMC) by a company called Xstrata.
Western Mining just happens to have access to 30% of the worlds known urainium.
Xstrata is partly owned by, and shares five board members with, a company called Glencore.
Glencore have a bad reputation of doing seemingly shady deals with countries like Iraq.
Now, the reason I'm interested in this story is because, I don't think its a good idea for our treasurer to make one third of the worlds uranium available to a company that deals with terrorist states.
Xtrata's bid for WMC is something like 8.4 Billion Dollars Australian. But the Latest reports are that BHP Billiton are thinking about making a counter bid.
This story appeared on Four Corners this week, So if history is any guide, it's about to get bigger. Because that show is usually one week ahead of everyone else.

If your'e interested (and your'e probably not) Here are some articles on the issue.

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Hoodoo Gurus Now On DVD

Hoodoo Gurus fans can find them now on DVD. The entire career of the band has been captured on a 2DVD set including all of their videos, live performances and the retrospective documentary titled 'Be My Guru".

"It's a fairly reasonable representation of a portion of my life. It goes back away" Brad Shepherd tells Undercover News.

For Gurus fans, it is the ultimate package but for Brad, it's a difficult thing to watch. "Things have changed. 20 years on the road is like dog years. I am actually like 100 years old compared to other human beings" he laughs. "It doesn't hold much interest to me to sit down and watch my past like that. I dare say it would be like watching home movies were I to do it".

Hoodoo Gurus reformed in 2003 for an album and tour but it was a one off. "We had our run. We did our album Mach Schau last year which we were proud of" he says. "We did a tour off the back of that for 4 months which is a long tour in Australia. We have no plans at all at the moment. We have gone back into our cave".

Not that means they have broken up again. "I think we have learnt the lesson of never saying never" he says. "There are no plans at all. I don't know how else to say it. We are not making a record. We are playing the odd show. We are playing at some sort of Grand Prix affair in Adelaide in March. There is going to be an official release of the DVD and I think we have agreed to perform at that. There is talk of offers coming in for tsunami benefits. We may do the odd performance but we are not really trying to pursue a career".

Switch on ... Bomber.tv is here!

The website widely known as the best club website in the AFL just got better!
Bomber.tv is now live and subscribers won’t miss a minute of the action in 2005. Bomber.tv is home to seven great channels so whether it is match replays, highlights, Sheed’s post-match press conference or behind-the-scenes interviews, they’ve got you covered.

WAVE AID HANDS OVER $2.3 MILLION TO CHARITIES

PETER GARRETT (MIDNIGHT OIL), BEN GILLIES (SILVERCHAIR),
DONNA SIMPSON (THE WAIFS), MISSY HIGGINS and PHIL JAMIESON (THE WRIGHTS, GRINSPOON) this morning handed over cheques worth $576,118.00 each to Marc Thompson from AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS, Andrew Hewett and Adrian Kinslor from OXFAM COMMUNITY AID ABROAD, Carolyn Hardy and Kate Mayhew from UNICEF, and Robert Glasser from CARE AUSTRALIA, for a total donation of $2,304,472.00

[each charity receiving $576,118.00]

THE HON. SANDRA NORI MP, Minister for Tourism and Sport and Recreation and Minister for Women, presented the Wave Aid artists, promoters and managers with certificates of appreciation thanking them for their time and services that made the event possible.
Event Producer MICHAEL CHUGG also acknowledged the many companies and individuals who donated time, products and services, thereby ensuring the success of Wave Aid and its $2.3m donation.

I'm not a Greeny but........

I think we are all used to America doing things that only benifet themselves and have no regard for the rest of the world. But now Australia is right down there with them.

The Kyoto accord, is an international agreement that mandates cutbacks of 5.2% in greenhouse gases below 1990 levels by 2012

Of the 38 developed nations present at Kyoto, all but three, Australia, The US, and tiny little Monaco have signed the treaty.
Australia and the US have rejected the agreement on the grounds it would damage their economies.

For some reason Australia has set its own target of increasing emissions by 8% by 2012.

Below are some articles on a subject we should be embarressed about.

In years to come, this is going to come back and bite us.

It's also something I think the Member for Kingsford-Smith should sink his teeth into.

Woman denies sherry enema charge

That's the wrong end!

A Texas woman indicted last month for allegedly giving her husband a lethal sherry enema says he was an enema addict who did it to himself, a newspaper has reported.

Tammy Jean Warner said late husband Michael Warner had an alcohol problem and enjoyed giving himself wine or sherry enemas because his body would absorb the spirits more quickly that way.

"That's the way he went out and I'm sure that's the way he wanted to go out because he loved his enemas," she told the Houston Chronicle.

Michael Warner, 58, died on May 21 and was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.47 percent, or nearly six times the level considered too drunk to drive in Texas.

Mrs. Warner, 42, is accused of giving her husband a sherry enema even though she knew alcohol was bad for this health and faces a charge of criminally negligent homicide.

"It all started back when he was a child," Mrs. Warner explained. "His mother used to give him enemas all the time, and he started to depend on them."

"He did coffee enemas, he did Castile soap, Ivory soap," she said. "He had enema recipes."

Currently free on $30,000 bail, she is scheduled to go to trial in July. If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each charge.

Temporary Relief

Wed 9th Feb - 3Hrs sleep. 7am to 10am
Thurs 10th Feb - 12Hrs sleep. 5:30am to 5:30pm

Now I feel gooood.

Welsh rugby fan cuts off testicles after side wins.

A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror has reported.

Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off", the paper said on Tuesday.
Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.

But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 metres back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done.
Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in a seriously ill condition, the paper said. Police told the paper he had a history of mental problems.

Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win in 12 years.

Costello races Xstrata clock

Is it true that Australia is being asked to hand over control of one third of the world's uranium to one of the few public companies in the world without codified takeover protection?

Read this article from The Australian by Robert Gottliebsen. Its a big article, but just humour me. I thought it was interesting.
I would have thought this would have been on the news a bit more than it has.
Although the papers do have to reserve a lot of space everyday for Leyton and Bec don't they.

Definition of Bludger

AS PER KERRY'S REQUEST.

BLUDGER: noun, a person who lives off the efforts of others; a person who does not pay his fair share or who does not make a fair contribution to a cost, enterprise, etc., a cadger; an idler, one who makes little effort.
The verb to bludge (on), a back formation from bludger, has existed from the turn of the century. The verb mirrors the various senses of the noun. There is a verbal noun and participial adjective dole bludging, but a verb to dole bludge has yet to make its presence felt.
Throughout the history of the word, most bludgers appear to have been male and overweight. The term bludgeress made a brief appearance in the first decade of this century—‘Latterly, bludgers, so the police say, are marrying bludgeresses’—but the term had the decency to cark it shortly thereafter.

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James Hird Turns 32

One of the greatest Australian Rules players of our generation turns 32 today.

He is easily the most decorated player currently in the game. Brownlow, Premiership captain, multipul best and fairest, All Australian, All Australian Captain, Norm Smith Medilist, Micheal Tuck Medilist, Anzac Medilist, Inernational Rules Captain, And endless media and player association awards.

Where do you start with James Hird’s strengths? – the list is endless. His leadership, fitness, skill level, poise, courage, determination, hunger, spirit, vision and football smarts make him the complete player. It is hard to distinguish one strength from another because all these attributes combine to make him the quality player he is. One strength that often goes unnoticed but is extremely valuable to the Essendon team is Hird’s ability to bring out the best in his teammates. They all seem to walk taller knowing their captain is out on the field with them.

WHAT SHEEDY SAYS-

As a coaching group we have to be careful from now on not to over tax him in regard to preparing him at this time of his career. He needs to be spot on for playing games after all the injuries and accidents he has had and the marvelous career he has had. The most important thing to do is to make sure he trains specifically for match day.

Anyone that would like to wish James a Happy Birthday, Can do so by simply clicking the button below.

[because I know you all want to]

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