Cyclone Yasi, Karl & The Nine Network. or Why I Despise Nine

Can't quite believe that the tv stations feel it is necessary to send so many reporters into such an incredibly dangerous situation!

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    Jesse Jones Hopefully Karl will get blown into the Indian Ocean, never to found.
  • Mark I truly get the impression he isn't your favourite, is it just because he works for channel 9??
  • Gee Nip, don't get me started mate, they'll wanna increase my medication. But as you ask, my dear...I don't really dislike Karl personally, he's very funny at times, I think, and seems harmless enough. But I've seen too much of 9 and their grubby ways over the years to have much time for any of them. Like Bert Newton, who happily movesfrom 9 to 10 to 9 (& even ABC for a bit) I think they're best treated with the contempt & cynicism with which they treat us. & tho the owners have changed, the culture's just got worse under current management. ("David Gyngell may have seen his pay package increase from $1.2 million per year to $1.5 million, The Australian Financial Review reports" -The Spy Report May 2010) The continuing employment & deployment of the toxic,hypocritical, possibly psychotic Sam Newman, who has been hatefully misogynistic on air on several occasions now, just shows where they're at. I've written to complain & it's clear they couldn't care less as they think Sam's good for ratings. So Karl, who'd be on very big bux, is, imho just another grinning, mindless, overpaid whore, but very nice to his friends & family no doubt : )> Gr8 to hear Yasi wasn't as bad as feared. But I think Qlders have to accept the clear message: Love Your Neighbours, All of Them, even NSW folk & indigenous people, for example, or there's plenty more where that came from. I mean this has been the summer of Sodom & Gomorrah up there!

KING COAL & THE BYLONG VALLEY

Great pics, sincere apologies for the "poetry". Gabe & I drove thru this valley a couple of years ago - it's even better "in the flesh". Big, glorious, ancient & still.

Here’s the deal if you have a soul - Keep it real and say NO COAL.

Words & Images by Mark Woody (No relation to me, but sounds like he might know Todd "Woody" , tennis fans)

They’re here now testing the valley’s soil - Our beautiful valley they want to spoil

A thousand dreams, a thousand scenes - Don’t let them mine our coal seams

So take a stand and have a say - Don’t let them take our farms away

If you’re on our side then raise your hand - Have a voice and protect our land

NEWCASTLE IS A MASSIVE EXPORTER OF COAL. RISING TIDE is a group of climate change activists who got into coal loader properties & made a peaceful, spectacular, albeit risky, protest. The operators of the loaders have sued the protesters using a law created to provide compensation for victims of violent crimes....

Port Waratah Coal Services use of victims support and rehabilitation law to sue climate change protesters for over $500,000 is grossly disproportionate to the crime, cynically manipulates the legal process, and insults victims of violent crime.

It will do little to deter media-savvy activists.

The protesters took desperate, dangerous, but peaceful action because they believe that the burning of coal may well contribute to the extinction of human beings. The vast majority of expert climate change scientists agree. Yet governments and the coal industry are still burying their heads, cashing in and recklessly gambling with our future.

PWCS Newcastle currently exports about 100 million tonnes per year, which will rise to a potential 133 million tonnes in late 2011. It has planning approvals for 145 million tonnes. [Supply Chain Review, 27/1/11]

The unseemly haste to ship out so much coal, so quickly, looks like naked greed. Or are exporters afraid that it's only a matter of time till the burning of coal becomes uneconomic or is banned?

In fact, PWCS and big coal mining companies should be sued. Like tobacco companies, they know their product is hazardous, but continue to sell it, in far greater quantities than is necessary to maintain infrastructure.

And if more than forty protesters can access dangerous coal loader sites, as reported, PWCS has been negligent and needs to drastically improve its security. What if trespassing youngsters or violent terrorists decide to visit a coal loader?

Instead of wasting scarce police and judicial resources on a vindictive, PR driven court case, PWCS should be fair dinkum and simply employ expert, effective security people and systems.

mojopono aka jesse jones

After everything Qld etc have copped this summer, why so little talk of CLIMATE CHANGE? But INSURANCE EXPERT! spoke the C words this morning

Let's get smashed @ the Boxing Day Races

Hi Daniel,

You don't know me but I know you. I was disappointed to see your message encouraging your Facebook friends to get extremely inebriated at the Boxing Day races.

If you won't think of yourself, Daniel, at least think of the horses.

And ask yourself, "What would Jesus do?" Sure he turned water into wine, but he didn't drink it. Well, not very much anyway.

And Jesus also turned wine into blood. There's a message there, hey Daniel?

As St Paul says, "Have a little water with your wine."

That way you won't need to relieve your bladder so often. You see, Dan, alcohol is what doctors call a diuretic (pron. Die You [He]retic!) Doesn't that tell you something? A drink that makes you LOSE fluid?!? How wack is that? Like liquid E or Ecky, man.

If you think about it, Dan, alcohol is just something, (grapes, hops, grains) that's gone bad, or off. Fermented, if you like, and then people, usually of non-Anglo ethnicity, who might have nasty cases of tinea, jump up & down on it. Yucky wucky.

Don't you go bad, Danny boy! Have a refreshing fruit juice or some Adam's Ale (H2O). Yummo!!!!!!

Or even a salty sports drink, but not the Tiger Woods one, even if it is heavily discounted. (Or make your own with Aeroplane jelly crystals & table salt.)

See you at the water cooler, Danny Manny.

Your new pal,

Jesse Jones (not my real name, can't be too careful with drunken scumbags. Not you Dan, other people who might "drop in" for a "visit" & read this.)

Bar Beach Wedding

Summer 2010

Dixon Park and Merewether New South Wales

Hazy Valentine's Sunday 2010 - looking south mid morning.

Neighbours

Near Kahibah Oval. The two limits of our vision side by side. Wonderful.

Adamstown railway gates

Late night wait. Newcastle has several such crossings. Developers & others wanting to get rid of the heavy rail corridor often cite these as a major justification. The pert me up see the railway as a clean & efficient link between the vast network of suburbs & towns, & the city & beaches.

At the sleep clinic

Slept like a log - true!

Noxious weed

Planted years ago in bushland by a well-meaning local bloke. Who could blame him?

Perfect gum

Brave gum-totin' householders

Robert

Ran into our mate by sheer chance, providence, kismet... Or by grace of gum tree.

Policewomen & horses

Fat as butter muSic festival wickham sunday october 25

The Jungle Kings. Wallsend Sporties, nee Bowling Club (other dancer out of shot)

On a friday night that started stormy. A lively but small crowd. Certainly a massive anti-climax after the full dance floor & world class jiving (well Southern hemisphere anyway) at the 'sixteen footers' last Saturday night.

Bride & bestie(?) who seemed 2 be more serious about her part inthe wedding than the breeze-battling bride.

Bridesmaid, or matron of honour, gave your fresh-from-surf, windswept, barefoot photoblogger a deathie,(death stare) of Thatcheresque savagery. So i told bride, Simone? that she looked fantastic. Matron of hon. seemed to assume i was referring to HER, or at least both of them. So she was REALLY cross when Simone, our lovely bride, blithely smiled & tossed me a 'Thanks'. O, the chagrin!

Taking the plunge

Bar Beach, Newcastle. Note men's beers - now de rigueur at all stages of weddings except church service, when bottle is kept in a suitable pocket.

Bride, groom & photographer

Bar Beach stormy Friday arvo. Mid-spring 2009

Figs at sunset

Up the hill from Newcastle's synagogue & down from its oldest school (N'cle East PS)

Just the bag I've been looking for

Good old TAFE butchers. Thanks Beef er, Bede n co.

Friday post Peter Kyneur chiro.

TRONNO 911

aka Toronto NSW 11.9.09

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Sophie Mark & Latiah

One month before girls' first birthday

Fingal Spit from Tomaree

Does anyone know cpr?

New approach to PR!

In this age of spin, blame and denial, how refreshing to read of Anthony Khalil's honesty. Mr Khalil is the owner of the child-care centre where a child was left behind at closing time. "I make no excuses for what happened. We know we were wrong. It's just lucky that the baby is ok." (smh.com) He then explalined substantial measures to ensure no repetition. Who'd have thought it? Decency and acceptance of responsibility as effective crisis management tools.

Hailey & Latiah

On H's 19th birthday

Cambridge Hotel

Hunter Street Newcastle

Happy birthday Cindy from all the boys at the agency.

And congrats on your semi-century, your commitment to camaraderie, your capacity for comedy, your courage, clarity & cool conviction. Here's to many more years of all things crisp & compelling.

Apologies 4 break in transmission....

.... I got my mob. phone bill!!! When i find the right bit of wire, I'll be back!! Love, MarkO ps HAPPY ST PAT'S DAY

Jen & Mil at elcho street

Greenhills beautician, East Maitland

Southerly storm

Pacific highway. Near Highfields

Gum near barraba st whitebridge

East Maitland public library cafe

Renny Kodgers - man of vision

Renny Kodgers [detail]

Renny Kodgers, fans & manifesto

First draft gallery, chalmers st surry hills

Heading south

Just out of Newie

Our classroom

Eamo considers fare evasion

My sister Jenny doing traditional brightonese hula farewell

On Cardiff station; that's courage!

Cardiff, looking north

Corner bolton & king, (from memory)

Archer & Jane

View from a loo

Newie East

Party boy & proud new Aussie

Those gals bring out the best in every guest!

Australia Day at Cindy & jane's

Night sky Rutherford

From inside take-away chicken shop, at dusk.

Arrowfield wines

One of many stops on our trip - Gabe's patience was tested!