Dear Cory

Wow - what a wowser. And such a wondrous gift from the government to progressive causes in this country - not only has his now marginalized himself, every-time he opens his mouth he hurts the Libs even more.

How can someone with so much bile and hate be a god lovin bible basher? Makes no sense at all.

Will be interesting to see how they bring him down - either way, as an Abbott poster child, some of this muck is going to stick and, with any luck, we'll see Malcolm enlisted to take over real soon now.

We can only hope!

Thoughts - Violence

Been a lot of talk and attention recently RE: drinking related violence - and rightly so - things are getting out of hand. But I do wonder as to the cause.

Certainly alcohol is central to the problem as without it, the violence wouldn't erupt. But what I don't get is that, if people are that pissed, how on earth do the even manage to throw a punch and hit someone? In the past these flying arms were more likely to miss resulting in the assailant falling to the ground.

So what's changed?

Here's my list of likely sources:

• Stimulants
• Ecstasy - seemingly endemic in this generation, could this be acting against the alcohol (which normally acts as a depressant) leading to uninhibited but wildly stimulated people?
• Caffeine (Red Bull, etc) - Again, drunk like water by kids these days - they're juiced up and ready for action.
• Steroids
• Body building is today's religious servitude - and boy are they packing it on - and these kids aren't all about effort without return - so if you're going to work hard, they want outstanding results. What are they adding to themselves to get like this?
• Sports Medicine
• ASN and the like are peddling all manner of pre-exercise whacko snacks designed to get you motivated and pumped - so basically another stimulant. How much of this crap are these kids injesting?

My guess is that we're seeing alcohol working in tandem with other elements resulting in the violence. I'm just surprised no one seems to be pursuing this for research?

Thoughts - Bali Deaths

Been pondering these tragic deaths of a Mother and daughter in Bali recently and a few things just don't stack up.

1. Why does a qualified nurse buy crappy, unverifiable medicines rather than carry her own?
2. Why such a horde of medications and treatments for such a short trip?
3. When they fell ill, why would a qualified nurse, who must have been cognisant of her own demise simply stay in her room and not seek help? The alarm was raised by the daughter, not the mother?
4. Why did they not ring for help? Why did the daughter have to go outside to seek assistance?

I suspect there are perfectly good reasons for this as we're only likely to get the barest of facts in a case like this - but it does get you thinking.

So what do we know?

• It clearly seems not to have been dodgy seafood or related allergies.
• Vast quantities of medications (29 different products) - both locally purchased and imported from OZ were found in the room.
• Reports vary of both how long they'd been in Bali (everything from 1-3 days) and how long after eating they fell ill (from virtually immediately to anywhere from 5-12 hours later.
• The daughter left the room to seek help - no phone calls were made?

Hopefully we'll soon have some clarity.