This sentence no sense …

Thomas Kelly was walking along a footpath when he was king hit by Kieran Loveridge, a completely unprovoked and random attack. Thomas died as a result. Mr Loveridge pleaded guilty to manslaughter for which there is a maximum sentence of 25 years. He will serve four. Tim Blair has this to say …

One day a perfectly average Australian will face court on a violence charge. This person will be from a middle-class family in a plain suburb. He’ll be a middle-ranking employee at an ordinary business, earning the national average wage. Nothing from his background will be exceptional.

This bloke, whoever he is, can expect the longest sentence in Australian judicial history.

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Miss Gillard regrets …

Our former prime minister has a few regrets. Not dumping more thoroughly on that nice Mr Rudd at the first opportunity was one. Another was not piling another deception on top of the lie about the carbon tax, this little quote may help you follow her line of thought …

People have heard a lot of debate about a carbon tax, and today can I say to Australians the debate that they are hearing about a carbon tax is a debate about what Tony Abbott calls a carbon tax . . .

well maybe not. Hardly surprising that someone who hadn’t a clue where they were going isn’t really sure about where they have been.

One thing we can be sure of though, is that she was a great success. So much so that Julia Gillard the movie is on its way. Richard Keddle will be adding it to his string of blockbuster hits and sets the scene …

“She was extraordinarily successful in her performance as a prime minister but not in the media. The media didn’t like her. They went after her and killed her.”

I am particularly looking forward to the scene where the media kill her, the martyrdom of St Julia. I do wish the venture extraordinary success (as defined by Richard Keddle , of course).

Violation …

A Kentucky medical center is mandating all of their employees complete diversity training after a man came dressed to an annual costume party wearing a mask depicting President Barack Obama in what appears to be a straight jacket.

Jennie Stuart Medical Center is also asking their employees to refrain from wearing political, religious, ethnic and gender based Halloween costumes …

Well, I mean, such behaviour could cause offence. Meanwhile at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico, doctors showed a lack of sensitivity in their dealings with one David Eckert.

Poor David was picked up by police for not stopping completely at a stop sign.

… after law enforcement asked him to step out of the vehicle, he appeared to be clenching his buttocks.  Law enforcement thought that was probable cause to suspect that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity.  While officers detained Eckert, they secured a search warrant from a judge that allowed for an anal cavity search.

The police recruited the doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center to undertake the search. None were dressed as Barak Obama and unfortunately they were not wearing strait jackets. What happened next according to 4KOB …

1. Eckert’s abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.

2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

4. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema.  Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers.  Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool.  No narcotics were found.

5. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time.  Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers.  Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool.  No narcotics were found.

6. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time.  Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers.  Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool.  No narcotics were found.

7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.

8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines.  No narcotics were found.

Eckert’s attorney, Shannon Kennedy, said

If the officers in Hidalgo County and the City of Deming are seeking warrants for anal cavity searches based on how they’re standing and the warrant allows doctors at the Gila Hospital of Horrors to go in and do enemas and colonoscopies without consent, then anyone can be seized…

Clearly the American medical establishment needs lots of diversity training.

More on Palmer …

During the recount, that looked at informal votes and 1.2 million above-the-line ballot papers, 1375 votes which had been verified in the initial count could not be “located, rechecked or verified in the recount process”.

What a circus. The Australian Electoral Commission are making Palmer look smart.

Meanwhile Mr Palmer has been elected in the seat of Fairfax by 53 votes in the recount there. That represents a swing of 17 votes in his favour …  just between counts!

Approaching Canberra …

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Ballarat sucks …

Ballarat has chosen to invite Australia’s top bloggers to publicise Ballarat in Bloom. Cheap advertising.

For instance …

Chauffeured in to the main part of town toenjoy (sic) a pre opening look and private tour of the Capturing Flora – 300 years of Australian Botanical Art exhibition at the grand Ballarat Art Gallery was a treat, especially travelling in a 1937 Studebaker. <dillonpete>
I mean the guy can’t even check his writing before he posts.
They didn’t invite me.

Don’t go to Ballarat.