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Female Chauvinist Pigs

October 7th 2008 08:13
A Tasmanian woman who fed her unfaithful husband glass on repeated occasions has been spared a jail term as of late last week. Lynette Quessy attended her sentencing hearing last Wednesday to be given a 9 month suspended sentence by Justice Shan Tennent. Quessy, who works in the Hobart branch of Centrelink, had remained living with her then husband Tim Nash after the discovery of the affair in 2004, for the sake of their children. After a property dispute lat last year, Mr Nash discovered what he thought to be rock salt on a biscuit that his wife had given him for lunch. The same substance was found in his sandwiches continually and he stored his lunches in a freezer in the garage. It turned out the Quessy had crushed a fluorescent tube and stored the fragments in a plastic container in the upstairs kitchen in her part of the house and had been spreading the fragments in his lunches. It wasn't until Nash found a note written by his wife that said,
"Q- at death, what happens to transfer of property?"
that he called the police and she was arrested at her workplace. Quessy admitted in court that she intended to harm her husband only to force him to see a GP about his drinking problem, an excuse Justice Tennent found absurd. Although she had disorganized thoughts, her claimed depression at the time was not severe to impair her judgment. Justice Tennent claimed that the charity worker was unlikely to re-offend.


This case here is a lovely example of why we are disposing of suspended sentencing in this country. It is a ridiculous notion that a first time offender can get away sparkling clean with attempted murder. And it is on that simple basis that suspended sentences are delivered, by pure virtue of perceived character and that it is their first time. Not to mention that it was indeed the wife who was attempting to kill her cheating husband. Had this situation been reversed, what say you to jail-time? a solid affirmative from those of sound mind. A man trying to kill his wife couldn't hope for less than 2 years regardless of how many charities he volunteered for. Not to mention that the Justice who sentenced Quessy is indeed a female. How is it that such sexism can pass through the channels of Justice? yet there is no outcry.


Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and nor has it the ability to skulk it's way out of the consequences. The malicious act of feeding someone glass belongs in the underbelly of the Melbourne Gangland. It is a horrific act that could only be intended to maim and kill someone slowly and painfully, yet this woman is pitied because it was her husband cheating on her, and she gets patted on the back. The note she had written clearly indicated her intent, there is no escape from that fact, but she is still in the community seemingly without guilt. The precedent this sets is disgusting, thank heavens we're disposing of suspended sentences, a pity we can't do the same with this female chauvinist attitude as easily.

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Christopher Wayne Hudson

September 24th 2008 02:05
Melbourne CBD shooter, Christopher Hudson was sentenced yesterday in the Melbourne County Court for a minimum term of 35 years. Justice Coughlan conceeded that hudson was remorseful but discounted witness statements that he attempted suicide after the shootings. Simply stating that he had emptied the clip in to the bystanders. Justice Coughlan also stated that despite drug and steroid use and being of low intellect, his psychiatrist discounted and psychiatiric condition as contributing to his actions and thus he was solely responsible. Helping father Brendan Keilar and Dutch backpacker Paul De Waard were shot by hudson when they trtied to help Keara Douglas. Justice Coughlan described the moment when Keilar fell to the ground and was shot again, saying simply,
You executed him.

Chris Hudson CBD Shooting
Chris Hudson CBD Shooting


It is interesting to note that in such a high profile case, the judge delivered fairly comprehensive reasons for his sentencing. It has long been debated by Victorian Law Reform advocates that Judges should be made to state comprehensive reasons to the court for all sentences that they deliver. It is little surprise that Judges and Magistrates alike met this with all the fury their white-haired heads could muster. Reasons against it include that they already have enough things to consider in cases and that this would delay cases even longer. It is this authors belief that such a sorry excuse should not be accepted. Judges have, for too long, been accountable to no one for why they make decisions. They oppose this proposition not because it delays cases, but because they may then be critiqued and questioned accurately. It is diffucult to refute what someone has done when you don't why or how they came to that conclusion. It is time for Justices to come to terms with the idea that they are responsible to hte people that they serve, not who serve them.

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Two-Sided Polygon

September 16th 2008 15:26
We’re in our second room
A comforting doom
And all we can say is how we’ve been
Going for so long without a single thing
To say to anyone so hold your peace

I’d never have loved anyone
Or what I’d become
I promise to do what I promised to you
And I’ll do to you what I promised you
Just touch me now where you think it hurts

It’ll be ok in morning light
I was always right
When I told you what I promised
To your sleeping head next to mine
And you’d never have guessed my name

I can see who you are
From so very far
And I know you’ll teach me too
So when you slide down my arm don’t
Forget to clean up what you leave

It’s a terrible thing to see
What you’ve done to me
So it’s a good thing I can’t thanks
To your endearing sense of praise for
What I promised to your sleeping head

I think I’m getting a taste for you
What you put me through
So I’ll just leave you where you are
Lying next to me and the promise between
You and me that couldn’t eventuate

Two-Sided Polygon
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Atomic Experiment Creates Pink Elephants

September 10th 2008 03:51
Pink Elephant
What we will likely see after the particle-colliding experiment in France


The massively controversial particle collider on the French-Swiss border will fire up in 5 hours and could destroy us all. At least I'd like to think so, then I don't have to go to work. Several doomsday parties are said to have been planned across the globe, with the biggest reported to be in America's Deep South and, surprisingly, in Versailles. The Hawaiian lawsuit seemed to have failed and the project is going ahead


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Planet Kremlin

September 4th 2008 07:30
Vladimir Putin Kremlin Overseer
Vladimir Putin Ponders the Fate of Humanity


Russia invades Georgia. Georgia cries out for Bully Protective Services courtesy of Western World. It is probably the biggest and most significant political action this year, generating more questioning and debate than Nick Carter's sexual orientation. The man at the middle of it all, Russian President Vladimir Putin, seems oddly at peace about the whole situation. One might even care to observe, as if he had planned it all


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Educational Utopia, Population: Rudd

August 29th 2008 00:50
Is it only Kevin Rudd who sees his 'educational revolution' as something worthy of more than a laugh? One would assume that being from a state high school, the PM would empathise with parents and families struggling to give their kids a fighting chance in the world of academia. Yet now, not only to state schools in Australia have to compete with independent schools for government funding (we'll get on to that paradox later) they are now made to compete with each other to see which can 'perform' better.

To pit some of the nations struggling schools against each other for performance benefits is ridiculous. No educational provider should have to justify itself to receive federal or state funding. be it in the affluent areas or a school in the country of less than 100 students. Every child deserves the right to an education from a quality institution without having to pay for it. This is a basic human right that one would expect a progressed nation such as Australia to have a good grasp on by now


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All particulars aside, I begin this by stating plainly that this post will not be relevant to everyone. Yes I am fully aware that this goes radically against the blogging concept where we attempt to attract as many readers as possible but this is an exception. If you be redneck, reclusive, or otherwise uninterested in my home country of Australia, read no more. This is not for you and bears no relevance to your way of thinking.

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Yankee doodle went to town...

August 21st 2008 08:54
Nastia Liukin Olympic Upset
A disbelieving Nastia Liukin at the gymnastics


If it isn't the biggest upset for American gymnastics at these Olympic games. Medal hopeful Nastia Liukin receives a silver medal on the uneven bars, losing out to China. To begin, I'm not the biggest fan of the host nation, it's one thing to have a population that is so devoted to it's government they will voluntarily clean up the filth for the greater glory of their home state, but then to lead the medal tally by almost double the gold placings is just uncalled for. Yet, Liukin's father squarely points his gnarled finger at the Australian judge, fully qualified in her profession, for the supposed loss that his daughter has suffered. Firstly, Mr. Liukin, your daughter was on a tally of 3 medals, one of those gold, if there is any reason for the global population to claim American greed, you deify it. Secondly, how do you claim to know better than this professional judge? I fail to see how could possibly be impartial in such a situation and how your technical knowledge could even scrape at Helen Colaguiri's one could only guess


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Late Night Wanderings

August 12th 2008 14:29
An interesting turn of phrase, I feel. Somewhat mischievous, even dubious. Bringing to mind, at least my mind, a certain politician-turned-PM Kevin Rudd. Not willing to hide his late night stroll into a NYC strip club in the midst of his election campaign is what one may a term a ballsy move. Any inhibitions voters may have felt towards supporting this nerdy family man vanished faster than Warnie can send an SMS. Having said that, since taking over the top job he's surprised us again by communicating with our northern neighbours in their native tongue and if that wasn't enough, he was also caught ratifying an incredulously out of date protocol. Now if he can get us out of an economic recession and a real estate slump, he'll take over from Eamon Sullivan as the country's golden boy with hair to match.

Seeing old Georgie Bush shake hands with the K man at Beijing the other day was a rather odd occurrence seeing as big Bush clearly preferred the licking style of his brushiness, J. Howard. The tension between Rudd and Bush was so evident to all concerned that it was of no surprise when Bush had a fall in the stands shortly afterward. Claiming a misplaced step, he recovered his composure with a small smile. Yet what the photo's seem to cut off of Kevin is him returning to his neutral stance from a position reminiscent of Goku's Kamaya Maya stance in Dragon Ball Z. Or perhaps my imagination applies the unrealistic physics of animation to the reality of my mundane life on a too-frequent basis


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In Brief

August 11th 2008 15:26
The Olympics. Its all over me like a cheap suit. Yet all we heard in the lead up to these games was how China has been acting towards western media in terms of exposure and openness. Newspapers seem to applaud the communist state for 'moving forward', that the games are proof that they have 'progressed', the praise like that of an adult congratulating a mentally disabled child on completing a task capable of a someone half his age. Yet perhaps this is how the West wishes to view these reds, as they are now not under the bed, but in full view of all those who would critique them and their attitudes towards a former adversary. Of course Bush, being the man with nothing to lose in terms of career and indeed dignity, has no restraint in his speech against the host nation, crying wolf at every given opportunity. Although, as my mother used to say, blame the parents not the child. An odd phrase considering she's my mother.

Still a week and a bit left so I'm going to enjoy this suit while it lasts.

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