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Charlie (the crow) went missing yesterday. He has ran off before, but we have usually been able to find him pretty quickly. Spikey printed up some fliers, and we walked around the neighborhood and dropped them in peoples letterboxes. Near the end, we came across this house with a badly painted Jolly Roger in the window. I said “these guys look like a friendly bunch”. Spikey responded “they would probably keep the crow for themselves”. We walked on, I went home, Spikey went for coffee. Within 30 minutes, someone had seen Spikey’s flier, and had been minding Charlie in their back yard all day. Spikey called to give me the address of these people and tell me that she would meet me there. Sure enough, it was the place with the Jolly Roger. I knocked on the door and their was a friendly pirate drinking some spiced mead. Arrrr!

To bad that by the time we got there, Charlie was half asleep. We tried to get him but he made a dash for another tree, where he will remain for the night. Someone is going be up at the crack of dawn.

Government attempts to cause fear amongst the populous are about as predictable as Hollywood these days. It was about time for a sequel of The Communist Missile “crisis”. Why is it that the trivial issues always take up so much of our time, yet the issues which have potential to cause us real harm are ignored? I could go on all night, but that is not what this post is about. As reported in Forbes (and also on ABC TV News tonight):

China, which is an economic lifeline to North Korea by providing it trade, aid and oil, doesn’t want to push its neighbor too hard. Beijing worries that if the communist government fails, North Korean refugees would stream into China or that the North would be unified with South Korea, which is strongly allied with the United States.

That almost sounds like something Australia would do. What would we do if we are neighbors with North Korea. On the one hand, we wouldn’t like our neighbor going nuclear on our asses. On the other hand, the only thing we hate more than nuclear weapons is refugees. Decisions decisions.

Everyone is talking about the incident that happened on Big Brother early Saturday morning.  I am honestly surprised that it has taken so long for something like this to happen. Many in the Christian Right are calling for the show to be axed. While I wouldn’t usually agree with these crazies, they do kind of have a point (except for that whacker Steve Fielding who was too busy focusing on tits and bums to notice the really bad aspects of big brother). The TV show is hardly a worthwhile social experiment that many of its supporters claim it is.

Empathy Pete is defending the governments financial support of the show:

…And frankly I’m sick of the sort of American crap we get on our television every night and I don’t mind seeing a little bit of Australian rubbish – it can’t be any worse than the sort of American rubbish we see.

I have a solution that could keep both the Christians who want the world rid of Big Brother, and the rest of us, who would like to protect our right to watch trashy television happy. Get rid of Big Brother and bring back another classic Queensland television show, Pacific Drive. Those lesbian scenes with Libby Tanner were really hot!