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Despite my rant last week about the budget, after further investigation I read that we are still in rising international debt. That's where our surplus should go. Pay off as much as possible. I know that the average person doesn't care about it, but from my point of view that should become the number one priority when dealing with the tax surplus.

When the &^%$% hell did celebrities become the collective moral compass?
This is directed at actors and musicians, why the hell are these people being questioned about anything other than music or acting. I don't care what an actor thinks about the environment, If i wanted an opinion I'd ask someone who knows what the hell they are talking about.
As an example, think back to high school, the attention seeking 'actors' and muso's. Would you really listen to ANYTHING they had to say?
They should stick to what they are paid to do and nothing else.
The Aviator said it best:

DON'T TALK DOWN TO ME! Don't you ever talk talk down to me! You're a movie star, nothing more!

Weekend Update:

Caught in the Web:
http://www.livescience.com/technology/destroy_earth_mp.html

From the list, 10 Things We Learned From Spiderman 3:
1. EMOs are a product of alien symbiosis
3. If your girlfriend is hanging from the roof of a demolished skyscraper, never fear. Nonchalantly take some pictures and introduce yourself to her father, who also doesn’t seem to give a shit.
7. If you want to kill someone real bad, then go to church and pray and maybe, if you’re lucky, God will provide you with an alien suit made of pure evil.
9. Bad boys eat cookies, drink milk and mimic their lecturers down the phone in a hilarious manner.

I wish there was a real Department of Evil, It would be such a refreshing change to deal with someone honest.

MISTER KENNEDY ...

Thinking about Spider man a little more, I think if they had adopted a more common trilogy thinking (Win, loss, win) I may feel better. I suppose I Sony wants it to be a franchise series (ala Bond) rather than a trilogy of blockbusters.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
- Stanislaw J. Lec

France elected a new President this week, and from my point of view, they chose well. In his acceptance speech he recognised that he has to repair the damaged relations between France and America, which shows he has fore sight Chirac never had. He has also said that he will not be pushed over by America, "I want to tell them that France will always be by their side when they need her, but that friendship is also accepting the fact that friends can think differently.".
A cynical person could see the new President befriending America as him seeking out allies, should he ever seriously anger the muslim population of France, and by assiociation one of the more militant middle eastern countries.

The budget was released this week as well. Previsouly it wasn't the sort of thing that would interest me, but I've taken a very basic interest this time around. Tax cuts are a big issue, but I think I would rather be taxed and have the money spent well (which it never is, damn corruption). A lot is being made of the amount spent on higher education, with $5bn being given, which is a good start. I do not think enough is being spent on the military, but I am a cautios person who believes in the words of Flavius Renatus Vegetius "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum" (If you want peace, prepare for war).

KENNEDY

Edge won the title, Edge won the title, Edge won the title!!!
When people ask me why I like wrestling, I can forever use this last week as an example of its unpredictable, exciting nature. At Wrestlemania a guy named Mr Kennedy won "Money in the Bank" which means he could challenge for any world title at any time. On monday he lost MitB to my current fav Edge (In real life he had torn his bicep clean off the bone and will be out for 6+ months, hence he had to lose). Also on Smackdown the current champ, The Undertaker (who has also had an injury that will take him out) had a long match and at the end Edge comes out, cashes in MitB and wins the title, much like he did at New Years Revolution two years ago.


Weekend Update:
A go go go weekend, that was somewhat disapointing. Saturday was rushing around, shopping at Miranda, the city going to the gym and getting Alana. I got a lot done so hopefully this coming weekend should be easier. Sunday we went to see the babies, which I usually love, but this time I was annoyed, I spent too much time fixing computers, not enough with cousins.
Holding out hope for next week though.

Caught in the Web:
http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html
This site has taken up probably a whole day of mine. It goes through all the cliches used in games, tv shows, movies, cartoons etc. ive linked specifically to the games but its great for all of them, go through them and realise just how predictable some shows were.
It has to be good, they even have an article on Jiggle Physics.

Continuing on the nerdy vibe thus far, this is pretty funny.

Here are just a few more random links that i found fun:
Top ten history deaths.
Top 25 quotes, which is quite cool.

This guy needs to be shot. A judge is has sued for $65 million dollars. So straight away you think its a big thing, a house sale gone wrong or something big. ITS OVER A PAIR OF PANTS. He handed them to a dry cleaner, who thought he lost them, then found them. Its so stupid I wont type it out, ill just quote:

"Manning said the cleaners made three settlement offers to Pearson. First they offered $3,000, then $4,600, then $12,000. But Pearson wasn't satisfied and expanded his calculations beyond one pair of pants.

Because Pearson no longer wanted to use his neighborhood dry cleaner, part of his lawsuit calls for $15,000 — the price to rent a car every weekend for 10 years to go to another business.

"He's somehow purporting that he has a constitutional right to a dry cleaner within four blocks of his apartment," Manning said.

But the bulk of the $65 million comes from Pearson's strict interpretation of D.C.'s consumer protection law, which fines violators $1,500 per violation, per day. According to court papers, Pearson added up 12 violations over 1,200 days, and then multiplied that by three defendants."

http://mashable.com/2007/05/10/gmail-users-are-younger-richer-good-in-bed/