Airline Partners Australia's proposed buyout of Qantas received the green light from the Federal Tip With No Iceberg, Peter Costello, today, but only after undertaking to comply with the national interest by:

Democracy throws up some baffling results sometimes, especially when most of the eligible voters don't bother.

Last weekend the voters in the Cherokee Nation approved a constitutional referendum, rescinding citizenship of the descendants of pre-civil war slaves.

As stated in a Cherokee Nation news release issued on Saturday:

Youtube video produced by the Marrickville Greens drawing attention to the toxic waste created by the dumping of obsolete computers. Features Fiona Byrne, who is running for the State seat of Marrickville in the March 24 election.

Not a sponsor of the World Cup, but alas, with no one to ambush.

I have integrated the old blogs from cricket.rickeyre.com and now.rickeyre.com pre-October 2006 into this blog, adding roughly another 850 messages, including some that have travelled through a plethora of databases since 1996!

I won't be removing the old databases just yet, certainly not until I am satisfied that everything has converted properly and the search index has been recompiled.

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As I've already indicated elsewhere, I'm supporting The Greens in the March 24 state election. The state of the major parties is so bad that neither the ALP nor the Libs/Nats deserve to govern. The best we can do is hope for a hung parliament, with a Iemma minority government held to accountability by third parties and quality independents. The Greens have the best third-party credentials in my opinion, and a more sound choice than the unknown (and often unskilled) quantity of independent candidates in many cases.

I've just written my first WTF for Technorati on Billy Thorpe.

As I noted a few weeks ago, John Winston Howard has defended the rights of people to say ridiculous things.

It's less than a week till the start of the world's third (or maybe even second) biggest World Cup tournament: the ICC Cricket World Cup.

Not one, but two grisly tales reported today by Australian Associated Press:

Firstly, A 37-year-old woman has been charged with stealing a piece of Peter Brock's crashed car containing his racing number "05" while collecting the racing legend's body for the coroner.