Sunday, 19 February 2012

Rudd’s vision: dickheads at the embassy giving him simple sentences

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd’s undeclared campaign to return to the prime ministership has been dealt a blow after embarrassing out-takes from a video he filmed in his office were leaked on YouTube.

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Gamers could avoid war crimes prosecution due to ill health, low shields

The Red Cross has clarified that it was never planning to prosecute gamers who breached the laws of war in video games: it was simply hoping that game developers would incorporate the Geneva and Hague conventions into their games.

100 bureaucrats ‘invaded’ Gallipoli commemoration: God help me, I was only APS Level 6

Veterans are outraged that the Federal Government is spending $3.3 million a year sending up to 100 public servants to commemorations at Gallipoli.

TheDailyGrindAU: New poll says PM's sexism rant could see Labor picking up key seats of Jezebel and Guardian

TheDailyGrindAU: Restaurant's "women's lips" urinals prompt outrage: is this more evidence of Tony Abbott's problem with women?

TheDailyGrindAU: Alan Jones's agent considers withdrawing Alan Jones promos from 2GB

TheDailyGrindAU: Israel downs tiny, unmanned, unarmed aircraft; could have been a Hamas reconnaissance mission, or a reef heron

TheDailyGrindAU: House of Saud wouldn't have been such chauvinist pricks for the last 80 years if only this season's IKEA catalogue had included more women