Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke suggested that Australia can become the world?s nuclear dumping ground. According to Mr Hawke this would be an economic boon to Australia and be the responsible thing to do.

The suggestion that Australia is a great place to store nuclear waste is an old one, but I believe a good one. The fact is that Australia has the most stable geology of any other location on earth. Our earthquakes are so small they are beyond the notice of most people, unless you live in Newcastle. We do not have volcanoes, active fault lines or any other geological nasties.

The fact is that China is pumping out an enormous amount of carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations. The amount of green house gases pumped out by India and China is increasing at an alarming rate. According to most scientists global warming is a fact and something needs to be done about it.

We have the technology to prevent the polar ice caps from melting, but we let politics get in the way of using it. The reason why the greens and other political parties in Australia are so scared of anything nuclear was mainly because of cold war threat of nuclear annihilation and nuclear proliferation. The diaster at Chernobyl didn?t help, and the continued nuclear testing by countries like France and India was also unhelpful.

The fact is there has not been a serious nuclear disaster for twenty years. The non-proliferation treaties never worked as every major nation and a few small ones boast nuclear capability. The fact is that nuclear weapons have only been used twice in anger and never again. I believe mutually assured destruction is actually what helped prevent world war three.

The nations that would make the most difference if they switched to nuclear energy are also the nations that already have nuclear weapons. So non-proliferation is a non-issue. The Greens, the anti-nuclear lobby and other environmentalists need a dose of reality and should give up their opposition to nuclear power.

The threat of global warming is far greater than the problems posed by nuclear waste.

I’m back and I’m badder than ever, but I’m still crippled. I have recently been on a camp run by the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Victoria. I had a great time catching up with all my crippled friends, making cripple jokes and stalking female carers.

I asked one particularly good looking female carer for her email address and she wrote down her phone number as well. That’s got to be positive.

On other news. My site got spammed while I was away. Most of it was the usual porn, song lyrics etc, but one caught my eye. One from Gaby that said “Your site is realy very interesting!” Well I think so too so I went to the site www.mynicemailat.com it immediately refreshed and went to a blog. Apparently the spammer had engaged in a bit of pre-emptive spaming. They had spammed before registering the domain. Anyway it sounds weird, but go to the site and read about it.

Another thing I noticed on my site is a new ad on my Google Ad bar. If you look to the left it should still be there. The Liberal member for Doncaster, in the Victorian Parliament, Victor Perton is advertising using Google Ad words. Does this come across as just a little bit desperate? With the Victorian Liberal leader (what’s his name?) announcing that they will no longer oppose tolls maybe they need Google Adwords.

I’m in the middle of a Molten Core World of Warcraft raid at the moment, so this will be a short post.

If you type failure into Google and then click “i’m feeling lucky” it goes to George Bush’s bio on the White House site. And it’s whitehouse.gov not the .com porn site.

Go and check it out, its funny as!

My mother is coming home from hospital today, you may ask why was your mum in hospital? Well that is a very long story.

On the 24th of August my mother went for a ten day holiday to Thailand, she had a great time, spending 4 days in Bangkok and even went to see a Ping Pong show (she told every one about it, much to my embarrassment). After getting home she developed a sore throat and a few days after that a temperature that continued to rise.

By Friday mum was in Maroondah hospital. A couple of hours later mum was in an isolation ward with a possible case of bird flu! Of course they ran test after test on her.

Meanwhile, back at our place, the phone was ringing off the hook. My brother nearly had a nervous break down explaining the situation to person after person. We also needed to find someone to care for us during the night. Luckily our friend Tim agreed to stay over.

This was actually was like an extension to our holiday. With mum gone we could stay up late at night playing World of Warcraft until the sun came up. Having a parent in hospital also provided a convenient excuse for not having my course work done on time. (For any teachers reading this is a joke; I really was stressed out of my brain.)

They finally discovered that Mum did not have a case of bird flu. It was just a really bad case of plain old ordinary human flu. The doctors at the hospital were very concerned that my brother and I would get it so we have been put on a course of anti-viral medication.

This event is a small scale example of what will happen if bird flu ever does gain the ability to infect human to human. I will have to ask Mum when she returns home if she thinks if it was worth going to Thailand. I think it was worth it, as we got an extra weeks break!

Mum has just arrived home and I have to say hi, see ya.

Rachel and Tim had such a good time at Melbourne Grogblogging #2 that they have decided to organise another one.

It will be at the beer garden of the Clyde Pub, corner of Elgin and Cardigan Streets, Carlton. Hopefully some of the socially impaired who didn’t turn up last time can make it.

Update: The 24th is Grand Final weekend, so Tim and Rachel have decided to hold it instead on Friday the 23rd – same time, same place!They are sorry for the mix up, but everyone makes mistakes.

The backstabbery continues in the NSW Liberal party. Tony Abbott was guest speaker at a small fund raising event just 12 hours after the attempted suicide of John Brogden. Of course Tony Abbott made a joke about it, “If we did that we would be as dead as the former Liberal leader’s political prospects.”

This statement wasn’t enough for Tony Abbott, he then followed up with, “I just want to make it clear I have never told an inappropriate joke, I’ve never pinched a woman on the backside and I never make inappropriate gestures to women,” this is a poor example sarcastic humour. This demonstrates a pattern of behaviour and the fact that it is a sarcastic comment means that he has in fact told an inappropriate joke, pinched women on the ass and made inappropriate gestures to the opposite sex.

Since it is a proven fact that Tony Abbott has done all the same things as John Brogden, while sober, he should beg for forgiveness offer his resignation, shoot himself in the foot, swallow his tongue and attempt suicide (technically this would be against his religion but his statements weren?t very Christian anyway, so I don?t know)!

Amazingly there is still one thing about Tony Abbott that you should all know about and that is his stupidity. He made the following statement on The Insiders yesterday, “One of the problems with the NSW Liberal Party is big flapping ears…” Someone with ears that put Dumbo to shame should not make such comments.