The end of indulgences

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Canberra: by our bunyip correspondent ✉️ Exactly one hundred years ago, the men and horses of the Australian Light Horse charged over open ground for more than two miles into entrenched machine gun and cannon fire. The charge was a victory for strong and brave men far from home. And so what is going on in the country that these horseman left behind? The President of the Australian Senate – after reading newspaper accounts of senators being expelled from Parliament…
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Not an earthquake

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Washington: Monday ✉️ by a special correspondent. The initial reports on Monday was that there had been a small earthquake in the nation’s capital as plates and cups rattled and pictures of the President in Federal office buildings were knocked askew. However, the cause was actually the violent spinning by Republicans and Democrats. Which collided with hyperbole and grim pronouncements from the liberal and conservative press. The aftershocks were the result of excessive use of CAPITALS in tweets. Here is…
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Mueller awaits…

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Washington: Sunday evening ✉️ With rumours of arrests thicker than chocolate wrappers on the ground in Connecticut the morning after Halloween, it is believed that the White House has been in panic mode all day. But why? At this stage, President Trump is considered unlikely to be an early arrest. This is a relief to the Secret Service as their reputation as being willing to take a bullet for the President will be dented if they allow a Federal Marshall…
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Celebrating one year

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Washington Post (Democracy Dies in Darkness). By a Senior Correspondent October 20 2017 at 9.28 PM ✉️ The story around the salons of Georgetown, the horse farms of Virginia and the antique filled apartments of the Upper East Side of New York is that the favoured friends of the administration have each been receiving a crisp white card through the mail over recent days. It reads as follows. The President and First Lady of the United States request the pleasure…
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Adult Day Care

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Wikipedia – the editors of Wikipedia earlier today discovered that the entry for “The White House” had been edited by an unknown person. Before they changed it back (also deleting versions called “House of Horrors”, the “Nut House” and “Renovators Delight”), a copy was kept. This version is set out below. “The White House Adult Day Care Centre is a well known adult day care centre at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. It moved to its present site in…
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