Massage as perks in Australia January 3, 2008
Posted by blogerita in : Entertainment, Government , add a commentSydney: Australia’s top government civil servants are set to loose one of their most privilege perks of all – massage. These massage sessions are paid using tax-payers money. According to Assistant Treasurer, Chris Bowen, “This is a blatant waste of expenditure” and it has to stop.
Bowen was sympathetic towards other hardworking Australian civil servants who are equally hard-working or perhaps, worked harder than those who enjoyed these free massages.
From the data provided, the top bureaucrats at the post office were fondest of free massages.
Blogerita says:
Mr Bowen, are you sure these massages are complete ‘clean’? It’s good that you have taken it away from these top dogs in Australian civil service. Anyway, they earn big bucks. Ask them to pay for their own massages.
I would propose that you allow me to operate massage services in government offices for these top dogs to patronize. Grant me a license, please.
Benazir Bhutto assassinated December 28, 2007
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Benazir Bhutto
June 21, 1953 - Dec 27, 2007
Rawalpindi:Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack. Her attacker fired a few shots at her when she came out from the sunroof of her bullet-proof car to acknowledge the crowd after a successful public rally.
After firing the shots, he detonated a bomb attached to himself and killed another 20 people in the blast.
Benazir Bhutto, 54, was the best known Pakistani opposition leader to take on President Pervez Musharraf on the coming general election. She was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan twice. First was in 1988 at the age of 35 and the second was in 1993.
She returned home on Oct 18 after a self-imposed exile to participate in the first general election in many years. In her homecoming parade in Karachi, she was targeted by suicide attackers which failed to assassinate her but killed more than 140 people.
Blogerita says:
Benazir Bhutto is a brave leader to lead the Pakistan People Party (PPP) in the most dangerous election. Her family has suffered a lot in the politics of Pakistan. Her father, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was hanged by the military in 1979. She lost two brothers in strange circumstances. Shah Nawaz died of poisoning in southern France in 1985. Another brother, Murtaza, was shot dead in Karachi in 1996.
May I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Benazir Bhutto and the people of Pakistan.
Noble Prize 2007 December 11, 2007
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Stockholm:The ten Nobel prize winners were honored for their achievements in science and literature. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden presented the awards to the winners at Stockholm’s Concert Hall. The Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and literature were awarded yesterday.
The winners for literature - Doris Lessing, 88 - and co-winner for economics Leonid Hurwicz - could not be there in person to receive the award due to health reason.
The Nobel Peace prize was awarded in Oslo to Al Gore and UN’s climate panel.
Albert Fert from France and Peter Gruenberg from Germany were awarded the physics prize. Gerhard Ertl from Germany was awarded the chemistry prize. Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies from United States and Sir Martin J. Evans from United Kingdom were awarded the medicine prize.
Each prize is worth 10 million kroner and the winners were announced in October.
Blogerita says:
I am speechless. Kudos to the winners. May your work make the world a better place for the future generations.
Gamble wisely November 30, 2007
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Boston: A convicted bank robber, Timothy Elliot, who is not supposed to be gambling has won US$1 million from the “$800 Million Spectacular” game. He bought the US$10winning lottery scratch ticket from a supermarket.
The state probation commissioner has started a hearing to determine if Timothy has violated his probation when he bought the ticket.
Elliot has already collect and probably enjoyed the money, from the first of his 20 annual US$500,000 checks from the Massachusetts’ Lottery Commission.
Blogerita says:
Is this considered gambling? The lottery tickets are sold openly in supermarkets, etc. It’s not the Las Vegas’ casino type of gambling. Give him a break. I would suggest to the state probation commisioner to provide Timothy financial counselling to help him invest his winnings wisely.
Spare the rod and spoil the child November 24, 2007
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Wellington: A New Zealand father has been convicted of assault for smacking his eight-year-old son on the bottom in what is believed to be the first case under a controversial new law. The man was sentenced to nine months supervision including undergoing anger management.
The new law was passed in May removing a provision allowing parents to used ‘reasonable force’ in disciplining their children.
Blogerita says:
Watchout New Zealand government! What you have done is “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. In short term, you may look good. In long term, you may have just created a generation of children who will misbehave and be irresponsible towards their parents.
With greying population increasing each year, raising an irresponsible young generation will place a whole lot of financial burden on the government to look after the greying generation.
Think again, New Zealand government!
