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From: Operative Pulat
Subject: Time to go, Mandy
Date: 7 October 2005 6:06:16 PM

Dear Senator Vanstone,

I write in reaction to a story featured prominently in this morning’s edition of The Age concerning the report of the Commonwealth Ombudsman on your Department’s execrable treatment of Ms. Vivian Alvarez Solon.

I thought I had reached a point where nothing a senior representative of the Federal Government did could surprise. But I confess the arrogance and irresponsibility displayed by you in response to this seemingly damning report astonishes me.

Even by the abysmal standards we have become very accustomed to from the Federal Government and the Federal APS in recent years, both you and your Department are a complete disgrace. That you, your colleagues and your superiors all seem to regard it as appropriate for you to try and tough out this latest DIMIA scandal can only be described as surreal.

It’s time for you to resign, you blind, heartless bitch. Failing that, I sincerely hope you die painfully and soon. That is, in my view, the very least you deserve.

Yours in contempt and disgust,

Operative Pulat

Via refused-classification.com.

South Australian No Pokies MP Nick Xenophon said it was outrageous that a toy marketed at children aged four and over featured a pokies-style game.

Mr Xenophon wants the toy banned or at least given an R rating by the Office of Film and Literature Classification.

[Note: There is no ‘R’ rating for computer games, there is only ‘banned’.]

The toy has a G rating.

“This virtual pet encourages children as young as four to participate in poker machine-style gambling,” Mr Xenophon said today.

“Kids become so emotionally attached to these toys that they grieve for them when they die.

“This version … should not be available to children.

“Research here and overseas shows that these games can turn the kids of today in to the gambling addicts of tomorrow.”

One Adelaide father had taken the toy away from his six-year-old son after becoming concerned about the pokies game, Mr Xenophon said.

Incidentally, my second generation Tamagotchi, Bodah, passed away quietly on the 15th of July. He was handsome, but otherwise undistinguished.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he is “desperately sorry” for the death of a Brazilian electrician shot dead by London police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.

Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed by police at Stockwell underground station in south London on Friday.

The commission investigating his death said Mr Menezes was shot at close range eight times, not five, as originally reported.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was “desperately sorry” for the shooting.

You can tell he really means it, too. He’s really, really sorry. He feels just terrible about it. It burns him up inside. It’s been keeping him awake at night. Honest.

Tony Blair: he means it, maaaan. He’s got that whole “I’m sincere, me” thing down.

Respect.

Not a suicide bomber at all.

:O

Stop the violence!