"Men are being demonized in the media for a long time now. I think probably this is just society's reaction -- they think, 'We'd better start tightening up on everything.' It's getting to the stage when all men are viewed with distrust," he said.
"They've already chased men out of the teaching profession, especially for young children. I wouldn't want to be a Scoutmaster now. I wouldn't want to be a Catholic priest ..."

The county school system is re-thinking its definition of sexual abstinence after complaints from two parents that their children were receiving incorrect and even risky information in sex ed classes.
Karen Sees and Cindy Richards said the ‘‘contraception comparison chart” used in eighth-grade health class at Herbert Hoover Middle School describes three types of abstinence: No intercourse, withdrawal (ejaculation outside of the body) and rhythm (no intercourse during ovulation).
‘‘Since when did the term abstinence change to include the two most ineffective forms of birth control possible?” said Cindy Richards of Potomac. ‘‘Here we have been teaching our kids that abstinence means not having sex, period. What kind of message is this [chart] sending?”

1. + The picture is definitely better particularly where the source is not NTSC.
2. - The remote is lumpy and heavy
3. - There is no single click surfing button (up/down channel) There is single click surfing but it has slow response
4. - I need to wear my glasses to see the on screen instructions
5. - You need to see the on screen instructions to use it
6. - Documentary channels are lumped with news channels and require a page down to get to them
7. - The set top box only has co-axial S/PDIF (no TOSLink optical)
8. - No channel display on the front of the set top box
9. + The i button usually provides useful information
10. + The technician knew what he was doing and said my install was the quickest he had ever done
11. - He still insisted on teaching me how to use the remote control
12. - It made two phone calls this morning that I knew nothing about until I heard the phone tinkle. Why? (the lead is now unplugged)
13. - The STB seems to have a delayed response to clicks on the remote

• These are high performance non-migration interconnection cables utilising 99.96% pure OFC
• 24 carat hard gold plated contacts

PARTY drug-users are dipping into their taxpayer-funded welfare cheques to buy drugs, it has been revealed.

The revelations have angered the Australian Families Association.
President Bill Muehlenberg said governments should have the power to revoke dole cheques for those caught using them for drugs.

Just imagine for a minute that instead of crowds of jihadists shouting "Allah Akbar" and burning churches, gangs shouting "Christ is King" had burned 12 mosques. Don't you think that would have been a gigantic day-after-day story for the MSM?

IF you were thinking of sending your child to an Australian school, think again. Teachers addled by New Age nonsense about “outcomes-based education” have sent standards plunging and schools have been captured by trendy ideologues more interested in remaking society than teaching reading, writing and arithmetic.

The question was, ‘How proud are you to be an Australian?’ While 96 per cent of Coalition candidates were very proud to be an Australian almost two thirds of the Green’s candidates were either not very proud or not proud at all. It provides an interesting context for Howard’s use of the dog-whistle term, ‘un-Australian’.

A teenager has successfully challenged a court bid forcing her to wear an electronic ankle tag as she said it would not look right with a skirt.

Coming soon: convicted rapists released from prison on the grounds that it interferes with their sex life.

THE Herald Sun has been honoured for excellence in journalism at Australia's premier media awards.

The News Awards honours were decided from a field of 36 newspapers produced by News Limited, Australia's leading media company.

Hedley Thomas of Brisbane's The Courier-Mail last night won the prestige Sir Keith Murdoch Award for journalism in the inaugural News Awards.

RADICAL Muslims needed the permission of their mothers to carry out jihad, or holy war, Abdul Benbrika allegedly told his followers.

"If you mother says no jihad, then no jihad."
Court documents allege [the suspect] asked permission to undertake jihad from his mother two days later.
The documents do not detail her response.

... only CDs made at a local factory in Huntingwood, Eastern Creek, were being distributed by the Australin unit of Sony BMG
However, he did not rule out the possibility of CDs containing the copy protection software being sold in Australia as retailers were allowed to import CDs directly if they wished.
"In that case, the responsibility would lie with the importer," he said when asked who would accept responsibility for such CDs.

Titled groundings, the platforms will "become surfaces in flux, constructing a spatial poetics based in movement, transition and time", say [the artists].

It is notable that although the crisis was described as Australia's most dramatic political event since Federation in 1901, it caused no disruption in the services of government; it saw the parties remaining committed to the political and constitutional process by contesting the subsequent election and accepting the result. The crisis did precipitate one constitutional change, passed by referendum in 1977, to require that State Governments fill Senate vacancies with a member of the Party of the original holder of the seat. This would not have prevented Bjelke-Petersen from replacing Milliner with Field, but it would have prevented Lewis from replacing Murphy with Bunton.

Right now it would be possible for us, and I’ve often thought it would cheer me up to do it, you could dispatch a virus to anybody whose files contain us or Columbia records, and make them listen to four hours of Yanni ... but in the end we’re going to have to get serious about encryption and digital-rights management and watermarking.

The Paris that Ate Cars

Sony is apparently borrowing a tactic from hackers for its digital-rights management technology, and some security experts question the practice.

VICROADS staff ate and drank their way through thousands of dollars of breakfasts, morning teas and lunches, courtesy of the taxpayer.
Documents obtained by the State Opposition show almost $24,000 was spent on food in the four months to March.
Staff ate treats such as cheese platters, chicken drumettes and party pies.
The smallest bill charged by a catering firm was $4.40 for coffee.
The largest outlay was on December 8 by the road safety department, which included $282 for lunch and afternoon tea, and $841 for drinks.
Opposition transport spokesman Terry Mulder said it was an extraordinary amount of money to spend when many Victorian roads were desperately in need of repair.
"You have to question whether this is money well spent," Mr Mulder said.
VicRoads defended the spending, which was for all-day meetings, training sessions and workshops.
"VicRoads provides modest catering for staff, stakeholder representatives and business contacts," a VicRoads spokesman said.
"Included in the total catering figure is a substantial amount of self catering, where employees purchase goods from a local supermarket to keep costs down."