Nice one!

Despite a previous whinge about the endless stream of terror reports on the news(here), today we go to the opposite extreme.
"31 year old drought broken.....Australia into the finals of the Soccer World Cup"(see the lead story here)
While the ABC has usually withstood the commercial demand to focus on sports stories...today both the 8 a.m. news and morning news program AM capitulated completely. To be fair to the latter they did begin their morning program by noting that in Damascus some Australian women had been questioned...but they came back to that story after the soccer.
This, on a day when Secretary Rumsfeld is in town! On a day when no one will be allowed to walk in front of the Adelaide Town Hall or on the western side of Kaiser Wilhelm's Strasse....sorry King William Street...(forgot which country I was in for a moment) for 3 blocks while Herr Rumsfeld...sorry forgot again...Mr Rumsfeld is here.
What does it all mean?

Any way we had a nice clergy conference for two and half days in the Barossa...and we invented a new vaudeville joke for Chad's benefit.....Who was that lady I saw you with in the spa? That was no lady that was........ah well, those who were there will know the meaning and end of it.

Have a nice day today.