the slime spreads

Why, given the problems they have caused elsewhere, would our Australian dip-shit of a prime minister want to bring in optional voting and electronic ballots? And why would the monstrous imbecile Beasley agree?

The only reasons I can think of stink of corruption. Optional voting has meant that booths are positioned in difficult places in poorer parts of town in order to discourage citizens from voting. Electronic voting makes it easy to conduct untraceable vote fraud on a scale that boggles the mind.

Howard seems hell-bent on destroying our country the way Bush has destroyed USA. I hope my friends in USA can pull their country back from the edge... but I doubt it. A few more years and they risk plummetting over into the abyss. Will we fall with them? I hope not.

Here is an amazingly clear and insightful piece by Al Gore on why the USA is so sick:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2IU703.html
(Thanks sealwhiskers for the heads up.)

Planet Xena has a moon called Gabrielle

(Space & Astronomy News, 3/10/05)
Xena, the possible 10th planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim
little satellite called Gabrielle, its discoverers say.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_1473136.htm