Peter Foster's time in clink is well deserved

I don't normally applaud the jailing of felons but the four and a half year sentence handed down in the Brisbane Supreme Court by Judge James Douglas to convicted international conman Peter Foster is a well-deserved penalty for this notorious Gold Coast fraudster.

This 45 year old shark has been peddling his fraudulent practices for over two decades with fake slimming pills, bank fraud, impersonation, passport tampering, laundering money, false misrepresentation and intimidating witnesses - just to name a few of his more-conniving efforts in duping the public from Australia to the UK, Fiji and Vanuatu and a stack of countries in between.

He conned his way into the life and pants of Samantha Fox and he once duped the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie.

Peter "Conman" Foster doesn't care who he defrauds, who he hurts or who he rips off - as long as there is a fast buck in it for him.

Of course, this baby-faced conman always claims to have been wrongly accused or completely misunderstood or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and it was really someone else's fault.

When he gets out of the lonely life of a Queensland state penitentiary in 2010, this habitual conman will undoubtedly go back to the only life he has known over the past 20 years - one of conniving, thieving, hurtful deception of thousands of innocent people.


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Queensland Liberals' Shotgun Marriage!

Fair dinkum, the Liberal Party must think that the voters of Queensland are all complete dunces.

First, they oust the hapless Dr Bruce Flegg from Moggill who is not a bad bloke - but destroyed by the media on the day he became Liberal Leader in 2006.

Then the Party room was locked 4-all on a new leadership vote in a bitter split which proved almost impossible to resolve.

Then someone dreamt up the idea of a shotgun marriage between the Member for the Blue Rinse Set of Caloundra Mark McArdle and the Member of the Chardonnay Set of Inner Brisbane Tim Nicholls.

This political odd-couple were engaged, married and said "I do" quicker than Bruce Flegg could pack his bags and head back to the tranquil life back on the prairie beyond the back of Kenmore.

Voters can be sure that this shotgun marriage will never be consummated because this pair absolutely hate each other.

Their honeymoon was over after they both gritted their teeth and smiled appropriately for the happy snappers from the media.

Shotgun marriages rarely last and trying to turn this pair into a loving couple will be more difficult than matching up Paul Keating with Bronwyn Bishop!

Like all of the Queensland Liberals' attempts in recent years, this shotgun marriage will end in divorce with another acrimonious Party split guaranteed in the not too distant future.


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Santa sacked from Myer Centre for singing "Ho, ho, ho"

SEVENTY YEAR OLD SANTA
SACKED FROM CAIRNS MYER
CENTRE FOR SINGING:
"HO, HO, HO."

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

The giant retail corporation Myer should hang its head in festive shame for allowing the sacking of Santa at its Myer Centre in Cairns in Far North Queensland.

Santa's crime? Singing "Ho, ho, ho" to the little children.

Seventy-year old John Oakes was summarily dismissed by the head Santa employer Westaff for reciting this ancient chorus.

He was told that it was "not appropriate" to say such a thing to young children.

Westaff employs 550 Santas across Australia and New Zealand and has reportedly directed all of its Santas - including John Oakes at the Cairns Myer Centre - not to say "Ho, ho, ho", as it could scare children or cause offence to women!

What a complete load of absolute cr*p!

The only people acting offensively in this debacle is Westaff.

This poor old septuagenarian in the sweltering heat of North Queensland, dressed day in and day out in a Santa suit, is given his own sack and told to rack off for giving a little bit of Christmas cheer to the young kids of Cairns.

Talk about festive spirit and festive cheer, the good people of Cairns should boycott the Myer Centre until Santa is rightfully reinstated.

They should shout: "No, no, no" to allow their local Santa to resume his "Ho, ho, ho!"


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Anna Bligh is right on fluoridation

The Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has sunk her teeth into an issue which Peter Beattie and other previous Premiers have found too hard to handle.

Queensland children have the worst teeth in Australia which is the direct result of the failure to fluoridate the state's water supplies in accordance with internationally-accepted standards.

Townsville water supplies have been fluoridated for over 40 years with a massive improvement in the teeth of local children which follows on to their adult life.

All the doomsday scaremongers can scream and yell all they like, Premier Bligh is 100% right on the fluoridation issue. This is a major, long-overdue health initiative with the State Government bringing Queensland firmly into the 21st century.

Now for daylight saving for the southeast corner!


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Queensland Liberals - Every Child Player Receives a Prize!

The Queensland Liberal Party Leader Dr Bruce Flegg is finally on the ropes - battered and bruised by his own colleagues and has thrown the bloodied towel in.

And now the farce of Liberal Party politics Australian-style is about to be played out with the next leader to be chosen from a Lucky Dip!

The 8 Liberals are stuck 4-all on selecting a new leader and have discussed a Lucky Dip as the most-professional and sensible way of resolving the impasse.

Talk about choosing the best person to lead the Party!

This is all about a bitter, acrimonious factional split which will see Liberal Party Members die in the trenches rather than allow the Member representing the Chardonnay Set of Inner Brisbane to try to lead the Liberals out of the political wilderness.

If Tim Nicholls wins the Lucky Dip, he will be forever tarnished as the boy from Clayfield who thinks he is "One in a Million" but is really just "Won in a Raffle".


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Flegg gone - new Liberal Leader unveiled!

Just when the Liberal Party in Queensland had the opportunity of pulling itself out of the quagmire with the resignation of its Parliamentary Leader Dr Bruce Flegg, it continues to lurch from one crisis to another.

Dr Flegg decided on a top-secret location to continue the Party's leadership debate, only to be confronted by the media on his arrival.

The Liberal Party has more leaks than a football stadium full of drunks!

After resigning as leader and with the party room locked 4-all on a replacement, the Liberal Party in Queensland now has no leader and no prospect of a new leader.

As idiotic as this might sound, they were better off when Dr Flegg was the leader - at least there was someone to blame for the Liberal Party's never ending woes!

Now, we have great pleasure in introducing the new Leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland :

CASPER THE FRIENDLY LIBERAL GHOST!


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D-Day for Bruce Flegg

Exclusive picture of what the Liberal Party
in Queensland can't stop doing to itself.

He mightn't be a bad doctor but as Leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland, Bruce Flegg has shown as much inspiration as a dead dog on a rubbish tip.

Today is square-up time for the 8 Liberal members of the Queensland Parliament who have been locked 4-all in a move to oust Dr Flegg.

Good governments need good opposition and Bruce Flegg simply hasn't cut the mustard with ordinary Queenslanders who have seen him as a clumsy and ineffective opponent of Peter Beattie and Anna Bligh.

With Gold Coast MP Ray Stevens now saying there needs to be a change at the top, Dr Flegg should be free to resume his full-time medical practice before midnight tonight.


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Bruce Flegg turns mathematical genius!

Besides now showing an unprecedented degree of magnanimity, Dr Bruce Flegg - the Great Pretender to the Liberal Party throne in Queensland - has now turned into a mathematical genius.

After weeks of internal bickering and a 4-all deadlock in the Party room to replace him as leader with Tim Nicholls who is the rising star of the Liberals' inner-city Chardonnay set, Dr Flegg has now announced that he will stand down as leader if Tim Nicholls secures 5 or more votes in the upcoming ballot.

Well, bully for you Bruce. What a great fellow you are!

How long did it take you to work out that 5 out of 8 is a majority and that you would have to stand down anyway?

With intellectual geniuses like Bruce Flegg, no wonder the Liberal Party is a spent force in Queensland.


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Barnaby Joyce straddles the barbed wire again!

Queensland National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce has shocked his political colleagues with his announcement that he would support a Federal Labor Government's repeal of the draconian WorkChoices legislation.

The wheels are well and truly falling off the Coalition bandwagon with 3 days to go to the most-important Federal election in decades.