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Fri 15 Dec 2006

favourite photos of recent fires

My life has been completely nuts for the last few weeks with fires all over the place in South Australia. Unfortunately it has been even worse in many other states as the country burns.

I am a rather untalented photographer with no skill, some luck and an amazing work place so here are a few pics of recent fires. Larger versions and more photos can be found via pcuse.com/gallery.

Just to give Brenton a hard time
Brenton keeping an eye on things at Gums Lagoon in the South East.

Dyson Dyson’s silhouette.

River Red Gums Gums burning at Gums lagoon

Mallee burning at the bookmark fire in the riverland.

National Parks strike team

The definition of futility :)

Playing catch the lightening strike

Brenton’s handiwork.

Nature’s palette.

The gear bags start to melt.

Hot!

Artsy mirror shot

Bonnet reflection and my favourite pic from Cox’s scrub

Keep driving!

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Mon 4 Dec 2006

My excuse for being slack with updates recently

Hi folks,

It has been a very interesting and hectic start to the fire season across the country. I have played a small part by helping out at the following major fires and a whole stack of smaller ones.

Kangaroo Island around Gosse in the Flinders Chase National Park (photos in http://pcuse.com/gallery)

Scott Creek

Humbug Scrub (based at One Tree Hill)

Gums Lagoon (based in Keith and photos at http://pcuse.com/gallery)

Bookmark fire (based at Waikerie in the riverland, photos up in the gallery tomorrow)
We have another fire ban day tomorrow and they are already looking for crews to go away. It should be an interesting week.

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Sat 11 Nov 2006

Thankyou to US voters

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Hi all, I am sure you are aware that I have been a little nuts recently over the US mid-term elections. This has been for several reasons none more important than the Republicans have been steering the entire world further right into crazyville. Well, I have unfortunately been working flat out since you US folk did such an amazing job, so here is my thanks to you from a simple Australian.

Wow, thanks America. I am stunned and amazed at what you have done :)

The clean sweep of Congress, along with Rummy taking a fall is more than I could have dreamed of. Nice work :)

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Tue 7 Nov 2006

Breaking the Silence

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Breaking the Silence

It should surprise few readers that we think a vote that is seen—in America and the world at large—as a decisive “No” vote on the Bush presidency is the best outcome.

A plead for sanity from The American Conservative magazine.

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Mon 6 Nov 2006

Daily Kos: A Coup D’Etat in America

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Daily Kos: A Coup D’Etat in America

Make no mistake - this is as close to a coup as we have ever seen in this nation.

The Generals are revolting.

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Thu 26 Oct 2006

Republican’s being dodgy

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Some interesting articles about Republican’s running for Congress.

–AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl
–AZ-01: Rick Renzi
–AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth
–CA-04: John Doolittle
–CA-11: Richard Pombo
–CA-50: Brian Bilbray
–CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave
–CO-05: Doug Lamborn
–CO-07: Rick O’Donnell
–CT-04: Christopher Shays
–FL-13: Vernon Buchanan
–FL-16: Joe Negron
–FL-22: Clay Shaw
–ID-01: Bill Sali
–IL-06: Peter Roskam
–IL-10: Mark Kirk
–IL-14: Dennis Hastert
–IN-02: Chris Chocola
–IN-08: John Hostettler
–IA-01: Mike Whalen
–KS-02: Jim Ryun
–KY-03: Anne Northup
–KY-04: Geoff Davis
–MD-Sen: Michael Steele
–MN-01: Gil Gutknecht
–MN-06: Michele Bachmann
–MO-Sen: Jim Talent
–MT-Sen: Conrad Burns
–NV-03: Jon Porter
–NH-02: Charlie Bass
–NJ-07: Mike Ferguson
–NM-01: Heather Wilson
–NY-03: Peter King
–NY-20: John Sweeney
–NY-26: Tom Reynolds
–NY-29: Randy Kuhl
–NC-08: Robin Hayes
–NC-11: Charles Taylor
–OH-01: Steve Chabot
–OH-02: Jean Schmidt
–OH-15: Deborah Pryce
–OH-18: Joy Padgett
–PA-04: Melissa Hart
–PA-07: Curt Weldon
–PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick
–PA-10: Don Sherwood
–RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee
–TN-Sen: Bob Corker
–VA-Sen: George Allen
–VA-10: Frank Wolf
–WA-Sen: Mike McGavick
–WA-08: Dave Reichert

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Wed 25 Oct 2006

Aussie lifestyle a ’serious drain on the planet’ | NEWS.com.au

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Aussie lifestyle a ’serious drain on the planet’ | NEWS.com.au

If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in Australia, we would require three and a half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste we create.

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