Bubba

Here is the first shot of Mirandas bump.


Oh Miranda, thats how I look after a big lunch!!


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Happy Anniversary!

It is our anniversary today :)
Instead of being a good fiance, and going out for dinner I am going to MSFW with Lacey instead.
S tried to guilt me and say he had already booked us a night out, but he has an awards night at Crown anyway.


How cute is this card that I got him?!

A little mouse.
Maybe it is a pig...

Anyway, it looks like S hahaha.



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Fathers Day

Don't forget it is Fathers Day on Sunday!
Geefa gave me a list of things he wanted, this is from his email:
Father’s Day list:
Black tracksuit pants small – not parachute or soft
David Schwartz book
Clarkson book
Top Gear Top 100 book
Peter Alexander Ug boots size 8/42
Really, what the hell is in the middle of not parachute and not soft trackies?
I googled David Schwatz book, and not knowing he was a sportsman, found a bunch of kids books and was mighty confused.
Which Clarkson book?
The only thing he was accurate about, was the Ugg boots.
I asked him which books exactly, as I couldnt find the Top Gear one online so he went for a wander and sent me all these pics of the covers to my email that he had taken on his iPhone with the message "Clever huh???!!!"
Oh Dad. Such a Dad.
Anyway, I found the book he wanted and have delegated the other gifts to the other siblings, except for the trackies - they are a mystery.
This is the card I got for him, but every year I usually make him one (or a book of funny pictures etc) and make him proud of the private education he gave me haha, sucker.


I think I matched up the font quite nicely!!


Oh yes, there is the standard drawing that is included.

We are going out to lunch on Sunday, cant wait - am already hungry for it.
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Fruit.

I need to eat more fruit.
It is so hard when it is cold. Thank lordy for Spring!


Nom Nom.
Okay I can't deny how much I love the kiwi knive/spoons!!


It's as if they were made with weirdos like me in mind.


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QLD Girls

Has anyone had a wedding/formal dress made by MXM Couture?

Am considering flying up for an appointment for the Wedding Dress.

I know Annette of Melbourne can do what I want, but I think MXM could do it better possibly.
It is a slight hassle flying up for however many fittings I will need, but hell, who doesnt want a fab dress?
Thoughts?
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THEIR GUY . . . OUR GUY . . .

This just about sums it up . . . S.L.


Their guy . . .




Our guy . . .




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TALIBAN USING MERCENARY SNIPERS?

This is from the worthy site WEASEL ZIPPERS









(Telegraph)- A British soldier killed while manning a watchtower in Afghanistan may have been the latest victim of a hired Taliban sniper stalking the town of Sangin, it has been claimed.

Sapper Darren Foster of the Royal Engineers was shot as he passed a narrow slit in a bulletproof glass screen around a lookout post in the northern Helmand town.

US forces have disclosed that he is thought to have been one of three victims of a sniper at work in the area in just a week. One US marine was killed as he momentarily stepped out of an armoured vehicle to drop off a rubbish bag and another was injured on a bridge nearby.

The shootings raised fears that the Taliban may have hired a mercenary sniper to target Nato forces in the town which is now considered the most dangerous in Afghanistan.

There have been claims that at least three snipers trained in Iran or Pakistan are thought to be at work across Afghanistan.

Earlier this year it emerged that the SAS had been sent out to track a Taliban sniper operating around Sangin.

A senior officer disclosed that a single gunman was thought to be responsible for the deaths of up to seven soldiers from 3rd Battalion, the Rifles, stationed in Sangin.

Sapper Foster, 20, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, was on duty in a lookout post at Patrol Base Sangin Fulod on August 13.

The post is protected by thickened glass with only small gaps through which those on guard can point their weapons.

US forces, working alongside British troops at the base, disclosed that it is thought the gunman timed a single shot for the moment he walked past the opening.

“He hit a moving target in a space this big,” Captain Jim Nolan, a company commander serving with the US Seventh Marine Regiment told the Wall Street Journal, holding his hands about nine inches apart.


more . . .


(Daily Mail)- Four foreign snipers hired by the Taliban, thought to be responsible for the deaths of ten British soldiers, have been hunted down and killed.

The mercenaries were found by British special forces in Helmand province in Afghanistan after a tip-off from locals. They were put under close surveillance until their identities were confirmed, then air strikes were called in.

The operation ended a killing spree that lasted weeks and could have led to the deaths of up to ten British soldiers.

Recruited from Pakistan, Egypt and Chechnya, the snipers could kill from up to 650 yards away and were considered a serious threat by British commanders.

Their victims included Sapper Darren Foster, 20, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, who was killed by a single shot from 600 yards, which went through a 9in gap in a look-out post near Sangin.

When their identities were confirmed and their exact locations ascertained, pilots of U.S. F-16 jets were sent precise coordinates to ensure their high-explosive bombs killed the enemy without hurting innocent civilians.

In both cases, elite SAS and SBS troops, working with crack US and Afghan Special Forces, were involved.


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MONDAY MYSTERY BIRD

Who IS she?


What does she DO ? ? ?

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Wedding Stuff.

Slowly but surely Wedding Plans are coming together.
Our wedding will be September 10 2011.

We have booked the church, the Videographer Alan Hughes and the Photographer, Adrian Tuazon.

Please do take the time to check out Adrians work, it is breath taking.

I find that lots of wedding photos are too posed, stark and not natural, and could not bare the idea of that.


We are having an Engagement Photo Session on 20th February 2011 and Adrian mentioned the idea of a picnic, and I can picture it perfectly in my head.
S and I have been on a fair amount of picnics together, so that suits us well.
I am seeing tiers of cup cakes, lots of pastel macaroons, bunches of flowers, fresh strawberries, champagne, beautiful tea set etc etc.
I can picture it exactly as I want it in my head. I know I can plan it 100% how I picture it, as S doesnt care.
Here are some pics of examples of what I am seeing, but the colours and images in my head work much better.


















Yippee!

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Oh No.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse... These appear on Facebook.
Evidently Celeste really captured the drunken debaucheries.
And people say I'm a poser, check out Cess!!

Okay so this is actually nice.
Then again it was on my balcony so I was not comatose yet.


Me, a little dancing chip munk.
Suprised I wasn't on that bar. Shame.


I need to shave off my baby hair.
Nothing will tame it.


Haha at the strange guys in the background photo bombing us.


No words can explain what I was doing.


Ragh.


Anyhoo, good night had by all.



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Allumbra

On Saturday, even though I knew I was coming down with the flu, I went to Allumbra with Celeste, Vanessa, Beetroot and Burak.

Beetroots real name is also Burak but when I first met him, our first day at RMIT studying Food Science I blurted out in front of the entire class "Burak means Beetroot in Polish!!!" and it has stuck ever since, much to his dismay. It is just me and the people who know him thru me that call him Beetroot though.

First pic of the night.
Before the 5 vodka shots, 2 vodka and cordials, 2 wines and half a water bottle full of vodka.
And that was just at my house and in the car before heading to Allumbra.


Beetroot & Burak are both fasting due to Ramadan so could not drink, which means they witnessed my disgustingness in a sober state.


Outfit:

Caroline Morgan top ($29.95 - bargain!!)
Supre top worn as skirt
Alex Alex heels

Vanessa & Celeste


If you look at this pic, you will see I had both false eyelashes on.

I don't even remember lining up to get in, but apparently we were whisked to the front of the line again, it must be pure luck that every time Vanessa, Celeste and I go out it happens!


Celestes perfect hair colour.

Damn her.



Okay here comes the messy-ness.



Beetroot & I. He was not even drinking & he looked worse than I do in this pic.


My purse is open, which is clearly how I lost $50.


Luckily I didn't lose my ATM card, house keys and phone though!



Burak and I.


Out of all my photos, he is the one who always seems to have been stuck with me.


Poor guy.


I remember at one stage the boys making me drink water, and I had lost Celeste and Vanessa and I asked Burak if I could go sleep in his car, but they wouldn't let me.



Okay. Please note I only have ONE eyelash on.


Bloody hell.


Who knows how long it would have been dangling from my eye, before falling and no1 told me.




Love the shoulder detail on this top.


I only have 1 black bra at the moment, and it is strapless so took the risk of my multi colour bra being seen with flash, and there it is.



Burak, Vanessa & I.





Poor Burak.





Oh No.


I guess you can never count on boys to tell you when your bra strap is showing.


I have about 50 photos of the boys all in a row doing various poses. They are worse than we are.

Beetroot, Afiq & Burak

This was during the stage where I could not find the girls anywhere.


Surprisingly we were home by about 1:45am.
Beetroot and Celeste stayed over..
I woke up with the worst mix of hang over & flu in the world.
It was awful.
I am still on my deathbed
Really should have called in sick at work today.
Saturday morning S had to go to work, which is in Malvern and to the bank at Chadstone so I went along for the ride. He was quick to say "No looking at shops at Chadstone". Yeah right.

He was pulling quite a lot of cashola out at the bank, and I made a joke and said "Okay straight to Tiffany & Co" and the teller perked right up,not noticing S roll his eyes at me and was saying "Ohhh an engagement ring??" and I said "Nah I already have one of those!" then I explained I was just kidding but she still didn't get it and was asking what other piece of jewellery we were buying.
If only.
I did get to look at a gorgeous full set prong eternity ring though, and have asked for a quote to have it made in my size :)


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SELF-STYLED TERMINATOR TERMINATES SELF

CIA ASSASSIN OR GREAT STORY TELLER?

This story first appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Roland Haas, a pathetic wannabe who described himself as a former CIA assassin, accidentally shot and killed himself Saturday. Haas, 58, died after driving a short distance from his apartment, stopping his car on a busy street and exiting it with the engine running. Investigators believe he had a 9mm semi-automatic handgun tucked in his waist and it accidentally discharged. Haas was struck in the leg, rupturing his femoral artery.

"We don't have anything to show that he did it intentionally," said Maj. James Yarbrough, Coweta County Sheriff's spokesman.

In a book he wrote, Haas detailed executing an Afghanistan heroin dealer and the man's two bodyguards, and described undergoing torture in an Iranian jail. People hailed it as a gritty, realistic account of Cold War spying.

Haas's motives for writing his 2007 book, "Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA assassin," are far more unclear. He claimed he was only 19 and a Purdue University student on an NROTC scholarship in 1971 when the CIA recruited him as a deep cover operative.


Bullshit - in 1971 the ranks were loaded with qualified operators with beaucoup experience from Southeast Asia. What the hell would the CIA want with a snot-nosed college kid still wet behind the ears?


At a Fayetteville bookstore appearance, Haas explained matter of fact how he supposedly killed the three men in Afghanistan and the effect it had on him.


Oh how I wish I was there that day. I would have called this guy out on his bullshit phony-baloney war stories. I would have shamed this guy into the middle of next week. I would have made him feel so low down and worthless, trying to pull off a chest-thumping stunt like this in front of an audience of real war heroes, he would have gone home to his hotel room and offed himself then and there, never mind the car stunt in Atlanta.


"Three people were deleted, they were removed," he said. "Those three acts irrevocably changed who I was . . . The day I undertook that first mission successfully, I ceased being the person I had been."

Of his time spent incarcerated in an Iran jail, he said: "The good thing is, you only feel about the first three or four hits and then you pretty much pass out."


Bullshit. Those Middle East regimes staff their prisons with professional goons, and they know how to make the pain go on, and on, and on to the point that just the teensiest pink-prick feels like you've just been skewered with a red-hot iron bar. This guy can't even lie good.


The official word out of Washington on this idiot:

"This individual was never a CIA employee," said Paula Weiss, CIA spokeswoman.

Specifically, the national intelligence agency says Haas wasn't a contractor, freelancer or hired in any capacity.


Plagiarism suggested.

Some readers immediately questioned the source and accuracy of his information. In an Amazon.com review of the book, a man named Geoff Deane accused Haas of using an account of a drug user and a shootout from a website article he wrote, replete with an error Deane had committed.

"It sounded very familiar when I read it," Deane wrote.

Haas's book was published by Dulles, Va.-based Potomac Books, which lists several titles invyolving intelligence themes. Claire Noble, publicity manager, described Haas as "a patriot who made his country better," and said Potomac had no reason to take issue with the book.

"His story passed muster with our outside reviewers and inside editorial board," Noble told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


Yah, R-I-G-H-T . . . even my little-itty-bitty Korean wife saw through this guy's bullshit, looking over my shoulder as I scripted this post together: "HAH! Him shoot SELF??? That because he a STOOPID! This guy more full bull-dookey than a three-day Kimchee-eating contest!"


What's even MORE unbelievable is that Haas had a verifiable intelligence background; he was a civilian employee with the U.S. Army Reserve Command at Fort McPherson (metro Atlanta), deputy chief of staff for intelligence since 1995, according to Maj. Corey Schultz, Army Reserve spokesman. Records showed Haas came to his post from Wildflecken, Germany.


Just goes to show how a dedicated bullshit artist can pass initial muster, thrive and survive in a bureaucracy as big and wide as the U.S. Department of Defense. What's really unbelievable is the fact that he was able to keep his security clearance after transmitting such a really huge whopper like this.


Haas's duties included planning and coordinating Army Reserve resourcing, training and support within the broader Army and Department of Defense intelligence community. In this role, he had no reason to carry a gun. He was more of a computer geek.



Geek is right. A dead geek.


Spy Talk, a Washington Post blog, reported that a handful of former CIA officers were so turned off by Haas's book, they protested his employment to his Army Reserve supervisors. "As one of an increasing number of former intelligence officers who believes that Roland Haas' book . . . is a hoax, I find your willingness to tolerate Mr. Haas in his scam very disturbing," wrote John F. Sullivan, a retired CIA polygrapher.


How classic is this? A professional bullshit detector called this guy out on his bullshit!


Marilyn Haas still doesn't question her husband's assertions he was a CIA operative, though she admitted that family members had no knowledge of it until the book was released.

"The family did not know, believe me," she said. "We knew when everyone else did, when the book came out."


That's because he never did any of it, Marilyn. I hate to put it to you like this, but you were married to a bullshit artist. He was a Legend in his Own Mind.


As for the CIA distancing itself from her husband, Marilyn Haas had a ready explanation: "Of course, they said that."


Thus is perpetuated the Perfect Lie - Haas never did any of the shit he describes, and the CIA will therefore continue to denounce the book and its author - the ultimate Plausible Denial.


Bet you dollars to doughnuts old Nerd Nuts never gets a star on the wall, either.


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ITs JUST A PAR THREE

Forget pitch and putt - this tee-off point on top of a 1,410 ft. mountain in South Africa is the hardest golf shot in the world, and more than $1 million awaits the player who can score a hole in one.

Players must take a helicopter to the top to play the longest and highest par three on the planet.




Taking the shot also requires courage. A player needs to teeter terrifyingly close to the edge of the mammoth hillside.

Indeed, the Extreme 19th Hole is so high the ball takes almost 30 seconds to reach the ground.

Channel Nine cricket commentator Mark Nicholas recently joined an elite list to have the shot in just three swings.

"It was awesome, riveting and phenomenal," he said, "it's like the end of the world when you get up there and it's an awful lot of fun.

It's such an adrenaline rush taking the helicopter up and then rushing back down."

The hole is based at the Legends Golf and Safari Resort, within the Entabeni Safari Conservancy in South Africa's Northeastern Limpopo Province . The other 18 holes were designed by world golfing legends including Trevor Immelman, Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington and Australia's Robert Allenby.

A round of golf - including a buggy and lunch - will set you back R450 ($70).

The Extreme 19th costs is $1060 per four ball, that includes helicopter ride, souvenir cap, glove, and a DVD of you playing the hole.

So far, no one has even come close pocketing the million-dollar prize, but Harrington became the first golfer to conquer the hole within par.

Harrington said, "This is the type of innovation and excitement we need to get more people playing golf. There aren't many new innovative ways to play the game but this is certainly one of the best. I think this hole is awesome. I love the whole experience, the helicopter, the views, the drama and having the green the shape of Africa. And now I've got bragging rights over all the other professionals who have played this hole and not managed to make a three. I love everything about it."


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CAPTURED ! ! !

Scratch one phony wannabe . . . S.L.


OFFICER IMPERSONATOR ARRESTED IN DEADHORSE, ALASKA


The imposter William Clark






August 28th, 2010 04:03 PM

FAIRBANKS -- A man who served prison time for impersonating an Army officer at the scene of an Oklahoma bridge collapse has been arrested in the North Slope community of Deadhorse. William J. Clark, 37, had outstanding warrants in five states, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Saturday.

The director of the North Star Council on Aging contacted Fairbanks police earlier in the week after Clark displayed a handgun. Though Clark posed as a military police officer, the woman told police she thought he was mentally ill or a jail escapee.

Despite the outstanding warrants, Fairbanks police let Clark go because he did not show up as a convicted felon in a statewide database. A national database was not checked until it was too late.

A hunter who read a newspaper article about Clark contacted police, reporting that he met a man in military fatigues who fit Clark's description, said Fairbanks police Sgt. Eric Jewkes.


That would be THIS article, no doubt - referenced in STORMBRINGER


The man believed to be Clark mentioned he was going to Deadhorse, more than 400 miles north of Fairbanks. North Slope Borough police found Clark at the Prudhoe Bay Hotel on Friday and he was arrested without incident, Jewkes said.

Clark is expected to be flown back to Fairbanks within the next few days.

Clark's most recent stint in jail ended in August 2009, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.


Yeah, well, you're about ready to go back to the Big House there, Big Boy. I wonder what prison's like in Alaska in the wintertime?


This month a Davenport, Iowa, television station reported that Clark is suspected of passing a bad check at a computer store in April. The man who passed the check reportedly said he needed a laptop for his deployment to Afghanistan.


The merchant of that store in Davenport brought that information to our attention HERE.


Fairbanks police also are investigating Clark as a suspect in several cases of bad checks being passed off around the city, Jewkes said. Similar fraud charges are anticipated in Juneau.


This news is significant on many levels: A) a bizarre con man whose criminal scams involved disgracing the uniform of U.S. Special Forces has been brought to justice, B) thankfully nobody was hurt despite the fact this unbalanced individual was armed, and C) media reports on this issue - and the conduct of persons involved - seemed to echo information posted here on Blog STORMBRINGER. If in fact postings here contributed to the apprehension of William Clark, then this is quite possibly the first known instance of human tracking via the resources of the Internet.

I received training and experience as a tracker during my time as an instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center, and subsequently used those skills throughout my career, to this very day. Several aspects of a classic tracking operation came into play during the saga of William Clark, i.e. persistence (the track may go cold, but the trail can always be picked up again); the psychology of tracking (getting inside the head of the person you're tracking - avoiding the scenario of the hunter becoming the hunted); and modern technology - which usually involves using vehicles, aircraft, and specialized optics.

In this case the power of the Internet was harnessed to spread the word, and the tracking operation was conducted like a game three-tiered chess across five dimensions; the three dimensions of the physical world, the dimension of time and the dimension of the virtual world.

In urban operations technique known as "hiding in plain view" is used, which is the art of masking one's identity via ruse and deception. That concept works fine down by the Koenigstrasse in Stuttgart but doesn't get you too far in a rural environment like Alaska where William Clark obviously stood out like a sore thumb.

Just this afternoon I was telling my brother that the trail may go cold, but it never goes away. I knew we were going to get him, sooner or later.

This is a good omen.


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WILLIAM CLARK SIGHTING

This latest sighting took place Monday of last week, 23 August 2010. - S.L.


KTVA: Bizarre Con Man On Loose In Alaska




FAIRBANKS - A convicted con artist with a long history of impersonating Army officers has been up to his old tricks in Alaska, according to Fairbanks police.

A Fairbanks magistrate has issued a $100,000 arrest warrant for William James Clark, 37, on one charge third-degree weapons misconduct, or being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Fairbanks police were called to the North Star Council on Aging Monday afternoon after Clark reportedly showed a pistol to the director of the facility, Julie McCumby, and claimed to be a military police officer.

McCumby reportedly told police she believed Clark was mentally ill or an escapee from jail and that seniors were being moved out of the building and away from him, according to charging documents.

When Fairbanks police officer Joshua Lambert contacted him, Clark, a heavyset man with a blond crewcut, was smoking a cigarette while talking on his cell phone.

He had an empty handgun holster on his belt, and a loaded 9mm pistol was found in Clark's car. The gun was placed in the trunk for the safety of the officers present but not confiscated.

At the request of McCumby, Clark was issued a citation for trespassing told not to return. Officers did not take him into custody, and as Thursday night, he had not been apprehended.

While Clark has oustanding warrants in five different states, police were not aware of his history because the statewide Alaska Public Safety Information Network only listed him as a "person of interest" in a Juneau fraud and forgery case from late July and early August.

It was only after they let Clark go that officers discovered Clark's criminal history through the computerized National Crime Information Center. FPD Sgt. Eric Jewkes said that checking the NCIC is not something officers routinely do.

Juneau police spokeswoman Cindy Brown Mills would not release additional information about the department's investigation into Clark because he has not been formally charged.

It's unclear what exactly Clark was doing at the North Star Council on Aging. Because of the ongoing investigation, McCumby would not say if he was an employee or volunteer there, but said that despite Clark's lengthy record of fraud, there was no threat to the records kept there.

Monday's incident was just the latest in a long line of bizarre cases involving Clark.

Clark's most recent stint in jail ended in August 2009, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.


The STORMBRINGER Effect:

Photos and pictures making the rounds on military message boards also seem place Clark at an Aug. 7 Anchorage gun show, during which he was reportedly looking to purchase ATVs for other, fictitious soldiers.

Clark was reportedly wearing a captain's uniform with badges indicating he had special forces, ranger and airborne qualifications.

Spokespeople for the Alaska State Troopers and Anchorage police department said neither agency have had any recent contact with Clark.


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