I AM EXPLODING WITH RAGE.

An Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.

Disgusting, and an utter travesty of all that it means to be human. We're should be encouraging our kids to strive for greater heights, not have them crippled like this.

News of the World.

1. Conservation, or culture? Who wins? South Africa's vultures are being pushed into extinction by gamblers who believe smoking their dried brains will give them special powers, wildlife organisations have warned. Some South Africans believe the 'muti' magic will help them predict football match results. And they are hoping the World Cup will be a great opportunity for a big win. Or you could make money the honest way, and not exterminate a species for the sake of worthless mumbo-jumbo.

2. The hottest in fashion this week: A budding Tasmanian musician who set fire to a laundry basket full of his girlfriend's clothes during a drunken argument has avoided jail. Apparently they've patched up their differences, and their passion for each other is reignited. *ducks*

3. There's old and then there's OLD. Census officials in Indonesia say they believe they have discovered a 157-year-old woman. AFP reports the woman from a South Sumatran village claims to have been born in 1853.

Sounds good, but where's the proof?

Sardjono added that the woman had burnt all her identification documents in 1965 to avoid being linked to an alleged coup. World's oldest revolutionary, perhaps?

4. Here's an article on multi-skilling. If you can call this a skill: Two of the world's top ranked pizza eaters have faced off, for the title of 'world pizza eating' champion. The two competitors dined out on their favourite 14 inch pizzas, at the Pizza Hut 'chow-lounge', in Los Angeles. Reigning world number one, Joey Chestnut took out the event, downing 41 slices in just 10 minutes. Chestnut is also the proud owner of the world hot dog eating record.

And then he went down to the hospital to have his stomach pumped?

5. The Australian Government tried jumping the gun, but has shot itself in the foot: Parliament's gift shop in Canberra has pulled Barack Obama memorabilia from its shelves after the US president again withdrew from a planned trip to Australia.

Oops! Not content with that, they shot themselves in the other foot:

Coffee mugs adorned with Mr Obama's face had misspelt his first name, spelling it 'Barrack'. The mugs have since been removed from the shelves of the gift shop.

And this is the mob that says it's "building the education revolution". Sadly, their attention to detail is no better when it comes to the big things. At a cost of sixteen billion Australian dollars, perhaps they'd have been better off canning the overpriced school canteens, unwanted school halls and dodgy demountable classrooms and buying every kid in Australia a set of the Oxford English Dictionary and Encyclopaedia Britannica.

What power is this we are handing over?

PLUG-IN points for electric cars and electricity meters enabling appliances to be turned off over the internet will be installed in central Sydney and Newcastle, after NSW won a bid for $100 million in federal government climate change funding.

This from the government which wants to introduce a compulsory internet filter. How can we ever trust a government not to misuse this at some stage? And Climate Change Minister Penny Wong wanted to introduce this across the country if her pusillanimous master's ETS bill had got through. Combine that with a government-built super-firewall that quite probably would be able to monitor who said what about who is in charge, and you would have the power to destroy critics of the Government through subtle and repeated interference in their daily lives.

That's enough. At the next election, THROW THEM OUT. Them and their sick accomplices in the Green movement. Banish them to the deepest, darkest corners of the opposition benches and keep them there for a hundred years.