Isn't the mass media great?

It introduces us to an extraordinary array of
people who are "known" only indirectly: sports
figures, politicians, authors, columnists,
talk-show hosts, newscasters. musicians,
and even ordinary people interviewed in
eyewitness news reports.

"Celebrities" seem to fascinate many of us.
They often become "known" in an emotional
sense; members of the mass audience follow
the events of their lives, mimic their styles
of dress and sometimes behaviour, and even
(especially in the case of teen idols) imagine
they're in love with them.

So, it's no wonder that the private life
of a sports figure like Tiger Woods attracts
so much media attention and comment.

What I'm finding interesting is how divisive
this issue is becoming. There seems to be two
camps. One blames Tiger for his infidelity,
another seems to be more interested in whether
this will affect his golf-playing ability.

It's interesting that when David Letterman (US
talk-show host) confessed to his infidelity on
his TV show - "Yep, I did it." He simply moved
on, and the audience did also.

I wonder why Tiger isn't able to do the same?
Perhaps, because the number of ladies Tiger's had
relationships with - seems to be
increasing? And he can't claim that it was simply
a "one of..." mistake. (Like a bank robber complaining
at being mugged?).

Perhaps for Christmas Tiger needs to ask for some
golf clubs that have extra padding on them?

I had missed your question, antiseptic.

>>Tell me, Pericles, is Tiger's wife being "controlling"? If not, why not? If so, is it a case of domestic violence, as the Qld Government would have us believe, or is a suspicion of infidelity reasonable excuse?<<

Although quite why a) you ask me specifically and b) it gets your knickers in a twist...

>>What about my questions that Pericles has ducked out on? Is Elin being "controlling" in checking his phone calls? Would you check your hubby's phone if you thought he might be jumping the fence? Do you think that is a "controlling" behaviour, or justified self-protective investigation?<<

...is beyond me.

But I think I'll defer to Peter the Believer for the answer to your questions.

>>It could not have happened except for the collusion between Labor and Liberals but the collusion caused the good legislation passed by Paul Keating’s government to be ignored for eleven and a half years, and only Divine intervention by three votes, gave a Christian leadership of the Australian Labor Party. Only one vote, caused the Abbott, to become Leader of the Opposition<<

There you are. Game set and match. Thanks Pete.

From the original post Pericles is confused about:

Pericles:"someone should have warned him about i) leaving voicemails and/or text messages ii) having her number stored in your phone "

Me:"I took the train into the city on the weekend, something I do rarely. Plastered all over the station were posters in regard to domestic violence, indicating things that "he" might do that are regarded as violent or "controlling" (apparently, in Queensland "she" is never violent or "controlling"). One of the top 4 was "does he check your mobile phone calls?"

Tell me, Pericles, is Tiger's wife being "controlling"? If not, why not? If so, is it a case of domestic violence, as the Qld Government would have us believe, or is a suspicion of infidelity reasonable excuse?"

Pericles:"Although quite why a) you ask me specifically and b) it gets your knickers in a twist..."

Not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you?

Perhaps Peter the Believer is indeed an appropriate authority for you to be quoting...

Well PTB I can help, if your mate whats his name up that tree takes a leaf out of Tigers book.
Say installs a bed?
He may get in the headlines, doubt it, he will get hungry few will even know
Tiger must have wanted to get caught leaving those on his phone but he after all is only acting out his ancestors breeding habits.

When Yamamoto sent out his aircraft to bomb Pearl Harbour, he issued a warning to his superiors, Beware the sleeping tiger. They did not listen, and the tiger that was the United States eventually saved Australia from a Japanese invasion. This tiger still has fangs.

There are other tigers in the jungle though. Two come to mind, India and China and these tigers are growing to be ever increasingly important. Fortunately for us, they are so far sleeping tigers, not militantly seeking to expand their land mass nor able to yet equal the military might of the United States.

The other tiger that has been asleep is the Christian tiger in Australian politics, a tiger that both political parties want to keep quietly in bed. Turnbull and Nelson failed to appreciate the might of this retiring tiger. Currently a prisoner of conscience has placed himself about sixty up a Wind Measuring Tower, about five thousand feet above sea level, at Shannon’s Flat, just south of Canberra, and is lying in a very uncomfortable bed. His name is Peter Spencer and he is about seventeen days into a hunger strike, with the express intention of restoring the Christian Rule of Law, we used to have in Australia.

If reports published on the prime news media ( the World wide web) can be believed, Kevin Rudd’s office does not want to know about it, Julia Gillard has no idea what to do, and the Australian Federal Police have been asked to look into the situation. They have a bit of a problem. Helicopters cannot come anywhere near Peter Spencer, because there is about 250 metres of steel tower above him. Heavy cranes would have to negotiate some very rugged and dangerous country farm roads, to access his platform, so the best solution is to talk him down.

Probably the best person to talk him down would be the Governor General Herself, the Chief Executive Officer of Australia. As Commander in Chief, she has the resources and holds an apolitical position of great power. Just as Sir John Kerr did in 1975

Her Excellency The Governor General called on Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second in London, and even though she was allocated an hour, the two most powerful women in Australia’s political life, spent over two hours together. The Royal Identifiers are not a tiger, but the Lion and the Unicorn, with a little Lion of Judah, with a Crown on his head, that used to adorn all Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

As the Sovereign and Chief Delegate, both are the Chief Magistrate of Australia, if the Oxford Dictionary is to be believed, and English is still the language of government and the law. One only becomes Chief Magistrate when she is present physically in Australia, but the other is present all the time. This is a Christian system, lifted directly out of the New Testament and in Christian terms, the Queen in Her Majesty, represents Almighty God. This by the way is all written down, and finds its practical application in the Australian Constitution.

In the Supreme Court Building in New South Wales at Queens Square, is a large Lion and Unicorn, minus the Lion of Judah. On the windows and glass doors of the Downing Centre, the Magistrates and District Courts of Sydney, are engravings of the Royal Identifier with the Lion of Judah, because until 1970, New South Wales was a Christian State, and the Royal Prerogative of Justice, was available, not at the whim of any State appointed public servant, but after due process of law, in a properly constituted Ch III Court. The sleeping tiger, the great sixty five percent of Australians who are Christian, must wake up, and their Champion, the self professed Anglican Prime Minister, who made promises to 200,000 Christians before the last election, must come home and attend to Australian business.

Australia has come a long way since 1970. New South Wales is a basket case, Queensland is getting to be that way, and Victoria has destroyed most of its productivity, because the Christian tiger has been asleep. The Alarm Clock is ringing, and Peter Spencer is its bell