As long as ignorant academics can interfere in normal peoples' lives with impunity then it is that long that parents have no power to control their children. Parents rights , what are they ? I'd like to know too.

Dear Antiseptic,

Weather is the state of the atmosphere,
to the degree that it is hot or cold,
wet or dry, calm or stormy,
clear or cloudy.
Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere,
just below the stratosphere. Weather refers,
generally, to day-to-day temperature and
precipitation activity, whereas climate
is the term for the average atmospheric
conditions over longer periods of time.
When used without qualification, "weather"
is understood to be the weather of Earth.

Weather is driven by density (temperature
and moisture) differences between
one place and another. These differences
can occur due to the sun angle at any
particular spot, which varies by latitude
from the tropics]]. The strong temperature
contrast between polar and tropical air
gives rise to the jet stream. Weather
systems in the mid-latitudes, such as
extratropical cyclones, are caused by
instabilities of the jet stream flow.

Because the Earth's axis is tilted
relative to its orbital plane,
sunlight is incident at different
angles at different times of the
year. On Earth's surface, temperatures
usually range ±40 °C (100 °F to −40 °F)
annually. Over thousands of years, changes
in Earth's orbit affect the amount and
distribution of solar energy received by
the Earth and influence long term climate
and global climate change.

Thanks Houllexi. An inspirational piece of plagiarism.

Houellie, (ha, ha!)

It's a tad overcast here at the moment, but the wind has dropped : )

(As a channel 9 weathergirl
talking about snowfall)
I had a good 8 inches last night.

Not interested in the weather after Gillard’s $trillion sacrifice to the Sun gods in the interest of our children – says she with no children.

However, I do have something to say about the family law (family violence) amendments which are designed to make shared parenting unobtainable. The Senate postponed the vote last Wednesday to oppose the CO2 tax bills guillotine.

Litigated divorce (profit) dropped 22% after the “weak” shared parenting reform of 2006. In countries implementing equal shared care it dropped 55%. The AG says – in contradiction to 2000+ peer-reviewed research studies – that the shared parenting law went too far – an increase of 3% in court ordered shared parenting arrangements to 17% – which has put children at risk because women are afraid to make allegations.

Therefore “reform” which redefines family violence to be whatever the accuser says it is, to effectively repeal the presumption of innocence for men and the removal of all penalties for false allegations.

Further the legislative protections against poisoning and/or alienating the child against the other parent, the most insidious and long-term damaging form of child abuse, specifically enacted to prevent children being used as weapons in custody disputes, are repealed to protect children. The objective soon becomes clear – sole maternal custody.

Unfortunately throwing the baby’s father out with the alleged “domestic violence” bathwater is neither prevention nor protection. There is not one case of child abuse in a court mandated shared care arrangement whereas 80% of reported child abuse occurs in maternal sole custody homes which FVB will unavoidably increase.

More than half of all new “domestic violence” incidents are reported after separation [strategic] which the Bill encourages. Temporary protection orders, the main tactical weapon for sole custody, repealed in the 2006 reform are reinstated without explanation. Protection orders already accounts for 45% of litigation profit. $600 for a lawyer just to show up in court.