Dick Cheney and John Howard
I may be losing it but what happened in Sydney Australia last week was mighty odd I felt ...

Last week the biggest ocean liner in the world Queen Mary came into Sydney Harbour closely followed by the next biggest one QE 2... nothing odd there, but most of the CBD had gridlock with people wanting to see the Queen Mary, we accepted then that many streets had to be closed off for this...fair enough...

and they stayed closed for who should visit hot on the heels of this but Vice President of the most powerful country on earth at present, Dick Cheney...he spent a couple of days here talking to John Howard... and the security was unbelievable.

Now first I wondered why would one of the most evil and powerful men on this planet come down here in person to spend days with the leader of our country of a puny 20million people?

What was so important that they had to talk about that couldn't be discussed over the phone, internet or by whatever means they might have... ? I meant there are some really serious things a Vice president might need to be attending to rather than this, considering whats going on world wide right now in Iraq, Iran (!) and well everywhere.

But the really odd thing was during this flurry of talks, and security, CBD closed to all traffic...they decided to stop all trains coming into the CBD for "planned track maintenance" and Cheney and Howard took themselves off for a little harbour cruise on a big pleasure boat...

Years back a brave Australian proved how "safe" boats in the harbour were when he used an ultra light or abseiled over a US Nuclear ship and lobbed some balls of paint right down its funnel to prove it could be done) he'd be hung drawn and quartered these days for that...

Maybe the boat was the only place they could really think was private to talk...maybe I am just a suspicious little vegemite...

all back to "normal" now we are told but I can't help wondering what in hell was going on, being cooked up...

it was also strange to see photographs of Little Johnny and Dick dressed identically at one photo session in denim type blue shirts and khaki pants...odd for our PM and very odd for Cheney.