Top Gear Host's Faux Outrage

They should be so lucky : to be invited back to Australia.

When Jeremy Clarkson from the UK's Top Gear show- the series that fills a studio with people who can't afford the cars the presenters demonstrate, and mercilessly demeans the ones they can afford, you know the show has a limited shelf life.

Top Gear was never that popular in Oz and it's probably on it's last legs in the UK. Nothing could illustrate that more than the shenanigans at Otto's last night. When the Shuttle received an invite to attend a press conference that day for the show, we binned it as just a repeat of the same old stuff.

As Clarkson and friends arrived at the Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo last night their attempt to brew a controversy over the paparazzi was a sad sight. If you want privacy you don't go to the Finger Wharf. The snappers prowl there every day and night
But it was Clarkson's actions that gave the game away as he confronted one of the lensmen who continues to claim his snaps fetch $50,000 a piece (even though he was recently bankrupted). Clarkson knew the reptile by sight and his pretense about tossing the 'fat bald one' in the harbour was a joke as the snappers are business partners.
" "How did they know?" wailed one of the Top Gear party referring to the paparazzi.
Err, perhaps he would better off asking the show's publicist that question : he did a phone around of the media that afternoon.
Top Gear's Wheels Are Falling Off  by Michael Idato

A Bumpy Year & A Bieber Baby

The 2012 predictions are flowing in and the usual catastrophes await us-floods, typhoons etc as well as our old favourite Nostradamus predicting the beginning of WW3.

The New York Post's Cindy Adams says Justin Bieber will become a dad for real and Prince William and Kate become parents (that organ of repute Woman's Day says likewise but that 'medical intervention' will be needed)
The famous Edgar Cacye had lots to say about 2012 including that the entire West Coast of the USA will disappear (presumably in an earthquake) and that New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco will be destroyed as will Japan! Another tsunami ?. How accurate was Cacye ? Some of his predictions for 2012 have been uncanny having happened this year including turmoil in Lybia,. Egypt and Syria.

The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins says Assad's regime in Syria will fall in '12. Meanwhile Henry Deedes in the RightMinds blog in the MailOnline says Barack Obama will win again in 2012 (even I could have predicted that) but Jeremy Clarkson will be embroiled in another scandal when he calls Obama the Mad Mullah.

The howtosurvive.net website has bad news for us here in Australia. We're facing a 7000 ft tidal wave! Time to sell that harbor side property and move to Ulhuru.

The Psychic Twins Terri &Linda Jamison who it's claimed warned about the 9/11 attacks two years before they happened have a pretty good track record. They reckon 2012 will be a 'calm' year in the video below. No tsunamis. No 7000ft tidal wave. Phew.
They reckon however that Britney Spears will be working on a new album. Amazing !

As for the Shuttle-we predict tons more champagne parties in 2012, lots more gossip and scandal involving celebrities, politicians and business figures plus love affairs that begin and end. And when have we ever been wrong? . Happy New Year!