Rationing is ration-out

Today is the 175th anniversary of the Myall Creek massacre, which involved the killing of up to 30 unarmed Australian Aborigines on 10 June 1838 at Myall Creek, near Bingara in northern New South Wales. After two trials, seven of the 11 colonists involved in the killings were found guilty of murder and hanged. They should've hanged the other four as well because this crap is not on. The first white men to settle in Australia were kicked out of England for various criminal misdeeds, and fifty years later, it seemed that their descendants hadn't learned from their parents' and grandparents' mistakes. For those of you who think killing Aborigines would be a good idea in 2013, don't. Just remember that while they may be "just another bunch of stinking Abos" or whatever to you, Aborigines are people too. But let's not dwell on that ugly stain on Australian history any further because Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro says he has halted a plan to restrict the sale of basic food items in Zulia, the country's most populous state. The scheme would have limited the number of packages of items such as rice, milk, and sugar that each shopper was allowed to buy. The authorities said it was aimed at curbing smuggling to Colombia, where many basic foodstuffs are more expensive and could be resold for a profit. Critics had said the plan to restrict the sale of 20 basic food items constituted food rationing.