Karise!! Karise!! Karise!!

She did it again.

A few weeks back I saw a young Aussie girl sing "It's a man's world" on the Voice website.. and from the moment she began to sing I melted, I was spellbound, addicted to this girl's raw and powerful voice... and how it made me feel, how it made my eyes water in joy.

So I followed her TV career in the hope she would make it even amongst the well trained singers and professionals who also got through their audition. I found out she has had a hard life and that made me even more hopeful of seeing her do very well.

Each time Karise sang it made tears of Joy run down my cheeks.. every bloody time.. and I am still addicted to how she makes me feel when she sings.

So tonight I got to listen to her twice. Her own song first, which was bloody brilliant. The type of thing that draws you into the story being told and how it feels. She showed us inside Karise far more than any interview could.

But then she backed that up later with "Stay with me Baby". Holy hell... blown away again!! Stupid watery eyes and wet cheeks again. I was moved.. deeply, totally and irreparably moved.

Along with maybe 7 or 8 others from that show, Karise Eden will have an amazing career.. and I will forever be a great fan. I will buy her albums. I will tell people to "be quiet" when she comes on the radio. And I will enjoy it all as much as I did the first time I heard her voice.

The Headline says "Flogged".....

I don't believe what I am seeing on the Nine MSN front page this morning.

In America.. typical... some nosey neighbour videos a bloke who gives his step-kid two smacks on the arse. And even though we can't hear what is being said, the guy recording video claims it is because the kid dropped the ball, he also claims the "Cowardly" man "FLOGGED" the kid.

Since when has a smack or two on the arse ever been Flogging??

To get a flogging means you were punched around a lot, or severely lashed with whips or other weapons.

Never can anyone say two smacks on the arse with a belt is equal to a Flogging.

Seriously.. the namby-pamby bleeding hearts have screwed things up for everyone when they don't even understand the difference between a smack and copping a flogging. Dickheads.