Headlines Friday 9th May

Meaner in a nicer way
Andrew Bolt
Not that this will be allowed to interfere with any stereotypes:

THE Rudd Government is rejecting asylum seeker applications at a higher rate than the Howard government, according to an analysis of new figures.
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No peak to your petrol
Andrew Bolt
Associate Professor Craig Marxsen explains why peak oil is a furphy
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One less worry
Andrew Bolt
The BBC reports excellent news: Great tits cope well with warming
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Kevin ruddy scared
Andrew Bolt
Christian Kerr isn’t the only journalist to notice Kevin Rudd’s fear of media questioning. John Lyons yesterday found a very media shy Prime Minister at the opening of the new Fairfax headquarters in Sydney, of all things
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Sydney police discover PMA drug lab
Police have busted a major PMA drug lab operating in Sydney but drug experts say it won't do much to stop the supply.
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League legend Jack Gibson passes away
The rugby league community is mourning the loss of legendary coach Jack Gibson who passed away at 6.32pm Friday night, aged 79.
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Teacher sacked for nude photo shoot 'would do it again'
A Sydney primary school teacher on suspension for appearing nude in a women's magazine would gladly strip and pose again, her husband says.
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PHOTOS: Star City victim's top model past
Holly Graham, the victim of yesterdays shooting at Star City Casino, was one of Sydney's most sought after models.
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Woman arrested at Burmese Embassy protest
A woman will be charged following a rowdy protest outside the Burmese embassy in Canberra.
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Driver from 50-bicycle smash speaks: 'It wasn't my fault'
EXCLUSIVE A fiery exchange has taken place live on 2GB's Ray Hadley Show, between Olympic cyclist Ben Kersten and the driver involved in the 50-bicycle accident on Southern Cross Drive yesterday.
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Police believe they have found Imran Zilic's body
SA police say a body believed to be missing three year old Perth boy Imran Zilic has been found in a mineshaft in South Australia.
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More rate hikes on the way: Commsec
Market watch: Wall St posts modest rally on mixed data
Telstra projects up to 7% FY08 EBIT growth
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Promises, promises
Andrew Bolt
Turns out it was mere spin, of course. From February, as journalists wiped their eyes at Kevin Rudd’s heady sorry ceremony
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Column - Burma killed by tyranny
Andrew Bolt
THE vultures are circling over Burma’s dead. Hey, isn’t that fat one Al Gore?

Sure is. And - flap, flap, plop - there he lands, the first to go picking over carcasses for scraps to feed his great global warming scare campaign.

What the world should be learning from this terrible loss of at least 60,000 people in the cyclone that hit Burma last week is that tyrannies kill more surely than any freak of weather.

But Al Gore, who won a Nobel “Peace” Prize for terrifying people with his error-riddled An Inconvenient Truth, wants you to blame instead his pet bogeyman. Tremble, sinners, before the wrath of a hot planet!

In an interview on America’s NPR on Tuesday, Gore claimed Cyclone Nargis was actually part of a pattern.

“Last year a catastrophic storm . . . hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China, and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”

This cyclone that hit Burma is a “consequence” of global warming? Gore should die of shame to peddle such self-serving deceptions.
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Work, don’t whinge, ladies
Andrew Bolt
PROFESSOR Mark Wooden this week learned how shocking it is to tell people the surest way to earn more is to work harder.

Actually, that’s not shocking at all, is it? Common sense, really. Refreshing.

But not if you’re a certain kind of professional complainer. Then you gasp at the crass rudeness of blockheads such as Wooden. Literally gasp.

To illustrate, here’s a report this week from news.com.au: “(The) pay equity gap between men and women in Australia will not close until women are prepared to work longer hours, an academic says.

“Social researcher for the University of Melbourne Mark Wooden said men were earning on average 15 per cent more than women because they put in more time at the workplace.”

Quite true, of course, but read on: “The only male taking part in a National Press Club panel discussion about the pay equity gap, Prof Wooden’s remarks drew gasps from the mostly female audience.”

Gasps? Here were professional women being told of a link between hours and pay, and gasping?

I refuse to believe all these women, including ones as successful and seemingly bright as Minister for the Status of Women Tanya Plibersek, are actually so dumb as to not know that Wooden is actually right.
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Tax on a tax
Andrew Bolt
A very powerful argument against big government, even if the figures were only half right:

Paul Kerin, professorial fellow at the Melbourne Business School,… says every dollar of tax costs the community another 35 cents. This includes about 5 cents for administration and some 30 cents for the cost of the distortion of people’s decisions on work, saving and consumption.
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Blame global cooling
Andrew Bolt
Australian Flip Byrnes was worried about her planned trek across Greenland’s ice sheets
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Teacher sues students for problematising job
Andrew Bolt
Love it. I wish only that this story came from, say, RMIT University instead