Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Headlines Tuesday 10th June

Activists skewed 2020 lovefest
Piers Akerman
REMEMBER that expensive sleep-over Prime Minister Kevin Rudd held for invited friends and self-nominated egoists in Canberra two months ago?
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Health warning
Andrew Bolt
One of the ads before the screen of Sex and the City I saw was for treatment for genital herpes. And from the city which spawned the show:

A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes.
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94 per cent is an A+ for groupthink
Andrew Bolt
Melbourne University lecturer Barbara Keys has students who sure toe the party line. An American, she asked her USA and the World class to decide which presidential candidate she would vote for in November. The results, as posted by Keys on her course website:

Wed, May 28, 2008—Obama Wins!
91 votes for Obama, 7 for McCain, 1 Nader, 1 Gore, 1 Clinton, 2 Nobody; 2 votes disqualified (one because of a reference to ‘our country,’ suggesting that the voter is an American citizen; one for comment ‘make up your own freakin’ mind’ )”

A vote of nearly 94 per cent to the Left - and 91 per cent to Obama, the most Left of the two Democratic candidates then still in the race. I suspect strong powers of suggestion.
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Who will then save them?
Andrew Bolt
If even the Aboriginal police don’t know it’s wrong....


A POLICE officer who condoned the marriage of his 13-year-old daughter will not be charged.

Northern Territory Police deputy commissioner Bruce Wernham said police had investigated the matter involving the southern region Aboriginal community officer and his teenage daughter, who later fell pregnant.
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A boy’s appeal
Andrew Bolt
Is this the best way to deal with the problem? I’m not sure, but very much hope so - and in any case greatly admire this boy’s courage:

FOUR years of constant bullying left young Elijah Vetma contemplating suicide last year.

The sweet 12-year-old endures daily taunts, is forced to wander the school yard alone and is left out of team activities.
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Change they could believe in, too
Andrew Bolt

From A Face in the Crowd this lesson on politics, complete with the same slogans now mouthed by ... Barack Obama.
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Warm plus gas equals green
Andrew Bolt
NASA scientists find that a little warming and some extra carbon dioxide are great for green:

They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth’s vegetated landmass—almost 110 million square kilometres—enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines. When the satellite data zooms in, it finds that each square metre of land, on average, now produces almost 500 grams of greenery per year.
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Rudd bombs
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd draws the wrong conclusion - and feeds a dangerous victimhood:

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called Monday for an end to nuclear weapons as he toured a memorial to the horror of the world’s first atomic bombing.-why not charge Truman with crimes against humanity? He was a Democrat .. ed.
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Spinner Rudd disowns substance Mar’n
Andrew Bolt
A confrontation looms between the Minister for Substance, Martin Ferguson, and the Prime Minister of Spin, Kevin Rudd:

Mr Rudd ... declined to back Sunday’s call by Resources Minister Martin Ferguson for Australia to establish its own nuclear waste dump, most likely in the Northern Territory.
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Rudd’s new NukeWatch is already invented
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd’s latest big idea:

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the creation of a new international body that will push for nuclear disarmament.
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Della Bosca gets in even deeper
Andrew Bolt
The Della Bosca affair is turning into a genuine scandal, and a sick-making insight into NSW Labor:

POLITICAL power couple John Della Bosca and Belinda Neal used their links to a millionaire businessman and former president of the Central Coast Mariners to force a staff backdown on claims the couple was abusive and threatening at a nightclub.
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Rudd spins on oil
Andrew Bolt
I thought his diplomacy was his strongest suit. But Kevin Rudd’s attack on OPEC astonishes Adam Shaw, on BBC Radio 4’s Today program:

AN astounding thing was said by the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, who said that the G8 needed to put more pressure on OPEC. I think he said that we need to take a blowtorch to them, which is an extraordinary thing to say.
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Warming Williams does it again
Andrew Bolt
The Science Show of Robyn ”100 metres” Williams shows its typical commitment to balanced debate on global warming in its latest show.
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Teacher filmed up skirt of 14-year-old girl, court told
A Sydney high school teacher is facing court after he was allegedly caught filming up the skirts of teenage girls.
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Rudd accused of playing favourites with green car fund
The Rudd government has played favourites by awarding $35 million to Toyota for its Australian hybrid car without following due process, the opposition says.
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'I won't stand Della down': Iemma sticks by minister
NSW Premier Morris Iemma insists he won't stand embattled Education Minister John Della Bosca aside, over the Iguana Joes nightclub scandal.
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Rudd won't meet Dalai Lama
TWO federal government ministers will meet with the Dalai Lama during his Australian tour, but Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will not.

The Tibetan spiritual leader will be giving paid lectures to supporters in Sydney from tomorrow until Sunday. -such despicable cowardice from Rudd, who would had criticized Mr Howard even after he had met the Dalai Lama - ed.

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