Headlines Saturday 12th July

Delusion spreads
Andrew Bolt
Christine Wallace comes down with a case of ”climate change delusion”, suffering one of the classic symptoms of apocalyptic visions after seeing Victorians on holiday:

Melbourne isn’t at the end of the annihilation queue but rather is scheduled for asphyxiation at the same time as the rest of the planet.
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Shouting at the fat is healthy
Andrew Bolt
Rodd Liddle is grateful to the British Opposition leader:

Good for David Cameron. There was a grotesquely fat woman in front of me in the checkout queue at Sainsbury’s this week, so fat I couldn’t see the car park; she looked like 26 Ethiopians, if you put them in a blender, added some bleach and gelatine and then allowed the result to set for 38 years in the fridge
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Behold the guru of the times
Andrew Bolt

Al Gore.
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Obama wants Osama executed
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden should be executed, if he is ever captured alive. - not questioned at Gitmo? Not given legal representation before a US court? Obama is showing his true colors here. - ed.
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Maths 'not pushing' students
National benchmarks in maths teaching are too low and students are being rushed through the basics, a new report shows.
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States to rebel against Rudd on health
KEVIN Rudd will face demands for hundreds of millions of dollars in extra health funding from states expecting a flood of public patients.
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Drugs first option in ADHD treatment
RITALIN and other ADHD drugs have been officially endorsed by the Federal Government as a "first-line treatment" for children. - thanks, kevin - ed.
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Husband gets sex every day for a year
DREAM or nightmare? A wife has given her husband the ultimate 40th birthday present, promising him sex every day for a year!
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Soldiers warn against Obama’s plans
Andrew Bolt

ABC - the American one, of course - asks American officers in Iraq whether Barack Obama’s withdrawal plans could actually work. The answers don’t flatter him.
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More freeways for the greens, please
Andrew Bolt
A global warming believer would actually demand better freeways, so that the engines are turned off much sooner:

MELBOURNE’S traffic-choked road network is slowing down, leaving peak-hour motorists crawling through the city’s inner core at just 23 kilometres an hour, a confidential VicRoads report shows.
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Bigots detected
Andrew Bolt
Greg Craven, vice chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, is as startled as I am by the anti-Catholic attacks in the media in this past week:

So why are there battalions of activists and civil libertarians so eager to cast the Catholic faith as a rights-abusing consortium? The sad answer is that religious prejudice is alive and well in Australia.
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AFL brainwave: Micks vs Prods
Andrew Bolt
Just when soccer is getting rid of ethnic clubs to break down the angry tribalism they foster:

THE AFL is considering a radical proposal to launch an Irish-dominated team in Sydney’s western suburbs, which would perform before an international audience under the Celtic brand name.

A plan so dumb and divisive that only a multiculturalist could have thought of it.
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No, the debate is only now being had
Andrew Bolt
Phillip Coorey is right to say Brendan Nelson’s attempt to rewrite the Liberals’ policy was clumsy :
Dr Nelson’s insistence until yesterday that there should be no (emissions trading) scheme unless there was action from China, India, the United States and others, did his leadership no favours… - good of Phil to be conveniently confused by a single policy. Apparently, he is used to interpreting the ALP who walk down both sides of the street and have no policy, but the wind of change. -ed.
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Obama under fire over Afghan 'insult'
By Stephen Collinson in Washington
WHITE House hopeful Barack Obama has said the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai has not "gotten out of the bunker" to rebuild the war-torn country.

Senator Obama's comments, ahead of an expected visit to Afghanistan in the coming weeks, drew immediate fire from Republicans, who accused him of insulting a key US "war on terror" ally.

Senator Obama also said in an interview with CNN, to be broadcast in full this weekend, that the Bush administration had allowed al-Qaeda and the Taliban to regroup, by diverting vital US forces to the war in Iraq.

"I think the Karzai government has not gotten out of the bunker and helped to organise Afghanistan and (the) government, the judiciary, police forces, in ways that would give people confidence," he said.
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A nest of thugs and vipers
Andrew Bolt
How tyrannies export their values:

China and Russia today blocked a US draft resolution in the UN Security Council that would have slapped sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe over his disputed re-election. The Chinese and Russian envoys joined their colleagues from South Africa, Libya and Vietnam...
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Rudd: midwife to the stars
Andrew Bolt
The Daily Mirror reports on the tributes being paid to new mother Nicole Kidman by friends, fans and fellow celebrities -Bolt lists a large number of examples of the star struck Rudd - ed.