Headlines Sunday 24th August

Rudd’s GroceryWatch remaindered
Andrew Bolt
Remember the Rudd Govovernment’s boast of a fortnight ago?

The new GROCERYchoice website received 1.8 million hits in its first four days, showing consumers are interested in the information it provides, federal Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen says.

As I said then:

That’s a hell of a lot of people who are finding out for themselves just how useless is the site and just how much the Government has duped them.

Check the latest statistics to see the level of disillusion
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Aborigines did pick fruit, and should
Andrew Bolt
Bill Edwards says flying in Aboriginal fruitpickers - rather than foreign ones - worked well when he tried it:

In 1965, as superintendent of Ernabella Mission in the far north-west of South Australia, I heard an ABC news report that women were being brought out from Greece to fill a need for more fruit pickers in the Riverland region. - but if we did that, wouldn't Greer criticize us? - ed.
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I caused this, says Greer
Andrew Bolt
Paul Toohey checks out a case in the NT Supreme Court to see if Germaine Greer is right - that the rage of Aboriginal men is caused by white oppression, and it would be “inhuman to ask them to get over it”:

The name of the rage was Gary Aaron Albert, 32, described by the judge as a “full-blood Aboriginal man” from Katherine…
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Obama picks Biden; Biden disqualifes Obama
Andrew Bolt
It’s Joe Biden:

Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.

Well-versed? The man was for Iraq’s liberation before he was against it

the youtube vid shows a 1988 presidential bid advert for Biden.
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Memoirs of a saddened ABC board member
Andrew Bolt
A disillusioned Ron Brunton reflects on his five years as a board member of the ABC - an institution he admits he failed to reform:

In my time on the Board, ... I encountered many instances where I had reason to believe that I and other directors were being deceived on important issues by one or more levels of management. In a small number of cases the deception eventually came out into the open, and involved extremely tense Boardroom episodes. In some others, I was given the relevant details privately by ABC staff… If they were true, they indicated that the Board was being deceived, not necessarily through deliberate lying, but by the withholding of information that it needed to be apprised of in carrying out its duties....
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Blubber for brains
Andrew Bolt
A memorial to our madness:

The injured mammal - affectionately called Colin and then renamed Colette when identified as a female - was put down by veterinarians today after being discovered in shallow waters north of Sydney earlier this week… The NPWS said it would seek community suggestions for a memorial in honour of the whale at The Basin, which is part of the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

If we memorialised the death of an abandoned child in this way, we wouldn’t seem quite so unhinged.
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Who was the traditional Aboriginal Tim Flannery?
Andrew Bolt
More reinventing of Aboriginal traditions - this time the tradition of the Aboriginal climate change consultant:

The Federal Government is being urged to analyse Indigenous rock art and oral history more thoroughly to inform future climate change policies.

Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance spokesman Joe Morrison says the Government has not done enough to understand and recognise Aboriginal knowledge of climate… He says there are clear depictions of climate change recorded on rock faces in Kakadu and there are living libraries who carry with them important clues handed down through the generations.

Would that be evidence of man-made warming, by the way, or the usual natural stuff?