Headlines Wednesday 27th August

SBS asks exactly the wrong question
Andrew Bolt
Shouldn’t SBS be asking the very opposite question?

Have Your Say: Are we doing enough to stop climate change?
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Gassy Madge
Andrew Bolt
Madonna’s new Sticky & Sweet world tour takes an awful lot of energy to shift from show to show:

From the 250 staff travelling with her, nine are wardrobe assistants, 12 are seamstresses, with a 12-piece band, a chiropractor, personal trainer, masseuse, 16 caterers and around 100 technicians and dancers, included.
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Going organic means ploughing the rainforests
Andrew Bolt
There is plenty that farmer Oliver Walston can’t understand about organic fundamentalists such as the Prince of Wales:

But what puzzles me most about the Organic religion is a single fundamental fact. I grow wheat five times in a decade and usually produce 4 tonnes per acre. My organic friends grow wheat less than three times in a decade and are happy if they produce 2 tonnes per acre. Thus after ten years I will have harvested 20 tonnes while they may have harvested 6.
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TYRA THE FIRER
Tim Blair
It’s the Tyra Banks curse:
A number of presidential candidates have appeared on Banks’s talk show (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards) …
Two down. One to go.

Secret Republican Banks plans her Obama-removal strategy
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DATELESS IN A PRIUS
Tim Blair
We face a serious battery assault:
Australia has no ability to environmentally dispose of the batteries from the Toyota Camry hybrids whose production has been championed by Kevin Rudd …
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AWARENESS RAISED
Tim Blair
The best opening paragraph ever written continues its global journey, now reaching South Africa via Mosman-based Sarah Britten:
What makes the piece memorable is of course, the superb opening sentence — the scanned document sent to me was titled “Best opening paragraph ever” — the obvious stupidity of cleaning a lawnmower indoors and smoking around petrol, and the intriguing back story of a prior conviction for arson.
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WARMING HAS BROKEN …
Tim Blair
… like the first warming. Professor Charles Hall of SUNY-Syracuse describes his visit to an international geology conference in Norway:
The plenaries, especially the climate session and somewhat the energy sessions, were designed for a more general scientific audience. They tended to be moderately interesting, optimistic about resources and technology and often extremely contentious.

About two thirds of the presenters and question-askers were hostile to, even dismissive of, the IPCC (International panel on climate change) and the idea that the Earth’s climate was responding to human influences.
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AMERICANS CONFRONTED
Tim Blair
The Age‘s Ian Munro, who’d earlier proposed that only racism could explain Barack Obama’s poor polling, now examines the alleged assassination attempt against the Democrat candidate:
It is a recurring American nightmare, a fear that haunts a nation and that has stalked every presidential candidate since the Kennedys.
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VEGETABLES UNWATCHED
Tim Blair
Mark Henderson road tests the Rudd government’s comical GroceryChoice website. His experience might explain why the $13 million site shed 2.1 million visitors during its second week.
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DEAD WHALES THREATENED
Tim Blair
“Japan’s scientists claim their controversial whaling programme has produced a key finding,” reports the Guardian:
The team says its study offers the first evidence that global warming could be harming whales, because it restricts their food supplies.
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SCRABULOUS SCRAPPED
Tim Blair
Game over:
North American users lost access to Scrabulous in July, after Hasbro filed a lawsuit – however users in the rest of the world were still able to play the game …
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MONK INVESTIGATES
Tim Blair
Is Sophie Monk a Kentucky Fried fraud? Maybe not. It could be that the vegetarian PETA princess was buying KFC so she could perform autopsies on the poor murdered chickens.
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BIG EARTHA
Tim Blair
I’ve fallen for an older woman. The oldest, in fact.

Mother Nature, in the form of planet Earth, is about 4.5 billion years old. Way older than even Madonna. She’s not exactly a looker, either, what with her girth of 40 million metres and mass of 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes.

Frankly, Nature’s the type of unconventional gal that Mt Isa’s mayor John Molony might have been thinking about when he invited “beauty challenged” women to seek love in his female-needy town.
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STAY RIGHT
Tim Blair
Master political strategist Philip Adams:
A chance exists for the Libs to rediscover some of their lost liberalism and, on some issues at least, to attack Labor from the left, as British conservatives are learning to do with new-style leaders such as David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Yep, time to turn to Turnbull.
Cameron and Johnson aren’t as new-style as Adams imagines.
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EVERYTHING IS UNIQUE AND SPECIAL
Tim Blair
Ten reporter speaking live from Denver: “These are quite incredible scenes!”

Well, that’s one way to describe a big room with people in it. Nobody was even delivering a speech.
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Even warmer fears chiller
Andrew Bolt
Dr Ken McCracken, AGW believer and former head of CSIRO’s division of space science, predicts a decrease in solar activity - and, possibly, world temperatures
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Jaspan’s cultural legacy
Andrew Bolt
A salute to Andrew Jaspan, sacked today as editor-in-chief of The Age.

The puffed-up thug at the head of the mob, some of whom shout death threats against Malkin, is radio “host” Alex Jones.
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Clinton urges a vote for one of the contenders
Andrew Bolt
Bill Clinton controls his famous rage against Barack Obama and spruiks at the Democrat Convention for ... um, for whom, exactly?

Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?
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Jaspan gone from The Age
Andrew Bolt
Andrew Jaspan has been dumped as editor-in-chief of The Age, the paper he turned into a Bible of the global warming cult. No replacement has been announced, and Jaspan’s preferred successor, Paul Ramadge, has been given the job on only an acting basis. No word on (the equally Leftist) Mark Baker, the man brought down from the Canberra Times last year as Jaspan’s rumored replacement.
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Rudd blaming game
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd, October 2007:


I will end the blame game… the buck stops with me...

Kevin Rudd, August 2008:

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has admitted Australians are worse off since he took power late last year, but says he is not to blame..
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Legal gymnastics kills the schools’ sort
Andrew Bolt

I suspect it’s the legal system that’s scared the school into such nonsense - and which should be blamed:

THE mother of a child whose school banned students from doing cartwheels and handstands in the playground said the rule is hypocritical because riskier activities are still allowed
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More to us than Holdens and meat pies
Andrew Bolt
We really must stop measuring our manufacturing testosterone by the cars we subsidise produce:

THE three big carmakers represent the basket case of the manufacturing industry, chalking up losses of $250 million last year despite receiving $370 million of taxpayer-funded grants.