Andrew Bolt
In June, the worry was still only that his secretaries didn’t want to work for the insufferable Kevin Rudd:
The Sydney Morning Herald believes Mr Rudd has churned through half his staff since coming to power in November. He has lost six diary secretaries in as many months.
But even his most senior aides are now bailing out
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Be nice to the rice
Andrew Bolt
Don’t insult the weed:
For years, Swiss scientists have blithely created genetically modified rice, corn and apples. But did they ever stop to consider just how humiliating such experiments may be to plants?
That’s a question they must now ask. Last spring, this small Alpine nation began mandating that geneticists conduct their research without trampling on a plant’s dignity.
A joke? No:
Beat Keller, a molecular biologist at the University of Zurich, ... recently sought government permission to do a field trial of genetically modified wheat that has been bred to resist a fungus. He first had to debate the finer points of plant dignity with university ethicists.
I didn’t go far enough yesterday in warning that those who demanded we treat animals like humans really wanted to treat humans like animals. In fact, we can blithely destroy unborn children even close to birth, but heaven help a scientist who is rude to a turnip.
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Steyn cleared
Andrew Bolt
Canada’s human rights police have rightly cleared columnist Mark Steyn of hate speech:
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled today that ... the article, an excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone in which he describes the demographic and ideological dangers posed by a growing Muslim population in the West, was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt.
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Bryce just digs in deeper
Andrew Bolt
Governor General Quentin Bryce is defiant, despite my criticism that she’s playing politics:
GOVERNOR-GENERAL Quentin Bryce has defended her right to speak out on social issues…
The view that a governor-general’s job should be little more than snipping ribbons to open flower shows was “a very old-fashioned idea"… Ms Bryce said her most important job was to be part of the Australian conversation...
Of course, she issues the standard promise, albeit tempered significantly:
However, she told The Age she would never become involved in partisan politics or the political process.
But how does she resolve that promise not to play politics with her desire to use her new job to push her political views?
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Individualists have green zones
Andrew Bolt
Author Bill Bishop detects a key difference between Democrats and Republicans
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WWF lectures: don’t do as we do
Andrew Bolt
The green-preaching WWF issues an invitation to fellow eco-alarmists:
“Join us on a remarkable 25-day journey by luxury private jet,” invites the WWF in a brochure for its voyage to “some of the most astonishing places on the planet to see top wildlife, including gorillas, orangutans, rhinos, lemurs and toucans.”
For a price tag that starts at $64,950 per person, travelers will meet at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Fla. on April 6, 2009 and then fly to “remote corners” of the world on a “specially outfitted jet that carries just 88 passengers in business-class comfort.”
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You wreck it, we won’t replace it
Andrew Bolt
The Age runs this photo to explain why taxpayers need to cough up. Most readers, I’d guess, would conclude instead that the tenants should just clean up.
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Rudd to temper his immigration folly
Andrew Bolt
My question on Wednesday:
Why is the Government running the biggest immigration program in our history just as the economy may be careening into a wall?
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Economy sinks, opportunity grows
Andrew Bolt
Another shocking morning today on the stock exchange:
AUSTRALIAN stocks have plunged 7.5 per cent, wiping nearly $85 billion off the value of the sharemarket.
But steady on. Andrew Main, The Australian’s business editor, has advice. It’s buy
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GO AHEAD
Tim Blair
A green homage to National Lampoon:
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REACTIONARIES
Tim Blair
Canadians against alternative energy:
Dozens of prominent Quebec artists, scientists and media personalities joined about 60 environmental and social groups yesterday to launch a vast campaign to pressure Quebec’s Liberal government to cancel plans to refurbish the province’s only nuclear reactor.
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GLOBAL FUNDING DENIED
Tim Blair
Science damn! All that delicious warmening research money is under threat:
Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be “just devastating” to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations.
Leakey … said much of the support for science comes from wealthy philanthropists, foundations and companies. All those groups likely will be affected by lowered interest rates and the squeeze of credit not being available to fund their operations, he said …
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BEATS THAT DEBATE
Tim Blair
Florida operative THS reports from the Palin rally at Pensacola, where Sarahcuda fashion was evident:
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Supporting a Dictator
Tim Blair
And you thought the rest of the world was in meltdown:
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate - already the world’s highest - has soared to 231,000,000%, newly released official figures show.
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Children supporting Obama
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Dubrovnik body proves to be missing Britt's
DNA tests have proven that a body found off the coast of Dubrovnik is that of missing Australian backpacker Britt Lapthorne.
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Bogus Finding Boosts Democrats
Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded.
The politically charged inquiry imperils her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican presidential ticket.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials using their office for personal gain.
The inquiry looked into her dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce from the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.
The panel found Palin let the family grudge influence her decision-making even if it was not the sole reason Monegan was dismissed. - I had wondered where Ian Tembe had got to. The finding has to be one of the more bizarre political hatchet jobs that is so unnecessary when Obama is winning. The Democrats cannot control themselves .. they have ruined the world economy with their social engineering in the sub prime market and they have called for the rape and torture of Palin and now there is the release of this bogus report which isn't critical of a single decision she made. - ed.
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