Headlines Saturday 25th October

A question, as you queue at Centrelink
Andrew Bolt
The Rudd Government couldn’t even predict the unintended consequences of a mere bank deposit guarantee, forcing some financial institutions to close their doors and investors to go to Centrelink for some cash.
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The green sickness
Andrew Bolt
It’s spreading. Earlier this year I reported that Melbourne psychiatrists had diagnosed the first known case of ”climate change delusion”.

And now:

Psychiatrists in America have identified a new mental illness that threatens the very fabric of society: an obsession with saving the planet. Some people are so addicted to cutting their carbon emissions that they seem to have gone quite mad.
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How to write an Australian play
Andrew Bolt
Michael Connor mercilessly dissects Australia’s grants culture, so destructive to the arts it purports to nurture. An example of the hand-out phenomenon he discusses:

The printed edition of Wesley Enochs play The Story of the Miracles at Cookies Table is fifty-four small pages, which could have been written on a couple of wet weekends in Brunswick… Wesley Enoch explains how the playwriting began:

I was going through a really rough trot in my life and I decided to drive to Melbourne from Sydney. Driving along the Hume Highway I got the flash of a story about a tree being made into a table and being the depository of story and history. I then applied and got a three-month residency in Paris and I started writing there.
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But a Democrat’s smear is just a joke
Andrew Bolt
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry complains:

There is a Republican attack squad that specializes in trying to destroy people and be negative.

In fact, he helpfully provides an example of a negative attack
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As I told Bush to his face
Andrew Bolt
Memo to foreign leaders: speak in confidence to Kevin Rudd at your peril. No man is keener to boast of his chats to the stars.

The Australian is the latest to have its ear bent:

KEVIN Rudd was entertaining guests in the loungeroom at Kirribilli House in Sydney when an aide told him George W. Bush was on the telephone.
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Rudd’s mess, but Turnbull’s blamed
Andrew Bolt
Wayne Swan tries to contain the disaster caused by the Rudd Government’s bank deposit guarantee:

Wayne Swan waited until after markets had closed yesterday to reveal that, from November 28, banks would have to pay the Government a fee of between 0.7 and 1.5 per cent for the privilege of a government guarantee for their wholesale funding. Buying the guarantee will be optional for big deposits, while deposits of under $1 million will receive a government guarantee for free.
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How green was my off-set?
Andrew Bolt
Former Liberal politician Roger Pescott had a great deal for green investors - blue-gum plantations that would not only produce wood for paper production, but help fight global warming:

The Project is environmentally friendly… Further, a growing forest acts as an effective ‘carbon sink’ absorbing carbon from the atmosphere...
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Who’s “we”, Kemo Fadi?
Andrew Bolt
The nervous Sydney Morning Herald twice uses the wrong “m” word - in its headline and in its report:

Crime, machismo: deadly cocktail killing young men

A PROMINENT youth worker has used the funeral of a young Lebanese man shot dead on Wednesday to appeal for other young men in Sydney to turn from a life of crime and empty machismo.

“All we seem to do is just turn against each other. That’s why we’re just dropping like flies,” Fadi Abdul-Rahman told hundreds of mourners at the funeral of Mustafa Assoum, 26, at Lakemba Mosque.