Tim Blair
According to French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, an Obama win would mean “the complete victory of the battle begun in the ‘60s.” The Sixties. The worst decade in history. The decade that gave us this, among other horrors. Yet the Obama campaign itself seems keen to bury this terrible era, particularly in terms of any squalid Sixties remnants who are connected to their candidate:
That sunny promotion for flag-stomping bomber-hippie William Ayers’ book was written by Barack Obama in 1997 (when he was not eight years old). Take another look at Obama’s blurb, because two Obama staffers now deny it was ever written. - apologies Tim, I don't usually copy entire articles .. but I felt it important . -ed
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Government admits: too many migrants
Andrew Bolt
Another backflip by the Rudd Government. Just five months after announcing - amid growing signs of economic strife - the biggest migrant intake in our history
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A man told a man who told Rudd
Andrew Bolt
It’s not enough that the Rudd Government hands out $10.4 billion in pump priming without revealing a single forecast on which it based that decision.
Now it’s confirmed that it gave a dangerously flawed bank deposits guarantee without even speaking to the Reserve Bank governor - a detail it fudged when announcing the move:
THE Government has backflipped on its free unlimited bank deposit guarantee after it emerged Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens gave advice to impose a fee for large sums to avoid distortions to the financial markets....
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A defence of the accused
Andrew Bolt
This cannot be right. One anonymous allegation, ambiguous and untested, and a politician’s distinguished career is over.
Theo Theophanous is finished as a senior minister in the Brumby Government because a woman has accused him of raping her during a late-night tour of Parliament House 10 years ago.
Theophanous, 60, has stepped down as Minister of Major Projects, Industry and Trade while police investigate, but his grave is already being dug, and not because he’s guilty.
It’s enough that he’s merely accused. - the problem with corruption is the lack of transparency. How does one prove their innocence when coreect procedure is so rarely followed? - ed
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What Bradley effect?
Andrew Bolt
The polls say Barack Obama is a sure bet to become president. The only danger now is said to be the “Bradley effect’’ - the idea that let’s-seem-nice white voters tell pollsters they’ll vote for the black guy, when in fact they’ll secretly vote for the white.
The effect gets its name from the shock defeat of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a popular black politician who’d been leading in the polls in the race for governor of California in 1982. But William Bradly, who worked on that election, says the theory is as dodgy as the opinion poll on which it is based.
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Biden agrees: Obama means trouble
Andrew Bolt
Want big trouble? Then vote Barack Obama:
Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.
Says who? Obama’s own running mate, Joe Biden:
“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities.
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Suddenly Sony sorry
Andrew Bolt
Sony frantically withdraws a computer game that offends one world faith:
One of the most anticipated PlayStation 3 games of the year will be recalled from Australian stores and destroyed this week after Sony discovered it featured background music with excerpts from the Islamic holy book, the Koran.... Game creator Media Molecule said it was “shellshocked and gutted” by the discovery…
But Sony offered no such recall when it insulted another world faith:
Entertainment giant Sony has apologised to the Church of England for using Manchester cathedral as a backdrop to one of its violent computer games....
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Scapegoats in suits
Andrew Bolt
It sure is scapegoat time:
CORPORATE high flyers would be hit with a 50 per cent tax rate when their salaries reached $1 million under a tax plan backed by federal MPs…
The blueprint follows a pledge by PM Kevin Rudd to crack down on “extreme capitalism”.
And cue the New Left reruns of the old Bolshevik attacks on bloodsuckers trampling on widows and orphans:
Greens leader Bob Brown said the global financial crisis highlighted a culture of corporate excess.
“The average punter would think this is a very fair re-adjustment now that harder times are coming,” he said…
Labor senator Doug Cameron said it was “legitimate” for the issue to be considered.
“Given the obvious problems with the international financial system, a whole range of issues need to come into play,” he said.
“That includes whether these executive salaries provide any benefit to society.”
Governments deciding whether salaries paid by private businesses “provide any benefit to society”? I thought that thinking collapsed with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Note that some multi-millionaires are being exempted from the Left’s jihad against the “corporate” rich and their huge paypackets. There’s not a peep about the mega-earnings of artists such as Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman, or film directors such as George Miller and Phillip Noyce. Or even sports stars such as Lleyton Hewitt or Chris Judd. - better to be the scapegoat than the sacrificial lamb. - ed
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