Headlines Sunday 16th November

PM shreds his own credibility
Piers Akerman
IN an unprecedented breach of protocol, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd refused a request from the former Governor-General to investigate the ongoing Heiner corruption scandal and explore the implications of his appointment of current Governor-General, Quentin Bryce. - Time and again the character of Rudd has fallen short of the needs of his office. The Heiner Affair was not the only pimple on the his behind as chief of staff in Queensland. His abysmal representations overseas, including a visit to a strippers joint where he was too drunk to recall anything.
Yet he is defended even at the cost of abusing those who would do their duty in correctly reporting the issues.
My own issue will be raised in the NSW senate this week, I believe. I have done nothing wrong, but I have reported on the matter of a child that died from neglect at his school, a bungled pedophile investigation and the harassment of a public servant who correctly reported on these issues. My own resignation from public service was to protect those whom I was supposed to as a public servant. Yet the Ministers who threatened me maintain office and avoid scrutiny. Just like Rudd. - ed
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Either place, people still get … the treatment
Andrew Bolt
How can they tell which is which?

AN ILLEGAL brothel is operating in rooms above Premier Nathan Rees’s Sydney electorate office.
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Rise of the barbarians
Andrew Bolt
A rise in youth crime in Victoria that’s this steep means something:

And violent crimes by girls aged 10 to 14 have risen by 35 per cent in a decade, while the number of assaults, murders, sex crimes and robberies by boys the same age have jumped 10 per cent.
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What change?
Andrew Bolt
Barack Obama offers change you can believe in…

December 11, 2007:

I am running to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. They won’t work in my White House.

December 15, 2007:

Obama changed his rhetoric to say that lobbyists ”are not going to dominate my White House” and “will not run my White House.”

Now:

But more than a dozen members of President-elect Obama’s fast-growing transition team have worked as federally registered lobbyists within the past four years. They include former lobbyists for the nation’s trial lawyers association, mortgage giant Fannie Mae, drug companies such as Amgen, high-tech firms such as Microsoft, labor unions and the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress.
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Hot graph
Andrew Bolt
More odd statistics from warming extremist James Hansen’s crew.
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Filming something different
Andrew Bolt
Scriptwriter John tells local filmmakers how to get out of this slump, in which Australian films are taking their lowest share of the box office in 30 years:

For Collee, a philosophical message is the key to making a film that audiences can latch onto… A scriptwriter today, says Collee, could be making a film about the presence of a concentration camp in the middle of Australia at the start of the 21st century (that would be the Woomera detention centre)...