Piers Akerman
A year in office and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pre-election agenda is in tatters. - I know that there are not any computers that were promised .. not one. The computers I see kids using today are the same as those used before the promise .. there are no extra. Maybe money has been given to a mate to do a job .. but that isn’t a promise kept.
We know about the broad failures in Health, childcare, skills, aged care and so on .. every item on that list.
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Rudd’s is the hand that signed the paper .. Kyoto and some apology that may result in aid being terminated somewhere. Kyoto is for climate change .. which isn’t occurring. - ed.
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Obama demoted to merely heroic
Andrew Bolt
Barack Obama’s worshippers are managing down expectations (a tad) to avoid buyer’s remorse:
President-elect Barack Obama’s supporters have dropped much of the “messiah” talk.
No more talk of him being The One (Oprah), or a Jedi Knight (George Lucas), or a “Lightworker” (the San Francisco Chronicle), or a “quantum leap in American consciousness” (Deepak Chopra). Instead we have more humble and circumspect conversation about the man. Now he’s merely Abraham Lincoln and FDR and Martin Luther King, combined.
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Rudd’s first year: the stats
Andrew Bolt
A year ago, I posted this:
Here’s what Kevin Rudd has been left by the Howard Government:
Unemployment rate: 4.3 per cent
Interest rate: 6.75 per cent
Economic growth: 4.3 per cent
Stock market: 6390 points
Australian dollar: US87.5 cents
Surplus 2007 Budget: $10.6 billion
Growth in real net national disposable income per head over the past five years: 16 per cent
Days lost in industrial strikes/action: Lowest since 1913 .. the material Bolt shows is enlightening. Of course, the interest rates being about the same masks the ringer Rudd has pushed everyone through to get there .. ed.
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What happened to this bold claim of the Left:
MAXINE MCKEW: Well I think Paul Keating got it right, you know, this election has wiped away the toxicity. People are smiling, a sort of sense of, we can get on and do things.
And I think we all want to get on and do things in a certain way, in a civil way, in a sensible way, and get rid of perhaps I think that brutishness that has characterised our politics probably since 2001.
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Mein link
Andrew Bolt
David Hicks is in one shot .. put together by the SMH
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A small bow to Australia
Andrew Bolt
Australia starts to work its assimilationist magic
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Media turkeys
Andrew Bolt
Americans eat up to 300 million turkeys each year. Not until Sarah Palin held a press conference did American journalists realise someone actually had to kill these birds first, and that this was brutal and evil, and that it all proved that Palin was unfit for public office.
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A debate about nothing
Andrew Bolt
A lesson in how the media can have a furious debate about nothing:
January:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has denied that a question about Donald Bradman will be removed from the recently installed citizenship test given to prospective Australian citizens.
“I think the Don is safe,” Mr Rudd told Channel Seven’s Sunrise show.
November:
THERE was never a question about Don Bradman in the citizenship test, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says…
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Scratching Labor backs
Andrew Bolt
NSW now wallows in this stuff:
A STAR Labor recruit urged his business clients to attend a $15,000-a-table political fund-raiser because it was important for them “to be seen talking to the right people”.
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How about access to mum?
Andrew Bolt
Maxine McKew, who has never had a child herself, spooks me a bit:
As Professor Frank Oberklaid and Professor Fiona Stanley keep saying, babies come out of the womb ready to learn.
Our job as policymakers is to ensure young children have access to a calm, stimulating environment run by professionals...
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Don’t ask Kate about Bradman, either
Andrew Bolt
There should be a law against checking if a female minister knows anything about her portfolio:
FEDERAL Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick says male politicians get away with sexist behaviour that would be unlawful in a regular workplace… Sports Minister Kate Ellis has been undermined by male Opposition frontbenchers, who shout sports trivia questions during Question Time to test her knowledge.
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Banning socialists should scare them
Andrew Bolt
Glenn Milne says the Rudd Government’s plan to impose a net filter and ban 10,000 sites with “unwanted” or illegal material is just riddled with unintended conseqences:
When researchers in the UK examined filters and tapped in the word “socialist’’ they were blocked.
Why? Because “socialist’’ also contains the product name “Cialis’’ - an anti-impotence drug, fakes of which are often sold on-line.
Closer to home former Communications Minister Helen Coonan tells a similar story.
The Department has its own filter system for obvious reasons. But when the then minister tried to order some strawberry muffins online she also was blocked.
The filter didn’t like the word “muff’’.
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To be Australian you must be nuts
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd’s committee investigating the citizenship test discovers it could be illegal to ask migrants to speak good English:
The committee was told the test could be considered unlawful because of the high level of English in the questions and the resource book for applicants.
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November snows all over the CSIRO
Andrew Bolt
The CSIRO warns there’ll be little winter snow by 2018:
A 2003 CSIRO report, part-funded by the ski industry, found that the resorts could lose a quarter of their snow in 15 years, and half by 2050. The worst case was a 96 per cent loss of snow by mid-century.
Five years later, we’ve had not just great snow seasons in winter, but the snow is now falling in November as well:
At Mt Hotham, the coldest place in Victoria at -2.7C, there was a surprise snowfall. Falls Creek also experienced a November fall, which residents said was the first in five years.
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