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Indonesia must act on Islamic hate
Piers Akerman
The Australian government must make the strongest protest to Indonesia about young Muslim children being indoctrinated into the most fanatical stream of radical Islam by supporters of the Bali terrorist bombers. - good of Indonesia to hold off the execution until after Obama was elected. - ed.
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Look at moi! Kevin now Kath and Kim
Piers Akerman
IT WAS Kevvie’s Kath and Kim moment at Kirribilli. - I listened to the gracious speech that John McCain gave today, and marveled at the humbleness of the man. I felt that McCain was too liberal for my liking, although I still supported him. I fundamentally don’t agree with Obama or Rudd, but if they showed some graciousness, if they were humble at times, I might respect them. As it is, we know what was passing through Rudd’s mind when he broke the confidence of President Bush: He was thinking “People are listening to me.” - ed.
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Change they can vote against
Andrew Bolt
Did the US, in voting for Barack Obama, suddenly lurch to the Left? Let’s check some other results from Tuesday’s elections, starting with one in perhaps America’s most “progressive” state:
In an election otherwise full of liberal triumphs, the gay rights movement suffered a stunning defeat as California voters approved a ban on same-sex marriages that overrides a recent court decision legalizing them…
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Testing, testing…
Andrew Bolt
Russia waits exactly one day to test the pull-out-our-troops President-elect, Barack Obama
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What I haven’t yet seen
Andrew Bolt
John McCain is beaten, and this is what I haven’t yet seen or heard:
Screams that the vote was rigged.
Lawyers taking the result to court.
The loser blaming anyone but himself.
Angry celebrities vowing to move overseas.
Stickers claiming the winner stole the election.
Furious reporters denouncing ads by the losers’ critics.
Furious reporters blaming the winner’s evil genius.
The bitter losers warning the country “is more divided than ever”.
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The ABC: through Democratic eyes
Andrew Bolt
Gerard Henderson thinks the ABC has been as biased as the American media, if not more:
I’VE lost count of the number of ABC journalists, based in or visiting the US, who are covering the presidential election. But the number does not really matter since they all seem to be saying much the same thing. With a few exceptions, Australian commentators are following their American counterparts: they are barracking for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party ticket. It is difficult to recall any other election in a democratic society where the media has been so obviously supporting one side in a two-sided contest. Radio National’s breakfast presenter Fran Kelly has referred to the American E.J. Dionne as the program’s “regular guy in the US”. So he is. But you only have to spend a minute talking to Dionne to realise that he is a committed Democrat voter.
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More Rabbit Proof history
Andrew Bolt
More fake-but-True history from SBS, which ran this full-page ad, purporting to be an original document, to promote Rachel Perkins’ documentary First Australians:
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
General Certificate of Exemption.
Dated the 10th day of March, 1951
This document entitles the bearer Joseph Edwards to: Leave the reservation or mission at which they live - to go to work…
Special Conditions: Speaking in native language - Prohibited
Engaging in dance, rituals, native customs - Prohibited
Associating with fellow indigenous people (including family) - Prohibited
This is your chance to be free of the Aborigines Protection Act and live like a white man.
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Father will be furious
Andrew Bolt
Not taking refuge in a Muslim country?
One of Osama bin Laden’s sons has asked for political asylum in Spain, the Spanish interior ministry said today, months after he was refused permission to live in England with his British wife.
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GG wipes Iraq
Andrew Bolt
Governor Activist General Quentin Bryce told the Melbourne Cup crowd yesterday that the race was watched by our troops in Afghanistan and East Timor. Odd, that the titular head of our armed forces should have forgotten the troops in our most significant deployment.
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Cold facts for heated Flannery
Andrew Bolt
Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery was once more beating the Doomsday drum in August:
In this summer of 2008, it feels as if our future is crystallising before our eyes. Food shortages, the credit crisis, escalating oil prices, a melting Arctic ice cap… (B)y June 2008 signs of a great melt were emerging and a senior adviser to the Norwegian government was warning that this may be the Arctic’s first ice-free year. As I write, the rate of loss, while still well above average, has slowed somewhat. Yet even now it’s impossible to predict. We can only project that if this summer’s melt trajectory follows recent decades, by September this year the Arctic ice cap will have lost around half of its remaining ice, and be just 2.2m square kilometres.
Fact check: The Arctic ice this summer did not melt away. Nor did the ice cap decline to Flannery’s 2.2m square kilometres, but in fact got no smaller than 3.9m square kilometres - or nearly twice what Flannery projected and 9.4 per cent more than what it was the previous year.
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