Headlines Wednesday 12th November

Dead men inspire no bombings
Andrew Bolt
HANDS UP if you said “good” when the three Bali bombers were finally shot dead.

Gee, that many of you?

Then why, given how you feel, is Australia now leading an international campaign to ban capital punishment even for just such smiling mass murderers?

What odd timing. At the very instant our hearts told us we weren’t that opposed to the death penalty, after all, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith promised to step up the Government’s campaign against all such executions, anywhere on the globe.

Terrorists not excepted.
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Stealing our history
Andrew Bolt
GIVE me a break. Now even Nicole Kidman is a victim of the “stolen generations”.

Kidman stars in Australia, the Baz Luhrmann epic that opens this month, as an English aristocrat in the Northern Territory who gives a home to an Aboriginal boy.

But, horror! Racist officials, in between stealing children from Aboriginal parents, steal even Kidman’s beautiful boy.

Luhrmann told The Australian magazine this month he added this twist to make audiences empathise more with the “stolen generations”.

“One of the things I wanted to seed into the film was . . . to have someone seen as so high and mighty and privileged as Nicole Kidman, and have her character, Lady Sarah Ashley, with a child they loved like a mother—and to have them in a situation where the government was saying, ‘For your own good we’re going to take this child away from you’ . . .

“And if in any tiny way this sweeping romance can contribute to the act of telling the story of something that actually happened in this country . . . that will be a good thing.”
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Modestly dressed
Andrew Bolt
It’s always wise to dress appropriately when going to court:

A SCHOOLTEACHER accused of ordering a student to abuse her and treat her as his sex slave has been sent for trial....
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Multiculturalism works its magic
Andrew Bolt
A Greek festival at Melbourne’s Federation Square turns nasty:

Leaders from the rival Macedonian community claim some participants at the event carried banners and shouted slogans affirming Greece’s exclusive right to use the term “Macedonia”.
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Lest we forget Rudd
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd uses Remembrance Day to declare ”war on unemployment”.

Tacky, tacky, tacky.

This goes with his declaration that “the global financial crisis is the economic equivalent of a rolling national security crisis”. Rudd is clearly trying to pose as a Churchill, or at least borrow John Howard’s post-September 11 playbook.

The risk, of course, is that his interest then lies in talking up the crisis and taking dramatic action to “fix” it. Sadly, that’s just how it’s playing out.
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ABC interviews the unclean
Andrew Bolt
Green alarmist Ticky Fullerton on Lateline Business rings the leper’s bell before interviewing warming sceptic Professor Ian Plimer:

He is a geologist, not a climatologist… Ian Plimer by definition works closely with the mining industry.

Then come the questions from a woman who cannot believe a scientist could dare doubt her faith:

You are a greenhouse heretic… Is this scepticism genuine, or it it also about economic self interest?

Still, maybe this is just the ABC’s refreshingly hard-hitting style, applied to all who preach on global warming. So let’s see if Rajendra Pachauri, head of the IPCC, is similarly introduced on Lateline as “a mining engineer and economist, not a climatologist” who “by definition works closely with green groups and warming believers”:

Well, we are joined in the studio by the chairman of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachuari. Dr Pachauri is an economist, engineer and environmental scientist and he’s been the head of the IPCC for the past six years. Just tonight he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from the University of NSW.
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To lose two is … just a start
Andrew Bolt
If the public can’t sack this incompentent buch of bunglers, the Premier will do it himself - eventually:
NSW Premier Nathan Rees today sacked his second minister in just nine weeks as leader.
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Dead within Lambert’s decade
Andrew Bolt
Error-prone Tim Lambert, academic and warming hysteric, fulminates against warming sceptics:

...they don’t understand basic statistics
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Broadly wrong
Andrew Bolt
This guy is in charge of the nation’s books?

The Reserve Bank yesterday released figures which show it expects growth to slow to 1.5 per cent, compared to Treasury’s prediction of 2 per cent….

Treasurer Wayne Swan says there is no conflict in the difference between the figures.

”They are broadly similar,” he told Sky News.
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Hansen: September the hottest October
Andrew Bolt
The Goddard Institute of Space Studies of warming extremist James Hansen has released its latest surface temperature data - and, oh my god, the recent cooling has suddenly ended.

Yes, it shows a huge upward spike for October - one of the biggest monthly anomalies ever recorded. And when you check closely, you will find that ... September was the hottest October ever recorded.

Wait! September?
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Rudd to the corporate rescue
Andrew Bolt
How many industries are left for the Rudd Government to “rescue” with your cash?
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A politician’s boast
Andrew Bolt
Dick Adams wants free lap-band surgery for fellow fatties, and boasts:

The federal Labor backbencher says he’s shed at least 20kg since having the weight-loss procedure in April.
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A gambling reminder
Andrew Bolt
More evidence that awareness campaigns can actually tempt as well as warn:

Almost 50% of “at-risk” gamblers — those most likely to develop a gambling problem — are visiting gaming venues (in Victoria) more than once a week this year, up from 28% in 2006....
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You can’t flee your gullibility
Andrew Bolt
The panic:

THE Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country’s billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the nation’s 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees. Australia is on the shopping list.
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Bias by the book
Andrew Bolt
Malcolm Colless:

THE Government’s announcement that the ABC board must be depoliticised to establish independence and public confidence in the control of the national broadcaster is just political spin. If anything needs depoliticising it’s the ABC’s editorial department.
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Spending blind on the car-making dead
Andrew Bolt
When Kevin Rudd is spending more than $6 billion on just one industry, to keep it making stuff we can actually buy cheaper elsewhere, he should make an argument, rather than state a prejudice:

Some might say it’s not worth trying to have a car industry. That is not my view, it is not the view of the Australian Government and it never will be the view of any government which I lead… I don’t believe that car-making is yesterday’s business, or something better left to the Germans and the Japanese.

Because...?