Headlines Wednesday 19th November

You get what you pay for
Andrew Bolt
A new think tank that relies on $30 million from two Labor Government, and a sweetener from Melbourne University, swears that money won’t talk:

The Grattan Institute professes to carry no ideological affiliations, despite the significant funding from Labor governments.

But, of course, the culture of a taxpayer-funded body - another ABC or government deparment - is so easy to predict. And see it already in what the new head says is the Institute’s agenda:

Clearly the country faces significant issues in energy policy … in water policy … in education policy.

Let me guess: global warming and returning water to rivers. The same old that’s flogged by Labor and the Greens.
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Rudd’s bathtub navy
Andrew Bolt
The Rudd Government has free money for everyone from car dealers to home-owners, builders to Toyota, shire presidents to child care centres. But for two months it has no cash for a navy:

Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says a two-month Navy shutdown over Christmas has been ordered to give staff a rest as the Navy continues to grapple with staff shortages. The shutdown will involve all ships not on operational duties and some staff will be allowed to work from home.

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Bush counts just 19 leaders in the G20
Andrew Bolt
Prime Blabber Kevin Rudd claimed he was the one who told that idiot George Bush what the G20 was.

Guess he either didn’t do a good job, or else Bush took mighty offence at being lied about. The G20 is a meeting of 20 leading economies, but the White House media site shows individual pictures of Bush meeting the leaders of just 18 of the other 19 G20 countries at last weekend’s meeting.

One - and only one - of all the leaders missed out on a picture in Bush’s gallery. A blabber was heard, and now is not seen.
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You thought the science was settled?
Andrew Bolt
Wait long enough and we’ll find the problem with emissions is that there’s just not enough of them:

Climate change may not be as severe as predicted, suggests an international study that shows current modeling of carbon dioxide emissions from soils are overestimated by as much as 20%.

The view, reported in the latest Nature Geoscience journal, is based on a study of Australian soils that finds the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released by Australian soils is much lower than previously believed.
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Vampire moths and other warming panics
Andrew Bolt

More sex, less sex, walrus stampedes and killer cornflakes - your easy guide to things to blame on global warming.
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Bad parents lose welfare say
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd did warn he was social conservative, and I’m starting to believe him:

BAD parents will lose control of welfare payments under a radical plan to extend restrictions beyond indigenous communities to dysfunctional white families.
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We’ve seen his kind of Jesus before
Andrew Bolt
I don’t think this Wollongong preacher quite understands the analogy he is making with his Jesus:

A BAPTIST pastor has admitted telling Jewish leaders that Jews were “going to hell” and faced a fate “worse than the Holocaust” because they had not accepted Jesus as their saviour.
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Stimulating the inner socialist
Andrew Bolt
THE handouts are one thing, with promises now even of free lap-band surgery for fatties.

And wait, that’s not all! The Rudd Government yesterday threw in $1000 for every resident hurt by Brisbane’s storms. And another $300 million to councils everywhere for whatever.

Free cash for (almost) all is one thing - and arguably justified to stop us sliding into recession. Or a tub of lard.

But added up, the Government’s big spending and interventions suggest we may also slide into a soft no-losers socialism we could regret.
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No brain food at Maccas
Andrew Bolt
IT’S not that I hate nature. It’s just that I hate lies. And that’s what alarms me most about the “we’ll-fry-and-die” green movement.

It tells children that lies are fine, if they’re told in the “right” earth-saving cause. What good can come of it?

The latest example is McDonald’s new “Happy Meals” promotion, which offers young burger-munchers a soft toy of an “endangered animal”.

The fact is that the most endangered animal in this promotion is actually the one whose carcass now lies between two sesame-seed buns.
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The lynching of Kevin Andrews
Andrew Bolt
CHRISTINE Nixon has proved we still can’t hold a frank and honest debate on immigration.

Worse, our supposedly apolitical Chief Commissioner of Police has showed that by giving us false crime figures just before the federal election.

These were figures that made African refugees in Victoria seem law-abiding, rather than so law-breaking that as many as one in 10 Sudanese immigrants might have been investigated for alleged crimes.

In so misinforming us just weeks before the poll, Nixon not only helped to turn voters against the Howard government, but hid from us the terrible scale of a crime problem her police now struggle to contain.

And, most miserably, she fed a campaign of abuse against the immigration affairs minister, Kevin Andrews, that was so vitriolic it may have ended an honest man’s career.

Andrews, cautious and deeply Christian, had been gradually cutting our intake of refugees from Somalia and Sudan for some time, and in October last year explained why.
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Iraq connecting
Andrew Bolt
This really is exciting stuff:

A YEAR ago it would have been unthinkable. After all, it was a city where driving to work became a life-or-death decision and where residents were cooped in enclaves amid murder and mayhem.

But the Mayor of Baghdad has surprised everyone by announcing plans for an underground rail network that would literally carve a swathe through the city’s sectarian lines.
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Australia: every stereotype obliged
Andrew Bolt

Local critics are being studiously kind to, albeit unenthusiastic about, Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. But London’s Daily Telegraph can afford to be brutally frank:

Local critics had worried that the much-anticipated film Australia would present to the world a series of time-honoured Antipodean clichés.

Their fears were well founded.Within the first five minutes, Luhrmann offers up a medley of Australiana.
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Climate change - yet again
Andrew Bolt
And now it changes back again:

BRISBANE could be headed for its wettest November since 1981 with the city already experiencing well above the monthly average rainfall....
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$300 million of nice headlines
Andrew Bolt
The cheapest nice headlines Kevin Rudd can buy, at just $300 million:

It’s Kevin-sent: mayors cashed up with orders to spend now

All smiles at Rudd’s mayoral love-in as PM splashes cash

Mayors to move ‘like lightning’

Happy mayors, happy Rudd… and somewhere poorer taxpayers. - so that was it? The stimulus package for Australia .. all the rest is one ALP porkbarrel - ed.