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Drug pact as Dianne Brimble lay dead
WITHIN hours of Dianne Brimble's sudden death on his cabin floor Mark Wilhelm allegedly asked a mate not to tell anyone the pair had taken drugs, a court heard yesterday.
Call for help from 'incest victim'
ALLEGED victim of sexual abuse took out restraining order two years before father was charged.
Households hoard $4bn from GFC panic
DEMAND for cash was so great last year the Reserve Bank was forced to print more banknotes. - Rudd's inexcusable scare campaign was effective - ed.
Trailing car deal crooks to court
CRIMINAL prosecutions are being prepared against 82 dodgy car salesmen who sold potential death traps to unsuspecting buyers - mostly in western Sydney.
'Send kids to school or lose handouts'
NEW tough-love policy means welfare-reliant parents will have to prove their children are attending school or lose their payments. - wasn't one of Rudd's campaign promises - ed.
Woman impaled by tree branch in car
AN American woman has miraculously survived being impaled in the neck by a 30cm tree branch.
Aussies will number 35 million by 2049
A BABY boom is increasing our numbers and helping fend off ageing population problems.
Temporary tatts to track tearaway tots
PARENTS are branding their children with contact details in case little ones go missing.
Calling on wrath of God to tame the tube
CHRISTIAN groups demand tougher rules on sex, violence, smut and swearing on TV.
Cate Blanchett wears crochet dress on red carpet
OSCAR-winning actor Cate Blanchett has been nick-named Cate Blanket after stepping out in a colourful crochet patchwork dress to open Screen Worlds at ACMI in Melbourne yesterday.
=== Journalists Corner ===
'Hannity'
Thursday - The Valley Hope Forgot
Farmland destroyed, over 30,000 left without work ... Why is the government turning a blind eye?
Friday - The President's 10
It's the top ten people the president picked to shape our country!
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The Baucus Bill Uproar!
It's the multi-billion dollar plan that has both sides of the aisle crying foul. So how will this latest objection impact Obama's overhaul?
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Bill's Keeping Score!
From Serena's shout fest to the brawl in the Bronx- Has bad behavior in sports raged out of control?
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Health Care Overhaul
Doctor shortages - waiting lists - tax hikes! Sen. Lindsey Graham & Dana Perino reveal what they're not telling you about the health care overhaul!
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CARBON DANCERS
Tim Blair
Australia’s carbon children, currently running an election of some kind, are amped:
Via Habib, who emails: “They bung on free bands, and the best they can get in Melbourne is 5,000; bloody hell, people in Melbourne will go to ANYTHING. More than that turn up to watch Collingwood train. It may have been the presence of Jimoein that kept them at bay – even addled young climate zealots aren’t dumb enough to find him funny.” Far funnier is this Carbon Dance by the Climate Youth Ensemble:
UPDATE. Scandal! Wrath Man emails: “They are not the Climate Youth Ensemble, they’re the Climate Youth Plagiarists. Can’t even make up their own poxy song. Ironically, Kirsten Dunst in Bring It On was accused of ripping off the Clovers’ chant, which is why Eliza Dushku is leaving in disgust. Yes I know, I know, but I have young daughters.”
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TOP STOPPED
Tim Blair
We’ve been promised this before, but Indonesia police may finally have delivered:
Bali bombing mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top has been killed.
The Malaysian-born extremist was one of four people killed in a police raid on a militant hideout in Central Java early yesterday, national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri said …
“The fingerprints were a 100 per cent match (to Top’s),” Mr Danuri said.
“We can responsibly say that Noordin M. Top is deceased. In this holy month (of Ramadan) we, the Indonesian country, has been blessed.”
Indonesia’s sudden Toplessness is a cause of great joy:
Mr Bambang smiled as he held up photographs to show the match between Noordin’s fingerprints and those on police file, as reporters and officers in the room cheered.
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Voting to Fund ACORN
By Bill O'Reilly
After seeing undercover video of ACORN employees promoting prostitution, even underage prostitution, the Senate voted 83 to 7 to stop giving ACORN federal money. But seven senators opposed that: Leahy and Sanders of Vermont, Durbin and Burris of Illinois, Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Gillibrand of New York and Casey of Pennsylvania.
Simply put: How could they do that? Scores of ACORN people have been arrested, 30 convicted of crimes, and now this scandal. And seven senators want to continue giving the organization taxpayer money? Come on.
So FOX News producer Griff Jenkins went in search of the misguided senators:
Click here to watch Bill's "Talking Points."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, D-R.I.: I think if we cut off funding to every single organization that had junior members that embarrassed the organization, we'd lose a lot of very good organizations.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, I-VT.: Now, if you open the can of worms and you start arguing about which particular organizations are going to get federal funding, you know what? That's all we're going to be doing. So I kind of think it's more important to focus on why the middle class is collapsing and how we address that problem.
SEN. PAT LEAHY, D-VT.: If somebody's done something stupid, they should be fired. If they've done something illegal, they should be prosecuted.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
That just doesn't cut it. This is taxpayer money. Why would you give that to any dubious organization? We are talking to you, Sen. Burris:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GRIFF JENKINS, FOX PRODUCER: I'm just wondering, your vote, I mean, ACORN is on tape helping to set up houses of prostitution with underage girls from Central America, and I'm wondering if the taxpayers of Illinois really want to support an organization like that?
SEN. ROLAND BURRIS, D-ILL.: I thought had you a question, not a statement.
JENKINS: Well, my question is, why did you vote against…
BURRIS: Because I want to support ACORN. I supported ACORN. It's that simple.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
But it isn't that simple. Sen. Burris has an obligation to protect taxpayer money from corruption, but since he may have secured his Senate seat in a corrupt manner, maybe we're hoping for too much here.
ACORN itself is now in complete disarray:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BERTHA LEWIS, ACORN CEO: We are not going to take this lying down. We believe that, and in fact we know that, this was a form of entrapment. And yes, we're going to go after this videographer and FOX.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
But Wednesday afternoon ACORN announced it will hire an independent investigator to look into its problems. But the FBI should be doing the investigation, not some guy they hire.
By the way, "The Factor" has learned that Louisiana authorities have issued a subpoena to former ACORN boss Wade Rathke. Not good news for him.
Even liberals like Jon Stewart are outraged over the situation. Stewart is asking where the media was?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW": Where were the real reporters on this story? You know what investigative media? Give me camera three. Where the hell were you? You know who broke this story? These two. You're telling me that two kids from the cast of "High School Musical 3" can break this story with a video camera and their grandmother's chinchilla coat and you got nothing? I'm a fake journalist and I'm embarrassed these guys scooped me. Let's get to work, people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Forget it. The establishment media in America has little interest in exposing left-wing corruption.
"Talking Points" believes the most important question here is how much damage has the ACORN scandal done to the Obama administration, if any. The president accepted ACORN's support in the campaign, but why wouldn't he? They were all out for him.
However, this story is now so big it is far beyond a community activist situation. It is now a full-blown political scandal.
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