457 DAYS UNTIL LABOR’S MILF TAX
Tim Blair – Saturday, April 02, 11 (10:03 pm)
Some people just can’t wait for some hot tax action:
At the Belmore Park event organised by GetUp, the social action group’s national director Simon Sheikh encouraged protesters by saying “we are closer than ever to the future that we demand”.
“We are the last line of defence for Mother Nature,” he said.
Ah, dear old Mother Nature; the ultimate MILF. Simon will have to defend her from some determined Australians:
Plumber Daniel Bidliou, who has previously been a Labor voter, said his tradesmen mates turned on the party in this poll, and the proposed carbon tax was the catalyst for their revolt.
“Everyone I know has had a gutful. You can’t trust them,” he said.
Asked if Ms Gillard’s carbon tax influenced his decision to vote Liberal, he said: “Bloody oath. I think Gillard should go … People are struggling to make ends meet.”
The Mother-lovers at GetUp seem to be doing all right. Under Labor, theirs is a growth industry.
UPDATE. Gavin Atkins compares Sydney’s anti- and pro-tax rallies.
Some people just can’t wait for some hot tax action:
At the Belmore Park event organised by GetUp, the social action group’s national director Simon Sheikh encouraged protesters by saying “we are closer than ever to the future that we demand”.
“We are the last line of defence for Mother Nature,” he said.
Ah, dear old Mother Nature; the ultimate MILF. Simon will have to defend her from some determined Australians:
Plumber Daniel Bidliou, who has previously been a Labor voter, said his tradesmen mates turned on the party in this poll, and the proposed carbon tax was the catalyst for their revolt.
“Everyone I know has had a gutful. You can’t trust them,” he said.
Asked if Ms Gillard’s carbon tax influenced his decision to vote Liberal, he said: “Bloody oath. I think Gillard should go … People are struggling to make ends meet.”
The Mother-lovers at GetUp seem to be doing all right. Under Labor, theirs is a growth industry.
UPDATE. Gavin Atkins compares Sydney’s anti- and pro-tax rallies.
SEETHING IN SWANSEA
Tim Blair – Saturday, April 02, 11 (06:39 pm)
One of my favourite leftist correspondents – he’s the frequent author of what Tony Windsor would describe as death threats – now finds himself under Liberal rule, probably for the first time in his life. An improvement in manners is anticipated.
Until 2006, the seat in question was held by Labor luminary Milton Orkopoulos, which might explain a few things.
UPDATE. Greens candidate Jamie Parker wins Balmain. Which means that we’ll hear a lot more from him during the next four years on issues of the day. Which means it might not be, in the long term, something from which the Greens will benefit …
AND YOUR TAXES PAID FOR IT
Tim Blair – Saturday, April 02, 11 (03:57 pm)
As one commenter notes: “Quite possibly the weakest April Fools prank I’ve ever read.”
CARBON DATE PLANNED
Tim Blair – Saturday, April 02, 11 (02:33 pm)
Turf-scorching superhorse Globalwarmnsceptic wins yet again, this time defeating a sad sway-backed old hobbler named Carbon Date. Speaking of which, Julia Gillard didn’t waste any time after last year’s election:
While the Prime Minister only announced a carbon tax on February the 24th, the plans for it were well underway days after she formed government with the Independents and the Greens on September the 7th last year.
One of the FOI documents dated September the 16th shows a Treasury response to the implications of putting a carbon price in place through an emissions trading scheme, starting with a fixed price, which is exactly what the Government announced just over a month ago.
That document was completed just weeks after Gillard promised there would be no carbon tax. What did she know, and when did she know it?
A discusting review, writes unhappy author
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 03, 11 (06:45 am)
BigAl thought he was giving a fair review of The Greek Seaman, by English author Jacqueline Howett:
If you read The Greek Seaman from the start until you click next page for the last time I think you’ll find the story compelling and interesting. The culture shock felt by the newlywed bride, Katy, who finds herself far from her native England, living on a cargo ship with her seaman husband Don is a good story in itself. Katy adapting to this all male environment with a crew of mixed nationality, most non-English speaking, is compelling. Whether Katy and Don will survive the criminal conspiracies the ship owner and captain have planned is yet another conflict that should keep a reader in suspense to the end.
However, odds of making that final click are slim. One reason is the spelling and grammar errors, which come so quickly that, especially in the first several chapters, it’s difficult to get into the book without being jarred back to reality as you attempt unraveling what the author meant...
But then the author wrote back… again and again and again (see comments to the post). What spelling errors, she demanded to know? What bad grammar? How dare he? Example:
This is not only discusting and unprofessional on your part, but you really don’t fool me AL.
Who are you any way? Really who are you?
What do we know about you?
You never downloaded another copy you liar!
You never ever returned to me an e-mail
Besides if you want to throw crap at authors you should first ask their permission if they want it stuck up on the internet via e-mail. That debate is high among authors.
Your the target not me!
And so on and on.
One Greens MP too many
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 03, 11 (06:23 am)
The Greens sneak in one win, after all, from their disappointing campaign:
JAMIE Parker today claimed a NSW Greens victory in Sydney’s Balmain, giving the party its first seat in the state’s lower house.
No law would be felt necessary if we hadn’t lost the language of shame
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 03, 11 (06:06 am)
I am uneasy about laws limiting free speech. I am also uneasy - more than uneasy - about the sheer barbarity of some people, and wonder why public shaming is now not enough to have them mind some manners:
Easter Mass 11, featuring Christian-hating heavy metal bands, has been planned for a Northcote venue on Good Friday, mocking the day’s religious significance.
It would be headlined by Sydney shock group Jesus Christ - a tribute act to deceased US punk rocker GG Allin, who typically defecated and urinated on stage, rolled in faeces, consumed excrement and committed self-harm.
An online advertisement for the event says: “On this, the most important day on the Christian calendar, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will be destroying himself not for your sins, but for your pure entertainment.
“Performing communion at the mass service will be ... Reverend Hackxwhore, Pastor Jigsaw Torture and Father Drongo.”
But Consumer Affairs Minister Michael O’Brien said the State Government would move to ban the event under liquor laws covering offensive images and religious vilification.
Greens senator outlines plan: get Arabs to help pick on Jews
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 03, 11 (06:04 am)
Greens senator-elect Lee Rhiannon seems to me not only to be an anti-Israeli bigot, to put it politely, but seems also to be grossly irresponsible in whipping up inter-communal hatreds in her own country. Look who she wants to work with in her campaign to boycott Israel:
Ms Rhiannon was quoted on the online news site New Matilda as saying, in the wake of the Coalition’s landslide victory in NSW, that the Greens should have spent more time building support for the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, particularly among academics, Arab communities and social justice groups.
“Months before the election we needed to explain why the Greens backed BDS and we needed to work closer with our allies on BDS - academics, the Arab community and social justice movements in Sydney and Melbourne,” Ms Rhiannon was quoted as saying.
There is something profoundly wrong and dangerous in this - not just for Israel but Australia - and the Greens’ leadership must stamp it out.
On January 18, 2009 3,000 demonstrators marched in Melbourne to condemn the unilateral ceasefire announced by Israel in the Gaza strip. Their complaint was it did not go far enough.The rally was organised by Australians for Palestine. According to a report in The Age newspaper at the time Sarah Hanson-Young addressed the protesters outside the State Library. She said: “We’ve heard there is a ceasefire but Israeli military have not retreated from Gaza.”
According to The Age:
To rousing cheers, she said: ‘It is time for Prime Minister Rudd to come out and condemn the violence’ and ‘to say no child should be used as collateral in a civilian massacre’.She spoke of a mother of three in Gaza who, told by the Israeli military last week to come out of her home, came out waving a white flag and was shot in the head. She said the children were also killed.
The same crowd that cheered Hanson-Young displayed some sickening placards and signage. Three examples: a placard, carried by a Moslem child , would you believe, which read: “Jews haven’t learn (sic) they need (a swastika) more than before”.
Greens leader Bob Brown said nothing about that sign and did not condemn his fellow Greens senator for addressing a rally which expressed such sentiments.
Apparently he thought the sign below was far worse, because this time he did condemn it and demand Opposition Leader Tony Abbott say sorry for speaking at a rally where it was held up:
No real leaders, no real goal, no real success
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 03, 11 (05:53 am)
Two weeks after a dark-of-night barrage of mostly U.S. missiles and bombs opened the international air assault on Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, the American combat role is ending, the rag-tag rebels are reeling and the Pentagon is betting its European allies can finish the job.
Gadhafi is still standing, with a few uncertain signs that his inner circle could crack. The Obama administration is hoping that if Gadhafi’s government doesn’t implode soon, a relentless campaign of airstrikes on his tanks, air defenses and most trusted army units will at least weaken his ability to survive a renewed uprising by a disjointed opposition. The rebels initially rattled Gadhafi but in recent days have given up most of their gains.
The bottom line, according to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “He’s still killing his people.”
So the mission remains incomplete, but the U.S. is following through on a pledge to shift the main combat burden to Britain, France and other NATO allies.
Starting Sunday, no U.S. combat aircraft are to fly strike missions in Libya.
So poor is the UN operation that it is the rebels who now ask for a ceasefire:
Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim rejected the offer outlined by the Libyan opposition on Friday as “mad.” Troops loyal to Col Gaddafi would never withdraw from the rebel-held cities they were besieging, he said.
No wonder the rebels want a ceasefire, despite having had the American airforce loaned to them by Barack Obama:
Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker reporting from Benghazi, Libya, tells Eliot Spitzer that the number of opposition fighters on the front lines are fewer than anyone would think and that they are poorly armed and badly trained. Anderson says, ”Effective number of fighting men, well under 1,000. Actual soldiers, who are now in the fight, possibly in the very low hundreds on the opposition side.”
This is the army that the US has sided with? But who are they, anyway? The US and NATO are so worried about them they dare not even arm them:
Nato has said the rebels will not be armed, despite their pleas for military hardware. Privately coalition insiders say they are nervous that weapons might end up in the wrong hands - either seized from the rebels by nimbler Gaddafi forces, or being used by the al-Qaeda sympathisers and jihadist fighters who are reputed to be among the rebels.
Anti-tax rallies are warming up
Andrew Bolt – Saturday, April 02, 11 (08:58 pm)
Gavin Atkins went to both Sydney rallies today - the one against Julia Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax and the GetUp one for it. What must be a real worry for Gillard is that the professional protesters of the Left were this time nearly outnumbered:
Just back from the carbon tax rallies in Sydney where I took some pretty ordinary photos at both, but hopefully they may give you an idea of the crowds. I estimate maybe 5-6000 were at the anti-tax rally and was very, very disappointed to see this being exaggerated by some organisers as 10,000. However, I reckon there were about 25 % more people at this Sydney rally than the protest in Canberra.
Considering the anti-tax rally was organised by one new grass roots organisation, versus the warmies’ Australian Youth Climate Coalition, ACF, Get Up, Greenpeace, NCC, 1 million women, Oxfam and 350.org, this was not a bad effort.
I left half way through and attended the other rally near Central Station, and even though it was a slightly more confined space, think there genuinely were a few more protesters - maybe 1,000 or so – at the warmies Pro Tax rally near Central Station, making it maybe 6,000.
Click on the link for photographs.
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