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Andrew Bolt has an interesting post on Rudd and his ego being caught out in telling out and out lies. A good read and gives pause to wonder about just how inept Rudd is.
I have linked here for those readers who may not normally visit Andrew Bolt’s site.
Go read and worry.
DEFENCE Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has accused the former Howard Government of perpetrating a cruel hoax on veteran organisations which were offered free Leopard tanks, now likely to cost thousands of dollars.
No, the Howard government offered to ‘gift’ Leopard tanks – it’s you who have decided to charge for them.
“De-commissioned Leopard tanks will soon be available for gifting to veteran and historical organisations across Australia as part of the Howard Government’s acquisition of the new Abrams tanks,” then-defence minister Brendan Nelson said in a statement in September last year.
Fitzgibbon spins faster;
“However, it must be done in a fiscally responsible fashion and the organisations involved must be fully aware of the facts that the now opposition deliberately failed to inform them of,” he said.
The organizations were already fully aware of the facts – It is you who have changed them. Why don’t you just say that organizations that would want a tank outside their buildings are not the type of people you would choose to associate with and if they want the tanks they will bloody pay for them.
It’s got nothing to do with the Howard government. If you change a promise made by Howard government, as is your right, then just say so.
KEVIN Rudd has emerged from the days of the financial crisis as popular as he ever was and has overtaken Malcolm Turnbull on economic management.
The Government’s $10.4 billion emergency economic boost and the guarantee for all bank deposits has been enthusiastically endorsed.
Endorsed, I presume, by people happy with short term solutions. As in “He’s a good manager because he’s giving me a thousand per kid for zip” or pensioner couples getting a “couple of grand for Christmas”
As I understand it, the guarantee for all bank deposits has occasioned a run on all non bank deposits that self funded retirees use to live on. As a consequence of this several non bank investment houses have frozen their assets to prevent people withdrawing their funds and transferring them to the guaranteed banks.
I wonder if anyone canvassed the self funded retirees on Rudd’s economic credentials?
I doubt whether it’s all sunk in yet but it won’t take many more stuff-ups like this; coupled with jobs disappearing and companies going to the wall before the punters start looking at Rudd without their rose coloured glasses.
POLICE forced to run for their lives as a mob – enraged by the 2004 death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee – burnt down the Palm Island watchhouse, barracks and court will receive bravery awards.
On the other side of the card, the guy charged with inciting the riots has been found guilty;
The conviction of Wotton, who faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on November 7, is expected to be appealed and signals the end of the prosecution cases against the rioters.
Justice prevails.
From daughter Liz (who never plays solitaire because she’s a public servant)
POLICE have been called to investigate a film showing protester’s car being smashed by logging contractors.
The man and woman protesters were using a “dragon” technique, in which they put their arms into a pipe running through the floor of the car and into a concrete block in the ground below.
Thus stopping the men going about their legal business, costing them money, costing the company money and impacting on family and shareholders.
I don’t know if I’d take an axe to the oxygen thieve’s car but I do understand the loggers frustration and so long as no one is seriously hurt I’d be the last person to condemn them.
The film is inconclusive in that no one can be identified and thus it could be initiated by the oxygen thieves themselves.
Nothing to see here…move along and stop giving the idiots media exposure.
I have included a link in the Left menu bar to a letter sent to John McCain by a Viscount Monkton. Locating the link on the left will keep it prominent for some time.
Dear Senator McCain, Sir,
YOU CHOSE a visit to a wind-farm in early summer 2008 to devote an entire campaign speech to the reassertion of your belief in the apocalyptic vision of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change – a lurid and fanciful account of imagined future events that was always baseless, was briefly exciting among the less thoughtful species of news commentators and politicians, but is now scientifically discredited.
With every respect, there is no rational basis for your declared intention that your great nation should inflict upon her own working people and upon the starving masses of the Third World the extravagantly-pointless, climatically-irrelevant, strategically-fatal economic wounds that the arrogant advocates of atmospheric alarmism admit they aim to achieve.
You should read it regularly, particularly after contact with any “AGW is a fact type” media.
Hat tip Kae
DRIVERS who are trying to avoid the hefty parking fees at Brisbane Airport by waiting at the popular Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial are being hit with fines.
The idea is to duck into the Memorial car park and wait on a phone call from the person you are picking up saying they have their baggage and are ready for pick up.
The alternative is to park and pay and that can be costly.
Maybe the Airport Corporation would have a point if it wasn’t for these figures;
Corporation figures show that parking is profitable.
Last year it returned $57 million compared with aeronautical revenue of $87 million.
Parking station or airport? If they try hard and fine a lot of people they may beat the aeronautical revenue.
FORMER Sydney Olympic chief Sandy Hollway is Australia’s first whale envoy.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced the appointment today, fulfilling a Labor election commitment.
“Mr Hollway’s appointment builds on the intensive diplomatic engagement the Rudd Labor government has undertaken to date and will see Australia deepen our dialogue with leaders in Japan and other countries ahead of the southern summer,” Mr Garrett said.
I wait with baited breath for a raft of announcements pertaining to Kangaroo, wombat and shark envoys.
While the ABC, SBS and tabloid TV stations fall over themselves to report Sarah Palin had the temerity to suggest someone should be sacked for behaviour unbecoming an officer of the law; I thought, in the interests of balance, a consideration currently AWOL in the media’s coverage of the US Presidential elections, that I should link to the post below.
Question: Does Barack Obama Have Any Friends Who AREN’T Communists?
Good question and some answers here
This week will be politics free for me as I go to Lamington NP to run a base camp for college boys studying Australian Environmental Studies. I have switched off moderation as I won’t be able to do so until Saturday morning.
Go for it! Debate that is, not abuse.