Month: January 2008

Problem solved

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Everyone has been worrying about how to fix the problem of pedophiles in the Catholic Church (and other institutions) and a lot of investigation and resulting angst has has been the outcome.

We should have gone straight to the top.

POPE Benedict XVI has instructed Roman Catholics to pray “in perpetuity” to cleanse the church of pedophile clergy.

I would have thought conducting investigations and charging pedophiles would have a more practical solution but then I’m not a Catholic and I’m obviously missing something.

Still, he’s acknowledged that they exist.

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Come the Kevolution

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From DD McNichols Strewth in todays Australian

WHILE Kevin Rudd is enjoying his summer hols on beautiful Sydney Harbour at Kirribilli House, his supporters (or perhaps detractors) are beavering away to boost his image. Following the now-collectable Kevin07 T-shirt comes the Viva la Kevolution T-shirt in three fetching shades – red, green and white. The brainchild of Sydney artist Graham Brown and his poet mate Adam Gibson, the shirts feature the PM’s unmistakable jowls and rimless spectacles under a communist-star embossed beret. The image is a shameless knock-off of the still popular Che Guevara image from the 1960s. Brown, who tells Strewth he is a sucker for a bad pun, reckons it is the ideal summerwear for everyone from yummy mummies to latte-sipping lefties. The T-shirts, which are a rather pricey $40 each, can be ordered from…find out yourself if you want one – I’m not going to tell you……oh, all right….www.plastikzen.com.

And while we’re talking about Kevin Rudd enjoying his holidays what happened to “Taking only Christmas and Boxing Day off”

Many ministers appeared to have ignored his pre-Christmas edict – perhaps said tongue in cheek – that his team was only allowed Christmas Day and Boxing Day off.

In todays press some are listed as working but the man who said Christmas and Boxing day only is not.

Under the “Howard Lied” rules Kevin has clearly told another porky.

Get used to it.

Politics

It starts with another review

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Australia’s Chief Clerk, KEVIN Rudd will clamp down on overuse of foreign-owned ships to transport freight around the nation’s coastline in a bid to bolster the shipping industry.

Transport Minister Anthony Albanese told The Australian last night: “This review will be about boosting Australia’s international competitiveness and finding ways to increase coastal shipping’s share of the domestic freight market.

What Anthoy means is the review will be all about reinstating the power of the Maritime Union of Australia enabling them to run our coastal shipping and not any damn politician from Canberra.

Mr Albanese’s comments came as the Maritime Union of Australia said it expected Labor to deliver on its policy platform, requiring stronger laws to protect cabotage – the principle that nations should protect domestic shipping routes for domestic shipping fleets.

The way to protect cabotage is keep shipping costs to a minimum so shipping companies will want to be involved but that’s not exactly the forte of the MUA or their wharfie cousins.

Expect higher costs but no increase in Australian ships – at least not privately owned ones.

Politics

Revenue Raiser

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Letter to the Australian

MOTORISTS have contributed $365 million to government coffers in 2007 in speeding fines on the rationale fining saves lives.

So how many did fining save in 2007?

Four, based on the figures of 337 killed in 2006 and 333 in 2007. That means that saving each life cost $91.25 million.

Clearly the scheme is better at raising revenue than saving lives.

If it wanted to save lives, it would do what is being done in other countries, painting speed limits on the road as that has been proved to cut speeds and road deaths. But that won’t happen here as it does not raise money.

R.A. Marks
Drouin, Vic

Good point but I can’t see any government letting this income stream go.

General Musings

Why Benazir Bhuto was murdered

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From the Counterterrorism Blog comes an article about the mob that Hicks fought for.

Former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto was murdered because of herpotential actions in Pakistan, by the combined forces of jihadism in that country. In short, they executed her to pre-empt her future war of ideas. This was the bottom line and here is why

The long-term plan of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan during the 1990s was to eventually spread to Pakistan and seize power, and, ultimately after 1999, to seize the nukes, too. Miscalculating on September 11, Osama bin Laden lost Kabul and the jihadi war room crossed into their eastern neighbor. Plan B was then to seize Waziristan and gradually Talibanize the country, grabbing the “doomsday” devices in the end.

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