Bulleted Bulletin
¨ Morris Iemma claims a Caucus victory on electricity privatisation, the next best collectivist thing to the approval he didn't win for the proposal at the weekend's State Labor Conference. (Sentimental unionists are advised to visit new site, governmentisgood.com, for their statist fantasy needs). In a nasty melodrama, Michael Costa has had his mental health questioned - a slur not helped by photographs like this one. Speaking of Labor nutters, Agony Aunt Paul Keating - believed to be battling Relevance Deprivation Syndrome without medication - today offers his two cents worth on the rolling of poor Mr Iemma. He says Unions NSW secretary, John Robertson, "sees his role as providing T-shirts to protesters." Hey, don't knock it. Meanwhile, scaredy-cat control freak, Kevin Rudd, is warning he could lose the next election if such controversies get out of hand.
¨ In other party room news, chair sniffer Troy Buswell has won by a nose. The Les Patterson theme continues, however - bearing in mind objections raised here by Steve that I may be slandering Australia's cultural attaché to the Court of St James - with a brand new scandal emerging in the West involving the Premier. Alan Carpenter has been accused of lifting the top of Labor MP Jaye Radisich and exposing her bra. There's a lot of bra to expose. Say what you like about Brian Burke, his deeds were straitlaced compared to these shenanigans.
¨ Kudos to Q: Speeding drivers using licence plate switching device.
¨ The world's strangest gadgets. The RSS reader would be ideal for the latest headlines from the ABC, the Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Times and The Guardian. I loved the Mini desk. Cool.
¨ Death obsessed "doctor," Philip Nitschke, failed to test a patient for Alzheimer's disease because he was "hell-bent" on supporting the man's assisted suicide, a Sydney court has heard. The case involves two women - members of death group Exit International - alleged to have murdered former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie. "The accused Shirley Justins had a strong financial motive to bring about his death and also a personal motive in wanting Mr Wylie deceased," Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi told the Supreme Court.
¨ Zed Seselja is the ACT Leader of the Opposition. I didn't know that.
¨ Thespian news. Snobbish luvvie, two-time Oscar nominee Judy Davis, is suing the Daily Telegraph for implying she was a "child-hating" selfish hypocrite. LOL. One of Kevin Rudd's big-name 2020 Summiteers, Hugh Jackman, was earnestly discussing ways of improving the country just a few weeks ago. Guess he didn't believe any of that gathering's guff either: the Sydney Morning Herald reports today that he and wife Deborra-lee Furness are planning to move the family to New York "after X-Men Origins: Wolverine wraps in June."
¨ Andrew Bolt is right. We must organise another stolen generation.
¨ When assassination fantasist Phillip Adams pleads for someone to "Stop her before it's too late," we know what he'd really like to see happen to Hillary Clinton. The equally erratic New York Times is keeping its Clinton option open now that Barack Obama's campaign has begun to falter. The newspaper interviewed one Clinton fan today who inadvertently summed up the junior senator's purely spousal qualifications for the presidency: "After listening to her speak in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sunday, Joe Jakacky, a warehouse worker, remarked that Mrs Clinton had started out just like he did, in a menial job."
¨ This J.R. is no J.R. Ewing. A nice story.
¨ There has been no collective Muslim rage episode that would match what would happen if Christendom College's Dr Warren H. Carroll manages to convince the Vatican to canonise Isabella the Catholic. The cause of her beatification was actually opened in 1974 during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. For the Church, though, there's usually no sense of hurry about these things. Just approved by Rome as worthy of belief: Marian apparitions to a French shepherd girl, Benoite Rencurel - the first of which occurred 344 years ago.
¨ "Nothing exposes the brutality and inhumanity of tinpot tyrants like a natural disaster." Saint on the tragedy and chaos of Nargis.
¨ Ever wondered what song was No. 1 on the very day you were born? No? Fair enough. Yes? Go here. If you're lucky enough not to have been born on the day Cliff Richard reigned supreme, you may well have General Franco to thank for it. Nobody is all bad.
¨ In other party room news, chair sniffer Troy Buswell has won by a nose. The Les Patterson theme continues, however - bearing in mind objections raised here by Steve that I may be slandering Australia's cultural attaché to the Court of St James - with a brand new scandal emerging in the West involving the Premier. Alan Carpenter has been accused of lifting the top of Labor MP Jaye Radisich and exposing her bra. There's a lot of bra to expose. Say what you like about Brian Burke, his deeds were straitlaced compared to these shenanigans.
¨ Kudos to Q: Speeding drivers using licence plate switching device.
¨ The world's strangest gadgets. The RSS reader would be ideal for the latest headlines from the ABC, the Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Times and The Guardian. I loved the Mini desk. Cool.
¨ Death obsessed "doctor," Philip Nitschke, failed to test a patient for Alzheimer's disease because he was "hell-bent" on supporting the man's assisted suicide, a Sydney court has heard. The case involves two women - members of death group Exit International - alleged to have murdered former Qantas pilot Graeme Wylie. "The accused Shirley Justins had a strong financial motive to bring about his death and also a personal motive in wanting Mr Wylie deceased," Crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi told the Supreme Court.
¨ Zed Seselja is the ACT Leader of the Opposition. I didn't know that.
¨ Thespian news. Snobbish luvvie, two-time Oscar nominee Judy Davis, is suing the Daily Telegraph for implying she was a "child-hating" selfish hypocrite. LOL. One of Kevin Rudd's big-name 2020 Summiteers, Hugh Jackman, was earnestly discussing ways of improving the country just a few weeks ago. Guess he didn't believe any of that gathering's guff either: the Sydney Morning Herald reports today that he and wife Deborra-lee Furness are planning to move the family to New York "after X-Men Origins: Wolverine wraps in June."
¨ Andrew Bolt is right. We must organise another stolen generation.
¨ When assassination fantasist Phillip Adams pleads for someone to "Stop her before it's too late," we know what he'd really like to see happen to Hillary Clinton. The equally erratic New York Times is keeping its Clinton option open now that Barack Obama's campaign has begun to falter. The newspaper interviewed one Clinton fan today who inadvertently summed up the junior senator's purely spousal qualifications for the presidency: "After listening to her speak in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Sunday, Joe Jakacky, a warehouse worker, remarked that Mrs Clinton had started out just like he did, in a menial job."
¨ This J.R. is no J.R. Ewing. A nice story.
¨ There has been no collective Muslim rage episode that would match what would happen if Christendom College's Dr Warren H. Carroll manages to convince the Vatican to canonise Isabella the Catholic. The cause of her beatification was actually opened in 1974 during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. For the Church, though, there's usually no sense of hurry about these things. Just approved by Rome as worthy of belief: Marian apparitions to a French shepherd girl, Benoite Rencurel - the first of which occurred 344 years ago.
¨ "Nothing exposes the brutality and inhumanity of tinpot tyrants like a natural disaster." Saint on the tragedy and chaos of Nargis.
¨ Ever wondered what song was No. 1 on the very day you were born? No? Fair enough. Yes? Go here. If you're lucky enough not to have been born on the day Cliff Richard reigned supreme, you may well have General Franco to thank for it. Nobody is all bad.
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