Ah, the USA. Let’s celebrate their own celebration of ignorance and stupidity. How these people get on television is anyone’s guess. WEE mean, Australia has its own crass and appalling TV journalists, commentators and entertainers (Kyle Sandilands anyone?) but the US really takes the cake in promoting the truly sub-intelligent and moronic to celebrity prominence.

News Ltd, has found some commentators and journalists worse than their own to pick on for once…

‘Serial killer’ for approving camel cull “Launched air strikes against camels” Anchor is serious The Punch: A bit too far?PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been labelled a serial killer on US TV for approving the culling of feral camels.Erin Burnett, an anchor on American financial news channel CNBC, launched a verbal attack targetting Rudd following his government’s decision to spend $A19 million to cull feral camels in the outback.

via Kevin Rudd called a ‘serial killer’ on CNBC | TV | News.com.au.

These people are really stupid and so dumb transparent -  you can bet if John Howard had made this decision it wouldn’t have rated a mention.

But their real stupidity is that they have sat and barracked for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the last few years and simply cannot see the offensive irony of calling the cull of camels in the outback ‘genocide’.

These people represent a portion of the American establishment that is sick, sick, sick. They are so out of touch with any kind of reality that it really is not worth talking about their outlandish behaviour and hateful, bile filled speech. They are so tired and dull. Let’s just hope they go away.

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Oh for ____’s sake! Well the Liberal Party of Australia is really focused in on the important issues.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of swearing on purpose on national television to increase his appeal to voters.

Last night on Channel 7 Mr Rudd dropped the word “shit” as he spoke to sacked Pacific Brands workers about the Government’s decision to spend billions stimulating the economy.

“People have to understand that, because there’s going to be the usual political shit storm, sorry, political storm, over that,” he said.

His comments were applauded by the audience.

But this morning Melbourne’s Liberal Mayor Robert Doyle and Opposition frontbencher Peter Dutton both accused Mr Rudd of scripting the moment

via Rudd flies into swearing storm – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

What a bunch of tossers. With all there is to criticise Kevin Rudd over this is the one? Or is it payback for the equally moronic carry-on about the Labor Party’s horror that Malcolm Turnbull mentioned the name of the Prime Minister’s wife and wealth in the same sentence.

Can someone inform both parties there’s an economic meltdown, bushfires and industrial relations legislation to discuss in rational and mature ways – WEE guess that’s hoping for too much.

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Stephen Conroy has had a brain meltdown on this issue of internet filtering. And hundreds of Australian expressed their concern today around the country (and many thousands more have expressed their outrage at the laws online).

Digital Liberty Coalition protests against web filter held across Australia

Protests

Digital divide … hundreds attended rallies across Australia today to oppose the Government’s web filtering plan.

* Protests against web filtering scheme

* Held in capital cities across Australia

* Monthly rallies until March

HUNDREDS of people attended rallies in Australian capital cities yesterday to voice their opposition to the Rudd Government’s planned internet filtering scheme.

via Digital Liberty Coalition protests against web filter held across Australia | News | News.com.au.

The internet censorship proposal is ricidulous. It is another ‘moral panic’ issue. The Rudd Government is only trying to pander to the likes of Family First and Nick Xenophon on this one. But in the process of pandering to these two annoying senators who account for a fraction of the population, the Government is ignoring everyone else.

It’s a curious issue because techies keep advising that it won’t be hard to bypass the filter – so you can get around the stupid legislation – and so can the weirdoes and gambling people and any other nutter. It’s like gun laws – if you really want to get your hands on a gun you can. If you really want to get around an internet filter you can. So it’s not going to stop criminals or those folks intent on using the internet for ill.

But it will by all accounts really slow everything down for everyone. And here is the greatest irony of the genius Conroy’s plan. At the same time as he’s about to build a fast broadband network, he’s introducing legislation and technology that will slow it down!

Explain the logic in that if you can.

The other problem is that there is very little clarity around what exactly will be blocked. Image of child pornography yes, and euthanasia information (that’s a whole other debate). But there is also talk of other things such as all porn, peer to peer sites, the list goes on and on.

The Rudd Government is officially out of control. Rudd talks about innovation and needing to be technically advanced. Australia is about to become the only western democracy in the world to censor its internet – yeah, clever country indeed.

If you want to join the fight for our internet freedom you can here:

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He’s almost as persistent as his nemesis, John Howard…

PETER COSTELLO will be forced to declare his political intentions by early April, ending months of speculation about the former federal treasurer’s future.

Supporters of Mr Costello are urging him to fight for his seat at the next federal election, saying the Liberal Party needs him more than ever as Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull fails to make headway in the opinion polls.

via Costello tipped to run for seat again – National – smh.com.au.

Is it really possible that he would wait for Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership to crash? There is actually no  firm evidence that Turnbull’s leadership is in real trouble but surely Costello is not seriously thinking that he’ll hang around just in case. And surely the Liberal Party isn’t seriously considering Costello as a leader of the future?

Well, according to this article perhaps he is and they are.

It seems Costello doesn’t get it. He had his moment and he missed it. He trots out this line about not wanting to damage the party – well, that’s already happened. Howard damaged it (and Costello let him) and now the leadership speculation of the last 12 months is damaging the party too.

He doesn’t seem to understand that his time has come and gone. And the only real explanation for his behaviour must surely be payback. He’s enjoying his role as a thorn in the side of the parliamentary party and he’s enjoying making some of the Howardites of the party sweat. Well that’s all well and good, but the time for action was about 18 months ago and he didn’t have the guts then.

So he appears to be back to the old modus operandi of wait and wait and wait. The only problem with this is, like the last time, the time will never come.

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Jetsetter PM is losing points with voters

By Sharri Markson

September 21, 2008 12:01am

Rumblings of discontent can be heard across the nation as grumpy voters begin protesting about the extraordinary amount of time the Prime Minister spends abroad.

Jetsetter PM is losing points with voters | NEWS.com.au.

Dear Sharri seems to be making up the news now. There is absolutely no evidence presented in this article that the PM is losing points with voters. Perhaps some friends of Sharri mentioned it to her? Who knows? It’s just another case of News journalists making up the news.

The only source of dissent around the PMs travel has been the opposition leader. Well, what a surprise that he’d be making something of it. It seems that Sharri lacks the capacity for independent thought and so is just parrotting some press release from the opposition.

There is absolutely no evidence presented in the article. If she has it, why didn’t she show it? It’s because she has pulled this piece out of somewhere that the sun don’t shine.

Yet again, the standard of journalism at the Daily Telegraph reaches now lows.

I suggest perhaps Sharri wait for a poll that shows some evidence of disatisfaction with the PMs travel – then she might have an article. At the moment though, she’s making it up as she goes along.

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Please Kevin, can you eat a moose?

By Laurie Oakes

September 06, 2008 04:10am

Article from: The Courier-Mail

IT’S not fair. The Americans have Sarah Palin. Why can’t we have one of those?

Mooseburgers may not be everyone’s idea of the perfect feed, and some people might baulk at giving their kids names like Track or Trig or Bristol.

Also, the Alaskan Governor holds some views so far to the Right that she risks toppling off the edge.

Please Kevin, can you eat a moose? | NEWS.com.au.

Out they all come. All suckered in by the Repulican PR machine. Now Laurie Oakes is beginning a love affair with Palin. Anyone can have the positions this woman has – they are easy.

It’s so terrible that Laurie has to sit through boring press conferences with politicians. Perhaps if he did some real work and research into some of the issues facing this country he might find some really interesting things to report.

Alas he prefers to sit around waiting for someone to send him juicy gossip emails that then form the basis for his ‘scoops’. Oh it’s so much more interesting to listen to someone like Palin who is a ‘conviction’ politician who believes everything has an easy answer – gee, it sounds eerily like the present encumbent. The US needs oil in the Middle East – start a war. The economy is tanking – cut taxes for the rich. Teenagers keep getting pregnant – just stop having sex. Heavans, if it was all this simple then none of these things would be intractable problems.

Still, that doesn’t bother Laurie, he prefers people that can deal him simple answers – wow that makes for interesting interviews. If someone is poor – it’s their fault. If there is oil in Alaska you just drill for it. There’s no such thing as climate change – it’s just a bunch of old cobblers.

Yeah, that easier to report isn’t Laurie? No research required. Just some ‘good ole’ home truths from people who prefer to let those at the bottom of the pile rot. Or worse, if they live outside of the US, just blow them up with cluster bombs.

It’s time for Laurie to hang up his keyboard. It’s obviously got a little too hard for him.

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And if only we all liked Gerard as much as it seems that Gerard loves himself. So full of a sense of his own importance. And he never sets a foot wrong – oh Saint Gerard, perhaps you could get the Pope to beatify you while he’s in town.

The rest of us are too anti-Catholic for any such honour.

If you can be bothered, here’s the link to his letter…

Letters Blog | The Australian.

I mean really, can’t these journalists just pick up the phone and talk to each other if there is a minor detail wrong in an article? Why do the rest of us have to be bored with it – it’s annoying enough reading the headlines to his articles in the SMH!

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Rudd wants all to pay for climate except him NEWS.com.au
Rudd wants all to pay for climate except him

By Glenn Milne

July 06, 2008 12:00am

I mean, is this guy for real? Is this guy meant to be a serious political journalist? This is like something written by a 3 year old. WEE are flabbergasted.

What is going on at news.com.au?

Basically, Milne argues that, beyond all convention of PMs in this country, that Rudd should pay his own prime ministerial costs for transport and so forth. This is bizarre. WEE can only hope that this was an article written in jest that mistakenly made it to the website.

If Milne stands by such rubbish is this, then he really is the pathetic excuse for a journalist WEE always suspected he was. Unprofessional and puerile – that man really should be sacked.

And just in case they realise how pathetic this article is and remove it from news.com.au, WEE have pasted the contents here.

Prime Minister won’t pay his power, petrol bills

Carbon trading scheme will drive up costs

Rudd says he understands pressures families face

Last December, after signing the Kyoto Protocol at the Bali Climate Change Summit, Mr Rudd declared: “We must all share the burden.”

KEVIN Rudd wants all Australians to share the pain of increased costs to help save the planet from climate change – except him.

The Prime Minister revealed yesterday he would continue to allow taxpayers to pick up his power and petrol bills.

In the wake of the week’s Garnaut report, Mr Rudd was asked if he would pay for power, lighting and heating bills at The Lodge.

The Sunday Herald Sun also asked whether he would start to pay his petrol bills for his chauffeur-driven car.

Mr Rudd’s office responded: “The Prime Minister will not be changing the long-standing practices of previous prime ministers in relation to these matters.

“The Prime Minister understands the cost-of-living pressures that confront Australia’s working families, carers and seniors.

“He also understands that Australians want the Australian Government to take action on climate change.”

Taxpayers pick up the bill for the car and The Lodge.

The Government is set to introduce a national Emissions Trading System by 2010 that will increase the cost of energy bills and fuel in the name of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr Rudd has stressed that for a carbon trading system to work, consumers must be hit with a noticeable price rise in order for them to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr Rudd declined to say how much The Lodge and his chauffeur driven car cost taxpayer’s last year, referring the Sunday Herald Sun to Government annual reports.

According to Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio estimates, the cost of running The Lodge and Kirribilli House in Sydney is expected to be $1.8 million this financial year.

Mr Rudd, whose wife, Therese Rein’s companies turned over about $260 million last year, also has a taxpayer-subsidised nanny for his youngest son and a taxpayer-funded butler paid $78,000 a year.

Mr Rudd earns $370,000 a year, including allowances.

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