I caught some of Mr KRudd’s speech in Copenhagen last might on the telly.

He had his head down reading the speech from his notes for about 80% of the time.

He delivered it without any genuine passion for the subject and thus why would anyone take him seriously.

If this truly is his passion he should be able to stand and deliver a speech with passion and feeling without the political spin of his speech writers.

Delivery is about 80% of the effectiveness of giving a speech. Mr KRudd should not expect any high scores from the judges on that effort.


Firebrand leaders Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Robert Mugabe turned up the heat at the UN climate talks, dumping the blame for global warming squarely at the feet of capitalism.

These leaders have no credibility on any level so who really cares what they have to say

Full story on ABC website


The Government wants to mandatorily filter the Internet feed through all Australian ISPs

There are ways around it and the argument is always that desired content will be discarded with all the crap content.

Don’t argue about it, just offer it filtered by default (keep Government happy), at the standard charge (keep Families happy) AND unrestricted access (keep freedom of expression advocates happy) incurs an extra fee (keeps ISPs happy).

Just like Pay TV and Mobile content providers charge extra for ‘explicit’ and/or premium content.

This would solve everyone’s problem I reckon.

Duncan


This is his quote…

"The message Kevin Rudd is giving to his people, his citizens, is a fabrication, it’s fiction," he said.

"It does not relate to the facts…”

That is about as good as any politician would come out and call another world leader a liar.

What do you think?

Complete story on the ABC news radio website


The current discussion around Mary Mackillop becoming a Saint is a hot topic in Australian Catholic circles.

As I understand it, they have to prove that there were 2 miracles as a result of the person praying to an individual person.

The push for Mary Mackillop to be canonised has been underway since 1925. The first miracle was approved and she was beatified. The second will see her become a Saint.

Surely more than two miracles can be attributed to Jesus because people prayed to Him. Yet Catholics never refer to Him as Saint Jesus.


The scary thing about the whole climate change debate is this.

What if the changes in the atmosphere are not caused by Man and Co2 emissions.

If it’s not caused by us, then it’s just part of the total environmental cycle and therefore so far outside of our control it’s not funny.

This is a cycle, that has cycle times measured in decades and centuries, not years.

I am all for cleaner air to breathe. Let’s change the argument to ‘clean up the air we breathe so we, the humans, are better off’

The planet will benefit as well.

Reduce visible pollution. Ban cigarette smoking. Enforce cleaner cars and trucks. These would all go a long way to helping.

The Mayans were wiped out with one season of drought. We are foolish to think we can influence the atmosphere, it’s a system with so many variables, many I suspect we don’t even know about or understand.

Let’s stop this leftist communisation of the planet and get on with life.


This is a bit of fun that should possibly be the main entrance exam for all would be future Aussies and even those who are already here.

Take the all new, illeagal, queue jumping Australian Citizenship Test. If you pass this one you deserve to be here ahead of the rest.