‘Eating a diet high in salt may not be as bad for you as first thought and could even reduce chances of heart disease.
An eight-year study by scientists in Belgium found that people who ate lots of salt were no more likely to suffer problems with heart disease or high blood pressure than people who ate less salt.
The findings ‘certainly do not support the current recommendation to lower salt intake in the general population,’ said Dr. Jan Staessen, of the University of Leuven in Belgium…’

Surprise, surprise….not. Wabbit is not young and has consistently ignored all advice concerning diet. And is on zero medication. None. Nada. BP normal. Every other damn indicator normal. And his idea of “enough” salt approaches something which looks like a Siberian snowdrift. Always has. Goes with lashings of butter, fried food etc etc. But it seems to me there’s a key to all this diet stuff—don’t eat more than you need!
And you don’t need half as much as you think you do.

‘PRIME Minister Julia Gillard will launch a fresh bid to convince business leaders of the value of her carbon tax, as a new poll suggests fewer than one in three voters support it.
Ms Gillard will wine and dine corporate chiefs at her official Sydney residence at Kirribilli tonnight, as the Labor leader faces a public backlash over her plan to tackle climate change…’

The whole AGW scam has been comprehensively exposed and anybody with an IQ above room temperature must know that by now. Yet–like John Key in NZ–Gillard is pushing ahead with it despite growing, vocal opposition, despite the fact that Labor is steadily bleeding support. The question has to be asked: Why?
Whose agenda is being served here, when politicians are prepared to risk electoral defeat in order to introduce a massively unpopular tax, with destructive downstream effects? Something smells…..

Is below the fold.
‘UN rights boss asks US for facts on bin Laden killing’
‘The United Nations’ top human rights official called on the United States on Tuesday to give the U.N. details about Osama bin Laden’s killing and said that all counter-terrorism operations must respect international law.’

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‘Rudd: we’re building mosques in Afghanistan’

Did you approve of your tax dollars being used to promote and support islam?

‘There seems to be a party line at the ABC’s online site on the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Drum, but it’s not a party-party-party one:…..’                   Andrew Bolt

Well, yes–if the gulags and the killing fields weren’t enough to deflect the middle-class Stalin-cuddlers from their rotten ideology, why would the deaths of thousands of innocent people at the hands of jihadists do it?

There’s some discussion around the ‘net about the ethics/morality involved in the killing of Bin Liner. “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is about proportionality, not revenge and on that basis the islamists still owe us at least 3000 more. I hope the bastard fries for eternity.

‘..Helen Clark was responsible for the largest expansion in the size of government in modern times. Over the final three years of her term in office, state spending grew from 29 percent of GDP in 2005 to 35 percent in 2008. It was economic mismanagement on a grand scale. Not only did the country fall into a recession months ahead of the global economic crisis, but the incoming government was handed a raft of increasingly unaffordable policies including interest-free student loans, massive increases in Working for Families, and overly-generous KiwiSaver subsidies. But rather than seizing the mandate for reform given by electors, by cutting government spending back to affordable levels, the National Party took the easy road, positioning itself in the middle ground to essentially continue Clark’s agenda…’     the rest is HERE

poster by KG

We just had a meal at the Coolah Valley pub (this place will be our home for the next three months) and guess what the special was, on this auspicious day?

Roast wild pork.

‘..
MORE than 70 per cent of failed asylum-seekers who have arrived in Australia since boats started coming in late 2008 have had their cases overturned on review, undermining attempts by the government to end the people-smuggling trade by denying residency to boatpeople….
According to the Immigration Department 910 failed asylum-seekers’ cases were reviewed between October 2008 and March this year.
Of those, 641 – or 70.4 per cent – successfully argued that their negative decisions should be overturned. The figures do not include the wave of failed asylum claims that can now be pursued in the courts following last year’s High Court ruling – a development that is sure to result in more failed cases being overturned. Last year the government was warned the high success rate of asylum claims was one of the reasons people-smugglers were targeting Australia instead of other parts of the world, where the success rate was lower…”

Why? The answer is here
A few unelected people are carrying out their own agenda, and together with the courts they’re virtually immune to public opinion.