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‘Boy caught driving armed and towing dead donkey
Northern Territory Police say a Central Australian man will face court after his 13-year-old son was caught driving a damaged vehicle with a loaded rifle in the front seat and towing a dead donkey…’     source
Doesn’t sound like anything very unusual for remote parts of the N.T. The 13 year old is almost certainly perfectly capable of handling firearms, a beat-up ute and a dead donkey.

Patrick J Buchanan:
“..The desire of peoples for nations all their own, where their own language, faith and culture predominate and their own kind rule to the exclusion of all others, is everywhere winning out over multiculturalism and transnationalism.”
We can hope! But I think he’s optimistic–the rise of the bureaucrat will have exactly the same effect.

 That’d be in the days before council nazis decided they own the beaches, not the people. These signs are about a third of the threats and exhortations posted at the entrance to a beach we visited the other day. Sooner or later, the people are going to have to decide who owns the damn country, them or the bureaucrats.
(the horrible colours are due to Gecko’s camera throwing a shoe–she went  and bought a Canon EOS 1000D to replace it)

‘Obama Calls for Restraint by Egypt’s Christians
President Obama has responded to the Egyptian military’s massacre of Coptic Christian protestors in Cairo Sunday with a pointedly even-handed statement that calls equally on Christians and the military to show restraint.
….Incredibly, Obama is not only equating the deaths of peaceful protestors and their killers, but he is suggesting that Egypt’s increasingly persecuted Christian minority should show as much “restraint” as their tormentors and refrain from vigorously objecting to the growing abuse…’

‘Kevin Morgan warns that the Gillard Government $36 billion national broadband network already seems to be blowing out badly:
No one, of course, is pointing out that the NBN’s costs could explode. Why would they when NBN Co’s 900 employees are averaging more than $150,000 a year? And the gravy train doesn’t stop there. Consultants, lawyers and IT contractors are doing even better. In the 12 months to June, NBN Co spent $60m on consultants and a whopping $42m on legal costs while $220m has been spent or committed to a billing and operational support system even though NBN Co will be dealing with at most only a couple of hundred customers. And this cost could double…’          source

‘Rooftop solar panels overloading electricity grid
THE runaway take-up of rooftop solar panels is undermining the quality of electricity supplies, feeding so much power back into the network that it is stressing the system and causing voltage rises that could damage household devices such as computers and televisions.
Power distribution lines and home wiring were designed for electricity to flow from power stations to appliances, but households with solar panels do the reverse of this.
One of Australia’s biggest electricity network providers, Ausgrid, yesterday warned that there was a “significant likelihood” that costs would have to rise because of the impact of the solar photovoltaic cells…’        The Australian

‘.You can’t get rid of this tax:
THE Coalition would never be able to repeal Labor’s carbon tax, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, predicted …
A tax you didn’t vote for, don’t want and can’t repeal. This is not how democracy is meant to work…’         Andrew Bolt

Once again: “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”   Liar.