‘OUTBACK police in Queensland’s $3 billion beef industry are investigating one of the biggest cattle-duffing operations since the days of the Devil’s Triangle and bushranger Captain Starlight.
Cape York grazier Scott Harris, owner of the state’s biggest single pastoral lease in the vast Strathmore Station near Croydon, had 860 head of prime bullocks stolen from his fattening blocks near Tambo three months ago.
The station owner has posted a $100,000 reward to help solve the riddle of how nearly $1 million of stock vanished in a theft that would have required a handful of stockmen, dogs, and at least four road trains…’

‘The federal government is choking our economy while it degrades the character of a proud people.  The food stamp program is purposefully undermining “mountain pride” in Appalachian communities in order to create more wards of the welfare state…’   source
Can’t have groups of self-sufficient white people with a strong sense of identity in the Brave New World, can we?

‘General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has brought into relief a serious problem of politics in our military.
But the problem, a long-standing one, is not the group of former CIA officials, Navy SEALs, and others who’ve criticized President Obama for taking too much credit for cancelling Osama bin Laden’s ticket, and for leaking secrets about this operation in order to glorify himself. This is the group Dempsey is trying to bring to heel. No, the problem is an officer promotion system that, beyond the rank of commander in the Navy and lieutenant colonel in the other services, begins to weed out warriors and lift up bureaucrats and politicians…’  (bold mine, kg)

‘..The Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, wants the ADF (Australian Defence Forces) to fundamentally rethink the way it selects its leaders. She wants to temper the warrior culture that traditionally sees the most senior officers in army, navy and airforce come from backgrounds in combat or command. ..’
Wabbit has several suggestions for Elizabeth Broderick, all of them unprintable.

And to set the mood:  ‘ Fairfax Media posts $2.7 billion loss‘  Oh dear, how sad…

‘After concerns were raised by a number of citizens and media, German supermarket chain ALDI has withdrawn the Recreational Adventure Ridge Pocket Knife from sale.
ALDI planned to sell the knives for $9.99 as one of its Father’s Day special buy products…’
What next, those lethal potato peelers and can openers?? Effing clowns.

‘JULIA Gillard has lashed out at her online accusers over the circumstances of her departure from law firm Slater & Gordon in the mid-1990s, as her caucus colleagues urged her to “take the gloves off” in a fight with the press.
The Prime Minister took aim at news coverage of her personal life and blasted internet blogs for their “gender-based” attacks on her leadership, amid increasing scrutiny of her link to a disgraced union official and her departure from Slater & Gordon in the mid-1990s.
…Ms Gillard responded by vowing to proceed with media reforms by the end of the year, keeping the threat of regulation hanging over the sector….
In caucus, Mr Murphy called on Ms Gillard to toughen the regulation of the media and take on News Limited over what he described as its campaign against the government. Observers said Mr Murphy’s remarks struck a chord with a group of caucus members calling on Ms Gillard to create a new authority to oversee print, online, radio and television news…’     via Andrew Bolt
The left…they never, ever change. Rotten,totalitarian assholes to their core.

screams the headline.
‘IT’S now possible to buy a bottle of wine for less than bottled water – and a government inquiry has been told raising the price of alcohol is the best way to reduce the 813,000 hospital admissions and 32,600 deaths caused by alcohol each year.
The Australian National Preventive Health Agency has been asked to model a floor price on alcohol that could quadruple the cost of wine.
Submissions from health and consumer groups support a plan to force consumers to pay at least $1.30 per standard drink – that is, 100ml of wine. Under such a system, the cheapest 750ml bottle would be $9.75, and the cheapest four-litre cask $52…’
Where to begin?

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…I should add that the most powerful cascades occur when an artificially imposed sense of isolation crumbles.  That’s very definitely what is happening here.  Widespread popular discontent with the Obama presidency has been suppressed by making the unhappy campers feel marginalized.  The failure of that strategy is akin to watching a dam burst under high pressure…’                 source
Perhaps the small crowds for Obama are an indication of the realisation – gone viral – that the left’s messiah is a divisive, duplicitous, incompetent bastard.
And that the world is far too dangerous a place to leave the safety of the Republic in his hands.
Update: Richard Fernandez at Belmont Club has an elegant post on the subject.