Kevin08 – The gloves are off

Daily Telegraph – PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of employing a butler to put out his clothes and shine his shoes while on the road. [snip] Liberal senator Michael Ronaldson today asked a Senate estimates committee why the PM’s staff list included a travelling assistant – and added that it was inappropriate for Mr Rudd to employ a manservant while petrol is at record highs.

The Australian – KEVIN Rudd has been accused of falsely claiming the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s support for his planned fuel price monitoring system, despite the consumer watchdog warning it could lead to higher prices. And the Opposition labelled the Prime Minister an old-style socialist whose FuelWatch system would undermine free market principles and hurt consumers.

SMH – KEVIN RUDD’S main election strategy – to ease pressure on household budgets – has collapsed just six months into his administration with internal squabbling over petrol and the Prime Minister insisting he never pledged to lower fuel prices. [snip] But more bad news arrived when ANZ revised its inflation outlook – and factored in another two interest rate rises this year.

The Age – KEVIN Rudd’s handpicked cultural advisers have confronted him over his attack on Melbourne artist Bill Henson and have warned that Henson’s potential prosecution damages the nation’s cultural reputation and risks “a repressive climate of hysterical condemnation”. Cate Blanchett, Nobel prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, Melbourne University Publishing head Louise Adler and writer Peter Goldsworthy are among the prominent figures whose names appear on an open letter condemning allegations that Henson “is a child pornographer”.

I’m surprised it took this long for the wheels to come off, well not really, it only took this long because the media were helping him out as much as they could. Even last night the unbiased [funny how some ABC staff become members of Kevin08's leftist ALP then] ABC was making sloppy excuses for Kevin08. Geez, Kevin08 can’t even find any love from the fabled ‘Arts’ community now. ‘Working families’ are pissed off, Pensioners are pissed off and even his celebrity chums are gesturing angrily at Kevin08. Even the media are getting into him now, The Age and the SMH tearing chunks off him on their respective front pages.

The opposition had better make hay while the aura of Kevin07 is being shot to pieces, because the media will be barracking for Kevin Rudd when the next election rolls around. There’s a lesson in there somewhere for us, there’s a lesson in there for Americans too, be wary of the ones who smooth-talk about hope and change folks, new leadership and fresh ideas is what we were sold and this is what we got. Honestly though I doubt the lesson will be learned, you see there’s a reason why shady, smooth-talking salesmen are still around doing business.

Persecution of Christians in Iran

Faith News Network – The arrests began at 5 a.m. on May 11, when two couples were taken into custody before boarding their flights at the Shiraz International Airport and sent directly to jail. All four were subjected to hours of interrogation, questioning them solely “just about their faith and house church activities,” an Iranian source told Compass. The detained Christians were identified as Homayon Shokohie Gholamzadeh, 48, and his wife Fariba Nazemiyan Pur, 40; and Amir Hussein Bab Anari, 25, and his wife Fatemeh Shenasa, 25.

Although the two wives were released the same day of their arrest, Anari was detained until May 14, and Gholamzadeh remains jailed. Two hours after the early morning arrests of May 11, police authorities invaded the home of Hamid Allaedin Hussein, 58, arresting him and his three adult children, Fatemah, 28, Muhammed Ali, 27, and Mojtaba, 21. All the family’s books, CDs, computers and printers were hauled off as well. Hussein, his daughter and one son were released later the same day, but son Mojtaba remains in prison.

Two days later, local police picked up two more former Muslims involved in a separate house church in Shiraz as the Christian converts were talking together in a city park. Both men, Mahmood Matin and a second man identified only as Arash, are still jailed. Still another arrest incident was reported last month in the northern city of Amol, in Mazandaran province near the Caspian Sea. Two of the arrested converts to Christianity, one a pregnant woman, are still imprisoned, with no news of their whereabouts.

‘Encouraged’ deepen their knowledge of Islam

Brisbane Times – Police in Amsterdam will get half the purchase price back if they buy the Koran to deepen their knowledge of Islam, a spokesman said today. A new translation had just appeared in Dutch and officers on the beat were being encouraged [I think we all know when they say 'encourage', it really means do it or else!] to read this and a biography of the Prophet Mohammed, Ebe van der Land said. “These two books will make for a better understanding and knowledge of the Koran and the life of the prophet,” van der Land said.

I wonder if the translation covers the bit about his 9 yr-old wife? I wonder if the police are told that if Muslim man decides to take a young girl as his wife, then they need to look the other way? I recently heard Mark Steyn talking about the fastest population transformation in history that is happening right now in our time. Off course the left are quick to dismiss folks like Steyn as trouble makers, racists and xenophobes, nothing to see, all kumbaya, move along folks. We are told that Islam is peace and tolerance, we are told that multiculturalism is working, it’s all peace and harmony, all cultures are equal and it’s just a couple of angry racists stirring up trouble. But there is a disconnect between what we are told by the elites and the reality that’s pretty much staring us in the face, if only we acknowledge it.

Here in the west, we have a lot of people from a lot of places around the world, people we are told will westernize when they come to live here in the west, so there is nothing to fear. This is true for a lot of them, however if there is nothing to fear because the immigrants will westernize and adapt, why are the Dutch police encouraged to ‘deepen their knowledge of Islam’, why are Korans being subsidized for them? Judging by the waning of Christianity in Europe, why aren’t they encouraged to deepen their knowledge of Christianity? Why aren’t they encouraged to deepen their knowledge of the Bhagawat Geeta, the Tanakh? Are there only Muslims and ex-Christians over in Europe now? Sounds like dhimmitude to me folks and it sure sounds like we’re being deceived, lied to and sold out by those who purport to lead us.

When the media attention starts to wane..

BBC – Ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal. The Israelis have never confirmed they have nuclear weapons, but this has been widely assumed since a scientist leaked details in the 1980s. Mr Carter made his comments on Israel’s weapons at a press conference at the annual literary Hay Festival in Wales.

Just make stuff up, pull figures out of your ass and look serious while doing it and they’ll be back fawning all over you. Works everytime, especially when it’s anti-Israel.

Go McCain, open the can on B. Hussein!

FOX News – Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together. “Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost,” the GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting told The Associated Press in an interview, noting that the Illinois senator’s last trip to Iraq came before the military buildup that is credited with curbing violence. “He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added.

“If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.” [snip] Obama, who has all but clinched the Democratic nomination, says he will remove U.S. combat troops within 16 months of taking office, though sometimes he shortens it to 11 months. “For him to talk about dates for withdrawal, which basically is surrender in Iraq after we’re succeeding so well is, I think, really inexcusable,” said McCain, who has been to Iraq eight times, most recently in March.

Kudos to McCain for going there so many times, predictably B. Hussein sent one of his lackeys out to side-step McCain’s challenge. I guess he doesn’t want to travel to Iraq in case his wild fantasies about every square meter of the place being bombed and burned 24/7might get blown to pieces. Can’t really blame him for it though, B. Hussein is the candidate of the mad left, and the mad left will not accept any conclusion other than Iraq=Vietnam, American Troops=evil and Surrender=utopia. They will not tolerate their man coming back from Iraq and even muttering under his breath that it’s getting better and better, thanks to the efforts of American troops and Iraqis who prefer freedom to tyranny. None the less, stick it to him McCain, it’s about time somebody started exposing B. Hussein Obama for the America-hating, talk-to-terrorists, surrender-monkey he is.