Stools Gold

By AR – Coprophagia is the Green dream, representing the ultimate in recycling. We all know the Greens will never be happy until we’re all drinking our own piss. Such a lifestyle may be a step closer if this crazy idea gets off the ground.

SEWAGE could be the new gold as water scarcity pushes up the value of recycled effluent water and fertiliser, a senior legal academic says. Janice Gray, a senior law lecturer from the University of New South Wales, said the property rights of sewage could become the legal battleground of the future. Ms Gray said entrepreneurs were already vying for access to sewerage infrastructure and one Sydney company had even litigated to gain access to such infrastructure. “This company, Services Sydney Pty Ltd, went to the Australian Competition Tribunal to open access to sewerage infrastructure in Sydney and the Hunter region,” Ms Gray said.

Ms Gray envisages a nightmare future where people fight for their wastewater.

“What was once a burden may, in fact, come to be seen as a valuable resource. Who knows, wastewater might end up being the new gold.”

Turds are no longer flushed, but are proudly given our name.

“Maybe we will want to claim it as our own,” Ms Gray said.

Next we’ll hear about how primitive societies return everything to the soil and are the richer for it. But I can remember the days of night-soil carters and septic tanks and have no wish to go back. And I’m not sure how well this next idea will run with modern high-density living arrangements. Actually, I am pretty sure…

“Instead of giving it away free to public utilities, as we do at the moment, perhaps we will start looking at putting in our own home-based or neighbourhood-based recycling centres,” she said.

The hell, we will.

Al-Qaeda animal rapists brought to justice

LiveNews – Iraqi security forces have shot dead at least 11 suspected al-Qaeda operatives who were hiding in a sheep truck near the northern city of Tikrit, the defence ministry said. The men were killed in fighting at a checkpoint between ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit and Baiji, ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari said.

“Members of the Iraqi special forces intercepted a truck transporting animals, but there were 11 al-Qaeda fighters hiding in it,” Askari said, adding that one of the men was a foreigner from an unidentified Arab nation. Askari said the truck was believed to be fleeing the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where the Iraqi army has been conducting a large-scale crackdown on al-Qaeda since May 14.

On Thursday, 15 suspected al-Qaeda members were gunned down by a militia group loyal to the government in the same region.

Oh alright, they weren’t raping the sheep in the back of the truck, at least not that we know of, I just thought I’d throw that in there to sort of kick the scumbags while they’re down. If any filth deserve a kicking while they’re down, it’s those sheep shagging filth. None the less, it’s nice to see the Iraqis themselves bringing fire and pestilence upon al-Qaeda. Now you know why B. Hussein is staying away from Iraq, he can close his eyes and cover his ears, but he can’t take that chance with his media entourage. Nice to see some of the media down here are broadcasting this sort of news as well, hope it’s a sign of things to come. My condolences to Democrats and leftists worldwide, perhaps you should light a candle for your comrades or hold a bake sale to ease the pain.

Kevin 08 – A dud round

Alan Jones [Radio 2GB] – Well, Kevin Rudd more than the Government is in real political trouble over petrol, and in particular FuelWatch. [snip] It’s now clear that Kevin Rudd was warned about this by no fewer than four economic departments. About the possibility of price hikes arising from FuelWatch. Amongst the warnings in departmental language were, “the increased financial cost it would impose on service stations, especially small independent operators”. The Prime Minister’s own department told Cabinet, “Econometric modelling indicates that a small overall price increase can’t be ruled out”.

Treasury warned, “The proposed scheme will result in ongoing increased operating costs of around 4,000 dollars per annum to affected small businesses”. The Finance Department advised, “Introduction of a price commitment rule may result in higher average petrol prices over time, as the option may lead to the creation of a de facto price floor.” The Finance Department said the FuelWatch proposal would add 20.7 million dollars to business costs in the first year with “the impact likely to fall disproportionately on independent retailers”.

The Department of Resources and Energy expressed concern, “The scheme will reduce competition and market flexibility, increase compliance costs and has more potential to increase prices”. The Government’s own Department of Resources and Energy said of FuelWatch, “It has the capacity to increase petrol price coordination amongst retailers”. [snip] As Dennis Shanahan writes in The Australian today of Kevin Rudd, “For six months … every decision has been put before him and he has demanded oversight of the entire Government’s media relations and public image.”

Dennis Shanahan writes, “Rudd has tried to make and shape every decision, causing inordinate delays, frustration and confusion. “Now,” writes Dennis Shanahan, “Rudd has lost control of his Cabinet process or his senior public service, or both.”

So that’s FuelWatch going up in a ball of flames, there’s another stuff up from the Dudd government regarding the $8000 solar panels rebate. I heard a fellow on the radio who runs a business that installs the solar panels on people’s roofs. Long story short, he had to expand, invest more money into and take on more staff for his business after the Howard [out of touch with climate change] government introduced the rebate. He used to get around 4-5 orders a week and just too much for himself to handle. Prior to the election the Dudd government never mentioned anything about means-testing the rebate, but now that the election is over and PM Dudd doesn’t really give a toss about your vote, the rebate is means tested. So those nasty squillionaires who earn more than a 100K a year, by exploiting slave labor and forcing children to work for them for 5c an hour with no benefits obviously, won’t get the rebate.

This fellow who runs this business said that most of his customers earn more than $100K a year but not into the millions, less than $180K however they need the rebate to offset some of their cost. Now they’ve started canceling orders and his weekly number is down to 1 or 2 a week. So the money he invested is down the crapper and the extra people he employed will soon get the boot. I hope none of them voted for PM Dudd based on his ‘Your rights at work’ wiffle-waffle because now it’s no work and hence no rights. So much for PM Dudd’s green posturing as well, signing Kyoto and all that. The business man had a meeting with that useless oxygen-thief Peter Garrett, to no avail. Moving on to the alcopops tax that was an important front on PM Dudd’s glorious war on binge drinking.

The Australian – SALES of alcopops plummeted by almost 40 per cent in the fortnight after last month’s lightning tax hike on the drinks but any health gains have been offset by a 20 per cent jump in stronger, straight spirit sales. The first national data on sales of pre-mixed and straight spirit sales will be released today by the Distilled Spirits Industry Council of Australia as the Rudd Government continues to defend the alcopop excise increase as a way to cut binge drinking. The council’s information and research manager Stephen Riden said the data made a mockery of the Government’s stated aim.

“The words ‘abject failure’ would spring to mind,” Mr Riden said. “This is an unintended consequence of the Government’s decision to tax a narrow range of products. It defies common sense that people would not shift to other products.” Mr Riden said one major company, which did not want to be named, had seen its bottled, full-spirit sales skyrocket: up 85per cent in the month after the April 27 excise increase compared with the same period a year earlier. Its alcopops volume declined 30 per cent.

The idiot health minister Nicola Roxon was still defending the stupid tax on alcopops yesterday evening. I guess technically the consumption of them has dropped, but the problem is worse. Isn’t it shocking that when leftists endeavor to fix something, they somehow manage to screw it up and make it all worse, oh and waste/steal a lot of money in the process. In just six months Kevin Rudd, with his various committees, media stunts and half-baked policies has revealed himself to be a bungling dud, a dud enough of us unfortunately voted for.

You listening B. Hussein?

BBC – UN chief Ban Ki-moon has praised progress in Iraq at a UN forum in Sweden on the situation in the country. Mr Ban said Iraq was “stepping back from the abyss that we feared most” but warned the situation “remains fragile”.

So how about it B. Hussein, can you find some time in your busy schedule to head over there and have a look, at least pretend to like the troops and all that, get some pictures taken, might be good for you since you want to be Commander in Chief. You know you’re not going to be commanding a gaggle of turkeys or something, don’t the troops at least get to meet their Commander in Chief? Or perhaps you and your merry band of treasonous curs are just too busy trying to screw them over.

Brookes News [Hat tip JR] – House Democrats have passed a bill to stifle the good news that we’re winning in Iraq. They are so invested in losing that they apparently fear a popular backlash against them from victory. [snip] Democrats have decided this election year that American voters can’t handle the fact that victory in Iraq is at hand. In its passage last week of the defense policy bill, the House issued a prohibition against the Pentagon’s “concerted effort to propagandize” the American public regarding the Iraq War. [snip] The Democrats’ efforts to save America from good news in Iraq stem from a New York Times article last month charging that retired military officers appearing on TV were “puppets of the Defense Department” because they get frequent private briefings and talking points.

You gotta ask yourself whose side exactly are these curs on? As it is most media coverage coming out of Iraq is bad, the good news isn’t reported on the evening news and you have dig around a bit for it. You have to wonder why the Democrats are so worried about any good news actually making it out of there, I’d understand if the Pentagon was just making stuff up, but from what I’ve read from various sources, that’s just not the case. Are they so desperate for America to lose, for their soldiers to be defeated, for their country to be beaten!