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Climate change denialists are all stoners

I noted in The Tally Room's sumnmary of the US mid-term election outcomes, that the Calforniam results incuded defeat of Proposition 19, which would have legalised marijuana (56% opposed), and Proposition 23, which would have suspended climate change legislation (58% voting No).

Could this mean that,in California, most stoners are also climate change denialists???

There is no such thing as a Vegan

Via Gizmodo

What is going on in conservative politics?

First the LNP in Qld started to implode:

07 March - Revelations that four Queensland LNP members fail to ask a question in Parliament

16 April   - Prominent Queensland Young LNP activist Nick Sowden, shows his racist colours in a very public twitter post

05 May   - Beaudesert MP Aidan McLindon and Burnett MP Rob Messenger quit the party

11 May   - Wendy Richardson, Former LNP candidate for Barron River up Cairns way resigns

20 May   - High profile Brisbane City LNP Councillor Nicole Johnston resigns.

20 May   - Federal LNP MP Michael Johnson gets turfed-out of the party for his shady fundraising

Today     - LNP staffer quits John-Paul Langbroek's office over 'dirty political tactics'

And now comes the news that former PM Malcom Fraser has quit the Liberal Party in protest at their shift to the right!
Very weird (and certainly not a good look)
From Paul Norton  commenting at John Quiggin's Blog:

Q: What is the difference between The Simpsons and the Liberal-National Party?

A: One is a dysfunctional family of hilariously comic individuals, the other is a cartoon series created by Matt Groening.

What is it about South Australia and wierdos ?

Police raid Agape Ministries of God doomsday cult properties from AdelaideNow

Just in case you ever wondered...

A Fart Chart of the USofA from Mother Jones. California is number 1 apparently:

Best headline of the week - so far

Well, four best headlines actually.  They all relate to the same story and all are a good chuckle until you read the last one and find out what happened to the killer wombat:

• Flowerdale man attacked by wombat - from The Age
• Wombat mauls camper - from ABC Online 
• Wombat assaults 60-year-old man outside his caravan - from News.com.au 
• Man-mauling wombat felled by axe

What would JC say ?

Hot on the heels of international outrage at the Catholic Church’s propensity for protecting and excusing (or is that forgiving) child rapists within its power structure, comes news today of that nine members of a US (where else!) Christian militia have been charged with plotting to kill police and trying to wage war on the United States government.

“Prosecutors allege they were just days away from planning to kill a policeman and then launching an attack at his funeral with homemade bombs.

Court documents said the group would then retreat to one of several "rally points" to "wage war against the government and be prepared to defend in depth with trip-wired and command-detonated anti-personnel improvised explosive devices, ambushes and prepared fighting positions".

The Hutaree website says it is "preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive".  More at Time.com

I think I see a pattern developing here and it's very scary!  Again, to quote Richard Dawkins:

No, Pope Ratzinger should not resign. He should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice – the whole profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution – while it tumbles, amid a stench of incense and a rain of tourist-kitsch sacred hearts and preposterously crowned virgins, about his ears.

Is it Latham resurrected or Turnbull reincarnate?

The Mad Monk can’t seem to decide on the persona that he’s going to run with.

First there was all of the macho “check me out in my speedos” – a bit reminiscent of Mark Latham’s “Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants.”

Now today we learn that, in the tradition of MalcontentTurnbull, his party knew nothing (and don’t much like) his (lets shift the focus off of health reform) Maternity Leave Plan - the plan you have when you’re not having a policy.

Mind you, he could be channelling either of them (and Barney-the-rabble Joyce as well) with the whole homophobic "Gays" thing!

Me thinks this is going to be a very long weird year

Newsflash: Athiests responsible for the world’s religious wars

Well, that’s the logic of this little gem:

Monash University Sociology Professor (and Anglican priest ) Gary Bouma says people without a specific faith are fuelling sectarian conflict and cause division in society.

By-and-large, wars are, and always have been, fought over either religion or property and, by this logic, all of those fought over the later have been the fault of the poor.  Weird

What was important today in that small mining city somewhere west of Townsville

In case you're interested, the lead (online) story in today's North West Star was:

Report finds pound policy not followed

MOUNT Isa City Council (MICC) has finalised the report into the accidental death of the Jack Russell-cross, Biscuit.

Biscuit was put down in February by the council despite her owner, Georgie Martin, identifying and paying for her beloved pet's release.

(The report) found Biscuit was not held at the pound for the required three days before being killed, and noted that this was a direct contravention of the council's policy.

I guess we should be thankful that they didn't run with the headline "Council bully nailed" or similar

Best headline of the week - so far

Sex-crazed elephant causes $303,000 of damage at wedding - since when do elephants get married?

Enough of the yoof bashing

It's time we as a society put an end to this sort of behaviour:

Victoria's oldest hoon loses license

The Monk is getting madder

This is just plain weird:

Abbott bemoans lack of sex on campaign

...and stupid - my guess is that he just lost my 85 year old mum's vote

The Prince and the Fridge

Looks like the Prince of Herbert will be getting a smaller fridge! 

Having supported Malcolm Turmoil and the ETS, the Prince may well lose his seat on the outer shadow Cabinet and the big fridge (and postal allowance) that goes with it.

...AND he has to win Herbert on a -0.4% post-redistribution margin with the Mad Monk and the Denialists campaigning on a policy he does not support.

Bizare days indeed!

Fielding is mad

There's a lot I could say about Family First senator Steve Fielding but, given that he won't survive the next election, there doesn't seem to be much point.

The lastest from the mad-man is to compare same-sex marriages to incest! - completely nuts.

Bob Brown's response reported in the same article is well worth a read though.  Also see my earlier post here.

What others are saying about Peter Lindsay

From The Punch - live blogging of Question Time today just after the Prince of Herbert got chucked out:

And no, I'm not Zeta - I had to leave the exchange early.

I would however add the following to Zeta's list:

Nov 26, 2009: while the biggest new story in the nation for the last week or so has been climate change, the ETS and the Liberal leadership, on the day the future of Yalulu has been called into question, and on the day Terminal Turnbull's hold on the party of Peter is completely falling apart, the Prince of Herbert's only public utterance is to welcome the Government's (yes, that's the Labor Government's) decision to spend a further $80 million on Lavarack

WEIRD hey?