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Clinton under Obama: Take 1

May 15, 2008 by Allan Moult

There’s more to come.

Filed Under: Only in America, Politics, Video Tagged With: Clinton, Obama

Polar bears listed as Threatened Species in US

May 15, 2008 by Allan Moult

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It’s a bit too late for this one. Now a floormat worth $US7995.00 at Bear Skin World. Surprisingly, Canada, home to two-thirds of the total polar bear population of up to 25,000, has not listed the species as threatened.

The US Government has listed polar bears as a threatened species, warning that melting of Arctic sea ice is risking their habitat.

“Today I am listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act,” said Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, after satellite imagery found ice coverage had fallen to its lowest level yet recorded.

The Government was acting on advice from scientists and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Mr Kempthorne detailed greater steps to monitor polar bear populations in Alaska and outlying islands in the Beaufort Sea, and more co-operation with foreign governments to protect the species.

[From US lists polar bears as threatened species | The Australian]

 

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Filed Under: Global warming, Threatened species, Wilderness Tagged With: polar bears, Untitled

Slow to respond

May 10, 2008 by Allan Moult


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Filed Under: Bushed, Cartoons Tagged With: bush

Great tits cope well with warming

May 9, 2008 by Allan Moult

The headline of the week:

[From BBC NEWS | Science/Nature]

Filed Under: Climate change, Global warming Tagged With: nature

The reality

May 5, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Filed Under: Cartoons, Politics Tagged With: freedom

May the Force be with you

May 4, 2008 by Allan Moult

Says it all, doesn’t it?

Filed Under: Only in America, Politics Tagged With: Clinton, Obama

Say no more

April 23, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Filed Under: Only in America Tagged With: Clinton, election

RAAF called in to ferry obese patient

April 7, 2008 by Allan Moult

Queensland Health, in northern Australia, was forced to charter a Hercules aircraft from the Defence Force because it had no ambulances or planes big enough to transport a 240kg [530lb] patient.

Even though the woman was deemed well enough to travel by road from Mount Isa to Townsville the Queensland Ambulance Service had no vehicles capable of carrying her.

She was even too large to be safely carried in King Air light aircraft operated by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

A Defence Force spokesman confirmed a C-130 Hercules was despatched from the RAAF base at Richmond, Sydney after a request from the Queensland government.

The cost to taxpayers was not disclosed but a Hercules aircraft costs about $13,000 an hour to operate, putting the total cost of the nine-hour operation at more than $100,000.

Filed Under: Only in Australia Tagged With: health, obese

American Liar

April 3, 2008 by Allan Moult

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Cartoon by Ken Catalino

Filed Under: Cartoons, Only in America Tagged With: hillary

Scary Clinton history of lies

April 3, 2008 by Allan Moult

Dan Calabrese writes about a Watergate-era Judiciary Chief of Staff who fired Hillary Clinton in 1974 for lies and unethical behaviour.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee.

Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair.

When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

‘Because she was a liar,’ Zeifman said in an interview last week. ‘She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.’

Filed Under: Only in America, Rants & raves Tagged With: hillary

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