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Saturday, 4 July 2009
Just how much do presidential words of wisdom cost?
This week the U.S. Executive Office of the President has released a list of White House office staff and the annual remumeration received.
President Obama's speech writers collectively cost taxpayers US $276,000 annually as of 1 July 2009:
Hurwitz, Sarah K. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF SPEECHWRITING AND SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITER $85,000.00 per annum
Frankel, Adam P. SENIOR PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITER $65,000.00 per annumKeenan, Cody S. PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITER $45,000.00 per annum
Lovett, Jonathan I. PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITER $45,000.00 per annum
O'Connor, Kyle P. ASSISTANT SPEECHWRITER $36,000.00 per annum
Which probably works out at somewhere between $1,000 to 2,000 for each major speech made in his first 100 days.Leading one to wonder: Just how much do Kevin Rudd's pearls of wisdom cost the Australian taxpayer?
Northern Rivers Art: from the hills to the sea
Mann River 11Graham Mackie
Old Holden
Joanna Burglers
Endangered Species 2004
Robyn Sweaney
Pippis 2006
Albert (Digby) Moran
Friday, 3 July 2009
List of Australian journalists on Twitter courtesy of The Earley Edition
As this is a long list, it is better to just link.
A blogger's character assessment of Malcolm Bligh Turnbull
From The Orstrahyun on Monday 29 June 2009 in a post titled See That Shark? Watch Me Jump It:
Turnbull thinks he is a rare brandy, but he is a harsh house spirit scotch when it comes to effectively bullshitting the Australian public.
NSW North Coast UFO tales
This month the UFOManiacs blog posted UFO LANDING ON HARWOOD ISLAND? a potted history of unexplained sightings on the NSW North Coast. Thanks to North Coast Voices' Clarrie Rivers for passing it on.
Beam him up, Scotty!
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2009 [transcripts]
Seven years ago the Council of Australian Governments commissioned a steering committee to produce regular reports against key indicators of Indigenous disadvantage.
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2009 has just been released
Full transcript of and tables/appendices to this Australian Government Producivity Commission report can be downloaded from here.
Overview Booklet 65 pages.
Newspaper porkies for sale in the Clarence Valley
Oh dear, The Daily Examiner editor is at it once more.On Tuesday 30 June 2009 he proclaimed he never did it - yet again.
Forgetting established chronology (the first published article appeared on 11 June and the first letter some four or five days later) he blames the Grafton-based APN newspaper's readers.
Unfortunately for Peter Chapman his previous words and those of the newspaper's journalists live on and show the heavy-handed, hearsay-ridden attempt to link crime, Beachside, Ngaru Village and "men of aboriginal appearance" as well as "Young people running around the streets staging break and enters and smashing property".
Here are two of those The Daily Examiner articles from 11 June and 12 June 2009:
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Blame it on the bloggers!
Chairman and CEO of News Ltd John Hartigan had a simple message to deliver as part of his televised address to the National Press Club on Wednesday 1 July 2009.Pared down to the basics it went like this: Journalists good, bloggers B-A-D. Hard copy and online newspapers very good, blogs even B-A-D-D-E-R!
Just last month ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden writing in The Washington Post opined that the blogosphere was partly to blame for a CIA analyst withdrawing his nomination for U.S. Undersecretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence.
Australian Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy obviously doesn't know what to make of bloggers and oppressive regimes world-wide try to silence the most politically vocal of them.
One gets the general impression that the blogosphere must be doing something right.
Image from Google Images
Update:
The Herald Sun has obligingly published the full text of Hartigan's address.
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