Avaunt thee Satan!

Sharpen those wooden stakes, load the guns with silver bullets, string garlic into necklaces, scatter witch hazel needles on doorsteps and window sills - has anyone seen where Pa hid the cross and holy water?
All precautions against demons must be taken because it has been suggested that Frank Sartor may challenge Nathan Rees for the premiership of New South Wales.

Ignominiously kicked out of his portfolio and relegated to the backbench, Sartor was expected to retire into the bosom of his family.
Indeed he tearfully told us as much.
Silently rejoicing, wiser heads in the Department of Planning were scrapping his plans to bypass local government and communities when it came to the average development application.

However, Sartor decided to stay in the game and in the rumoured move to oust Premier Rees and his unpopular mini budget, it has been suggested that Crankie Frankie (the darling of the development lobby) should lead the state.
Have the good ol' boys in Sussex Street gone completely mad?

News Ltd gets caught stoking Turnbull's beat-up

Today the Herald Sun online is trumpeting Kevin Rudd left out of George W. Bush photographs.

Telling the world that there is a problem with official G20 snaps on the White House website:

But his photo with Mr Rudd, who received a visibly frosty reception from the President, has somehow gone missing. The move appears to confirm a presidential snub of Mr Rudd over the leaking of a phone conversation he had with Mr Bush.

There is a small problem with trying this hard to support the Leader of the Opposition's beat-up of the alleged undiplomatic comment made by the Prime Minister about his counterpart, the US President.

And here it is.















The Herald Sun also went on to assert that; The only other leader omitted from the photo was Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Wrong again if one does a simple search of the site as this shows.

Obama voters = sinners

Blogger John Richardson (yourdemocracy.net.au) has produced a pearler. It appears below:

politics & the value of sin .....

The Catholic Church in South Carolina is telling its members, who voted for Obama that they cannot receive communion without confessing and repenting for their sin.

A lot of folks might be upset by this, but I'm not. I would prefer that the church keep its nose out of our secular form of governance but since it refuses to do so, perhaps, it is time to revoke the tax exempt status of churches and, too, time to have religious institutions regulated by the government.

Seriously, if churches feel comfortable with ignoring the First Amendment, then government should too and government should begin to fully regulate religion.

Such regulation would, of course, include guidelines for what can and cannot be preached from the pulpit - and, too, whether or not a particular church can practice its faith at all.

Yeah, it would probably be a terrible thing for religion and the country, but fair is fair!

If the church wants to invade upon our secular form of governance, then the government MUST intrude upon and regulate religion.

Well done John Richardson!

More on the 'no clean feed' pixies vs Kevin Rudd

It was Petering Time who first alerted us to the fact that the 'no clean feed' pixies were targeting Kevin Rudd's Twitter site.

By the time Pete's scheduled post was published Rudd's site had supposedly crashed because of the high number of 'followers'.

Luckily for the record a few of the many anti-censorship tweets were saved for posterity by Young PR in his post Aussie Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Joins Twitter - The Reponse: No Clean Feed.

Thus making it a little harder for the prime minister's media team to rewrite history.

Here (courtesy of Young PR) is just one example of what Rudd received:

@KevinRuddPM Hello and welcome to Twitter. Your first order of business is to stop Conroy's daft internet filter idea kthxbai #nocleanfeed
12:23 AM November 12, 2008 from web in reply to KevinRuddPM

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