Author: bobmcgee

Pass the coal …

CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet is on the witness list for an anti-corruption inquiry today, to answer questions about a glowing letter he wrote to disgraced former NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald supporting the controversial Doyles Creek mine.

Mr Combet will become the most senior Gillard government member to give evidence to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption when he appears on May 3, as it continues to investigate the allegedly corrupt process that led to the awarding of the Doyles Creek mine licence.

He will be asked to give an account of his involvement with the project and its leading figures currently being investigated for corruption, including Mr Macdonald, former union boss John Maitland and Newcastle businessman Craig Ransley.

Obviously looked into the proposal carefully … good quality in a climate change minister.

Find the logic …

A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.

Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric’s unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.

“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to cover from head to toe, but many, especially the young, ignore some of the more strict codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair. “What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?” Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon last week. “There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam’s moral codes.”

A well founded islamophobia …

Boston. Disgruntled left wingers were sure it was the NRA or the Tea Party, right wing nutbags for sure. Whilst disgruntled right wingers thought that radical students or left wing revolutionaries were to blame. Well it turns out the suspects are in fact the usual suspects.

So the sun is in its place, the earth is in its orbit and the same people that wanted to kill us last week still want to kill us this week … just because we are not Moslem.