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Laugh A Minute Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd and humour is not the best pairing and it was with surprise that after Therese was released from hospital , old laugh a minute Kevin made the joke that maybe she ended up there after hearing his speech at the Pacific Island Forum.

Making fun of your wife when she is sick is sure to get the female vote and apart from that I think he needs a new gag writer.

Political Websites , How Hard Can They Be

If you want information on  ,say the Liberal party or it's politicians, you would go to the Liberal party website.
If you wanted information on the Labor party or it's politicians , you would go to the Labor website.
If you wanted information on the Australian Democrats in South Australia or it's politician , you would go to it's website and here the chase begin.
Going to the SA Democrats website and you will end up at the " Straight Talk On Tough Issues Website " with the last news items from Feb 09 and not much to advertise it is related to the Australian Democrats.
Then if you want ,you can go to David Winderlich's site which is under the" David Says link" and you will end up at another site the " David Winderlich Site"
However David has now moved to another site with a redirect on the old site.
So you go to David's new site which looks very nice and on the navigation is a link to the South Australian Democrats Site , no not the one I talked about at the beginning , but a new site , and if you want you can follow the link to a new South Australian Democrats site or just give up.

A Clear Message From Our Prime Minister

Our Prime Minister , Kevin Rudd , is again overseas ,and after a meeting with the German Chancellor made the following quote at a press conference.

"It is highly unlikely that anything will emerge from the MEF in terms of detailed programmatic specificity ... that is what Copenhagen is about.

Another clear political message for the masses from the master communicator.

The best of George W Bush

We will all miss good old George when he's gone

Deja Vu for the South Australian Democrats

Noticed the following story on the Adelaide Now website:

WAR veterans should be given ecstasy to help cope with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, a South Australian politician says.

Democrats MLC Sandra Kanck today told parliament that trials of the drug MDMA - also known as ecstasy - on soldiers in the U.S. and Israel, had shown "excellent results" and should be used recommended for use in South Australia by the State Government.
Ms Kanck said there were several soldiers in SA who were suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and many of these were unemployable or could become unemployable because of this.

Ms Kanck said she doubted the proposal would be well received.

"I can imagine what the minister's knee-jerk reaction will be ... but I hope that he will go beyond that and look at the science," she told parliament.

"They have done it with rape victims, they have done it with war victims and everywhere they have tried it in these trials they have found it to be a superlative drug."

Ms Kanck has come under intense criticism, even from her own party members, for her stance on ecstasy use.

She stunned political circles and worried constitutional experts when she told parliament there was no evidence the drug was dangerous.

She also came under fire when she advocated ecstasy use for those people traumatised by the Eyre Peninsula bushfires in 2006.

Ms Kanck's question was referred to Veterans Affairs Minister Michael Atkinson.

It's like Deja Vu all over again.

Penny Wong Quote

Loved what Penny Wong said in a press conference today
"What I can say is Government can do what it should do which is to do what we are doing."

Could we call this a "wongism "
My running joke at the moment is the standard line from the Rudd government to any problem.
" What we are going to do is form a committee , shoulder to the wheel , nose to the grindstone , were all working hard , working families , cost of living.