We’re all going to die anyway, so why not bring back the dinosaurs?

Scientists who have brought to life the extinct DNA of a Tasmanian Tiger using a mouse embryo say the same technique could be used to bring back dinosaurs.

Of course such attempts will come under fire by people who believe scientists shouldn’t play God. Such an argument was well put by Andrew of Adelaide in the Herald Sun comments section who wrote:

“These scientists seem more concerned about being ‘The First’ rather than asking the obvious question ‘Why are we even doing this?’ How ethical are these experiments? how many freaks will be created in pursuit of this mad mans dream? Scientists are playing God once again with this Frankenstein gone wrong mentality.”

Andrew has a point, but to me he answers his question in the first line - yes it should be done because scientists can! Despite being extinct for millions of years dinosaurs are still among many children’s favourite animals, so how fantastic would it be to see them for real?

What can go wrong?

What’s right with this picture?

Barak Obama addressed a crowd of 75,000 on Portland Oregon yesterday. The first thing I noticed with the pics from the event is that there is a hell of a lot of “white” skin in that crowd.

MK shows what a stupid racist prick he is

MK, the fucktard’s fucktard over at A Western Heart has done one of those (to quote TISM) “I might be a cunt but I’m not a fucking cunt” posts which has a go at the horrific treatment of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa.

MK writes how mobs of black South Africans, murdered, beat and looted from migrants, who they blamed for unemployment and rising food prices.

Fair enough, it’s a horrible state of affairs, not that MK feels sorry for the Zimbabweans, who are black after all.

The point of the post is simply to say “See lefties, that’s what you call real xenophobia, we supposed xenophobes here in the west have nothing on these bloody savages.”

So his brand of xenophobia (which includes referring to black people as savages - I bet he never used that language after the Cronulla riots) is OK because it doesn’t resort to violence. What he doesn’t understand that the fetid, racial hatred he espouses is one step away from the sort of bloodshed witnessed here.

While I don’t condone the violence in Johannesburg, it’s fair to say it was driven by desperation and the migrant workers became easy targets. While abhorrent, it’s a lot easier to explain than the rantings of some shithead blogger whose only reason for being a xenophobic racist cunt is the fact he doesn’t like the colour of certain people’s skin.

Note: I would have happily posted my opinion of MK and his post at A Western Heart, but I am banned from commenting. I welcome any comments from him or anyone who agrees with his views.

Either we’re fucked, or Tim Flannery has gone crazy-ape bonkers

Outspoken climate change campaigner Tim Flannery says we should pump sulphur into the atmosphere to stave off environmental collapse in the next FIVE years.

Flannery says sulphur could be inserted into the earth’s stratosphere to keep out the sun’s rays and slow global warming, a process called global dimming.

He said the process, which can be achieved by adding sulphur to jet fuel would create global dimming through contrails would even change the colour of the sky. Me thinks it would lead to acid rain too.

Aviation, which many people blame for greenhouse gas already contributes to global dimming - when all flights were banned in the US in the days after the September 11 attacks, the mean temperature around the United States shot up by a very significant one degree. 

While global dimming may be seen as the opposite of global warming  and thus a good thing, it is has it’s own negative effect on the environment in that it reduces the sun’s capacity to evaporate water by around 10 per cent, leading to less rainfall - some scientists believe it is global dimming which led to disastrous droughts in Ethiopia during the 1980s.

Flannery, admits the consequences of pumping sulphur into the atmosphere to increase global dimming are unknown - this to me sounds like a cane toad solution on a Biblical scale.

I don’t seek to denigrate Dr Flannery or be a climate change believer or sceptic - though I reckon he has certainly given some ammunition to the latter here.  However, it’s worth bearing in mind that the Earth has frozen over before, and it has been warmer than it is now - Antarctica had rain forests.

Whether or not the global warming trend is man-made or paert of a natural cycler is an argument I won’t get into here. But I do believe the planet will sort itself out and mankind has to be more flexible to nature’s evolution.

We built farms and towns to suit climatic conditions at a particular time, maybe we need to accept that this was always going to be a moveable feast,

Face it, Osama Bin Laden is dead

Yet another “message” by Osama Bin Laden has emerged calling on Palestinians to fight oppression in Gaza - just well as he’s a top Muslim terrorist mastermind or no one would have thought of that.

According to a story by Reuters, speaker, whose voice resembled bin Laden’s earlier recordings, said it was the religious duty of every Muslim to fight Israel’s “oppressive closure” of Gaza.

No shit!

Either Bin Laden is a big fucking chicken, someones playing a practical joke on the media or the US wants us to believe he’s still alive to justify their anti-terrorism measures and the wars in Afhganistan and Iraq.

I want to see Bin Laden make his next message on video and holding up a newspaper with a current date. Until then I will continue to believe he was vapourised in one of many massive air strikes on the Tora Bora caves - this ain’t Hollywood, bombs kill terrorist leaders too.

The ridiculous Glenn Wheatley circus

OK, so Glenn Wheatley is a big name who is doing time for tax fraud and has been released into home detention. It’s a worthwhile story,but did it warrant reporters staked out outside the Beechworth Prison, three helicopters and a convoy of journos tailing his drive home a la OJ Simpson and another hoard of journos and photographers outside his South Yarra home?

Honestly, who gave more than a flying fuck about footage of a black BMW X5 travelling through Melbourne’s streets, apart from the fact it have given you an idea of traffic conditions. In the end the chase became bigger than the story - Nine’s today show said remarked how crazy it was having three helicopters and all these reporters even though they were part of it themselves.

Is it possible that the news chiefs of staff at carious organisations had all this in place for Tony Mokbel’s arrival but were foiled, so decided to justify their request?

Either way this was just another example of the media’s obsession with celebrity and their belief that people give a toss - yes they will watch it and buy the papers and magazines. But do they have a choice?

Photo: Herald Sun

Shame Kevin Andrews, shame

Let’s hope Kevin Andrews, a staunch Catholic, has been going to confession to repent his sins, for using the race card to bolster his political Party’s of securing the red neck vote to take it to another election.

Not content with with hanging an innocent man, in Dr Haneef, to hang out to dry, it has been revealed that Andrews puposefully denigrated all African refugees in Australia as criminals, against the device of his on department.

According to The Age’sJewell Topsfield, a confidential Immigration Department briefing to the then minister, written after a spate of crimes on public transport believed to have been committed by young Sudanese men, stressed that studies suggested it was not ethnicity that determined criminal behaviour but a combination of socio-economic problems and other disadvantage.

Topsfield writes, the briefing, dated September 27, 2007, said: “Whatever the background of the perpetrators, it would be wrong to blame all people from a particular migrant group for the behaviour of a few.”

But a week later, Mr Andrews appeared to ignore its advice, and in a classsic example of dog-whistle politics, cited the failure of Sudanese people to integrate as a reason for cutting African refugee numbers - comments which led to anti-Sudanese sentiment to mushroom on the basis of sensationalist and biased reporting in the media - which has incredibly fallen silent on the subject of gang violence by white kids,

What’s even more disgusting is that Andrews’ comments came after he was asked about the fatal bashing of 18-year-old Sudanese refugee Liep Gony in Noble Park - a classic case of turning the tables on the victim for one’s own advantage.

To be fair to Andrews, it’s hardly likely this was all his doing.

Thank God we had the election result we did.

 

 

What will Bolt do now the Greens oppose alcopop tax?

Imagine of the Greens were the first to say they would oppose the alcopop tax in the Senate - they would be accused, by their haters like Andrew Bolt, of putting their self interest ahead of the health of our youth and jeopardising the economy.

Of course there was no such criticism when Dr Fuckinflipflop announced his Party would oppose the alcopop tax because he values all alcoholic beverages.

So now the Greens have joined the Liberals in saying they would oppose the girly-drink tax and blow a $3billion hole in the Rudd Government’s first Budget, where will the likes of Bolt lean?

Let’s hope his head explodes, all Scanners like.