I wonder what sort of mirror Prime Minister Rudd looks at in the morning?
Can’t he see that he is becoming embarrassing when he takes it upon himself to do a Mighty Mouse imitation? “Here I come to save the day… Mighty Mouse is on the way”

First he says that he’s going to put a blow torch to Opec. That should ensure their sympathy!

Then he’s going to tell the other nations to avoid nuclear war. Yeah right…

Then he joins the rank of the incidental nations at the G8 meeting and offers six minutes of advice on global warming.

And if the rest of the world decides to ignore his advice then he wants Australians to lead by example. Rudd knows full well that our emissions are negligible and that even if we cut out all our emissions and went back to the Stone Age, it wouldn’t make a nanogram of difference to the amount of carbon emissions produced on Earth.

So while he struts the world stage once again and exhibits delusions of grandeur, he is ignoring what’s going on at home.

Thanks to his effete treasurer’s predictions of economic misery, the verve has disappeared from this country. Australians have been panicked into thinking that the end of the world is nigh. Gone is good old Aussie optimism. People are insecure and pessimistic about the future, all because Swan and Rudd have decided to talk the economy down.

Now, if he is really convinced that things are so diabolical, why doesn’t Rudd come home and act like the Prime Minister of Australia for a change? Fix the Health crisis, the housing crisis, the education shortfalls, transport problems etc etc.

The to-do list is long and it’s time that Rudd settled down to fixing Australian problems instead of travelling around the world and trying to outdo another huge ego, Whitlam.

The honeymoon is over, Kevin. Time to get on with the realities of being Prime Minister of a small, very small, nation. Until the truly large nations are prepared to do something sensible about global warming, Australia should get on with living and stop trying to be holier than thou.

How many of us must suffer to feed your huge ego, Kevin?

There are some crimes that should never be forgiven. Child molestation is one of the worst of them. Despite the legal chatter about whether convicted molester, Dennis Ferguson, can receive a fair trial in Queensland or not and despite the suggestion that new evidence against him may be flimsy, I contend that society does not want such monsters to walk freely among human beings ever again.

He should never have been released in the first place since he has made no attempt to rehabilitate himself. No chemical treatment, no castration, nada, because he didn’t want to get better.

He wanted to be fit enough to molest again. Whilst I cringe at the idea of protests and lynching, I can sympathise with people who do not want a molester to live near them and their children.

This sort of hysteria is the result of fear and parental desire to protect one’s children. It’s what made Megan’s Law a reality in parts of the U.S.

This is where the law and the wishes of society form a chasm. Judges go on about justice while society actually needs to believe that justice has been done. One has to wonder whose law is being administered here?

If Ferguson remains at large because the judge says he may not get a fair trial, what’s to stop any criminal from committing many crimes and then publicising the crimes and using this excuse for getting away with it?

In other words, a molester can wreak havoc on children, make sure the media reports it, and then claim that a fair trial would be unattainable.

This is what will happen in the Jayant Patel case as I already said in a previous post. Actually, this is an insult to the jury system that we have in Australia. Or perhaps there are some cases where juries should not be used. Why not use a panel of judges instead of a jury? Simply letting an alleged criminal off is not the correct outcome.

It costs the government $1000 per day for the molester to be kept in his latest farm abode. Ferguson says that he gets so upset that he even thinks about suicide. My suggestion is that he should stop thinking about it and follow the advice of the Nike logo.

I caught up with my younger son’s web site today and I must say it is fascinating.

Jeremy is a Professor in Law at the University of Melbourne and his interest lies in human rights. Even for a lay person like me, the blogs are clear and easy to understand.

As for my older son’s blogs, I got another mention today. How can I cope with all this publicity? Joshua has auctioned off a first signed copy of his new book for charity. The successful bidder, who prefers to remain anonymous, assures everyone that she is not Joshua’s mother.

Two weeks ago the truce between Hamas and Israel began. Since then there have been six separate episodes of missiles being fired from Gaza into Israel.

“The Australian” which usually is more balanced than other Aussie newspapers reported the missile attacks and then had the audacity to write that the truce is holding in spite of these attacks.

So what the newspaper means is that it’s ok for the Arabs to attack Israel but only as long as Israel does not retaliate. Israel has to just sit there and accept this aggression, does it?

Surely, this is what could be described as a one-way truce. What other nation in the world would be expected to just sit there and do nothing about the attacks?

Israel was so correct in being sceptical about a Palestinian promise.

But I can guarantee that the minute that Israel says enough and hits back, it will be accused of breaking the truce. It’s happened before and will happen again.

After being abducted and kept as a hostage for the past six years, Ingrid Betancourt and the other hostages were rescued by a brilliant manouevre by Colombian forces. The military operation was perfect and Betancourt compared this operation with the skill of the Israeli military.

In “The Australian” she is quoted as saying:-

“We have an amazing military. I think only the Israelis can possibly pull off something like this.”

Anyone who remembers Entebbe will appreciate her comment.

I particularly like the fact that John McCain who happened to be in that part of the world gave all credit to the Colombian military even though U.S officials admitted that they had helped the Colombians. McCain was modest about American involvement as were the U.S officials in Bogota.

The only dark cloud over this amazing operation is that Betancourt seems to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and that after six years she is identifying somewhat with FARC, the guerrilla mob who kidnapped her. It is possible that she is being diplomatic so that no other hostages suffer in the future.

Once again, I am impressed by French Prime Minister Sarkozy’s response to a situation. Since Betancourt is French he thanked the Colombian govt and military for rescuing her.

Finally, the most important point about the operation is that although the govt of Colombia was being pressured by “Reporters without Borders” to negotiate with the kidnappers, this was not done. The founder of this journalists’ organisation, Robert Menard, admitted “Our insistence on the need to negotiate with Farc, hoping they would release their best card, was a mistake”

Let that be a lesson to anyone who thinks that negotiating with terrorists is a good idea.

The BBC just can’t help itself when it comes to bigoted reporting. Yesterday, a Palestinian terrorist on a bulldozer decided to attack anyone in his way as he ploughed into a bus and cars and pedestrians in Jerusalem.

He injured 40 people and killed 4. It was an intentional act of terrorism. So what was the BBC headline?

ISRAEL BULLDOZER DRIVER SHOT DEAD.

Really? Poor bulldozer driver. Tut Tut.

This terror attack took place opposite Jerusalem Capital Studios, the local headquarters for many international media outlets, including BBC, Sky News and CNN. BBC reporter, Tim Franks was able to watch the entire rampage from his office window and that’s all he could report?

Even when the Gazans are firing bombs at the Israeli towns, the best that the BBC can do is write “rocket injures dozens in Israel.” Rocket fired by whom? Martians? Why not get over your love for the Arabs and say “Arab rocket fired from Gaza injures dozens in Israeli town.”

Ever since T.E Lawrence demonstrated his unnatural love for Arabs, this trend has continued. It seems this predilection is ingrained in the BBC

Things were pretty twisted when Orla Guerin was reporting in the Middle East. Unfortunately, there are many more bigoted reporters where she came from.

Looks as if England has the same standards of teaching and marking as Australia. One pupil sitting for his GCSE exam in English wrote F***off in his paper. The Chief Examiner, Peter Buckroyd, explained to The Times newspaper that ‘It would be wicked to give it zero, because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for – like conveying some meaning and some spelling.’

Can’t argue with that one. The student is obviously a genius compared with the graffiti idiots who mispell every obscenity. You never know, he may become a famous chef one day. Or perhaps a chief examiner!

Flicking through the Foxtel channels in search of something that wasn’t a repeat programme, I found “Benidorm” on U.K TV.

Australia had its “Kath and Kim” and Britain has this very amusing satire about Brits holidaying in an “all inclusve” Spanish coastal resort.

There’s no need to say much more than watch it and enjoy an excellent comedy by an ensemble of talented actors. The script is good, the cringe factor just right and I had a good laugh.

We are now in Series 2 since the first series was nominated in the BAFTA awards for the best sitcom.

No doubt there will be a repeat of series 1 in a couple of months so you can catch up on it as well.