Does my carbon footprint look big? Hugh Grant tweets August 2:
THE increasingly insane Emma Thompson is sailing with Greenpeace to help #savethearctic. Track her and laugh at her anoraks @savethearctic
News.com.au, Friday:
BRITISH actor Emma Thompson has been photographed holding a sign ... that said “Tony Abbott Climate Change Is Real I’m Standing On It” while she visited the Smeerenburg glacier, east of Greenland. She made the trip to the Arctic aboard a Greenpeace ship ... Esperanza ...
More about MV Esperanza, depletedcranium.com, August 9, 2008:
LET’S take a look at how Greenpeace gets around ... when they’re not flying first class to a conference or protest that is. The MV Esperanza … (has) two enormous … marine diesel engines … Marine diesel … is consumed in enormous volumes because the engines are constantly at work … marine diesel (is) a lot cheaper (heavier and dirtier) than the land-based kind … there are plenty of … things (Greenpeace) could do to make (Esperanza) cleaner that they seem to have elected not to do ... (but) they’d likely have to give up …(the) high power gyroscopically stabilised two-way satellite dish … (and the) video editing room … the cabins on the ship look downright lavish and … the ship is not only air conditioned, but it has very large refrigerators and freezers on it. Here’s an idea: ditch all those massive power-sucking refrigeration systems ... and all the other luxuries you’d expect for a crew of candyass rich college hippies. ... (including) ... a Hughes 500D (helicopter). … the most inefficient variety of aircraft ever built. … the aircraft gets a bit less than 3 miles to the gallon. …… What is that smell in the air? … the stench of hypocrisy …
Never let the facts get in the way of a good smear. PT reviews Mark Latham’s book The Political Bubble in The Saturday Paper, Saturday:
LATHAM (writes) “The fact (is) that most conservative … media commentators come from privileged backgrounds …” Andrew Bolt, Nick Cater, Janet Albrechtsen …
Privileged? John Van Tiggelen, Sydney Morning Herald, November 19, 2011:
(ANDREW) Bolt snr’s teaching career took the family into Australia’s searing interior … Darwin … Tarcoola … Warramboo … Tailem Bend …
Privileged? Hope 103.2, June 5, 2013:
LEIGH Hatcher: I want you to sketch for us the kind of place ... in which you grew up at Southampton …
Nick Cater: It was very much a lower middle class sort of enclave. People worked at the oil refinery … My parents were teachers …
Privileged? The Age, February 26, 2005
ALBRECHTSEN … grew up in a strongly left-wing household in Adelaide. “My father was a builder, and my mother, she was a tailor…”…Educated at Seacombe High School, in Adelaide’s southern suburbs …
Channel 9 News, Saturday:
MUSLIM groups have condemned the recent suspension of Fairfax columnist Mike Carlton ... In a letter to Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood ... the Australian National Imams Council, Islamic Council of NSW and the Muslim Legal Network NSW among others say they will boycott the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper unless the outspoken columnist is reinstated ... “ ... with the resignation of Mr Carlton from your publications we have now lost one of the very few voices advocating for the Palestinian cause in the country.”
No doubt the Imams will enjoy this. Murf Oscar comments on Andrew Bolt’s blog, August 18, 2012:
ONE of my prized possessions is the vinyl recording Mike Carlton’s News Review, HAM 108, distributed by Hammard TV. Featuring extracts from his 1980s Sydney morning radio segment, the identities assumed include: ... Yassa Crackafat ...