Bob's blog - the realm of threalm

. Kevin Rudd was right. Climate Change has been "the greatest moral challenge of our time". First Malcolm lost the Liberal leadership trying to lead his party into a path of challenging the climate. Now Kevin has lost the Prime Ministership for being seen to avoid leading his party into challenging it. So can Julia Gillard now survive the change challenge ? Or will Tony Abbott get away with evading the challenge ? The political climate sure seems to be a'changin' at present anyway. What with the recent demise of Gordon Brown in the UK and with the coming mid-terms in the US in November, there is much to chew on in all sorts of places. Then, as well as the Australian federal election sometime in the next 6 or 7 months, there's the  NSW and Victorian State elections looming as well. It is going to be an interesting 12 months. And amidst all this colour and movement in Canberra today, is Obama's replacement, in Washi...

A story of O If you remain curious about this still opaque individual who seems imminently to become the leader of the free world, you might want to go to the link below (Hat tip: Eric Falkenstein ) to peruse and ponder a detailed third party account of his personality and proclivities. PDF Format It is a free 240 page self published online PDF written by a conservative US journalist named Steve Sailer . My initial browsing of it for about an hour found it a sympathetic if unfiltered telling of Obama the man, based mostly on O’s first autobiography: “ Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance ”. It seems refreshingly non PC and direct on racial issues. I am linking to this interesting tract now ahead of next week’s election because there seems to be some unfulfilled appetite for real attempts at discovering the character of this emerging potentate. It at least gives us an opportunity to focus on something other than the deluge of bilge from US news anchors and ecstatic or...

Who's Judy Garland now ? Barack or Sarah ? Phew! And I thought the Democratic primary race was a blast. Following the hopeful innocent along the winding road with scruffy dogs, straw men and the heartless, whilst battling a wicked witch, to his ultimate nomination, became an almost undreamed of adventure for us rubes in the 'sphere. But now, incredibly, another Dorothy with ruby slippers has dropped out of the sky in a hurricane and rudely intruded on our dream. And it looks like she may have finally killed off that wicked witch too. You couldn't script this, even in Oz. But it is becoming a tad confusing. Who is the real Judy Garland now? This whole identity thing has become very messy, but what a spectacle to behold. It seems improbable now that the world could just go on supporting kindly grey haired old white guys hiding behind curtains. But who can predict anything anymore in populist politics. This US presidential election could just be the best Olympics ever! Roll on...