1. Selective Pregnancy Reduction (aka abortion) is the thing to do when you decide you have the right to play God. If you get pregnant by "accident" and decide the baby's life is not worth having (even though adoption is always an option), remember this phrase and you'll feel better about yourself and your ability to have a choice.
2. John Howard, former PM of Australia and Bush-ally, lost his re-election bid. So, should liberals be jumping up and down for joy? Not really since the new PM, Kevin Rudd, is likely to follow Howard's foreign policy route. In a summary of the election, Time writes:
"A vote for Rudd was a vote for someone new. But not too different. Cartoonists drew Rudd as a mini-Howard. A satirical video on YouTube cast the Chinese-speaking Labor leader as Chairman Mao, with subtitles reading: “Rudd unnerve decrepit Howard with clever strategy of ’similar difference.’” Rather than attacking Howard’s strengths, Rudd appropriated them. “I am not a socialist,” Rudd insisted. “I am an economic conservative.” On issue after issue, from federal intervention in dysfunctional Aboriginal communities, to national security, to the expansion of coal and uranium mining, Rudd adopted the government’s line."
More importantly:
"On Iraq, Rudd has moderated Labor's earlier "pull-out-now" policy. He says he will bring home the 1,400 Australian troops in Iraq and the Gulf gradually, in a "negotiated, staged withdrawal." He is prepared to send more troops to Afghanistan."
