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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note – Oikophobia – The hatred of your country
How could an individual or group take all the advantages and benefits from the abundance of their own country with all that it offers in terms of material benefits, opportunity and freedom but then hold such a deep loathing, contempt and doubt about its legitimacy and what it stands for and what it has built from nothing?
Random Note – Fact Checking: Fakes, Frauds, Fonys, Shysters and Charlatans
Fact checking as a political device has been around since the mid to late 2000s and has been a very successful, North Korean, Orwelllian style Ministry of Truth project designed to add the weight, authority and gravitas of academe to buttress their arguments and debating points.
Random Note โ Valuesย
๐๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ โ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ฌโ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ย ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ซ, ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ.
Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)
โThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.โ โย H.L. Mencken
Random Note – Renewable Energy And The Climate Cult
They simply donโt care and see the economic roadkill, and the social and cultural dislocation and disruption manifested in unemployment and the dashed hopes and dreams of families and small business as just an inconvenient cost of reaching the sunny uplands of their renewable utopia.
Random Note – Principles and Hypocrisy
If you donโt adhere to as set of standards, principles, beliefs or values you buy yourself insurance against accusations of hypocrisy because there is no measure by which you can be judged as a hypocrite. Their beliefs and โprinciplesโ are always in the abstract allowing them to capriciously pivot to square with the latest “thing”
Random Note โ Ukraine
I like Paul Kellyโs observations but sometimes I get the impression that the commentariat, the cognoscenti and the political class inside the beltway are to close to the action, down in the weeds. Theyโre focusing on the individual pixels, not the big picture and need...
Random Note โ Chris Bowen, Nuclear and Perspective
In this entire nuclear debate, as it is, and Bowenโs infantile insistence that to get nuclear up and running in 10 years is fanciful, he needs to be reminded that in 1962, JFK said that the United States "๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฅ, ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐๐...
Random Note โ George Galloway
All of this, every single bit of it, is on the political class in the West of the last 50 years. Hiding under the umbrella of tolerance, (their get out of jail free euphemism for their own milquetoast pusillanimity, lack of courage, conviction and determination, they...
Second Class: How the elites betrayed America’s working men and women
Batya Ungar Sargon is from the left and is the opinion editor of Newsweek and has written extensively for the major dailies. Her new book, Second Class: How the elites betrayed America's working men and women is the subject of this interview with Steve Bannon. She...