Blog
Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note #193,683 — Education
“..the education system had to be radically reshaped so that it was “part of the socialist struggle for equality, participation and social change rather than an instrument of the capitalist system..”
Joan Kirner, Former Premier and Education Minister of Victoria
How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout — The New York Times
As Ronald Reagan said “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”
“..The story of Australia’s costly internet bungle illustrates the hazards of mingling telecommunication infrastructure with the impatience of modern politics. The internet modernization plan has been hobbled by cost overruns, partisan manoeuvring and a major technical compromise that put 19th-century technology between the country’s 21st-century digital backbone and many of its homes and businesses..”
Was Muhammad an Epileptic? — American Thinker
The only explanation that stands up to an analysis of the original Muhammadan literature is that he suffered from epilepsy. This is the belief that many of his contemporaries held, and it is a theory that has been advanced by his critics ever since, beginning with the Byzantine ecclesiastical historian Theophanes (752-817). He attributed creation of Islam to a ploy by Muhammad’s first wife to hide the shame of being married to someone with the falling sickness, as epilepsy used to be called, by claiming he was a prophet and was divinely inspired
Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy — Matt Ridley, Spectator
Just how unhinged, absurd, futile AND insanely, eye-wateringly expensive, is the pursuit of alternative energy? Some staggering stats that should sober up a few of the romantics. “..Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the last year for which there are reliable figures? Was it 20 per cent, 10 per cent or 5 per cent? None of the above: it was 0 per cent. That is to say, to the nearest whole number, there is still no wind power on Earth.
Random Note — Core Values
The end result can only be a Himalayan like exercise in plate tectonics where one set of values collides with and is subducted by others. This is tolerance and diversity off the leash and on the loose to our own detriment and as Karl Popper observed, “unlimited tolerance leads to the tolerant being destroyed by the intolerant
Great Analogy
Hillary’s ‘I won the popular vote’ claim is like the producer of Hangover saying his movie really won the Oscar for Best Film in 2010, and not The Hurt Locker, because more people watched it so the votes of the Academy’s members don’t count.
The system is the system
Interesting Interview on new Obama biography by David Garrow
Interesting interview, more so because the author, like Obama comes from the left and an academic. That point is made in the interview to demonstrate that it’s not a partisan hatchet job.
Tribunal foils Immigration Minister attempt to kick sex creep taxi driver out of Australia — Herald Sun
Here’s the problem. Who the hell is running the place? Certainly not those we elect. Do not adjust your set OR your glasses. It actually does read that 4389 times out of 11,323 that the AAT has brushed aside the Ministers directive in the last 12 months. A staggering 39%.
Push to halt ABC ‘charity’ quotas
Like affirmative action and other Emily’s List type, quotas, and various forms of social engineering, this is politically correct, demeaning, tokenistic and patronising.
