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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsMore bad lip reading and equally clever — This ‘Bad Lip Reading’ video makes the DNC seem quite strange
More bad lip reading. This time it’s the DNC Convention. “..If the US presidential race hasn’t felt bizarre enough for you, the latest instalment of the YouTube series “Bad Lip Reading” offers up unreal yet hilarious moments from the Democratic National Convention..”
This is very, very clever AND very funny — ‘Bad Lip Reading’ video of inauguration is so bad, it’s great
Maybe you wondered just what was inside that sky-blue Tiffany gift box Melania Trump presented to Michelle Obama on Inauguration Day. Or what now-president Donald Trump and then-president Barack Obama chatted about as they stood side by side. Well, too bad, we don’t actually know. But “Bad Lip Reading” takes some hilarious guesses in a new video that might be the You Tube channel’s funniest to date. ‘Bad Lip Reading’ video of inauguration is so bad, it’s great
K-12: Drain This Swamp — American Thinker
When you consider our slide down the world various world rankings, it’s exactly the same in Australia. Here, then, is a simple formula for quickly draining the educational swamp: eliminate all the counterproductive ideas introduced over the last 85 years. That’s it. These bad ideas, like the viruses in your computer, did not appear by accident. They were systematically and deliberately placed in the schools by John Dewey’s socialist “change agents.” The good news is that these bad ideas can be removed in that same deliberate way – just as a technician removes viruses from your computer. Presto: schools will be better and cheaper.
Trump Playing Rope-a-Dope with the Media — American Thinker
The media are jumping at shadows and totally clueless as they are so used to calling the shots and controlling the daily agenda. Then along came Trump and he’s running them ragged. “..Rope-a-dope is a boxing strategy originally used by Muhammad Ali and his famous Rumble in the Jungle fight against George Foreman. Ali purposely put himself into a seemingly disadvantageous position, letting Foreman tire himself out and eventually lose the match. How does this strategy apply to politics? Just watch President Trump since his election and now in his first week in office..”

What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
The fiddling continues as Rome burns. The economy sinks further into its protracted crisis, debt burgeons, education standards wither, manufacturing industries dwindle, primary industries struggle while land, property and businesses are bought up by foreign interests. And the cause du jour for the commentariat and politicians? When and how we should celebrate our national day.
Seven sins of the change-Australia-Day movement — Andrew Bolt
Worth filing away for future arguments with the family and friends over Christmas lunch and Australia Day bar b cues. As Bolt points out, changing the date solves nothing. Many protesters are angry that Australia was “invaded” by the British. But that “invasion” happened, as did all that flowed from that. Denial won’t change that fact
About time. Some spine at last and I like her no bullshit attitude and style. — Nikki Haley to UN members: ‘We’re taking names’
New US Ambassador Nikki Haley strutted into the UN on Friday with a blunt message to American allies: “For those who don’t have our backs, we’re taking names
No surprises here — Malcolm Turnbull is Australia’s weakest and most indecisive Prime Minister since Billy McMahon — Canberra Times
On present polling, Labor would win an election by about 20 seats. One must never underestimate its capacity to lose an election, but it is not obvious how it plans to squander that lead. Or what the Liberals plan to stop it happening
Random Note #199,671 — They don’t even need a Trojan Horse.
Everyone in Italy and the rest of Europe will “soon be Muslim” because of the country’s “stupidity”, a prominent Italian archbishop has said. Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emeritus of Pompeii, said that Islam will soon become Europe’s main religion thanks to the huge number of Muslim migrants
Realtor says car firebombed over Sydney Fish Market redevelopment plans — ABC
Worth checking out this story from 7.30 on ABC iview. It’s got NSW Liberal Party and Party donor corruption written all over it. Some one tipped off someone and the fix was in