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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsWhat Bill Clinton says in 1995 = standing ovation. What Donald Trump says in 2016 = racist — Have a look. You decide..
What Bill Clinton says in 1995 = standing ovation. What Donald Trump says in 2016 = racist --
Random Note #194,621 — To recast GK Chesterton, “Its not that they believe in nothing, it is that they are capable of believing in anything.”
Which brings me to Mia Freedman and Kerryn Phelps and the millions of others on the left who are of the mindset that simply believing and wishing very hard for an outcome is enough to guarantee its manifestation and make it happen. It’s the same dreamy, self deluding mindset of people who believe in and knowingly act upon the wild promises of dodgy financial investment advisors and Ponzie scheme operators.
And a climate scientist no less —
“…The IPCC does not have convincing explanations for previous 30 year periods in the 20th century, notably the warming 1910-1945 and the grand hiatus 1945-1975. Further, there is a secular warming trend at least since 1800 (and possibly as long as 400 years) that cannot be explained by CO2, and is only partly explained by volcanic eruptions.
The IPCC’s projections of 21st century climate change explicitly assume that CO2 is the control knob o…n global climate. Climate model projections of the 21st century climate are not convincing because of……
Good Luck With That —- Lawyers want PMs from John Howard to Malcolm Turnbull in dock over asylum detention
A 52-page communique names Mr Howard, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, claiming they have knowingly breached the Rome Statute of the court.
“Those breaches involve the indefinite detention of asylum seekers who have committed no offence and regardless of their age or health or sex,” the communique states. “The breaches also include forcible removal of asylum seekers to Pacific Island countries where they are detained and seriously mistreated, for the stated purpose of ‘stopping the boats’: that is, deterring people from seeking asylum in Australia.”
Trump’s Code Orange has hit rural NSW — Miranda Devine, Daily Telegraph
This is how it works. This is how you fool some of the people some of the time. Whack on the mole skins, the hat, chew on a bit of straw, speak with a nasal drawl and voila, your transformation from city slicker to the farmers friend is complete. Or so they thought—
“….Too many of these Nationals MPs are ambitious city slicker elitists posing as country people, who just slum it with the deplorables as the price to pay for a parliamentary career. Educated at schools like Cranbrook and Newington, with law degrees earned while playing politics in the Young Nationals or Young Liberals, they have careers as party apparatchiks before being launched into a safe seat or an upper house berth. Scott Barrett, the Nationals candidate for Orange, was cut from a similar cloth — a former political staffer and ABC reporter….”
Sisters need to get out of privilege bubble: Janet Albrechtsen — The Australian
If women want to be treated seriously, they need to choose reason over emotion. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t, with any credibility, attack Trump for saying that Fox’s Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever”, then give yourself over to pure, unadulterated emotion. Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy used the-facts-no-longer-matter theory to explain Pauline Hanson’s success at the last federal election and she regurgitated it last week to explain Trump’s win.
A must read that pretty much covers why and where we are and how we got here — New reactionaries have lost touch with people power revolution — The Australian
Starting in the 1960s the West was subjected to a cultural revolution led by neo-Marxists who co-opted many “useful idiots” to their cause. Timeless values and assumptions about how we lived and what we believed were brushed aside in a seemingly never-ending series of attacks on traditional institutions
US election: media pontificators left whining to an empty hall — Nick Cater — The Australian
Beneath the sentimental rhetoric lurks a realisation of powerlessness. For 18 months they have been lecturing Americans, in ever more strident terms, about the dangers of Trumpism, but Americans called their bluff. The recriminations have begun. Some blame Facebook, which has allowed Americans to see the world through eyes other than those of the media establishment. The shattering defeat of the US cultural elite has resonated strongly in Australia, where our own media class largely shares the same values. A profound discomfort has taken hold. If the thundering of The New York Times no longer prevails, what hope for The Sydney Morning Herald?
Gloriously Unhinged by President Trump — Daryl McCann — Quadrant
In the July, 2016, edition of Quadrant I agreed with the notion that for many Americans their country now felt like an express train speeding toward the abyss. Donald J. Trump was the fellow bold enough to propose pushing the Emergency Stop button in a carriage full of frightened and cowed passengers. Trump was the anti-PC candidate in a nation ruled over by a P.C. Establishment.
George Orwell is stealing my work
This is fascinating and goes to show how the internet, when it works up a head of steam, can take over…We already know that dead people can vote, but here’s a new one for you: they can plagiarize, too. A few years ago, I read a “George Orwell” quotation that had begun to gain some currency: “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” The problem is, Orwell never said it. And I ought to know. Because I said it. (Or, to be precise, I wrote it.)