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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsThe social ‘cost’ of carbon is a better life — American Thinker
Nothing better illustrates the stupidity and evil intent of green philosophy than their promotion of a mythical guestimate called the “social cost of carbon” (SCC). They use this bureaucratic weapon to demonize the fabulous fossil fuels that deliver food, heat, light, and power to the modern world.
Christmas market killer: Who let him in and who let him stay? — Andrew Bolt
He was arrested three times this year and his asylum application was rejected, but deportation papers were never served and he disappeared
Random Note 178,651
With the release of MYEFO earlier this week, Bill Shorten and Labor were wearing the two faces of Janus. For the cameras and the press gallery it was face of high dudgeon and confected outrage and indignation that the government had failed in their budget objectives...
Random Note # 173,921 Redefining Community And Family
This has never been a problem in disaster relief before, so why now? Those at the pointy end of disaster relief are too busy and flat out with stretched resources, getting people to higher ground or otherwise out of harms way to be concerned about the narcissistic, self indulgent focus of a minority and their predilections, gender, race, colour or anything else.
There’s An App For That — Islamic State children’s mobile app lets junior jihadists attack Big Ben
An ISIL smartphone app designed to indoctrinate young children as jihadists allows them to play games carrying out 9/11-style attacks on Western landmarks including Big Ben.
Random Note 185,884 — The medium is the message — T-Shirts, Teachers and the politicisation of the classroom
"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in any message it would transmit or convey, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived" About...
Reality Bites
Although it's a meme and these days with so much fake news it difficult to tell, Obama actually did say this and similar in tweet and speech. But of course that was then, when Hillary was a shoo-in and it was game over, or so they thought. Funny how reality has a...
We have reached peak stupid — Golden Gate Bridge $142 million suicide net has big loophole — American Thinker
The Golden Gate Bridge authority is spending $142 million on a net surrounding both sides of the bridge to prevent people from jumping off and killing themselves. For $142 million, the net must be spun of gold. But it's an incredible waste of money that will...
If Only Sharks Ate ‘Experts’ — Walter Starck, Quadrant
If their proclaimed expertise included any practical knowledge of sharks and shark fisheries they would know nets are not only effective but pose little risk to overall shark populations. It simply causes them to avoid the netted area. Half-baked notions of environmental evangelism being presented as sound science by self-proclaimed “experts” have played a major part in driving a majority of our small primary producers out of their industry.
Bernie Sanders Gets It — Donald Trump Won Because People Are Tired of Political Correctness — Reason.com
Sanders was explicit: Trump’s criticisms of political correctness spoke to the American people’s legitimate fury toward a political class and media regime that is overly-scripted and beholden to the powerful.