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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsShip of fools who cry for open borders — Piers Akerman, Sunday Telegraph
Ian Rintoul, the most quoted RAC (Refugee Action Coalition) figure, was according to Margot O’Neill’s book 2009 book Blind Conscience, a founding member of the International Socialist Organisation in the 1970s, and left it in 2013 to become a founding member of Solidarity. The ISO boasted on its website that it wanted to smash the capitalist system and Rintoul didn’t rule out using force to do so. O’Neill wrote: “He’s the personification of the ageing revolutionary, still dreaming of a workers’ paradise.”
Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump. — George Will — Washington Post
Remember the mindless. automaton like Eloi in H G Wells Time Machine? “…The compound of childishness and condescension radiating from campuses is a reminder to normal Americans of the decay of protected classes — in this case, tenured faculty and cosseted students. Institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry. Which must have something to do with the tone and substance of the presidential election, which took the nation’s temperature…”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
I haven’t had so much fun for years watching the mass meltdown of those who would impose their moral superiority on us and who can’t comprehend how Donald Trump could possibly have won the US presidential election. From the condescending Penny Wong and Richard Di...
It’s all the fault of the thick, ill-informed, irrational mob — Brendan O’Neill
This isn’t an extreme view anymore. Being anti-democratic has become positively fashionable among the chattering classes “..We have become “too democratic”, says Sullivan. The “passions of the mob” have become too great a player in political life. We need a better “elitist sorting mechanism” to prevent people’s “untrammelled emotions” from dominating political discourse…” “….Never before has the fate of a country been changed by the swing of such a blunt axe, wielded by poorly informed citizens…” Belgian writer David Van Reybrouck wrote in an essay hilariously titled “Why elections are bad for democracy”.
A right-on-point reality check. It really is this simple. Have a look.
A Right-on-point, reality check. It really is this simple...
What 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….”