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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking.. This first one nails the malaise of the voters right across the Western Hemisphere. Trump is but the lightening rod and I suspect he won't be the last. People voting for Donald Trump are not generally for Trump the person, they...
If you think Donald Trump’s comments are vulgar, check out Hillary’s potty mouth — American Thinker
Funny but not at all surprising how the media, Robert De Niro and the rest of the hypocritical, Hollywood arty brigade don’t seem remotely offended, disgusted or indeed interested in “Locker Room Hillary” and her grotesque and obscene bellowing and barking.
Well, whowouldathunkit. Robert De Niro, a Hollywood hypocrite, sprung
Well, whowouldathunkit. Robert De Niro, a Hollywood hypocrite, sprung...
The UN’s Secretary General Antonio Guterres in the frame as Jennifer Oriel speaks with Alan Jones
“..The largest voting bloc at the UN is the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation. The OIC replaced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the Islamic Cairo Declaration whose articles are not universal, but established “in accordance with the Islamic Shariah”. In 2007, as UN refugee chief, Guterres addressed the League of Arab States. He credited Islamic law as an “invaluable foundation for the legal framework” used by his office..”
Everything’s coming up Trumps — Mark Latham
“..The Clinton campaign and Leftist media have perfected the politics of personal destruction, turning private indiscretions into public issues — something Bill Clinton himself railed against in his 1998 defence of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Trump’s ¬decision prior to the second presidential debate to hold a press conference with three women allegedly sexually abused by Mr Clinton, was an amazing moment. The evidence suggests Mrs Clinton ran a protection racket for her husband against these allegations — hence her hypocrisy when speaking on “women’s issues”. Despite the biased moderators, Trump wiped Clinton in the debate, proving he’s a more formidable figure that his critics concede..”
Random Note, Idle Thought #195,873 — Renewable energy
Random Note #195,873 The problem with renewables is that once the entire nation is renewable dependant, who do you have an interconnection with? Renewables are a supplementary, boutique option at best. To deliberately and aggressively work towards the total...
Captured Syrian was Islamic State-inspired, poised to strike: Germany
Merkel was warned about this. Open borders + unfettered immigration = disaster. As dreamers and lefties do, she allowed her high minded, "I know best" moral vanity to guide her judgment and she wasn't going to allow the possibility of a mass murder of German citizens...
From Greek Tragedy To American Therapy — Victor Davis Hanson
“..America’s impoverished ancestors at 15 years of age may have rounded Cape Horn on a schooner or ridden bareback over the Rockies. Not today’s therapeutic college youth. They have been so victimized by racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and other -isms and -phobias that colleges often provide them “safe spaces,” outlaw “microaggressions” and demand “trigger warnings” to avoid the un-nice. What would our grandfathers think? As teenagers on D-Day, they found no safe spaces on Omaha Beach. A storm of steel from thousands of SS killers proved more than a “microaggression” at the Battle of the Bulge. Generals did not give their freezing GIs mere “trigger warnings” about a half-million Chinese Red Army soldiers crossing the Yalu River during the Korean War…”
Clinton vs Trump Washington vs the forgotten — Nick Cater — The Australian
“..Clinton conspicuously failed to reach out to Trump’s “basket of deplorables”. Instead, she has sown disdain, confirming the forgotten Americans’ worst fears about the political class: that their interests have not been overlooked by accident but by design. They are right. Clinton’s pitch for power is less a vision for perfecting the Union than a statement of personal virtue; it’s not what you do but how you think that matters, and results be damned. One votes for the respectable candidate because one is not among the low-life who vote for Trump..”
Plebiscite a casualty in the debate over marriage laws — Anne Twomey, Legal Affairs, The Australian
“…A plebiscite is primarily used to resolve contentious social issues where there are divisions within political parties, and a vote of parliament alone would probably not be sufficient to quell social disagreement on the issue. Its purpose is to ensure that those with strongly held views on one side of the argument receive definitive evidence that their view is not supported by a majority. This allows them to accept the outcome and gives greater democratic legitimacy to the action of the parliament when it legislates to implement the view of the majority. It is therefore a very useful democratic mechanism to resolve such passionate conflicts in a peaceful manner…”