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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsObesity is a personal responsibility, not a disease — The Australian, Gary Johns
I suspect that there is a link between the trajectory of a nation and a society and its flabby thinking, gluttony and obesity. Too good for too long. And now there’s a push by public health officials to have obesity categorised as a disease. As Gary Johns points out “..strictly speaking I am supposed to use the expression, “people with obesity”, rather than obese people. Spot the difference, it is not my fault..”
Roll on Rome……
Mind bending — $1.6m handed to daycare business operator without proof of kids
What the???? How??? Uh??? The political class are simply buffoons….This is bordering on Monty Python’s Cheese shop or the hospital in Yes Minister that has no patients because in the end, it’s comforting to know it’s there when you’re not feeling well. This sentence makes the point “..there is no explicit requirement in federal legislation for a care provider to actually look after children..”
“..In an ACT civil proceeding involving Mr Aguer, the director of Long Life Family Daycare was unable to provide complete or accurate evidence to support his claim he employed educators nor any of the three support co-ordinators he ought to have had on his books. In multiple spot checks and arranged inspections, regulatory staff from the ACT Education Department were never able to confirm there were any children in care….”
Crisis of confidence that spawned Trump and Brexit — Paul Kelly, The Australian
Paul Kelly nails the Brexit, Trump, Hanson phenomenon. All three created by and the handiwork of the political class on both the left and right who have deserted their respective bases and stopped listening to the people they are supposed to represent. Result: the people stopped listening to and voting for the traditional parties.
“…The heart of the problem lies not just in Trump’s unacceptability; it lies in the complex malaise in American life that has elevated Trump to this stage, wrecking the Republican Party in the process.
The phenomenon on display is the crisis gripping much of the Western world — domestic unhappiness, division and traumas are spilling into the political systems with a lethal impact that, in turn, undermines Western foreign and security policies…”
Let he who is without sin etc….Bill Clinton tax deducted his used underwear. Seriously. — American Thinker
“…The Clintons deducted from the federal income tax returns the “value” of Bill’s used underwear that the Clinton’s supposedly donated to charities. As reported by Lloyd Grove, Washington Post, on 12/28/1993:
“Several experts were consulted about Clinton’s tax-deductible donations, especially of underwear. Paul Offenbacher, a long-time Washington-area tax accountant, said it is highly unusual to take an itemized deduction on donated underwear; indeed, he had never heard of such a thing. Adelphi University psychology professor George D. Goldman, a New York-based psychoanalyst who studies the unconscious symbolic meanings in human behaviour, said the donations are, at the very least, fodder for intriguing speculation…”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Oct 4, 2016
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking.. Our Labor and Greens politicians need a crash course in electricity and its generation. Baseload generation is at constant voltage and frequency; wind and solar generation is not. There must be enough baseload generation to...
Weatherill’s green ambition puts SA in the dark ages — Nick Cater, The Australian
This is how the dreamy, misty eyed, romanticism and unhinged ideology of the Green/left/Labor alliance in South Australia flies in the face and collides, crashes and burns with cold hard reality….
“..The speed of South Australia’s transition from coal to wind and solar is breathtaking. The state’s renewable generation capacity has more than doubled in the past six years. Other regions that have made transitions on this scale, such as Denmark and Iowa, already had strong network connections with neighbouring producers, making it easy to buy in baseload power when the blades stopped turning. By contrast, as we saw last week, South Australia’s energy link to the outside world seems held together with sticky tape and string. The state’s capacity to produce its own baseload power from fossil fuels has rapidly diminished. The state’s four largest power stations — two at Port Augusta, Pelican Point and Torrens Island A — will have closed or will be in mothballs by this time next year, made unviable by unpredictable deluges of cheap wind power…”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Sept 30, 2016
What thinking Australians Are thinking... Wind farms are useless on a calm day, but when it’s blowing a gale and you’d think they’d be in their element, they have to be shut down. Not only that, they can’t be started up again (presumably) without power from another...
The true deniers, the high minded narcissists and rent seekers of the renewable energy industry are finally exposed for the frauds that they are.
These people epitomise the moral vanity of those hucksters and believers in alternative fuels as a base load power source and its not before time that these rent seeking climate catastrophists and climate criminals were brought up on charges. When push came to shove it was the much cheaper and reliable coal that saved the day. The talking points from Labor HQ in South Australia is that “the system worked as it was supposed to”. This is just whistling past the cemetery. If the system is designed to “Earth Hour” the entire state in one hit, then SA needs a better, work around system instead of relying on and bludging on the non-mendicant states. Worth noting that back in July the spot price for electricity in South Australia went from $100 per megawatt hour to $14,000 (that’s not a typo) per MWh because they put all their eggs in the alternative energy basket. As I’ve been saying for the last 15 or 16 years, renewables are boutique at best and cannot deliver solid, reliable, AND cheap base load electricity.
Is Hillary Clinton Losing the 2016 Election? — American Thinker
"...The depth of public outrage has been the consistent misunderstanding of all pundits trying to explain the current election. Why is the public so mad? Why do people seem to love Trump so much? Those charged with telling us the truth – journalists, the federal...
Road to tyranny is paved with Leftie assumptions — Maurice Newman
“..They must be vilified without debate, lest too many of us waver on the virtues of bigger governments, central planning, more bloated bureaucracies, higher taxes, unaffordable welfare, a “carbon-free” economy, more regulations, open borders, gender-free and values-free schools and same-sex marriage; the sort of agenda that finds favour at the UN. Yet history is solid with evidence that this agenda will never deliver the promised human dignity, prosperity and liberty. Only free and open societies with small governments can do that..”