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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom 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…”
Hillary “Shocked!” By Trump’s Sex Talk… But Here’s Video of Hillary Threatening Sex Assault Victims in 1998
Ahem...Now, about all that spluttering fulmination, outrage and mock indignation over Donald Trumps indiscretions...Here's Lady Hillary Macbeth in full flight.. Hillary “Shocked!” By Trump’s Sex Talk… But Here’s Video of Hillary Threatening Sex Assault Victims in 1998...
We Need Realists Running The UN — Jennifer Oriel, The Australian
The appointment of Antonio Guterres as Secretary-General of the United Nations poses significant danger to the free world. As president of Socialist International, Guterres envisaged a radical model of government led by a UN parliamentary assembly that would facilitate the emergence of “global citizens”. Guterres was president of the Socialist International at its 22nd congress which resolved that: “the goal of the SI must be to parliamentarise the global political system” by the establishment of a “UN parliamentary assembly”. There is nothing sinister about the dream of a peaceful world order led by powers invested in global security and democracy.
However, a UN parliament would produce the opposite. Liberal democratic states constitute a numerical minority which would be overwhelmed by Islamist, communist and socialist states in a global assembly. The consequence is evident in the transformation of the UN over the past two decades.
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”.
ABC viewers go dark on Chris Uhlmann after South Australian blackout ‘heresy’ — The Guardian
The ABC’s Chris Uhlmann has incurred the wrath of the pointy hat and pitchfork brigade. The purse lipped, no nonsense, finger wagging pc crowd are outraged and just can’t handle the truth or being contradicted by someone they thought was one of their own, on THEIR...
Free Trade And The Down Side. Ford At The End Of The Road In Australia
Friday October 7, 2016 was the end of the road for Ford in Australia. I wrote earlier this week that; "..upon signing, the various free trade deals, we always hear about the upside and all the benefits. They sell the idea of free trade and the upside as opening...
European commission tells British press not to use ‘Muslim’ to identify terrorists — American Thinker
ECRI has made 23 recommendations to make the U.K. into the politically correct paradise ECRI wants. Among them, the press should no longer mention the word “Muslim” when identifying terrorists. The problem with ECRI is its interpretation of “hate speech.” ECRI administrators appear to be saying that any speech that offends anyone is hate speech.