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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsYoung Heads Filled With Green Mush — Quadrant Online
So we learn from the NAPLAN results earlier today that all that extra money poured into education didn't even move the needle. Of course it was never going to because it's not about money. It's about too much junk in a crowded curriculum. Too much goofing off with...
Why are we afraid: A 1400 year secret by Bill Warner
This is very long BUT very interesting. If you don't have time watch it in one sitting, watch it in 15 minute chunks. But watch it none the less. For some cold hard statistical analysis of actual events for those who seriously think that Islam is a religion of peace,...
Deadbeat Parents Failed Boys — Janet Albrechtsen
Some choice pars from Janet Albrechtsen's column in today's Australian "..A week on, there is still a huge hole in the miserable story about young boys in the Northern Territory’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Four Corners challenged our emotions, asked searching...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
I wonder if I’m the only Liberal voter who thinks that Malcolm Turnbull could save himself, and Australia, a lot of anguish by quietly retiring to the backbench and giving Julie Bishop the mantle. Steve Kessell, Willetton, WA I don’t understand Malcolm Turnbull’s...
The Clash Of Egos
A couple of troubling questions.
I'm not sure who the villain is in this Clinton/Trump fight over the dead soldier. I'm still trying to work out why, if not for base political reasons to wedge Trump did Team Clinton, out of all the casualties of recent theatres of war, specifically seek out the...
The lowest interest rates in 5,000 years
A little known factoid. I read about this 5 or 6 weeks ago and was reminded of it again this afternoon with the Reserve Bank decision on interest rates. We have the lowest interest rates in 5,000 years. That's not a typo. The lowest interest rates in 5000 years....
Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria
Its gotta be game ove for Hill I'd say.. Hacked Emails Include Info On Hillary’s Arming of Jihadists, Including ISIS, in Syria..
An Open Letter to Khizr Khan
Some background. Khizr Khan is the father of a dead US serviceman who was placed at the centre of some scathing and vituperative comments at the DNC aimed at Donald Trump. That is to say, the Democrats used this man centre stage and his loss to score political...
Again, I don’t recognise THIS Australia.
If we were to edit and plan Australia from the beginning, the first thing to go and be edited from the national storyboard would be multiculturalism. According to the news last night and witnesses to the fracas, the 3 perps that started the entire thing were standing...