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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom note #163,705 — World Vision aid cut over Hamas rort
This shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone except the naive God botherers like Tim Costello and the usual array of moral narcissists who like to be SEEN to be doing good rather than actually doing good. The question the world should be asking is this. When you...
Bill Leak cartoon: What Are You Tweeting About — Bill Leak
“…The cartoon I drew for yesterday’s paper was inspired by indigenous men and people who, without regard for their personal safety, feel compelled to tell the truth whether it incites the CTAD sufferers to attack them en masse or not…”
Erratic, egocentric, divisive: Turnbull not suited to leadership — Maurice Newman
“..Politicians baulk at any financial restraint unless it is “fair”, painless and targeted at the rich. This is preposterous. Tinkering is no longer an option. Nothing short of urgent, serious, structural reform will save our children’s future. What is missing is political leadership and political will..”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
(The first 4 in the series simply underscores highlights that there are a few people not paying attention to what's going and to the extent that they do, don't understand the concept of root causes and would rather not have their beliefs and shibboleths assaulted by...
Random Note #702,672 — Bill Leak Cartoon
The reaction to the Bill Leak cartoon by the indigenous and misery industries and the professional grievance and victim mongers like Richard Di Natale and Gillian Triggs whose life's work is to prey upon and make political capital out of and more particularly, keep in...
Think the clever country, nimble and agile — Submarines
And To think that we are spending $50 billion on diesel submarines, not even nuclear that will be superseded even before there hulls are laid and the subs finally delivered decades from now. "..The United States just got one step closer to ushering in the era of...
Big spending for negligible result doesn’t add up — The Australian
A brilliant piece of commentary in this opening analogy of the Oz editorial this morning. Even a boneheaded Labor spokesman for Education like Tania Plibersek could get her head around it if she applied her mind. "...The problem could be set in a maths, economics or...
A Thousand Words
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking Selling good farmland to other countries is not deemed to be contrary to the national interest. Will this still be so when 35 per cent of Australia’s farmland is owned by other countries? Or 75 per cent? What figure would be...
3 of 4 NYT bestsellers are anti-Clinton books.
3 of 4 NYT bestsellers are anti-Clinton books. Here is how Amazon describes the books: — Crisis of Character. In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clinton's oval office,...