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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsElon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies — LA Times
Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space. And he’s built those companies with the help of billions in government subsidies
Random Note #193,421 — Turnbull’s speech, the full reveal
Turnbull has finally decided to come out of the closet for the full reveal with his latest slick and tricky attempt to redefine, rebrand, rebadge and reposition the Libs as “centrist.”
There’s no other way to characterise this other than a non to subtle final chess move in the theft of the Liberal Party from its base by the Fabians. It’s no coincidence that the crest of the Fabians is an equally non to subtle, wolf in sheeps clothing.
‘Labor’s worse’ won’t do — Grace Collier The Australian
It’s the ‘let ’em eat cake’ attitude or as Grace Collier colours it ‘a shit sandwich’ and it’s neatly summed up in the first half a dozen sentences of this cut and paste….
Energy Bill Pain: Surge in Cut-offs — The Australian
How the hell did we arrive here you ask? The answer is because of the joint ticket of energy policy driven by Turnbull’s Liberals and Labor. Last week South Australia made history by achieving the dubious distinction of dislodging Denmark and now has THE most expensive electricity in the world. “…Australia is entering the “realm of third world countries” with residential power disconnections rising by as much as 140 per cent in six years and the average household paying more than double what it did a decade ago to keep the lights on. Australian Energy Regulator figures reveal almost 60,000 households are on electricity hardship payments and another 151,862 customers are on electricity payment plans. Escalating consumers’ pain, electricity prices increased up to 20 per cent last weekend and Victoria yesterday introduced emissions restrictions that would prevent even the cleanest coal-fired power…”
The Time Machine the Eloi — Never have so many known so little about so much — American Thinker
In many posts over the years, both blog and Facebook, when discussing the zombie like mindlessness of many of the millennial generation and others under the spell of political correctness, I’ve described them as being analogous to the Eloi in HG Well’s Time Machine. It seems I’m not the only one.
“..In our own time, knowledge is becoming superfluous to material comfort. The need to understand cause and effect, history, precedent, and trial and error are optional, as technology is omnipresent, robust, and remarkably reliable. The before times are fading from living memory and will soon belong to history nobody reads. (Remember the library scene where books of knowledge crumbled to dust? Or just ask a Harvard or Yale undergrad.) The Eloi had transcended the need for ideology or philosophy. They were content with the eternal present..”
If you think Trump’s tweets are ‘unprecedented,’ you don’t know about Harry Truman — American Thinker
Harry Truman is one of the few modern presidents seemingly liked by both sides. A few months ago, President Trump was excoriated for his “unprecedented” tweet to Nordstrom’s concerning their shabby treatment of Ivanka. Now, after a tweet about Mika and Joe of Morning Joe, he is again being attacked by seemingly the whole world. Unprecedented? Recall the following letter from Truman to the music critic of the Washington Post. Maybe President Trump he is just channelling Harry. This famous letter just cannot be reprinted too often
Random Note #176,593 — The Mainstream Media
What the anti Trump brigade and the main stream media still have difficulty wrestling with, (pardon the pun) is the observation by Alena Zito when she wrote during the campaign that:
“Trump supporters take Trump seriously but not literally. The media and his detractors take Trump literally but not seriously.”
Random Note #187,652 — Labor recognition of Palestine — Number 2
After 40 years, we discover that multiculturalism is no longer just about the exotic customs and traditions, the dress, the dance and cuisine but also about the bollards in Martin Place and the importation of a mindset inimical to Australia, combined with the panoply of internecine religious, sectarian, tribal and cultural problems from the Middle East.
Random Note #187,651 — Labor recognition of Palestine — Number 1
The misty eyed, misguided and facile advocacy of the likes of Turner and Bob Carr betrays and underscores their ignorance or deliberate fudging of the diabolical complexity of the problem and ignores the ingrained, mothers milk mindset of the Palestinian leadership which filters right down to the classroom. This dictates the violent and total destruction and elimination of the state of Israel.
Doubts George Pell can get fair trial due to damaging publicity — Chris Merritt, The Australian
In Victoria, where Pell has been charged with historical sexual offences, “adverse publicity” barely begins to describe what has happened to this conservative Catholic cleric. Tearing him down has almost taken on the trappings of an industry. Yet now that the justice system has become involved, the frenzy of the past few years is supposed to be set aside and forgotten, particularly by those who would sit on the jury that will decide his fate In the view of some, that is little more than a heroic assumption from another era. The state’s justice system has a range of tools at its disposal that are aimed at ensuring that Pell’s trial will be fair. But in the face of the modern world, the effectiveness of those tools has been questioned.