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More Roadrunner, Wily Coyote and falling anvil antics
If there is a god, this should happen. If for no other reason than to drive the media and the vaccous, phoney, empty suit talking heads totally nuts. More nuts, berserk and unhinged than they are already
Trump and the media — Wily Coyote, Roadrunner and falling anvils — Nothing to see here.
This is the stuff of Wily Coyote and the Road Runner. The media yet again hit by another falling anvil. Another bucket of cold water over the Marx Stream Media.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Qantas and the Over the top Overheu ban
I find something quite chilling and disturbing in the decision by Qantas to invoke a lifetime ban on pieman Tony Overheu for his assault on Alan Joyce. In the minds of many Australians Alan Joyce has misused and abused his public capacity and profile and the corporate...
Random Note #195,682 — Trump, Obama, Bradley Manning and the MSM — Contrast and Compare
Talk about suck the oxygen out of the room.
Scenario 1 — The medias says that Trump may have leaked sensitive stuff to the Russian ambassador. Putin says from their notes and recordings that he didn’t.
The media becomes totally unhinged, outraged and apoplectic with rage and indignation.
Scenario 2 — Chelsea (Bradley) Manning leaks 700,000 documents to Wikileaks and gets 35 years but President Obama commutes the sentence before leaving office and Manning walks out of jail overnight after serving just 7 years.
Scenario 3 — The Marx Stream Media ululates in orgasmic rapture.
Random Note #189,672 — Qantas ban
This small man with an equally small mind, Alan Joyce is not only misusing his public capacity to prosecute his personal politics but now because of a personal dispute and disagreement he is using the corporate clout of Qantas to restrict the freedom of movement of someone by banning him from Qantas and all other Qantas associated airlines.
Someone should remind Joyce that he is just an employee and that he does not own the airline. What are the options available to other of Mr Joyce’s fellow employees, shareholders and travelling public that also disagree with him using his corporate capacity to prosecute his personal predilections? It was it was the preening, corporate narcissist in chief, Alan Joyce who ventured out from behind his desk into the world of politics and social engineering and should have been aware of the treacherous waters he was venturing into.
Ayn Rand, Altruism, and Jihad — American Thinker
For many Europeans in the past 20 years, now-distant memories of both world wars have hardened into a self-righteous conviction that peace outweighs any value that might conflict with it, almost regardless of the threat or provocation. Consequently, there is an exquisite disregard in deliberately ignoring the “grim possibility that their children and grandchildren might end up by living under Sariah law, if, in fact, they are allowed to live at all. The West continues to avoid the obvious. But as Ayn Rand has noted, “you can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
Random Note #193,683 — Education
“..the education system had to be radically reshaped so that it was “part of the socialist struggle for equality, participation and social change rather than an instrument of the capitalist system..”
Joan Kirner, Former Premier and Education Minister of Victoria
How Australia Bungled Its $36 Billion High-Speed Internet Rollout — The New York Times
As Ronald Reagan said “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”
“..The story of Australia’s costly internet bungle illustrates the hazards of mingling telecommunication infrastructure with the impatience of modern politics. The internet modernization plan has been hobbled by cost overruns, partisan manoeuvring and a major technical compromise that put 19th-century technology between the country’s 21st-century digital backbone and many of its homes and businesses..”
Was Muhammad an Epileptic? — American Thinker
The only explanation that stands up to an analysis of the original Muhammadan literature is that he suffered from epilepsy. This is the belief that many of his contemporaries held, and it is a theory that has been advanced by his critics ever since, beginning with the Byzantine ecclesiastical historian Theophanes (752-817). He attributed creation of Islam to a ploy by Muhammad’s first wife to hide the shame of being married to someone with the falling sickness, as epilepsy used to be called, by claiming he was a prophet and was divinely inspired
Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy — Matt Ridley, Spectator
Just how unhinged, absurd, futile AND insanely, eye-wateringly expensive, is the pursuit of alternative energy? Some staggering stats that should sober up a few of the romantics. “..Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the last year for which there are reliable figures? Was it 20 per cent, 10 per cent or 5 per cent? None of the above: it was 0 per cent. That is to say, to the nearest whole number, there is still no wind power on Earth.