by Jim Ball | Aug 10, 2019 | Blog, China, Random Notes, Trade
Like some dark, back alley bitch and pimp relationship, having been lured and seduced in to servicing China’s need for coal and iron ore and receiving payment in kind and mainlining their containers of cheap stuff, Australia is well and truly on the hook and on the... by Jim Ball | Aug 6, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Democrats, Random Notes |
Watching a Democrat ‘debate’ compilation from last week, earlier today and it has become increasingly apparent that Donald Trump has manage to induce in the Democrat party and the left generally across the world, a national and international, nervous breakdown. The... by Jim Ball | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Random Notes |
I don’t mind climate change being taught in schools, but what texts will be used and what material will be distributed to students? Will it be taught by activists and advocates through a strictly political and ideological lens of anthropogenic co2 as the villain, or... by Jim Ball | Jul 29, 2019 | Ball waxing, Blog, Random Notes |
Whenever the slippery slope concept in the context of the SSM and religious freedom debate was mentioned, we were assured there was nothing to worry about. Ditto, Safe Schools. Initially it was the refusal by a baker in the US to bake a wedding cake for a SSM and now... by Jim Ball | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog, Racism, Random Notes
There is a piercing intellect and a magnificent mind behind the keyboard in this piece, America Needs To Rediscover Tact, by Peggy Noonan. You may have noticed in the US over the last little while and particularly the last week or so, the word ‘racist’ is being hurled... by Jim Ball | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog, Random Notes, Society, Society and culture |
We hear a lot of people sneering with contempt at Donald Trumps call to arms to ‘Make America Great Again’. They try to intellectualise it and pretend they don’t understand what he means. Some say that America was never that great anyway. With this week, being the...