Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
Making sense of 2017 (Hint: alcohol is a must)
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Carl on the Coast says:January 9, 2018 at 5:45 pm. Don’t defame me carl. Do not have a “gas-guzzling SUV” traded the commodore in for a small all wheel drive 1.8 litre about 4 years ago. By the way it does run on petrol I always use the 100 octane or 98 octane. . Also made a decision some 20 odd years ago to eat a lot less red meat. But when I do it is scotch fillet or the one with the wing rib bone on it. rump? only if it is very thin waved over a hotplate and put straight onto a sandwhich. Geez you make it clear you have no fn idea about much at all. Oh I am an advocate for public transport more smaller electric trams like the ones at Singapore airport should be constructed throughout cities. After all I travel on public transport regularly, planes and helos.
Maybe I “have no fn idea about much at all” but I know how to get confessions, eh.
I thought you might be an “old school” copper Carl.
I say JB, may I suggest that you give some thought to occasionally dissenting from unpromising theories lest you find yourself digging in a conceptually bottomless pit me old mate.
If you could just climb out of the intellectual pit you dug for yourself years ago you wouldn’t be making such silly remarks. Your scrawlings might include some useful information instead of monotonously waving your walking stick at the clear thinking.
cotc again you steal defeat from the jaws of victory. I merely showed again, you are generally wrong about most things. Take your medicine.
You make me laugh Dismayed. See my comment at 3.39pm 12 Jan.
Ah Gernaibe Greer.i like her. Always sensible. Good interview on RN this morning. Thank God it was,with Hamish and not an outraged Fran.
She reckons if Ronald Reagan could be POTUS rgen no reason why Oprah couldn’t. Goid point.
She also reckons that whilst not a fan of his, Trump has shaken things up, stock market rising, employment too.
Some interesting thoughts from her on the #metro movement too. Which I wouldn’t dare comnent on hete 😀
Worth a listen on podcast
Were you having apéritif matinal when you wrote that Boa?
I really should take the sunnies off and use reading specs when doing this , MtK! Apologies. On top of that the phone changes what I type. Bloody annoying. I’m ashamed to admit
I was stone cold sober. It was early. But thought I’d just leave it for you translate 😁
Gordon Ramsay swears he can cook!
Except Gordon cant cook without swearing Milton. It is just as well food cant hear.
Darcy Short huh?
Yes would not be surprised to see him added to the ODI squad.
Seeing we’re talking about Oprah/Hollywood ;-), saw a great movie today – in fact it covers most of the topics we’ve been ranting over these past couple of months.
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Outstanding. Frances McDormand wonderful in the lead. Oscar winning performance for sure.
Not sure if anyone saw that other superb, Manchester by the Sea – the son in this movie is also in Three Billboards. Can’t recommend enough!
Also coming is The Post – tom hanks and meryl Streep. The inside story gleaned from the Pentagon papers on why America really went into Vietnam. Should be interesting
Interesting, but it’s Hollywood, so historical accuracy will take the back seat to drama.
Another one on Churchill too, Dwight – the Darkest Hour.
Nostalgia time it seems.
All have good casts
“”You and I are not privy to what went on so we shouldn’t speculate. In fact, I don’t think anyone accused should be named until the police press charges,” he said.”
I think this is a reasonable comment by Richard O’Brien.
Couldn’t agree more!
Yairs, Jack, I see a problem with the Oprah effect.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-fake-news-could-lead-to-epidemics
Anne Applebaum is forthright.
If Oprah Winfrey is serious, she should run for the Senate, learn what it takes to turn emotions into issues and issues into law. She should decide whether she likes that kind of work, which is not anything like what she does now, then decide if she is good at it — and then run for president. Our presidency is not a monarchy: The president is not just a national symbol, but rather a functioning, active part of the political process. Anyone who aspires to be president should be willing to take the time to understand that process. If they aren’t, then the American public shouldn’t be willing to take them seriously either.
Good piece. Mine is coming tomorrow now. Working on a piece for The Weeekend Aus mag when it returns later this month.
Interesting point:
Wonks Made Celebrity Presidents Possible, Maybe Necessary
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455257/oprah-winfrey-celebrity-presidents-wonks
I understand the argument, mate, but if it were true, we may as well pack up our political institutions and go in live in caves because that’s where we’ll end up anyway. PS. Anyone want to to bet the next POTUS won’t be an old white guy?
I’m willing to bet it will be based on the stats Jack. Dunno who. (Clint Eastwood? He’s got form.)
Well, given US history the most likely next Potus is Mike Pence and he even has white hair.
Dead right. A step up from the Donald but, much as it grates, they need a professional politician to do the job.
Like Nixon?
Like Hilary?
Strangely, both Hillary and Nixon lost their jobs because of the Watergate committee.
At least according to the internet–and that’s never wrong.
Nixon, like Reagan, will go down well in the impartial history books. Better than that warmongerer JFK.
Kennedy mixed bag. Bay of Pigs showed a lack of spine. But, what he an his brother did on the Cuban Missile Crisis was brilliant.
Ronald Reagan — ‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.’ Can’t see much ambiguity there. His speeches at the Wall and the boys of Pointe du Hoc, everything best about America.
Nixon, hardened Cold Warrior opened China, which sold out our KMT allies in Taiwan, but was mostly a good thing.
Milton – only an Abbott-hugger could make a comment like that (which doesn’t mean I deify JFK)
Milton, you are on a completely different planet.
Like Calvin Coolidge. No, forget that.
Not acccording to Germaine. She reckons no skills needed. POTUS is told what to do. Hmmm not our Donald – although he is discovering that he cant be an autocrat.
“Mean global temperatures have been above average every year since 1985, and all of the ten warmest years have occurred between 1998 and the present. Seven of Australia’s ten warmest years have now occurred since 2005.”
https://theconversation.com/australias-climate-in-2017-a-warm-year-with-a-wet-start-and-finish-89502
You’re apparently unaware Dismayed (or you deliberately choose not to acknowledge) the BOM’s admission that they had a problem accurately recording very low temperatures and their records were homogenised to form a national average. Criticism of the BOM’s apparent extraordinary incompetence and/or a determination on their part of preventing evidence of low temperatures seems to have also escaped your attention mate.
Btw, for what its worth, the smart folk at Stanford Uni concluded a study that found undoubtly warmer climates promote health and well being – increases in temperature and warmer weather means fewer deaths. They apparently coined the phrase “Its the climate stupid.”
CotC – just heard someone say on the late sbs news, “drought and floods are our new reality”? You’d think in this day and age there’d be more friends of Dorothy, shouting out loud and proud.
Milton, dear Dorothy and his ilk obviously suffer from receptive aphasia.
Cotc as usual are you wrong. You need to open your eye.
“Far from being a fudge to make warming look more severe than it is, most of the Bureau’s data manipulation has in fact had the effect of reducing the apparent extreme temperature trends across Australia. Cherrypicking weather stations where data have been corrected in a warming direction doesn’t mean the overall picture is wrong.”
https://theconversation.com/no-the-bureau-of-meteorology-is-not-fiddling-its-weather-data-31009
Ah, from that august scientific publication “the conversation”, it must be true.
And it is. You got one right!
So Dismayed, you turn your blind eye to the BOM’s temperature monitoring adjustments to cold-weather stations which were no longer “fit for purpose” and electronic smart cards were fitted to automatic weather stations putting a limit on how low temperatures could be recorded in the official weather data. No surprises indeed.
I posted an article on this last year some time. It was 3 yes 3 weather stations because they were faulty. Again you refuse to look at the scientifically gathered data because it does not suit your ideology.You really are grasping at straws but then again you have nothing else to grasp at. Take your medicine and get them to push your chair back inside.
More Gang violence, oh wait a minute no blacks apparently just a 100 or so youths probably surfers.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-officer-injured-after-violent-brawl-in-torquay-20180109-p4yyck.html
Now here’s a beat up for you. Less than $100.00 a dinner across all the councillors, beer wine and spirits. I’d spill that much at a very average lunch!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/alcohol-bill-for-city-of-melbourne-council-dinners-revealed/news-story/062c2e9f485d010effb0be9a4c4bda4f
All over your clean shirt and daks! Get a bib and one of those no spill mugs.
Plenty of mugs old bean but always an ear open to intelligent conversation if one of the mugs proffers it. Particularly if it is contradictory to my viewpoint and the bloke has a sense of humour.