Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
B’Man et al,
Further to my previous. Reflecting upon the by now utterly predictable degeneration of almost any Blog subject into a diatribe of the deaf re ‘Global Warming’ etc. You might care to contemplate the following Risk Management exercise.
For the purposes of the argument let us accept that Global Warming is an accepted fact and that its consequences are potentially catastrophic for the beloved ‘grandchildren’.
Then as an Australian politician it is self-evident that Australia should do everything it can to avoid this outcome. But ….
If Australia’s domestic contribution to Global Warming were reduced to zero the influence would be infinitesimal and would be reversed by a miniscual increase in the wider global community. But …….
Australia as a very significant miner of coal contributes to global warming through the export of coal to be burnt by others. Thus if the consequences for the ‘beloved’ are so dire, all coal mining and export should be ceased forthwith. But ……..
Any reduction in Australia’s coal exports would be substituted by exports from other Nations hence the nett impact would be zero. But ……
Your joint energies might well be better devoted to conducting a Risk Management exercise on that scenario.
You might then arrive at the conclusion reached by most, if not all of the Australian political establishment (the Verdants being the obvious exception) – any Australian response to Global Warming is pure gesture, constrained by the application of the minimum resources sufficient to ameliorate the ‘medium level’ public perception!!
plmo:
Most of the scientists I have discussed this with are of the opinion that it’s probably too late to save the planet – unless the planet switches to nuclear. As you say, can’t see that happening.
So the beloved are doomed if what the scientists think comes to pass.
Carlin’s law trigger….
So just shut up about it eh?
A determined diplomatic effort might well inspire other nations, on the other hand if we, a nation that can better afford than most to make changes and a great beneficiary of fossil fuel usage, is seen to do nothing, what sort of message is that?
Hey, I’m an old guy! Not my problem?
Dismayed 10:48am.
Keep it coming , I keep sending.
2012 the Sandland Review Panel set up to investigate the process of homogenisation removing of 57 out of 104 stations leaving the hottest recording stations. The review panel now reviewing the integrity of the BoM in bias data manipulation.
7 top academics in this panel sent out to investigate into why locations were changed .
These people reminded us that the 1990s were hotter yhen the last decades .Follow up reports on roads melting , rail lines buckled and stock record numbers dying when bush fires and Blue Mountains as dis Victoria Adelaide worst fires on record over greater heat conditions.
Columists Britains Christopher Booker saying fiddling with the temperatures was the biggest scandel ever on just how this temperatures were distorted.
Just reading the earlier Curry reports on 1770s were even hotter with methane the biggest cause of Co2 and we can ‘t ever control this from natural causes.
Judith Curry finding earlier says “evidence of deep ocean sequestration is indirect, Measurements were very sparce prior to 2000 and all in all I don’t see any convincing case for deep ocean sequestration of heat”.
British Met Office once threatened IPCC to tell the truth or court action begins, IPCC admitted faulty modelling computors to blame
Read William Llovell of Institute of Calafornia or Technology concluded that “mass ocean temperatures have cooled slightly , not warmed”.Much here Dismayed from relutable scientists old chap!
Cheers .
You are embarrassing yourself quoting blokes like Booker on climate. He is not a scientist.he is a
hack!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/may/13/christopher-booker-misleading
Bella 0928am.
Thanks on concern , but 3 weeks back over 600 have already arrived most already processed Bella thank you! They are slow and careful in proper processing , not like Labor sending the gates open on processing with dangerous processing with Asio sending 75 boat people back from the ME in that surge 51,050 ,back 2013 figures not sure how many after that human exercise of trafficking leaving the smuggling trade rich
Cheers Bella.
Every attempt by Labor to stop the flow of boats was blocked by the Liberals who saw, and will always see votes in people’s misery. Several times they were caught out saying the moré boats that arrive ‘the better for us’. Abbott blocked the Malaysian deal and now what is Dutts doing? Breaking his arse trying to get them to take refugees when Hockey cried tears in parliament saying no child would ever be sent there whilst he had his nose in the trough.
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Six hundred more asylum seekers died attempting to come to Australia after the Malaysian Solution was sunk by Abbott. That was the human cost. But the blame for it is thrown endlessly at the Gillard government by the very people who did everything to thwart its attempt at some sort of humane solution. If the refugees were white say from South Africa, Abbott and his conspirators would welcome them with
open arms. The present policy is racist.
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The budget is stuffed yet we are spending $500,000 per refugee to prove a political point. $55million has been wasted housing 2 asylum seekers in Cambodia. Budget emergency? Dutts should be sacked for this waste of money.
Boats have not been arriving because they have been turned back, not because we have locked up
children in remote and cruel prison conditions. There is not one shred of evidence that proves imprisoning children deters boats.
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Only 1% of Rodent’s so called ‘illegals’arrive by boat. Those who overstay their visas arrive by plane in their thousands and any who seek asylum are allowed to from within Australia. Never a word about them. Why? No votes in it. The Liberals’ alignment of boat people with ‘border protection’ and ‘national security’ is a fear campaign that has worked successfully. It is a cunning move. We have not lost control of our borders-never have! It’s a con job for votes. How do we know this? The Looters were completely opposed to allowing boats to arrive here well before there was any kind of concern about deaths at sea. All that did was sanctify their previous attitude. They are lying. They have always lied. Look at the secrecy surrounding the island prisons. The slow death, rotting on Nauru and Manus is much worse because the Liberals have killed their hope.
Here’s an interesting article:
http://morningmail.org/the-lefts-war-on-science/#more-54191
And further re making the newest comments first, I wonder if this change would also make it possible to make an unrelated comment at the top of the blog rather than having to scroll to the end, as I did for this post?
Warner!
I hope Renshaw gets his maiden century.
Dismayed – ok since your are being somewhat coy and not stating your height I will adhere to my original thought of you being a dwarf, or a pygmy. I must have just made up, or imagined, that whole bit about you being over 6 foot. it’s not hard to look up to people on a soapbox, but it’s a slightly different matter now that we have freed them from the corner of parks.
Jean Baptiste – you are not only a man with great faith, but more, a true believer, an evangelist, a person who quotes from and promulgates the scriptures handed down from on high. Moreover, you are quick to name and shame the heretics who dare not accept the ‘truth’; the deplorable, the cretins, the killers of not yet born babies. I love a zealot, Jean (and who doesn’t) and you certainly have put the zzzzz’s back into zealot.
Love’s ya work and don’t weaken.
RE: BASSMAN says:
January 2, 2017 at 10:14 pm
B’Man,
Sorry to provoke another SIGH!!! But ………
Re Ho Ho Joe and his ‘Inter-generational Debt Story’ – here is what can happen if he is correct and you are wrong (God Forbid)!!!
http://www.greekcrisis.net/
Re Oceans Boiling. Well no – as I understand it it is ‘mean ocean temperatures rising’ – based on some selected measurements and then computer modelling projections.
Re Seas Rising. Ditto Oceans Boiling.
Re Stopping Boats full of ‘Refugees from Rising Seas’. Well No – the boats are actually full of those paying between $US10k and US$5K to international criminal organisations, from primarily land-locked countries of war and despotism.
Re ‘Muslims, Diseases and Terrorists’ – Again No. The primary issues were, are and will remain ones of ‘identity’, ‘quarantine’ and ‘unauthorised arrival’.
I think our Host mentioned a few posts ago about ‘Risk Management’ and indeed such is an essential part of any policy development and application in each and all of the areas core to your views.
The reality is that such risk management involves the PIP3 matrix:
Probability
Impact
Perception – Public, Expert, Political
Those tasked with conducting such an analysis while using High / Medium / Low for each, spend a considerable amount of time quantifying and identifying the specific risk and its consequences.
They then spend an equal amount of time briefing and educating those who will be held responsible and accountable for the consequences – be they Politicians, Departmental Secretaries or Chiefs of Defence.
Trust me, the precautionary principle often trumps the matrix – who wants to be the one who got it so very wrong with a medium risk, extreme impact, extreme public perception, low expert perception and catastrophic political perception!!
Thankfully neither you nor I are the decision makers!!
Groan! Another post so confusing and full of bewilderment it defies logic and understanding.
Crawl back.
Dismayed (3/1, 10.05am)
I saw your note to Milton and was wondering if you’ve got your nose out of joint specifically in relation to Christianity? Or do you have a beef with the whole box and dice of the 10,000 worldwide religious practices and faiths embracing over 84% of the world’s population.
Haven’t seen you having a crack at Muhammad and his followers yet.
Cat got your tongue mate?
I have a beef with the worldwide religious practices if you want to have a shot.
Don’t defame me Carl. You have some sort of issue. Read exactly what I wrote. “Man created Religion to control other men(& woman)”. Why do you want to make it some islamaphobia issue? Have you seen any Muslims on this blog? My memory is better than yours and do NOT recall seeing any.You have previously told me to just “conform”. Those of weak will conform rather than question and improve. Faith and religion are 2 Very different concepts. It is only those who have given up thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for their own actions that mix the 2 up. You like the other cons here are always looking for enemies where none exist. Group think fantasy is the enemy not thinking, questioning people.
There’s your problem right there! 84% percent of the humankind robbed from birth of free thinking and inculcated with primitive belief and fear of imaginary super beings invented by the most devious tricksters for their own purposes.
Thousands of years of working hand in hand with the most powerful elites, parasites sucking the rewards of useful labour and violence sanctioned by imaginary deities to enrich and glorify themselves. All the while eliminating the free thinker from the gene pool and inciting ostracism at least against anyone perceived as a threat to their power.
You can bet on one thing Carl, the superrich are not stupid, they are better advised than the peasants they go to great lengths to make sure of it, and their thoughts are for themselves and the hired thugs who protect them not the proles who cant see it coming for want of warning.
If you consider this reply out of context or inappropriate, you must turn the other cheek, forgive me or light a bloody candle for me or something. I’m not your spiritual guide but it occurs to me that sometimes you and holy Milton are a little less nice than you ought to be. C’mon guys, you don’t want to disappoint Jesus now do you?
Seriously, tell me this, is there anything more weird and confronting than a pipe band playing “Amazing Grace” ?
“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!” Some oogie boogie has sense of humour! On bagpipes! Satan’s instrument of everlasting torment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjG7kaNbM0Y
Theres your embedded Satanic ritual right there!
Nostradamus had quite a bit to say about man/beasts with the heads of bison wearing skirts and squeezing cats.
Best wishes. Your old mate JB
Rodent 9.29am Jan 3
Come on Rodent PLEASE read something else.
It’s disturbing to read that you actually aren’t aware that of the “12000 refugees Dutton has taken in” the FACT IS only 29 (yes that’s twenty-nine) have been processed. FACT IS Dutton is a racist dud.
Take a breath, put down the Oz & wake-up mate.
Regards, Bella
Its not the Oz…its The Daily Telegraph and 2GB
Oh Bella, if you are going to shout make sure you know the tune.
Fact is 2000 of the 12000 promised from Syria had arrived by last December, over 500 in NSW. This was part of 14000 humanitarian refugees taken in by Australia for the year, still one of the highest intakes proportionate to host country population in the world. And that comes from a source you’d probably accept, The Guardian.
Sure it has been slower than many would have hoped, but validation of people from this conflict area is a most complex task. Evidence of those with terrorist sympathies sneaking into countries offering refugee intake suggests caution is well justified.
Apologies to all for slow posting. I just switched on to the NBN and of course now I have no fixed broadband at all.
You mean Fraudband. I am shaking. The NBN will be on my doorstep in February and from those that I know who have it it is SLOWER!!
Thats not true, bassman but it depends on what package you get. Obviously the faster you buy the faster your internet speed. You need about 8mbps to stream high definition video over the internet. My advice is get yourself an apply tv box (because that allows you to download apps) and get the free speed test app. Your download speed will probably fluctuate a lot at first while the bugs get sorted out. Get a speed package that guarantees way above the minimum he streaming target of 8mbps (11 Mbps is the best minimum). If you’re not streaming he properly run a speed test and if your speed is too low adjust your video options on the Apple TV box (its in settings). When your next test shows your speed is back up then adjust to he accordingly. Try to keep your downloads to when you’re getting good speeds.
I think a lot of the problem is that people just dont understand this technology and are doing it wrong. But if you’re showing constant slow speeds using the speed test app then complain to your service provider – a lot.
Also, use the unlimited download option if you can afford it – because sooner or later things will click into place and you will become an internet hound. I dont watch any “live” tv anymore: i can stream it all via the apps Ive downloaded on the Apple TV (sbs abc – the commercial stations if i want them).
Ps I have NBN installed during the labor period. I can stream high definition on multiple screens while using multiple wi fi devices. The only problem was the occasional game download (40gb – about 30 minutes of download on mine – would blow my 100gb limit, so i went unlimited).
Have fun!
Bassy
If you avoid wireless and use a direct connection to you router life will be so much better.
The amount of wireless connections are now so high the whole spectrum available is being swamped. If you like me are living in the vicinity of apartment complexes, there are literally hundreds of connections that will slow your internet speed to a crawl.
The government must soon release more spectra to allow better speeds.
That problem happened to my oldies. When I checked it turns out its quite common. Has something to do with Telstra but Ive forgotten what the problem was. Lots about this on google though.
Thanks for the advice Dazza but on the pension I will have to go for the cheapy. 8meg wld do me. I get nuttin like dat now on supposedly ADSL2 it aint!!
Hear, Hear Bella, All we have seen from the government early in the year is deliberate fear divisive mongering continued attacks on asylum seekers or anyone wanting to become Australian, continued attacks and shaming of the poorest in the nation receiving welfare, support of more illegal building in international territories annexed oh and some crazy ideas on health care after massive cuts to pathology services, dental services, disability service and law services etc. Says a lot about a movement that they continue to attack the poorest, the unhealthiest, those seeking help and those who need help and use divisive rhetoric at every opportunity to try and raise support.
I see the coalition are continuing to run the regional rorts not content with a 90% spend of regional funds in coalition seats the “health” Minister is now talking about higher Medicare payments to regional people. This is an admission that the coalition policies are failing and their best efforts is to pander to regional marginal seats. Get rid of the Private Health Insurance rebate subsidy for those earning over $100K which will force the Private Health Insurers’ to compete and become efficient and put that $6 billion per year into Public Health. The coalition continue to flail and are taking the rest of Nation under with them.
Dismayed 10:02pm.
Lets balance al, this out on nuclear which was up and running well before Trump came in .
Not applying comment on him het not tested , but, We know all these other resentful perpetrators in the danger Zones like Kim Yong UN .”Are you saying he is not a threat to world peace”? If you are , well that shows you are out of step from the rest of the world . Your callacious mind continues being so confused shaking off threats from what othefs saying replacing with someone not yet tested .Lets give nuclear warfare the thumbs down and leave our kids the chance to excel into a future.
Dismayed ,..you continue to talk like a real idealogue communists who has NO regard for this country side-stepping this Kim madman as one of the most proven dangers of the world .
As for Trump , we can’t judge him yet , only the stock market and internal confidence has risen sharply . No point being a YES man Dismayed, if he fails , I will be up there agreeing on that.