It’s a tricky move to attach gender or race motives to an umpire officiating a tennis match between two women: one Afro-American, the other half-Japanese, half-Haitian but one by one, too many members of the commentariat to count worked overtime to pull it off.
In the morass of Op-Eds scrawled in the wake of the US women’s Open final, focus quickly became lost and one rather simple fact was ignored:
Take this tweet from ABC presenter, Virginia Trioli. She claimed to have read almost all there was to read about what had happened and only then had been moved to judgment by way of retweet with comment. The retweet was of a judgy columnist, Margaret Sullivan, who splatters words around for the Washington Post and the New York Times, sometimes in some recognisable order. She, in turn, was tweeting up a rapidly cobbled together think piece from Sally Jenkins at WaPo. Jenkins, Sullivan enthused, got it “exactly right.”
Full column here.
It seems to me that if our youth are likely to do drugs (and many do), have the pills tested.
Show me a music festival anywhere in the world where kids just say NO.
Or don’t the lives of those druggie kids matter?
If the pills are tested by the government a number of things happen:
1. The government endorses drug taking and legitimizes the drug in question
2 The government becomes responsible for any long term effects
Sorry Bella – it is called being responsible for yourself.
Over 40 years I have watched 3 guys – one got into drugs at high school and has never held down a job and at the age of 40 is a burden on the taxpayer now and forever more.
The other 2, who shunned drugs, are leading happy and productive lives
I wonder if there have been any studies done on the correlation (if any) between long term unemployed and drug taking when young.
What we’ve seen in the ACT is not that at all. Police have been very pleased with the early results. They say it has allowed them to do real police work rather than a dismal form of crowd control. Pill testing does not condone drug taking. It merely goes some way to prevent deaths, avoidable deaths of young people. No law or law enforcement agency is going to stop drug taking. In fact I’d argue the prohibitionists and their tough on drugs messages have done more harm than good. We’re almost 60 years into the criminalisation of marijuana and heroin possession in this country, 90 with cocaine. We have a global pharmaceutical industry, who, in terms of supply, work hand in glove with transnational crime syndicates. In the US last year 30,000 people died from overdose of prescription opioids, twice the amount of deaths due to heroin overdose. The US is the highest per capita user of synthetic opioids. Guess who comes second? Little old us. So, what do we do about that? Nothing? Put it down to experience? Let people die? The War on Drugs is over and the prohibitionists lost. It wasn’t even close.
Some kids say NO to the national anthem, Bella.
What are you saying about kids at music festivals?
And if our youth are likely to do sex (and many do) have the partner’s tested?
New ball of the century? https://1v1d1e1lmiki1lgcvx32p49h8fe-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1536729724-RashidCricket.mp4?_=1
Yeah, different centuries of course.
New century
Poland has requested a Permanent US Military Base in their country, Mr. Insider and the Polish President suggested it be called “Fort Trump”. Donald was quite “chuffed” when this was suggested as one indeed would be. POTUS Trump certainly never put the “H” into Humble!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBVrAL7xKw8
Jeez Henry Blofield could you pull up on your bromance for a bit?
Most folks would say POTUS Trump puts the B into Big Mistake. 😝
I say, Mr. Insiderif the Lib/Nats are to be believed in QT if Labor gets in at the next Election Australia will uninhabitable in a short time.
FGS don’t they realise how silly they are making such stupid baseless statements.
Kelly O’Dwyer is a major offender, a bloody shocker imho I wouldn’t walk across the road to hear her “spruik”.
Top nautical news, Mr. Insider as we see Marine archaeologists believe they have finally identified the resting place of HMB Endeavour, the ship James Cook commanded to Australia on his first voyage of discovery, an achievement that would solve one of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time.
It is hoped that the vessel can be raised and restored as best as possible for the 250th Anniversary of Cook arriving here. That will be 2020
If one reads a number of books, such as Geoffrey Blainey’s 1967 classic “Tyranny of Distance” one would realise that Cook was, in fact, a “Johnny come lately”.
In fact, the Dutch, French and possibly even the Chinese touched on our shores as far back as the 1600’s and possibly earlier.
Notwithstanding all the claims to title lets all remember that our Native Australians, the Aboriginal People’s were here for possibly 10,000 years before these sailing folk arrived.
https://tinyurl.com/yb52jcm4
The most expensive building in Australia, in the top ten in the world, certainly the most expensive hospital on the planet – and costs still mounting at The Royal Adelaide. It’s not fit for purpose – and a team of experts now hired to work out how to fix it. Repercussions filtering right down the health system.
Digital patient records had to be abandoned – susyem crash – and no space for the paper records which are couriered back and forth.
Emergency dept chaos.
Yee Gods and little fishes -what a CUFU.
One has to wonder if any hospital staff with experience on the wards were given any input into the design – or was it just a bureaucrat sitting at his desk?
Yvonne. It is already acknowledged as one the best hospital on the planet. It is operating 24/7 and the few teething problems IT issues/ Servers and Generators breaking down, hardly the issue you ignorantly claim does stop it from serving the people of SA. Your hysterical delusions continue. you really should open your eye once in while and find even one fact. You have been listening to the disgraceful new SA Lib. government who managed to take the budget from a $12 million surplus at the time of the election according to the PEFO to a $350 million deficit in less than 6 month even after cutting funding to schools, health, aged, transport and just about everything else. Even their own spruikers in the only paper in town called the Libs. out for trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public with a blatant accounting tricks. R.Lucas the treasurer, the same bloke who was treasurer last time for the Libs and made such a mess of it continues to mislead the state. Suggest you worry about people in your oaky oaks not being able to even access much needed health care down there. You never fail to get it completely wrong. No surprises.
Rupert deciding who will be PM. No surprises.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/liberal-leadership-spill-rupert-murdoch-kerry-stokes-influence/10262552
Gullible and dismayed – what a winning combination.
Anyone denying Murdoch’s influence on Australian politics is not being honest with themselves.
Dismayed, yes its “no surprises” alright that you’re so easily seduced by such nonsense. A “tug of war between the nation’s most powerful media moguls”indeed.
I think we know who’s been doing all the tugging.
Screw rupe Dr etal sideline them
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-20/in-a-nation-of-cynics-we-are-flocking-to-the-fringe/10281522
This really is a load of bollocks, a section of the media who were delighted when Turnbull ousted Abbott, now see a change of PM as an attack on democracy, simply because their preferred PM lost his job.
Turnbull lost his job because he lost support in the Party room and because he called a spill without checking the numbers first. Dutton got a lot of votes from a standing start and that put the leadership on the line, in effect it opened it up to all comers.
As to the role of Murdoch, I subscribe to the Aus and ready it most days and they seem to me to employ more Turnbull backers than opponents.
More on this from me tomorrow. The SMH has listed a couple of my articles as evidence of a) Rupert sticking his hand up my jacksie and b) my extraordinary influence over the body politic. I will see Bruce Doull President of Australia yet. Mark my words.
Sorry JTI, but if you don’t put forward Tim Watson as President of Australia I am going to accuse you of being Murdoch’s puppet
No. There is another.
President Doormat?? Surely there could be a reconciliation candidate? Mick Malthouse. (Bringing Carlton, the Pies and Weagles together!)
Just a note to all the old farts here: as of yesterday Jimi Hendrix has been dead for *48 years*!
That is all.
Indeed so Trivalve and just 3 weeks later the great Janis Joplin died too, may they both RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEptDQwk-A
Poor Janis. I remember the night the news broke here. My parents were being introduced to her by way of a This Day Tonight (or some such) story. There was a clip of her with Big Brother doing Piece of my Heart. My mum looked at me mournfully and said, “Now son, doesn’t she sound like a drug addict?”
“What does a drug addict sound like?”, I replied.
Mum wasn’t too steeped in the blues. And dad still thinks the last person who could sing was Bing Crosby.
What a perverse world we live in. Some suggest we throw money around to stop climate change. I would suggest if we have ACC then it is money as one of its major drivers. And people and their stupidity. Some people highlight the diminishing permafrost. Does that perma stand for permanent? Some people wax on about renewables. Are they too permanent? Not according to some. And yet some would have us spend a fortune on ugly, expensive, unreliable, space consuming “renewables” whilst ruling out nuclear. Moreover some people argue for a big Áustralia yet the earths biggest problem is over population. It is our ever increasing population that is diminishing our resources, be they plant life, sea life etc etc. Burning coal in itself not a problem, it is the ever increasing demand, as a result of too many people, for what it provides that is the problem. I suggest we go nuclear and people stop rooting. I say pleasure yourself to please the world.
I say Milton that looks something ex-ousted PM Abbott would suggest dear fellow? Goodness me sounds like a “balls to the wind” Policy you want to be adopted.
Well, why not then. Cheers P.S. I think my Donald may like the way you think!
And when you’ve got some time come back to Planet Earth and see if you can fix some problems here.
A cheap response JB to a well crafted piece by Milton. You’re slipping. Too much perma frost on the cerebral cortex me old mate?
Crafted waffling garbage Carl. Get real.
I agree, Carl and thank-you.. I’ve not heard of it before today, but like you, I, and others who’ve pondered over some dismayed people and their mentors condition(s) feel assured in diagnosing them (and I’ve a medical background) with histrionic personality disorder. It’s no excuse, as Jack states, but I hope they seek help, and wish them wellness.
The Greens support pill testing. How’s about they hand out the good pills for free so all us kids, rich or poor, can have some fun? Drugs yeh, needle exchange yeh, injecting rooms yeh – smokers no, drinkers no. And if they didn’t know, the last 2 mentioned contribute a shit load of money in taxes, the druggies don’t. Better still get the greenies check out all fruits for needles?!
Should be random drug testing of all pollies considering the outlandish crap some come out with, tending to make me think some definitely have substance abuse issues. It happens in other places so why not government, that includes the public service, the ABC, but especially the ato. I think they are definitely on mind altering drugs. Timothy Leary may be the in-house doctor.