Forget the lotteries or a long shot quadrella. The easiest way to make a million dollars and earn the respect of your peers to boot is to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
The rules are invariably flexible. A winner has to do something ‘good’ within fairly broad confines of what good is but then can do a lot of stuff that is extremely bad. Or you can do many bad things early on and then do a little bit of good and next thing you know you’re standing on the stage at the Stockholm Concert Hall, smiling for the cameras with the presentation cheque in hand.
The 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Before becoming president, the redoubtable Teddy was both Secretary of the Navy and the leader of the Rough Riders, a US volunteer cavalry outfit that saw action in the Cuban theatre of the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Teddy frequently charged ahead of his men and blasted away at anything that moved. He wrote a rather chilling piece of reportage where he spoke of his euphoria after killing his first man at the Battle of San Juan. Even his admirers, of which I am one, would acknowledge Teddy liked war a little bit too much.
Full column here.
Geez JTI,
At the time on writing 272 comments with roughly 57 from Dismal.
Is he on some form of commission?
🙂
It’s hard to reconcile Malcolm Roberts being a follower of Descartes, cogito ergo sum and all that, but his rationale for keeping his tush on Parliamentary leather ‘I believed that I was Australian all along, therefore I am’ indicates otherwise.
On second thoughts, it’s even harder to believe that Roberts actually has the capacity to think.
It would be a travesty Roberts continues in Parliament, even if he’s found to be legally entitled to stay. He’s proven beyond a doubt that he’s a frontrunner for the dopiest Parliamentarian award.
15 of 20 posts………….must be nearly break time again.
Are you a proponent of prostate milking Jack The Insider?
Is it just me, or could Malcolm Roberts make a good case as being the craziest Senator ever ‘elected’ in this country?
How the judges in the High Court are keeping their equanimity is beyond me, but I expect they’ve dealt with plenty of lunatics before.
SHY?
Rod Culleton was more overtly loopy IMO, god I miss him. But Mal does have a kind of starey-eyed deep-down crazy that’s hard to beat.
Milton says:September 20, 2017 at 12:30 pm What did we tell you about projecting, Unmade? Sigh. Too easy. Leave my projection alone and get off your knees. HAHAHAHA. Next.
I see the editorial in the Australian is supporting the Australian Industry Group in wanting to drive down wages even further and Minister for attacking workers rights the Screaching Cash appears to agree. No surprises.
Jack, this guy, or team, has seriously hijacked this blog. Some (little) of his (their) commentary is on-topic and informative, but I get sick of having to wade through his (their) excessive contributions in a vituperative, antagonistic style. It has also infected other previously polite contributors, and creates similar responses. While I am mostly an observer, and rarely contribute he/she/they are really putting me off. Over the wall is bad enough.
If you get paid by the post, no problems. If not, Dismayed is an apt moniker. Either a troll or a very sad person.
Just a comment and I am prepared for a barrage in response.
Hope the treatment is positive – any chance of an update? You inspired me to give up the durries.
Cheers, Nick
Why doesn’t he/she/they just set up their own blog. Oh wait…bugger all people would join in!
Have to agree with you. It is becoming obsessive. I shall deal with it. Cheers and all good this end. 3rd dose of Keytruda next week. No big side effects. I get a bit tired and a bit itchy but that’s all. From next week it will be 3 doses down 30 to go plus a lot of biopsies, scans and health checks. Well done on giving up the smokes. Hard to do.
That’s an awful lot of Keytruda, keep on keeping on😀
Glad you’re coping with the treatment Jack! Your attitude is inspiring too. Go well
Couldn’t agree with you more! Funnily enough I also did a count of his posts just for the hell of it.
The blog is in danger of becoming his personal rant/hate column.
Just goes on and on and on about bloody energy stuff.
Opening up Jack’s blog on a nice morning – and whammo, three or four of them.
Excellent article by Simon Holmes a Court. Yes Opinion) but factually correct.
“When Aemo released a report earlier this month explaining that if we don’t take any of the measures we’re already taking, the Victorian grid might, in a high demand scenario, be only 99.99775% reliable (a graph on page of the report indicates “unserved energy” for Victoria this summer of 0.00225%, which translates to 99.99775%), two senior ABC journalists (Virginia Trioli and Patricia Karvelas respectively) reported “we’re going to have blackouts” and that we have a “very real crisis”. This despite the chair of the Energy Security Board Dr Kerry Schott’s reassurance: “I don’t see it as a crisis.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/energy-policy-would-not-be-that-hard-if-the-government-wasnt-hamstrung-by-ideologues
Reckon I just counted 45 posts from you in the last 3 days and you have even started to reply to yourself. I think you need professional help, or a new hobby besides blogging.
no power for you honey this summer its lights out for sa.
Here’s another one, dumber than. Air thief.
Let’s hope so
Ah there you go latest research showing once the automotive industry shuts it will have wiped $29 billion per annum from Australian GDP. All for a lousy $250 million a year. coalitions ideology again put ahead of the National interest. But at least it leave $billions more to pork barrel a couple of seats in QLD. No surprises.
Oh this too. “It will also leave a big dint in Australia’s balance of payments, with Australia’s automotive industry becoming 100% consumers, not producers, meaning that all our cars will need to be funded by other exports or external borrowings.”
Um, are you saying that Labor doesn’t get up to those tricks too?
She’s not Henry Kissinger who probably would’ve not unhappily let them get killed if he felt geopolitical ‘reality’ dictated it, but, it is sad what she’s let herself be reduced to in the name, probably, of saving her own skin from the Tatmadaw and the extremist Buddhist monks. Then again, her own party don’t much like the Rohingya either, it seems.
That the Tatmadaw are carrying on where Ne Win and SLORC left off shouldn’t be much of a surprise, I suppose, except for the addition of what looks dangerously like wholesale ethnic cleansing, rather than just wholesale brutality and criminality, of a minority group deliberately rendered stateless, and that perhaps that it’s come during Burma’s baby-steps towards some form of guided democracy (something not unheard of by any means, however).