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.
Tones says… he says,… he was headbutted by a ‘YES” man. No dodgy footage on the phone camera from his aid? No street cams anywhere? Nobody saw it. Well, it might have happened. Might not.
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Meanwhile, the morons could have had a vote in Parliament, like we wanted, would have cost no money, and more than anything it would have put paid to the ugly so called debate.
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Not a political spine in the building prepared to just do the job they are paid to do. Meanwhile, they sprout on about how the “Australian people are decent, and will conduct themselves…..blah blah blah”. That claim is looking stupid now.
Good job adults! Good job!
I found this very interesting as part of an article.
“The psychological basis for climate change denial has attracted increasing academic study in recent years, as researchers try to work out why one particular demographic — older white males — tends to dominate the ranks of climate denialists (compare, say, vaccination denialism, which has a younger and more female demographic). A 2015 study that has drawn considerable attention identified that “denial is driven partly by dominant personality and low empathy, and partly by motivation to justify and promote existing social and human-nature hierarchies.” That is, climate denialists were partly motivated by concern that climate action would undermine existing hierarchies, which, as white males, they tended to dominate. And because they see the world in terms of hierarchies, the only alternative they can conceive of is a hierarchy in which they are not dominant.” No Surprises.
Violin anyone?
Really?
“Opera companies will be ordered to employ an “appropriate balance” of Australian and international singers or face fines of up to $200,000 under a blueprint for the artform endorsed by the federal government.”
Those nitwits in Canberra obviously don’t have real problems to worry about like a shaky economy, Islamic terrorism, nuclear North Korea, spiraling power prices, etc.
So Woolworths can’t call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree anymore.
Have we gone stark raving mad?
Not us, them.
Seriously, Bo, this is the second time in as many weeks you’ve fallen for one of these “PC GONE MAD!!!” beat-ups. Like the “TURNBULL BABY BEER OUTRAGE!!!”, “SCHOOLS BAN CHRISTMAS CAROLS!!!” and “SCHOOLBOYS FORCED TO WEAR DRESSES!!!” stories, it simply did not happen, as a trip to Woolworths or even a quick look at their catalogue will show you:
https://www.bigw.com.au/christmas/christmas-trees/c/7301/
This particular story is based on the old news that not all Christmas trees for sale have the word “Christmas” on the box. I have a very old one in my cupboard that doesn’t say “Christmas” on it. Any moron can still tell it’s a Christmas tree. And Woolworths is a retailer, don’t make them, that’s how they come; they don’t go round censoring the word Christmas, which is all over everything else they’re selling anyway.
The story is a fabrication. The clue is when it runs in all the NewsCorp mastheads at once, but nowhere else.
Hey Whyalla is still there (that’s in SA) and powering ahead with renewables and lamb is $10kg at Woollies.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/whyallas-not-a-ghost-town-its-the-centre-of-a-green-industrial-revolution-88548/