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Open Thread – Tues 7 March 2023
New York Movie, Edward Hopper, 1939
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Some thoughts on mothers, drag queens, trans, groomers & grooming
Why are parents, and in particular mothers, taking their children to drag queen shows and drag queen story hours in public libraries? This phenomenon of provocative drag queens performing in front of children was unheard of as little as five years ago yet now, probably because we are living in the middle of a woke…
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Rafe’s Roundup 6 March
The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of Kilmeny Another Organization to Track CONNECT AUSTRALIA. Check them out, aiming to unite, not divide. Also I am Spartacus! Speak with one voice…
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Lying occasionally or for all seasons?
I was with some friends on Friday. We had difficulty on agreeing what the proposed superannuation changes were, who they affected and by how much. Consolation came via the view that Chalmers appeared not to understand them either. The Prime Minister, of course, was caught lying. I don’t make the charge lightly. Politicians often renege…
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Rabz’ Radio Show March 2023: Rock Chicks
This post will no doubt be seen as either a desperate attempt to ensure some gender balance or an exercise in unrepentant sexism. Quite frankly Cats, I couldn’t give a rodent’s. The definitive “Rock Chick” when I was growing up was one Suzi Quattro. All that leather and attitude, as well those heavy guitar chords…
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Open Thread – Weekend 4 March 2023
Place de la Madeleine, Édouard Cortès, early 1900s
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Nietzsche’s foreboding insight
From the outset, it must be said that German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a troubled individual who suffered a wide range of afflictions during his relatively short life. Having said that, in the preface to his work ‘On the Genealogy of Morality’, Nietzsche wrote: What if a regressive trait lurked in “the good…
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Open Thread – Tue 28 Feb 2023
Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781
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Roundup Feb 26
Jo Nova honoured to be awarded the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award for 2023. Previous winners include NASA Astronaut Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), Dr Jay Lehr, Marc Morano, Christopher Monckton and Prof Fred Singer The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian…
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No such thing as Russia…
The backroom conversations and classified files of Foreign Ministries and Departments of State must be a wonderland of speculations and conditionals, of grand schemes and short-term crises. But, judging by the utterances of two former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Poland’s Ministry is up there with the best of them. Take Radoslaw (Radek) Sikorski, Minister from…