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John Ray, dissecting leftism
Great to see John J Ray on the blogroll, he is a great unsung hero of the resistance and he deserves to get full recognition before it is too late for him to see and hear it. Check out his sites and take advantage of the arsenal of weapons that he has forged to help…
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Flat White ScoMo’s climate modelling is even dodgier than his climate policy
The government went to Glasgow to sell its net zero emissions by 2050 policy to world leaders. The policy was based on heroic assumptions like green hydrogen becoming the cheapest source of electricity, and solar power, which presently costs $70 per MWh as long as suppliers dictate demand, falling to $15 per MWh. Now we…
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Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney – The progressive politicisation of everything
A friend of mine, whom I’ll call “Anna” (not her real name) is on Facebook. Anna uses the platform for work (she runs a small business) as well as to engage in Facebook groups with parents of disabled children (she is the mother of a severely disabled son). Anna is a member of a Facebook…
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Uncomfortable Times
I was driving to work in Melbourne in the mid-1980s, listening to the ABC News. Tony Rafferty, the newsreader said, had caught up with the race leaders despite having started behind. I forget which race but it must have been a handicap, ultra-distance, road race of the kind for which Rafferty was famous. I phoned…
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Mater’s Musings #38: Is the Ethical High Ground now just a Sand Castle at high tide?
Speaking recently to a number of medical professionals involved in the Vaccination program down here in Victoria, the anecdotes about how difficult it had become to administer the vaccines in recent months came thick and fast. The reason is; those now being vaccinated are almost exclusively the unwilling, those under significant duress, those at the…
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Two weeks to flatten the curve
Came across a copy of the above “Horrible History” on the Frightful First World War. And indeed it was horrible and even now there is no settled theory on how it ever happened, although there is a near consensus that it never ought to have. But there on the back was this. The Frightful First World…
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Guest Post: Hugh – Jungle survival: What the SAS Manual doesn’t Teach
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, Velázquez, 1618 Incredible story. One of our two great pastors, Fr Wee, told us in his Sunday sermon of the few months he spent with a living saint priest on the Thai/Malaysian border. Thick jungle. No food except boiled rice and vegetables. No salt, pepper, tea, coffee,…
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Good News Everybody!
The banks are here to help with the multi-trillion dollar transition to carbon neutrality by 2050! Commonwealth Bank head of institutional banking and markets Andrew Hinchliff said there was a wall of funds looking to finance the transition, not just because it was the moral and ethical thing to do but also for the business…
Joe Rogan had Bart Sibrel on again. He’s one of these chaps that maintains that no one has ever been…