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One of my proudest boasts is that since 1975 I have never knowingly contributed a cent to Rupert Murdoch\’s wealth.
politics
Unschooled
The percentage of ignorant adults in a population is directly proportional to the percenatge of home-schooled and religious-schooled children in the population.
Certifiable
At least three countries in the world (feel free to suggest more) have a majority of their citizens who are certifiable insane – Afghanistan, North Korea, and the United States of America…
Fuhrer
Are Trump\’s people working on translating \”Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer\” into American English? Occurs to me to thank the Tooth Fairy that Donald Trump is the opposite of religious. Imagine if he was a fundamentalist on top of all his other faults – then imagine a Taliban-run America.
Fellow travellers?
What\’s the old saying – \”if you are not left wing at 25 you are hard-hearted, if not right wing at 35 you are soft-headed\”? And I might add if you are fascist at 75 you\’ve joined a big club. I have headed in the opposite direction – I wonder how many of my peers
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Those commies
Odd, I say VERY odd, to think that both Nixon and Reagan would be too left wing for Trump\’s Republican Party.
The pits
So, Keith Pitt, you are concerned about “the impact in the cost of committing to net zero emissions targets and the subsequent green policies that have to be paid for”. But not concerned about the effect on your farmer friends of rising temperatures and natural disasters? Oh, but wait, you of course know more than
Waste not want not
So Simon Birmingham is \”Not denying the fact that there is waste that comes from a nuclear power plant, [but it] is waste that is eminently manageable and sensible for a country like Australia …\” Pity he won\’t be around in 30 years\’ time to see if he is right…
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Laughter lines
Occurs to me that there are probably next to none comedians in Iran and none at all in North Korea. Could we then construct a Comedy Index of number of comedians per head of population, the higher the CI the more civilised the country? But then what about the USA in the era of Trump?