Category: General Musings

At the Innauguration….Trump supporter Brighde Staatz, from The Gap in Brisbane is posing for photos with her husband, former US baseball player Justin Staatz, and their 18-month-old son Mason. 

I am a Trump fan, I agree with a lot of his policies and I don’t like Obamacare”

Why not?

Well, it appears that her health insurance premiums have skyrocketed under Obamacare.

She says;

For my family of three I pay $1500 a month and that’s absurd in my opinion. Ordinary Americans can’t afford that.

Only a socialist would think that’s reasonable.

From Cameron Stewart in The Australian (hard copy only)

Maurice Blackburn has received a flood of calls about the theme park accident that killed four adults, including from people who want their own bad experiences on Dreamworld rides to be recorded.

“A wide variety of people have called. People who have been directly involved, people who have been witnesses, people who weren’t even there but have a story to tell,” the firm’s personal injury principal Alison Barrett told AAP.

 

Ms Barrett said the law firm was in the process of gathering information relevant to the Dreamworld tragedy, but most people weren’t interested in any compensation that might be offered down the track.

Yeah, right.  Then why phone a law firm?

I would suggest the “flood of calls” is a beat up by Maurice Blackburn to put themselves in the public’s mind as they and the public work out how they can benefit from the incident.

Just to be sure we know where they are coming from the spokesperson lays the blame for the deaths on the previous LNP government;

She said members of the former LNP government, and specifically former attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie, bear responsibility for sliding standards.

“They have played a very significant role in that. It was Jarrod Bleijie’s portfolio. And it all occurred under their watch.”

Got that? Call us and we will make you rich, even if you were just there on the day and eating an ice cream well out view of the incident.

Oh, and it was the evil, uncaring conservative government that caused the deaths.

Politics and avarice all while people are still grieving.

ADF Spokesman 2016 From The Australian

An ADF spokesman declined to give details of operations but said ADF members operated under strict rules of engagement and targeting procedures designed to protect them, minimise the risk of injury to civilian non-combatants and strictly comply with Australia’s obligations under domestic and international law.

Army Spokesman 1970

We closed with and killed the enemy.

Me thinks there are too many lawyers in the system.

From Kudelka in The Australian

I just wish Kevin Rudd would go away.

It would appear that in strong winds wind turbines have to be feathered and as strong winds are generally associated with rain as well then the solar panels don’t work either.

Thus entire state of South Australia is currently without power. I see the SA Premier on TV advising people to “reach out to neighbours” Could I suggest that they “reach out to Greenies and politicians who listen to them and throttle them”

Just watch and listen now as progressives turn this SA storm into the greatest weather event ever.  They need to detract us from the fact that it was no worse than we endure in Queensland every year.

Reported in The Australian – one comment from Gregory attracted my eye

This is the biggest media beatup I’ve ever read. I have been in the city and Adelaide hills all day.  The weather bureau reports 22mm of rain since 9am, falling roughly over a 6 hour period. The wind has averaged 22kmh with gusts to 32kmh.

This press and the bureau are just trying to make an excuse for our inept power infrastructure.

Should be fun as politicians get inventive explaining how a summer storm can stop a first world city.

From a speech in the Senate yesterday;

If you are not prepared to become Australian and give this country your undivided loyalty, obey our laws and respect our culture and way of life, then I suggest you go back where you came from.

Sounds reasonable to me and therefore to millions of Australians however as it is from a speech by Hanson then it will be attacked ad nauseum

I’m not a fan of Hanson’s but she did get the Greens to walk out of the Senate yesterday and that’s always good for the country.

Whereas I’m not a fan of Hanson I am a fan of freedom of speech and not only when I agree with the speaker.

Obviously the Greens aren’t as they walked out of the Senate, a house of debate, during Hanson’s speech.

The Greens walk out of the Senate

By not staying and debating the issue I have to assume they do not think immigrants should show loyalty, obey our laws or respect our culture and way of life.

Strange cattle these Greens.

I see the government has announced a gun amnesty to “get illegal weapons off the street” according to Justice Minister Michael Keenan. On ABC TV he indicated “Grandfather’s old gun” needed to be handed in.

From today’s Oz;

Mr Keenan said the amnesty was aimed at reducing the number of guns in the “illegal and grey market”.
“Some of that will be somebody who might have grandpa’s old gun in the back shed that wasn’t registered that we want handed in,” he said
But the Justice Minister did not explain how the government would entice criminals to hand in their illegal firearms.

The last sentence is the killer. I can’t see the Middle Eastern organized crime gangs in western Sydney, the Melbourne drug syndicates nor the Bikie gangs having round table discussions as to how best they can get all their illegal weapons collected and handed in.

Isn’t going to happen but some ordinary guy will hand in Grandfather’s gun for altruistic reasons, the government will say “look how we are dealing with the problem” and they aren’t.

In the case of Farhad Jabhar who shot and killed Curtis Cheng at Parramatta in October, he didn’t have legal access to firearms. Nor did he have a firearms licence or own a firearm. The weapon used, a handgun, wasn’t legally registered..

Alameddine, who gave the gun to Jabhar allegedly sourced the weapon from a Middle Eastern organised crime gang operating in western Sydney. This type of weapon, it appears, may be obtained for a few hundred dollars.

The government can’t legislate criminals into law abiding citizens. That takes policing and a good start would be increasing surveillence of imports as indicated by this link which highlights gun smuggling through Australia Post.

Again from The Oz;

The bottom line is that Australia’s laws don’t allow easy access to firearms, and lawful access to semiautomatic or automatic weapons is extremely restricted and heavily monitored.

But the problem in counter-terrorism isn’t those who operate within Australia’s gun laws: it’s the criminal alliance between the gangs that control the illegal firearms markets and the terrorists they’ll trade with.

We need an enhanced understanding of the crossover points to combat both national security challenges.

Policing, not legislation.