Feb 7 - 2010

Lots to talk about today.

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So Australians are the world champions for emissions. What a complete load of rubbish. To stay within the paradigm it would be total emissions for the country, not per head, that theoretically affects climate. By that measure China, India, the US, and a number of other nations are well in front of us. Note also that it leased to carbon trading centres have closed down recently. One of which was in Chicago.

On the nuclear subs. While in principle I am in favour of such protection no one has mentioned that with the New Zealand ban on any nuclear powered vessels we would no longer be in a position as the protector of New Zealand.

The patrol and walk into a trap system our soldiers in Afghanistan face on a daily basis begs the question as to why they have such poor support when it comes to intelligence. US patrol patterns vary. They have overhead support looking to changes in people working on installing IEDs. They use technology that detects the heat signatures of people who may be the ones that trigger an explosion. By contrast in general we have poor equipment, poor intelligence, and poor overhead support. Our trip shouldn't be there under such conditions.

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Mothballs appear to be killing one baby per year according to the report. While the loss of any child should be prevented, there are other areas that cause far more deaths per year. Banning the sale of mothballs may be easier than educating parents with newborn children but it is a continuation of removing responsibility instead of encouraging it.

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I had to laugh at the marina moorings. Specifically where the pylons were kept shorter aesthetic reasons. The boats moored to these more aesthetic pylons were almost all damaged. When pretty  beats sensible and practical I must admit any feelings of sympathy vanish.

How typical for a group like the Housing Industry Association to fight a plan to make buildings safer purely on speculation of price and availability of materials. Where are their costing estimates to challenge those of the Australian Building Codes Board? If I was building in such an area I would pay extra to go above the standard if I knew that during my lifetime I was likely to face a category four or five storm.

Looters, shoot on sight. Okay maybe not real bullets that at the very least tazers. After paedophiles these really are some of the lowest people on earth.

It's good to see so much information coming out about poor preparation of official buildings like emergency shelters and their substandard construction. Will anything be done about this? Probably not and when the same people vote the same people in again they will have no cause for complaint.

What a surprise those responsible are trying to hide the mismanagement of the Wivenhoe Dam. Careful checking of communication, if it could even be done, will uncover the directive is to keep levels higher were based in the outrageous global warming claims of no more rain.

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Another good laugh on this page "uprising not over religion." Martin Fletcher seems to have done no research whatsoever on the subject of Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Egypt's history. The co-founder of Al Qaeda was born and raised in the Muslim Brotherhood. Just because they have changed from an overt to a stealth jihad mode does not change any of their history, their methodology, their aims, their beliefs, and the fundamentals of Islam. Of course this article did come from the apologist publication The Times.

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Yes multiculturalism as a policy is a failure worldwide.

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Yes our power grids are in peril caused primarily by groups like The Greens and the Labor Party. Not a bad analysis by Annabel Hepworth. Bottom line, while the lie of global warming, recouched as climate change, persists then our prices are in trouble.

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Excellent article by Paul Monk.

No all Australians are not entitled to be insured against natural disasters. Those that build on floodplains knowing that the flood will come have no right to be insured by the government. They do have a right to pay higher premiums to protect themselves however.

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First letter. The opinion expressed in this letter is in complete contradiction to the actual empirical data. The "predictions "expressed in this letter not only indicate a complete lack of research but are contrary to real peer reviewed papers. These show a drop in the total strength of storms over the past 10 years, and lowering of the number of intense droughts and floods. People who write such letters really look back beyond 30 years before making their conclusions if they did so they would see that within the last hundred and 50 years there have been extreme weather events that have far exceeded those we have seen in recent times.

Logic is rapidly fleeing the minds of most Australians. Take the article on flood levee fear of the GST. The argument is that poor people also pay GST. The implication is that it is an unfair tax because it is equally applied. The lack of logic comes when you consider that people with more money spent more, by more, and so pay more GST.