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Right-Wing Nut Cases Are Every Bit As Reprehensible As Left-Wing Nut Cases

Posted on Sunday, 24th July 2011 by Ozboy

I’ve said before many times on this blog, the left-right divide is a fiction. The real differentiation in politics is between Libertarianism and Populism (aka Totalitarianism). Left-wingers and right-wingers merely squabble over what freedoms they choose to repress first: economic or personal. Both harbour a pathological urge to control the lives of others, and both regard Libertarians—and not each other—as their real enemy. Just look at the trolls’ comments on James’ blog, and you’ll see what I mean. Some of them claim to be members of the Fabian Society; others screech that they’re Republican (US) or Conservative (UK) voters. Their desperate claims to differentiate themselves from each other are as repetitive and pathetic as they are irrelevant.

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Parliament On A Knife Edge

Posted on Friday, 22nd July 2011 by Ozboy

A few thoughts while I’m still working on my next main article. You’ve heard me mentioning in the last thread the tenuous situation currently existing on the Australian parliament’s Lower House, the House of Representatives. Of the 150 seats, Labor holds 72, and has formed government in coalition with four non-aligned members: Adam Bandt, Australian Greens member for the seat of Melbourne, Andrew Wilkie, independent member for Denison (centred on Hobart), and two independent former National Party Members, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, who represent New England and Lyne reprectively, two conservative, rural NSW electorates. A majority of just one vote. And that including that of the speaker, Labor’s Harry Jenkins.

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MSM – A Monoculture

Posted on Thursday, 14th July 2011 by Ozboy

Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a chance to vent.

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Style Versus Substance

Posted on Saturday, 9th July 2011 by Ozboy

In May this year, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Corporation created space travel history by achieving the first “feathered” re-entry of its experimental craft, SpaceShipTwo. Oversize stabilizers mounted on the wingtips rotated upwards by 65°, giving the craft the geometry of a badminton shuttlecock and reducing its speed naturally. At a height of around 30,000 feet, the stabilizers rotated back to their normal configuration and the spacecraft landed normally on a runway at California’s Mojave Spaceport. It really is an engineering marvel, and I’ve included a clip of it here:

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Posted in AGW, Libertarianism | 47 Comments

The Australian Labor Party – A Dying Brand

Posted on Sunday, 3rd July 2011 by Ozboy

The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party.

V.I. Lenin, 1913

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Beware Of Greeks Demanding Gifts

Posted on Friday, 1st July 2011 by Ozboy

I’ve just been reading what I regard as the most comprehensible article (to a non-economist) I’ve read covering the causes of the current PIIGS financial crisis in Europe. Have a look and let me know what you think.

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Posted in Australia, China, Europe, United States of America | 15 Comments

Give ‘Em Hell, James

Posted on Monday, 27th June 2011 by Ozboy

It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed here (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m particularly impressed at how effortlessly James pushes the troll-alert buttons to deliver just the right amount of spluttering, self-righteous outrage on his blog from the usual suspects, exactly when his publicity machine needs it. Brilliant!

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Posted in AGW, Libertarianism, United States of America | 7 Comments

What’s Your Poison?

Posted on Sunday, 26th June 2011 by Ozboy

In a very thinly-veiled effort to give this chronicler a few days’ breathing space, I thought I’d throw open the bar and pose the question close to everyone’s heart at 6pm. What’s everyone’s most desired drink, loved libation, needed nepenthe?

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So: Impending Ice Age Or Not?

Posted on Saturday, 18th June 2011 by Ozboy

I thought I’d follow up the current JD thread as it seems to have worried the warmists enough to send a few new trolls over; some of the new crop even appear to be scientifically literate.