G’day All,
Ozboy here. As you may have noticed recently, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to spend here creating posts. Rather than me offering another mere one-paragraph “spill post”, MemoryVault has kindly offered his services in the interim, with a continuation of an argument over the ozone hole, begun the other day. MemoryVault, the floor is yours…
Today I’d like to talk about an aspect of Libertarianism that is often widely misunderstood. Those of you that have been following my series on Libertarianism will know that, around a century ago, most of the societies of the West underwent the transformation from liberal democracies to social democracies, irrespective of the political hue of ephemeral governments. Two of the the most visible manifestations of this transformation were the enormous expansion of the tax base, and the rise of the Welfare State.
Sorry folks, I’m still going on my next Libertarian post, but you can continue the AGW debate below.
I read an interesting article here on Lord Monckton’s SPPI blog today, poking fun at the claims that 2010 is “set to become the hottest year ever”. Worth a read.
Strewth!
You lot are posting faster than I can write new threads!
When the comments on any particular thread get to 400 or so, the page start slowing down in loading, so here’s yet another brief “spill post” (as I call them), to enable you to continue the debate from the previous thread a bit more easily.
Next full post shortly (I promise—really!)
Ozboy
Another brief post while I find some time to work on my next long one.
For the average punter, not possessing a science degree can sometimes make the scientific AGW debate seem a bit esoteric: geeks firing gobbledegook-bombs at each other. What I find does hit home, however, is the flagrant hypocrisy surrounding some of AGW’s loudest champions.
Just a brief post today, as the last one’s getting a bit long. I should have a full post up mid-weekish.
I was looking at Watts Up With That this morning when I came across this hilarious story of a radical green group hacking the European Climate Exchange website and ridiculing the logic of cap-and-trade. A bit of light relief, if nothing else.
Very busy today, but I’ll look in on you all later.
Update…
For those of you interested in our native Australian wildlife, Memoryvault sent me the following image:
Crikey!
This won’t surprise those of you in the United Kingdom and the USA, who have recently endured the coldest winter in living memory: it’s happening again—this time in South America.
OK, you’ve read my thread on the Commonwealth. For those of us fortunate enough to live within its present or former extent, the British have given us the English language, parliamentary democracy, the writ of habeas corpus, Common Law and pretty much every sport worth playing. Democratic politics, both conservative and progressive, trace their roots to British thought. I would even make the case that the British Isles gave birth to positive libertarianism (but that’s another thread).
However, before you leave me pegged as an incurable anglophile, I want to canvass five of the very worst ideas the world has ever seen: ideas which, like weeds, have shaded out and strangled more noble ideas about them by sheer force, ideas which poisoned both mind and body as they morphed into religious cults, ideas which have resulted in the loss of tens, if not hundreds of millions of lives across the world, not to mention disease, starvation and human bondage and misery. Great, stinking, rotten, accursed ideas, every one of which were sown and took root in—England. Specifically, among its comfortably-off, middle-class, left-leaning, elitist academia. Continue reading
Entries in the prose/poetry section were not as numerous as I had hoped, but of a uniformly high standard. And after serious reflection, illiquid and otherwise, I have decided on a winner.
This is just a very brief post as the last one is growing a tad long (and slow).
I’m just reading a very strange conspiracy story here, linking BP and the Lockerbie bombing. Even our own Captain Sherlock couldn’t make this stuff up, yet it’s happening today! Wheels within wheels…
Urgent business calls me away today, my next full post within 2-3 days. Also I’ll announce the writing competition winners.
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