We have seen a company offer $15 million to netball, and the netballers celebrate the gift by registering dissatisfaction. Not unreasonably, the donor expected the players to get on with playing, and leave politics to the politicians.
Why does netball need $15 million? It's a game, and the gate decides how much the players are worth. If that is inadequate, they have the option of getting a job, like the rest of us.
Donors have every right to withhold money that is unappreciated. Who could expect more?
October 2022
The Premier of Victoria assures us that Andrew Thorburn was justly removed from his position, because his church disapproves of homosexuality.
Fair enough. But doesn't the Premier's Catholic Church hold the same views?
If the Premier is consistent, should he not now put in his resignation?
October 2022
After more than a century of great football, Essendon Football Club has decided to leave football behind and enter the realm of religion. No senior officials are permitted to adhere publicly to Christianity, but must hide their beliefs and pledge allegiance to the new faith of homosexuality.
This new religion will need a new bible, as the old one has a bit too many problems. The Commandments too, they will need some adjustment, as there will be more tolerance for others.
Two men went to church to pray, one a Democrat and the other a Republican.
The Democrat stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Republican. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.'
And the Republican, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
September 2022 (to the New York Times)
In the news we see academics at US colleges and elsewhere accusing the late Queen Elizabeth of the outrage of colonising people, including those in the US.
Where do they get this idea? Queen Elizabeth lived through the greatest decolonisation process in history. And the people most recently decolonised, in Hong Kong, would give an arm and a leg to have the British back again.
Not all colonisation is bad, however. Were there not 13 colonies which gave birth to the US? And does that not make these academics and their ancestors the real colonisers, rather than a queen who never did any colonising in her life?
What on earth are they teaching in these colleges?
September 2022
We have noticed the sudden cold weather along the east coast.
For this we have to thank Labor's latest Climate Legislation. Just the proposal to put this to Parliament has already dropped the temperatures significantly.
Now as soon as the taxes start to roll, watch how China will begin dismantling three coal-fired power stations each week. The Arctic ice will stop melting. And the people will demonstrate in the streets to thank the government for increasing taxes and slowing the supply chain to save the planet. They will shout from the housetops that the high prices and increased poverty were all essential in a just cause.
Elites will fly in their private jets to exciting locations to share expensive dinners and discuss further ways of saving the planet, calculating how much will need to be sourced from the next tax plan.
All thanks to those who spend their lives saving the planet. Saving it from us, that is.
March 2022 (to the New York Times)
There is a man who has decided that the XL Pipeline will not carry oil. That fracking is a bad thing. And that exploration is something which ought to be discouraged.
In the process, the cost of the petrol I use each week has almost doubled.
That is, for the sake of virtue signalling on behalf of the global warming deity, this man is taking from me more than $1 000 per year, without being able to demonstrate any practical good.
Why is this not a form of theft?
March 2022 (to the New York Times)
High level peace negotiations have been going on between Ukraine and Russian representatives.
There are indications that part of the peace agreement will involve the handing-over of documentary evidence of the illicit activities of certain family members of the Democrat elite.
What options are open to the Democrats if they want to avoid such exposure?
December 2021
The frantic news of new outbreaks of covid is served up daily by a breathless media, along with intense demands to vaccinate. Yet no one has explained why covid is any more dangerous than the flu.
Now the flu has been with us for centuries, and there are no plans to eliminate it by lockdowns, mandates or anything else.
Yet somehow the flu has obligingly disappeared.
If there are reasons to doubt the information being fed to us by our friends in the media, should we not also harbour a healthy scepticism for their advice to vaccinate?
After all, can anyone say for sure what these vaccines will do to us down the track?
December 2021
I am now locked out of locations for which I have paid entry, because the government knows better than I do what is good for me.
I refuse to take a vaccine condemned by thousands of medical professionals, and supported by hirelings.
All for a disease much like flu, and about as serious. Whoever heard of a man falling from a seventh-floor balcony and dying of flu?
The government demands that we take what many regard as poison, and punishes us by destroying our jobs if we try to save our own lives. But now we are hearing about athletes, pilots and other healthy individuals suddenly getting heart attacks. And children getting strokes.
The problem is not so much the virus, as the vaccine. And an indifferent government.
Victorians are concerned about the latest variant of the virus, which is very difficult to detect because it has no known symptoms.
The only solution proposed at present is another lockdown, in the hope that this will allow the variant to eventually disappear by itself.
November 2021
We have health warnings on cigarette packs, some of them quite graphic. And for good reason, since cigarettes cause death, severe illness, and horrific injury.
Given that it is now becoming clear that the covid vaccines produce fairly similar results, if the government fails to insist on health warnings on the vaccines, does it not become complicit in the ensuing tragedies for families who are simply following the request, or rather insistence, of government?
Are we opening a pandora's box of retribution for those who are seen to push the virus? Or would those responsible claim that they didn't know?
Here we are in Glasgow, where we have flown in our private jets, so that we can tell the world to stop driving cars and use public transport. We want to explain to all governments how vital it is to ban double-cab utes. It's for your own good.
Some cars are necessary. For example Bentleys, Lamborghinis and BMWs hold a necessary place for those in essential occupations like ours. As for the general population, in cases where cars are absolutely needed, something like a Suzuki Alto might be more appropriate.
For the rest of you, it's bicycles, trains and buses. And walking is good for your health. Remember, we know what's best for you.
November 2021 (to the Courier-Mail)
The TV news channels go on endlessly about protests by 'anti-vaxxers'.
Is there really such a thing?
I have heard no one declare that vaccines are evil. The people protesting say openly that their complaint is being forced to take a medical intervention against their will.
It seems to me that this sounds eminently reasonable.
Why are our elites in favour of medical enforcement on unwilling subjects? Isn't that what we thought we had settled at Nuremberg?
November 2021
The wheels of the Vax bus are falling off. Quick, what can we do?
Almost without a pause, the elites and the TV media fall back on their old faithful, climate change for a re-run.
400 private jets to Glasgow where they tell us to stop driving cars.
Their message? Pay more tax and watch the temperature go down.
November 2021
There is a significant body of opinion which says that Cardinal George Pell was set up. But the silence from Australia's bishops is deafening.
Cardinal Pell spent a year behind bars for something the whole world knows he did not do. Don't they believe in justice?
Of course they do. Their published output is full of it. They shout it from the housetops.
For those old enough to remember the greatness of Australian society, it has become clear that this present generation is quite unaware just how bad our social arena has become, and how good it could have been.
It appears manifest that the decline began with the introduction of the contraceptive pill and the legalising of abortion.
Women became free to compete in the workplace and take jobs away from breadwinners. We see today the obscenity of childless couples holding down two well-paid jobs, while whole families are without work.
Wives farmed out the raising of their children, when they had any at all, to hirelings, with predictable results in the behaviour of their offspring. It did not seem to dawn on them that the best person to raise a child is his mother.
The elites of our society chose diversity over competence, and thus were disposed to appoint teachers and politicians noted for qualities other than intelligence and moral fibre. And so other countries, spending less on education, consistently outdo us in learning.
With the severe reduction in birthrate, the demand for many trades and professions has greatly deteriorated; jobs which will take a generation to recover. If then.
So we import taxpayers to help pay the bills, only to find that many of these migrants have found a haven in the welfare industry, at our expense.
Now all this seems obvious to Blind Freddy. But rather obscure to our leaders, who think they can solve problems by mandating them out of existence.
Well, we appointed them. We can disappoint them.
October 2021
Having seen the large array of reports on the consequences of taking the vaccine, I believe that in the course of time many who have taken the multiple doses will suffer serious health consequences, and a significant number will be dead within a year or two. Indeed, we learn already of sickness and death among those otherwise healthy.
At the same time, it seems that those who have refused the vaccine will also suffer severe penalties. But these will be largely political, imposed by the elites promoting the vaccine.
If I prove correct, what outcomes would be appropriate for those who have caused the deaths, the illnesses, and the heavy cost to the economy? After all, do they not have the same access to information as do the rest of us?
October 2021
What will happen when the vaccinated start dying in large numbers? Will the government admit that they were wrong? Will they legislate to allow aggrieved families to proceed against those responsible for the vaccine?
Not likely. Governments are not used to admitting error. So how will they explain all the deaths and illnesses?
Simple. Those who died simply did not get enough booster shots. Those vaccinated for less than six months may be reclassified as 'unvaccinated'. Other medical factors must have contributed to the deaths and medical issues. None of this is their fault.
Those who did not take the vaccine may be out of work, unable to pay mortgages, seek medical help or buy food. But they are alive.
"Come and get vaxxed". The siren call of the government and the media.
"It won't protect you. You can still catch the virus. And there are side effects, like great pain and suffering, and death.
"But get vaxxed anyway, else you will be punished. You will be excluded from society, lose your job, be unable to get health care, pay your mortgage, feed your family, travel anywhere or buy groceries. Maybe you will be sent to a 'quarantine' camp.
"And if you happen to catch the virus, do not dare to try and get yourself cured. Doctors who try to help by prescribing ivermectin will suffer great penalties. No. You must take our cure, or take the consequences."
And they wonder why we are not falling over ourselves to join the queue.
We have lockdowns, we are told, because the vaccinated can still catch the virus, and still pass it on.
But if the vaccinated can still catch the virus and still pass it on, what's the point of getting vaccinated?
And if the side effects of the vaccine include misery and death, it seems essential for our survival to remain safely unvaccinated.
But then the question arises, why does our government wish us such harm?
October 2021
Threats are beginning to come from politicians against law-abiding citizens who do not wish to be vaccinated. It is not impossible that some in government might consider locking them up in concentration camps, for no crime except wanting to remain healthy, and having an opinion of their own.
Such indications of forced medical intervention have been called crimes against humanity, at least when the Nazis did it.
When it all starts to unravel, whose names will be remembered?
Medical experts are predicting the deaths of many who have taken the vaccine.
If there is any possible truth that vaccines will cause mass deaths, we have to worry about the US Navy vaccinating the whole fleet, and getting rid of those sailors who insist on remaining unjabbed.
I suppose, when there are no sailors left, we could ask the Chinese, quite politely, to refrain from warmongering talk until we can once again build up enough healthy crews to man our ships. And we could hope that they would agree, quite sportingly, to wait until we tell them that we are ready before doing anything aggressive.
In return, we could promise to give them a heads up before we launch a nuclear attack.
At last the Biden administration is getting to do something about global warming.
As soon as the people start paying their carbon tax, the temperature will drop by two degrees, China will start dismantling coal-fired power stations, the number of sunspots will decrease by half, and the deep freeze in Antarctica will end.
There is no way the Trump administration could have managed something so blindingly logical.
October 2021 (to the New York Times)
At last the Biden administration is getting to do something about global warming.
As soon as the people start paying their carbon tax, the temperature will drop by two degrees, China will start dismantling coal-fired power stations, the number of sunspots will decrease by half, and the deep freeze in Antarctica will end.
There is no way the Trump administration could have managed something so blindingly logical.
October 2021
The vaccine is safe, says Big Pharma.
More people die from the vaccine than from the virus, say independent doctors.
Getting rid of the virus is easy. Simply remove the source of the infection.
Close down the TV channels. See how quickly the virus disappears.
Where there is no TV there is no virus. October 2021 (to the New York Times)
In Biblical times, the Pharisees were the great virtue-signallers. They enforced rules on others that they themselves had no intention of keeping. They called out ordinary people for offences which they and their own supporters unblushingly committed daily.
They felt so sorry for the poor and the marginalised that they could not wait to get their hands into the pockets of others to give them something.
They held positions of authority, but did no actual work. Yet they became very wealthy. They liked to be noticed and praised for their superior knowledge, and they took the highest places at public events. In short, they were the Olympic champions of hypocrisy, yet were totally un-self-aware.
Goodness gracious! What am I doing? I have just described the Democrats.
Remember when Trump had all those successes? Well that was because of anything Trump did. It came from the great preparatory work done by President Obama. I know this because the media told me.
Now we have all those disasters during the Biden presidency. Well, that was inevitable, and certainly nothing to do with mismanagement. It was because of the great harm bequeathed by President Trump.
September 2021
The TV media keep pushing for us to get the vaccine, supposedly to protect the vaccinated.
They thus admit that the vaccine itself does not protect. Nor does it prevent the virus from spreading.
So if we can catch the virus from vaccinated and unvaccinated, and no one is protected, then what is the purpose of the vaccine?
If one is cynical, it might be argued that one purpose might be to provide a handsome income to certain vaccine producers and those in their hire.
Are we living in an age where logic is no longer a virtue?
The Government had announced 31 October as Freedom Day. The chocolate ration would be reduced from 8 ounces to 4 ounces. Of course, the media obediently declared that the Government had in fact upped the ration from 2 ounces to 4 ounces.
There were spontaneous demonstrations in the street in support of the government's generosity, all unhindered by a police presence.
The Deep Media went quietly to work modifying all data which might contest the new narrative.
Winston smiled to himself. He knew that little chocolate would be delivered, as chocolate was available only to those who could show 12 consecutive monthly boosters on their passports.
September 2021
The TV outlets continue their promotion of the vaccines, but rarely mention that there are reasons to be cautious.
Some of us remember Thalidomide, and are aware that the vaccines are experimental.
If and when a final accounting comes, what will happen to those 'journalists' who refuse to acknowledge that there is another side to the narrative, and constantly denigrate those they label as 'anti-vaxers'?
The frantic TV headlines trumpeting endless covid news recalls the famous headline: "Small Earthquake in Peru, Not Many Dead". Don't these media apparatchiks know that the virus kills not many? And even those deaths announced are subject to considerable doubt?
Is there some real news happening somewhere that the media barons prefer masked?
September 2021
This country seems to be dividing into two groups. One group, made up largely of Labor voters, takes the vaccine. The other, mostly conservatives, says no, having heard that there is a possibility that people who get vaccinated are likely to die within two years.
If the feared prediction comes true, then Labor disappears forever, leaving the country to conservatives.
But no need to worry. It's just a conspiracy theory.
September 2021 (to the New York Times)
Two claims would appear to promise significant changes to the political stability of the US.
First, the claim, shared by many Republicans, that the vaccines will cause the deaths of the vast majority of those vaccinated, over a period of about two years.
Second, the decision of the Democrat administration that ordinary Americans will be subjected to vaccination, but not their political leaders.
Putting these two together, there would appear to be the belief among politicians that although the vaccines are dangerous, even deadly, for the general population, the political fellowship in Washington at least will be spared the suffering and death.
At the same time, Democrat voters appear eager for vaccination, and rather irritated with reluctant Republicans.
But suppose the first claim has a glimmer of truth. In two years, there might still be lots of Democrat politicians, but not so many voters. Those Republicans who resisted the vax will now find that their persecution for resistance has brought them through the pandemic in comparative safety. Instead of a fairly stable balance of Republicans and Democrats, the latter might find themselves becoming a tiny minority.
It signals the eternal wilderness for one party, and a new monopoly for the other. Not a healthy situation. If true, it will certainly clarify 2024, and many elections to follow.
There are now many eminent doctors pointing out the dangers of covid vaccination, and it seems that those experts pushing the vaccine are mostly in the pay of the pharmaceutical industry or the government.
Until we know whether the vaccine is going to seriously harm most of us, or likely to cause 80% of pregnancies to miscarry, would it not be prudent to call a halt to the vaccine program until we know for sure?
If we don't, then is the government guilty of using the people it represents as guinea pigs? What will happen to our representatives if it becomes clear down the track that they have been misleading us, with grave consequences for our families?
The vaccine is for our own good? Prudence might suggest that science is telling us that the virus is somewhat less deadly.
We have seen the leadership of the Taliban all gathered conveniently together in a single location - the Afghanistan presidential palace.
What a superb target that could have made for a suitably-placed Predator. A chance to remove serious evildoers from power, just as President Obama targeted Osama bin Laden.
But that would have required a decision from a president.
Where can we find such a president?
August 2021 (to the Courier-Mail) There seems to be some wonder among the authorities as to why 30% of Australians will not have the jab. Wonder no more. There is an enormous amount of information on the internet which is carefully filtered from our mainstream media. So much that it is now impossible to dismiss these reports as conspiracy theories. Moreover, they are providing solid evidence which seems lacking in government announcements and TV presentations.
In the middle of the last century, when I was vaccinated, injuries and deaths from vaccines were unheard of. Vaccines were safe, reliable and trustworthy.
Today, the adverse effects and deaths from covid vaccines seem to greatly outnumber those from the virus. Many Australians no longer believe the propaganda. And many are prepared to face the many hardships promised for those who remain unvaccinated, in order to preserve the safety of themselves and their families.
Are we being lied-to? We can easily find out, if the media will simply publish both sides of the story. Or is that not their job?
August 2021
Why is anyone surprised at the disaster in Afghanistan? Democrats are engineered into positions of power on the basis of their wokability. Competence is not even on their radar.
This includes Democrat presidents. Especially Democrat presidents. August 2021
The events in Afghanistan stem from the ignorance of the Bush administration. President Bush claimed that Islam is a religion of peace, and the violence and rape normal in Islam were simply aberrations.
To succeed in Afghanistan, what the US needed to do was ensure that all women have the right to choose their husbands, and not to be forced to marry as children. Given that a woman marrying a Christian is subject to the death sentence, as is any Muslim who wishes to leave Islam, this would seem essential to the rights of women. But sadly not honoured.
Had the US succeeded in freeing women from the constrictions of Islamic patriarchy, Islam in Afghanistan would by now be just a memory, since women are not stupid: the number of women agreeing to marry Muslims would be close to zero. The current massacres are attributable directly to the appalling ignorance of all Democrats and not a few Republicans.
Each day the TV media is full of news of the virus and the vaccine. All of it pro -vaccination, with no mention of the other side of the argument. Almost as if the media regard themselves as the propaganda arm of the administration.
Yet on the internet we have many eminent medical experts expressing terrible doubts, and providing solid evidence to back their claims, something the hirelings of the government do not seem to regard as necessary.
The evidence of these experts is dismissed as conspiracy theory, without any attempt at dialogue. There is even talk of punishing those whose views do not correspond with those of the government spokespieces.
But if any of the claims come to fruition, and people start to die from the experimental 'vaccines', what will be the consequences for those pushing the jab? Will those whose task it is to provide the truth might find themselves at odds with the families who have suffered greatly. What will be the consequences for these journalists should their activities result in mayhem down the track?
Suppose that a year from now it is firmly established that the paid experts and politicians had always been aware that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquin were easily and reliably able to cut off covid before it could gain a foothold on those affected.
That is, suppose we find that all the lockdown, the vaccines, the police bovvery were totally unnecessary.
It is not impossible that people, who are tired of politicians and bureaucrats dictating their lives and preventing the cure, would decide to claim compensation for the ruin of their businesses, their livelihoods, their mortgages and their lifestyles from those who grew fat during the pandemic.
It would be a field day for lawyers. But there are some who might find the season not to their liking.
Just saying.
August 2021
The numbers of those infected, used to justify the endless lockdowns, seem to me somewhat distorted.
If you have to be tested to find out if you are sick, maybe you are not sick at all.
We are destroying our economy for no good reason. But somehow the politicians and their paid doctors reckon we're all in this together.
How about a 50% pay cut for all politicians and public servants, so that we can really be in it together?
I'm sorry. I meant 75%.
August 2021
The latest conspiracy theory says that the world elites think there are too many humans on this planet. It adds that these elites have financed a number of vaccines which don't seem to work, because the vaccinated still have to quarantine, wear masks and keep their distance. And after all this, still they die.
But, the theory goes, in two or three years the vaccinated will start having heart problems. And the elites will have won without a whimper from the leaders we elected to protect us.
But all that's only a theory. And yet, as someone has pointed out, Noah was a conspiracy theorist.
And then the rain started.
July 2021
The pressure to take the jab is intense. But why?
If the vaccine works, those already vaccinated are in no danger from the rest of us. And if it doesn't work, why are we being sold a pup?
Who is unwise enough to take a vaccine from pharmaceutical companies protected from legal action? Has no one ever seen a thalidomide baby?
Or do the vaccinated suspect they have been had, and desire our company in their coming illnesses?
July 2021
Those of us who suspect that the vaccine kills more people than the virus does are conspiracy theorists.
We are in good company.
Not so many years ago a conspiracy theorist named Winston Churchill believed that a certain German leader threatened world peace, when the approved wisdom was that he was just a patriotic vegetarian who was kind to his dog.
It took a blitz on Warsaw, Rotterdam and London to dismantle that reality.
So does the vaccine kill? Who will tell us? The media? The government? The pharmaceutical companies? Anybody?
Here is a conspiracy theory: Where people don't have TV, why are there no deaths? Is this a coincidence?
July 2021
Perhaps there is something I am unable to grasp here.
Isn't allowing a politician to keep a seat gained in a fraudulent election a bit like allowing a thief to keep his loot?
It seems to me that such a winner, if honest, would hand it back.
July 2021
Bill Cosby has had his day in court, and has walked free. So why are the chattering classes upset?
Why are they not similarly campaigning for Bill Clinton's day in court?
That's easy. There is no authentic evidence against Mr Clinton. Evidence is remarkably selective, and inoperative against Democrats.
As for his accusers, they have been washed from history in much the same way as Stalin air-brushed his enemies.
Many months have passed since it was demonstrated that Cardinal Pell could not have committed the crimes for which Victorian police pursued him. The police who now show a remarkable lack of curiosity about the man whose false testimony consumed their tax-paid resources and almost ruined the life of an innocent man. Has not a serious crime been committed (a real one, this time)?
No one expects justice from Victorian police. But what about those politicians whose duty it is to oversee, on behalf of Victorian citizens, the police officers who were paid to serve and protect? Why are they averting their gaze?
May 2021
So Melbourne's CBD is to have an injection room for drug addicts? Free drugs and syringes?
What about a drinking room for alcohol addicts? Free whisky, rum, and vodka?
And a smoking room for people who find it hard to quit? Free cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hubble bubbles and hookahs?
And there is more to come after that.
But the bottom line is that if you pander to one addiction, are you not obliged to satisfy them all?
Many on both sides have become aware of noticeable bias on the part of some public media. There is the view that a privately-owned organisation should be able to choose to favour some items of news and not others. There is also the opposing view that discrimination is not a good thing.
To level the playing field, we need to accept that government is there to regulate. Public media transmission organisations should be regulated and obliged to transmit all legal data, under penalty of fines. Private media should be unregulated and permitted to censor and control information they don't like.
However, with regulation comes the need to identify those partisan organisations. For example, a cable channel could be named UXYZ, where U means unregulated. People would then know not to trust that organisation.
For regulated media outlets, the letter P would indicate a public organisation (such as PXYZ). One which could be trusted.
Would such a clarification not be beneficial to all sides?
April 2021 (to the New York Times)
The current administration is talking about cancelling student debt, in part or whole.
This student debt is not going to be really cancelled. It is just being transferred to others.
The administration is merely forcing those who did not incur the debt to pay the bills of those who did.
We now live in an era where women who actually work at home as wives are subject to criticism, even condemnation. They are ridiculed because they choose not to enjoy a career outside the home, which apparently is the new norm.
This will not end well. A woman who achieves a high status and salary will realise in her thirties that she is on a path toward permanent single status. Unless she finds a husband and has children, she will be forced to continue her career to the bitter end.
She may be attractive, well educated and articulate. But will attract no serious men. Men are uninterested in her masters degree, and would see her high-powered job as a challenge. Girls close to the end of their fertility are of little use in starting a family. A fortyish man can get a twenty-something who will give him children, and these children will take care of their parents in their old age.
But our leftover career-woman will spend her twilight years in a nursing home; alone, unloved and unvisited. I wonder if our career-women have thought that far ahead.
Someone stops us from clearing forest litter. We get bushfires. People die and lose property.
Someone stops us from building dams. We have droughts.
Who on earth could possibly oppose the clearing of forest undergrowth? Who does not want us to have water?
Ah, the Greens.
March 2021
Can we get our prime minister to contact Chinese leadership as a matter of urgency? We need to ask them not to make any trouble until we have our French subs ready. That will be about 2050.
We need to add a request for the Chinese to not build any more nuclear subs. Make them all diesel, like ours. That's only fair.
But what shall we do if they refuse?
March 2021
The women of 50 years ago had a marvellous and most innovative method of avoiding any hint of sexual harassment.
They stayed at home and took care of their families. And did a great job.
Given their success, what is wrong with emulating them?
March 2021
You have to feel sorry for today's celebrities, living a life of grinding drudgery in a miserable 9 to 5 job. It's not just the poverty: there is the shame of having to borrow other people's private jets, which are specially tuned to not emit any gases.
Is there a union for victims?
March 2021 (to the New York Times)
Media claims that President Biden is the second Catholic president are somewhat premature.
It's a task worthy of Einstein trying to find a Catholic doctrine that Biden does not forcefully oppose.
On the other hand, President Trump opposed abortion. And he opposed it with far more vigour than we have seen from among bishops. It is not easy to find anything in Christianity that President Trump would see as a serious obstacle.
No, the second Catholic President is not Biden. It's Trump, by a huge margin.
This does not relegate Biden to third place. Anyone who obstinately pursues abortion is not a Catholic. His loyalty lies elsewhere.
If you want a president compatible with Catholic teaching, Trump is the only choice.
March 2021 (to the New York Times) President Biden has expressed a desire to force others who did no wrong to pay reparations to those who were never disadvantaged.
If the principle of paying reparations were to be honestly applied, justice demands that the descendants of freed slaves offer reparation to the descendants of those who gave their lives to free them.
In practice, does this not mean forcing Democrats to pay reparations to Republicans? Good luck with that.
February 2021
For a moment or two I watched women playing football on TV. I was surprised to see that they were actually all girls. What happened to diversity? But perhaps it's early days yet.
Now we can look forward to the Miss Australian contest becoming more inclusive. Who says we are not making progress?
February 2021
A proposal to honour the winners of the Victoria Cross has run into trouble.
Feminists complain of the lack of representation of women.
I agree. There should be a statue raised to all female winners of the Victoria Cross.
It is many months since Cardinal Pell was completely exonerated by the High Court.
Australians now await an urgent investigation into how the Victorian Police got things so wrong, and the real story of the complainant whose sole testimony punished an innocent man with a year behind bars, among other horrendous torments. It might also be profitable to look in some detail at the performance of the media, particularly the ABC.
That is, we are waiting for justice to be done. And seen to be done. This time, perhaps a new Royal Commission.
January 2021
So many deaths as a result of drugs. Yet they are easily avoided.
If anyone dies as a result of the use of illegal drugs, hang the dealer.
Why are dealers' lives considered more valuable than those of their victims?
January 2021 (to the New York Times)
We have just seen massive evidence of election fraud, spread over several states. None of the evidence is denied. The Sergeant Schultzes of the media simply ignore it as some sort of conspiracy theory.
But where are the American bishops? Do they approve of this injustice?
And are they comfortable with a president who wants to pay (with other people's money) for babies to be killed?
January 2021 (to the New York Times)
Now that the Democrats have established the precedent that a former president can be impeached even after he has left office, there will surely be certain consequences.
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, for example, might now be feeling particularly vulnerable. Especially if the Republicans do well next year.
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
The world awaits three events.
First, for Joe Biden to come out and condemn the cheating in the election, which is now beyond dispute. And to formally apologise to President Trump on behalf of the Democrats.
Second, for the arrests to begin, and for those responsible to be expelled from the Democrat organisation.
Third, for legislation and administrative procedures which make sure this can never happen again. Including severe penalties for those who offend.
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
In a sane world, when schoolboys are caught cheating, they are disqualified.
How is it different for adults and elections?
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
Suppose for a moment that the mountain of affidavits concerning voter fraud in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are correct.
And suppose for a moment that Biden succeeds in gaining the power he aims at. Aided by a complicit (and extraordinarily willing) TV media.
How is this not a coup, of the kind we once thought confined to the Third World?
In a modern society, is fraud not a criminal enterprise? If it is, should the perpetrators and their abettors not be faced with some sort of consequences?
Or is it true that when conspiracy prospers, none dare call it conspiracy?
Watching the news on TV, it seems that the only US items of interest are traffic jams for Thanksgiving and the threat of more Covid.
I have yet to see anything about the hearings in Pennsylvania and the evidence of massive cheating being presented.
Do our networks have no journalists capable of honest reporting? And what is the ABC doing with all the money we are forced to give them?
What will they all say if and when Trump is declared re-elected?
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
The Democrats are almost into the White House already, while claims of lots of voter fraud continue.
History tells us that cheating is part of the environment of presidential elections, so it is only to be expected.
But if those naughty Democrats give us their word that they will not cheat again in 2024, we can all relax.
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
Now that the magnitude of the electoral fraud of Democrats is no longer being denied, even by hardened leftists, we await the necessary apologies from decent Democrats.
If these are not forthcoming, do we have a shortage of decent Democrats?
Those supporting the Trump administration have produced large amounts of documentary evidence of election fraud. The TV channels assert that the information is false.
That's it. They assert.
What happened to investigative journalism? Why don't they actually investigate the evidence, and show how it is false?
Unless, of course, they are not interested in news that doesn't help the Democrats.
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
Back and forth go the arguments. Republicans say they have evidence of election fraud, and produce affidavits and videos showing the instant reversal of vote counts. Democrats say that it's Russian disinformation, and there is nothing to see there.
How to work out where the truth lies?
Logic tells us that if the authorities and activists within a party are comfortable with the dismemberment of defenceless babies, the prospect of election fraud and lying about it are unlikely to make them even blink.
The natural conclusion is that Trump has been cheated of a fair election. It would be an act of decency for Biden to concede while this can be done gracefully.
Australians must join with their American friends in rejoicing at the wonderful miracle in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. It seems that something like 10 000 people have been raised from the dead, some of them more than 200 years old.
But that's not all. We learn that they all voted for Joe Biden, a feat which has hitherto been thought statistically impossible. In what is even more remarkable, many of them voted Republican when they were alive, but now have become confirmed Democrats.
It's enough to turn some Australian politicians green with envy.
November 2020 (to the New York Times)
At this stage, we don't know the outcome of the election. But all doubt has been removed about the existence of massive election fraud.
Although it is not clear whether this fraud will determine who wins, we do know one thing for certain. All cases of interference involve a benefit for Biden, or a loss for Trump.
More than anything else, this tells us volumes about the morality of Democrats. It is thus quite revealing that the US bishops have already legitimised Biden.
The TV media in the US and in Australia have been reporting that Donald Trump is refusing to concede because of claims of election fraud 'for which there is no evidence'.
No evidence?
The whole world has witnessed examples of votes cast by people who experienced the Civil War. Some voters were apparently around at the War of 1812. Then we have election counts stopped in lockstep, and trucks full of new ballots backed in. No witnesses allowed. Always the 'glitches' somehow favoured Biden, or damaged Trump.
Now those in the media are either appallingly ignorant, or they are pushing an agenda.
As a result of the determination of Donald Trump, already some 'decisions' are being undone and turned around. Why would our friends in the TV media oppose the idea of free and fair elections?
The pressure from the media, academia, Hollywood and the NeverTrumpers to force Trump to surrender is understandable. They know that if there is a recount, Trump will remain in the White House four more years, where he will be far more dangerous that in his first four.
One does not trifle with an angry Trump, and Trump is understandably furious at the blatant cheating. In a short period of time all those activists behind the electoral massagement will face a severe accounting. Then it will be the turn of those Democrats who have flouted the law without facing the consequences.
If Trump succeeds, and there are those who think he doesn't quit easily, a few malefactors will be headed for prison so fast their feet will not touch the ground.
It is not impossible that the present gloaters will become gloatees, clad in striped pyjamas. Let's see how the media report that.
November 2020
After the Biden adventures in the Ukraine and elsewhere, it is difficult to imagine decent Americans failing to take them into account when voting for the presidency.
Given that the Democrats, and socialism in general, are unelectable, it seems only fair that they resort to massive electoral fraud, since they cannot get themselves elected any other way. It's not their fault. It has been forced on them.
Reward crime, and crime is what you are going to get.
November 2020
In spite of massive evidence, seen by the whole world, the US media declare that Trump's allegations of cheating are false.
Imagine. Major US news outlets don't know anything about the cheating.
Or if they do, and keep it quiet, are they not giving the cheating their stamp of approval?
As the information on the Biden laptops becomes public, it seems that Chinese children have been provided to members of the families of US politicians, presumably with the aim of setting up future blackmail.
If there is credibility in this information, it would appear opportune for the president to inquire into the involvement of Chinese government officials in the sexual enslavement of Chinese girls.
There might be a case also for some investigative journalism among the US media.
October 2020
So Cardinal Pell was innocent after all, and the sole witness was somehow mistaken. And someone in the Vatican sent a couple of million to lubricate the process, and help put away an innocent man for over a year.
What a wonderful opportunity for some great investigative journalism.
Go to it, ABC and the mainstream media. Do what you are being paid for. Flush out the facts and expose the villains.
We are holding our breath.
October 2020
When the Australian destination of the four financial transfers from the Vatican is finally determined, will the $2 million plus be recovered and returned to the Vatican? Or is there a way it could be paid as some sort of compensation to Cardinal Pell?
October 2020
So the Australian Federal Police have received information about the money the Vatican sent to Australia to bring Cardinal Pell to justice.
In the interests of efficiency, should this matter be handed over to Victoria Police, so that they can do a thorough investigation? October 2020 (to the New York Times)
In spite of the efforts of the media, the world has seen exposed the corruption of the Democrats.
It makes no difference. Half the country will vote for them anyway.
October 2020 (to the New York Times)
Americans need the answer to just one question.
What was the criminal offence of the Ukrainian prosecutor, for which Joe Biden insisted on his removal?
October 2020
So Hunter Biden abandoned a laptop full of emails, and they got themselves handed to the FBI.
They tell us that Hunter Biden was getting heaps of money for his skill and expertise in introducing foreigners to his vice-presidential dad, and giving dad 50%. Perhaps the salary of a vice-president is just not enough these days.
Now everyone knows, in spite of the efforts of the mainstream media, whose job it is to suppress news, not broadcast it.
And it's just a couple of weeks to the election. Anyone recognise the hand of God here?
Congratulations to the intrepid leaders in Victoria. Since the virus arrived, almost no one has died of old age. A major cause of death has been just about eliminated.
What's to go next? Cancer? Heart disease?
Great work Victoria. You are putting doctors and hospitals out of business.
Now that Cardinal Pell has left Australia, it is perhaps an appropriate time for authorities to ponder how the Victorian Police, their chief witness, and their cheer squad, got things so wrong.
Could it be that the generation of 26 false charges has at last raised a few eyebrows somewhere deep within the inner sancta of the Melbourne elites?
There might be questions also as to the origin of the allegations of the chief witness, who, unlike Cardinal Pell, retains the privilege of anonymity.
Or are the consequences of these errors to be borne only by the victim?
A pregnant enemy of the state has been cuffed and carted off for a Facebook post proposing a peaceful protest.
If it is against the law to propose a peaceful protest, then it's the law that is wrong. Weren't these police the same ones who happily put away an innocent cardinal for a year? One wonders which informant the tethering constabulary relied upon this time.
Victorians need to get rid of this silly idea of freedom of speech.
September 2020
In Australia we have freedom of speech.
Except in Victoria, that is. And certainly not for pregnant women who speak out on Facebook against the lockdown.
We used to think that this sort of Stasi operation happened only under Communism. Well, we were right. Communism has not just arrived: it has triumphed in Victoria.
Now be quiet, you pregnant women. Or else.
August 2020
In most of Australia it is business as usual, with some conditions, largely unaffected by Covid.
Victoria is locked down tight as a drum. They have far more deaths and contagion than the rest of us put together.
Can we conclude that lockdown gives death, freedom gives life?
Yet another TV rerun of the attack on the Christchurch mosques.
We rightly condemn this attack. The innocent should never be used as targets for any reason.
But where is the condemnation of the daily attacks on Christians and other non-Muslims, ongoing for over a millennium? There is no shortage of material.
Just another reason we identify our TV outlets as Fake News.
This List Comprises Just 30 Days of Jihad. Can't Recall Seeing Any of It on TV
DateCountryCityKilledInjuredDescription 2020.08.23SomaliaAbdiaziz12Muslim bombers take out a rickshaw driver. 2020.08.23AfghanistanJaghatu70Three women and two children are among seven disassembled by Taliban bombers. 2020.08.22AfghanistanTakhar91A brutal Taliban attack on a police check point leaves nine dead. 2020.08.22AfghanistanBadakhshan40Four Afghans are laid out by religious radicals. 2020.08.22MaliKoro41Jihadists plant a bomb that kills four passengers in a passing car. 2020.08.22AfghanistanShah Joy20Two civilians are cut to shreds by Islamic shrapnel. 2020.08.22AfghanistanKabul12Bombs placed in cars claim one life. 2020.08.21DRCOicha120Islamic militants tie up thirteen villagers, then slaughter them. 2020.08.21AfghanistanAlasai13Terrorists hit a house with a mortar, killing one resident. 2020.08.21IraqRamadi30Three children are eliminated by an Islamic State explosive. 2020.08.20NigeriaKukawa32Three guards ferrying displaced persons are ambushed and killed by Boko Haram. 2020.08.20AfghanistanBadgah60A pregnant woman is among a half-dozen civilians destroyed by a Taliban bomb. 2020.08.20DRCWikeno10One villager is hacked to death by ADF. 2020.08.19PakistanKamalpur10A woman is beaten to death with sticks over suspicion of immoral activity. 2020.08.19IraqBasra22Two women activists, one a doctor, are shot to death in their car. 2020.08.19IraqBasra20A young man and his fiancee are gunned down by terrorists over their activism. 2020.08.19AfghanistanPuli Khumri211Two commuters are laid out by Taliban bombers. 2020.08.19AfghanistanTarin Kot12A local official is assassinated by fundamentalists. 2020.08.19AfghanistanKhwaja Bahauddin146A massive Taliban attack leaves fourteen dead. 2020.08.19AfghanistanKabul219Taliban bombers target government workers with sticky bombs, killing two. 2020.08.18DRCBeni80Seven road workers and a guard are slaughtered by ADF Islamists. 2020.08.18NigeriaMagumeri31A nursing mother is among three killed by Boko Haram. 2020.08.18AfghanistanKandahar22Religious extremists murder two police officers. 2020.08.18SomaliaBeledweyne57Terrorists set off a bomb at a packed soccer stadium, killing five spectators. 2020.08.18AfghanistanKabul316Religious radicals send a barrage of rockets into a city center, killing three. 2020.08.18GermanyBerlin06An Iraqi refugee plows his vehicle into people while shouting praises to Allah. 2020.08.18AfghanistanSara57Three women and two children are liquidated by a Taliban rocket. 2020.08.18IraqMosul20Religious radicals are suspected in the deaths of two men. 2020.08.18YemenTaiz10A girl is shot in the head by an Ansar Allah sniper. 2020.08.18AfghanistanQala-e-Zal40Four civilians are blown to bits by Taliban weapons. 2020.08.18NigeriaUnguwan Gankon30A 16-year-old girl is among three Christians massacred by Fulani terrorists. 2020.08.18NigeriaGajibo515At least five Nigerians are killed by Boko Haram. 2020.08.17NigeriaAbashiya10The body of a Christian man is discovered two weeks after his kidnapping by Muslim radicals. 2020.08.17YemenMarib20An al-Qaeda shooting leaves two dead. 2020.08.17IraqHawija31Islamic State gunmen drop three local cops. 2020.08.17NigeriaSabon Gida Idon10A farmer and father of nine is murdered in cold blood by Muslim gunmen. 2020.08.17IndiaKreeri50Five policemen are gunned down by Lashkar-e-Taiba. 2020.08.17SomaliaJowhar10A local agriculture official is shot to death by al-Shabaab on his way home. 2020.08.17SomaliaSawma’ah10A physician is crucified by Islamic hardliners. 2020.08.17SomaliaGofgadud50Five Somalis are purged by al-Shabaab, which then booby-traps the bodies. 2020.08.16AfghanistanAhmad Khan50Terrorists kill five local cops with a roadside bomb. 2020.08.16YemenMarib24An Ansar Allah missile claims two lives. 2020.08.16NigeriaBugai40A family of four is shot to death in their own home, including a 97-year-old woman. 2020.08.16NigeriaKajuro50A pastor and father is among five slaughtered by angry Muslims. 2020.08.16IraqRiyadh12One person is obliterated by Mujahideen shrapnel. 2020.08.16SomaliaMogadishu1643Fedayeen storm a beachfront hotel, massacring sixteen innocents. 2020.08.16IraqNuishin12A woman is put in her place by Mujahid bombers. 2020.08.15SyriaDeir Ezzor36An ISIS ambush leaves three dead. 2020.08.15NigeriaLadari33Three local security personnel are murdered by Boko Haram. 2020.08.15NigeriaMashio11An older man is abducted and killed by Boko Haram. 2020.08.15DRCMwende80Four women are among eight hacked to death by ADF Islamists. 2020.08.15AfghanistanMarawara20Two young soldiers at a checkpoint are killed and mutilated by religious radicals. 2020.08.15SyriaJarablos10Terrorists kill a civilian at a market with a bomb hidden on a motorcycle. 2020.08.15IraqBasra10A young activist is shot to death by extremists. 2020.08.15AfghanistanDara-e-Zain50A horrible attack by the Taliban leaves five young people dead. 2020.08.15IndiaKangan10A civilian is picked off by Muslim gunmen. 2020.08.14IndiaNowgam21Islamic terrorists fire on a police patrol, killing two members. 2020.08.14AfghanistanKotal Rizgan42Four Afghans are disassembled by a Taliban landmine. 2020.08.14AfghanistanTarinkot55Holy Warriors ambush and kill five local security personnel. 2020.08.14DRCMbau40Four farmers are killed in their fields by ADF Islamists. 2020.08.14IraqBaghdad10A civil activist is assassinated inside an internet-based company. 2020.08.13ThailandNong Chik13A volunteer providing protection for teachers is killed by Muslim 'insurgents'. 2020.08.13AfghanistanKunduz10Muslim extremists pull a woman out of her house and murder her in cold blood. 2020.08.13Burkina FasoDjibo10An imam who spoke against terrorism is kidnapped and murdered. 2020.08.13PakistanKarimabad10An off-duty Shiite policeman shot to death in a sectarian attack. 2020.08.13ThailandRa-ngee16Muslim 'separatists' plant a bomb near a school, killing one person. 2020.08.13AfghanistanKapisa20Two civil engineers are ambushed in their vehicle and killed by religious radicals. 2020.08.13AfghanistanPanjwai56A family of five is purged by the Taliban with use of a landmine. 2020.08.13IraqKhanaqin11A civilian succumbs to injury following an ISIS shooting. 2020.08.13AfghanistanKhak-e-Jabar30Three Taliban captives are found tortured and executed. 2020.08.13PakistanTurbat13Terrorists kill a passing teen with a bomb. 2020.08.13PakistanPeshawar10A 61-year-old medical store vendor is murdered for his Ahmadi faith. 2020.08.12PakistanLasbela10A young man is victim of an honor killing. 2020.08.12IndiaBangaluru060Over sixty police are injured when Muslims riot over a Facebook post concerning Muhammad. 2020.08.12SomaliaWaberi11al-Shabaab kill on person and seriously injure another. 2020.08.12SomaliaShabellow80Eight villagers are killed resisting al-Shabaab efforts to collect zakat. 2020.08.12AfghanistanFarah416A suicide bomber goes off outside a police station, killing four bystanders. 2020.08.11AfghanistanNazian20Lashkar-e-Islam murder two border guards. 2020.08.11AfghanistanKhairkhana12A civilian is blown to bits by a magnetic bomb attached to her car. 2020.08.11NigeriaBaga30At least three Nigerians are cut down by a Boko Haram ambush. 2020.08.10Iraqal-Majid12A Sunni is gunned down by co-religionists. 2020.08.10MaliKimparana20Jihadists set fire to a prison, killing two. 2020.08.10SomaliaMogadishu26At least two guards are killed when al-Shabaab prisoners snatch weapons. 2020.08.10AfghanistanPachir Aw Agam65A half-dozen Afghans are purged by Taliban fundamentalists. 2020.08.10AfghanistanHawoz Karbas20Islamic extremists are thought responsible for the murder of two women. 2020.08.10NigeriaMagumeri1216More than a dozen farmers are reported killed by Boko Haram. 2020.08.09IndiaShopian10Islamic terrorists kidnap a security officer from his home and kill him in captivity. 2020.08.09MozambiqueAwasse5590Jihadists ambush and kill dozens of local soldiers. 2020.08.09AfghanistanBurj20Two civilians on foot are sent to Allah by Taliban shrapnel. 2020.08.09NigerKoure80Six French aid workers are machine-gunned along with their guide and driver. 2020.08.09AfghanistanKabul25A bomb planted by fundamentalists claims two lives. 2020.08.09AfghanistanArghistan80Eight civilians are exterminated by Taliban bombers. 2020.08.09AfghanistanMatakhan20Fundamentalists take out a passing motorcycle with a roadside bomb. 2020.08.09Egyptal-Arish10A local soldier is ambushed an killed by Islamic extremists. 2020.08.08AfghanistanMaiwand40A brutal attack on a group of local police leave four dead. 2020.08.08AfghanistanSherzad19A mortar fired at a family home is among two attacks that leave one dead. 2020.08.08PakistanClifton10A 19-year-old woman gets a bullet to the head for not heeding her brother's warning about talking to men. 2020.08.08AfghanistanGhazni715A suicide blast kicks off a Taliban attack that leaves seven others dead. 2020.08.08SomaliaMogadishu814A sucide bomber self-detonates outside a sports stadium, killing eight. 2020.08.08MozambiqueLitamanda57Five residents are laid out by Mujahideen, who then burn their homes 2020.08.07NigeriaKaduna2510Jamaat al-Ansar al-Muslimeen claims to have killed over two dozen "apostates." 2020.08.07Burkina FasoNamoungou2012Islamists pour heavy machine-gun fire into a cattle market, killing twenty. 2020.08.07SomaliaMogadishu12An al-Qaeda linked group kills one person at a check point. 2020.08.07NigeriaZango Kataf120Another dozen villagers are murdered by Fulani terrorists. 2020.08.06YemenRada’a10A Shiite is killed by al-Qaeda. 2020.08.06NigeriaTakmawai70Seven villagers are shot point-blank by Muslim terrorists. 2020.08.06NigeriaKurmin Masara135A 'well-coordinated' attack on a village leaves thirteen dead. 2020.08.06AfghanistanChashmaye Shir110A brutal bombing attack on a family convoy kills at least eleven. 2020.08.06IndiaQazigund10A village head succumbs to injuries after being shot near his home by Mujahideen. 2020.08.06AfghanistanNawa60Fundamentalists murder a half-dozen local police. 2020.08.06SyriaHajin10An ISIS assassin claims an apostate. 2020.08.06NigeriaAzikoro40A pregnant woman is among four worshippers shot dead in a church. 2020.08.06IraqKhanaqin24Two more Iraqis lose their lives to an attack by the Islamic State. 2020.08.06AfghanistanTagab30A Taliban attack leaves three dead. 2020.08.06NigeriaApyiako30Three innocents are slaughtered by Fulani terrorists. 2020.08.06NigeriaMagamiya50Muslim militants murder five villagers and burn their homes. 2020.08.05EthiopiaGuba30Three more people die from injuries suffered during an Islamic attack. 2020.08.05AfghanistanHadurokali10A grocer is gunned down near his shop. 2020.08.05PakistanBin Shahi12The Taliban wipe out a border guard with a well-placed mortar round. 2020.08.05IraqMatabija30Three Iraqis are brought low by Islamic State members. 2020.08.05SomaliaDaynuney85Eight Somalis are purged by al-Shabaab. 2020.08.05IraqSaladin23ISIS militants cut down two Iraqis. 2020.08.05AfghanistanKhashrod71A bomb planted by religious extremists claims seven civilians. 2020.08.05SyriaPalmyra20An ISIS IED claims the lives of two truck drivers. 2020.08.04DRCBeni10An ISIS-linked group kills a guard at a warehouse. 2020.08.04SyriaMayadeen28An ISIS bomb blast claims eight souls. 2020.08.04SyriaMayadeen10A guard at a prison is gunned down by the Islamic State. 2020.08.04AfghanistanFarah10A doctor is murdered by the Taliban. 2020.08.04AfghanistanEzana10A local singer is assassinated by Islamic hardliners. 2020.08.04AfghanistanChemai Sher120Twelve police guards transporting a prisoner are brutally cut down by the Taliban. 2020.08.04SyriaHasakah30Three Religion of Peace rivals are taken down by the Islamic State. 2020.08.03SomaliaMogadishu22A suicide bomber blows himself up outside a restaurant, killing two guards. 2020.08.03NigeriaWasho10A veteran journalist is hacked to death in his home by suspected Fulani radicals. 2020.08.03AfghanistanShigal30Two women and a child are disintegrated by a bomb blast at a wedding. 2020.08.03AfghanistanSpin Boldok32Three civilians are sent to Allah by Religion of Peace bombers. 2020.08.03ChadLake Chad30A Boko Haram IED claims three lives. 2020.08.02SyriaDeir Ezzor10A man is abducted and executed by ISIS. 2020.08.02SyriaDeir Ezzor10A local investigator is murdered by ISIS. 2020.08.02SomaliaWanlaweyn12al-Qaeda-linked militants throw a grenade into a home, killing one resident. 2020.08.02AfghanistanJalalabad2950A suicide bombing sets off an attack on a prison that leaves two dozen dead. 2020.08.02MaliGoma-Coura55Five local soldiers are ambushed and killed by Jihadists. 2020.08.02CameroonNguetchewe2811Suicide bombers are sent into a camp for displaced people, eliminating twenty-eight, including seven children. 2020.08.02Burkina FasoOuahigouya64A half-dozen children are purged by religious radicals in an IED attack. 2020.08.02EthiopiaGuba136Muslim terrorists kill thirteen civilians in an ambush. 2020.08.01SyriaDeir Ezzor42An ISIS attack leaves four dead and two wounded. 2020.08.01NigeriaNasarawa514Militant Muslims are suspected in a shooting attack that leaves five dead. 2020.08.01AfghanistanKhodzaey10A civil activist is kidnapped and killed by Islamic radicals. 2020.08.01AfghanistanTarin Kot10The Taliban plant a bomb in a garden which kills a resident. 2020.07.31AfghanistanTorasha64Six Afghans are purged by a Taliban roadside bomb. 2020.07.31AfghanistanDehrawot40Two children are among four elimated by Taliban bombers. 2020.07.31SudanBoronga13Arab militia gun down a local. 2020.07.31PhilippinesPatikul33Abu Sayyaf open fire on a local patrol, dropping three members. 2020.07.31ChadTenana107Sharia proponents burn and loot a fishing village, killing ten residents. 2020.07.31IraqMosul80Eight more Islamic State victims are pulled from a mass grave. 2020.07.31IraqSamara60A half-dozen police are aerated by Jihadi shrapnel. 2020.07.31NigeriaTudun Woulgo200Boko Haram brutally execute twenty prisoners with knives to jubilant cries of "Allahu Akbar." 2020.07.30SomaliaMogadishu12One person dies from splinter injuries following an al-Shabaab grenade attack. 2020.07.30AfghanistanPul-e-Alam1740A Shahid suicide bomber takes out seventeen shoppers at a mall. 2020.07.30NigeriaMaiduguri20Boko Haram plant a bomb at a furniture store that kills the owner and his son. 2020.07.30NigeriaGwange10A child is disassembled by an Islamist bomb blast. 2020.07.30NigeriaBorno216Two innocents lose their lives to Jihadist bombers. 2020.07.30SyriaMayadeen10A man is killed by extremists for being an "infidel". 2020.07.29SyriaMayadeen22An IED planted by ISIS claims two passengers in a passing car. 2020.07.29MozambiqueTandacua80Eight villagers are beheaded by Islamic supremacists. 2020.07.29NigeriaAgbadu-Daruwana140Thirteen members of the same family are among Baptists massacred in the middle of the night by Muslim terrorists. 2020.07.29PakistanPeshawar10An accused blasphemer is murdered in a courtroom, where he was on trial for insulting Islam. 2020.07.29NigeriaBaga50Five are killed when Boko Haram attack a governor's convoy. 2020.07.29AfghanistanHaji Abbas26Women and children are among the casualties of a car bombing. 2020.07.29PakistanTarlandi20Terrorists ambush and kill two local cops. 2020.07.29DRCRuwenzori20ADF Islamists shoot two people off a motorcycle. 2020.07.29IraqBab al-Sharqi25A minibus carrying Shiites is target by ISIS bombers with two killed. 2020.07.28DRCKainama60Two women are among six innocents slain by the ADF. 2020.07.28DRCVirunga70Seven local soldiers are ambushed and killed by the ADF in a national park. 2020.07.28AfghanistanKabul12Terrorists target a van with a bomb, killing one passenger. 2020.07.28PakistanBajour10Islamic militants open fire on a guard post, killing an occupant. 2020.07.28MozambiqueMocimboa da Praia10A civilian is killed in cold blood at a flour mill by Islamic militants. 2020.07.28SyriaManbij30Three people are murdered by the Islamic State. 2020.07.27EgyptRabi’a11An ISIS sniper picks off a local. 2020.07.27CameroonBorder10At least one other person is killed during an ISIS-allied terror attack. 2020.07.27NigeriaDawusu53A housewife is among five murdered by gunmen screaming praises to Allah. 2020.07.27IraqHit20Two Iraqis are killed by Islamic State elements. 2020.07.27IraqArar14Terrorists open fire on border guards, killing one. 2020.07.27AfghanistanKashak Sirowan40Four local cops are liquidated in their vehicle by a Taliban roadside bomb. 2020.07.26PakistanNazimabad20A woman and her husband are honor-hacked to death with an axe by her family for marrying without their permission. 2020.07.26SyriaSakariya55Five people are reported dead following an ISIS bomb blast. 2020.07.26SyriaSukhnah20Two Syrians are kidnapped and executed by the Islamic State. 2020.07.25EgyptRabi’a10A local officer is abducted and executed on video by the Islamic State. 2020.07.25PhilippinesMindanao30Three people are killed in their home by Islamic radicals. 2020.07.25NigerDiffa33Three people are machine-gunned by an ISIS-allied group. 2020.07.25AfghanistanAndar20A policewoman is among two people abducted and killed by Islamic hardliners. 2020.07.25SudanMasteri6060Janjaweed militia are suspected of a brutal attack on a village that leaves sixty dead. 2020.07.25NigeriaDamboa103At least ten are killed when Boko Haram open fire on a convoy of local soldiers. 2020.07.25IraqSamum60A man and his sons are among family members murdered in their home by caliphate loyalists. 2020.07.25AfghanistanKalakan21Jihadis murder two police officers on patrol. 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There have been 500 deaths attributed to Covid-19. Given that many patients are elderly, it is not impossible that the virus may not be the killer claimed by bureaucrats, and that it may at most have hastened the deaths of those with other medical issues. So the true number of deaths caused by the virus may be greatly reduced.
Given that the cost of government actions may exceed $800 billion, the question needs to be asked: Who decided that the rest of us should spend something like $4 billion per death? Far more deaths come from other causes, but for them there is no such panic.
Now it is possible that we as a nation might agree to provide $4 billion per death for Covid-19, rather than toward treatment for cancer or heart disease. But should we not be asked first?
Has none of these bureaucrats and politicians considered the suicides, the loss of family incomes, the despair? Has anyone noticed that our well-fed government does not seem to be sharing the nation's loss of income?
Every six or twelve months we pay registration on motor vehicles.
There is only one reason why the government decrees this. It is simply a tax, for which nothing is offered in return.
In other countries, motorists pay registration on purchase only, and after that, just the insurance fee.
This is a make-work tax, paying people to collect a circular tax, which is then used to pay their wages.
Given the economic severity of the era of viruses, how can we afford such waste?
July 2020
Politicians wring their hands about the drug problem, but they never actually do anything.
If a user is injured or dies from taking drugs, the dealer should be charged with grievous bodily harm or murder. The injured party or his family should then be able to sue the pusher for his medical expenses, which are at present borne by the innocent taxpayer. And also for the destruction of his quality of life.
It would be a great relief for many to see pushers face some sort of reality.
And who could object to punishing the guilty?
July 2020
Politicians wring their hands about the drug problem, but they never actually do anything.
If a user is injured or dies from taking drugs, the dealer should be charged with grievous bodily harm or murder. The injured party or his family should then be able to sue the pusher for his medical expenses, which are at present borne by the innocent taxpay
