Thoughts from a Bulldozer Driver

A few days after Joe Biden took office in the US’s White House, a (what I found quite funny) meme quickly circulated on the Socials. It showed a photo of Biden at his oval office desk, signing a stack of Executive Orders. The covers of said orders were labeled, (in a more crude language) “Fix This”, “Fix This” etc in a referral to his reversal of Trump’s policies. From what I have read, Biden signed 30 executive orders in his first 3 days, with 17 of them being direct recindation of Trump policies. This is despite Mr Biden once saying that only a dictator would rely on Executive Orders. The first three months of the Biden Administration has been a chaotic disaster. Here’s what just a few of those signatures has meant for the people of the US, and the world.  - Rejoin the WHO (World Health Organisation). Trump withdrew US support for the WHO protesting, among many things, the corruption and deceit trumpeted by the WHO when it came to investigating the origins and subsequent spread o...

It’s common thought that politicians have worked exceptionally hard in the year of Covid, and if it wasn’t for them we would all be dead.  Untrue. They have also pushed the fallacy that were it not for them doing those long tedious press conferences, we’d all be suffering from the WuFlu. People seem to think that Dan Andrews did his 200 press conferences in a row as some kind of higher personal sacrifice. I don’t think so. The idea that any politician didn't want to spend one to two hours a day, completely hogging the limelight, while completely drowning out the opposition, is ridiculous. This was a brilliant way to starve their opposition of oxygen, and you saw that manifest itself in WA where Mark McGown was re-elected absolutely overwhelmingly. Same thing happened in Queensland. Incumbency during a crisis means you get the cameras. And this crisis is a boon for incumbents no matter how ordinary or incompetent they happen to be.  Another myth that's taken hold is that they’v...

"YOU'LL DIE OF OLD AGE. WE'LL DIE OF CLIMATE CHANGE" We have all seen the picture of a girl, holding this sign at a school-hours “climate emergency” march. She, her peers, and people of all nations and ages, are living in absolute fear of climate change. And why not? This is the message being pushed on a seemingly hourly basis by the media industry. In recent times the message has been bumped up a notch or two by now referring to the climate change phenomena as a “Climate Emergency”, or “Climate Crisis”. Many news outlets have embraced the climate change ideology, with at least one, The Guardian, (not to be confused with the Ganmain Guardian) publicly announcing that they will (disgracefully) not publish counter-arguments to any climate stories that they publish. Organised groups of people are taking their fears of starvation/drowning/frying to death to the streets, causing havoc in major cities around the globe. And can you blame them? With the constant flow of bad/w...

 I won’t be signing Kevin Rudd’s Petition. Several weeks ago, a friend tagged me into a Facebook post where former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was “..officially launching an official petition to the Australian Parliament, calling on the Parliament to establish a royal commission into the abuse of media monopoly in Australia, in particular by the Murdoch media, and to make recommendations to maximise media diversity ownership”... Sounds very official, doesn’t it. This friend that tagged me in the post is not only a Facebook friend, but also someone I consider to be an actual friend. But I won’t be signing the petition.  Forget my contempt for Mr Rudd. His pathetic search for relevance, ten years after his own party sacked him, and several years after the Australian voting public resoundly sacked him a second time, is the least of my worries.  In Mr Rudd’s video, Mr Rudd declares that the Murdoch Media has a “Monopoly” in the print media, and Mr Rudd wants to “maximise divers...

  Welcome to my humble little blog. A wise man once said that the best way to clarify your own thoughts is to write them down. Back in late 2020 I started to do just that. I found it to be absolutely true that the more I wrote about a particular thought, the more I explored it, the more I learned, and the clearer my position became. For just a few short months, my writing was published in our small-town community newsletter, published monthly and circulated free to local residents. However, a couple of the noisy minority took exception to my ramblings, and my days of being published in print were over. This was despite me inviting dissenters to engage in discussion and debate. For that is how you  really  learn things! Over the following few weeks, several people approached me and encouraged me to continue writing, saying that they enjoyed reading my thoughts and that they supported what I was saying. So I resolved to continue writing and publish to a blog. Here it is. I'...