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blamebrampton) wrote2009-08-12 11:38 pm
blamebrampton) wrote2009-08-12 11:38 pm
Time ... keeps flowing like a river ...
A really really fast river with rapids.
Anyway, a couple of very short political rants today. Christopher Pyne, who is the Gregory Goyle of Australian politics (one of the main sidekicks of Opposition Leader Malcolm 'Draco Malfoy' Turnbull) blathered through a news interview that his party was going to join with independents to vote down the government's carbon trading bill because, in part, he wants to wait for the American model and follow it.
With the greatest respect to American flisters, following American political models is akin to saying 'we would like a complex, expensive and unwieldy system that we can pretend works'. Furthermore, given the fact that the US population is some 15 times the Australian, spread over a mostly similar land area, the American model, whatever it ends up being, will not smoothly translate to this country.
Regarding the US, Investor's Business Daily had a fascinating editorial on why socialised healthcare is akin to instant death, including the immortal line: 'People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.'
Alas, it has since been amended, though they at least admit to the error. A bit.
In happy news today, another friend is in town and we found her a very lovely skirt for $40, which turned out to be on special and marked down to $12. And Ben and Jerry's is coming to Sydney. Now if only Boots and Dalloyau would appear and Perugina would sell their Nero hot chocolate powder here, I might stay forever.
Back to editing, housecleaning, writing and a wee spot of sleep ...
Anyway, a couple of very short political rants today. Christopher Pyne, who is the Gregory Goyle of Australian politics (one of the main sidekicks of Opposition Leader Malcolm 'Draco Malfoy' Turnbull) blathered through a news interview that his party was going to join with independents to vote down the government's carbon trading bill because, in part, he wants to wait for the American model and follow it.
With the greatest respect to American flisters, following American political models is akin to saying 'we would like a complex, expensive and unwieldy system that we can pretend works'. Furthermore, given the fact that the US population is some 15 times the Australian, spread over a mostly similar land area, the American model, whatever it ends up being, will not smoothly translate to this country.
Regarding the US, Investor's Business Daily had a fascinating editorial on why socialised healthcare is akin to instant death, including the immortal line: 'People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.'
Alas, it has since been amended, though they at least admit to the error. A bit.
In happy news today, another friend is in town and we found her a very lovely skirt for $40, which turned out to be on special and marked down to $12. And Ben and Jerry's is coming to Sydney. Now if only Boots and Dalloyau would appear and Perugina would sell their Nero hot chocolate powder here, I might stay forever.
Back to editing, housecleaning, writing and a wee spot of sleep ...
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I would also like it if the Greens could see fit to drop the idealism for a moment and realise that it is better to get something in place now, even if it isn't a strong as you'd like it, and then work on increasing it once it's in place.
The libs I expect to be, as ever, wankers and concerned about their pals in big industry. Must not endanger the money.
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HE MAKES ME SO MAD!!! 'Oh it's all new science!' RUBBISH! This was all coming out in the 1970s, and the Greenpeace treatise on Global warming came out in the early 1990s. ARGH! ARGH!
But yes, would have been nice if Brown et al could have come to the table. Perhaps now it's been knocked back once.