Umm, not sure which thread it should go on but Christian Kerr in todays AntiGG has a spray at bloggers, including one that had a thread ‘Kick the Media’.

According to this Christian, it turns out that bloggers live in echo chambers and are narrow minded, intolerant, incorrect, ignorant, anti-American, lacking in argumentation and utterly ignorant. But wait, there’s more. Bloggers don’t weigh evidence, are smug, and don’t analyse data. Bloggers are not into nuance and they repeat assertions endlessly in the tone of undergraduates. They are righteously indignant, sneeringly superior, lacking in humility, prone to conspiracy theories and sometimes, paranoid about catholics, zionists and US government conspiracies. And,gasp, they also don’t like the MSM!

Fortunately, according to Kerr, the MSM offers balance and fact.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/email-sackings-for-56-20080821-3zlm.html

Time for a Royal Commission into water management in Australia.

Cubby has some sort of Queensland state ticket to divert water. I am assuming that the water trading licence would sit on top of that, and the that actual volume won’t be any different. (Head of the Cubby Group is ex Queensland treasurer deLacey).

The thing that will be different will be that the trading licence will make Cubby water more accessible to the buyback, and incidentally, also more accessible to folk from South Oz. If so, the issues management side of it has been atrocious.

Just guessing, mind you.

The Risk of the Zinger

“Let’s put aside the fact that McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, has in fact been a lobbyist for Georgia. In his own feisty comments in recent months, McCain encouraged Georgians to believe America would back them up in a crisis. That expectation was naive, and it was wrong to encourage it. It was especially wrong to give a volatile leader such as Saakashvili what he evidently imagined was an American blank check.

….Now, after the Georgia war, McCain should learn that lesson: American leaders shouldn’t make threats the country can’t deliver or promises it isn’t prepared to keep. The rhetoric of confrontation may make us feel good, but other people end up getting killed.”

That Wong apparently didn’t have a problem with these water licenses speaks volumes. As does Gillard’s ruling out the return of student fees even though she knows their abolition is costing both students and universities.

We are heading for turbulent times and the last thing we need is a federal government that lacks backbone. Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly clear that on many fronts that this one does. Sure, the Lib/Nats would be doing even less, but isn’t that why they were voted out?