The political suicide of Australia’s Gillard government is complete | JunkScience Sidebar

Over the weekend Australia’s rainbow conglomerate minority government, composed of the Socialist Left, (Fabians, Communists, union hacks and a Green) and some very confused once-conservative independents, formally announced their political demise.

Under the guise of “addressing global warming” they have launched their great social re-engineering package and they do have the political numbers to implement this farce – temporarily. Fortunately for Australia and the global economy this is a brief and transient aberration, albeit a horrendously disruptive and expensive one.

Spherical Heat Pipe Earth « Musings from the Chiefio

To focus on infrared and ignore Heatpipe Earth is to be wrong. Simply, utterly, and dramatically wrong.

Julia in Wonderland has lost touch with reality | Herald Sun

HOW do you sensibly analyse an utter policy mishmash conceived in some phantasmagorical Julia-in-Wonderland Canberra world?

That is a mind-boggling combination of insanity and stupidity?

This is a policy that proudly boasts the average household will get $10.10 in compensation each week to cover the $9.90 in extra costs that households purportedly will face.

You can all save the Barrier Reef if not indeed the entire planet and be a thumping 20c a week better off. Every five months or so the average household will be able to shout itself a single cafe latte in collective celebration.