Centenary of the RAAF - 31 MAR 21

Tomorrow marks 100 years of service to our country by the RAAF and the many thousands of service members who serve, or have served. 

I served, did you?

The RAAF has a proud history of achievement eg, our 10 Squadron was the first in and the last out of the UK during WWII. Our men and women have served in many other confrontations and peace-keeping efforts since then and still serve today.

There will be dedications all round the country and the ABC TV will have a two-hour dedication from 10 am 31 Mar 21 including a fly-over in Canberra. 

"Per Ardua Ad Astra"

Is the Greens Party a Party of Nutters?

 

According to a recent article in local news media, the Australian Greens Party wants people to vote Labor into power but give the Greens sufficient votes to inform Labor policy.

The Greens, in my opinion, is a party of nutters. It has consistently, for decades at least to my knowledge, run a platform of policies that are either un-Australian or inherently no good for Australia or Australians. Some items have been sheer madness.

Look at the graphic snatch above. What the hell are a jobs and income guarantee? Do they mean everyone will have a job with an income? Some form of communist dream perhaps. Who knows?

Then there is dental and mental health funded through Medicare. Perhaps not such a bad idea, since we already fund mental care. How many more billions would dental care cost our already under pressure health system? Do we need to do something to help ourselves like look after our own teeth, or should the government provide everything?

Free universities and TAFE. God knows how many billions this would cost. Will you be happy to have a massive increase in taxes to pay for free education?

I take it the 700 percent is a typo and really means 70 percent, even the Greens couldn't be stupid enough to expect a 700 percent of the nation's energy needs to come from renewables. Renewables are a pipe dream. While the sun and wind might renew themselves daily or periodically, the equipment used is far from renewable and is creating massive disposal problems once it becomes obsolescent or meets its end of life cycle.

We will always need coal, gas, nuclear or hydro to support wind and solar energy and all of those are much more efficient than wind and solar.

The sad truth is, we've been conned into thinking C02 is a killer gas and that the world is warming when it's not the case. No link has ever been discovered that proves that C02 impacts on climate. Similarly, the world is not heading to destruction because of global warming. The opposite is true.

The Sun controls most of the Earth's climate and it's now in Solar Minimum 25, the outcome of which is to cause our planet to cool. Here is the real earth temperature at present from the site of Dr Roy Spencer who doesn't have a vesed interest in telling untruths about temperature.

If you're one who believes the end of the world is coming soon because of global climate catastrophe, perhaps download a $10 copy of this title by Patrick Moore from Amazon Kindle - or buy a hardcopy.

Whatever you do, don't let yourself be conned by the Greens or anyone else. Don't even take my word for it, do your own research and come up with your own ideas.

Robin

The Vagaries of Romance and Depreciating Assets

This is an old one, perhaps before  Tinder and other dating apps had hit the market and made it easy for casual sex without commitment or relationships with commitment.

Now, I understand that nobody would want to marry a loser, or someone on a low income.

I wouldn't marry someone covered in tattoos, who does drugs, and now after a lifetime of experience, someone who isn't sexually motivated.

But hey, my well-qualified wife married me when I had no marketable qualifications. She married me for love, that abstract condition that everyone talks about, but none of us really knows much about.

My wife wasn't a gold-digger, but she obviously had an innate feeling that I was a person who would come good. 

And I did. I always provided for my family and improved my qualifications and status as married life progressed.

I believe I've been a good husband and a good father, but I never earned $500,000 per year. Our combined incomes never came close.

We've had a good life, cared for our kids and retired in a sound financial position while earning much less than half a million annually.

So, what is it really that this woman wants?

My guess is that it wasn't really some self-describing "spectacularly beautiful 25 year old" who wrote this, but a single guy on much less a salary who was pissed off at a woman or women generally who only wanted wealthy partners.

We'll never know the truth, but I thought the answer by the Investment Banker was excellent.

As Sir Winston Churchill is said to have responded to a woman who called him a "drunkard", "In the morning madam, I'll be sober, but you'll still be fat and ugly."

Maybe the 25 year old who wrote this article will be, "far less attractive, single and broke" within a few decades. Life has a habit of levelling the playing field doesn't it?

Robin