MK’s Views - Down under on the right side

For anyone building a wind farm, it might seem an unnecessary piece of advice - put it somewhere windy. Astonishingly, however, many turbines are going up on sites which are simply not breezy enough, energy consultants have claimed. They say farms are being built in the “wrong places” because of the pressure to hit Government targets in the race to produce green energy. Michael Jefferson, an independent engineering consultant and former economist for Shell, said the industry often exaggerated the amount of energy each farm would supply. Only five wind farms in the east of England achieve load factors of 30 per cent or more: “That’s just five out of 25,” he said. To cope with the variation in wind energy over a normal day, gas and coal generators would need to be turned on and off continually. “They are not designed for that, and the net effect is to put them under mechanical strain and also increase their carbon dioxide,” said Mr Oswald. Source. Continue reading Green tinkering blows up in their faces…

The IR laws, that the lefties are pulling their hair out over, don’t even apply to Nurses, but don’t let that sort of technicality get in the way of a good old John Howard smear. Kevin Rudd and the Unions are always telling us how much they care about the workers. Listen to Kevin Rudd or one of the Unions and sooner or later, you’ll hear the phrase ‘working families’, I’ve become convinced that when lefties weasel themselves into the corner of any group of people, chances are that group of people will get screwed. Unions and their Labor lackeys are always banging on about how you’ll get fired for the flimsiest excuse; well have a look at how they treat their own members. Continue reading An Iconic Act of Hypocrisy…

Here’s the first report, don’t ask me what the difference between the two is. So after four months of navel gazing, meetings, hand-holding, singing kumbaya, pie graphs and flow charts, this is pretty much all they got.

“Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference. However, the report concluded that while alerts might have helped students and faculty to protect themselves or alert authorities of suspicious activity, a lockdown of the 131 buildings on campus was not feasible. Gunman Seung-Hui Cho was also an insider, a student with an ID card to access campus buildings and the ability to get the same messages as everyone else. He could have gained access to a dormitory or begun shooting people in the open, the report said. The governor’s panel sharply critiqued the university’s counseling center, where Cho was referred for treatment in 2005 after a stretch of bizarre behavior and concerns that he was suicidal. The panel concluded that the counseling center failed to provide needed support and services to Cho, due to a lack of resources, misinterpretation of privacy laws and passivity. The report said the university’s emergency response plan was deficient in several respects… It also did not include a threat assessment team. Source.

Continue reading Virginia Tech - Second Report…

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganize the force, and it will no longer attack U.S. and coalition troops, aides said Wednesday. The aide, Sheik Hazim al-Araji, said on Iraqi state television that the goal was to “rehabilitate” the organization, which has reportedly broken into factions, some of which the U.S. maintains are trained and supplied by Iran. Source.

Maybe they parked one of these bad-boys outside his gate to help him decide.

Pic and more info on the above ‘bad-boy’ from Fortress Australia Outpost.

Australian rugby league great Andrew Johns says the ecstasy tablet he was caught with in London was pushed into a pocket of his jeans at a crowded club by an “unknown” person. “Johns said today he recalled an unknown person pushing a tablet into his jeans at a crowded entertainment venue last Sunday - his last day in the United Kingdom following a six weeks overseas holiday.” Source.

MK - Come on, this fellow has to be a moron and a lying sack of crap. A moron because he obviously thinks we’ll buy that story and/or he is dumb enough to believe that an organic vitamin salesman was walking around groping folks and leaving samples. A lying sack of crap because it’s a bald faced lie, think about it, if some “stranger” walked up to you and put his hand into your pocket, apart from putting your elbow into his face, the first thing you’d think of is, the wallet, and if that’s safe, what the hell did he put in there?

A majority of Americans say the United States can win the war in Iraq, but the country is sharply divided along party lines about every aspect of the war, according to a United Press International/Zogby poll released today. The poll shows 54 percent of Americans said the war is not lost. However, among Democrats, 66 percent said the mission has failed already, compared to 9 percent of Republicans who shared that view. Most Democrats — 86 percent — said the surge was failing, a view echoed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. Just 11 percent of Republicans said the surge was not effective, according to the poll. Continue reading Shocking - Conservatives Optimistic, Democrats Pessimistic….

Tied to a lamppost, he stands with his head and upper body covered in tar and feathers. A makeshift placard hung around his neck with a piece of string announces the reason for his treatment. It is a very public humiliation, and a medieval one. Almost ten years since Northern Ireland’s Troubles officially ended, this remains the crude face of justice on the streets of south Belfast.

This man was subjected to the painful tarring and feathering on the Taughmonagh estate, a loyalist stronghold in the city. Locals had accused the victim, who is in his thirties, of being a drug dealer. And when police allegedly did not act, they took the law into their own hands. Source.

Liberals know they’re losing the demographic war. Christians have lots of children and adopt lots of children; liberals abort children and encourage the gay lifestyle in anyone with a flair for color. They can’t keep up. Population expert Nick Eberstadt recently speculated in The Washington Post that a principal reason for America’s high fertility rate compared to Europe’s is its religiosity. Well, that leaves liberals out. The Democratic Party is in the fight of its life against a conservative demographic trend. Its only hope is to gerrymander America to make the poorest half of Mexico a state. Only a massive influx of criminals, wards of the state and rioters can save them.

From Ann Coulter’s 1 DOWN, 11,999,999 TO GO.

Was 1998 the hottest year in United States history, as most reporting on climate change has presumed? Or was that record set back in 1934 before “global warming” became a scary household phrase? A corrective tweak to National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s formulation shows that the hottest year on record in the United States indeed was back during the Dust Bowl days. But does this mean that all the concern about global warming being a relatively recent phenomenon tied to carbon-belching power plants and hulking SUVs is a bunch of Al Gore hooey? Source.

You decide.

President Pervez Musharraf had agreed to resign from his position as army chief in a power-sharing deal with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former leader said in an interview published today. Speaking from London, where she lives, Ms Bhutto told The Daily Telegraph that while the deal was not yet complete, the “uniform issue is resolved”. “The uniform issue is key and there has been a lot of movement on it in the recent round of talks.” In a separate interview with the Financial Times also published today, fellow exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said that he planned to return to Pakistan within a fortnight to lead a campaign to oust General Musharraf. Source.

MK - A lot of questions are popping into my head over this, will the extremists get a slice of the action from now on, what will the next leaders policy be on the Taliban weaseling around in Pakistan. Their attitude to America and the war on terror. I’m sure the Indians are chattering away about this too, nukes in the wrong hands and all that.

LABOR has conceded that some workers want greater flexibility through an individual agreement and simplified the safety net for its proposed system of common law contracts. Australian Workplace Agreements will be phased out over five years with last possible expiry date of December 2012 and a limited contract with strict conditions will still operate for the next two years. The AWA phase out will be over five years with last possible expiry date of December 2012. The announcement today confirms that existing Australian Workplace Agreements will continue their full term but that Labor wants them to end. Source. Continue reading What a waste of space!!…

UK - Any adult caught carrying a gun should get the minimum sentence under supposedly tough laws brought in by Labour three years ago. But a clause in the Act allows judges to ignore the requirement if they believe there are “exceptional circumstances”. In the first two years of the Act coming into force, an alarming 80 per cent of offenders have been let off with lighter sentences. Critics last night said the revelation makes a mockery of Labour’s tough rhetoric on gun crime, and slammed the courts for doling out soft penalties. Retired judge Keith Matthewman, QC, said: “It is a dreadful indictment of the Government and legal system in this country. People who are carrying guns know perfectly well the punishment is not going to fit the crime. “It shows a complete and utter weakness in the courts. The general public are being let down by the Government, let down by the police and let down by the judges.” Source.

MK - The way things have gone in the UK, it’s fast becoming a reality that it’s the public that are looking stupid because they believed that the leftists in charge won’t let them down. Well, they may be coming to their senses, if the polls are anything to go by, Labour’s 10-point lead has been halved. Better late than never.

MK - Remember back in the beginning of August I posted about a creep called Jack McClellan who was arrested for putting up pictures of little girls on a blog of his. Keep reading, it’s music to my ears I tell you, calls for a small celbration. So long you piece of filth, Orwellian protocol ey, oh so sad, what a shame, hit the road scum…

Self-described pedophile Jack McClellan said he is leaving California after a judge ordered him to stay away permanently from places where children gather, it was reported Sunday. “I have to leave the state, really, I can’t live here under this Orwellian protocol,” he told KABC-TV. “It’s nightmarish.” McClellan has been unemployed and living out of his car since arriving in Southern California this summer from Washington. Source.

Jammu, Aug. 27 (PTI): Army troops today unearthed two hideouts in Rajouri district and recovered 26 kg. of improvised explosive devices and explosive material. On a tip off, troops launched a cordon and search operation in Pagga area of Bhudal tehsil in Rajouri district and unearthed the hideout, official sources said. They also recovered three IEDs weighing 23 kg. of explosives, one Chinese pistol, 2 magazines, 14 rounds, 3 Chinese grenades, one AK magazine and 126 rounds, they said. Source.

A GIANT banner saying “Cage Bush. Not Sydney” could be slung from the top of Town Hall, under a proposal to be voted on by the City of Sydney tonight. The Deputy Lord Mayor, Chris Harris, from the Greens, has called on councillors to support his motion calling for such a banner, to take a stand against crackdowns on protest at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum next month. “As a city councillor, I am appalled that we are allowing our government to gate off our city from the people who live, work and pay rates here,” he said. “That we would spend $600,000 on a water cannon to be used against our citizens should they exercise their democratic right to demonstrate. Source. Continue reading Why do we tolerate these losers…

Just the other day I was banging on about the ratbags that seem to think they have the right to trash our cities and do whatever the hell they want to here in Australia. Well, it looks like it’s a common trend amongst the young over in New Zealand too.

Students have claimed heavy handed tactics by police exacerbated the riots in Dunedin over the weekend. Police were pelted with bottles, drunken students set fire to cars and mattresses, and 69 arrests were made between 7pm on Friday and 7am yesterday. Today a Dunedin police spokesman said the city had been quiet overnight. “I guess they’re all sleeping it off,” he said. The rioting was centred in the heart of the student area of North Dunedin and took place in the wake of the student Undie 500 car race from Christchurch to Dunedin. Mr Ross said police were at one of the flats talking to the occupants on Saturday night when they began to be pelted with bottles. Continue reading Different Country, Same Vermin…

Forwarded to me by TouchStone from TouchStone’s Jests. He mentioned that it was an oldie, well I’ve never heard it before and it’s goodie alright. No wonder lefties are always trying to rewrite history.
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Continue reading The history of the world…condensed…

ISRAELI forces disguised as Palestinians have killed the local leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group in the West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian security sources say. The sources identified him as Ala Abu Srour and said another Islamic Jihad gunman wounded in the raid today by the undercover troops was in a stable condition after hospital treatment. Source.

Because sleeping with one eye open certainly hasn’t helped. So long Jihad-Jerk, one less scumbag to deal with, a small celebration is in order.

From the Daily Express

Three men have been charged with violent disorder following a street shooting which left two people seriously injured. Hertfordshire Police said the incident happened in Letchworth Garden City on Thursday morning. Source.
A man with learning difficulties who was savagely beaten by a gang of teenagers on a housing estate has died in hospital. Source.
A 20-year-old woman who was the victim of an alleged mob attack by a gang of youths in a park has died. Sophie Lancaster was walking through Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire with her boyfriend when they were both beaten up in a vicious assault. The pair, both from Bacup, have been described as “Goths” and it is understood they had been targeted in the past because of the way they dressed and looked. Source.

MK - Nah, I’m just kiddin, don’t get yer hopes up, them Liberals haven’t grown a pair to do this sort of thing. They’re just picking on them Jews, easy targets they are, just the way lefties like it.

A charter school has been ordered to temporarily suspend Hebrew classes while officials try to determine whether teachers are advocating the Jewish faith. Broward Schools Superintendent James Notter sent a letter to officials at the Ben Gamla Charter School in Hollywood on Wednesday advising them to halt Hebrew classes until the school board could further examine the curriculum. Ben Gamla is in its first week of operation as the country’s first Hebrew-language charter school, but school founder Peter Deutsch, a former Democratic congressman, said he told teachers Thursday to halt the classes. Continue reading Arabic classes halted at kuffar/infidel US school…

Folks, in the spirit of Thank a Marine! posted by KG at AWH while ago, I’m calling on you again. Thinking Right, is looking to raise 1000 emails of support and encouragement for the Marines and Sailors of 1st battalion 1st Marine regiment. He has raised close to 400 already, so please take a few minutes of your time and write some words expressing encouragement and support for the men & women who fight so that we do not have to. Please email your letters to letters@thinking-right.com

[Australian] GREENS candidate for Williamstown Janet Rice has told of her husband’s decision to become a woman. Ms Rice last night confirmed her partner’s male-to-female gender transition after 17 years of marriage. Ms Rice, endorsed by the Greens to contest ex-premier Steve Bracks’ bayside seat, told the Herald Sun her husband, Peter Whetton, became Penelope four years ago. “It was certainly challenging because we were happily married, but we are still happily married,” she said. Continue reading Climate change and your sex - is there a link?…

The “feminist” radio company whose founders include Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem failed to attract an audience and it signed off the air for good on Friday. When the talk-radio network, called GreenStone, officially launched in September 2006, NewsMax reported that it was a “new left-wing radio network that plans to appeal to women listeners and counter the dominance of conservative talk radio.” Continue reading Leftist losers suck at talkback radio…

An Iraqi man saved the lives of four U.S. Soldiers and eight civilians when he intercepted a suicide bomber during a Concerned Citizens meeting in the town of al-Arafia Aug. 18. The incident occurred while Soldiers from 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, were talking with members of the al-Arafia Concerned Citizens, a volunteer community group, at a member’s house. “I was about 12 feet away when the bomber came around the corner,” said Staff Sgt. Sean Kane, of Los Altos, Calif., acting platoon sergeant of Troop B, 3-1 Cav. “I was about to engage when he jumped in front of us and intercepted the bomber as he ran toward us. As he pushed him away, the bomb went off.” The citizen’s actions saved the lives of four U.S. Soldiers and eight civilians. Source. Via The Jawa Report.

Thank you & RIP, I hope we can find out who this brave man is so we can properly acknowledge his sacrifice.

The wife of Barack Obama told an audience in Atlantic, Iowa: “If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.” She didn’t elaborate, but with her husband’s chief opponent, Hillary Clinton, married to the world’s most famous philanderer, she didn’t need to. Source. Continue reading The gloves come off…