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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 5:15:07 GMT 8
The Editor
The Cairns Post
Bureaucrats are primarily concerned with processes, outcomes are a secondary consideration – which is why bureaucrats will never resolve the Kuranda Range issues, (Range hopes a no-go, 06/01).
A proper fix is only possible with strong leadership from elected representatives – something very lacking in Leichhardt and Barron River.
The main cause of Kuranda Range crashes is the slippery surface. The slimy mossy growth along the edges is clearly visible. Leaf debris further reduces the friction coefficient.
That could be improved by pressure washing the surface regularly, which could be achieved with a truck-mounted hot water pressure washer and spray bar.
A more permanent solution would be to add crushed glass or bauxite to the surface coat, which is well-proven technology these days.
As to the “Intelligent Transport System” (Lol!), all those trenches zigzagging across the road seem certain to destabilise the road’s foundations. If you think a car slithering into your path is a problem, just wait until the whole road sloughs away.
Then there’s the greenies who are certain to derail any effort to widen the road, which is why I gave up on hoping for a K-range fix 20 years ago.
The only logical, affordable, safe, and reliable Cairns-Tableland road link option is the one I suggested in this column on 29/12/2022.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 6:20:41 GMT 8
To respond to Brian Measday, Letters, 06/01 -
Brian Measday, (Letters, 06/01), CO2-induced climate catastrophism is only “common knowledge” to the side of politics that worships lab-coated professional scaremongering activists posing as scientists.
Those of us who have bothered to learn the underlying principles of science know beyond any doubt that CO2-warming is now and always has been pure fiction purposefully designed to scare the gullible low-info left into handing ever more power to corrupt governments.
Jennifer Short Edge Hill
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 6:21:27 GMT 8
Bloody cold here for summer.........
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 6:33:15 GMT 8
To respond to Warren Brown’s cartoon, 06/01
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Further to Warren Brown’s cartoon, (DT, 06/01), the express elevator at St Peter’s Basilica needs a down option – because not all Vatican dwellers are going to heaven.
Jennifer Short
Edge Hill
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 6:42:02 GMT 8
o respond to “Sustainability link to emotions”, 06/01
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Apparently, it’s “less sustainable” to have “dishes as decorations” instead of using them, (Sustainability link to emotions, 06/01). Where did the researcher go to school? The Klaus Schwab Institute of Social Engineering? It’s researchers like this who make the whole world dumber.
For the benefit of the "doctoral researcher", this planet is not short of resources. A century ago, nobody knew we’d be making computer chips out of sand. The small-minded Malthusian alarmism that permeates institutes of “higher learning”is disgraceful.
Jennifer Short
Edge Hill
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 9:21:52 GMT 8
The Editor
The Courier Mail
The bigger issue raised by Facebook banning ads supporting the “no” vote in the voice referendum, (Feds ‘getting referendum wrong’, 06/01), is the rise of left-wing “fact checkers”, who are on the record asserting their own political opinions as “facts”.
It is absolutely vital in all public discourse to have the right to free speech, as it’s the right on which all other human rights depend.
The biggest threat to any democracy is censorship. The left depends on censorship because they cannot defend their ideas – as the refusal of climate alarmists to publicly debate climate realists amply demonstrates.
The Albanese Labor government’s decision to use our money to support only the “yes” vote in the voice referendum is a disgraceful example of the left using censorship to achieve their racist objectives.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 9:22:54 GMT 8
To respond to “Aussies won’t give up meat, gym”, 06/01 -
It was excellent to read that “… Australians (are) meat-loving gym junkies…” and that “… the data showed that while Aussies were committed to saving money, … becoming vegetarian … (was) … off the cards.” (Aussies won’t give up meat, gym, 06/01).
Do you hear that Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and the rest of you wannabe fascist dictators at the World Economic Forum? Aussies aren’t going to “eat ze bugs”! You’ll have to prize our steaks out of our gym-honed hands.
Any Australian politician who was trained by or is cooperating with the thoroughly evil World Economic Forum (looking at you, Greens Senator Sarah Hansen-Young, Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, and Labor Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil) should be considered an agent of a foreign power and be promptly removed from our parliaments.
Jennifer Short Edge Hill
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 9:24:00 GMT 8
The Editor
The Daily Telegraph
Regarding the wind turbine fire near Goulburn, (Blades melt as turbine catches fire, 06/01), in a technical sense I disagree with the term “melt”, as the blades are usually constructed of Amazon rainforest balsa wood sheeted with fiberglass.
More polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other toxic pollutant gases and particulates were emitted from that turbine’s several hundred litres of lubricant oil and tonnes of plastic in the time it took to burn itself out than a properly scrubbed coal-fired power station exhaust vent would emit in its lifetime.
The huge advantage of the coal-fired power station is that it produces power cheaply and reliably, doesn’t have blade tips moving at 450 km/h smashing protected raptors out of the sky, and has waste products that feed and water plants (CO2 and H2O).
If it weren’t for the entirely fake climate hysteria created by attributing substantiable properties to CO2, our environment would not be blighted by even one of these expensive and useless monuments to morons who don’t understand grid-scale electricity generation.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 9:25:05 GMT 8
The Editor
The Herald Sun
““Covid took a massive toll on the force … we were expected to stop toddlers playing on slides and grannies sitting on benches in the park,” one senior constable, who left last year, said.” (Thin blue line, 06/01)
“So many of us just became disillusioned with the job. It’s not what we came into policing for and we felt let down by our superiors who were just toeing these ridiculous government edicts.”
It was obvious from the relative sanity of rural Queensland that Dan Andrews had become hysterical and was using VicPol like Gestapo.
Disgraceful images of Victorian police brutality went viral all around the world and comparisons were made to China’s totalitarian regime.
VicPol leadership needs to revisit the Peelian Principles of policing by consent – they were never meant to be the Premier’s private army.
Until such time as Victoria’s law enforcement and electoral systems are reformed, it will continue sliding towards tyrannical socialist dystopianism.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 9:29:33 GMT 8
It was all of them from McGowan to the little shit in the NT, to Palletjack here in QLD.
How was the behaviour of certain arrogant NSW ministers?
These people must be brought to justice. Without a free press or a police force upholding the law, constitutional or otherwise, they will leave the people no alternative.
The police must lay charges to stop the nation becoming a totalitarian state or a violent shit hole of rebellion against the tyranny they could have stopped.
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 13:47:36 GMT 8
Peter Gillman (CP, 06/01). If you'd done your homework you'd know that miners are required to rehabilitate the land - and they use experts who do a great job. Industrial-scale solar and wind industrial installations, by contrast, do not have to rehabilitate the land. FMD, Yorkeys Knob
RE "Enviro advisory nod" (6/1) I very much doubt any of the individuals appointed to such boards have any of the traditional knowledge of their ancestors seven generations removed. They'll just be more grifters to be supported in undeserved luxury by the long-suffering taxpayers. Cynical Me, Edmonton
After the entirely fake Tiktok videos of Chinese people dying suddenly of covid in the streets that we all saw in early 2020 and which kicked off our governments overreactions, why would anyone believe any covid news coming from there? Confused, Cairns
After China stripped our stores of medical equipment in early 2020, I and many others urged our leaders to ramp up our domestic pharmaceutical and precursor chemical production (06/01) to reduce our reliance on China. And what have they done? Nothing except build an mRNA factory - a technology that we now know beyond any doubt does more harm than good. Chloe, Kuranda
How can gender be a spectrum? There's only two types of human body. How can race not be a spectrum? I have great-grandparents from eight different races. I can rightfully identify as Indian, Asian, European, Aboriginal, etc. But I cannot swap genitalia, muscle mass, pelvic girdle, etc to be the opposite sex. Lefty talking points seem designed to mess with people's heads. Chris, Manoora
"Single pilot flights" (TB, 06/01) are 100% intended to result in more air crashes. The people advocating for them are depopulationists who have their own private jets. They don't want us flying, they don't want passenger jets, and they are actively trying to kill us off to achieve their Georgia Guidestones objective - "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature." CT, Townsville
Tsvgirl (TB 6/1) tuck your parochialism back in, sweetheart, it makes you look scruffy hanging out like that. IMHO, the Cairns writers are far more logical and informative than our local frightbats and I applaud the editor for including them. Anita, Heatley
Kris Run Bay (6/1) refers people to the Australian Constitution to confirm "three levels of government" but obviously has never read it theirself because it does not mention local government. Local government is 100% a creation of state government. The Gold Coast City Council might as well be called the Department of the Gold Coast. Ah, the consequences of smugnorance can be painful, eh, Kris? Kitten, Mermaid Beach
TSVGIRL (TTE, 6/1), Yes, the Cairns post went woke. Since then it's had to cut its ad rates by two-thirds. It'll soon be broke. The Cairns writers coming here are yet another unintended consequence of wokeness. But if it's any consolation, I do get printed up there sometimes. Marie, Aitkenvale
Ka-Boom! In one letter Jennifer Short knocks Andrew Stimson, Brian Measday, and some anonymous coward in the Chatroom right over the stands, (GCB, 06/01). Outstanding, Jennifer! Thank you so much for your logical, rational and properly researched letters that do so much to debunk the myths and misinformation of the extreme left. Our well-stuffed academics should hang their heads in shame for their disgraceful habit of abusing the credibility of previous generations of scientists to further their tatty political agenda. Bernard Crompton, Miami
Wait, what? Michael B Henderson (CP 6/1) says he's old? As British WWI Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George said, "A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head." Annie, Ravenshoe
RE - "Wait to be stopped". All governments need to do to end the crime wave is return our right to self defence by any means necessary - including sidearms. Criminals have guns, so law-abiding people should have them, too. The vast majority of gun murders in the US are criminals killing other criminals, which results in fewer criminals - a self-resolving issue. Fully armed Second Amendment states have less gun crime than unarmed Australia. Mud Crab, Trinity Beach
A dementia test for drivers (6/1)? Great idea! Can we do an intelligence test for politicians, too? Sarah, Mooroobool
"Better plan needed to deal with mental health", 06/01. The more Earth's magnetosphere declines the more mental illness we'll see. It's been declining at an accelerating pace since 1859 and won't begin to strengthen again until around 2046. JS, Edge Hill
Um, Harold, (CP, 6/1), you know Trump lost office in 2020, right? McCarthy is the author of his own troubles. Serves him right for being so far left. Bad Hat Harry, Kamerunga
MB Henderson (CP, 6/1), per capita there are more unemployed migrants than there are unemployed Australians. How does increasing the cost of welfare solve the debt problem? Woz, Parramatta Park
Haven't people worked out why there is a juvenile crime wave yet? It's because the Palaszczuk Labor government wants there to be one. They could fix it, but they don't, so they must want it. Ex-ALP Voter, Cairns
At time of writing (0800, 6/1), US swamp creature Kevin McCarthy has been rejected as House Speaker for the ninth time. We're witnessing a small but heroic band of patriotic Republicans doing their best to drain the hideous Washington swamp. McCarthy doesn't care about America or Americans - like all swamp creatures he cares only for power. Republican, Cairns
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 13:48:10 GMT 8
The Editor
The Daily Telegraph
Regarding the wind turbine fire near Goulburn, (Blades melt as turbine catches fire, 06/01), in a technical sense I disagree with the term “melt”, as the blades are usually constructed of Amazon rainforest balsa wood sheeted with fiberglass.
More polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other toxic pollutant gases and particulates were emitted from that turbine’s several hundred litres of lubricant oil and tonnes of plastic in the time it took to burn itself out than a properly scrubbed coal-fired power station exhaust vent would emit in its lifetime.
The huge advantage of the coal-fired power station is that it produces power cheaply and reliably, doesn’t have blade tips moving at 450 km/h smashing protected raptors out of the sky, and has waste products that feed and water plants (CO2 and H2O).
If it weren’t for the entirely fake climate hysteria created by attributing unsubstantiable properties to CO2, our environment would not be blighted by even one of these expensive and useless monuments to morons who don’t understand grid-scale electricity generation.
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Peter Campion
Tolga
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Post by Struth on Jan 6, 2023 14:01:40 GMT 8
Kris Run Bay (6/1) refers people to the Australian Constitution to confirm "three levels of government" but obviously has never read it theirself because it does not mention local government. Local government is 100% a creation of state government. The Gold Coast City Council might as well be called the Department of the Gold Coast. Ah, the consequences of smugnorance can be painful, eh, Kris? Kitten, Mermaid Beach
And people overwhelmingly voted in two referendums for the constitution NOT to recognise them.
They were trying for three goes but then they can't put the proposal up again so they chickened out.
But now the constitution has been thrown in the bin at parliament house and it's a free for all of tyranny they call themselves what they like and do what they like.
I bet if they held a referendum tomorrow on it, the Australian people would overwhelmingly reject it again, but the result would show they were all for it.
Just like the upcoming vote on the Voice...........you know how these things are going to go.
They same way the Victorian election went. The minority may be noisy but they are still the minority. Your vote does not count, it's who counts the votes.
Australia did invent the secret ballot.............an interesting topic would be if it has done us any good.
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Post by NFA on Jan 7, 2023 18:21:37 GMT 8
Bloody cold here for summer......... Bloody cold here for winter... don't laugh... overnight down to 24... and to think I worked at Mt. Buffalo Ski Resort for a short stint... lol
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