The times they are a’changing, so they say.

Well this site sure keeps changing. Instead of opening up ready for me to start the blog it’s taken me about an hour of flailing about mindlessly just to reach a page to write on.

I was expecting to tell you in this post that I was changing the blog’s address – I only moved to Word Press because Go Daddy increased the cost of email hosting sky high. We took out our own domain name so that our email address would not need to changed every time we changed our ISP – but when we moved to Word Press they put their own name on top of it – which rendered it bloody useless – so we moved it to NetOrigin instead. But all attempts to move this website as well failed, despite heroic efforts by NetOrigin’s support staff and myself.

Recently NetOrigin began spruiking domain name transfers and I thought I’d try again – until I checked their annual charges! So, despite my reluctance to pour more wealth into Mike Cannon-Brookes endless pockets, I’ll stay with this Atlassian minion for now. At least as long as I can stand this mindless buggering about trying to access the blogging area.

I read that Kevin Rudd referred to Donald Trump as a village idiot – a bit rich coming from the most incompetent Prime Minister of Australia in my time. Isn’t it wonderful how these people go on getting paid a fortune in public money as they screw up in one job after another. And would you believe, people VOTE for them! At least Rudd never looked or acted anything but self-centred, bigoted and ill-tempered; so perhaps – God forbid – he is honest!

I confess I was mightily relieved when Trump first won – well anyone, even a dead horse, rather than Hillary Clinton. And I assumed that Americans reacted the same way. I don’t know why they reacted so badly to Ms Harris this time, surely Trump has taken on most of the more unlikeable characteristics of a dead horse now, and Ms Harris didn’t seem particularly vicious. (Well maybe she was a bit, outside of her public appearances.)

And now here at home? Well nobody in parliament scintillates much, do they! It will be the usual task of trying to pick who will do the least harm. Will we become like the UK, where I spent a few years, long ago, mildly engaged in the aim to thrust Noocleur Powr into the forefront of the nations power supply industry. The one plant that I was directly engaged in constructing was blown up – as scheduled – sometime in the last century and I have yet to hear of any significant contribution by the many variants spread about the country. Does anyone recall recent Japanese history?

Talking of that, I don’t know what part of the USA power grid is supplied by Nuclear Energy. What I DO know is that I spent a night a few years ago on a boat moored opposite a vast Con-Ed power station in Illinois and there was a 24-hour constant stream of long barge trains unloading COAL there.

And what of immigration? We are told that the Universities make a fortune out of overseas migrants, so why are they not required to provide or locate adequate, affordable accommodation for ALL students who need it? They will say ‘We aren’t in the accommodation business’. Well they ARE in business to make a fortune so, like any other business, they’d better learn to do what it takes, not just what they enjoy.

And talking of housing…

I have observed that the price of houses always rises to just above what anybody can safely afford. I have owned ten houses and a block of 4 units over the past 60 or so years and all met that criterion. I purchased my first house with the aid of a loan from my company pension fund and I fail to see why anybody should be prevented from drawing a modest part of their superannuation for that purpose today. But the price will always be almost out of reach or normal people. Remove stamp duty? The price will rise. Give a subsidy? The price will rise. Only a supply greater than demand will stabilise or reduce prices. And who will PAY for that to happen?

Meanwhile, whatever the truth about Klimit Change (yes, you do detect a degree of skepticism there) we will be paying large sums to largely ineffective people to talk about it. Oh, it exists alright. And the results may be catastrophic. What we DON’T know – despite some shaky but vigorously supported claims – is exactly why, for how long, and what next. And if bloody people would stop trying to bend the facts to fit their pet theories and actually study reality we might begin to do something useful about it.

Of course, we might some day be in a position whereby a few chosen people (probably politicians) will be able to travel by spaceship to a planet that has already been decaying for far longer than the earth, in order to maintain life there. How fortunate that I wont be there to see it.

Good note to end on, eh!