Bob's blog - the realm of threalm

Fiscal stimulus: relief, but no lasting satisfaction. Its almost organic. No wonder greenies love it so. But to what should we apply this alluring and organically onomatopoeic label: " Obama Onanism "? Obama himself and his imitators* , with their simply massive self congratulatory stimuli ? or The Obamanics , who continuously spill their seed into such an empty vessel? or both? What is it about modern democracies that allows all these ethically challenged moral high ground clambering Dear Leaders: Barack, Brownie* and Kevin* ; to get away with inflicting these massive expiatations of debt funded spending on their electorates, without regard to the long term consequences. Why aren't they called for being the wankers that they are by the fourth estate ? Why are journalists in the mainstream media not holding these social democratic governments to account for this spectacular irresponsibility? (Ed: It could be because they don't want to. They enabled these populis...

Was it a case of missing the forest of fuel, for the love of trees; or missing the fire of trees for the forest of global warming? Either way all the spending and commitment of communities and government was worthless because their strategic decisions were wrong. Out of the despair and grief from the ashes of these horrendous fires there may yet be some forgotten wisdom to be re-learned. Over-indulgence in feel-good greenish solutions and an excessive tilt towards fashionable natural rather than human shaped landscape in habitats in semi-rural Victoria, has contributed significantly to the appallingly high loss of life and injury from Victoria's February bushfires . A failure to heed the outcome of numerous previous enquiries after bushfire disasters throughout the 20 th century, nearly all of which have recommended hazard and fuel reduction by regular hazard reduction burning in forests and the clearing of vegetation around settlements, has significantly contributed to the sca...