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Tragedies and Accidents Just Happen*

Iambic trimeters just fell into my lap
as, like an ancient theatre-piece, some great mishap
occurred: “asylum-seekers” found themselves at sea
and wondered, “How did we get here?  A mystery!
A little while ago the family was home,
then, suddenly, we’re drowning in this briny foam.”
Calamities just happen, misadventures too,
and Sarah Hanson-Young sees nothing she need do;
she’ll ever fault some other—Greens can never err†—,
for tragedies will happen, accidents occur.

*  see  “Boat tragedy linked to smuggling mastermind”, by Peter Alford and Paul Maley, in The Australian:

As news of the disaster broke, former Labor leader Mark Latham took aim at the Greens and the Labor Left, saying the “so-called compassionate” approach of onshore processing was causing deaths at sea. “You can’t be compassionate and you can’t have a good heart, you can’t have a good soul, if you encourage people to get on boats that sink,’ Mr Latham told Sky’s Australian Agenda.

“And people just need to understand that the real compassionate policy is to stop the flow of the boats.”

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young yesterday stood by her party’s policies.  Pressed on whether the Greens accepted responsibility for the tragedy, Senator Hanson-Young said:  “Of course not.  Tragedies happen, accidents happen.”

†  The Greens, we know, will never take the blame for acts

    they wrought (nor will they recognise objective facts).

UPDATE I:  these verses were composed as a comment for Tim Blair’s post “Cared to Death” but only the title and the footnoted couplet were accepted.

UPDATE II (29 December):  see “Police State: It is now illegal to show asylum seekers [i.e., unlawful non-citizens seeking illegal entry] on Australian TV” at Wake up 2 the Lies.

Say “Yes” to Pious Self-Censorship

Don’t Mention the Climate War

The Age must refuse
to allow its readers to
catch Climategate news.

Our ABC too
sees no point in allowing
alternative views.

The Age cannot risk its few remaining readers learning the truth behind the lies and scams and frauds perpetrated on behalf of “the cause” by pseudo-scientists.

See “Climategate II”.

(A Confession

I seldom peruse
papers, and The Age aint one
I’d normally choose.)

UPDATE (25 November):  The Age has now addressed the latest scandal with, as we’d expect, the usual dismissive “taken out of context” exculpatory tosh.  Yes, it is so unfair to interpret clear evidence of perfidious, criminal malfeasance harshly; perhaps, then, The Age might care to provide some context for the The Team’s duplicities and deceits.  See also Climate Nonconformist’s “The Age: Nothing to see here” .

Say “Yes” to Venality

At Adelaide Now, you may read Catherine Hockley’s “The cost of tackling climate change”:

Forty bureaucrats will travel to Durban in South Africa later this year for the next round of climate-change talks, at a cost of more than $500,000.

Some of the costs of the trip have been revealed as the Federal Government gets set to introduce its carbon tax legislation tomorrow.

The public servants from the Climate Change Department and other government agencies will travel business class to Durban – creating a footprint of about 270 tonnes of carbon.  (To put this in context, the equivalent emissions would be produced from the electricity use of 34 average homes in one year.)

They are expected to stay at the Coastlands Hotel and Convention Centre, in the coastal resort of Umhlanga – described by local tourism authorities as the “Riviera” of Durban.

The delegation will attend the United Nations “conference of parties” in late November and December, an annual gathering of nations with the long-anticipated goal of securing agreement on a binding international contract to tackle climate change.

Two prior meetings, Copenhagen in 2009 and Cancun last year, both failed to secure an international commitment, triggering frustration in the process.

Australia sent 114 delegates to the Copenhagen conference at a cost of almost $1.5 million.

That conference promised much progress on a deal, but failed to deliver.

It is anticipated an agreement will also prove elusive in Durban.

It is, of course, impossible for extremely well-paid public servants to negotiate agreements or to discuss how much more they intend to fleece taxpayers, whilst promoting their politically-motivated pseudo-scientific conjecture, by using mail, e-mail, telephones, video-conferencing or any other method which involves remaining in their own country.