AIRPORT TRANSPORT LINK

Dear morons,

You know who you are.  You are the multi-generational empty headed pontificators dealing with our much needed ‘airport transport link’.  You are expert at lots of talk and bluster and empty ‘just before election’ political promises but in actual fact, achieve zip.  In my opinion you should be held responsible for decades of obfuscation arising from rhetoric which should be castigated at all levels.  You are incapable of strategic thought preferring to wallow around in minutia whilst proclaiming ‘look at me I’m working hard for you’.  What drivel!

Let me be plain.  There are several key issues which need to be discussed and certain priorities which need to be addressed for the benefit of our collective future.  This is NOT about just laying a few kilometres of track joining Melbourne to the airport as that would be dysfunctional, shallow, noisy, environmentally negative and would fail on every count to advance Victoria.  This is minutia thinking at its worst.

Get your minds out of the everyday and think tourism, pizzazz, low impact, efficiency and ‘wow’.

There is a proven technology called MAGLEV which could zip along at say 600 kmph making the onerous journey from the city to airport take about 3 minutes [slight exaggeration].  Now suspend that magic carpet from overhead low/zero impact stanchions and we have a high tech monorail.  Passengers would be ‘flying’ above the ground.  Wow!

This monorail would be a tourist hit and would put Melbourne on the map as a tech driven city dealing with the future.  Almost zero impact, environmentally fantastic, low noise, fast, exciting and would lob in above ground at Tullamarine in a very showy ‘look at me’ manner.  Wahoo!!   Beam me up Scotty!!

This is a strategic view which encompasses almost zero environmental impact with a ‘let’s put Melbourne on the map’ and lots of WOW.  If you are old enough, think ‘The Jetsons’ cartoon series which was set in 2062.

Always in hope ..

Note that if we weren’t paying circa $30m a day in interest on Victoria’s Labor debt we could build this in a few weeks.

Jon Langevad

THE UNSTABLE LUNATIC FRINGE ALBEIT WITH PLANNED INTENT

I try to keep an open mind  but the juvenile statements Trump espouses as truth whilst seriously expecting people to believe in him is just gobsmacking.  Worse, far worse, people seem to believe him.  This is the ego driven bloke so centred on re-obtaining the presidency his rhetoric is repeated time after time with the same dysinformation.  For example, he is a convicted felon yet continually refers to Biden as ‘crooked Joe’ in an obvious attempt to take the heat off his own convictions.  Yet, people still believe him.  How about that he claimed he was ‘cheated’ out of the last election.  A claim he continually makes yet it has no basis in fact as proven many times by independent analysts.  Yet the morons actually  believe him?

During the last election campaign, which he thankfully lost, he was accused of disenfranchising women yet almost instantly there were women everywhere with placards saying ‘women for Trump’.  This is a shallow as a frypan and an obvious ploy to play down his own proven meandering with porn stars.  Perhaps all the placard holders were porn stars waiting their turn?

There is no doubt that we need to thank the USA for the survival of our current democracies around the globe since WW2 which are being threatened all the time by a whole raft of despots.  Despots with absolute power to do what they want in countries such as Russia, North Korea and China.  Each driven by one man who has pole vaulted himself  above their own law and indeed, even international law.  Now, he is assuming he will win the next election, Trump has put in place the same despot powers without checks and balances wiping out the rule of law and democracy in the process.  Anarchy shines where despots rule!  The American Supreme court is a joke, a laughing stock of any responsible court system as it’s obviously driven by politics.  An independent justice system is of absolute importance wherein political persuasion is ignored yet now we have politically driven presidential immunity for basically anything and it is so onerous and despot driven it’s dangerous.  ‘Oops, did I press the red button killing 100m people?  Oh well, can I have a new button please.  No joke.

Without checks and balances we have say Hitler or Putin both of whom removed any opposition to their ‘career’ by simple people disposal.   Now Trump can legally do the same if elected and he has hinted at doing just that.  Take the ‘insurrection’ as a perfect example.  Now he can lead QAnon without fear of prosecution for any resultant carnage as he is above the law.  Wow!!  Political opposition is not a problem as he can say what he likes and perhaps his dissenters may just ‘disappear’.  Remember Trump campaigners accused Ms Clinton of cannibalism and running a child sex ring during the last election.  This is juvenile crap written by 10 year olds but espoused loudly and often by Trump.  What does that say about his morals and indeed maturity?   One cannot take Trump seriously and, as a possible holder of the red button, he is dangerous beyond belief.  His obvious and planned ‘intent’ is to be able to do what he likes and pardon those who have broken the law at his behest. Please.

A good start to rectify this appalling development would be to recuse the entire Supreme Court bench and start again immediately appealing this judgment.  One rule for all with checks and balances obviating any even slight opportunity for despots to garner a toe hold. 

THE key word is ‘intent’.  Why would Trump seek this onerous power even as far as by and through stacking the Supreme bench with political appointees favouring himself?  The obvious answer is immunity for past deeds and being able to pardon his cronies then  being able to rule with impunity, absolute power and no accountability. 

Is this the future and the death of democracy for a country which has done so much for democracy, world peace and law?  Pity.