Thursday, 14 January 2016

Around the Traps 15/1/16

It is time for Around the Traps again. Stories on Bowie in Dianne Coyle part.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy
Northern America
Europe
Asia
Wonk
General
Climate
Andrew Gelman ( Mainly Stats)
Genial Dave Giles ( Econometrics)
Dianne Coyle ( Quirky + Book Reviews)
Vox wonk

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

2015 hottest year on record


2015 was the hottest year on record. It beat the previous hottest ,2014, easily.

Read about it HERE and HERE

You would have to have a lot of front to declare there is a pause in rising world temperatures. which reminds me Poor old Rafe cannot answer my two simple questions on this over at Troppo.
It is pretty easy to understand why.

Monday, 11 January 2016

Donald Trump again

In Friday's Around the Traps Nate Silver had a great article on Donald Trump. Read it HERE.

I enjoyed reading it.

I will repeat myself however. The Primaries are not far off. Candidates must drop out and I doubt much of their support will go to Trump.

Who will benefit from candidates dropping out.

Me thinks Cruz and Rubio but I could be wrong but I doubt it will be Yrump.

Perhaps then the talk will be of the fall of Trump!

Thursday, 7 January 2016

Around the Traps 8/1/16

It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy.Oy.Oy
Northern America
Europe
Asia
Wonk
General
Climate
Andrew Gelman ( Mainly Stats)
Genial Dave Giles ( Econometrics)
Dianne Coyle ( Quirky + Book Reviews)
Vox Wonk

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Thomas the Think engine

I have discovered a new blog.

Ii is thomasthethinkengine.com.

Highly enjoyable reading.

He wrote THIS for Newscorp on Dick Smith.

Enjoy

why was Tony Abbott so unpopular?

Here is an interesting perspective on why Tony Abbott was so unpopular.

Personally I think Andrew Elder nailed it a long time ago.

Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Flirting is not sexual harassment.

In all of the silly brouhaha about Chris Gayle the essential problem is he was flirting.

This was patently apparent. The lady in question blushed for heaven's sake. You do not blush unless the flirt hit its target!

sexual harassment is harassment (typically of a woman) in a workplace, or other professional or social situation, involving the making of unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks.


The Human rights commission says this

Examples of sexually harassing behaviour include:
  • unwelcome touching;
  • staring or leering;
  • suggestive comments or jokes;
  • sexually explicit pictures or posters;
  • unwanted invitations to go out on dates;
  • requests for sex;
  • intrusive questions about a person's private life or body;
  • unnecessary familiarity, such as deliberately brushing up against a person;
  • insults or taunts based on sex;
  • sexually explicit physical contact; and
  • sexually explicit emails or SMS text messages.

Does this sound like what Chris Gayle was about? Of course not.

Is Gayle full of himself. Unquestionably but the lady in question could have easily told him so but was mute!

Can soime people get a life please.

Flirting has always been around. It is always will be around.

If Gayle has been serious he would have asked her out for a drink. He didn't!

okay I agree the female journalist didn't get the gig for her understanding of the game. more hypocrisy. In other word she ain't no Debbie Spillane