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Another 'One-in-500-Year' Flood, and a Government Not Up to the Task

Civilians were largely left to rescue one another as a natural disaster struck Australia. It shows how the authorities are struggling to respond to climate-fueled calamities.

DeSantis Unmasks the COVID Panic Porn Hypocrisy – PJ Media

Amid catastrophic floods politicians blame 'Mother nature'

The catastrophic floods in northern NSW and southern Queensland seems to have taken some MPs by surprise. But, as Alex Bainbridge reports, the IPCC has warned that climate change will increase the likelihood of such catastrophic events.

Conversing in an age of verbal flatulence  – The Echo

Richard Hil  The other day I bumped into an old acquaintance of mine in the centre of Brisbane. For twenty-five breathless minutes he regaled me with a microscopically detailed account of his secondhand electric car. After ten minutes or so I fell into a soporific stupor from which I barely recovered, until that is, he uttered the immortal words: ‘See ya later, mate’. And off he strode. I felt like I’d been verbally mugged, dragged over a lexical hedge, and left for dead. The encounter reminded me of a scene in  Fawlty Towers where a monotoned spoon salesman (Bernard Cribbens) overwhelms Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) with a volley of hyperbolic requests, to which Basil looks left and right and asks: ‘Are you talking to me?’ ‘Indeed I am, kind sir,’ says the salesman, only for Basil to inquire, ‘Why don’t you speak properly?’

Conspiracies in the pub? – Echonetdaily