Month: July 2019

Time to lock up Grandma?

Sad to see the loony left are looking to equate kisses from a grandparent with sexual consent. It doesn’t take much imagination but in the Democratic People’s Republic of Victoria some educational apparatchiks believe a grandparent kissing their grandchild can violate them. In what world does a grandparent showing affection to their own flesh and blood have incest on their minds? Most likely never.

These people have absolutely no place setting educational standards. Period. Teachers should focus on lifting us out of the long term slide in overall international scholastic rankings in maths, science and English. Now that climate change is being introduced into the class room might as well teach that 2+2=5 in math.

PG slices another $8bn off Gillette in 4Q

P&G reported stronger earnings overnight but wrote off another $8bn in 4Q on top of the $6bn in 3Q on the Gillette brand in terms of goodwill and intangibles. Of course management brushed this off as significant devaluations over a decade, lower shaving frequency and new entrants at prices lower than the average. Nothing to do with the toxic masculinity campaign 6 months ago? Get real.

Under grooming, most of the results performance came through the sale of real estate in Boston. Other than that the company reported unfavorable channel mix, volume declines, brand communication investments and currency headwinds. The CFO Jon Moeller said with respect to Gillette,

“You’ve got here a business with a very broad global footprint, and particularly with the year that we have just been through, that impacts that value assessment,”

Sorry, what does that even mean? No surprises that grooming was the worst performing division in P&G’s quiver.

Get woke, go broke.

Toxic males and older folk still prefer Brexit to climate change

Activist group Christian Aid has published a survey of 2,072 people across representative age, gender, region and socioeconomic background to tell us that 71% of people care about the “long term” impacts of climate change than Brexit. 60% of people said that the UK government isn’t doing enough on climate change. Although looking at the questions in the ComRes survey we find when the word long term is removed it falls to 49%. Those damned toxic males make it 44% agreeing and 48% disagreeing with climate change being more pressing than Brexit in the short run. Don’t mention the older people! What do they know!? If Brexit occurs they’ll have stolen our “futures” twice!

Then by region, those pesky Northern Irelanders don’t think climate change is as important as Brexit. The double-barreled snobs in the South West are a given to be in favour of leaving the EU.

As can be seen from the Christian Aid website, it is an alarmist organization pleading its followers to bully banks into ending finance to fossil fuel industries.  HSBC is the main target.

When the next general election comes, CM thinks that Brexit will be given priority to climate. The EU elections proved that. Now that Corbyn has gone back on his word on Brexit and Boris is a “leaver” one imagines that the results of this survey will be disproven at the ballot box.

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16yo activist Greta Thunberg is off to the next UN summit in the US and Chile by sailing boat. The only issue is if she flew on a commercially scheduled flight (which goes anyway) her weight – at presumably 35-40kg – would mean she would add 0.016% to the fuel calculations a Boeing 777 pilot would have to account for . Her impact would be so minuscule as to beggar belief.

280 million trips were made by commercial aircraft last year according to the IATA. Her transatlantic return flight would only be 2 of those meaning she would represent 0.000000714% of all annual flights taken.

Given that airlines, by the IATA’s own stats, annually produce the equivalent to 2% of all man-made emissions or 0.000016% in total, her two flights would make up around 0.0000000000114%. That is slightly unfair as the journey would be longer. So let’s bump it 4-fold. Her weight would penalize the planet 0.0000000000007314%.

Apart from the fact the yacht she will travel on is a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry if she really wants to reduce the footprint she’d be better off swimming. Unfortunately most of the virtue signalers heading to the UN summit will fly. Last year 22,000 went. Including 7300 odd observers to tell us we must do our bit. Why not Skype or teleconference it?

Skipping school for a year might not be the best idea. The chances of dying by sailing are 54 in 1,000,000. By commercial aviation there is a 0.06 chance per 1,000,000 flights. Strictly by the math she has a far better chance of avoiding extinction by flying.

Jacinda’s popularity slides

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NZ PM Jacinda Ardern’s popularity has slid from 51% at the time of the Christchurch terror attack to 41% today according to a TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll. The National Party remains more popular than Ardern’s Labour Party. Ardern remains preferred PM. Her counterpart across the ditch, PM Scott Morrison is now polling at 51%, up 5 points.

Lisa Wilkinson, perhaps Jacinda ought to be getting some tips from ScoMo? Afterall 570,000 Kiwis living in Australia is a far cry from the 39,000 Aussies living in NZ. Perhaps they know something? By the Wellness Budget is less generous per capita than Australia.

 

The Democrats & MSM still don’t get it

Of course the Democrats have been wailing “racism” with respect to this tweet. What the Dems and the mainstream media keep forgetting is that all they do is give Trump free exposure. The intended message relating to his racism, bigotry, white supremacy etc etc is diluted. CM has said for the longest time that the best way to defeat Trump is to give him zero airplay over such nonsense. Sadly TDS prevents rational thought and encourages hysteria.

Actions have repercussions. Good

Good. An Extinction Rebellion (XR) protestor copped a $61,000 fine for blocking a coal train for 5 hours by cementing her arm to a 500kg barrel laid on the tracks. Her stunt likely cost the company multiples of this.

Protesting is one thing. Inconveniencing businesses and everyday people is an entirely different issue. Trespassing is breaking the law. Good to see her pay the penalty. These XR people behave if they are a law unto themselves. They should know they’re not.

Who needs meat in their (portfolio) diet?

Beyond Meat

After 20 years in finance, CM thought he’d seen most anomalies in markets. This one from Charlie Bilello shows the lunacy of markets that can stay irrational longer than we can stay solvent. Beyond Meat shares are up over 9x since the IPO of two months ago and trading at 100x sales. Bigger than Campbells Soup. If only Andy Warhol knew of Beyond Meat…

Thanks SMcK for the flag.

Madness

CM was in Woolworths when he heard the band Madness, “My girl [is mad at me]” being played as BGM. The songs from Madness have stuck in the head since then and won’t seem to leave. Or is it because I’m subconsciously thinking the Mrs is actually mad at CM.

Press play at your peril!

Trump straws because liberal paper straws don’t work

It seems President Trump is now selling ‘Trump’ branded plastic straws for a campaign fund raiser. $15 for 10.

The product description says

“Liberal paper straws don’t work. STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP and buy your pack of recyclable straws today.

 Please allow 12-14 business days.

BPA free

Reusable & Recyclable (Most importantly)

9″ long

Pack of 10 identical straws as shown

Laser engraved

Made in USA”

If the Democrats had any brains they’d launch an “Impeach” straw series. In single use paper of course.

Let’s not forget the facts on plastic waste. 60% of mismanaged plastic waste is from East Asia (i.e. China), 11% from South Asia; 9% from sub-Saharan Africa; 8% from MENA; 7% from LatAm; 3% from Europe and 0.9% from North America.

Typical tokenism of the left to ban plastics and punish those who aren’t responsible for the problem.

Make drinking through a straw great again