In a week where the fighting continues in the Middle East, there is more stupidity from the Trump family, Alan Jones tells Josh Frydenberg he has to go, the in-fighting among the Liberals reaches a new low and one of the more intelligent senators from Western Australia finds out he is not eligible, it is good to read a story from the US which restores faith in the human spirit.
As reported by Time magazine, in a MacDonalds drive-through line in Indiana, a woman noticed that the shabby car behind was being driven by a man with four young children. She decided she would pay for his order as well as her own. The fellow was so touched he decided he would pass on the kindness, and it caught on. A total of 167 people repeated the compliment before the chain was broken.
What about the 168th? Was he really broke and couldn't afford it? Or was he so stingy he couldn't bring himself to pay for someone else? My guess is that he was a politician who was so used to other people paying for him, he thought nothing of it.
Back to the negative stories of the week. It was good to see Katherine Murphy of the Guardian calling out Alan Jones for his arrogance in believing he can tell politicians what to do. This is the low-life who recommended our elected Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, should be put in a chaff bag and dropped in the ocean, and who told Malcolm Turnbull his career was over when Tony Abbott replaced him as Leader of the Liberal Party.
Josh Frydenberg is an energetic, principled Minister in the Government, the first Liberal politician to make an honest effort to put a reasonable policy in place to deal with climate change. Alan Jones is a small-minded, nonentity with a radio show. I know which of the two is adding value to our society, and it ain't AJ.
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