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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsShorten keeps Turnbull on the ropes with help from Abbott — David Crowe, The Australian
This is a powerful message and it is working. The government reels from this onslaught of pure populism delivered in the language of grievance. Labor taps into the frustrations of Australians with limited job prospects and finds it is all too easy to paint the Prime Minister as a millionaire who does not care. Labor is buoyed by the polls and supremely confident, knowing it can sidestep questions about its own threadbare economic plans with its lethal lines about penalty rates and company tax cuts
Random Note #213,673 — Gay marriage activists are in a blind panic
as the architect of Safe Schools, Marxist Roz Ward is on record as saying, gay marriage will “..further weaken the Judeo-Christian foundations and traditions of our society..” (link below) Which is exactly what it’s designed to do. It’s the ongoing and continuing march through yet another institution.
Meanwhile in the UK
Daylight saving finishes in Australia this weekend. Meanwhile in the UK they’ve been busy all week at various henge sites with staff at work through the night to moving the stones forward by one hour.
After Latham — Roger Franklin — Quadrant Online
Sky has sacked its most opinionated talking head for being exactly what he was known to be when hired. Abrasive, vulgar and frequently contemptuous, he was also an affirmation, false as it happens, that there was at least one TV outlet which would not cower before our PC overlords. He was Mark Latham when they hired him and Mark Latham when they fired him, and apparently that was the problem.
At last someone is at least talking the talk. Jail those responsible — Robert Gottliebsen, The Australian.
Former trade minister Andrew Robb has taken an unprecedented and important step towards bringing the politicians who vandalised our power and gas systems before the courts
The Incompatibility of Islam and the West — Quadrant Online
Modernity, now set firmly in the West upon the continued unfoldings of science and technology, has little place in the Muslim doctrine of the complete transcendence of God. Muslims believe “man is neither autonomous nor free and only God has the power to make decisions. God has sovereign control over humans and this control is exercised through Islamic law.”
Facebook — Guilty of dangerous hypocrisy and diabolical double standards
Facebook owns the WhatsApp encrypting messenger service which is the app of choice for terrorists. Unfortunately Facebook’s adherence to community standards goes only to the ephemeral, frivolous and trivial but doesn’t extend to the serious matter of assisting national security to gaining access to vital terrorist messages encrypted and embedded in the app.
Bill Leak — 2014 and way ahead of his time
Forget the candles, values are on the line — Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian
Something bad is going on that requires more than a candle and talk of solidarity. The truth is that across the West, fewer and fewer people show support for our values. Our solidarity is more shallow and momentary than deep and enduring. For all the declarations about the strength of our democracy, there is a growing disagreement about these core values. Not just the normal wrangle over the friction between “rights” that we deal with daily but a growing cacophony of deep dissent about the very worth of some rights.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (Part 2)
Yet again we read of Christians who are forced to take evasive action to avoid abuse and threats by those activists who support same-sex marriage. When the debate about a plebiscite began we were warned by Labor frontbencher Penny Wong that hate speech from those who opposed SSM would rise to the fore. Well the opposite has occurred and Wong’s silence is remarkable. She should publicly admit that on this occasion she got it wrong.