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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsAn Age of Decrepitude — Quadrant Online
This is a seriously, excellent read from beginning to end about the demise of The Age and The SMH. “..How could a once very good newspaper fall so low? The financial squeeze of recent years has affected it severely, but there is much more at work. In a few words, it is over-managed and under-edited, puts process before product—a common complaint about management everywhere—and, worst of all, it is bizarrely politically correct. Politically correct in this context means censoring the news at the expense of reader interest and thus circulation and accurate public debate..”
Abbott’s Return from the Wilderness — Quadrant Online
In short, why not say to the people of Australia: we’ll cut the RET, to help with your power bills; we’ll cut immigration, to make housing more affordable; we’ll scrap the human Rights Commission, to stop official bullying; we’ll stop all new spending, to end ripping off your grandkids; and we will reform the Senate to have government, not gridlock.” It’s a great program. If any political leader took it up with conviction, breathed its message with persuasion and sought to accomplish it with prudence, he (or she) would surely make a long-serving and well-remembered Prime Minister.
Random Note — Andrew Bolt, Mirror Morality, when evil is good
Back in my talk radio days on 2GB I used to refer to the wacky hall of mirrors, the world of the crazy concave and convex, to create an image of the politically correct where everything is so stretched, compacted, twisted and distorted out of shape so as to barely resemble the original. This was alluding to the sideshow hall of mirrors we used to see at the Royal Easter Show and other exhibitions around Australia. The Andrew Bolt column “Mirror morality, when evil is good” and what he describes, is becoming more and more familiar and no longer just “political correctness gone mad” but a main feature of cultural Marxism as it metastasizes across the Australian social and cultural landscape.
Random Note #197,542 –Vaccination; it’s not freedom OF choice but freedom FROM choice
The government needs to call out the pseudo intellectual, anti vaxers on the framing of their ideological pursuit as a slippery and deceptive freedom of choice issue and reframe it as a child welfare, child endangerment issue just as they do with kids locked in cars on a hot summers day, seat belts, bike helmets, smoking and drug use around kids, child sexual abuse and bullying.
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis — Think Mad Cow Disease, preventable through immunisation.
This disease is a similar, neurological degenerative disease to mad cow disease and any person who hasn’t had the measles vaccination, which would be most baby boomers, as the vaccination wasn’t around when we were kids, still has a chance of getting it.
Yawn, every day is International Women’s Day — Corrine Barraclough doesn’t miss
What exactly would they like to change? Perhaps they could start with their own heinous narrative? Where are the fem-bots slamming unacceptable comments about domestic violence being an acceptable “last resort” from Keysar Trad, president of Australian Federation of Islamic Council?
Global Vaccination Coverage At Its Highest
Hat tip, Jennifer Marohasy "..For every dollar spent on childhood immunizations, you get $44 in economic benefits." That's according to Bill Gates. This statistic is perhaps more relevant to Africa -- than Australia. Nevertheless, recent Australian news headlines...
Random Note #187,633 — One Nation and anti vaxers
Random Note #187,633 Why the hell and how the hell does Pauline Hanson have any truck with outfits like the anti vax lobby and all the other nut jobs, cranks and fringe dwellers and the numerous people like Rod Culleton who some how attach themselves, barnacle like,...
Random Note #199,653 — A Population Ponzie Scheme
It strikes me that what Adam Creighton is describing with our year on year economic growth linked to our population increase, is nothing short of a demographic or population Ponzie scheme
Random Note #275341 — Where sardonic and lanconic humour and irony collide with the humourless
As Rowan Dean incisively points out in his Courier Mail piece at the link below, the entire original commentary that triggered the 18c/QUT/HRC case was meant as a sardonic, laconic, joke. A pisstake to highlight the irony and blinding absurdity of having an indigenous only computer lab in an age of non discrimination, non segregation and inclusion.