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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note #203,672 — 18C. A Law That Exists For A Problem That Doesn’t
The question for the sneering elite speech and thought Nazis, who believe that the law shouldn’t be tweaked, tinkered or god forbid totally repealed is: Where are these thousands of bogan Australians hurling vilification and racist epithets that make this law so necessary?
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Sally McManus and the ACTU
The new ACTU secretary sings the praises of the union movement for not loading pig iron for shipment to Japan in 1938. Does she also sing the union praises for refusing to load supplies to our troops — especially in New Guinea — during World War II?
Beware Bullies Pushing Diversity — Glenn Davies, The Australian
Not only has this minority view tried to swamp the public debate with its introspective, authoritarian denial of free speech, it has struck at the heart of Australian democracy and the freedoms that we all cherish. Now, as people start to digest the magnitude of such a social change and the ramifications that would follow for families and the rest of the community when marriage is cut adrift from the significance of gender distinctiveness (the Safe Schools Coalition program is only one of these side effects), other voices are starting to speak up.
Shorten 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.