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Random Note — Imposters and Gatecrashers
You invite the gatecrashers and garbage of humanity, donโt beat at all surprised if your gesture is seen as weakness to be exploited rather than a generosity of spirit to be reciprocated. In our own conceit and vanity and believing that all cultures are equal and...
Israel 1
A history lesson for the brain dead, uninformed, ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ jihadist crowd. Itโs passing strange (not really) that out of all the land right across the Middle East, the Muslims would accidentally build on top of the Jewish Temple. Of course the idea, apart from...
Israel 2
A history lesson for the brain dead, uninformed, ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ jihadist crowd. Itโs passing strange (not really) that out of all the land right across the Middle East, the Muslims would accidentally build on top of the Jewish Temple. Of course the idea, apart from...
Melanie Phillips on Palestinianism
This is a history lesson like no other. As Melanie Phillips points out, this is not about land or a two state solution. The Palestinians donโt want a two state solution.This is about โwriting the Jews out of their own history and a de-judeafication and an ethnic...
Random Note โ Casual Indifferenceย
On a theme in a Random Note earlier about bludgers, which seems to becoming more and more a policy position of the Albanese government, this extract from Chris Uhlmann in Saturday'sย Weekend Australian 9/8/25 is coming from a similar direction and flagging a...
Random Note โ Energy and the new dark ages.
Cutting through all the bullshit over energy, the future looks grim. Gas is already banned in all new homes in Victoria and the Sydney City Council has banned gas appliances in all new residential developments, effective from January next year. This makes them the...
Random Note โ Bludger (PM Albanese)
The word bludge or bludger is quite an onomatopoeic word and uniquely Australian in origin. It has a particular resonance probably stemming from the struggling early years of the colony when in a nascent and emerging nation, everyone, men women and children were...
Random Note โ Demos and Feelgood drugs
Thinking about what it is, in the face of the horrific recorded deeds of Hamas has me wondering what it is that drives the activists and the useful idiots. If you really want understand from where they derive their moral certitude and their virtue signalling, the way...
Random Note โ The Nation State
A nation is not just a legal document called a constitution. In the final analysis, a constitution of a bowling club or a nation is just the โhow toโ owners manual. A document of idealistic words and noble sentiments. A nation is built on a shared culture, a shared...
Random Note — The 10 Most “impossibly unaffordable housing markets in the world”
Take a bow Sydney and Melbourne, for all the wrong reasons. This is a global measure. The 10 most โimpossibly unaffordable' housing markets in the world Note numbers, 2, 6 and 9. Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne. Sydneyโs housing is 13.8 times average gross earnings. When...