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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsThe Prescience of Hilaire Belloc — Quadrant
“…Our political leaders have a responsibility to shake us out of suicidal torpor in the face of dire threats. Be Churchill-like in other words. Unfortunately, our politicians almost to a man and woman are appeasers of the worst kind. The worst kind are not those who simply deny the threat. They are those who kow-tow to it and invite it into the living room where our grandchildren are playing. Maybe we have the political leaders we deserve. Sometimes I think that when I listen to some Pollyannas around me. Others, thankfully, are perceptive enough to realise that bad things happen if we let them. But I fear such people are outnumbered.
So here we are, eighty years after Belloc wrote. Islam is not only outside the gate but has a rapidly growing foothold within. As prescient as he was even he could not have foreseen that happening. Sheer self-destructive madness isn’t predictable…”
Masha Gessen — “Fighting for gay marriage involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there”
“Fighting for gay marriage involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there.” She continues “We lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change and it should change and I don’t think it should exist..”
Michelle Guthrie, The ABC and bias. What else?
No matter how tangential or obtuse, every program in some way manages to weave in strands of the many and varied elements of those issues of concern to the inner city green left. Everything from climate change to same sex marriage to refugees to Trump demonization and vilification, homophobia, Islamophobia etc. The list writes itself.
Random Note — Memo PM Jacinda Ardern. Thanks but no thanks
The one thing as predictable as clockwork is the propensity of the misty eyed and misguided, hanky sucking, bed wetting, lip quivering left, to not think things through or concern themselves with the consequences of their actions. That is why their judgement on policy issues, once unleashed and with ongoing, long term ramifications can never be trusted. They’ve learnt absolutely nothing from the Rudd Gillard Rudd experiment of messing around with boats.
Worth reading before Remembrance Day 2017 is but memory – Remembrance Day and Lessons Forgotten: American Thinker
The generation that came of age in the 1940s has been replaced by their children, and grandchildren, now infected with the incurable morbid diseases of politically correct progressive collectivism, socialism’s path of least resistance, and secular laziness. National security, and fidelity to a nation’s sovereignty is now labeled xenophobia, and worse. 400,000 Britons perished in WWII to rid the world of Nazism, Churchill’s nemesis.
Today radical Islamic barbarians — free ranging Muslim anarchists — are given a hero’s welcome, with open border immigration policies that invite unmitigated and abject dread, the most recent evil visiting the innocent concert goers in Manchester, the bombing victims primarily children. The Times of London now reports that some 23,000 Muslim jihadists are in Britain, all recent émigrés — numbers roughly equivalent to two German WWII divisions. Imagine not a shot fired, nor a single Spitfire or Hurricane fighter sent aloft. Two WWII German divisions given BritRail passes from Dover to London to Durham.
Random Note – The 3 “C” words. Citizenship – Cartel – Collusion
The collusion and cartel like behaviour of the Liberal government and Labor opposition on the citizenship issue sucks the oxygen out of the room and if this were Woolies and Coles the ACCC would be all over them.
Saturday, 11/11 — Lest we forget
11/11 Lest we forget — The stark contrast in this war art between then and now, the mud, blood, chaos, cacophony, confusion and sacrifice of the dark days of war, juxtaposed against the blue sky, sunny uplands, opportunity and heritage we all enjoy decades later, says it all. Sometimes though, I wonder, given the low quality of what passes for leadership from all sides in public life these days, whether the sacrifice was worth it.
Sydney University charging students a security fee for conservative events
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” — George Orwell —
University students are being told they will have to pay to hire security guards if they want to run events spruiking conservative ideals — including pro-coal ideas. Student organiser Renee Simone Gorman said the Conservative Club was told by Sydney University it had to agree to pay “unlimited security fees” if it wanted to host an event called The Case for Coal. The club was also hit with a $760 fee to pay for up to 10 security guards for an earlier talk on the “Dangers of Socialism” in August. This was despite no protesters actually turning up. “Students who don’t follow the left wing line of thought are paying for the left to throw tantrums,” she said…”
Marx, mass murder and moronic Millennials — Spectator and American Thinker
I find it ironic and a confirmation of the ignorance of many young people these days, that they would never think to wear a T shirt with a swastika or an image of Hitler but are happy to be seen in and wear as a badge of honour, T shirts with images of Che Guevera, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-Tung, Lenin and Joe Stalin. These murderers are regarded as “cool” apparently. There’s even a cutesy infant bodysuit baby romper available which depicts Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Engels and Marx.
Random Note — Mark Latham tests the system. Are we all equal before the law when it comes to racism?
Why should tax payer’s money be spent on programs in the various humanities and social science departments of our universities that promulgate such vile ideas that are inimical to community cohesion and can only lead to social disharmony? Knowing that this Texas professor was coming to Australia to spread this toxic message of “Don’t Talk Top White People” why was he given a visa? What’s the difference between importing drugs that can mess with the mind and importing an individual spreading vile and toxic ideas that can mess with the mind whether it be a black professor from Texas or a firebrand Muslim lecturing Hizb ut Tahrir? And then we hear blather with a straight face to camera on the nightly news from political and security talking heads about jihadi radicalisation? How is this any different? This too is radicalisation and sowing the seeds of dissent and disharmony to those of a receptive mindset.