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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom 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The generation that came of age in the 1940s has been replaced by their children, and grandchildren, now infected with the incurable morbid diseases of politically correct progressive collectivism, socialism’s path of least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.
Random Note — Dual Citizenship
If the major parties remain intransigent and averse to the idea of a full audit or similar and this cloud of suspicion continues to hang over the parliament, the Governor General obviously can’t be certain that the parliament is properly constituted and it therefore flows from that, that bills to which he’s is expected and obliged to give royal ascent, are also not in accordance with the constitution, by virtue of some members being ineligible to even be there. Given all of that, as in 1975, if the party leaders won’t take action and facilitate an audit then it’s up to the Governor General to act and the power resides with him under section 5 to prorogue the parliament. Proroguing essentially terminates the current session of parliament as opposed to dissolving it entirely as would happen ahead of an election for example. It is NOT the same as sacking the government as in 1975. It’s basically hitting the pause button until the matter of dual citizenship in this case is resolved, after which parliament can be recalled to sit again and pick up where they left off.
Postmodernisms attack on Western culture — Giles Auty, Quadrant 2000
How did Western society allow itself to tumble into such an intellectually dishonest morass? The answer as in so many other cases, has been a general lack of vigilance and vision or will to safeguard our freedoms. By contrast, most of those who have been swept along by cultural fashions and catchphrases fail to foresee the likely consequences of their actions. Frequently they are too young to do so and, lacking knowledge of other political systems—an almost universal problem for young Australians—have no idea of the value of the system they are attempting to destroy. Coupled with this, our current cultural controllers are not always keen to own up to what their hidden agenda may be. So what is postmodernism? One easy answer is that it is radical relativism gone rampant. But the answer I prefer is that it represents an attempt to usher in a new kind of left-wing totalitarianism via the unlocked back doors of democracies. Postmodernism represents the neo-Marxist conquest of Western cultures by stealth.
Random Note – Prime Minister Julie Bishop
Up until the last few years The Liberal Party has been like the Uluru of Australian politics. It’s been a singular, monolithic feature of the political landscape. It’s been the Bamiyan Buddha statues of Australian politics. But not any longer. Because just like the Bamiyan Buddha statues, in the last few years the Liberal Party has been under siege and attack and blown to smithereens by political activists, subversives and insurgents under the leadership of Malcolm Turnbull and his “loyal deputy” Julie Bishop and all the other cronies and sundry gypsies, tramps and thieves.
To further make the point it’s probably best to simply rework Bob Hawke’s observation about another Liberal Leader, Andrew Peacock in the context of the 1990 election campaign: “..If the answer is Julie Bishop, it must be a very silly question..”