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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsCowardly Charity’s Culpable Cruelty — Quadrant
So where did an impoverished and often starving nation get the technologies and the resources to develop its missiles? Where did the navigation guidance, computerisation and rocket fuel technologies come from? And what of the fissile engineering, nuclear physics, satellite expertise and all the other arcane knowledge needed to build a bomb and, according to intelligence estimates, be poised to miniaturise it? Where did all that knowledge come from? It would be naïve to think North Korea had such home-grown expertise.
How Elites Destroy Themselves — American Thinker
What’s particularly frightening about today’s virtuous Western elites is how inherently destructive to society their virtues are. Indeed, pursuing elite virtue today essentially means doing things which objectively damage society, whether it is cutting off valuable energy sources, weakening conceptions of excellence and hard work, increasing public debt to perilous levels or a half-dozen other hair-brained ideas.
ABC helpline for staff affected by same-sex marriage debate — The Australian (should get their bedwetting attended to at the same time)
Diddums –.only the ABC would have an “ABC People and Culture general manager The ABC has introduced an “LGBTQI helpline” as part of a program to help staff members who are traumatised by the same-sex marriage debate. ABC staff were emailed today telling them the public broadcaster had started a helpline for members who were affected by the debate during the postal survey
Assange meets US congressman, vows to prove Russia did not leak him documents — The Hill
“Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues, including the WikiLeaks exposure of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails during last year’s presidential election,” Rohrabacher said, “Julian emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.”
Melbourne kids form The Children’s Party to take on Canberra — The Herald Sun
Just what we need, more kiddies in Canberra. What we’re dealing with here are the intellectually and emotionally challenged sock puppet children of their equally intellectually and emotionally challenged parents. Note the all knowing, conceited, sneering and smug, down the nose posture.
New Shakespeare’s Globe chief promises far more diverse casting — The Guardian
The whole season will be 50:50 and that’s not just small parts played by women or small parts played by men. Across the season the body of work will be equal amounts for male or female. It will be gender blind, race blind, disability blind
America tears down its racist history, we ignore ours — Stan Grant, ABC Online
No original thinking here —- While playing the role of the all round, decent and reasonable, nice guy, Stan Grant is dog whistling whilst curating and fermenting trouble with this stuff about Captain Cooks statue.
This is how it starts and it will be interesting to watch how this unfolds in the next few weeks or months
Random Note #187,672 — Charlottesville and Robert E Lee statue — What the hell did they think was going to happen?
Trouble only arose this year when a high-minded activist council, after almost 100 years, decided that it was politically incorrect and should be removed. What did they think was going to happen? What if some future council wants to restore it? Or is it only the politically correct left that has a right to frame history how it sees fit and airbrush those aspects that they don’t line up or doesnn’t fit their narrative?
Muslim leader Keysar Trad wants Australian men to be allowed multiple wives — Daily Mail
Next cab off the rank perhaps? Slippery slope any one? And in multi culti Australia with so much diversity and inclusion, and where all cultures are equal, after gay marriage they’ll have a very strong moral case to have their special relationship recognised in law.
Can’t say we weren’t warned.
This is what an invasion looks like in real time
This is what an invasion looks like. This all started with the much celebrated Arab Spring over which the left and the misty eyed and misguided gushed, celebrated and welcomed.