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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsSame-sex law should see exodus from marriage act — Jennifer Oriel — The Australian
We know that freedom of speech will be affected by marriage reform after the fact because it has been attacked before the fact. Greens candidate Martine Delaney lodged a complaint against Catholic Archbishop Hobart Julian Porteous for a booklet supporting traditional marriage. Porteous ultimately won the case, but had to defend free speech on marriage to the satisfaction of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Tribunal.
The Curse Of A Corporate Conscience — Quadrant
Boards and managers work to further the financial interests of shareholders. They don’t have carte blanche to do whatever they fancy, in the company’s name, outside of running the business. Alan Joyce, for example, has responsibility to run an airline. This primarily entails taking people from one point to another in a timely, comfortable and safe manner while, at the same time, maximizing shareholder returns. As applies to all companies, he also has to see to it that his airline operates within the law and, beyond that, ethically.
Always read the fine print. The humble cash register chit has become a weapon in the gay marriage and culture wars
If you needed another reason not to vote Turnbull’s Liberal, this is it
The head of government relations with energy giant AGL is a graduate of Al Gore’s climate-change leadership program whose move to the corporate world last year follows a quest to “change the system from within.
Mr Chappel, who joined AGL as head of government and community relations in February last year, has been a chief of staff to NSW Liberal minister Rob Stokes, and linked to his party’s moderate faction. He is a former president of the Young Liberals in NSW and was once touted as a candidate in the Sydney state seats of Davidson or Ku-ring-gai. The Australian asked Mr Chappel how he came to AGL, and whether the past description of wanting to “change the system from within”
Greens confirm: Gay marriage is just the start — Andrew Bolt
Joel Dignam lead organiser of the ACT Greens: “..Queer campaigners should not win their rights by meekly trudging into the tent of patriarchal marriage, their tails between their legs. Rather, the same-sex marriage campaign can be about dismantling the walls of the tent, expanding it to be open to more of us, and continuing to liberalise this cultural institution..”
Random Note #187,562 — Equality has already been legislated, so what’s the real agenda?
This was further tidied up in 2008 by the Rudd Government with the passing of the Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Law Reform) Act. That being the case, why is this debate being allowed by the media to pivot on the mindless, useful idiot mantra of “marriage equality” when it’s quite apparent that equality has already been achieved? One can only suspect that the deceptive use of the word equality is simply a semantic, marketing tool, designed to appeal to the average Australians innate sense of decency when in fact it’s a stalking horse to establish a beachhead for a much broader and expansive agenda
Random Note #178,692 — When all else fails and you can’t articulate, scream racist.
Thanks but no thanks to third-year medical student Carolyn O’Neil for giving us the benefit of her wisdom, but her attempts to badger, browbeat and name call those that are against gay marriage and compare them to racists is literally, in her case, undergraduate and juvenile. It is typical of the indulged, cosseted and cloistered, campus mindset, where everyone agrees with everyone else, and much of what passes for considered and rational debate from those of limited to no life experience.
Because of their bubble like existence and exposure to the real world, they lack the ability to articulate an argument and immediately reach for the racist epithet whilst refusing to countenance or tolerate countervailing points of view. I mean, why stop there? While she’s throwing her toys out of the cot, why not go the entire “Godwin’s Law” and throw in Nazi for good measure.
Random Note #189,542 – Electricity and a thumb on the scale.
With the $3 billion government subsidies to renewables annually, the government IS in the electricity business, the government IS fixing and interfering in the private market and the government IS picking winners with a thumb on the scale to advantage renewables and to the detriment of and to the disadvantage of cheap coal and electricity consumers. (ie) every single Australian
Random Note #195,731 — Agenda: Grinding America Down (The West)
For many years I’ve been of the view that just because the Berlin Wall had come down in the late 80’s early 90’s didn’t mean that communism was dead. It never really went away and still has a pulse and is very much alive and will use whatever means including the Gramsci and Frankfurt School (both mentioned and discussed in the first 30 minutes as is Saul Alinsky) tactic of infesting all the educational, social and cultural institutions of the West to undermine and destroy from within and further their agenda.
Random Note #197,562 — Rules for Radicals: Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it
The vicious attack by the proponents of the yes campaign on Dr Pansy Lai, like the attack on Margaret Court before her, was an exercise of the blunt instrument of Saul Alinsky’s 1971 call to arms “Rules for Radicals”. Rule 12 states simply: “..Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it, and polarise it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions..” It’s worth noting in the current climate with the toxic bullying coming from the yes proponents as illustrated against Dr Lai and Margaret Court and the street violence in the US by ANTIFA, that both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama were both acolytes of Alinsky with Obama carrying on Alinsky’s work on the streets of Chicago as a community organiser. Clinton wrote her final year essay at Wellesley College on Alinsky and was granted the privilege of previewing the manuscript of Rules for Radicals before it was published