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Random Note โ€” Drive By Opinion

It was Gareth Evans at the time of Bob Hawkeโ€™s demise in December 1991 who metaphorically tapped Hawke on the shoulder and said:- โ€œ โ€œ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ซ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐ ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐š๐ โ€ He could just as easily have been talking to and tapping Albo over his blind...

Random Note โ€” Racism: The Last Refuge

Itโ€™s one of those โ€œget out of jail freeโ€ aphorisms from the mid 1700โ€™s that โ€œ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜€๐—บ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—นโ€.   It doesnโ€™t mean patriotism as such and as commonly understood but more, pretend patriotism. Patriotism being used as a cloak of self...

Random Note โ€” Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind (Getting there first)

โ€œ๐–๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐, ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐, ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐๐ž๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐, ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐โ€ (๐„๐๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ โ€” ๐Ÿ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐š๐ ๐š๐ง๐๐š)   Back in the early 1980โ€™s...