We had to go out yesterday and there was a one man protest at the shopping centre. His protest call was to Free The Hostages. To be honest there are next to zero prostests on behalf of these innocent people just as there are no protests outside the Russian Embassy, No protests outside the Chinese or Syrian embassies of Afghanistan Embassy.
Women are treated appallingly in Gaza but our Australian women are on the side of Hamas. If they had lived in Gaza their lot was to breed more warriors for Hamas, not to be educated or be professional not to have individual freedoms like we have here. To protest for womens rights in Gaza would likely result in imprisonment or execution just as in Iran.
Here we have serious crimes like men groping other men or teenagers that take the headlines. Alan Jones is one of the most prominent men in our society and naturally guilty until proved innocent. One of the best known men in Australian Racing and of similar vintage to Jones, and myself , for that matter, groped me under the boardroom table when he was trying to secure a contract for his advertising business. The fact that I gave his company the contract probably fixed in his mind it was okay but I told the other Members of my board and his business partner did apologise to me as “he has just come back from America to make this meeting and had quite a few drinks and is jetlagged”
I might mention that he is wellknown, is by ,a renowned drunk ,and goes through more wives and partners than most. He’s not averse to a punch up either.
Well, whats the point of bothering to do anything even though now this is a serious “crime” more of a “faux pas” in my view. Besides I was a grown up.
As a teenager I was groped many times but was a bit naive and had no idea what was really going on. Then again, in my teens, I would come up to a girl and put my arms around her and suggest she might like me to take her home. These days that would be treated as sexual assault…really?
Now we’ve seen things mover back and forth on the pendulum, swung by social media for the most part. As a mate told me the other day, he “doesnt know where we are these days in Australia”
I have only one selection today in Kilcoy race 1 no 4 but it is now very short. I got on at $185 but have seen it as short as $1.35 on some sites. I also put half my outlay at Vicbet at Best Of The Best and until race time who knows what the fluctuations or final figure will be.
Oh well, more Christmas shopping today.