World Youth Day Struggles

Sydney's major Pope-fest, the World Youth Day, seems to be in trouble.
Reports say that initial estimates of 70% hotel occupancy rates during the event have been scaled back to no more than 30%, and now the church has backed away from a commitment to pay for any damage to Hyde Park.
The church is refusing to pay a $150,000 upfront bond for use of the park, saying the state government should be responsible.
Mayor Clover Moore said if they don't pay the bond they won't be allowed to use the park.
She told the Sydney Morning Herald, "The City supports the event, but not at the expense of our most famous park. WYD organisers have applied to install structures in many parts of Hyde Park, some of which will be in place from June 20 to August 1. There is no question that many of the grassed areas of Hyde Park will need to be re-turfed after this event but now, just weeks before it's due to start, organisers are backing down on a commitment to fully fund the cost of restoring Hyde Park to its pre-WYD condition."
Moore said that overall the event would cost the city $2.2m.

California Here We Come!

Or to take a slightly more up to date song, 'The Long and Winding Road.....' that leads to equality just got a couple of millimetres shorter. Notwithstanding the intrinsically disordered logic of certain same-sex attracted pontifical pontificators, the inexorable logic of same-sex marriage has won another victory over the forces of unreason.

The law proceeds by logic - unlike the majority of politicians, who are driven by the short-term needs of the electoral cycle - which is why at every turn the non-sexual homophiliac brigade seek to close off legal avenues to equality with constitutional bans and the like.

Stable, well-organised states have two lawmaking components - the assemblies of elected and appointed representatives and the judiciary, with the judiciary (who are not subject to political pressure and can therefore take a more considered and long term view) acting as a steadying influence to curb the tides of emotion to which the elected branch is prone.

Thus the politicians enacted draconian legislation on t-rr-r, and detained Mohammed Haneef purely to make a political point, only in the end to have their manipulations exposed by the courts.

The non-homogenital homophiliacs would have you belive the judges are 'usurping' the power of parliament. They're not, they are merely exercising their traditional constitutional responsibility as one of he checks and balances that stop us tipping over into tyranny. Not for nothing are judges Musharrafs number one opponent in Pakistan.

The real reason our opponents attack 'judicial activism' is that they are unable to sway judges with their emotion-driven, illogical claptrap. Politicians are easier meat.

These people would prefer to see clerics, not judges, as the unelected rulers of us all, as they are in Iran and Vatican City.