Waiting for Marcie

Well here we go.
We’ve got a category 2 and increasing cyclone off the coast, full weather alerts out, emergency crews on standby expecting a flogging..
So what can we do other than get ready.. It really brings you back to reality when you realise you are just a mortal, not in control, all the new tech is totally useless other than telling you it’s on it’s way. Yep they could do that back in the 50’s but not quite as accurately. So what, time is stuff all to a cyclone anyway, it’s in charge not you. Get over it.
I n fact the more time you get to prepare the better you should be off.. That is if you listen. I’m nearly 65, seen a few but respect nature and nothing is the same. Some of the wise men will not agree but our climate is changing, seas rising, planet heating, you know it unless your one of the Looney tunes who put their hands over their ears and go LALA.
Deniers… No, just mislead by the Barons who want the world to remain on old money, keeping their investments performing. Lying to the masses is all part of their game and like everything some will take the bait and run with it.. The uneducated are the targets and they usually are the loudest.
So anyway waiting for nature to do its work makes you reflect on our lives and what is installed for our children and their children.
Right wing politicians have only one agenda, one God, and that is money. Everything they do and say, policy, ideology is driven by the dollar. Every argument is cost driven. They know the price of everything and the value of Nothing. Social consciousness only a consideration after their wallets are full.
Anyway I’ve had my rant for the day, the wind has changed and swinging northward, and the humidity climbing.. We are in for a touch up, not so much inland as those on the coast. I have just had a report that there is a metre and half waves at Redcliffe, that means massive flooding in the lower areas and the centre is no where near them yet…

February 19, 2015

As the Submarine goes under.

This morning started with the police dragging a VW for whatever reason outside the house… Angry Lights and all…
Good start, but it gets better. Our beloved Prime Minister backs out on a commitment to build subs that he gave to get party room support so he can keep his job One Day after he gave it. Now that’s worth a ticket for speeding surely!!!
So he survived the battle, but he has lost the war.. I am pleased really as this day to day speculation on his future by the media will only end in his dismissal by his party or his resignation. Their is no other way as 39 of his backbenchers are after is head.
The white ants are working under the paint.
The obvious choice is Turnbull, intelligent, statesmanlike, and articulate, everything Abbott is not. But that’s Tory logic. He does not come from the right boys club. Forget about the skills it the class culture..
Well Labor is also guilty of that as well, it’s called factions and they often overlook skill over ideology. My pet hate.
The sooner we get politicians who are dedicated to the electorate, the punters , and not the big end of town or the donors we will get better people in our service. Remember them, people who care about Joe Citizen.
They may not have been as polished, pompous, or poetic but they were practical. Rough around the edges but good honest people. Mainly.
Now the corporations that are their gods not the voters. They come a sad last after their own ambitions..
The fact is you have no Friends in Politics, just acquaintances, regardless of which side your on, and the punters are a distraction.

February 10, 2015

Our Family Pack

That was easy….. Ruby my Ridgback has a ear infection and just administered her medication into the ear and I still have all my body parts!
The wallet has come out with some damage but that comes with the territory.
Strange this, my darling wife decided to take it into her own hands and take her to our now former vet and the experience was a catalyst for complete mistrust of the people and the premises it happened..
Changed vets and the experience was much more pleasant and we did the process at home with one application not the 2 stage of before…
A daily process instead of twice daily, so less traumatic….
A win win I think. And yes my Ruby is a bit spoilt, and she does spend a lot of time with us humans, and we are getting old and live on a main highway so that’s why we have a big girl at our side. We have been broken into as our old girl ebony was a little deaf in the end but I am sure the thieves were spooked when she found them and departed quick.
Ruby is not receptive to strangers unless they get our tick… And they get her tick.
Over time I have found my canine friends are a very good judge of character and at times I have doubted their opinion and I have been wrong..
They can smell a rat and often that’s why some can be accepted and some humans not..
But again, some people do object to getting their private parts sniffed, which I have found is what ridgebacks do to check you out. My ridgeback Great Dane former girl had the same habit.
Suppose it’s their way of checking you into their pack.. Or not..
Any way people will accept us as we are, Ruby included, warts and all or on ya bike.

February 9, 2015

The Tai Chi start… Was not without drama.

Well the wife decided she would take up Tai Chi and went to the local community hall to see the drill.
I’ve been thinking the same since my hip Replacment but haven’t made the move.. Well when she came home yesterday and told me what she observed I looked on the App site and come up with a pretty popular beginners tool and proceeded to introduce myself to the pastime, and I might say was impressed by the way i felt just after the warm up sets…
All the time I was doing the exercises I was under observation from “she who must be obeyed” and when I asked her if she wanted to use the App I was told it’s not the right one and …………..blah blah
Fine was my reply but how can you become a authority with as little as 15 minutes observation and no participation I ask???
Ok wrong question! “I’ll wait till next week to start” was the response.
Fine, but what can you do wrong if you start today with this and when you go to the hall next week see if it is any different?
Male logic, but not accepted.
Fine again. “I know Nothing”
Well me and the dog will progress, ” she likes the music on the iPad app” every day.

All shall be reviled in the fullness of time….

February 3, 2015

Keep the Galah Squarking.

Our Prime Ministerial appearance at The Press Club yesterday was in no way a speech to the people. It was a survival speech directed at his enemies on the back benches.
The rehetoric was exactly the same as he did in election mode, filled with spin and slogans.
Even the Murdock Press could not cushion the speculation and distrust surrounding his leadership style and performance.
So why are we surprised? We all knew he was a thug in opposition, a spoiler a smasher of anything that resembled equality to the working man and women.
Any way at the end of the day it wont matter, and I hope with all my heart they let him serve out his term as PM, as the longer he stays the bigger the margin the Australian Labor Party will be delivered by the people of Australia.

February 2, 2015

The Right ideology fails the test.

Ask yourself how could a government with a majority of 95% on the floor of the House get smashed in their first term.
Quite simple really. What you do is put big business in control of your decisions on the economy, so as to suit them, then try and sell the assets to the big business mates, then trash all enviourement conditions that hinder your party donors.
Oh yes, then create a fictitious Debt to to drive down wages and conditions, sack public servants and sub contract those Jobs out or just forget the service they provided and tell people they have to pay for things they have they have already paid for through taxes…
That’s it, in short put money ahead of people, base all decisions on money, and abandon any social conscious.. But tell them it’s good for the country…
Yes, they did all of the above are were obliterated.
But how many governments sell the same crap to their people and they believe it????
Well let me tell you austerity does not creat wealth, it stymies it. Monkeys can cut, but it takes lateral thinking to creat and grow economies and you have to bring the people along with you. Negative thinking is the only weapon the right have, and it works for a while until the penny drops on the Intellegent ones, but unfortunately common sense does not grow in everybody’s garden…
Well Queensland Australia decided enough was enough and one term of Right Wing ideology was totally UnAustralian, and totally rejected Rupert Murdock’s trash press and slime bag comments, and all of a sudden the rest of Australia have realised our Federal Government is exactly the same as Newman’s and are just waiting to vent their spleen.
Fact is when Labor in Queensland was voted out the people did not actually vote Newman in, same with Abbott. They wanted to shake the governments up and rightly so in any democracy but they got a taste of what the money men do to fill their own pockets and said NO!!
Saturday’s decision was a correction, I believe and a message to all politicians from all sides, don’t ever take the punters lightly as the bum you are kicking today is the one you may be kissing tomorrow.

February 1, 2015

Been some water under the Bridge..

Since the last post a bit has and is going on.. In my life the asbestosis is staying static I think and that’s a real positive. You have some good and bad days but that’s just how it works.
The new Golf club is still enjoyable to attend. Some great friends have been made and I can still get in 18 in the cart but it takes me a day or two to recover.. That’s fine to, and even occasionally I travel to play in a masters event on a different course which adds to the friendship circle…
Wife has decided only one day volunteering is enough, and spend more time in the paddock gardening. Still has that aversion to housework.
The White ants damage I’m addressing but that’s another story.
I got into strife also for not participating in Club politics at the new club but I’ve been burnt before and no replays please.. But I have no issue in advising the young people who have put their hands up to manage if they ask for advice.. But only if they ask…
Outside me my boy is still fighting mental illness and at 40 it’s a tough is due especially when the present government thinks all with a disability can work. He wants to work but can’t as his condition fluctuates and no employer will chance a time bomb on a machine or project, and that’s what is adding to his condition… A self feeding prophecy that takes its toll on all that is touched by mental illnesses and their families.
The house is about to go under a refit in places.. Guttering, roofing, painting, carpets, bathroom, and those white ant repairs.. It all goes on..
This Saturday we go to the polls, and I hope people have the intelligence to vote for what is good for our country and kids not just themselves..
My principals have always been Labor, even in business I was Labor. This trickle down crap from the rich is the world biggest con job but watch, greed jumps on their back and they all think they can join the elete, little do they know the truth that only the selected get the invitation and the rest dream. Spreading wealth from the bottom up boosts the economies while the Right pocket the wealth and feed crumbs to the underclasses.. Praying on the simpletons, keeping them scared, dividing their loyalties, playing the race card, and most of all keeping big business running governments, it’s a ploy played out all over the world by the Right, and we wonder why we have extremists multiplying…. Der…
If we want to leave our world a better place for our children, we have to consider our society and it’s principals.
Enough already…. It’s time for lunch… A sardine sandwich and a glass of water…. That’s plenty for us pensioners…

January 28, 2015

Which God SuitsYou?

Well today I responded to a newspaper asking if the bible thought should be withdrawn from publication?
My response was ” if the religion was prepared to pay for the publication then why not?” If it was free to Christians then it should be free to every other religion” . Fair I thought…..

Well, I’m not saying if Christianity is my God, or whatever but the Christians thought it was their “Right” as I was informed this is a Christian country..
Well it isn’t, nor is it a Islamic country or any other country, religious sects don’t own countries nor beliefs.
How often are we all put in the same basket without our permission or just assumed that their god is your god if you have one…
Personally religions have a lot to answer for… How many people have died in wars with their god on their side?? How many children molested or killed or mentally destroyed by the keepers of religions? The fire and brimstone terror if you don’t comply.. Not just Christianity, but many so called beliefs to save you from damnation..

Lets cut to the chase here, it all about gaining followers, then money building the biggest or controlling the biggest power brokers, governments to support their cause, or in some cases protect their interests. The biggest business in the world is religion, and convincing the masses is the control of minds. Once you have the mind you have the person, and all religions are guilty in degrees.
This is not taking away the good some do and their followers do. They do make differences in people’s lives and their are some who dedicate their lives to helping humanity and must be highly commended, and the negatives should never overcome the positives of what can be achieved by humans for other humans in the name of their god. That’s what we are “supposed”to do being the top of the chain, but some times what we do to each other I am often in despair, and I ask what John Lennon asked “what it be like without religion or borders, do you think we can”??

Probably not in my lifetime but hope up the road they could take control of our own destinies, with quality of life be the benchmark not the amount of money, power, that is used to control us.

Let It Be Just Imagine what we could do….

I know I’m dreaming again….

June 24, 2014

They Say History Repeats.. In more ways than one..

December 16, 2013

Recession is the Real Plan for Australia….

With the GMH Holden leaving Australia announcement we witnessed one of the most despicable events in our nations history as well as the commencement of Abbott to send Australia into a recession.
Strong words you may think but lets look at the facts.
Lets make it quite clear This government was installed with the blessing and support of Murdock. His ideology is nothing should be supported by the public, which explains hockey’s goading of GMH in question time that led to the GMH decision.
Abbotts continuance of the no support for Toyota only extends Murdock ideology.
We have also had the Business Council head declaring they should kill the National Disability scheme and that the basic wage is too high. What he actually is saying is our standard of living is far to high, that is those of us who supply labour to the big end of town. They are not making enough profit, it’s your fault.
This week we will see a slashing of public servants at a rate never seen in this countries history again pushing down living standards of those affected plus whatever social effecting policies they can destroy.
Get the picture? The flow on effect will do all the things the silver tails want as well as lower the Aussie dollar.
Make no mistake the silver tails will survive as they have the money and the implementation of social sanitising as already started in Queensland in preparation for the G8 will apply nationally.
After time this will reset the working standards as they will have to
accept standards or starve.
This fits perfectly with LNP ideology and Murdocks Australia, not that hard to work out is it??
Oh I forgot the NBN, the thing that would allow full competition into every household from providers will be scuttles as we cannot have anybody in competition with old Rupert can we….

December 15, 2013