I. Shake. My. Head.

God help Australia if this is the calibre of our young adults.



I don't know what we can do about this idiocy.

The dope with the Che hat is an imbecile of the lowest order.

Some of these people will have positions of power in the future (probably in government after never having to deal with the real world or work a real job), and these stupid ideas they have been fed will inform their choices. Actually, their stupid ideas and memes will inform their choices through their lives (if they don't get hit with reality).

I thought University was supposed to teach students to think.

A new career, if they're quick!

Yes, they're all so good at shovelling shit.

 Reckon that this would be ideal for them on September 16th, they've had so much experience.

My fur coat

Richmond RAAF Base, Sgt's Mess... 1981. I think it was a ball.

Camelot found!

 

(Note: This is not my photo.)

Laidley Flood January 2013

So, I got stranded in town during the flood and didn't get home for 24 hours.

Annoying as...

However, while stuck in town with no television or even a good book, I had the opportunity to see some interesting processes to clean the town after the waters receded, and I have photos. The photos need to be sized etc. and that will take me time which I don't have. Back to work next week.

Okay, this is just an iPhone pic which I SMSd to friends. It was less than an hour after dawn and it was raining off and on.

Finally, I can find how to upload the photos, but it takes an AGE to get the page up to upload, then the upload takes time, too.

Good advice from a Mom

Gregory's iPhone Contract.

Australian Christmas Carols

Merry Christmas!

Wolfe Creek, Marco Pierre White

Watching the shorts advertising the latest Master Chef I find myself comparing Marco Pierre White to the character in Wolfe Creek played by John Jarratt... Is Marco Pierre White crazy, I'm wondering. He's very creepy when he appears on Master Chef, and his appearance in the latest shorts advertising MC he doesn't disappoint in the creepy department.

Righting an overturned truck

For your amusement... the kids are gorgeous, and the work is impressive.

New, Improved Blogger still stinks, but what have I been doing?

Okay

Wildlife carers have moved in next door and they have had wallabies, kangaroos, possums, a flying fox and a galah. The galah couldn't fly and just walked around, climbed trees and flapped around and was named Mrs G.

My new neighbour has three horses which live on my property and the adjoining one as well as hers. One really old fellow is 27! She walks my dogs for me which they love (Floyd puts on a performance when she's in the yard, and Meg shouts at her for attention if she's visible and looks like coming over to walk them.

Last week Meg disgraced herself. Mrs G walked into her yard.... all that was found was wings.
My neighbours were devastated. I wasn't terribly impressed, either.

Last week a dear friend had urgent surgery for a suspected tumor on the ovary (she's just got engaged and everything was just wonderful for her). I saw her on Friday afternoon and she was in good spirits, though not committing, the surgeon said that the tumor looked like a benign one. Pathology was back that evening and it was benign.

It's been a rough week.

I'm waiting for the 21st when my first Christmas break from work will begin. In January I'll be going on leave for a while, but I'm not sure what I want to do. If I go to Sydey I'll want to go to Canberra and visit the war memoral. I'll have to look at accommodation and stay overnight I think.

I hope to also get the photos I've taken and the rest of the NI trip on the blog, too. I'm sorry, but unfortunately in the last few months I've been so over working and with the changes to blogger I've just not wanted to post anything.

One for Macquarie 3

A monster water spout has flooded homes in Melbourne.

Nope.

It was a water plume from a busted water pipe.

(crumbs, didn't post this - I hate blogger)

Monster and Mega Machines - oops

Interesting program today with a small segment on tractors.

The voice over announced that before the turn of the last century there were no farm tractors. Now wait a minute. There were no farm tractors before 1900? That doesn't sound right.

Er, that's wrong!

One for Macquarie II

oncoming

Oncoming traffic is now the traffic coming from behind you.

I saw it on Channel 7's Surveillance program tonight.

Better change that quick smart, Sue.

(I hate blogger.)

Miss Manners, the victim.

One for Macquarie

hock - used to mean pawn something, use it (that something) as collateral to borrow money, or sell it to the pawnbroker.

Now it's new meaning is to sell it on Gumtree.

I just heard it on TV.

Get onto it, Sue!

ABC unbiased? Sure it is

On ABC 702 Drive with Richard Glover yesterday evening, ABC “Book Show” presenter Jennifer Byrne described Mitt Romney as “a jerk”. Just a jerk.

Quote from Media Watch Dog.

I keep hearing that the ABC is unbiased and gives all parties and those of many opinions an equal time to express their views...

But when I listen to the ABC talking heads all I hear is people who seem delighted to pass such comments as we see quoted above.

Brisbane ABC has now become unlistenable in the afternoons as the children of the left have taken over completely and their bias is not hidden.

WTF have they done to Vegemite?

It's runny. It's in the jar and it's sloppy.

And it doesn't taste quite right.

Another trial, rubbish journalism

Forty-two year old Max Sica, convicted murderer, will stand trial in November charged with

The 42-year-old is charged with two counts of rape, eight counts of carnal knowledge, and nine of indecent treatment and maintaining a relationship with an underage girl between 2004 and 2008.

and this rubbish piece of writing, aren't there any editors at the Brisbane Times?

Sica has pleaded not guilty to those charges, and was committed to stand trial last year, but it was delayed so he could first be trialled over the murders of his ex-girlfriend Neelma Singh and her siblings Kunal and Sidhi.

"trialled" What?
and, so that you're up to speed with Mr Sica:

Sica is currently serving three life sentences, with a non-parole period of 35 years, for the murders of the Singh siblings in their north Brisbane home in 2003.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/max-sica-to-stand-trial-for-child-rape-in-november-20120813-243t1.html#ixzz29EP0y4Bx

It's Mental Health Week

No wonder I'm going nucking futs.

The MSM might be catching up...

Oh, look!

Grab your tissues

This is touching, and I'm sure they're not alone...

Bathurst

In the 60s, 70s and the 80s I used to love watching the Bathurst endurance race, it was something that Dad liked to watch and, well, I guess it's genetic!

First it was the Hardie-Ferodo 500, then the James Hardie 1000 ( I'm know that sometimes there were other sponsors, however I can't remember those titles in the name of the races).

The Hardie-Ferodo 500 was a great race because any of the cars could be bought by Joe Ordinary and driven on the road.

The Armstrong 500, which became the Hardie Ferodo 500/1000 and later the Bathurst 1000, was first held on 20 November 1960 at Phillip Island in Victoria over 500-mile (800 km) to determine which car had the best combination of speed, performance and reliability. It was also a tool for Armstrong to promote its products such as shock absorbers. Entry was limited to standard, unmodified production saloons built or assembled in Australia. The race was won by Frank Coad and John Roxburgh in a Vauxhall Cresta, the only Vauxhall in a field of 45 cars.

What I loved about the race was the competition, yes, there were different categories for cars in the race, but that's what made it so interesting. I could watch every type of car from Minis to the larger cars made by Holden and Ford, and it was exciting because of the competition within the categories and also between the categories.

In 1986 I was at Bathurst for the race. It was fantastic, the atmosphere was brilliant and I had a great weekend with friends.

These days I don't bother much with the Bathurst race. Since it's become a two-horse race between Holden and Ford it's just not that interesting any more. Times have changed and drivers still need to have their skills, but these days the cars are made for the race and I just don't find it as riveting as it was before all the specialisation of the cars.

I think F1 is suffering from a similar ague.

Having a lend

I don’t know about borrowing the Big Pineapple, Ram, Bull, Prawn, Banana, etc. But they can have the big liar and her sidekick, the big dope, for free forever.

Human engineering to shrink humans' carbon footprints?

Just caught Matthew Liao speaking on a replay of one of the week-day morning programs.

Some believe it is too late to do anything about AGW, so the way to go to reduce our carbon footprint is to make humans adapt, for example, making humans smaller, and also to make some kind of allergy so that more people would not be able to eat meat.

The latest science suggests that it is too late to prevent human-induced climate change. Technological optimists are now turning their minds to mitigation through techniques of geo-engineering, like giant space mirrors or seeding the oceans with iron to prompt carbon-absorbing algal blooms. But projects to alter the entire planet will expose all life to massive risk. So, why not address the source of the problem and engineer humans to reduce our environmental impact and adapt? Genetic engineering could make us smaller...

That he believes there is a problem with carbon dioxide really makes me wonder what kind of scientist he is.

The quantity and quality of proteins from meat far outweigh those from plants.

Truly, it's time for the AGW con to be destroyed and relegated to the realms of terror/fantasy forever!

FODI link.

Update:
More found here on The Conversation of 16 April 2012, where Clive Hamilton states that this bioengineering idea "trivialises" the "dire social problem" - I suspect he means climate change!

They seem oblivious to irony, since their own proposal takes the technofix to a sublime plane, one made possible by an intensely individualistic understanding of the world, which sees the failure to respond to climate change as arising not from political, institutional and cultural forces but from a lack of personal willpower.

Rarely in intellectual history has such a dire social problem been so trivialised by this kind of psychologism.

The authors are keen to stress they would never compel people to produce small children or grow cat’s eyes, which only raises the question of why anyone who is unwilling to buy a smaller car or switch to green power would be willing to genetically engineer their children.

9/11 - Eleven years on

9/11

To me that anniversary is when I first glimpsed it on television while preparing for bed. It was after 10:30pm on September 11.

There was footage on the TV of a movie I couldn't place. Burning buildings, I wondered what the name of the movie was and kept watching knowing that in the break the name would come on the screen.

It was real.

The dreadful images of the towers afire, the planes crashing, and the disbelief of what I was seeing has never left me.

Unfortunately I suspect that too many people have forgotten the why.

Complacency is not a proper state for any of us after 9/11.

MissRed has gathered some images and her thoughts and posted here.

My previous 9/11 posts.
2008
2009
2010
2011
Some photos of WTC from my father's collection.