Hello India, Indonesia, Canada, and the USofA, and welcome to the blog...and apologies for no post yesterday, too hot, too tired, no sleep...post-Chemo (10 years) ago I've struggled a bit with the heat...last coupla' days at 40C, and in my li'l house of single brick with no insulation, it's very soon as hot as inside as is out and sleepin' is fitful at best...I know many people do struggle in the heat, and it is considered a major 'Health Threat' in that the consequences (of heatwaves) can run to months re fatalities due to the stress of the heat...
And listen to me, whinging about surviving a massive 16cm x
12cm Lymphoma tumour right in the centre of my chest, and doin' that
whingin' a decade on, and when I'm tired from whingin', then havin' a bed to
lie in in my li'l home, albeit Housing Trust...(I believe this is
where one places one's observations about just how 'good' one has it
considering that one is on the Disability Support Pension, for a
debilitating Mental Health issue namely Agoraphobia, and in Public
albeit charming li'l Housing, in this polite White community where such
luxury is considered to be right on the Poverty Line...right on it-Ed)...but back to the heat...
Even the news this evening is reporting potentially the hottest February for SA and 33 days without rain, itself an 8 year record...it is well documented that these extreme events have dire consequences both immediately and for days, weeks, even months afterwards...it is well known that people suffer critical even fatal affects, particularly the usual suspects, the elderly and/or unwell...(and you've got skin in both games-Ed)...oh ta', charming... and that there will be fatalities during the heatwave, but people will also continue to suffer and even die because of the physical toll that heat imposes...and this is a reason why it's not inappropriate to draw the direct and obvious link that Sow Straya's astronomical electricity prices are killing people already because they can't afford to have air conditioners on...
This is a simple reality for many South Australians...I don't have air-conditioning but I know people whom doth, and they don't use it unless absolutely unavoidable...bit of a First World Problem I know, 'can't afford to run my air-conditioner too much, daaarling', but if the current indicators are also precursors, then the idea of Global Warming seems a bit likely, and that makes Adelaide/SA set to be even more of a stifling oven even more often into the future...and this cost/GW/whatevs debate must include the practice of 'load-shedding' which is such a poetic way of not saying 'Rationing'...and rationing is necessary because the distribution system has not been maintained properly...(despite these constant claims that prices are due to increased infrastructure-Ed)...indeed...
But back to the positivity, and it does not escape me...(us-Ed)...that once one gets past the institutionalised pro-paedophile corruption in my society and adjacent other mass corruption of public officials, etc, that it's relatively nice to be able to whinge about such relatively simple things...I am not, for example, whingin' about how the latest alleged ceasefire has instead seen dozens of civilians in my town killed by artillery shelling, or some other militaristic violence, or a Sectarian massacre or mass kidnapping...I still find all of these things bludgeoning to the point of numbness, but it steels me to continue as best with the blog...for what it's worth...
And I don't apologise for the anger driven through this post by yet more reportage of yet more farcical faux-fixing of the institutionalised pro-paedophile corruption that apparently defines us as a nation, in that the federal Child Abuse Royal Commission was in the news yet again today re abuses committed at a private school in the 1970s-80s, but hasn't looked at the Lutherans/St Martins...and for the third but apparently final week we have the pleasure of Paul Barry on the ABC Local Radio early show, and we all'll have Stuart Stansfield back next week...
I find it very odd that the ABC would have their 2 top dogs, Stan Thompson and Stuart Stansfield off on hols at the same time, and even Stan's replacement is away this week...(what is goin' on down there?-Ed)...no idea, but whilst we're on the subject, just a quick shout-out to the wholly corrupted, wholly woeful, duplicitous local media and the willingly complicit role they have played in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...the St Martins Cover-up couldn't happen without the complicit support of the local media...
And a quick 'feedbacking' in that context, namely, that the recent The Border Watch coverage of my alleged failure to show for Court, feedback is that that coverage is self-obviously a clumsy attempt to vilify me over virtually nothing, an attempt further exposed by the rank failure to even check my 'claim' that I wasn't even aware that the hearing was on...and there'll be more about this to come on this 'ere blog...
And just being reported now on ABC Radio, a "strong turnout" of Members has voted against selling the front corner block (Pick Ave/Jubilee Hwy) of the Show Grounds site...ALDI say they are disappointed but "respect" the decision...(perhaps if ALDI had shown the A&HS and it's Members a little more "respect" leading into that vote, things might have worked out differently for them-Ed)...perhaps, but yes, their own conduct certainly couldn't have helped their own cause...whatevs other issues were at play, people don't appreciate being treated like idiots...(no, no they don't-Ed)...
And just now (0840hrs?) a longish ABC Radio interview with MGA&HS President Peter Woodruff running through the various issues and I ain't wadin' into that swamp because I don't understand much of the conflicting info that emerged across this Show Sale Saga...suffice to say that at the meeting of Thursday 19th February 2015 there was a bunch of stuff unresolved re planning, zoning, who would end up paying for utilities, etc, and how much that might cost, etc, etc...for example, after the meeting was concluded Mr Woodruff stated that 'it (water/sewerage connections) could have cost the A&HS Society $200,000-$300k, even more, but that he didn't raise it during the meeting so as to not unduly influence the vote'...
(But surely that's exactly the sort of potential fiscal bear-trap that Society Members needed to know was lurking under the surface of this attempted purchase?-Ed)...well yes, but fortunately the issue was discussed in far less spectacular terms, and was only one of many questions that were unanswered and/or unanswerable...apols, but I missed chunks of this interview so I'll skip that until tomorrow and do a whole post re the meeting, outcomes, etc...
Also Announced: the official opening of 6 Chemo chairs at Mt Gambier Hospital, up from the original 2, and in a much better, bigger suite and this adds to the 4 chairs in Naracoorte, with specialised staff delivering Chemo for 10 years now at MG Hospital and ongoing improvements in levels of Chemo offered...some Chemo patients will still have to travel to Adelaide for some initial and/or more complicated treatments (paraphrasing Country Health's Jane Downes)...I gotta' admit that I'm at a loss to explain exactly how and/or what treatments are being offered in this revamped unit, and this interview ain't helped none, so's I can only hope that this new unit operates to it's optimum capabilities and greatly reduces the stressors of having to travel for treatment, a huge factor on top of just getting Chemo itself...
Premier Jay Weatherill Calls Royal Commission: into why a Royal Commission wasn't called last week...(what?! a whole week without calling a shreckin' Royal Commission? how about the RC Into Air?-Ed)...careful what you wish for...but he did, didn't he? the Nuclear Energy RC...(gourd, he loves a lawyer gravy-train doesn't 'e our Ray-Jay-Ed)...yep, an Adelaide lawyer lookin' after Adelaide lawyers and makin' sure they're lookin' after him...(indeed, and it gets any wavering Greenies back on side re Wind Turbines because they'll all arc-up about Nuclear-Ed)...indeed, and a convenient distraction from Labor's bastardry of scything off great chunks of the Health Service...
How fortunate am I then that I have actually met a coupla' decent lawyers over the years, otherwise I'd be drawn to conclude, purely on personal experience, that every lawyer and public servant and politician in Adelaide, make that South Australia, is a soulless bastard whom, if not themselves actually a paedophile luxuriating in a pro-paedophile State, still live their lives profitting by their collective complicit piss-weakedness in just rolling over and accepting this state as it is.
Tomorrow: Mo' Show Info Mofos
And I'd like to close with this gem from our charming Premier re his 'Health Review' and the resultant closure of Noarlunga Hospital's Emergency Service;
"You're much better off being in the back of an ambulance rather than at the wrong hospital"
...(in an ambulance presumably on a ramp at Flinders Medical Centre, with the dozen other ambulances already there ahead of you-Ed)...and where-in the wrong hospital is the one you could have got to 20 minutes earlier minimum where the ER service was operating just fine until this bastard government closed it...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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