I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and these are my photos...cheers and laters...
Sunday, April 30, 2017
The Windey Man, The Long Mover - Photos
Dear availees, here are the full scale photos from yesterday's post, plus one extra python pic, cheers...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and these are my photos...cheers and laters...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and these are my photos...cheers and laters...
The Windey Man, The Long Mover
Is from The Mighty Boosh (BBC TV), apols to all concerned that I forgot to credit this in the last post...anyhoos, yo' ma' homies in Japan, France, Switzerland, and Singapore, welcome y'all to TMGI...when the weather's pleasant and the wind's in the right direction and the barometer is in the 'knees-functioning range', I like to go for a walk...and usually it's over fairly flat ground, but when conditions are super-optimum...(and the planets align in the firmament, etc-Ed)...well not quite, but yeah, there are 'good knee days' and sometimes there's 'bad knee days'...anyhoos, on 'good knee days', I can walk the Valley Lake Crater Rim Scenic Route...Trail...Walk...I mention this with regard to some of my less pleasant 'personal shizzle' goin' on 'off-blog, ie, I have tried really hard over the last 2 years to improve my physical health...(and with it your Mental Health-Ed)...well indeed, the first can certainly lead the second, and the latter can matter when the former is sought...(whaaa?-Ed)...well sometimes-even-often it's motivation/depression/resignation that are the greatest struggle/hurdle when trying to get fitter/healthier...(interesting, do go on-Ed)...I do...
Been through this myself many times in many ways over many, many recent days...through sheer determination bordering on bloody-mindedness, I had made gym a daily regime that had profound and positive effects on my Physical and Mental Health...(and then you got literally slung-out in the street in what can only be described as a viciously abusive and threatening way wholly bereft of respect or professionalism?-Ed)...including being bluntly informed over the phone by the franchise head office that I had "been reported to police"...(which then quickly contracted to the empty threat of 'you will be reported if you don't back off'-Ed)...although they couldn't tell me (haven't yet told me) what for, and there wasn't a single 'note' about anything at all on my 'official file', etc...(and then came the massively abusive emails and threats of 'defamation', etc-Ed)...yeah, all the good stuff...
And I can and will draw a very short, very straight line from this stuff directly to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and not least of all because of the Lutherans and/or SAPol (police) involved with/at that gym...I was/am still devastated that certain people could say these things about me, not least of all because they know them to be patently un-true...even when I take full responsibility for anything/everything I did/didn't do and/or say, whatevs, I have been treated appallingly and far beyond reason...and have suffered for it...however, this clearly remains for me an un-resolved and ongoing issue and at the very least I will be holding to account/exposing the franchise because of their atrociously unprofessional conduct and super-dodgy one-sided contracts where-in a Member can get booted sans explanation and/or right-of-reply, not nuthin'...(you're out matey!-Ed)...said it before, as hypocritically hilarious as some will indeed find it...(I love this one-Ed)...it is li'l ol' I what's been slanderously defamed, 1) merely by-way of the expulsion/cancellation, and 2) the extraordinary things being circulated about and/or to me, not least of all in emails already in my possession...but I digress...
Knees-up Means Knees-down:...in that going up a hill means comin' back down again...(unless you stay at the top of the hill-Ed)...and anyone with dodgy knees knows full-well that the dynamics of walking down' places, places far more strain on said knees, so to me, gettin' 'round Valley Lake was an un-achievable non-reality less than 18 months ago...(but now?-Ed)...well now, given the above provisos are met, then it's a huffin' and a puffin' and around we go, without stopping...(including the 369 steps?-Ed)...yep, and some of the smaller ones 2-at-a-time...(nnno?-Ed)...only some, maybe 50-60, but yeah, now that I've exercised myself into a semi-fit state, I can slowly cruise the Valley Lake Rim Walk without actually stopping...(which, for non-resident availees, is how far?-Ed)...just on/over 5kms, if you include the inclines/declines...(and you weigh?-Ed)...about 97-99kgs, give or take...(so you're dragging near-on 100kgs up-and-down on truly knackered knees?-Ed)...yep...(well it's hardly Everest, but all things considered, that's not so bad-Ed)...cheers, stiff-as-a-board later, but will still do it whilst I can...and it surely did bring me to this, the Windey Man, the Long Mover...
Dead Set Ledge-End:...because that's where the python's head was, outta' sight under that shrubby thing there, in the shadows, just on the lip of that ledge...this next photo is from much closer, having climbed just over the Centenary Tower fence, grasping a tenacious clump a' grass, whilst hovering over a 2metre drop onto said snake-laden ledge...just below that is a further 3-4m drop, and to get any closer I'd have had to go around the spine of the cliff-face, just there in front of the snake, and then climbed up several metres to come-up right at my face-height right in it's face...(ahhh, there's something on your lip there-Ed)...here?...(no, the other side-Ed)...here?...(nope, doesn't matter, it's just a bit 'a 2m python-Ed)...indeed, I'd have been reluctant to take that snake on on flat ground, let alone aways-up a cliff face...
Python, Pyth-off:...now that's apparently probably a Murray-Darling (Carpet) Python, a very healthy, very well-fed Carpet Python that's either 1) escaped from somewhere there-abouts, or 2) been released, probably 'cos it got 'too big', or 3) even maybe unwittingly hitched a lift under a caravan or car, whatevs, that's travelled down from the Riverland to Mt Gambier and stayed, say, at the caravan park just up by the Blue Lake, whence the python alighted...I've got footage but can't get on the blog, too long, will look at Tubefacing it or something...whatevs...oh yeah, unless there's more than one python up there, this snake has been seen repeatedly around the Valley Lake area for at least 4-5 months, possibly as much as 6-7...
Are We Stars Or Specks Of Dust?:...a beautiful picture doesn't need to be 'beautiful' and laden with colour, etc...here's a very leaden picture of Mt Gambier coupla' weeks back, as taken from the Valley Lake rim, Southern lip, looking roughly East...these are my favourite sort of photos of Mt Gambier...(what, ones where you can barely see it?-Ed)...now Ed, don't be like that...(like what? it's your damn photo and I'm a shreckin' confected literary device what you done confect!-Ed)...well ok yes, those are all valid points, but can't we just enjoy the beauty and the almost-Art of this point-and-snap, mobile phone photo...(what? and not mention Mt Gambier snuggly nestled in a smothering smog of it's own atmospheric effluent?-Ed)...yes, without mentioning that...(well I'll try-Ed)...that's all I can ask...(not promising anything mind you-Ed)...sure...(smog-Ed)...well done...
Dawning Realisation:...'cos here's the same damn dawn realised with the same phone only about 75 minutes earlier...couldn't decide which I liked better, so here's my 2 favs...
As part of doing a daily post I have to get a better grip on the positives and the beauty and 'art' and blah, blah, blah, not just spend my life face-down in the muck of corrupt politics, so's I'll be doing a bit of this stuff, eg, already half-finished a post re positive potential Tourism developments for Mt Gambier...(Monorail!-Ed)...you are so predictable...(Cable Car!-Ed)...that'd be so funny if it weren't true...this was the self-appointed, Ratepayer-funded Tourism Mount Gambier's grand first idea for Mt Gambier, a cable-car thingy 'across' the Blue Lake...(wow-Ed)...and I see that TMG is advertising for a photographer...(yeah, what's that about?-Ed)...all in good time grasshopper...
OMG, It's Cory's Cons:...'cos here come the self-declared Australian Conservatives...(which is only Cory Bernardi, ex-Liberal-Ed)...yes, and now Family First...(what, of dodgy Bob Day fame?-Ed)...yeah, that's them, well it was them, they don't exist as of 1100hrs yesterday (Wed 26th April 2017), having merged with Cory's Cons...and I'm gunna' shamelessly steal someone else's observation that Cory has done the math and very astutely turned One Federal Senator + One Federal Senator into One Federal Senator, ie, 1+1=1...(whaaa?-Ed)...well he's FS1 and FS2 is/was Family First...(yeahhh, that's 2 though-Ed)...except that Bob Day's Senate replacement and new-this-week FF Senator Lucy Gichuhi, she ain't quite feelin' the love for Cory's Cons and will therefore be initially operating as an Independent Federal Senator...(and like wow-Ed)...absolutely...(so CC and FF, they had one Senator each, and Cory's combined the two, only to come-up with one...get in, back of the net-Ed)...I know, hilarious right?...
No Language Warning Needed Here Matey:...because I'm definitely not going to do a purile, schoolboy humour piece about how Family First should have united with Cory's Conservatives...(I'll just go and put-up that Language Warning sign then?-Ed)...probably best...(probably-Ed)...they should unite to bring us all all the great joy of the Family First United Cory's Conservatives, or the FFUCC...(I am not supporting that!-Ed)...oh come on...(no! I remain firmly opposed, I do not believe there is a place for these people in power, not in any sort of 'Socialist Progressive Politics'-Ed)...nope?...(no, I say 'Get The FFUCC Out'-Ed)...catchy slogan...(indeed, and I've started a party to counter the FFUCC, a new party in the style/mold of 'Get-Up'-Ed)...ah yeah, and what are they called?...(FFUCC-Up-Ed)...they should do well...(but I do attend the FFUCC meetings when they have a Club Keno night you know-Ed)...mmm...(where they also do Karaoke-Ed)...I thought they might...(yeahhhs, I never miss a good FFUCCCKK night-Ed)...super...but the FFUCC isn't just SA, no sir, they are nationwide, the FFUCCN Party...
If only there were some way to get the FFUCCN collaborating with the people behind Fix The UK Exit, or FUKIT...(what, to form some sort of FFUCCN FIXIT Coalition?-Ed)...spot on...(that would certainly rectify things-Ed).........sorry, I'm going to stop now...End Language Warning...and I'm not sorry...
And here comes my good mate former Family First, now Cory's Cons, SA State Senator Robert Brokenshire, just on the good ol' ABC South East, stating that he cannot state to the State what's already being stated until it's stated 'officially' at 1100hrs in Adelaide, etc, etc...and I call Robbity-Bobbity my good mate because we had a jolly ol' chat at Family First candidate Peter Heaven's campaign launch here in Mt Gambier back in March 2014...(a chat about what?-Ed)...mostly the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(imagine my surprise...and let me guess, he confirmed his/FF's extensive previous involvement and knowledge of the issue/s, and expressed grave and ongoing concerns?-Ed)...not least of all because of Family First's direct and influential involvement in the Parliamentary SARC Inquiry/Report 54 into the Teachers Registration Board (2007-2011), an inquiry self-stating that it was motivated/generated by TRB actions re a teacher from a Mt Gambier school...(and that school was St Martins-Ed)...indeed...
*And given this post was started yesterday, Robert 'Rotten Borough' Brokenshire was on again this morning having swiftly swapped bonnets if not ideologies, and apparently we're all the winners...(so not just him then?-Ed)...absolutely not...and dear availee, if I may quickly, just about fell-about laughing when I went a-huntin' for a stupid, hopefully funny nickname for Bob, and immediately waded waist-deep straight into a sweetly segue-shish reference/homage to BlackAdder (BBC TV)...(orrr yeah, the episode where Baldrick runs for parliament but it's actually BlackAdder pulling the strings, etc...hilarious stuff re the 'Rotten Borough'-Ed)...that's the one...(ahhh, now I get it, 'Broken' is 'Rotten', or vice versa, and of course a 'Shire' is a District or Council or 'Borough'-Ed)...bingo...I was also amused by another's observation to me about a nickname, namely, Bobby 'Brokeback' Brokenshire, gently mocking Cory's Cons' charming attitudes towards not accepting the Gays...(ahhh, 'Brokeback Mountain', the iconic gay cowboy movie thing-Ed)...spot on...
And that BlackAdder episode segues straight-on round into the farcical debacle, a 'farcacle' if you will...(what happened to 'debasco', where a debacle rams unceremoniously and irretrievably into a fiasco?-Ed)...sure, but in this case a careening farce ran-down and then into a slow-moving debacle...(sure-Ed)...the 'farcacle' that is the $345,000 that former Mt Gambier City Council CEO Greg Muller stole/defrauded/embezzled/misappropriated/whatevs from the Main Corner project, and the ludicrous list of non-excuses presented by MGCC at the time, including the spookily adjacent 'Window Tax' of BlackAdder, and the 'Window Insurance' excuse proffered by Council...(deadset?-Ed)...this stuff re the gross Nepotism, Corruption, etc, re the Main Corner, this has been repeatedly covered in this 'ere blog, and I have frequently made reference to that BlackAdder episode...and so it has come full circle, the 'art' of BlackAdder mimics the 'life' that is the rank corruption of Mt Gambier City Council in this, the most Rotten of Boroughs...
Ignorance Is What Ignorance Does:...and in this instance, ignorance does this (attached below)...here is the Ebony Jackson letter as printed in/by The Border Watch on Thursday April 20th 2017, and as duly flensed by us here at TMGI in the last post, enthusiastically eviscerated for being the embittered litany of pig-ignorant bigotry that it so self-evidently is...dear availee, if I need to explain what's wrong with this bitterly dismissive missive, then I'm not sure what we all are doing here...no offense, but if availees aren't offended by this particular effort I won't pretend I'm not disappointed, but rest assured, I'm offended enough for all of us...
And I make the point again that this was printed by as well as in TBW because they need to take responsibility for the abusive dross vomiting itself out of their pages...(even when it's not their own work?-Ed)...nice...and having said that 'I won't explain', I can't help feeling that we'll all be re-visiting this little gem some time real soon...again though, as angry as I am, hopefully there's some way to turn this to a positive re a more informed debate re the genuine issues of Addiction and/or Mental Health, Service Provision and/or Failures, etc, etc...
I am Nick Fletcher and this here is my blog which, believe it or not, people avail themselves of so as to find out 'the truth about what's being said in TBW and on the ABC'...people, albeit a handful, have actually said this to me...(yeah, fair dues, but I still struggle to process that bizarre reality, that some random loose unit with an angry blog is genuinely considered to be more accurate and of more genuine intent than the 'official' media-Ed)...'struggle to process'? try living it mate!...cheers and laters...(laters-Ed)...
PS:...because of this long post, full scale photos in separate post immediately following this...cheers...
Monday, April 24, 2017
Nick Fletcher Doesn't Deny Not Declaring Candidacy For Nick Xenophon Team Party Bus Thingy
***and yes, sure, I've done it again, but here anyway is a fortnight's worth of posting where-in the whole thing's a bit long, the synchronicity's a bit dodgy, etc, cheers***
Howdy Israel, Mozambique, Chile, and Brazil, and to y'all else...and no offense but no apologies for yet another 9 (10?) day hiatus between us (***make that 14, oops***)...(he means you dear availee-Ed)...indeed I do, and to you too Ed, it's been a while...(ah yes, but you're always in my thoughts-Ed)...and you too in mine, cheers...(and to think, only a few short years ago, I was merely a confected literary device, and now, well, here we are-Ed)...wherever the shreck that is...(well quite-Ed)...anyhoos, what can I tell ya'll?...I've had the bestest fortnight of many years, albeit barely functioning beyond eating, sleeping, walking, talking...(gardening-Ed)...yes, plenty of 'catch-up' gardening, in almost perfect weather...and of course I found that flint tool that I guesstimate to be pre-Mt Gambier eruption of approx 5,000 years ago...and then this happened...
The Windey Man, The Long Mover:...and I'd love to have inserted right here - - the photo of the 7-foot long python sunning itself on a ledge, but I'm having a few tech issues with Telstra/whoevs changing formatting, again...(again?-Ed)...again, and I'd pretty much just figured-out the last one, and then they change it...and also having problems with Interweb connectivity and some programs, eg, transferring photos to this 'ere blog...last week, no probs, this week, no can do...(I'd be more paranoid about it if it wasn't that many others in this corner of the planet have many similar problems-Ed)...well quite...(and of course there's your abundant lack of ability re this 'ere computer thingy-Ed)...and the somewhat antiquated equipment we're using...(not least of all because SAPol (police) still have your laptop-Ed)...3 years next month...(3 years? nnno? 3 years since those 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives from Adelaide, raided this 'ere abode and seized you by the laptop?-Ed)...yep, 7th/8th May 2014, 3 years...(so SAPol 'Operation Baritone' has been running, what, how long now?-Ed)...dunno', started some time in February 2014 and dunno' if it's even still a thang...whatevs...
(*why I try so hard with the spelling/grammar, and why a post can take so long sometimes...eg, above there's a 'nnno?', which indicates a long 'nnn' followed by a short 'o', punctuated with a '?', showing it as either a question or exclamation of disbelief, or often both at once, as is the case here...this would be said starting in a high register and dropping lower, 'nnno?'...'nooo!' is a cry of anguish, said in a flat register, with a short 'n' and a long 'ooo'...from a cry to a howl with a little literal steroids, 'NOOO!'...'no?' is a question referring to a potential disagreement...and because I play these very pedantic games with English grammar, I also will generally follow that grammatical gymnastics with a very basic even blunt explanation...('gramnastics'?-Ed)...why not, 'gramnastics'...the general formula is just to say it as it sounds as written, read it into the sentence a coupla' times, and hopefully I get across the inflection/emotion I'm attempting...cheers*)
No Longer Courting Disaster:...because the fundamental reality, and as now repeatedly discussed in Court and/or via the Mt Gambier media, is that I'm facing charges/have been in Court for over 2 years for allegedly illegally/unlawfully discussing the fact that South Australia's version of an Independent Commission Against Corruption has allegedly investigated and then dismissed 'complaints/reports' re allegations of alleged corruption re Mt Gambier City Council and/or various persons involved...
this has all been discussed, often repeatedly and in great detail, in open Court and/or in the media
...eg, the ABC South East Radio has reported outright that I am 'in strife for talking about an ICAC investigation'...Mt Gambier City Council have themselves identified this 'investigation' in their own MGCC Minutes from their Full Meeting May 2014...this 'discussion' is of course deeply compromised by the very specific media reportage, and I've covered this repeatedly in previous posts, but that's what it is...and if anyone wants to challenge my claims about what is happening in Court, what has and/or hasn't been discussed, etc, etc, then perhaps y'all can get the Court to release those recordings to you, because I've been refused...(and not just once-Ed)...no, repeatedly, and I mean like a lot of repeatedly...(almost often already-Ed)...almost...
Whilst being forced to self-represent, I've been refused self-recording and have been refused access to tapes of proceedings, outside of maybe possibly being allowed to sit in a room at Mt Gambier Courthouse and listen to them, maybe possibly at some as yet undetermined time...(holding my breathhh......now!-Ed)...indeed...since my home was raided in May 2014 I have had to tip-toe around vague pseudo-advice that I "probably shouldn't" identify that this farce is about ICAC...at every juncture, from May 8th 2014 when I asked the 2 SAPol ACB detectives, through various lawyers, Court appearances, etc, etc, I have repeatedly asked 'what can I say about these charges/ICAC?', and nobody has offered anything better than "probably" as in 'probably not, possibly'...(and that's why you were doing that ludicrously hilarious stuff with the pseudonyms, Club GoGo Bananas for the ICAC and the Banana Lord is the ICAC Commissioner-Ed)...exactly, trying to discuss being on 'charges', etc, without discussing who and/or why and/or how, etc, etc...but no more...
From here-on-in there'll be no more 'Banana Lord' and/or 'Club GoGo Bananas'...(nnnorrr, I quite like 'BL' and the 'CGGB'-Ed)...orrr yeah, why's that?...(well it just adds an air of brevity to what is otherwise a criminally corrupted and deeply disturbing even frightening situation where-in the ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander (appointed by the Rann/Weatherill Labor government) has absolute power to hold secret 'ICAC Court hearings', then force witnesses to answer questions under fear of gaol, and then wholly suppress any-and-all reportage of that 'hearing/process/outcome', including suppressing the fact that it's been suppressed-Ed)...said it before, saying it again, the South Australian ICAC is a farcically corrupt construct wholly and fundamentally conceived, designed, legislated, enacted and then utilised to cover-up the rank corruption of the Rann/Weatherill Labor government and it's various multiple corrupt stooges/agents, and 2) to achieve that with legislation that threatens/bullys/intimidates genuine whistleblowers, with 'the Whistleblower' likely to be the one facing protracted Court action and subsequent massive fines, etc, effectively shutting-down said 'whistleblowing'...
The Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 2012 quite deliberately makes reporting corruption (whistleblowing) in South Australia a potentially career-destroying, guaranteed absolute nightmare for the person reporting...the SA ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 deliberately and effectively criminalises 'whistleblowing'...to my understanding, I am the first person prosecuted under ICAC Act 2012, but apart from this bizarre nonsense of 'you talked about an appropriate investigation appropriately exonerating all involved', apart from that, no-one can and/or will explain exactly why and/or how li'l ol' me, a private citizen, why and/or how a private citizen came to be the subject of an ICAC investigation as then pursued by SAPol's Anti-Corruption Branch...(particularly given there's no 'corruption' involved-Ed)...well exactly!...
I'm the first, and journalist Michael Owen is potentially the second (and/or already another) after the rankly corrupt Labor Minister Jennifer Rankine used the "Coward's Castle" of Parliamentary Privilege to demand that SAPol arrest/charge Mr Owen for the heinous crime of referring to but not actually identifying the bizarre ICAC investigation/exoneration of her gross corruption as a State Labor Minister...given that I believe that the disgracefully corrupt Naracoorte High School Child Abuse Cover-up is now itself being 'covered-up' by ICAC, that makes anyone involved there also potentially a victim of the rankly corrupt ICAC Act 2012...private citizens and journalists, these are the people subject to the 'Confidentiality Provisions' of the omnipotent SA ICAC Act 2012, specifically Section 56...private citizens and journalists...for speaking truthfully about corrupt shizzle what's actually happened...I also refer availees to ICAC's extraordinary conduct re the Gillman Land Sale...(wow-Ed)...
But jumping back to my hilarious title re the apparent Application Process for the Nick Xenophon Team Party Bus Thingy, the NXTPBT...only a few weeks ago I posted re the tele-visual declarationings of one Mr Peter Humphries (Adelaide lawyer and career-corrupt Labor Party stooge and a rank pro-paedophile betrayer to boot), and his candid canvassing of his impending candidacy for the NXTPBT...he stated that he was going to 'nominate himself', seemingly without the apparent knowledge of Mr Xenophon...(didn't you say that Humphries is a critically corrupt central player in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?-Ed)...indeed he is Ed, and as stated previous, if Nick Xenophon accepts Mr Humphries into the NXTPBT, then that defines Mr X as fundamentally corrupt...they are both Adelaide lawyers, and I and other parents have personally explained to Mr X the exact role Mr P played in betraying me/us/our kids re the St Martins Lutheran Cover-up...Mr X knows exactly who/what Mr P is...and now there's Kate Amoroso in The Border Watch identically declaring her potential self-nomination...
***and as time passes without me posting, so it has come to pass that 'Mr Xenophon's old mate Peter Humphries' has already been booted from the NXTPBT, apparently as recently as 2 weeks ago, literally as we on this 'ere blog were caning that announcement, as done again in the paragraph above...(sorry, what the...?-Ed)...well Ed, it appears that within days of that self-nominating thingo, Mr X booted Mr H because Mr H had poo-pooed SA Labor's '50% Renewable Energy Target'...(but hasn't Mr X already stated that Labor's 50%RET obsession has led to our current gross whim-of-the-weather vulnerability re electricity, directly linking the 50%RET to the September 2016 statewide black-out?-Ed)...well yes he has sort of, specifically re Wind Turbines, but I take your point that it's all 50%RET stuff...(and this effervescent ejecting all happened around the time you covered it here on this 'ere blog?-Ed)...true, but easily a coincidence of timing...whatevs, it's the bizarreness of what's actually happened and how that plays-out here-on-in...
Dear availees, I do apologise that in my unapologetically self-indulgent non-posting 'holiday' these are the sort of issues that slip-by, but I do guarantee that we have now passed those lazy hazy days of late Summer drifting into Autumn, even though, when you look at it, the weather has still been very Spring-ish if anything, with beautiful mild days and clear starry nights, gentle breezes whisping whimsically across still verdant pastures as...(orrr, get on with it! little less Thomas Hardy thanks, bit more Wilde if you don't mind-Ed)...sorry, sorry, no apologies other than where appropriate, but I've had my rest now, and rest well-earned and certainly needed, not least of all because I've a long haul ahead...(get in my son-Ed)...and again, all this 'Self-Esteem', and 'Genuine Pride in Genuine Achievement' stuff, all that shizzle is still very confronting in it's novelty, but it has allowed me to walk right-away from all of this 'ere blog and associated self-traumatising, etc, etc, and truly enjoy whole slabs of whole bits of whole days for the first time in well-over a decade...cheers***
And now Kate Amoroso is declaring her self-nomination for the NXTPBT...(well technically she's not actually stating what she intends to do and/or has already done, she's stating that she hasn't decided yet-Ed)...fair enough...(and that's even more critical-Ed)...how so?...(well, it indicates that there has already been at least basic discussion with Mr Xenophon, and even further to that, that an offer has been made but not yet decided on-Ed)...good point Ed...(I thought you might think so...and we quote from The Border Watch April 18th 2017-Ed)...
"Ms Amoroso......would not be drawn into commenting whether she would run for the
Nick Xenophon Team, other than to say she had not ruled out challenging the seat of
Mt Gambier."
Yeah sure, but even that doesn't actually say that Ms A is gunna' run as the NXTPBT candidate, only that she is not ruling-out running for the seat, you see?...(fair enough, but you've jumped to the last paragraph, check out para 2-Ed)...
"Kate Amoroso - who has not ruled out running for the Nick Xenophon Team in the
March state election - says the community is desperate to see a "turning point" in the
city's growing ice scourge."
...well indeed, that certainly specifically identifies the NXTPBT, and reports that Ms A 'hasn't ruled it out', but being the Pedantic Old Cynic Too Long Exposed To The Manipulative Deceits Of A Corrupt Media that I am, it begs the question, 'has that question even been asked?'...(I hate it when you're right-Ed)...because it ain't a lie to say that 'Ms A Ain't Said Nay', if the question was never actually asked!...I guess it comes down to the credibility of the reporting...who is it by the way?...(errr, The Border Watch-Ed)...yeah, we know that, who's the reporter?...(ummm...-Ed)...it's Sandra Morello isn't it?...(yeahhh-Ed)...ok, right...
Ok, dear availee, 1) TBW has a provable history of making statements of fact, etc, regardless of what's actually happening and often without speaking to those involved, particularly re me, eg, that ABC stuff from the 2010 State Election; or when MGCC secretly exonerated Councillor Ian Von Stanke for/of coming to my home with a defamation-threatening letter in April 2011; or my current Court stuff, etc, etc...and 2) Sandra Morello has no credibility as a reporter, particularly as a 'political reporter'...I remind availees that even TBW was forced to move her 'off the political rounds' due to that shonky shenanigans in early 2010, printing verbatim under her name/byline, candidate Don Pegler's press releases, as written by her husband Frank Morello, himself former TBW Editor and current MGCC Councillor...(oh my good gracious and wow-Ed)...but in this particular article, it answers these questions raised in one paragraph with the other...(how so?-Ed)...well para 2 states that it is the NXTPBT, and the last para indicates that the question was asked of Ms A...(fair enough, but neither is a direct quote from Ms A-Ed)...true, ultimately it's Sandra Morello, reporting politics, in The Border Watch...believe of it what you will...(oh boy-Ed)...
And so to the hilarious title above, Nick Fletcher Doesn't Deny Not Declaring Candidacy For The Nick Xenophon Team Party Bus Thingy...(well, particularly with Peter Humphries gone, he's a candidate down-Ed)...what Mr X needs is a Can-do Candidate...(any ideas?-Ed)...me you idiot, I'm not ruling-out that I'm not running as the NXTPBT candidate...(or not-Ed)...or not, in the seat of Mt Gambier...(or not-Ed)...ahhh, that's not what I said Ed...(well yeah it is, just there-Ed)...shhhh!...I, Nick Fletcher, can officially announce that Mr X doesn't even answer my emails so I'd say there's a very slim but actually quite fat chance I'll be running in the March 2018 SA State Election as the NXTPBT candidate...(sorry, does that mean you are running anyway, just not for/as the NXTPBT, or not running at all?-Ed)...exactly!...
Tomorrow: Court Stuff, Possibly, Probably
Went to Mt Gambier City Council's Full Meeting (April 18th 2017), but wasn't graced with the presence of former MGCC Mayor and part-time current MGCC Councillor, Steve Perryman...(again?-Ed)...which to my reckoning makes 1 of 4 meetings this year...(oh, well that's not too bad, ya' know, only one-Ed)...attended...(only one attended?-Ed)...yeahhhs...(not 'one absence'?-Ed)...nooo...(Steve mate-Ed)...maaate...(has only attended 1 of 4 MGCC Full Meetings this calendar year?-Ed)...yep...(wow-Ed)...oh it gets better...(spare me-Ed)...MGCC has tried to trump Trump, or at least emulate him...(whaaa?-Ed)...apparently one of Council's new phalanx of highly-paid 'Managers', well that dude's from Rio Tinto...(nnnooo?-Ed)...oh yeah, Rio Tinto, apparently previously responsible "for 10,000 employees"...(what the shreck?-Ed)...no idea mate, but it's sure as shreck got my bells a-ringin', my flags a-flappin', my klaxxons, ummm, a-klaxxonin'...(Rio Tinto? are you sure?-Ed)...that's what was said, that's what I heard...(but why would a 'senior international mining executive' move here to work for MGCC?-Ed)...gourd, I dunno...(hey?!...what was that up the back there?...who up the back yelled out "Fracking"?...come on, we all heard you, care to share the joke?...hmmm?...no-one?-Ed)...probably a bloody hippy, just ignore 'em...
Just now (*last week) on the ABC South East, talking about people accessing a Psychologist via telly-conferencing...dude from the National Rural Health Alliance talking about the Better Access Program re Mental Health and rebates for consultations held via the telly...I think $9million he said for funding the re-funding of upto 7 outta' 10 of the Mental's Medicare-subsidised Pyschologist visits...that is, Mentals like moi get 10 'subsidised' Psychologist appointments per annum, if we can get actually get access to a service/provider/Psychologist, as also covered by Mr Dude re the gross absence of Mental Health professionals like Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Regional/Rural communities...my usual example as explained to me by a highly-qualified professional, that Mt Gambier and Districts should have an absolute minimum 3 resident Psychiatrists to offer a 24hr/365day service, preferably minimum 6 for the population base, optimistically 8-10...there's meant to be one at the new Mental Health facility at Mt Gambier Hospital, but I'm not sure of that current status, sorry...
Several things there about that...1) the absence of services/specialists, eg, I'm not sure there's even a Senior Psychologist currently resident and/or available in Mt Gambier, not that I can find anyways...2) no amount of 'telly conferencing' stuff is appropriate replacement for real-time specialist/patient contact, as stated/identified by this dude, and it must be considered a tool-of-last-resort to be utilised only as an absolute necessity in emergency-style situations or to partially supplement thorough local services...3) one appointment every five weeks...you can do a lot of 'going backwards' in 5 weeks, and then one hour to try and 'move forward'...
I was on this '10 Visits' program for a coupla' years re visiting a Forensic Psychologist, but it simply doesn't exist anymore because that provider no longer provides...(didn't you sortta' self-refer to that dude as well?-Ed)...well actually yes, I did, after seeing him initially re Centrelink demands re the DSP, it was left to me to go organise whatevs...(you didn't get a case worker person thingy when put on the DSP?-ED)...well if I did I couldn't tell you who that is and I've never spoken to them...Centrelink roundly abused me in their initial opposition, demanding I see said FP, so I did, and I was suddenly moved to the DSP and literally pushed-out the Centrelink door with ne'ery a word of direction or advice...I chose to go back to the FP for what was usually quite helpful support, but it was always in a 'voluntary' capacity...
And if I want to mock myself for being a fractured and traumatised person, and call myself a Mental, and crack hilarious jokes about being on the Disability Support Pension, eg, Fund-A-Mental, then I can and will...(what was that one about 'no-one's ever accused me of being sane', was that yours?-Ed)...yeah, that's one a' mine...one of the things that really pisses me right off re The Greens is their sanctimonious and oft self-stated staking of the moral highground, and I ain't gunna' pretend to be anything more or less than what I am...(and that is?-Ed)...the Good, the Bad, and the Grossly Indifferent...(nice-Ed)...I thought so...being a Mental ain't all beer and skittles though, it ain't all fun and games, which is an unfortunately seamless segue right into a certain Ebony Jackson...
Please see attached letter from The Border Watch (***apols, in tomorrow's post, honest) ...it takes a fundamentally bigotted, ignorant and offensive person to write such a fundamentally bigotted, ignorant and offensive letter...and why would The Border Watch print this deeply ignorant, biased and abusive dross?...(if I thought Ms Jackson had the faintest idea about what she's mouthing-off about, I'd also be deeply offended-Ed)...excellent position to take Ed, but that doesn't remove and/or address the fact that TBW has shoved this under people's noses, and all it is is ignorant abuse that will cause far more harm than good...(well done TBW, top effort-Ed)...one can only hope that TBW will be awash with the backlash for weeks to come as all of these issues/criticisms/abuses are carefully explained to Ms Jackson...(I think you've done extraordinarily well there-Ed)...mmm?...(yeah, to be so productively polite about this, I mean, I know how angry this sort of crap makes you, and yet you've pretty much gone past that to try and create a context where-in this 'opinion piece' could actually produce a positive, namely, a realistic discussion about exactly what is and isn't happening re the many issues trampled in this stampede of pig-ignorance-Ed)...one tries to rise-above Ed, one tries...
Anyhoos, I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters.........(sorry, did you say 'python'?-Ed)...yep...(we don't have pythons here do we?, it's too cold for too long, have you been on holiday somewhere?-Ed)...nope, other than a self-indulgent fortnight of slothing-about the house, no...(well then, whaaa?-Ed)...you tell me mate, what is a 7-foot python doing at the Centenary Tower?...(yeah, Tower's not even open, hasn't been for over a year-Ed)... sure, not exactly what I meant, but the ongoing closure of Centenary Tower is an unambiguous Tourism embarrassment, and indeed, when I went back-up there a-snakin' (armed with an old quilt cover) on Easter Monday, a coupla' tourists asked me when and/or if the Tower was open...I politely but exactly explained Mt Gambier City Council's position/actions re the extended closure and any potential Tower Operator having to fund their own 'Liability Insurance', etc...the gentlemen were suitably unimpressed...
What I meant was 'what is a python doing in Valley Lake?', albeit way-up near the Tower...turns out that several people have seen this python, possibly a Murray-Darling (Carpet) Python, it's been spotted from The Sugarloaf, across to The 369 Steps, and near/just past The Tower, and all starting back at least before Christmas 2016...(and that's one very fat, very healthy looking snake-Ed)...mate, I ain't no expert, but that looks way-too broad, way-too solid to be a Carpet Python, but that's the current suspect/contender...bringin' in the Big Guns from tech support to get this footage on this 'ere blog somehow...(there's actual footage?-Ed)...with witty commentary...(let's see...duuude! damn that's one big snake-Ed)...tomorrow...
***PS:...sorted the photos for tomorrow and Ebony Jackson letter too...I swear...often...***
Howdy Israel, Mozambique, Chile, and Brazil, and to y'all else...and no offense but no apologies for yet another 9 (10?) day hiatus between us (***make that 14, oops***)...(he means you dear availee-Ed)...indeed I do, and to you too Ed, it's been a while...(ah yes, but you're always in my thoughts-Ed)...and you too in mine, cheers...(and to think, only a few short years ago, I was merely a confected literary device, and now, well, here we are-Ed)...wherever the shreck that is...(well quite-Ed)...anyhoos, what can I tell ya'll?...I've had the bestest fortnight of many years, albeit barely functioning beyond eating, sleeping, walking, talking...(gardening-Ed)...yes, plenty of 'catch-up' gardening, in almost perfect weather...and of course I found that flint tool that I guesstimate to be pre-Mt Gambier eruption of approx 5,000 years ago...and then this happened...
The Windey Man, The Long Mover:...and I'd love to have inserted right here - - the photo of the 7-foot long python sunning itself on a ledge, but I'm having a few tech issues with Telstra/whoevs changing formatting, again...(again?-Ed)...again, and I'd pretty much just figured-out the last one, and then they change it...and also having problems with Interweb connectivity and some programs, eg, transferring photos to this 'ere blog...last week, no probs, this week, no can do...(I'd be more paranoid about it if it wasn't that many others in this corner of the planet have many similar problems-Ed)...well quite...(and of course there's your abundant lack of ability re this 'ere computer thingy-Ed)...and the somewhat antiquated equipment we're using...(not least of all because SAPol (police) still have your laptop-Ed)...3 years next month...(3 years? nnno? 3 years since those 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives from Adelaide, raided this 'ere abode and seized you by the laptop?-Ed)...yep, 7th/8th May 2014, 3 years...(so SAPol 'Operation Baritone' has been running, what, how long now?-Ed)...dunno', started some time in February 2014 and dunno' if it's even still a thang...whatevs...
(*why I try so hard with the spelling/grammar, and why a post can take so long sometimes...eg, above there's a 'nnno?', which indicates a long 'nnn' followed by a short 'o', punctuated with a '?', showing it as either a question or exclamation of disbelief, or often both at once, as is the case here...this would be said starting in a high register and dropping lower, 'nnno?'...'nooo!' is a cry of anguish, said in a flat register, with a short 'n' and a long 'ooo'...from a cry to a howl with a little literal steroids, 'NOOO!'...'no?' is a question referring to a potential disagreement...and because I play these very pedantic games with English grammar, I also will generally follow that grammatical gymnastics with a very basic even blunt explanation...('gramnastics'?-Ed)...why not, 'gramnastics'...the general formula is just to say it as it sounds as written, read it into the sentence a coupla' times, and hopefully I get across the inflection/emotion I'm attempting...cheers*)
No Longer Courting Disaster:...because the fundamental reality, and as now repeatedly discussed in Court and/or via the Mt Gambier media, is that I'm facing charges/have been in Court for over 2 years for allegedly illegally/unlawfully discussing the fact that South Australia's version of an Independent Commission Against Corruption has allegedly investigated and then dismissed 'complaints/reports' re allegations of alleged corruption re Mt Gambier City Council and/or various persons involved...
this has all been discussed, often repeatedly and in great detail, in open Court and/or in the media
...eg, the ABC South East Radio has reported outright that I am 'in strife for talking about an ICAC investigation'...Mt Gambier City Council have themselves identified this 'investigation' in their own MGCC Minutes from their Full Meeting May 2014...this 'discussion' is of course deeply compromised by the very specific media reportage, and I've covered this repeatedly in previous posts, but that's what it is...and if anyone wants to challenge my claims about what is happening in Court, what has and/or hasn't been discussed, etc, etc, then perhaps y'all can get the Court to release those recordings to you, because I've been refused...(and not just once-Ed)...no, repeatedly, and I mean like a lot of repeatedly...(almost often already-Ed)...almost...
Whilst being forced to self-represent, I've been refused self-recording and have been refused access to tapes of proceedings, outside of maybe possibly being allowed to sit in a room at Mt Gambier Courthouse and listen to them, maybe possibly at some as yet undetermined time...(holding my breathhh......now!-Ed)...indeed...since my home was raided in May 2014 I have had to tip-toe around vague pseudo-advice that I "probably shouldn't" identify that this farce is about ICAC...at every juncture, from May 8th 2014 when I asked the 2 SAPol ACB detectives, through various lawyers, Court appearances, etc, etc, I have repeatedly asked 'what can I say about these charges/ICAC?', and nobody has offered anything better than "probably" as in 'probably not, possibly'...(and that's why you were doing that ludicrously hilarious stuff with the pseudonyms, Club GoGo Bananas for the ICAC and the Banana Lord is the ICAC Commissioner-Ed)...exactly, trying to discuss being on 'charges', etc, without discussing who and/or why and/or how, etc, etc...but no more...
From here-on-in there'll be no more 'Banana Lord' and/or 'Club GoGo Bananas'...(nnnorrr, I quite like 'BL' and the 'CGGB'-Ed)...orrr yeah, why's that?...(well it just adds an air of brevity to what is otherwise a criminally corrupted and deeply disturbing even frightening situation where-in the ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander (appointed by the Rann/Weatherill Labor government) has absolute power to hold secret 'ICAC Court hearings', then force witnesses to answer questions under fear of gaol, and then wholly suppress any-and-all reportage of that 'hearing/process/outcome', including suppressing the fact that it's been suppressed-Ed)...said it before, saying it again, the South Australian ICAC is a farcically corrupt construct wholly and fundamentally conceived, designed, legislated, enacted and then utilised to cover-up the rank corruption of the Rann/Weatherill Labor government and it's various multiple corrupt stooges/agents, and 2) to achieve that with legislation that threatens/bullys/intimidates genuine whistleblowers, with 'the Whistleblower' likely to be the one facing protracted Court action and subsequent massive fines, etc, effectively shutting-down said 'whistleblowing'...
The Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 2012 quite deliberately makes reporting corruption (whistleblowing) in South Australia a potentially career-destroying, guaranteed absolute nightmare for the person reporting...the SA ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 deliberately and effectively criminalises 'whistleblowing'...to my understanding, I am the first person prosecuted under ICAC Act 2012, but apart from this bizarre nonsense of 'you talked about an appropriate investigation appropriately exonerating all involved', apart from that, no-one can and/or will explain exactly why and/or how li'l ol' me, a private citizen, why and/or how a private citizen came to be the subject of an ICAC investigation as then pursued by SAPol's Anti-Corruption Branch...(particularly given there's no 'corruption' involved-Ed)...well exactly!...
I'm the first, and journalist Michael Owen is potentially the second (and/or already another) after the rankly corrupt Labor Minister Jennifer Rankine used the "Coward's Castle" of Parliamentary Privilege to demand that SAPol arrest/charge Mr Owen for the heinous crime of referring to but not actually identifying the bizarre ICAC investigation/exoneration of her gross corruption as a State Labor Minister...given that I believe that the disgracefully corrupt Naracoorte High School Child Abuse Cover-up is now itself being 'covered-up' by ICAC, that makes anyone involved there also potentially a victim of the rankly corrupt ICAC Act 2012...private citizens and journalists, these are the people subject to the 'Confidentiality Provisions' of the omnipotent SA ICAC Act 2012, specifically Section 56...private citizens and journalists...for speaking truthfully about corrupt shizzle what's actually happened...I also refer availees to ICAC's extraordinary conduct re the Gillman Land Sale...(wow-Ed)...
But jumping back to my hilarious title re the apparent Application Process for the Nick Xenophon Team Party Bus Thingy, the NXTPBT...only a few weeks ago I posted re the tele-visual declarationings of one Mr Peter Humphries (Adelaide lawyer and career-corrupt Labor Party stooge and a rank pro-paedophile betrayer to boot), and his candid canvassing of his impending candidacy for the NXTPBT...he stated that he was going to 'nominate himself', seemingly without the apparent knowledge of Mr Xenophon...(didn't you say that Humphries is a critically corrupt central player in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?-Ed)...indeed he is Ed, and as stated previous, if Nick Xenophon accepts Mr Humphries into the NXTPBT, then that defines Mr X as fundamentally corrupt...they are both Adelaide lawyers, and I and other parents have personally explained to Mr X the exact role Mr P played in betraying me/us/our kids re the St Martins Lutheran Cover-up...Mr X knows exactly who/what Mr P is...and now there's Kate Amoroso in The Border Watch identically declaring her potential self-nomination...
***and as time passes without me posting, so it has come to pass that 'Mr Xenophon's old mate Peter Humphries' has already been booted from the NXTPBT, apparently as recently as 2 weeks ago, literally as we on this 'ere blog were caning that announcement, as done again in the paragraph above...(sorry, what the...?-Ed)...well Ed, it appears that within days of that self-nominating thingo, Mr X booted Mr H because Mr H had poo-pooed SA Labor's '50% Renewable Energy Target'...(but hasn't Mr X already stated that Labor's 50%RET obsession has led to our current gross whim-of-the-weather vulnerability re electricity, directly linking the 50%RET to the September 2016 statewide black-out?-Ed)...well yes he has sort of, specifically re Wind Turbines, but I take your point that it's all 50%RET stuff...(and this effervescent ejecting all happened around the time you covered it here on this 'ere blog?-Ed)...true, but easily a coincidence of timing...whatevs, it's the bizarreness of what's actually happened and how that plays-out here-on-in...
Dear availees, I do apologise that in my unapologetically self-indulgent non-posting 'holiday' these are the sort of issues that slip-by, but I do guarantee that we have now passed those lazy hazy days of late Summer drifting into Autumn, even though, when you look at it, the weather has still been very Spring-ish if anything, with beautiful mild days and clear starry nights, gentle breezes whisping whimsically across still verdant pastures as...(orrr, get on with it! little less Thomas Hardy thanks, bit more Wilde if you don't mind-Ed)...sorry, sorry, no apologies other than where appropriate, but I've had my rest now, and rest well-earned and certainly needed, not least of all because I've a long haul ahead...(get in my son-Ed)...and again, all this 'Self-Esteem', and 'Genuine Pride in Genuine Achievement' stuff, all that shizzle is still very confronting in it's novelty, but it has allowed me to walk right-away from all of this 'ere blog and associated self-traumatising, etc, etc, and truly enjoy whole slabs of whole bits of whole days for the first time in well-over a decade...cheers***
And now Kate Amoroso is declaring her self-nomination for the NXTPBT...(well technically she's not actually stating what she intends to do and/or has already done, she's stating that she hasn't decided yet-Ed)...fair enough...(and that's even more critical-Ed)...how so?...(well, it indicates that there has already been at least basic discussion with Mr Xenophon, and even further to that, that an offer has been made but not yet decided on-Ed)...good point Ed...(I thought you might think so...and we quote from The Border Watch April 18th 2017-Ed)...
"Ms Amoroso......would not be drawn into commenting whether she would run for the
Nick Xenophon Team, other than to say she had not ruled out challenging the seat of
Mt Gambier."
Yeah sure, but even that doesn't actually say that Ms A is gunna' run as the NXTPBT candidate, only that she is not ruling-out running for the seat, you see?...(fair enough, but you've jumped to the last paragraph, check out para 2-Ed)...
"Kate Amoroso - who has not ruled out running for the Nick Xenophon Team in the
March state election - says the community is desperate to see a "turning point" in the
city's growing ice scourge."
...well indeed, that certainly specifically identifies the NXTPBT, and reports that Ms A 'hasn't ruled it out', but being the Pedantic Old Cynic Too Long Exposed To The Manipulative Deceits Of A Corrupt Media that I am, it begs the question, 'has that question even been asked?'...(I hate it when you're right-Ed)...because it ain't a lie to say that 'Ms A Ain't Said Nay', if the question was never actually asked!...I guess it comes down to the credibility of the reporting...who is it by the way?...(errr, The Border Watch-Ed)...yeah, we know that, who's the reporter?...(ummm...-Ed)...it's Sandra Morello isn't it?...(yeahhh-Ed)...ok, right...
Ok, dear availee, 1) TBW has a provable history of making statements of fact, etc, regardless of what's actually happening and often without speaking to those involved, particularly re me, eg, that ABC stuff from the 2010 State Election; or when MGCC secretly exonerated Councillor Ian Von Stanke for/of coming to my home with a defamation-threatening letter in April 2011; or my current Court stuff, etc, etc...and 2) Sandra Morello has no credibility as a reporter, particularly as a 'political reporter'...I remind availees that even TBW was forced to move her 'off the political rounds' due to that shonky shenanigans in early 2010, printing verbatim under her name/byline, candidate Don Pegler's press releases, as written by her husband Frank Morello, himself former TBW Editor and current MGCC Councillor...(oh my good gracious and wow-Ed)...but in this particular article, it answers these questions raised in one paragraph with the other...(how so?-Ed)...well para 2 states that it is the NXTPBT, and the last para indicates that the question was asked of Ms A...(fair enough, but neither is a direct quote from Ms A-Ed)...true, ultimately it's Sandra Morello, reporting politics, in The Border Watch...believe of it what you will...(oh boy-Ed)...
And so to the hilarious title above, Nick Fletcher Doesn't Deny Not Declaring Candidacy For The Nick Xenophon Team Party Bus Thingy...(well, particularly with Peter Humphries gone, he's a candidate down-Ed)...what Mr X needs is a Can-do Candidate...(any ideas?-Ed)...me you idiot, I'm not ruling-out that I'm not running as the NXTPBT candidate...(or not-Ed)...or not, in the seat of Mt Gambier...(or not-Ed)...ahhh, that's not what I said Ed...(well yeah it is, just there-Ed)...shhhh!...I, Nick Fletcher, can officially announce that Mr X doesn't even answer my emails so I'd say there's a very slim but actually quite fat chance I'll be running in the March 2018 SA State Election as the NXTPBT candidate...(sorry, does that mean you are running anyway, just not for/as the NXTPBT, or not running at all?-Ed)...exactly!...
Tomorrow: Court Stuff, Possibly, Probably
Went to Mt Gambier City Council's Full Meeting (April 18th 2017), but wasn't graced with the presence of former MGCC Mayor and part-time current MGCC Councillor, Steve Perryman...(again?-Ed)...which to my reckoning makes 1 of 4 meetings this year...(oh, well that's not too bad, ya' know, only one-Ed)...attended...(only one attended?-Ed)...yeahhhs...(not 'one absence'?-Ed)...nooo...(Steve mate-Ed)...maaate...(has only attended 1 of 4 MGCC Full Meetings this calendar year?-Ed)...yep...(wow-Ed)...oh it gets better...(spare me-Ed)...MGCC has tried to trump Trump, or at least emulate him...(whaaa?-Ed)...apparently one of Council's new phalanx of highly-paid 'Managers', well that dude's from Rio Tinto...(nnnooo?-Ed)...oh yeah, Rio Tinto, apparently previously responsible "for 10,000 employees"...(what the shreck?-Ed)...no idea mate, but it's sure as shreck got my bells a-ringin', my flags a-flappin', my klaxxons, ummm, a-klaxxonin'...(Rio Tinto? are you sure?-Ed)...that's what was said, that's what I heard...(but why would a 'senior international mining executive' move here to work for MGCC?-Ed)...gourd, I dunno...(hey?!...what was that up the back there?...who up the back yelled out "Fracking"?...come on, we all heard you, care to share the joke?...hmmm?...no-one?-Ed)...probably a bloody hippy, just ignore 'em...
Just now (*last week) on the ABC South East, talking about people accessing a Psychologist via telly-conferencing...dude from the National Rural Health Alliance talking about the Better Access Program re Mental Health and rebates for consultations held via the telly...I think $9million he said for funding the re-funding of upto 7 outta' 10 of the Mental's Medicare-subsidised Pyschologist visits...that is, Mentals like moi get 10 'subsidised' Psychologist appointments per annum, if we can get actually get access to a service/provider/Psychologist, as also covered by Mr Dude re the gross absence of Mental Health professionals like Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Regional/Rural communities...my usual example as explained to me by a highly-qualified professional, that Mt Gambier and Districts should have an absolute minimum 3 resident Psychiatrists to offer a 24hr/365day service, preferably minimum 6 for the population base, optimistically 8-10...there's meant to be one at the new Mental Health facility at Mt Gambier Hospital, but I'm not sure of that current status, sorry...
Several things there about that...1) the absence of services/specialists, eg, I'm not sure there's even a Senior Psychologist currently resident and/or available in Mt Gambier, not that I can find anyways...2) no amount of 'telly conferencing' stuff is appropriate replacement for real-time specialist/patient contact, as stated/identified by this dude, and it must be considered a tool-of-last-resort to be utilised only as an absolute necessity in emergency-style situations or to partially supplement thorough local services...3) one appointment every five weeks...you can do a lot of 'going backwards' in 5 weeks, and then one hour to try and 'move forward'...
I was on this '10 Visits' program for a coupla' years re visiting a Forensic Psychologist, but it simply doesn't exist anymore because that provider no longer provides...(didn't you sortta' self-refer to that dude as well?-Ed)...well actually yes, I did, after seeing him initially re Centrelink demands re the DSP, it was left to me to go organise whatevs...(you didn't get a case worker person thingy when put on the DSP?-ED)...well if I did I couldn't tell you who that is and I've never spoken to them...Centrelink roundly abused me in their initial opposition, demanding I see said FP, so I did, and I was suddenly moved to the DSP and literally pushed-out the Centrelink door with ne'ery a word of direction or advice...I chose to go back to the FP for what was usually quite helpful support, but it was always in a 'voluntary' capacity...
And if I want to mock myself for being a fractured and traumatised person, and call myself a Mental, and crack hilarious jokes about being on the Disability Support Pension, eg, Fund-A-Mental, then I can and will...(what was that one about 'no-one's ever accused me of being sane', was that yours?-Ed)...yeah, that's one a' mine...one of the things that really pisses me right off re The Greens is their sanctimonious and oft self-stated staking of the moral highground, and I ain't gunna' pretend to be anything more or less than what I am...(and that is?-Ed)...the Good, the Bad, and the Grossly Indifferent...(nice-Ed)...I thought so...being a Mental ain't all beer and skittles though, it ain't all fun and games, which is an unfortunately seamless segue right into a certain Ebony Jackson...
Please see attached letter from The Border Watch (***apols, in tomorrow's post, honest) ...it takes a fundamentally bigotted, ignorant and offensive person to write such a fundamentally bigotted, ignorant and offensive letter...and why would The Border Watch print this deeply ignorant, biased and abusive dross?...(if I thought Ms Jackson had the faintest idea about what she's mouthing-off about, I'd also be deeply offended-Ed)...excellent position to take Ed, but that doesn't remove and/or address the fact that TBW has shoved this under people's noses, and all it is is ignorant abuse that will cause far more harm than good...(well done TBW, top effort-Ed)...one can only hope that TBW will be awash with the backlash for weeks to come as all of these issues/criticisms/abuses are carefully explained to Ms Jackson...(I think you've done extraordinarily well there-Ed)...mmm?...(yeah, to be so productively polite about this, I mean, I know how angry this sort of crap makes you, and yet you've pretty much gone past that to try and create a context where-in this 'opinion piece' could actually produce a positive, namely, a realistic discussion about exactly what is and isn't happening re the many issues trampled in this stampede of pig-ignorance-Ed)...one tries to rise-above Ed, one tries...
Anyhoos, I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters.........(sorry, did you say 'python'?-Ed)...yep...(we don't have pythons here do we?, it's too cold for too long, have you been on holiday somewhere?-Ed)...nope, other than a self-indulgent fortnight of slothing-about the house, no...(well then, whaaa?-Ed)...you tell me mate, what is a 7-foot python doing at the Centenary Tower?...(yeah, Tower's not even open, hasn't been for over a year-Ed)... sure, not exactly what I meant, but the ongoing closure of Centenary Tower is an unambiguous Tourism embarrassment, and indeed, when I went back-up there a-snakin' (armed with an old quilt cover) on Easter Monday, a coupla' tourists asked me when and/or if the Tower was open...I politely but exactly explained Mt Gambier City Council's position/actions re the extended closure and any potential Tower Operator having to fund their own 'Liability Insurance', etc...the gentlemen were suitably unimpressed...
What I meant was 'what is a python doing in Valley Lake?', albeit way-up near the Tower...turns out that several people have seen this python, possibly a Murray-Darling (Carpet) Python, it's been spotted from The Sugarloaf, across to The 369 Steps, and near/just past The Tower, and all starting back at least before Christmas 2016...(and that's one very fat, very healthy looking snake-Ed)...mate, I ain't no expert, but that looks way-too broad, way-too solid to be a Carpet Python, but that's the current suspect/contender...bringin' in the Big Guns from tech support to get this footage on this 'ere blog somehow...(there's actual footage?-Ed)...with witty commentary...(let's see...duuude! damn that's one big snake-Ed)...tomorrow...
***PS:...sorted the photos for tomorrow and Ebony Jackson letter too...I swear...often...***
Monday, April 10, 2017
Court, Like A Bunny In the Headlights
Howdy to Pakistan again, Ireland, India, and (the) Ukraine...and damn it, I am obliged to apologise because yet again I've 1) spent a sleepy week between posts, and 2) haven't actually got to the Court stuff today...so here again is a bunch a' random bits, but whatevs, the title's perfectly appropriate because I've got a wee bee in ma' bonney bonnet about the latest shonky shenanigans from the Mt Gambier Show Society, the MGA&HS (the MG Agricultural and Horticultural Society)...(boooo-Ed)...and I have already moved on it...(yay-Ed)...if half of what I understand to be true is actually true, then you's people have every reason to be very concerned because the reality of your own actions is a comin' to getcha'...(he means that we all here at this 'ere blog are gunna' go a' gunnin' for the MGA&HS, probably with plenty a' punnin'-Ed)...and they've definitely got it comin'...
It is my understanding that there is yet another dodgy attempt afoot to flog-off a fair chunk a' the Mt Gambier Showgrounds...and that just ain't happenin'...and not least of all because MGA&HS Members voted only in February/March 2015 re not ever selling-off any land, a vote that followed a mega-dodgy attempted deal between ALDI Supermarkets, local agent Herbert's Real Estate, and MGA&HS Treasurer Roger Saunders, a deal that was intercepted and summarily dispatched by angry Members...and there's a bunch of other very inappropriate stuff goin' down around the Showgrounds...(and we're moving on it?-Ed)...have...("have"? as in 'already'?-Ed)...yep...(get in my son-Ed)...and for those involved, there's nowhere to hide, nothing to be done but to stand there like a bunny in the headlights and cop what's-a-comin...(and in a context where some of these clowns should/will end-up in Court themselves-Ed)...indeed...
But First:...remember the stuff I've mentioned dear availees, like how it sometimes seems the Universe is giving me a bit of a pat on the head, a sort of 'karmic-acknowledgement' for my various 'good deeds' and/or 'right-doings'...(you mean like the time you deliberately didn't attend that 'Renewables' forum thingy even though you really wanted to to have a go at SA Green's muppet Mark Parnell about Wind Turbines, but out of respect for the conveners you didn't, then the very next morning you literally ran into him in the Main St and enlightened him with 1/2 hour of your assorted wisdomings?...like that?-Ed)...exactly like that Ed...(or the time you accidentally knocked that book onto the floor and it happened to be Mt Gambier City Council's 2004/05 Year Book thingy?-Ed)...ah yes...(and it fell open to the exact page, the exact full-page where-in MGCC very carefully explains the exact details of the Rail Lands Deed/Easement issues, and thusly carefully self-defines Council's decade of repeated multiple deceits re the Rail Lands Retail Agenda-Ed)...ahhh, the RLRA, one of my personal favs...(and handing-back that $700 and your bag not falling off the car roof-Ed)...not strictly connected, but I take your point...
Bunging It On:...anyhoos, yeah yeah, all that 'karma stuff', well in this last coupla' weeks, the Universe hasn't been so much 'patting' as 'bludgeoning'...(nice-Ed)...and one I won't mention because it immediately identifies someone, but it's re this 'ere blog, etc...(nice?-Ed)...extremely, but there's 2 others I'd love to share, and the first covered briefly below and then tomorrow as well, but for starters, get this one down ya'...got stuck waiting to be served and started thumbing through a magazine, and thusly this bit is courtesy of a new 'free' South Aussie lifestyle magazine thingy published by 'Newstyle Media', and distributed by Foodland (supermarkets), a magazine called 'Fritz'...(ah, this is a classic, and of course your shocking pun refers to 'Bung Fritz' as it's known here in SA, and as called 'Devon' in other states-Ed)...indeed, and I guess that's the 'Statey-specific' identifying/defining reference, but whatevs 'cos according to 'Fritz', a certain Mr Kirby Shearing is the "...A-list...personal chef..." at a posh holiday house at Moana near Adelaide...(ahahaahhaahhaaa, nice one...oh sorry, you're serious?-Ed)...damn straight...(Kirby 'Carp-Cooker' Shearing? husband to former Mt Gambier City Councillor and currently Limestone Coast RDA Tourism Development Officer, Biddie (Tietz) Shearing?-Ed)...that be him and that be her...
(And where is Biddie these days?-Ed)...nobody knows mate...(still swanning-about the place on the Taxpayer's dollar whilst achieving sweet bugger-all?-Ed)...no idea mate, haven't heard/seen squat from Biddie for weeks nay months, nobody has...whatevs, just another rankly corrupted appointment based on personal allegiances not merit...(and what of this Tourism Mount Gambier thingy? isn't The Bidster involved with that as well?-Ed)...she is, but gourd knows mate, just more rankly self-involved corruption, as run by rankly corrupt self-involved people...(yay-Ed)...TMG is her, former Mayor and current MGCC Councillor Steve Perryman, and everyone's mate, Rory McEwen...(mmm, I can see how you get away with calling Tourism Mount Gambier "corrupt"-Ed)...why, because the Truth is still a powerful defense against defamation threats?...(well sure, if you've got the gumption to stand your ground, as you do, but many cannot do that-Ed)...if by "gumption" you mean 'white-hot rage fuelling seethingly vindictive vendetta-ish vengeance'...(we quibble over terms-Ed)...sure, "gumption", why not?...(but I was actually referring to your own personal experience of these Career Stooges and your direct witnessing of their individual and collective rank corruptionings, which empowers you to directly identify these unpleasant realities-Ed)...indeed...
Anyhoos, Kirby is apparently "like a chef patron" (his words) at some "seven stars" holiday house, apparently owned by someone whom "prefers to go unnamed", but whom the publisher chooses to refer to as "Mr Eccentric"...(oh my gourd!-Ed)...well exactly, and in that very special Adelaide-centric context where 'eccentric' likely means 'paedophile'...(exactly what I was thinking-Ed)...what an absolute farce, the sort that makes ya' blood run cold...and who exactly owns this wondrous '7 star' property? who is "Mr Eccentric"? who exactly would employ this rank-hack Kirby as a '7 star chef'?...who exactly's paying him to 'travel 45,000kms in 8 months' hosting "intimate dinners for big name clients"...(didn't you say his wife's the Tourism Officer for LCRDA? wouldn't she be 'hosting big-name clients'?-Ed)...indeed...as I understand it, there's a coupla' businesses here in Mt Gambier what are still owed goodly amounts by my mate Kirby, from when he walked-out on them...cheers Kirby mate...
And briefly, Universal Pummelling Part II, re my position about being 'a White Man born in a Stolen Land', etc, see below below and then tomorrow...moving on quickly...
And Weatherill/Labor continue to 'pork-barrel/carpetbag/moral-highground' their way towards the March 2018 South Australian State election...it's been 'Children's Commissioner', 'Aboriginal Treaties', 'Medicinal Marijuana', 'LGBTQ Rights', etc, and last week it was the announcement that there will be seat-belts and air-conditioning fitted to country school buses...and after how many years of Rann/Weatherill Labor?...(16-Ed)...and how long has this been an issue?...(ummm, forever?-Ed)...well, for as long as there's been buses probably, but yes, certainly for all of that 16 years...(and then 11 months out from the next Sow Strayn state election-Ed)...and whilst it's all 'free public transport to/from the bloody Adelaide Oval', here in Mt Gambier, the largest Regional centre in Sow Straya, here there will be no public transport, ie, buses, from 1715hrs on Thursday April 13th until 0900hrs on Tuesday April 18th...(and then again on ANZAC Day, April 25th-Ed)...and the weekends either side of course...from 1715hrs last Friday, there's Public Transport (the bus) only 8 days in the next 16...that's a bloody disgrace...
Premier Jay Weatherill:...you are a pathetic coward and an abject liar...your relentless, vacuous posturing and billious bravado against submissive or absent opponents is just embarrassing...come to Mt Gambier and try that shizzle on with me champ, come down here and try that on with li'l ol' me...(and I'd reckon a coupla' other parents wouldn't mind a bit of a go with Ray Jay-Ed)...indeed, but I got this one...bring your vast retinue of media advisors Jay, bring all your lawyers, bring John Rau and Michael Atkinson and Martin Hamilton-Smith, heck, bring them all...I'll take you all on, Mano et Stoogefest...you Jay, you have betrayed me, my child, our family, every child in that St Martins class, their families, every other family and child at that sickly corrupt school, every child/family involved with the pro-paedophile Lutheran Church, every child/family in this sad, sick state...(what an absolute bloody disgrace-Ed)...I momentarily hang my head in our collective shame, then raise it again to stare unblinking into The Maelstrom...(and how's it working-out for The Maelstrom?-Ed)...not well, not well at all...(get in!-Ed)...
Still Weather 'Ill Still Wither All:...(whaaa?-Ed)...because when the temperatures rise and the wind drops, as per any good ol' Adelaide heatwave, there will be by necessity 'Rationing/Load-Shedding' and/or blackouts, and people will die...(and not least of all because of our stratospheric electricity costs, where-in many simply cannot afford to run air-conditioners, if they can afford one-Ed)...indeed, and it's not being at all alarmist, it is well documented that heatwaves directly cause deaths, and often for weeks afterwards...(even those who can afford electricity in this broken State will be waving their dollars at a dark, hot room-Ed)...and Jay Weatherill's got the bare-faced audacity to say he's fixed it all...(do you reckon he's actually delusional, or just a soulless, moralless liar?-Ed)...does it really matter when the lights go out on a hot night and people start dying?...
Fresh from his extraordinary faux-furious, fact-fondling, politically-posturing, foppish flopping-about with Liberal Minister Josh Frydenberg a few weeks back, Angry Jay continues to huff and puff and stamp 'is li'l foot and blame all-and-sundry for our (South Australia's) electricity woes...this latest Weatherill ad is an absolute SA Labor (Rann/Weatherill) classic that opens by blaming the national regulator (AEMO? NEMO? whatevs), states that Jay is 'taking control', and then spews raw sewage into my ever-suffering lobes about how his state-owned $350million 'Emergency Gas Generator' and $100m Battery set-up has saved the day and now everything is fine...(what a farcical joke! we are continually right on the edge of State-wide power-collapse, especially in hot weather-Ed)...absolutely...(entirely vulnerable to 1) the weather, and 2) the 'Regulator', particularly re the Heywood Interconnector-Ed)...and that doesn't include the actual physical vulnerabilities of that HI, eg, a bushfire wipes it out and there's no Victorian 'leccy gettin' to SA...(oh gourd no, don't even think it-Ed)...
For over a decade, Rann/Weatherill Labor have forced Wind Turbines into a dominant position, regularly citing the benefits of 'exporting to a National Market that wants to buy our cheap wind re Renewable Energy Targets and that's why we need Interconnectors', etc, etc, and then when the rank realities of their collective and corrupt lunacy rear right-up in their faces, they can't/won't see it, not least of all because it's probably dark!...(well look on the bright side-Ed)...what?!...(well if there's no power, then the fan isn't going when the Reality arrives...yeah?-Ed)...that's not even funny mate, people are dying in this state because of the way the weather dictates to us what energy we will and won't have and when!...(ok ok, settle down, it's very serious, sure, but comedic interludes is part of my job description, remember?-Ed)...sure sure, fine, moving on...
Nothing that Jay Weatherill or Tom Koutsontonis or any other Labor clown conjures from the fully fancifully fetid depths of their crooked little minds, none of it can deny the Realities as they pile-up in the Class 1 Debasco (debacle tail-ending a fiasco) that is Labor's Greeny-grabbing 'Renewables' obsession, and specifically Wind Turbines...Jay Weatherill looked straight-down the camera and said 'this report is proof that strong winds don't stop Wind Turbines working'...(but that's complete crap, if the wind is too strong they have to shut-down, and when there's no wind, well...-Ed)...and there's also the issue of 'Catastrophic Fire Alert' days when Turbines are required to stop because of the potential fire risk...and the whole while, any actual energy production yo-yos with the wind...it's a farcical joke...and now the same self-servingly rabid Greenies-when-it-suits-our-purpose, these same Labor clowns are going to pour hundreds of tons of undefined chemicals deep into the heart of the South-East, and call it Fracking...(yay-Ed)...
RDA and Forestry:...only yesterday (Tuesday last week? sorry) on ABC South East Radio, yet another long story/article with Regional Development Australia (RDA) re the SE Forestry Estate and the apparently rosy future of Forestry, etc, etc, blah blah blah, and these discussions include repeated references to a 'BioMass Energy Plant' that will apparently utilise forest floor residues from logging, etc, etc, whatevs...I re-state my grave concerns that time-and-again the Forestry Industry is discussed and again, nothing about 'Planting Jobs'...if there's so much work in 'Forestry' and that includes record felling/trucking/shipping, etc, etc, then where are the many, many new jobs in 'Planting'?...what future for the South East? what plans do OneFortyOne Plantations have for this vast area they control, along with the Water Licenses, etc?...
Are 141 Plantations in a position to lease 'their land' to mad Gas Frackers like Beach Energy?...(the same Beach Energy that Labor have just given $6million of SA Taxpayer's money, $6m specifically for 'exploratory drilling' near Penola, where Beach Energy have already drilled two 3-4km deep 'exploratory wells' re 'Unconventional Gas Mining', and are about to start another 'Conventional Gas' drilling?-Ed)...yes Ed, that Beach Energy...(we are so screwed-Ed)...if by screwed you mean Fracked, then indeed, we are screwed...
Timing...Not:...to follow a story about a Human Pamplona Virus vaccination 'trial' program at St Martins Lutheran School...(sweet baby cheeses! using the St Martins kids as guinea-pigs? no wonder you're fired-up-Ed)...whatevs, you ever tried telling Lutherans anything about anything?...they want to use their kids to experiment on, whatevs, I was actually referring to the hilariously unfortunate circumstance of following that with a story about the Human-Powered Vehicle race/competition held in Mt Gambier last weekend...(I'm not with you-Ed)...HPV vs HPV...(oh-Ed)...indeed, oh...
Dear Google:...here we go again...please do not allow these rankly corrupt whinge-bags to come-a-bleatin' to you with their empty threats of 'Defamation'...dear Google, let these corrupt, gutless scumbags fend for themselves and not continually manipulate you into complicit involvement in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and let's face it, that's what's driven us all to this place, to this 'ere blog, the St Martins Cover-up...and so, to Adelaide lawyer Peter Humphries who has declared Senator Nick Xenophon is as bent as a badger, corrupt as all get-out...(sorry? that's not what I heard Humphries say-Ed)...no? what did you hear him say?...(no, I heard him say that he was declaring himself as a 'nominee-candidate' for the 'Xenophon Party'-Ed)...right, ok, well sure, that is quite a bit different to Xenophon making that statement, in fact, it doesn't actually mean that Nick even knew/knows about it...whatevs, the math is very simple, lawyer Peter Humphries is a rankly corrupt, pro-paedophile Labor Party stooge, and a consummate and seasoned betrayer, wholly and pivotally involved in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...it is simply inconceivable that Nick Xenophon, himself an Adelaide lawyer, it is simply not believable that Mr Xenophon doesn't know just exactly who Petey is and how Petey rolls...
Here's The Thing:...if Nick Xenophon accepts Peter Humphries into the 'Xenophon Party', self-nominated or whatevs, if that decision is made, if Peter Humphries becomes an endorsed 'X-Person', then that defines exactly how corrupt Nick Xenophon really is...dear Google, research back through this 'ere blog to see why and how I can be so bluntly specific about the conduct of both these men...what I say isn't 'defamation', it's reality as I've watched it play-out right in front of me, nay, all around me...and the question is asked, is Nick Xenophon of a genuine bent, or genuinely bent?...
Tomorrow: Actual Court Stuff
Including Magistrate White's extraordinarily biased and deeply corrupted 'Reasons for Ruling' of March 8th 2017, and how it (the 'RfR') clearly and irrefutably defines it's own agenda, carefully tip-toeing around specific realities re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the implicit multiple involvements of Premier Weatherill and SAPol and the Crown Solicitor Office, etc, etc, carefully ignores all that to instead describe me as, at best, a rampant liar, but beyond that as being fundamentally delusional, and furthermore, deliberately seeks to set me up for 'defamation action' by other parties, carefully cherry-picking 2 'defamation threats' from my own CSO documents, then crassly Editorialising that I have been "defamatory" to Jay Weatherill...(charming-Ed)...
Screachin' Of Which:...at the last (March 2017) Mt Gambier City Council meeting, I was momentarily stunned to hear Mayor Andrew Lee state that he had been told of 'prisoners from Mt Gambier Gaol being released here and given bus fare', presumably to Adelaide...again, I apologise that I struggled to catch some of what Andy said, he has a strong accent and a tendency to trail-off into semi-mumbling diatribes...(yeah, he did it repeatedly in the ABC SE Radio interviews re that super-dodgy winery purchase/ownership/ICAC nonsense-Ed)...whatevs, what he clearly said was that this info exactly contradicted what the MGG Manager had officially told Council, namely, that no prisoners not originally from Mt Gambier get released here...(even Council is identifying this oft-told lie as being a lie?-Ed)...yep...(does that mean it's true?-Ed)...don't confuse the issue...
Couldn't Lie Straight In Bed:...(and didn't the ABC SE Radio get some farcical award back in 2015 for their hilarious series of stories about their 'exclusive access' and 'the fantastic counselling/rehab and the amazing results' and 'no prisoners released here' and 'their families don't move here', etc, etc?-Ed)...yep, and not only was it bullshit then, it's bullshit now...(as one particularly angry young blogger went berko about ways back in July 2015-Ed)...and so did I...(that's who I meant-Ed)...oh, right, ok, yeah...and only September 2016 our new SAPol (police) Superintendent openly stated that 'relatives of prisoners move here', also previously completely denied by Authorities/Labor...
Also tomorrow, photos of what I found deep down in my garden, a fabulous find that instantly quantifies my fine statements about being born into a life of privilege as a White Man in a Stolen Land...(whaaa?-Ed)...whilst digging in my garden, I went through the shallow topsoil into the dry orange 'clay' layer...(I think it's compacted sand maybe, not 'clay', maybe was a sandhill many thousands of years ago?-Ed)...sure, certainly looks to be pre-Mt Gambier volcano, which erupted roughly say 5,000 years ago...(and you found?-Ed)...ah yeah, I found a layer of scattered charcoal about a foot down into that...(and?-Ed)...and then on the path where I was spreading the beautiful orange dirt/sand, bingo, there's a worked stone flint tool, a bit bigger than a matchbox...(from about a foot, 30cm, down into the orange stuff?-Ed)...yeah, I saw/found it on the path, but that shovel of dirt/sand was outta' that hole...(wow, gettin' it checked-out?-Ed)...in that process now...(wow-Ed)...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
It is my understanding that there is yet another dodgy attempt afoot to flog-off a fair chunk a' the Mt Gambier Showgrounds...and that just ain't happenin'...and not least of all because MGA&HS Members voted only in February/March 2015 re not ever selling-off any land, a vote that followed a mega-dodgy attempted deal between ALDI Supermarkets, local agent Herbert's Real Estate, and MGA&HS Treasurer Roger Saunders, a deal that was intercepted and summarily dispatched by angry Members...and there's a bunch of other very inappropriate stuff goin' down around the Showgrounds...(and we're moving on it?-Ed)...have...("have"? as in 'already'?-Ed)...yep...(get in my son-Ed)...and for those involved, there's nowhere to hide, nothing to be done but to stand there like a bunny in the headlights and cop what's-a-comin...(and in a context where some of these clowns should/will end-up in Court themselves-Ed)...indeed...
But First:...remember the stuff I've mentioned dear availees, like how it sometimes seems the Universe is giving me a bit of a pat on the head, a sort of 'karmic-acknowledgement' for my various 'good deeds' and/or 'right-doings'...(you mean like the time you deliberately didn't attend that 'Renewables' forum thingy even though you really wanted to to have a go at SA Green's muppet Mark Parnell about Wind Turbines, but out of respect for the conveners you didn't, then the very next morning you literally ran into him in the Main St and enlightened him with 1/2 hour of your assorted wisdomings?...like that?-Ed)...exactly like that Ed...(or the time you accidentally knocked that book onto the floor and it happened to be Mt Gambier City Council's 2004/05 Year Book thingy?-Ed)...ah yes...(and it fell open to the exact page, the exact full-page where-in MGCC very carefully explains the exact details of the Rail Lands Deed/Easement issues, and thusly carefully self-defines Council's decade of repeated multiple deceits re the Rail Lands Retail Agenda-Ed)...ahhh, the RLRA, one of my personal favs...(and handing-back that $700 and your bag not falling off the car roof-Ed)...not strictly connected, but I take your point...
Bunging It On:...anyhoos, yeah yeah, all that 'karma stuff', well in this last coupla' weeks, the Universe hasn't been so much 'patting' as 'bludgeoning'...(nice-Ed)...and one I won't mention because it immediately identifies someone, but it's re this 'ere blog, etc...(nice?-Ed)...extremely, but there's 2 others I'd love to share, and the first covered briefly below and then tomorrow as well, but for starters, get this one down ya'...got stuck waiting to be served and started thumbing through a magazine, and thusly this bit is courtesy of a new 'free' South Aussie lifestyle magazine thingy published by 'Newstyle Media', and distributed by Foodland (supermarkets), a magazine called 'Fritz'...(ah, this is a classic, and of course your shocking pun refers to 'Bung Fritz' as it's known here in SA, and as called 'Devon' in other states-Ed)...indeed, and I guess that's the 'Statey-specific' identifying/defining reference, but whatevs 'cos according to 'Fritz', a certain Mr Kirby Shearing is the "...A-list...personal chef..." at a posh holiday house at Moana near Adelaide...(ahahaahhaahhaaa, nice one...oh sorry, you're serious?-Ed)...damn straight...(Kirby 'Carp-Cooker' Shearing? husband to former Mt Gambier City Councillor and currently Limestone Coast RDA Tourism Development Officer, Biddie (Tietz) Shearing?-Ed)...that be him and that be her...
(And where is Biddie these days?-Ed)...nobody knows mate...(still swanning-about the place on the Taxpayer's dollar whilst achieving sweet bugger-all?-Ed)...no idea mate, haven't heard/seen squat from Biddie for weeks nay months, nobody has...whatevs, just another rankly corrupted appointment based on personal allegiances not merit...(and what of this Tourism Mount Gambier thingy? isn't The Bidster involved with that as well?-Ed)...she is, but gourd knows mate, just more rankly self-involved corruption, as run by rankly corrupt self-involved people...(yay-Ed)...TMG is her, former Mayor and current MGCC Councillor Steve Perryman, and everyone's mate, Rory McEwen...(mmm, I can see how you get away with calling Tourism Mount Gambier "corrupt"-Ed)...why, because the Truth is still a powerful defense against defamation threats?...(well sure, if you've got the gumption to stand your ground, as you do, but many cannot do that-Ed)...if by "gumption" you mean 'white-hot rage fuelling seethingly vindictive vendetta-ish vengeance'...(we quibble over terms-Ed)...sure, "gumption", why not?...(but I was actually referring to your own personal experience of these Career Stooges and your direct witnessing of their individual and collective rank corruptionings, which empowers you to directly identify these unpleasant realities-Ed)...indeed...
Anyhoos, Kirby is apparently "like a chef patron" (his words) at some "seven stars" holiday house, apparently owned by someone whom "prefers to go unnamed", but whom the publisher chooses to refer to as "Mr Eccentric"...(oh my gourd!-Ed)...well exactly, and in that very special Adelaide-centric context where 'eccentric' likely means 'paedophile'...(exactly what I was thinking-Ed)...what an absolute farce, the sort that makes ya' blood run cold...and who exactly owns this wondrous '7 star' property? who is "Mr Eccentric"? who exactly would employ this rank-hack Kirby as a '7 star chef'?...who exactly's paying him to 'travel 45,000kms in 8 months' hosting "intimate dinners for big name clients"...(didn't you say his wife's the Tourism Officer for LCRDA? wouldn't she be 'hosting big-name clients'?-Ed)...indeed...as I understand it, there's a coupla' businesses here in Mt Gambier what are still owed goodly amounts by my mate Kirby, from when he walked-out on them...cheers Kirby mate...
And briefly, Universal Pummelling Part II, re my position about being 'a White Man born in a Stolen Land', etc, see below below and then tomorrow...moving on quickly...
And Weatherill/Labor continue to 'pork-barrel/carpetbag/moral-highground' their way towards the March 2018 South Australian State election...it's been 'Children's Commissioner', 'Aboriginal Treaties', 'Medicinal Marijuana', 'LGBTQ Rights', etc, and last week it was the announcement that there will be seat-belts and air-conditioning fitted to country school buses...and after how many years of Rann/Weatherill Labor?...(16-Ed)...and how long has this been an issue?...(ummm, forever?-Ed)...well, for as long as there's been buses probably, but yes, certainly for all of that 16 years...(and then 11 months out from the next Sow Strayn state election-Ed)...and whilst it's all 'free public transport to/from the bloody Adelaide Oval', here in Mt Gambier, the largest Regional centre in Sow Straya, here there will be no public transport, ie, buses, from 1715hrs on Thursday April 13th until 0900hrs on Tuesday April 18th...(and then again on ANZAC Day, April 25th-Ed)...and the weekends either side of course...from 1715hrs last Friday, there's Public Transport (the bus) only 8 days in the next 16...that's a bloody disgrace...
Premier Jay Weatherill:...you are a pathetic coward and an abject liar...your relentless, vacuous posturing and billious bravado against submissive or absent opponents is just embarrassing...come to Mt Gambier and try that shizzle on with me champ, come down here and try that on with li'l ol' me...(and I'd reckon a coupla' other parents wouldn't mind a bit of a go with Ray Jay-Ed)...indeed, but I got this one...bring your vast retinue of media advisors Jay, bring all your lawyers, bring John Rau and Michael Atkinson and Martin Hamilton-Smith, heck, bring them all...I'll take you all on, Mano et Stoogefest...you Jay, you have betrayed me, my child, our family, every child in that St Martins class, their families, every other family and child at that sickly corrupt school, every child/family involved with the pro-paedophile Lutheran Church, every child/family in this sad, sick state...(what an absolute bloody disgrace-Ed)...I momentarily hang my head in our collective shame, then raise it again to stare unblinking into The Maelstrom...(and how's it working-out for The Maelstrom?-Ed)...not well, not well at all...(get in!-Ed)...
Still Weather 'Ill Still Wither All:...(whaaa?-Ed)...because when the temperatures rise and the wind drops, as per any good ol' Adelaide heatwave, there will be by necessity 'Rationing/Load-Shedding' and/or blackouts, and people will die...(and not least of all because of our stratospheric electricity costs, where-in many simply cannot afford to run air-conditioners, if they can afford one-Ed)...indeed, and it's not being at all alarmist, it is well documented that heatwaves directly cause deaths, and often for weeks afterwards...(even those who can afford electricity in this broken State will be waving their dollars at a dark, hot room-Ed)...and Jay Weatherill's got the bare-faced audacity to say he's fixed it all...(do you reckon he's actually delusional, or just a soulless, moralless liar?-Ed)...does it really matter when the lights go out on a hot night and people start dying?...
Fresh from his extraordinary faux-furious, fact-fondling, politically-posturing, foppish flopping-about with Liberal Minister Josh Frydenberg a few weeks back, Angry Jay continues to huff and puff and stamp 'is li'l foot and blame all-and-sundry for our (South Australia's) electricity woes...this latest Weatherill ad is an absolute SA Labor (Rann/Weatherill) classic that opens by blaming the national regulator (AEMO? NEMO? whatevs), states that Jay is 'taking control', and then spews raw sewage into my ever-suffering lobes about how his state-owned $350million 'Emergency Gas Generator' and $100m Battery set-up has saved the day and now everything is fine...(what a farcical joke! we are continually right on the edge of State-wide power-collapse, especially in hot weather-Ed)...absolutely...(entirely vulnerable to 1) the weather, and 2) the 'Regulator', particularly re the Heywood Interconnector-Ed)...and that doesn't include the actual physical vulnerabilities of that HI, eg, a bushfire wipes it out and there's no Victorian 'leccy gettin' to SA...(oh gourd no, don't even think it-Ed)...
For over a decade, Rann/Weatherill Labor have forced Wind Turbines into a dominant position, regularly citing the benefits of 'exporting to a National Market that wants to buy our cheap wind re Renewable Energy Targets and that's why we need Interconnectors', etc, etc, and then when the rank realities of their collective and corrupt lunacy rear right-up in their faces, they can't/won't see it, not least of all because it's probably dark!...(well look on the bright side-Ed)...what?!...(well if there's no power, then the fan isn't going when the Reality arrives...yeah?-Ed)...that's not even funny mate, people are dying in this state because of the way the weather dictates to us what energy we will and won't have and when!...(ok ok, settle down, it's very serious, sure, but comedic interludes is part of my job description, remember?-Ed)...sure sure, fine, moving on...
Nothing that Jay Weatherill or Tom Koutsontonis or any other Labor clown conjures from the fully fancifully fetid depths of their crooked little minds, none of it can deny the Realities as they pile-up in the Class 1 Debasco (debacle tail-ending a fiasco) that is Labor's Greeny-grabbing 'Renewables' obsession, and specifically Wind Turbines...Jay Weatherill looked straight-down the camera and said 'this report is proof that strong winds don't stop Wind Turbines working'...(but that's complete crap, if the wind is too strong they have to shut-down, and when there's no wind, well...-Ed)...and there's also the issue of 'Catastrophic Fire Alert' days when Turbines are required to stop because of the potential fire risk...and the whole while, any actual energy production yo-yos with the wind...it's a farcical joke...and now the same self-servingly rabid Greenies-when-it-suits-our-purpose, these same Labor clowns are going to pour hundreds of tons of undefined chemicals deep into the heart of the South-East, and call it Fracking...(yay-Ed)...
RDA and Forestry:...only yesterday (Tuesday last week? sorry) on ABC South East Radio, yet another long story/article with Regional Development Australia (RDA) re the SE Forestry Estate and the apparently rosy future of Forestry, etc, etc, blah blah blah, and these discussions include repeated references to a 'BioMass Energy Plant' that will apparently utilise forest floor residues from logging, etc, etc, whatevs...I re-state my grave concerns that time-and-again the Forestry Industry is discussed and again, nothing about 'Planting Jobs'...if there's so much work in 'Forestry' and that includes record felling/trucking/shipping, etc, etc, then where are the many, many new jobs in 'Planting'?...what future for the South East? what plans do OneFortyOne Plantations have for this vast area they control, along with the Water Licenses, etc?...
Are 141 Plantations in a position to lease 'their land' to mad Gas Frackers like Beach Energy?...(the same Beach Energy that Labor have just given $6million of SA Taxpayer's money, $6m specifically for 'exploratory drilling' near Penola, where Beach Energy have already drilled two 3-4km deep 'exploratory wells' re 'Unconventional Gas Mining', and are about to start another 'Conventional Gas' drilling?-Ed)...yes Ed, that Beach Energy...(we are so screwed-Ed)...if by screwed you mean Fracked, then indeed, we are screwed...
Timing...Not:...to follow a story about a Human Pamplona Virus vaccination 'trial' program at St Martins Lutheran School...(sweet baby cheeses! using the St Martins kids as guinea-pigs? no wonder you're fired-up-Ed)...whatevs, you ever tried telling Lutherans anything about anything?...they want to use their kids to experiment on, whatevs, I was actually referring to the hilariously unfortunate circumstance of following that with a story about the Human-Powered Vehicle race/competition held in Mt Gambier last weekend...(I'm not with you-Ed)...HPV vs HPV...(oh-Ed)...indeed, oh...
Dear Google:...here we go again...please do not allow these rankly corrupt whinge-bags to come-a-bleatin' to you with their empty threats of 'Defamation'...dear Google, let these corrupt, gutless scumbags fend for themselves and not continually manipulate you into complicit involvement in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and let's face it, that's what's driven us all to this place, to this 'ere blog, the St Martins Cover-up...and so, to Adelaide lawyer Peter Humphries who has declared Senator Nick Xenophon is as bent as a badger, corrupt as all get-out...(sorry? that's not what I heard Humphries say-Ed)...no? what did you hear him say?...(no, I heard him say that he was declaring himself as a 'nominee-candidate' for the 'Xenophon Party'-Ed)...right, ok, well sure, that is quite a bit different to Xenophon making that statement, in fact, it doesn't actually mean that Nick even knew/knows about it...whatevs, the math is very simple, lawyer Peter Humphries is a rankly corrupt, pro-paedophile Labor Party stooge, and a consummate and seasoned betrayer, wholly and pivotally involved in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...it is simply inconceivable that Nick Xenophon, himself an Adelaide lawyer, it is simply not believable that Mr Xenophon doesn't know just exactly who Petey is and how Petey rolls...
Here's The Thing:...if Nick Xenophon accepts Peter Humphries into the 'Xenophon Party', self-nominated or whatevs, if that decision is made, if Peter Humphries becomes an endorsed 'X-Person', then that defines exactly how corrupt Nick Xenophon really is...dear Google, research back through this 'ere blog to see why and how I can be so bluntly specific about the conduct of both these men...what I say isn't 'defamation', it's reality as I've watched it play-out right in front of me, nay, all around me...and the question is asked, is Nick Xenophon of a genuine bent, or genuinely bent?...
Tomorrow: Actual Court Stuff
Including Magistrate White's extraordinarily biased and deeply corrupted 'Reasons for Ruling' of March 8th 2017, and how it (the 'RfR') clearly and irrefutably defines it's own agenda, carefully tip-toeing around specific realities re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the implicit multiple involvements of Premier Weatherill and SAPol and the Crown Solicitor Office, etc, etc, carefully ignores all that to instead describe me as, at best, a rampant liar, but beyond that as being fundamentally delusional, and furthermore, deliberately seeks to set me up for 'defamation action' by other parties, carefully cherry-picking 2 'defamation threats' from my own CSO documents, then crassly Editorialising that I have been "defamatory" to Jay Weatherill...(charming-Ed)...
Screachin' Of Which:...at the last (March 2017) Mt Gambier City Council meeting, I was momentarily stunned to hear Mayor Andrew Lee state that he had been told of 'prisoners from Mt Gambier Gaol being released here and given bus fare', presumably to Adelaide...again, I apologise that I struggled to catch some of what Andy said, he has a strong accent and a tendency to trail-off into semi-mumbling diatribes...(yeah, he did it repeatedly in the ABC SE Radio interviews re that super-dodgy winery purchase/ownership/ICAC nonsense-Ed)...whatevs, what he clearly said was that this info exactly contradicted what the MGG Manager had officially told Council, namely, that no prisoners not originally from Mt Gambier get released here...(even Council is identifying this oft-told lie as being a lie?-Ed)...yep...(does that mean it's true?-Ed)...don't confuse the issue...
Couldn't Lie Straight In Bed:...(and didn't the ABC SE Radio get some farcical award back in 2015 for their hilarious series of stories about their 'exclusive access' and 'the fantastic counselling/rehab and the amazing results' and 'no prisoners released here' and 'their families don't move here', etc, etc?-Ed)...yep, and not only was it bullshit then, it's bullshit now...(as one particularly angry young blogger went berko about ways back in July 2015-Ed)...and so did I...(that's who I meant-Ed)...oh, right, ok, yeah...and only September 2016 our new SAPol (police) Superintendent openly stated that 'relatives of prisoners move here', also previously completely denied by Authorities/Labor...
Also tomorrow, photos of what I found deep down in my garden, a fabulous find that instantly quantifies my fine statements about being born into a life of privilege as a White Man in a Stolen Land...(whaaa?-Ed)...whilst digging in my garden, I went through the shallow topsoil into the dry orange 'clay' layer...(I think it's compacted sand maybe, not 'clay', maybe was a sandhill many thousands of years ago?-Ed)...sure, certainly looks to be pre-Mt Gambier volcano, which erupted roughly say 5,000 years ago...(and you found?-Ed)...ah yeah, I found a layer of scattered charcoal about a foot down into that...(and?-Ed)...and then on the path where I was spreading the beautiful orange dirt/sand, bingo, there's a worked stone flint tool, a bit bigger than a matchbox...(from about a foot, 30cm, down into the orange stuff?-Ed)...yeah, I saw/found it on the path, but that shovel of dirt/sand was outta' that hole...(wow, gettin' it checked-out?-Ed)...in that process now...(wow-Ed)...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Monday, April 3, 2017
Some Personal Indulgencing
***ummm, oops, sorry, done it again, gone so hard for so long and then tripped and stumbled and booofff!!!, face-down in the dust...different paradigm for sure but still Crash And Burn Intermittent Narcolepsy (CABIN Fever) is what it is...but, here we are, and here we go with a post 90% written a week ago and then nuthin' 'til today...dunno...(well I'd suggest it quite possibly might have something to do with not having anything nice to say-Ed)...nnnooo, that's never really stopped me much, more a case of 'it'll get done when I damn well feel like it, but there's plenty more to come'...(when you feel like it?-Ed)...when I feel like it.........(do you feel like it now?-Ed)...let's go...(result!-Ed)...***
Howdy Russia, Canada, Portugal, and France...(welcome y'all-Ed)...and Ed, of course ladies and gentlemen, welcome Ed...(cheers, cheers, great to be here-Ed)...great to have you here, you confected literary device you...dear recent availees, 'Ed' is a character what exists only in my head, 'he/she' is not an actual person, 'he/she' is a way for me to engage in often contradictory debate/discussion, and effectively brandish my concerns/anger/opinion/beliefs/ideology/whatevs in your/availees faces without just straight-out lecturing at you's, and occasionally...(albeit generally accidentally-Ed)..set-up jokes...(for lack of a better term-Ed)...whatevs, the whole blog is written as a dialogue/pseudo-play, often referencing/homaging my favourite comedians, so by all means please replace my and Ed's voices with your own and/or your fav's...(sorted, let's get bloggin'-Ed)...not quite done...
More Housekeeping:...in-so-much as I would like to acknowledge the degree of support that I have received in recent months, particularly those who have praised the blog, 1) for it's intent/content, and 2) for the 'style'...people have said 1) that I have a 'style', and 2) that they like it, even, that it is "clever"...I'm mildly stunned that several people have actually approached me directly to express support for this 'ere blog, and have put to me that TMGI has a certain credibility and with that comes 1) a certain degree of power, which itself brings 2) a degree of responsibility...as The Mount Gambier Independent, I Nick Fletcher, believe that I have justly earned that credibility by already exercising genuine responsibility, and that each supports the other, and from that impervious matrix inevitably comes a degree of power...(I'll give you that one-Ed)...
I have put the cart right behind the horse, pointed them to the gate, and bolted it once they're back in the pen...(whaaa?-Ed)...well, I haven't put the cart before the horse or shut the gate after said horse has up-and-bolted, no, I have sought to be accurate if apoplectic, spot-on if scathing, factual if furious, informed if incandescent, to maintain veracity in a voracious avalanche of vicious venting, and so-on-and-so-forth...and on the rare occasion I have erred, I've immediately apologised...as TMGI, I would argue that it is the/my demonstrated commitment to accuracy and genuine social activism and strength of character, these things that I now pride myself on, these things have always existed with-in this 'ere blog, and hence it's credibility...(and no-one's more amused than yourself to hear you refer to yourself in terms of 'strength' and 'character'?-Ed)...spot-on Ed, you know me too well...
No-one can genuinely accuse me of being a 'keyboard warrior' and/or 'social media troll', etc, because 1) I attend many meetings I'd quite happily miss, and have routinely put myself right in the political/social firing-line, not least of all as a candidate in state/local elections, and 2) I put my name to everything I do, and am more than happy to personally candidly chat with any of the litany of corrupt clowns who's collective works fill these pages...I mean, what hope?...it's not just that it's not the way I roll, that it's not how I conduct myself...(and no-one can accuse you otherwise-Ed)...well they can accuse/infer/imply/whatevs, and they do, but it's without any actual incident actually occurring...but that aside, what do y'all reckon would happen if I bailed-up and personally delivered some of my unhappinesses to some of these clowns when I encounter them about the town?...
Imagine what would happen if I tuned-in alleged journo Sandra Morello of The Border Watch next time I see her in the Post Office carpark, again, like happened last week, again...or her translucent husband, former TBW Editor and current Mount Gambier City Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello whenever I run into him in the Main Street...or ABC South East's Stuart Stansfield when I see him at Coles, as has happened 4-5 times since his tormenting abuse of me in December 2012 finally pushed me over the edge and into the best decision I've never made...(that says "never"-Ed)...I know what it says...
This 'ere blog, The Mount Gambier Independent, TMGI exists because of and in direct response to the rank corruption and self-serving bias of the Mount Gambier media, not least of all involving the rank pro-paedophile corruption of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...unable to accept this corruption, unable to accept/process and simply move on, burdened with the knowledge of what happened in that Lutheran classroom, I was drawn/pushed irrevocably toward doing this 'ere blog...and here we are, with me quite comfortably using self-descriptors like 'credibility', 'strength', and 'character'...(ludicrous-Ed)...I know, but what does it say about the rest of these clowns when I'm the one who displays these traits, when I'm the one people believe?!...(it doesn't really say much, does it-Ed)...at least we agree on that much...
Furthermore, I as a person, just as a Man-Bear Stuff-Pig person, I am absolutely knackered right now, dead-set out-on-ma-feet knackered...following the extraordinary events of my 3 day ICAC 'Trial' on March 15th/16th/17th 2017, which I'll post about in detail this week, I rolled outta' there at 1300hrs on Friday 17th, and I don't reckon the euphoric after-burn cooled it's jets until Monday, maybe Tuesday...and since then I've been absolutely rooted...so, so tired, but in an entirely different context to the deeply draining depression stuff...this was the post-euphoric crash that inevitably follows great achievement, great success...(get in my son-Ed)...
It would be naive and self-defeating for me to deny and/or try to fight-off the deeply draining, tiring, depressing, frustrating, and unpleasant realities of what is happening with my extraordinary ICAC 'charges' and the resultant bizarre Court proceedings, now in it's third year, etc...accepting those realities has been/is the best way to deal with it, etc, 'cos it's gunna' knock me through a hoop for days probably weeks, etc...that shizzle's just gunna' happen, nuthin' to be done about it, not even gunna' try...but what else is also hap'nin' now is a stunning new paradigm where-in I know that I can go into this openly hostile cauldron and not just hold and/or stand my ground, I can ground-down with a soundly profound pounding those hounding me so...(woof!-Ed)...maybe an old dog does have it's day...
***dear availee, please consider this to be a witty link between bits of un-related post...(orrr, good work Wilde-Ed)...piss off...(charming, don't know why I put-up with you sometimes-Ed)...***
Crownies:...is yet another ABC TV drama about Legal Eagles, this time set in a (the) Crown Solicitors Office and following the often-personal shenanigans of those there-in...never watched it myself...would like to see Oz telly cough-up something a little more original, but good to see at least some local production/employment/whatevs that isn't 'Neighbours' and/or 'Home And Away'...(it's Ozzie you say, I thought it was just another rip-off of a British show, you know the one, about women riding about on bicycles, whizzing hither-dither-and-yon to deliver babies-Ed)...do you mean 'Here Comes The Midwife'?...(that's the one-Ed)...I don't see the connection...(yes, sometimes it's a C-section-Ed)............gourd I hate you sometimes...(my work here is done-Ed)...
HERE FIDO, COME GETCHA' 18C:...(what the shreck is that?!-Ed)...my version of dog-whistling as done by the Liberals re the Human Rights Anti Vilification stuff and repealing/repairing/pig-rooting Section 18C, etc...(well yeah, of course it's all dog-whistling, but you don't go up and yell it in people's faces-Ed)...yeahhhh, I'm pretty sure ya' do, didn't ya' see the Libs in federal Parliament recently...(fair point-Ed)...dear availees, I've spent literally days this past weeks listening to federal (Liberal) Attorney-General George Brandis and/or his Liberal colleagues (mostly via ABC/BBC Radio), hours of highly-paid politicians piling Taxpayers money into a big stack and settin' it to smokin' if not quite on fire...(whaaa?-Ed)...of all the things we as a Nation need to be discussing in the relatively short periods of time these clowns actually spend in Canberra actually debating actual legislation, etc, etc, all we need is to spend days debating the apparent need to 'reform' section 18C re Freedom of Speech and Racial Vilification, etc, etc...and Gorgeous Georgasaurus was gushingly spruiking the need for speed 'cos folk could be gettin' a rough deal re 18C...
And AG GG used that most specific of terms, and one that Leagles have repeatedly used re my Court stuff, where-in I am 'charged' with talking about something that has allegedly been appropriately investigated by the appropriate Authority, the South Australian version of an Independent Commission Against Corruption ...Mr George 'Home' Brandis 'Best' specifically raised the issue of 'Implied Freedom of Political Communication'...(which I understand is most spectacularly covered in ABC vs Lange (1997)-Ed)...indeed it is Ed, you monkey-genius, and whilst that might be skewed toward 'Defamation issues', ABC vs Lange is directly applicable here, for several reasons...
Whether anybody likes it or not, least of all me, I am forced to try and operate as a political entity if not quite activist and certainly not politician...(well I'd argue that the intense level of political shenanigans that you engage in defines you as a 'politician'-Ed)...I can see that, but I still ain't a politician...(regardless of how you describe yourself-Ed)...indeed...(in fact, if it's purely by a process of elimination, then all other definitions/descriptors are obsolete, you are a political entity-Ed)...sure, sure, fair enough, whatevs, I'm a person who's been left no option but to get right into the muck that is politics in South Australia, the pro-paedophile muck that defines this State...
***and yet another leap...not far now...(are we there yet?-Ed)...I just said, not far now...***
Reading Between Unwritten Lines:...and of course the Mt Gambier media continues to report a version of my life...(well, the Court stuff-Ed)...a distorted version that I vaguely recognise of the shizzle I'm actually involved in, am actually standing there for, but that in reportage looks, well, not like a well-rounded portrait of a well-rounded character, but rather a very 2-dimensional cartoon...
Tomorrow: Court, Like A Bunny In The Headlights
Witness the witnesses scared witless by a politely persistently probing rather Large rather Angry rather Hippy...(permission to be hostile to the witness your Honour-Ed)...permission granted!...
Random Observation:...very surprised to not hear the self-appointed Tourism Mount Gambier group mentioned re this latest Mt Gambier City Council junket to China...(but I thought the whole idea of these TMG clowns was to develop 'Chinese tourism'-Ed)...well amongst others, sure, in co-operation with MGCC who use $160,000 per annum of Ratepayer's money to fund TMG...(but isn't TMG described as being, and I quote, "a sub-committee of the Mt Gambier Chamber of Commerce"?-Ed)...yep, although I'm not entirely sure what that actually means...(whatevs, Ratepayers are funding the CoC via TMG?-Ed)...exactly, but they (TMG) have been noticeably absent when Mayor Lee has repeatedly discussed this latest junket...can't help wondering if someone from TMG is on that junket but Council doesn't want it broadcast whom...(isn't former MGC Mayor and current Councillor Steve Perryman a TMG founder and current senior member?-Ed)...indeed he is Ed, indeed he is...
Random Off The Road:...into a trough-shaped ditch...never forget the rank and self-serving corruption of Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...ramming that TMG funding application through MGCC, in that Council meeting last year, quite literally from his Councillor's chair...wholly and irrefutably corrupt conduct from a loathsomely corrupt person...and the rest of the corrupt stooges just voted it through...a disgraceful joke from a wholly corrupt Council, arguably the lowest point in a graphic litany of catastrophic troughs...(troughs dead-set chocka's with fat, grubby snouts-Ed)...troughs that include the rancidly Nepotistic corruption of the Main Corner...(wow, I still cannot believe how blatantly corrupt Council has been on that one project alone-Ed)...most people can't...except of course the people who are The Main Corner Corruption, and you people are an absolute disgrace...
Random Up The Flagpole:...to see who salutes...received several weird random tweets last week from some dude, see what you make of it...
'Congrats me. Best repeal of ObamaCare eva. Most votes in history of voting eva. That guy there
gets it. USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA'
...and then there's several more immediately following that just read 'USA USA USA' over and over...(weird, who sent it?-Ed)...dunno', but it's signed 'The Real Donald' at #IsDonIsGood...(nnnn, no idea, sorry-Ed)...mmm, probably not important...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Howdy Russia, Canada, Portugal, and France...(welcome y'all-Ed)...and Ed, of course ladies and gentlemen, welcome Ed...(cheers, cheers, great to be here-Ed)...great to have you here, you confected literary device you...dear recent availees, 'Ed' is a character what exists only in my head, 'he/she' is not an actual person, 'he/she' is a way for me to engage in often contradictory debate/discussion, and effectively brandish my concerns/anger/opinion/beliefs/ideology/whatevs in your/availees faces without just straight-out lecturing at you's, and occasionally...(albeit generally accidentally-Ed)..set-up jokes...(for lack of a better term-Ed)...whatevs, the whole blog is written as a dialogue/pseudo-play, often referencing/homaging my favourite comedians, so by all means please replace my and Ed's voices with your own and/or your fav's...(sorted, let's get bloggin'-Ed)...not quite done...
More Housekeeping:...in-so-much as I would like to acknowledge the degree of support that I have received in recent months, particularly those who have praised the blog, 1) for it's intent/content, and 2) for the 'style'...people have said 1) that I have a 'style', and 2) that they like it, even, that it is "clever"...I'm mildly stunned that several people have actually approached me directly to express support for this 'ere blog, and have put to me that TMGI has a certain credibility and with that comes 1) a certain degree of power, which itself brings 2) a degree of responsibility...as The Mount Gambier Independent, I Nick Fletcher, believe that I have justly earned that credibility by already exercising genuine responsibility, and that each supports the other, and from that impervious matrix inevitably comes a degree of power...(I'll give you that one-Ed)...
I have put the cart right behind the horse, pointed them to the gate, and bolted it once they're back in the pen...(whaaa?-Ed)...well, I haven't put the cart before the horse or shut the gate after said horse has up-and-bolted, no, I have sought to be accurate if apoplectic, spot-on if scathing, factual if furious, informed if incandescent, to maintain veracity in a voracious avalanche of vicious venting, and so-on-and-so-forth...and on the rare occasion I have erred, I've immediately apologised...as TMGI, I would argue that it is the/my demonstrated commitment to accuracy and genuine social activism and strength of character, these things that I now pride myself on, these things have always existed with-in this 'ere blog, and hence it's credibility...(and no-one's more amused than yourself to hear you refer to yourself in terms of 'strength' and 'character'?-Ed)...spot-on Ed, you know me too well...
No-one can genuinely accuse me of being a 'keyboard warrior' and/or 'social media troll', etc, because 1) I attend many meetings I'd quite happily miss, and have routinely put myself right in the political/social firing-line, not least of all as a candidate in state/local elections, and 2) I put my name to everything I do, and am more than happy to personally candidly chat with any of the litany of corrupt clowns who's collective works fill these pages...I mean, what hope?...it's not just that it's not the way I roll, that it's not how I conduct myself...(and no-one can accuse you otherwise-Ed)...well they can accuse/infer/imply/whatevs, and they do, but it's without any actual incident actually occurring...but that aside, what do y'all reckon would happen if I bailed-up and personally delivered some of my unhappinesses to some of these clowns when I encounter them about the town?...
Imagine what would happen if I tuned-in alleged journo Sandra Morello of The Border Watch next time I see her in the Post Office carpark, again, like happened last week, again...or her translucent husband, former TBW Editor and current Mount Gambier City Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello whenever I run into him in the Main Street...or ABC South East's Stuart Stansfield when I see him at Coles, as has happened 4-5 times since his tormenting abuse of me in December 2012 finally pushed me over the edge and into the best decision I've never made...(that says "never"-Ed)...I know what it says...
This 'ere blog, The Mount Gambier Independent, TMGI exists because of and in direct response to the rank corruption and self-serving bias of the Mount Gambier media, not least of all involving the rank pro-paedophile corruption of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...unable to accept this corruption, unable to accept/process and simply move on, burdened with the knowledge of what happened in that Lutheran classroom, I was drawn/pushed irrevocably toward doing this 'ere blog...and here we are, with me quite comfortably using self-descriptors like 'credibility', 'strength', and 'character'...(ludicrous-Ed)...I know, but what does it say about the rest of these clowns when I'm the one who displays these traits, when I'm the one people believe?!...(it doesn't really say much, does it-Ed)...at least we agree on that much...
Furthermore, I as a person, just as a Man-Bear Stuff-Pig person, I am absolutely knackered right now, dead-set out-on-ma-feet knackered...following the extraordinary events of my 3 day ICAC 'Trial' on March 15th/16th/17th 2017, which I'll post about in detail this week, I rolled outta' there at 1300hrs on Friday 17th, and I don't reckon the euphoric after-burn cooled it's jets until Monday, maybe Tuesday...and since then I've been absolutely rooted...so, so tired, but in an entirely different context to the deeply draining depression stuff...this was the post-euphoric crash that inevitably follows great achievement, great success...(get in my son-Ed)...
It would be naive and self-defeating for me to deny and/or try to fight-off the deeply draining, tiring, depressing, frustrating, and unpleasant realities of what is happening with my extraordinary ICAC 'charges' and the resultant bizarre Court proceedings, now in it's third year, etc...accepting those realities has been/is the best way to deal with it, etc, 'cos it's gunna' knock me through a hoop for days probably weeks, etc...that shizzle's just gunna' happen, nuthin' to be done about it, not even gunna' try...but what else is also hap'nin' now is a stunning new paradigm where-in I know that I can go into this openly hostile cauldron and not just hold and/or stand my ground, I can ground-down with a soundly profound pounding those hounding me so...(woof!-Ed)...maybe an old dog does have it's day...
***dear availee, please consider this to be a witty link between bits of un-related post...(orrr, good work Wilde-Ed)...piss off...(charming, don't know why I put-up with you sometimes-Ed)...***
Crownies:...is yet another ABC TV drama about Legal Eagles, this time set in a (the) Crown Solicitors Office and following the often-personal shenanigans of those there-in...never watched it myself...would like to see Oz telly cough-up something a little more original, but good to see at least some local production/employment/whatevs that isn't 'Neighbours' and/or 'Home And Away'...(it's Ozzie you say, I thought it was just another rip-off of a British show, you know the one, about women riding about on bicycles, whizzing hither-dither-and-yon to deliver babies-Ed)...do you mean 'Here Comes The Midwife'?...(that's the one-Ed)...I don't see the connection...(yes, sometimes it's a C-section-Ed)............gourd I hate you sometimes...(my work here is done-Ed)...
HERE FIDO, COME GETCHA' 18C:...(what the shreck is that?!-Ed)...my version of dog-whistling as done by the Liberals re the Human Rights Anti Vilification stuff and repealing/repairing/pig-rooting Section 18C, etc...(well yeah, of course it's all dog-whistling, but you don't go up and yell it in people's faces-Ed)...yeahhhh, I'm pretty sure ya' do, didn't ya' see the Libs in federal Parliament recently...(fair point-Ed)...dear availees, I've spent literally days this past weeks listening to federal (Liberal) Attorney-General George Brandis and/or his Liberal colleagues (mostly via ABC/BBC Radio), hours of highly-paid politicians piling Taxpayers money into a big stack and settin' it to smokin' if not quite on fire...(whaaa?-Ed)...of all the things we as a Nation need to be discussing in the relatively short periods of time these clowns actually spend in Canberra actually debating actual legislation, etc, etc, all we need is to spend days debating the apparent need to 'reform' section 18C re Freedom of Speech and Racial Vilification, etc, etc...and Gorgeous Georgasaurus was gushingly spruiking the need for speed 'cos folk could be gettin' a rough deal re 18C...
And AG GG used that most specific of terms, and one that Leagles have repeatedly used re my Court stuff, where-in I am 'charged' with talking about something that has allegedly been appropriately investigated by the appropriate Authority, the South Australian version of an Independent Commission Against Corruption ...Mr George 'Home' Brandis 'Best' specifically raised the issue of 'Implied Freedom of Political Communication'...(which I understand is most spectacularly covered in ABC vs Lange (1997)-Ed)...indeed it is Ed, you monkey-genius, and whilst that might be skewed toward 'Defamation issues', ABC vs Lange is directly applicable here, for several reasons...
Whether anybody likes it or not, least of all me, I am forced to try and operate as a political entity if not quite activist and certainly not politician...(well I'd argue that the intense level of political shenanigans that you engage in defines you as a 'politician'-Ed)...I can see that, but I still ain't a politician...(regardless of how you describe yourself-Ed)...indeed...(in fact, if it's purely by a process of elimination, then all other definitions/descriptors are obsolete, you are a political entity-Ed)...sure, sure, fair enough, whatevs, I'm a person who's been left no option but to get right into the muck that is politics in South Australia, the pro-paedophile muck that defines this State...
***and yet another leap...not far now...(are we there yet?-Ed)...I just said, not far now...***
Reading Between Unwritten Lines:...and of course the Mt Gambier media continues to report a version of my life...(well, the Court stuff-Ed)...a distorted version that I vaguely recognise of the shizzle I'm actually involved in, am actually standing there for, but that in reportage looks, well, not like a well-rounded portrait of a well-rounded character, but rather a very 2-dimensional cartoon...
Tomorrow: Court, Like A Bunny In The Headlights
Witness the witnesses scared witless by a politely persistently probing rather Large rather Angry rather Hippy...(permission to be hostile to the witness your Honour-Ed)...permission granted!...
Random Observation:...very surprised to not hear the self-appointed Tourism Mount Gambier group mentioned re this latest Mt Gambier City Council junket to China...(but I thought the whole idea of these TMG clowns was to develop 'Chinese tourism'-Ed)...well amongst others, sure, in co-operation with MGCC who use $160,000 per annum of Ratepayer's money to fund TMG...(but isn't TMG described as being, and I quote, "a sub-committee of the Mt Gambier Chamber of Commerce"?-Ed)...yep, although I'm not entirely sure what that actually means...(whatevs, Ratepayers are funding the CoC via TMG?-Ed)...exactly, but they (TMG) have been noticeably absent when Mayor Lee has repeatedly discussed this latest junket...can't help wondering if someone from TMG is on that junket but Council doesn't want it broadcast whom...(isn't former MGC Mayor and current Councillor Steve Perryman a TMG founder and current senior member?-Ed)...indeed he is Ed, indeed he is...
Random Off The Road:...into a trough-shaped ditch...never forget the rank and self-serving corruption of Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...ramming that TMG funding application through MGCC, in that Council meeting last year, quite literally from his Councillor's chair...wholly and irrefutably corrupt conduct from a loathsomely corrupt person...and the rest of the corrupt stooges just voted it through...a disgraceful joke from a wholly corrupt Council, arguably the lowest point in a graphic litany of catastrophic troughs...(troughs dead-set chocka's with fat, grubby snouts-Ed)...troughs that include the rancidly Nepotistic corruption of the Main Corner...(wow, I still cannot believe how blatantly corrupt Council has been on that one project alone-Ed)...most people can't...except of course the people who are The Main Corner Corruption, and you people are an absolute disgrace...
Random Up The Flagpole:...to see who salutes...received several weird random tweets last week from some dude, see what you make of it...
'Congrats me. Best repeal of ObamaCare eva. Most votes in history of voting eva. That guy there
gets it. USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA'
...and then there's several more immediately following that just read 'USA USA USA' over and over...(weird, who sent it?-Ed)...dunno', but it's signed 'The Real Donald' at #IsDonIsGood...(nnnn, no idea, sorry-Ed)...mmm, probably not important...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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