(*apologies for no post yesterday, etc, so ignore the following '3 posts in 4 days' stuff...(do you have a note?-Ed)...errr, yeah?...here t'is...(Dear Mr Ed, Please excuse Nick not doing his post as promised but he had an apoplectic wig-out whilst watching the news last evening and anything he came-up with blog wise could have been misinterpreted as defamatory and/or threats-Nick's Excuse)...ahh, did you see the story about the state Liberal leader Stephen Marshall calling again for a Children's Commissioner?-Ed)...yeah, yeah I did...(I can see how that might set you off, but please explain to the rest of the class-Ed)...sure...**(and the blog just dumped 2 hrs of work...yay...***and that was 0700hrs and now it's gettin' on for 1900hrs...I'm having a bit of a shocker really...)***...
(****and now it's 0600hrs Saturday after yet another 'drop-out' and yet another 'Error- there's another computer on this network with this IP address'...(is that the one where others, far more knowledgeable than you or I in such matters, them peoples are of the opinion that that's likely to be someone 'hacked-on' to this 'ere blog or using your laptop and/or someone on this 'ere blog via the laptop, whatevs-Ed)...you mean the laptop that SAPol siezed when they raided my home exactly 1 year ago because I've apparently transgressed the Unshrekinbelievable Law...(don't you mean 'the Unwritten Law'?-Ed)...well it's both...and it's also the Law where you can't actually talk about facing charges re that Law and/or identify that Law because that would indicate that someone had been investigated under that Law (by that Authority) therefore breaching the legislation/Act where it states that 'indicating that someone had/might/may/whatevs be subject of an investigation' is in itself breaking the law...(wow...whatta load of bollocks-Ed)...****)
(I'm very confused, which '*' thingy are we in now? '*' thingy or thingy '**'?-Ed)...ummm, how's about we just go from scratch and it's all just 'a post'...(probably best...so where were we?-Ed)...well I was going to explain my post-stopping wig-out of last evening (Thursday)...(please do-Ed)...but just this bit first...I don't apologise for dwelling on my stuff again because I want to cover a certain exchange about moi, an exchange that very much illustrates what I've been talking/typing about re 1) me being targetted/Pariahtised as the problem, and 2) there are people who will just believe that because that's what they're told, and worse 3) there are people who do know what I'm on about and how I've gone about it, and yet they still criticise me...and hence the title...(yeah, I was gunna' ask about that-Ed)...
*Pariahtise/Pariahtisation:- A word I made-up...(made-up by basically living it, Pariahtised that is-Ed)...indeed...it describes the situation often described as 'shooting the messenger' and how that relates to the treatment of whistleblowers/bloggers/whatevs where the person pointing out the problem becomes pointed at as being the problem and is attacked, their career threatened, etc, and in a very small, very insular community like Mt Gambier, that person can be easily attacked behind their back, shut-out of the social circles and/or those of influence, etc, etc...(and attacked via the dodgy local media-Ed)...yes, that too, it's basically all the same animal, all the same game...doesn't just happen here of course, or just to me, but anyhoos...
And so it came to pass that someone whom has apparently never met me, doesn't read the blog, etc, described me as a "miscreant", as someone 'just out to make trouble'...(thought they hadn't met you?-Ed)...hahaa...the title is a very bad pun based on the Latin saying about 'My Home Is Your Home', Mi Casa Su Casa, and using the title 'miscreant' that I was apparently attributed in a recent very public discussion about me...I know that the conversation is sometimes about me and/or this 'ere blog and/or topics/commentary/jokes/whatevs from this 'ere blog, because people in and/or near those conversations sometimes give me subtle hints like, 'we were all at this soiree, don't ya' know, discussing your blog and what you said and the fact that you're right damn you sir'...(subtle like a kick to the groin is-Ed)...that's a rather crude simile, but yes...
Anyhoos, whilst this 'exchange' comes to me as effectively hearsay in that the person who told me didn't witness the exchange, having done what I can to check, I confidently understand that there was a certain conversation/discussion about me and about my Court hearing and The Border Watch coverage of it, and that I was referred to as a "miscreant", etc, etc...this was said in front of multiple witnesses, hence my confidence...Miscreant: depraved, villainous or base; a vile wretch...(so they have met you? I'm very confused-Ed)...hilarious...anyhoos, that's what I am apparently and hence the title I made up, that sortta' says, I Am A Bastard (Mi Screant) , I Am Your Bastard (Su Screant); The People's Bastard...I may well be a bastard, but I'm a bastard out to make things a little less bastardised for all you other bastards...
(I don't know why you're so obsessed with large Australian storks-Ed)...(he'll be having a go at the flowers next-Generic Monty Python Character)...stop that! the pair of you, stop it...you know damn well that I'm not having a go at either the flowers or the birds, Ed, I said 'bastard' not 'Bustard', the large Aussie bird...(what do you call a Bustard with a broken wing and unmarried parents?-Ed)...'lucky'?...(no, that's funny but no, it's a 'Busted Bastard Bustard'-Ed)...hope he's not involved in a drug raid too...
****just dropping back to original post****
Back in 2003, the incoming Mike Rann Labor government, a government established with the support of chronically corrupt Mt Gambier 'Independent' Rory McEwen, and Mikey immediately convened the voluminous Layton Report...(you mean this massive wedge of report right...thud...here, this report here?-Ed)...hey yeah, that's it, where'd you get that?..(in your bookshelf mate, alongside the farcical DeBelle Inquiry Report, in between the Teachers Registration Board/Crown Solicitor 'Reasons For Decision' re their 21 month 'hearing/Inquiry' into the abuses committed by "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School, and the 4 year Statutory Authorities Review Committee Report/Inquiry no.52 based on the failure of the TRB/CSO hearing-Ed)...right...
(Yeah, you've got piles of this crap back there...look at this lot...'You have defamed our client and we're gunna' getcha' for it', 'You have defamed me and I'm gunna getcha' for it', "You have defamed me, my client, and the horses we rode in on and we're all gunna getcha' for it'...there's a bit of a theme developing here, are they all like this?-Ed)...most of them, and there's more in that pile over there...(oh sweet baby cheeses...and in this one his lawyers apparently have told him he has really good grounds to sue you...and another defamation threat...more lawyers, more threats...has anyone actually acted to follow through on this quite extraordinary array of threats re alleged defamations?-Ed)...nope...(not one?-Ed)...not one...
(Ya' know, that does seem like an awful lot of threats for zero actual actionings-Ed)...I call it a 'Black Hole of Threats', where the sheer volume of empty threats creates a vacuum of inescapable mass...(nice-Ed)...I'm thinking of putting them in one of those glass display cabinets...(also nice...very gloaty yet triumphal...oop, and here's some more...this one has you supposedly slinging 11 secret jibes and libels about a lawyer, and a range of threats from said lawyer-Ed)...yep, still waitin'...
Is that next to all the crap from the Mullighan Inquiry? you know, the many letters/submissions/whatevs that I and/or other parents exchanged with Comm Mullighan re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up? and the reams of documents from the multiple meetings that I/parents had with him at the offices of lawyer Bill DeGaris and the varied and numerous 'defamation' threats I've had from Billy about my alleged but apparently not actually 'defamatory' conduct/comments/whatevs about his (Billy's) conduct, and then also the Interim and Final Reports from the Mullighan Inquiry, etc, etc...(yeah, that's all here-Ed)...
Anyhoos, the point I'm trying to make is that despite whoevs thinks whatevs, I have a rock-solid and massive foundation under my pillars of anger...(and these volumes of columns-Ed)...ah, witty Wilde, witty, pillars are columns and the blog is made up of a series of 'columns'...(columns in which you often pillory politicians, priests and police-Ed)...dude, that's a classic nickname for this 'ere blog, 'The Columns of Pillory'...(and 'columns' also infer ranks of soldiery, where using your words is sortta' like wielding a small army-Ed)...indeed...point being, I don't just whinge and bitch about stuff, I've been right at the heart of the beast for a decade, and I've got the threats to prove it...
Anyhoos, Steven Marshall/the Liberals are vacuously bleating yet again about the establishment of a Children's Commissioner, as per Recommendation no.1 from the 2003 Layton Report, and then the story cut to our charming Premier Jay Weatherill and this charming observation;
"...there's a special place in hell reserved for people who play politics with Child Abuse
and I'm sick of it."
...(wow, I can see why you might wig-out a tad at that particular screaming hypocrisy from the man who denied any knowledge of the St Martins Cover-up (on air, ABC Radio-Adelaide-June 1st 2012) despite his multiple involvements, including as Families (FAYS) Minister when he officially refused to allow Comm Mullighan officially investigating the St Martins issue, etc-Ed)...that's him...
And yesterday/today the shreck's disingenuously trying to backslide away from this with a chokingly mumbled "...so sorry..." that his comments caused offense...(whatta' shreck-Ed)...and that 'apology' is to one person, not for the general offense of what he said let alone the festering hypocrisy of it, he rang one person and apologised to her...whatta disgrace you are Jay Weatherill...' ****(and back to original bit of post - sorry)****
Hello Spain, Greece, Romania, and China and welcome to the blog for the third post in 4 days on the long road back to giving a damn my dear...(yay-Ed)...indeed...(and I'd have said that you're actual problem is the fundamental inability to not give a damn...it is at once your greatest burden and yet your greatest strength-Ed)...well yay for me then, and well done you with the double, triple negative 'inability to not' thingy, way to use your words...(ta'-Ed)...oh, and did I mention that I'm rabidly furious about the pro-paedophile corruption that defines SA?...(only every second paragraph-Ed)...
Ya' know, there's a lot of 'lifestyle/wellness/whatevs' stuff on the ABC Radio, umpteen opinions from various alleged experts, and there's a definable sub-text of 'just ignore things that make you unhappy', and 'don't talk down the team', and 'sure, things look like crap, but think happy thoughts'...lotsa' that stuff...and more stuff in The Border Watch straight-out saying 'don't worry, be happy'...I find this concerning because it denies the realities of unpleasantness, and is easily manipulated to turn opinion against those who do speak out about uncomfortable truths, and turn them into the problem...it's the whole Pariahtisation shizzle, and it's inevitably driven by the corrupt whom don't want scrutiny of the problems they've often created...
Ahahahaaa: that rancid betrayer Martin Hamilton-Smith, who was elected in 2014 as Liberal candidate in a safe Liberal seat and then immediately betrayed his local electorate, his Party, and the entire SA citizenry by greasily sleazing his way across the Chamber and straight onto Labor's front bench as Veteran's Minister where he immediately set-out to sell the Daws Rd Repatriation Hospital...(amazing...and of course just another former Liberal leader complicit in the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)...well indeed...well done Mighty Marty Moose...and no shreckin' wonder then that this prime slice of shreckery has rocketed to a stunning 5% Approval Rate in his own electorate...(which, by the way, he's moving out of das pronto-Ed)...wow, whatta' guy...
Apologies that this post is very disjointed, I'm gunna' finish here, etc, but I think I've made my main point, but just in case...I'm a million miles from perfect, surely more miscreant than not, but I am absolutely genuine in my intent and I have the massive back-catalogue of threats and submissions and letters and documents and reports and gourd knows what else, and I'm resolutely content to just keep on tryin'...so I'll keep trying to stick with the daily post with witty wording as promised, and I will continue to do that trying...
Tomorrow: WorkCover and Emergency Services and Stuff
Again, humblest apologies and here's to pushin' forward...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Paranoid People Are Watching Me, Listen...
Hello and welcome to the blog Aotearoa (New Zealand), Ukraine, France and Italy...and no time for niceties today because, whilst I'm going to try and grind-out a post-a-day in whatevs way is necessary, there's a bunch of stuff to catch-up on because I've missed so many days...(and then along comes stuff like yesterday's (*Monday May 4th) interviews on the ABC Local Radio about WorkCover and the Emergency Service Workers and/or the ES Levy, and I could just see your distemper rising, and I for one knew exactly where this post was headed-Ed)...and so away we go...
Feedback: re some 'recent' conversations I've had, namely,
1) re the attached articles from The Border Watch newspaper, and the coverage of my 'trial' as compared to the coverage afforded former Labor Acting-Police Minister Bernard Finnigan and his Child Pornography charges...this person wasn't reading the blog at that time, but coincidentally paraphrased my posts with their views about how inappropriate it was to put me in 3 times, including page 2 with a photo, etc, and Bernie gets a vague piece on page 7...the third story about me is riddled with the usual deliberate lies, and errors that in places contradict themselves...
For example, the paragraphs "The defendant..." and "At the time..." refer to the initial hearing (February 2nd 2015) that I wasn't aware of because I wasn't summonsed by SAPol (police)...(as acknowledged by the Court at the hearing April 14th 2015 but ignored by TBW-Ed)...indeed...and has me supposedly claiming that I didn't know about that February hearing via a lawyer who was at that February hearing that I was claiming via that lawyer, to not know about...(wow, even if any of it was true, it still doesn't make sense-Ed)...indeed...cutting-edge nonsensical dribble...
I note that a 'senior Adelaide medical practitioner' has just been convicted of 'one charge of possessing Child Pornography re 18 files found on his computer'...and he gets a 16 month gaol term fully suspended, $1500 of fines, suspended from work for only 6 months, and then the Magistrate suppresses his name because identifying him might not be 'fair on his psychological state'...(so, only one charge relating to heaps of stuff, no gaol time, a fine that's less than a weeks income for a medico, and his name suppressed, and back to work...sweet baby cheeses, that'll teach him to access Child Porn in this state that takes protecting children so seriously that we even have a Minister for it-Ed).....we do?...
(Oh yeah, Attorney General John Rau is our Child Protection Minister-Ed)...seriously? well that's just bullshit, the Labor Party is a wholly corrupt entity entirely involved in and committed to it's pro-paedophile corruption...to even try and suggest that there's a single person in the SA Weatherill Labor Government who genuinely gives a damn about children, a single person who respects children and their rights and acts to protect them, that is an un-defendable position in defense of a room of full of paedophiles and their supporters/enablers...(you mean the Liberal party don't you? you mean it's the Liberal Party that's a room full of paedophiles and their supporters/enablers?-Ed)...I mean yes and yes...
My personal experience re the St Martins Cover-up, as carefully defined on this 'ere blog, is that both Labor and Liberal and effectively the entire South Australian state Parliament are corrupted by a bipartisan pro-paedophile agenda, an agenda well beyond and simply not explained by mere self-interest...anyway, moving onto a conversation...
2) with someone who does read the blog and said with a bemused look on their face that it was a bit 'strange', but said in a way that was both accepting of the blog and self-effacing...(whaaa?-Ed)...it was like 'I don't really understand some of the blog, but that doesn't make it bad or wrong or anything, just that I don't understand bits'...it was actually really nice to get such genuine and positive feedback...(no, I can see how it might be...someone reading the blog and doesn't get some stuff but still pleased to talk to you about it, etc-Ed)...absolutely, and as I said in response, 'I do try to do some silly/ridiculous/jokey stuff and by definition the blog can be overwhelmingly intense and complicated, and heck, I write it and sometimes I get confused'...
So I'll keep talkin' to myself...(I'm here for you mate-Ed)...whilst pushin' forward into the Dead Joke Zone via a series of confected characters...(piss off-Inner Bastard)...fair enough...and cracking hilarious gags about people's names, eg TBW classic, alleged reporter Anelia 'Oh My God It's Mayoral Candidate Nick Fletcher I Better Pretend To Interview The Back Of This Strangers Head' Blackie...(classic-Ed)...ta'...or her former TBW Editor and now Mt Gambier City Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello...and also talkin'...
3) with 2 gentlemen who were telling me all about the Global Control Conspiracy with things like the Trans Pacific Partnership, Free Trade, etc, and the attempts to crush dissent via legislation like our recent MetaData laws here in Oz, etc, and similar observations...(and you said-Ed)...'mates, ya' don't need to go any further than our ICAC here in South Australia to find evidence of legislation designed to crush dissent and silence criticism and/or questioning about corruption', I said I did...(and they said?-Ed)...'do we have an ICAC? I didn't know that'...(wow...so they knew all about Global whatevs, and Federal whatevs, but didn't even know that we have an SA ICAC, bastardised antithesis of an ICAC that it may be?-Ed)...errr, yes and yes...they didn't know we had one, and yes it is a bastardised antithesis of an ICAC...
(I hope you were able to help relieve them of their burden of ignorance re the SA ICAC?-Ed)...indeed, and replace it with the yoke of knowledge...(isn't it cute when their mouths hang open with surprise like that-Ed)...indeed it is, and I rarely have a conversation with someone where there's not usually a point of mouth-hanging-openness...(and call you a vain, arrogant Man-Bear Stuff-Pig, but there's the rare occasions that mouths hang open before you've even opened yours-Ed)...good call Ed, indeed it is a reality that occasionally I get introduced to people/places/whatevs and someone stands there staring with their mouth just hangin' open...just sayin'...
I don't have the time or energy to try and dissect the current farcical shenanigans going on with our alleged Independent Commissioner Against Corruption and the Police Ombudsman, and/or these pantomime joustings between Labor and/or SAPol (police) and/or the Police Association, etc, etc, etc...it's all absolute bollocks conjured to create the illusion of propriety and professionalism and fierce independence, etc, etc, because when push comes to shove, they're all singing from the same hymn book, a book that brings us chapters like the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(book him Danno-Ed)...ah, a zeitgeist reference to classic TV show Hawaii Five 0, nice...
But yet again I've churned out a post that 1) doesn't get to the advertised fare, and instead 2) makes me the subject more often than not, but 3) in my own defense I ain't bein' left much choice given that the general debate as it reaches my ears...and it does...is that I'm the problem...for all that's goin' down, I'm apparently the problem...anyhoos,
Tomorrow: The WorkCover and Emergency Services Post
Apologies that I didn't get there today, but here's to trying...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Feedback: re some 'recent' conversations I've had, namely,
1) re the attached articles from The Border Watch newspaper, and the coverage of my 'trial' as compared to the coverage afforded former Labor Acting-Police Minister Bernard Finnigan and his Child Pornography charges...this person wasn't reading the blog at that time, but coincidentally paraphrased my posts with their views about how inappropriate it was to put me in 3 times, including page 2 with a photo, etc, and Bernie gets a vague piece on page 7...the third story about me is riddled with the usual deliberate lies, and errors that in places contradict themselves...
For example, the paragraphs "The defendant..." and "At the time..." refer to the initial hearing (February 2nd 2015) that I wasn't aware of because I wasn't summonsed by SAPol (police)...(as acknowledged by the Court at the hearing April 14th 2015 but ignored by TBW-Ed)...indeed...and has me supposedly claiming that I didn't know about that February hearing via a lawyer who was at that February hearing that I was claiming via that lawyer, to not know about...(wow, even if any of it was true, it still doesn't make sense-Ed)...indeed...cutting-edge nonsensical dribble...
I note that a 'senior Adelaide medical practitioner' has just been convicted of 'one charge of possessing Child Pornography re 18 files found on his computer'...and he gets a 16 month gaol term fully suspended, $1500 of fines, suspended from work for only 6 months, and then the Magistrate suppresses his name because identifying him might not be 'fair on his psychological state'...(so, only one charge relating to heaps of stuff, no gaol time, a fine that's less than a weeks income for a medico, and his name suppressed, and back to work...sweet baby cheeses, that'll teach him to access Child Porn in this state that takes protecting children so seriously that we even have a Minister for it-Ed).....we do?...
(Oh yeah, Attorney General John Rau is our Child Protection Minister-Ed)...seriously? well that's just bullshit, the Labor Party is a wholly corrupt entity entirely involved in and committed to it's pro-paedophile corruption...to even try and suggest that there's a single person in the SA Weatherill Labor Government who genuinely gives a damn about children, a single person who respects children and their rights and acts to protect them, that is an un-defendable position in defense of a room of full of paedophiles and their supporters/enablers...(you mean the Liberal party don't you? you mean it's the Liberal Party that's a room full of paedophiles and their supporters/enablers?-Ed)...I mean yes and yes...
My personal experience re the St Martins Cover-up, as carefully defined on this 'ere blog, is that both Labor and Liberal and effectively the entire South Australian state Parliament are corrupted by a bipartisan pro-paedophile agenda, an agenda well beyond and simply not explained by mere self-interest...anyway, moving onto a conversation...
2) with someone who does read the blog and said with a bemused look on their face that it was a bit 'strange', but said in a way that was both accepting of the blog and self-effacing...(whaaa?-Ed)...it was like 'I don't really understand some of the blog, but that doesn't make it bad or wrong or anything, just that I don't understand bits'...it was actually really nice to get such genuine and positive feedback...(no, I can see how it might be...someone reading the blog and doesn't get some stuff but still pleased to talk to you about it, etc-Ed)...absolutely, and as I said in response, 'I do try to do some silly/ridiculous/jokey stuff and by definition the blog can be overwhelmingly intense and complicated, and heck, I write it and sometimes I get confused'...
So I'll keep talkin' to myself...(I'm here for you mate-Ed)...whilst pushin' forward into the Dead Joke Zone via a series of confected characters...(piss off-Inner Bastard)...fair enough...and cracking hilarious gags about people's names, eg TBW classic, alleged reporter Anelia 'Oh My God It's Mayoral Candidate Nick Fletcher I Better Pretend To Interview The Back Of This Strangers Head' Blackie...(classic-Ed)...ta'...or her former TBW Editor and now Mt Gambier City Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello...and also talkin'...
3) with 2 gentlemen who were telling me all about the Global Control Conspiracy with things like the Trans Pacific Partnership, Free Trade, etc, and the attempts to crush dissent via legislation like our recent MetaData laws here in Oz, etc, and similar observations...(and you said-Ed)...'mates, ya' don't need to go any further than our ICAC here in South Australia to find evidence of legislation designed to crush dissent and silence criticism and/or questioning about corruption', I said I did...(and they said?-Ed)...'do we have an ICAC? I didn't know that'...(wow...so they knew all about Global whatevs, and Federal whatevs, but didn't even know that we have an SA ICAC, bastardised antithesis of an ICAC that it may be?-Ed)...errr, yes and yes...they didn't know we had one, and yes it is a bastardised antithesis of an ICAC...
(I hope you were able to help relieve them of their burden of ignorance re the SA ICAC?-Ed)...indeed, and replace it with the yoke of knowledge...(isn't it cute when their mouths hang open with surprise like that-Ed)...indeed it is, and I rarely have a conversation with someone where there's not usually a point of mouth-hanging-openness...(and call you a vain, arrogant Man-Bear Stuff-Pig, but there's the rare occasions that mouths hang open before you've even opened yours-Ed)...good call Ed, indeed it is a reality that occasionally I get introduced to people/places/whatevs and someone stands there staring with their mouth just hangin' open...just sayin'...
I don't have the time or energy to try and dissect the current farcical shenanigans going on with our alleged Independent Commissioner Against Corruption and the Police Ombudsman, and/or these pantomime joustings between Labor and/or SAPol (police) and/or the Police Association, etc, etc, etc...it's all absolute bollocks conjured to create the illusion of propriety and professionalism and fierce independence, etc, etc, because when push comes to shove, they're all singing from the same hymn book, a book that brings us chapters like the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(book him Danno-Ed)...ah, a zeitgeist reference to classic TV show Hawaii Five 0, nice...
But yet again I've churned out a post that 1) doesn't get to the advertised fare, and instead 2) makes me the subject more often than not, but 3) in my own defense I ain't bein' left much choice given that the general debate as it reaches my ears...and it does...is that I'm the problem...for all that's goin' down, I'm apparently the problem...anyhoos,
Tomorrow: The WorkCover and Emergency Services Post
Apologies that I didn't get there today, but here's to trying...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Monday, May 4, 2015
It's Not About Me...Except Of Course When It Is
**(Apologies for no post for a few days...by reading through recent
posts, it wouldn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that I've been
struggling with even doing the blog at all for the last 6 months because in many ways I don't really
see the point...I sit down to it for maybe an hour and get up and walk away for 23, come back, do it again...(my how the time flies when you're having a funk-Ed)...oh nicely done Ed, a witty alluding to the often confrontational and depressive nature of doing this 'ere blog, depression often being referred to as being 'in a funk'...
I have been trying to redress the imbalance of the first 18 months of obsessive over-posting, the Agrophobia stuff, etc, but still do what I genuinely feel needs to be done...(and indeed have promised-Ed)...indeed, namely, continue to produce an accurate, reasonably entertaining blog by working to the equivalent of a full-time job, ie, 40 hrs/wk, in part to excise the debt I feel about the DSP stuff, albeit the DSP being available to anyone who qualifies...I have in part failed to do that 'full-time' but I'm still trying...and in that context, the entire blog is all about me because I started it to help deal with my anger and trauma, etc, and try to address the corruption I've witnessed/been subjected to as a parent trying to get some sort of official action...(other than Cover-up-Ed)...re the teacher who abused my child and dozens of others at St Martins Lutheran School here in Mt Gambier...
And as part of that I have also used doing the blog to address my personal issues of guilt around 1) failing to resolve the St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up, and 2) being on the Disability Support Pension and in Public Housing...again, in that context, I ask no-one's permission nor seek their approval, this is how it is for me, and I didn't create it, it is just the way it is...it ain't nuthin' but a Thang...(nuthin' but a Thang-Ed)...I greatly appreciate the personal statements of support saying that what I find myself doing is worth doing and worth being done well...
I continue to obsess about having the TV and/or radio news on 18 hrs/day, and genuinely try to be as accurate as possible 'ere on the blog, what with my constant flurry of furious flensing and vitriolic venting and rage-riddled ridicule...and because I am a perfect person I am incapable of occasionally straying toward being triumphal or mocking...(I think you missed 2 'nots' in that last sentence-Ed)...indeed, and forgive me if when I point out what I feel I have achieved with this 'ere blog whilst trying to act genuinely with this 'ere blog, forgive me if that strays toward triumphalism...(can I just make the point, with the infinite wisdom of hindsight, that doing the blog all day every day for 18 months proved to be a very convenient way to effectively ignore the Agrophobia stuff whilst suffering it, and even while talkin' about it on the blog...ironic really-Ed)...I dunno' what you're talkin' about...moving on...
Other than that, in my reality Mt Gambier has clearly indicated that it is not just happy to be effectively run by paedophiles and/or pro-paedophile corrupt public officials, but that somehow, no matter what I do to try and address that, no matter how appropriate my behaviour has been or continues to be, it's still somehow going to be my fault...(what's your fault?-Ed)...well what have you got?...(ooo ouch, I walked into that one, but I take your point that it seems like no matter what you do, somebody's gunna' whinge about you and/or how you've gone about it-Ed)...even when I calmly discuss things that are happening around town that are impacted on by the blog...(or where others have said to you, 'hey, that's the blog whats done that, congrats'-Ed)...yes, that has been said to me a coupla' times...point being, I clearly am not doing this for the accolades/admiration/whatevs, and whilst I'm far from perfect, just read this 'ere blog and tell me I'm the problem...
So ultimately, there's a whole bunch of people who are going to continue to blame me and vilify me at public functions albeit in my absence, etc, no matter how I say what I'm saying, and the facts of the issue will be willingly ignored...and then when I put myself on the stage, eg, as Mayoral candidate, half the pricks didn't even show up...(not including those who were working that night, but, yeah, fair enough, and I'd say didn't dare show their faces more like...and fair enough, too, I can see how you might feel that's about you-Ed)...so I need to just get the shreck over it and do the blog as I've promised and as I genuinely believe is the thing to do...(until this Federal 'Meta-Data' legislation reaches out and shuts down bloggers like yourself-Ed)...well indeed, that's what it's been introduced for...back to this post, again done across several days)**
Hello Ukraine, Turkey, Macau, and Saudi Arabia and welcome to the blog...and I guarantee this post isn't just one rambling, verbose, whingy, whiny, wad of self-indulgent self-justification...(oh dear-Ed)...oh come on, give me a break, I don't really have much choice but to talk about me when acknowledging/addressing feedback, etc, because apparently the issue continues to be 'me' rather than the issues I have identified on this 'ere blog...(well, when ya' put it like that-Ed)...I do put it like that...(no, I do take your point-Ed)...
(I can imagine that it is rather frustrating/depressing to live in the Surreality that you do where you've hung ya'self out to dry in the public eye time and time again in seeking to address this relentless 'character assassination' cowardice bullshit re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...well indeed...(that cowardice where people like Rory McEwen have knowingly betrayed you and many others and publicly denigrated you and defamed you, not least of all on the front page of The Border Watch-Ed)...yeah, yeah, I get it, you agree that it says everything about all of us when I'm the one whom somewhere, somehow finds the motivation/courage/whatevs (I can't even define what) to continue with this, and yet others still see fit to ignore all of it in their continuing judgement of me...
And can I just take you back Ed, to your wonderful new word 'Surreality', I'm going to use it from now on because it just says it all about the reality I experience and as I've expressed here on the blog...(cheers, it just occurred to me-Ed)...'Surreality' - a reality so strange as to be surreal...and in the case of the blog itself, that's in the genré all it's own, 'Surrealityism' - an unbelievable work of fact that is a work of friction...(nice-Ed)...**and just to get this posted today, jumping to dot-pointing**
Some Points Remade: because not every availee has read every post and I've been asked...
1) The character 'Ed' is just me, no-one else, just me trying to generate a few bad jokes...(mission accomplished-Ed)...and have a conversationy exchange, etc, to break it up a bit rather than just deluge availees with the dooming and the glooming that tends to wend it's way inevitably through the blog...(well I for one certainly appreciate the effort-Ed)...cheers....
2) Re the knucklehead who faked her Cancer and surviving it, etc...(Belle Gibson-Ed)...and she had a blog or 57, and 'sold' something else and I really don't know or care, other than to say that I have been absolutely honest/blunt about my Lymphoma Cancer and all the Chemo and Radiotherapy, etc, and the multiple misdiagnosis prior to treatment, etc, and that's just the way it is...I've been brutally honest about my recent/current Mental Health issues, and some other general stuff that hopefully explains/justifies 'me' a bit, for example, the post 'Self-Esteem: The Issue I'd Love To Have'...
3) When I talk about groups as being responsible for certain actions, those people who I'm not pointing at and saying 'hey you, watcha' doin' there?', those people all already know to not take offense...and the Others, if they take offense then they take offense to being held accountable for their own actions, and a perfect example is Mt Gambier City Council...(of course it is-Ed)...just sayin', as an obvious example...our local Member Troy Bell (Liberal) would be a good one as well, what given my seething contempt for his political kith and kin, he is a rare fish in a very murky pond...
(Yeah, fair enough, he has been quite pro-active and did get some extra funding for the Patient Assistance Transport Scheme after Labor's 'Health On Earth' Minister Jack 'The Rat' Snelling had said 'yeah, there'll be an Inquiry, sure', but on the issue of increased funding, and I quote directly from...here somewhere...ah yes, no that's not it...hang on, here it is, "...you ain't gettin' penny one from me you slags", unquote-Ed)...that doesn't look like a genuine Labor quote to me...(I didn't say it was a genuine Labor quote, it's from The Mighty Boosh BBC TV show-Ed)...really...anyhoos, whatta' lovely pair of segues into...
Yeeha!: that Benson Radiology invested in a MRI machine only weeks ago and have this week received a Federal 'license' that means average punters like moi will be covered by Medicare, reducing scan costs from a minimum $250 down to $30-$80 (these $ figures are very approx, but definite big reduction)...I believe that this result is despite rather than with the participation of Country Health SA/Labor...and Minister Snelling said 'yes' to an Inquiry about PATS but absolutely 'no' to more funding, then eventually was pushed into it by the efforts of Mr Bell and some others...
It is easy to construct a reality where there have been some small steps forward in local health provision for Mt Gambier...(and with the MRI, a small leap for joy as well-Ed)..indeed, but it continues to be the case that Mt Gambier is massively under-serviced across the board, eg, Mental Health, Drug/Alcohol Counselling, etc, and that there appears to be far more Federal and private funding than state Labor puts in...it's all about Adelaide people...which keeps on seguing into...
No School Like An Old Fool: once predicted right here on this 'ere blog...and I'm sure I'm not the only one...(whaaa?-Ed)...latest reportage on the weekend re future plans for the prime North Tce/Frome Rd/Botanic Gardens site where the Royal Adelaide Hospital currently sits, has the Labor government backing away from their repeated 'promises' to build a new school there, and now it's apartments and other hotel-style structures and an 'art precinct', etc...(but that's what you predicted...you're right again-Ed)...well I did post about this, but I didn't predict anything Ed, I just reported the interview I saw several years back when the 'new RAH' was announced...the then Sow Strayan Health Minister John Hill was standing in the Adelaide Rail Yards saying 'we're gunna' move the RAH from there to here, and there (Frome Rd/North Tce) we'll build boutique hotels and luxury apartments'...
This is the fall-out from the corruption that runs Adelaide via the Labor Party and it's co-conspirator, the Liberal Party...the RAH was moved so that Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill. etc, can build vastly expensive edifices to their own egomanic glory, which also generates 1) heaps of work for Labor's Union support and construction developers at 3 sites/projects, and 2) luxury apartments for all the corrupt politicians, etc, on the prime site overlooking the Botanical Gardens...(3 projects? I see the RAH and the hotels as being 2 sites, etc, but where's '3'?-Ed)...the 'new Adelaide Oval'...(of course, the Oval they built on top of the original as a knee-jerk last minute Election promise-Ed)...and then sold the SE Forestry to pay for...
I remind availees that only weeks ago a woman from Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula (600kms from Mt Gambier, 150kms from Adelaide) spent 9 days at Mt Gambier Hospital with a broken leg (plus other?) sustained at home in Ardrossan...(what?! why wasn't she in Adelaide if there wasn't a bed for her at any of the several local hospitals up that way?-Ed)...no bed for her there or in Adelaide, apparently...(sweet baby cheeses, how bad's the rest of the system when ya' end up in Mt Gambier Hospital as a last resort?...how the shreck was her family meant to visit?-Ed)...well exactly, it's a joke with no punchline and nobodies laughing...only a coupla' years back, Labor openly stated that Country patients had been discharged early and en masse to free-up some beds for Adelaide patients...
And on top of this, further reports that the $2billion+ De-Salination Plant at Hallett Cove will never be used beyond the minimal 'maintenance' operating that's currently happening to stop it seizing-up and failing completely...and the official excuse is that the water produced is too expensive at 5 times the cost of water pumped from the Murray River, but I remind availees of those wide-spread reports/allegations of maladministration and technical dysfunction and malfunction where-in it was claimed that parts of the plant simply didn't/don't work and therefore it wouldn't/couldn't ever produce Commercial quantities of potable water, not even close...
(And what happens when the River runs dry? the SA share of Murray catchment holdings up Menindee Lakes way in New South Wales are near empty now, and Broken Hill is nearly outta' potable water, etc-Ed)...I know, I know...and where's the only relatively fresh water in this state if ya' Creek crokes and ya' damned De-Sal can't cut it?...(under us plebs here in the South East?-Ed)...exactly...notice anyone sticking-in massive new pipes around Mt Gambier recently?...(well SA Water were just doing that around the Lakes area over Christmas...omg...you don't think?-Ed)...I try not to...but seriously, this is purely speculation from me bordering on an attempt at humor...I mean, surely not...
Tomorrow: More Mt Gambier City Council Stuff
As difficult as this will be for some to believe, I've worked really hard, tried really hard to rein-in my deep loathing and contempt for the majority of City Council, and stick with dealin' with the facts...(gunna' stop tryin?-Ed)...not really, I'd call it just some harsh truths delivered unceremoniously...(I'd call it 'ouch'-Ed)...so, I'm sure, will Council...but before I've even got there, I'm going to change to the subject of interviews this morning on our local ABC Radio, being WorkCover and Emergency Services...more outrageous contempt from Labor for the people of South Australia...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
**Just saw (0500hrs Monday 4th May 2015) a 'Severe Bushfire Warning' issued for South Australia...but SA's a big place and I'm fairly sure it ain't for down our way where there hasn't been a lot of rain, but it's greenish and damp underfoot...just reporting on ABC that it's very dry around Bordertown, etc, only 150mm of rain since August 2014, down from an average yearly 320mm for the period**
I have been trying to redress the imbalance of the first 18 months of obsessive over-posting, the Agrophobia stuff, etc, but still do what I genuinely feel needs to be done...(and indeed have promised-Ed)...indeed, namely, continue to produce an accurate, reasonably entertaining blog by working to the equivalent of a full-time job, ie, 40 hrs/wk, in part to excise the debt I feel about the DSP stuff, albeit the DSP being available to anyone who qualifies...I have in part failed to do that 'full-time' but I'm still trying...and in that context, the entire blog is all about me because I started it to help deal with my anger and trauma, etc, and try to address the corruption I've witnessed/been subjected to as a parent trying to get some sort of official action...(other than Cover-up-Ed)...re the teacher who abused my child and dozens of others at St Martins Lutheran School here in Mt Gambier...
And as part of that I have also used doing the blog to address my personal issues of guilt around 1) failing to resolve the St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up, and 2) being on the Disability Support Pension and in Public Housing...again, in that context, I ask no-one's permission nor seek their approval, this is how it is for me, and I didn't create it, it is just the way it is...it ain't nuthin' but a Thang...(nuthin' but a Thang-Ed)...I greatly appreciate the personal statements of support saying that what I find myself doing is worth doing and worth being done well...
I continue to obsess about having the TV and/or radio news on 18 hrs/day, and genuinely try to be as accurate as possible 'ere on the blog, what with my constant flurry of furious flensing and vitriolic venting and rage-riddled ridicule...and because I am a perfect person I am incapable of occasionally straying toward being triumphal or mocking...(I think you missed 2 'nots' in that last sentence-Ed)...indeed, and forgive me if when I point out what I feel I have achieved with this 'ere blog whilst trying to act genuinely with this 'ere blog, forgive me if that strays toward triumphalism...(can I just make the point, with the infinite wisdom of hindsight, that doing the blog all day every day for 18 months proved to be a very convenient way to effectively ignore the Agrophobia stuff whilst suffering it, and even while talkin' about it on the blog...ironic really-Ed)...I dunno' what you're talkin' about...moving on...
Other than that, in my reality Mt Gambier has clearly indicated that it is not just happy to be effectively run by paedophiles and/or pro-paedophile corrupt public officials, but that somehow, no matter what I do to try and address that, no matter how appropriate my behaviour has been or continues to be, it's still somehow going to be my fault...(what's your fault?-Ed)...well what have you got?...(ooo ouch, I walked into that one, but I take your point that it seems like no matter what you do, somebody's gunna' whinge about you and/or how you've gone about it-Ed)...even when I calmly discuss things that are happening around town that are impacted on by the blog...(or where others have said to you, 'hey, that's the blog whats done that, congrats'-Ed)...yes, that has been said to me a coupla' times...point being, I clearly am not doing this for the accolades/admiration/whatevs, and whilst I'm far from perfect, just read this 'ere blog and tell me I'm the problem...
So ultimately, there's a whole bunch of people who are going to continue to blame me and vilify me at public functions albeit in my absence, etc, no matter how I say what I'm saying, and the facts of the issue will be willingly ignored...and then when I put myself on the stage, eg, as Mayoral candidate, half the pricks didn't even show up...(not including those who were working that night, but, yeah, fair enough, and I'd say didn't dare show their faces more like...and fair enough, too, I can see how you might feel that's about you-Ed)...so I need to just get the shreck over it and do the blog as I've promised and as I genuinely believe is the thing to do...(until this Federal 'Meta-Data' legislation reaches out and shuts down bloggers like yourself-Ed)...well indeed, that's what it's been introduced for...back to this post, again done across several days)**
Hello Ukraine, Turkey, Macau, and Saudi Arabia and welcome to the blog...and I guarantee this post isn't just one rambling, verbose, whingy, whiny, wad of self-indulgent self-justification...(oh dear-Ed)...oh come on, give me a break, I don't really have much choice but to talk about me when acknowledging/addressing feedback, etc, because apparently the issue continues to be 'me' rather than the issues I have identified on this 'ere blog...(well, when ya' put it like that-Ed)...I do put it like that...(no, I do take your point-Ed)...
(I can imagine that it is rather frustrating/depressing to live in the Surreality that you do where you've hung ya'self out to dry in the public eye time and time again in seeking to address this relentless 'character assassination' cowardice bullshit re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...well indeed...(that cowardice where people like Rory McEwen have knowingly betrayed you and many others and publicly denigrated you and defamed you, not least of all on the front page of The Border Watch-Ed)...yeah, yeah, I get it, you agree that it says everything about all of us when I'm the one whom somewhere, somehow finds the motivation/courage/whatevs (I can't even define what) to continue with this, and yet others still see fit to ignore all of it in their continuing judgement of me...
And can I just take you back Ed, to your wonderful new word 'Surreality', I'm going to use it from now on because it just says it all about the reality I experience and as I've expressed here on the blog...(cheers, it just occurred to me-Ed)...'Surreality' - a reality so strange as to be surreal...and in the case of the blog itself, that's in the genré all it's own, 'Surrealityism' - an unbelievable work of fact that is a work of friction...(nice-Ed)...**and just to get this posted today, jumping to dot-pointing**
Some Points Remade: because not every availee has read every post and I've been asked...
1) The character 'Ed' is just me, no-one else, just me trying to generate a few bad jokes...(mission accomplished-Ed)...and have a conversationy exchange, etc, to break it up a bit rather than just deluge availees with the dooming and the glooming that tends to wend it's way inevitably through the blog...(well I for one certainly appreciate the effort-Ed)...cheers....
2) Re the knucklehead who faked her Cancer and surviving it, etc...(Belle Gibson-Ed)...and she had a blog or 57, and 'sold' something else and I really don't know or care, other than to say that I have been absolutely honest/blunt about my Lymphoma Cancer and all the Chemo and Radiotherapy, etc, and the multiple misdiagnosis prior to treatment, etc, and that's just the way it is...I've been brutally honest about my recent/current Mental Health issues, and some other general stuff that hopefully explains/justifies 'me' a bit, for example, the post 'Self-Esteem: The Issue I'd Love To Have'...
3) When I talk about groups as being responsible for certain actions, those people who I'm not pointing at and saying 'hey you, watcha' doin' there?', those people all already know to not take offense...and the Others, if they take offense then they take offense to being held accountable for their own actions, and a perfect example is Mt Gambier City Council...(of course it is-Ed)...just sayin', as an obvious example...our local Member Troy Bell (Liberal) would be a good one as well, what given my seething contempt for his political kith and kin, he is a rare fish in a very murky pond...
(Yeah, fair enough, he has been quite pro-active and did get some extra funding for the Patient Assistance Transport Scheme after Labor's 'Health On Earth' Minister Jack 'The Rat' Snelling had said 'yeah, there'll be an Inquiry, sure', but on the issue of increased funding, and I quote directly from...here somewhere...ah yes, no that's not it...hang on, here it is, "...you ain't gettin' penny one from me you slags", unquote-Ed)...that doesn't look like a genuine Labor quote to me...(I didn't say it was a genuine Labor quote, it's from The Mighty Boosh BBC TV show-Ed)...really...anyhoos, whatta' lovely pair of segues into...
Yeeha!: that Benson Radiology invested in a MRI machine only weeks ago and have this week received a Federal 'license' that means average punters like moi will be covered by Medicare, reducing scan costs from a minimum $250 down to $30-$80 (these $ figures are very approx, but definite big reduction)...I believe that this result is despite rather than with the participation of Country Health SA/Labor...and Minister Snelling said 'yes' to an Inquiry about PATS but absolutely 'no' to more funding, then eventually was pushed into it by the efforts of Mr Bell and some others...
It is easy to construct a reality where there have been some small steps forward in local health provision for Mt Gambier...(and with the MRI, a small leap for joy as well-Ed)..indeed, but it continues to be the case that Mt Gambier is massively under-serviced across the board, eg, Mental Health, Drug/Alcohol Counselling, etc, and that there appears to be far more Federal and private funding than state Labor puts in...it's all about Adelaide people...which keeps on seguing into...
No School Like An Old Fool: once predicted right here on this 'ere blog...and I'm sure I'm not the only one...(whaaa?-Ed)...latest reportage on the weekend re future plans for the prime North Tce/Frome Rd/Botanic Gardens site where the Royal Adelaide Hospital currently sits, has the Labor government backing away from their repeated 'promises' to build a new school there, and now it's apartments and other hotel-style structures and an 'art precinct', etc...(but that's what you predicted...you're right again-Ed)...well I did post about this, but I didn't predict anything Ed, I just reported the interview I saw several years back when the 'new RAH' was announced...the then Sow Strayan Health Minister John Hill was standing in the Adelaide Rail Yards saying 'we're gunna' move the RAH from there to here, and there (Frome Rd/North Tce) we'll build boutique hotels and luxury apartments'...
This is the fall-out from the corruption that runs Adelaide via the Labor Party and it's co-conspirator, the Liberal Party...the RAH was moved so that Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill. etc, can build vastly expensive edifices to their own egomanic glory, which also generates 1) heaps of work for Labor's Union support and construction developers at 3 sites/projects, and 2) luxury apartments for all the corrupt politicians, etc, on the prime site overlooking the Botanical Gardens...(3 projects? I see the RAH and the hotels as being 2 sites, etc, but where's '3'?-Ed)...the 'new Adelaide Oval'...(of course, the Oval they built on top of the original as a knee-jerk last minute Election promise-Ed)...and then sold the SE Forestry to pay for...
I remind availees that only weeks ago a woman from Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula (600kms from Mt Gambier, 150kms from Adelaide) spent 9 days at Mt Gambier Hospital with a broken leg (plus other?) sustained at home in Ardrossan...(what?! why wasn't she in Adelaide if there wasn't a bed for her at any of the several local hospitals up that way?-Ed)...no bed for her there or in Adelaide, apparently...(sweet baby cheeses, how bad's the rest of the system when ya' end up in Mt Gambier Hospital as a last resort?...how the shreck was her family meant to visit?-Ed)...well exactly, it's a joke with no punchline and nobodies laughing...only a coupla' years back, Labor openly stated that Country patients had been discharged early and en masse to free-up some beds for Adelaide patients...
And on top of this, further reports that the $2billion+ De-Salination Plant at Hallett Cove will never be used beyond the minimal 'maintenance' operating that's currently happening to stop it seizing-up and failing completely...and the official excuse is that the water produced is too expensive at 5 times the cost of water pumped from the Murray River, but I remind availees of those wide-spread reports/allegations of maladministration and technical dysfunction and malfunction where-in it was claimed that parts of the plant simply didn't/don't work and therefore it wouldn't/couldn't ever produce Commercial quantities of potable water, not even close...
(And what happens when the River runs dry? the SA share of Murray catchment holdings up Menindee Lakes way in New South Wales are near empty now, and Broken Hill is nearly outta' potable water, etc-Ed)...I know, I know...and where's the only relatively fresh water in this state if ya' Creek crokes and ya' damned De-Sal can't cut it?...(under us plebs here in the South East?-Ed)...exactly...notice anyone sticking-in massive new pipes around Mt Gambier recently?...(well SA Water were just doing that around the Lakes area over Christmas...omg...you don't think?-Ed)...I try not to...but seriously, this is purely speculation from me bordering on an attempt at humor...I mean, surely not...
Tomorrow: More Mt Gambier City Council Stuff
As difficult as this will be for some to believe, I've worked really hard, tried really hard to rein-in my deep loathing and contempt for the majority of City Council, and stick with dealin' with the facts...(gunna' stop tryin?-Ed)...not really, I'd call it just some harsh truths delivered unceremoniously...(I'd call it 'ouch'-Ed)...so, I'm sure, will Council...but before I've even got there, I'm going to change to the subject of interviews this morning on our local ABC Radio, being WorkCover and Emergency Services...more outrageous contempt from Labor for the people of South Australia...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
**Just saw (0500hrs Monday 4th May 2015) a 'Severe Bushfire Warning' issued for South Australia...but SA's a big place and I'm fairly sure it ain't for down our way where there hasn't been a lot of rain, but it's greenish and damp underfoot...just reporting on ABC that it's very dry around Bordertown, etc, only 150mm of rain since August 2014, down from an average yearly 320mm for the period**
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Is South Australia An Insult To ANZAC?
Short answer, read this blog...(yeah, that's not so much 'an answer' as a directive, and this voluminous verbosiveness is hardly short, even the short bits-Ed)...well yeah, you're right, and I can only apologise for yet again railing against the St Martins Cover-up, but whatta' ya' gunna' do? just turn ya' back on it?...(seems to work for nearly everyone else-Ed)...indeed...and what I find so truly amusing is that despite what I've put myself through to continue to try to act appropriately in continuing to try and address multiple complex issues, issues that I have in many cases proven beyond debate, proven beyond suein', despite that, the Goodly, the Godly, and the Great still see fit to charge past all of it in their blinkered frenzy to get at me because clearly I'm the problem...(you bastard-Ed)...ci...
Proven Beyond Suein': is a lovely li'l catchphrase that fully encapsulates the realities of what I've blogged about, in many cases repeatedly, eg, the St Martins Cover-up...why is it that I can say 'The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up' pretty much every post and it just stays there?...(umm, because it's a reality that defies the multiple 'defamation threats' that the Lutheran's lawyers, the Crown Solicitor, lawyer Bill DeGaris, etc, have flung at you?-Ed)...do you mean the multiple written threats flung at me by 'authorities' whilst those same authorities have involved themselves in the cover-up and flatly refused to actually address the abuses, etc, etc? those threats?...(yeah, they're the ones...and where are they anyway?-Ed)...see that pile over there...not sure where the rest are...
Read this blog and deny me the entwining reality that South Australia is effectively run by paedophiles for paedophiles, and that the Lutherans clearly have a great deal of control/influence in that entire set-up...(that's a big call-Ed)...really? 13 years of covering-up the gross abuse of dozens (possibly hundreds) of 7 year old kids in a Lutheran classroom? with the full support of South Australian parliament, Labor and Liberal, including the current Premier Jay Weatherill and his predecessor Mike Rann, multiple Education Ministers, former local Member Rory McEwen, SAPol, the Crown Solicitor, the Teachers Registration Board, the entirely corrupted SA 'Child Protection System', etc, etc, etc? and then not even mentioned by the Federal Royal Commission despite my/parents submissions?...(yeah, that does look a fraction crook, doesn't it-Ed)... *(post done across several days..apols for any non-synchronicityness...ness)*
And a belated hello to Malta, Venezuela, India, and Ukraine and welcome to the blog...and if y'all are sensing a dense and sodden fog of furious bloggin', it's 'cos 1) I've just had the pleasure of the company (via the ABC Lateline) of our charming Human Rights Commissioner, Tim 'I So Wanna' Be Christopher Pyne' Wilson...(isn't he the clown whom, immediately prior to being appointed the HRC by the Abbott Liberal government, whilst still head of the rabidly Right-wing Institute of Public Affairs, was calling for the entire Commission to be scrapped?-Ed)...yeah, that's him, whatta' clown...
And like any good idealogue, he completely ignored and/or dismissed as irrelevant or wrong anything which compromised his opinion...(so he does a blog then? sorry, sorry, gourd bless, I couldn't resist that one...you were saying 'his opinion', which was?-Ed)...oh he was jumping all over this SBS journalist/reporter who was sacked for 'tweeting' some unpleasant truths about ANZAC...well done Timmy, you've now made me a defender of this SBS dude...(is it Scott McIntyre?-Ed)...whatevs, I don't care about the whom, it's about the what of what he said and the why he was sacked...and again, there's plenty of alleged experts defending the truths in what was 'tweeted'...
From the couple I've seen, the issue for me is that the comments/'tweets' go too far in that they seem to encompass/describe almost all Aussie soldiers en masse as rapists and pillagers, etc, when the realities are far more likely roughly the same as in civilian life...as blunt as it is, some men rape, murder, steal, etc, in any circumstances, war is just another place it happens...as for the comments about Hiroshima and Nagasaki being 'terrorist attacks', etc, there's plenty of truth in saying that had the Allies lost WWII their leaders would likely have faced War Crimes charges, eg, for actions like fire-bombing civilian populations in Dresden, Tokyo, etc...I've heard and read accounts from some of those leaders where they themselves acknowledge this...(wasn't it the head of RAF Bomber Command or someone similar who said he'd have been charged for Dresden?-Ed)...yes Ed, yes it was...the winners write history, I told you...
Anyhoos, and 2)* yesterday evening...had this post half done late yesterday arvo (Wednesday April 29th 2015) when the ABC Radio's Annette Marner ran interviews with some clown from the Sow Strayan Law Society or somethin' or other legal group, and then someone from ASCA SA (Adult Survivors of Child Abuse) talking about what we need to do better to better protect children..(oh boy-Ed)...and without picking the discussion to pieces, it was largely about protecting children in the home from familial and/or domestic abuses...I made one of my rare calls to the ABC, given that I'm banned off the ABC and all, and the callee was very sympathetic to my point re St Martins that a teacher had abused kids and that there'd been investigations by multiple 'authorities' including the Teachers Registration Board/Crown Solicitor hearing and subsequent SARC Report no.52, etc, all of it organised by parents...
(So how'd that go then?-Ed)...well it went wherevs this stuff goes but it weren't to air, not that I heard anyhoos...and joy of joys, welcome back to the ABC Local Radio my bestie Stan Thompson...(I thought you loathed him as yet another explicitly complicit, corrupt ABC employee who has chosen to wholly engage in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and has resultantly repeatedly refused you/parents any air-time what-so-ever, eg, refusing to run anything about the parliamentary SARC Inquiry and Report no.52, etc-Ed)...absolutely, him and Stuart Stansfield are 2 of the senior local ABC employees who have helped the Lutherans and have routinely betrayed me/other parents by pulling the same 'set-us-up' stunt that The Border Watch repeatedly did...furthermore, I personally provided him with reams of sensitive personal documentation and it's all apparently been 'lost'...
(Yeah, but Stan Thompson and Stuart Stansfield are no more or less complicit than any of the many senior ABC staff you've been screwed over by...and when I say 'you', I of course mean all of the 7 year old children abused at St Martins by teacher Glyn Dorling, the kid's families, and every other child who has been abused, and all abuse that the ABC has chosen to help cover-up-Ed)...indeed...and just to really piss me off, well not to piss me off specifically, but Stuart is currently holding forth about the "First World Problem" of Mt Gambier's water quality and yet another switch to bore water due to yet more 'infrastructure works', and then another in June...(why not do all of this at the same time they did all the mains pipes recently? why onto bore water, off again, on again, etc? surely it's far more efficient to do it all at once-Ed)...indeed, and tons of calls about how atrocious Mt Gambier's water is because of the chemicals, etc...(yay-Ed)...
And yet another 90 second ABC interview with City Mayor Andrew Lee about Council's Budget and the 4.5% Rate rise and the 'need to sort out debt' and 'doing the heavy lifting due to previous borrowing', etc...(but only months back Council voted to go after a $10million, '$for$' grants/funding pool thingy for a 'Regional Recreation Centre', didn't they?-Ed)...indeed they did Ed, voting to lodge an application for Federal funding, an application that demands Council have $10m immediately to hand 'cos ya' gotta' have the readies, well, ready before ya' can apply...(and what's happened to that then?-Ed)...dunno', it's disappeared as fast as it appeared, I'll check it out...
And yay as a Northern Territory Minister spends $45,000 on a 10 day trip to New York...(and millions of Australians are on the poverty line-Ed)...indeed, here again the glaring reality of the 'born-to-rule' mentality of our current politicians...politics in this country has long been about the entitlement and the fraud and corruption, etc, that comes with it...Mt Gambier City Council is in many of these ways not just typical but exemplary in that it appears to function wholly and solely as a self-involved and corrupt medium for syphoning-off Ratepayers money straight into the pockets of Councillors and/or their families and/or mates...again, proven beyond suein' apparently...elsewhere...
I find it highly bemusing but nowhere near amusing that during the frenzy about the recent Indonesian executions, killing people by way of administering justice, that we 1) barely mention the genocide occurring in West Papua, and 2) all are racing to embrace China where 1,000s of people are executed every year, and in some instances it is alleged for purely political rather than physical crimes...some reports even have accusations of marketting harvested organs from the executed and ideas that this may influence decisions to execute people...whatevs, the reality is that China and the United States of America, amongst others, regularly execute people in the name of Justice...
When you can guarantee me a Judicial system 1) free of politic and influence, 2) that never convicts an innocent person, then I'll think about supporting the death penalty...(I'd have thought that 40 years alone dying in a box somewhere gettin' fed bread and water was a punishment worse than death, so why kill people? apart from the fact that it's cheaper-Ed)...I don't know Ed, it seems to me in many ways like an ego/narcissism/power thing, ya' know? 'look how powerful I am I can order people dead, yay for me'...(sure as heck looks like what's happened in Indonesia-Ed)...damn straight, I ain't never goin' there again, and not as retribution for these executions, but because I don't need to get off a plane somewhere's that might shoot me because my drugs have mysteriously appeared in someone else's luggage...or vice versa maybe...
And not a word of a lie, as I live and type, Mayor Vickery on the ABC Radio and she's off to China with all the other local corrupt Mayors, Council CEOs, and various other stooges...(whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't just 'scatter-gun accuse' all local Mayors as being "corrupt"-Ed)...yeah, you're absolutely right, that would be inappropriate, I know nought about Mayor Vickery other than what I've read, etc, and have never met her...however, I'm pretty sure I can say it about every Mayor, CEO, etc, I have met and I'm not so much happy to do it but I'm more than prepared to challenge any local Mayor to have at me Sir with whatevs 'defamation threats' they feel they can justify...knock ya'selves out champs, let's all have a good hard look at the gallery of stars what is SELGA...(aren't you being a tad massively triumphal and yet tauntingly abusive-Ed)...why thankyou Ed, one does what one can, but I'm just trying to make a point...
And the technical point I'm rather facetiously making is that I take very seriously my responsibility to be as factual, truthful, and accurate as possible with this 'ere blog...beyond that, I believe that no-one will genuinely, actually try to sue me for anything I say no matter how outrageously wrong because there are so very many truly ugly truths surging to splurge themselves onto the page should they be offered the chance...2 points, firstly, obviously that means I could just make shizzle up for the sake of sensationalism but choose not to, and 2) there's clearly a strong foundation to my broader concerns about issues of corruption in the South East Local Government Assoc, etc...
The Bernard Finnigan Trial appears to have disappeared...('ow's that done then?-Ed)...well you take one very large system, ripe with corruption, and then just not do it 'cos you can...('not do it because you can', unfortunately makes perfect sense, they can get away with just not doing it because they are the rules, they are the law-Ed)....indeed...last dated media report I can Interweb is dated April 19th 2015...(but that's nearly 2 weeks since the magistrate 'retired' to consider his verdict in this closed, one judge/no jury, one witness, 2 week long case that started, omg, nearly a month ago, after, sweet baby cheeses, 4 years of changed charges, different Courts, etc-Ed)...and apparently not a word in the media...extraordinary other than this is Adelaide...anyhoos, it's gettin' real late so,
Tomorrow: Catching Up On Some Council Stuff
Some Attempts At Humour In Closing: which I may have used before but just for the heck of it...my 2 cannibal jokes of course, being 'French cannibals are the worst because they'll eat you and the horse you rode in on'...(nice-Ed)...and 'discerning cannibals prefer seasoned travellers'...(ahaha-Ed)...and just for the heck of it...Scandinavian gangsters dispose of their foes by throwing them down the cracks in glaciers where they'll be sleepin' within fissures...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Proven Beyond Suein': is a lovely li'l catchphrase that fully encapsulates the realities of what I've blogged about, in many cases repeatedly, eg, the St Martins Cover-up...why is it that I can say 'The St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up' pretty much every post and it just stays there?...(umm, because it's a reality that defies the multiple 'defamation threats' that the Lutheran's lawyers, the Crown Solicitor, lawyer Bill DeGaris, etc, have flung at you?-Ed)...do you mean the multiple written threats flung at me by 'authorities' whilst those same authorities have involved themselves in the cover-up and flatly refused to actually address the abuses, etc, etc? those threats?...(yeah, they're the ones...and where are they anyway?-Ed)...see that pile over there...not sure where the rest are...
Read this blog and deny me the entwining reality that South Australia is effectively run by paedophiles for paedophiles, and that the Lutherans clearly have a great deal of control/influence in that entire set-up...(that's a big call-Ed)...really? 13 years of covering-up the gross abuse of dozens (possibly hundreds) of 7 year old kids in a Lutheran classroom? with the full support of South Australian parliament, Labor and Liberal, including the current Premier Jay Weatherill and his predecessor Mike Rann, multiple Education Ministers, former local Member Rory McEwen, SAPol, the Crown Solicitor, the Teachers Registration Board, the entirely corrupted SA 'Child Protection System', etc, etc, etc? and then not even mentioned by the Federal Royal Commission despite my/parents submissions?...(yeah, that does look a fraction crook, doesn't it-Ed)... *(post done across several days..apols for any non-synchronicityness...ness)*
And a belated hello to Malta, Venezuela, India, and Ukraine and welcome to the blog...and if y'all are sensing a dense and sodden fog of furious bloggin', it's 'cos 1) I've just had the pleasure of the company (via the ABC Lateline) of our charming Human Rights Commissioner, Tim 'I So Wanna' Be Christopher Pyne' Wilson...(isn't he the clown whom, immediately prior to being appointed the HRC by the Abbott Liberal government, whilst still head of the rabidly Right-wing Institute of Public Affairs, was calling for the entire Commission to be scrapped?-Ed)...yeah, that's him, whatta' clown...
And like any good idealogue, he completely ignored and/or dismissed as irrelevant or wrong anything which compromised his opinion...(so he does a blog then? sorry, sorry, gourd bless, I couldn't resist that one...you were saying 'his opinion', which was?-Ed)...oh he was jumping all over this SBS journalist/reporter who was sacked for 'tweeting' some unpleasant truths about ANZAC...well done Timmy, you've now made me a defender of this SBS dude...(is it Scott McIntyre?-Ed)...whatevs, I don't care about the whom, it's about the what of what he said and the why he was sacked...and again, there's plenty of alleged experts defending the truths in what was 'tweeted'...
From the couple I've seen, the issue for me is that the comments/'tweets' go too far in that they seem to encompass/describe almost all Aussie soldiers en masse as rapists and pillagers, etc, when the realities are far more likely roughly the same as in civilian life...as blunt as it is, some men rape, murder, steal, etc, in any circumstances, war is just another place it happens...as for the comments about Hiroshima and Nagasaki being 'terrorist attacks', etc, there's plenty of truth in saying that had the Allies lost WWII their leaders would likely have faced War Crimes charges, eg, for actions like fire-bombing civilian populations in Dresden, Tokyo, etc...I've heard and read accounts from some of those leaders where they themselves acknowledge this...(wasn't it the head of RAF Bomber Command or someone similar who said he'd have been charged for Dresden?-Ed)...yes Ed, yes it was...the winners write history, I told you...
Anyhoos, and 2)* yesterday evening...had this post half done late yesterday arvo (Wednesday April 29th 2015) when the ABC Radio's Annette Marner ran interviews with some clown from the Sow Strayan Law Society or somethin' or other legal group, and then someone from ASCA SA (Adult Survivors of Child Abuse) talking about what we need to do better to better protect children..(oh boy-Ed)...and without picking the discussion to pieces, it was largely about protecting children in the home from familial and/or domestic abuses...I made one of my rare calls to the ABC, given that I'm banned off the ABC and all, and the callee was very sympathetic to my point re St Martins that a teacher had abused kids and that there'd been investigations by multiple 'authorities' including the Teachers Registration Board/Crown Solicitor hearing and subsequent SARC Report no.52, etc, all of it organised by parents...
(So how'd that go then?-Ed)...well it went wherevs this stuff goes but it weren't to air, not that I heard anyhoos...and joy of joys, welcome back to the ABC Local Radio my bestie Stan Thompson...(I thought you loathed him as yet another explicitly complicit, corrupt ABC employee who has chosen to wholly engage in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and has resultantly repeatedly refused you/parents any air-time what-so-ever, eg, refusing to run anything about the parliamentary SARC Inquiry and Report no.52, etc-Ed)...absolutely, him and Stuart Stansfield are 2 of the senior local ABC employees who have helped the Lutherans and have routinely betrayed me/other parents by pulling the same 'set-us-up' stunt that The Border Watch repeatedly did...furthermore, I personally provided him with reams of sensitive personal documentation and it's all apparently been 'lost'...
(Yeah, but Stan Thompson and Stuart Stansfield are no more or less complicit than any of the many senior ABC staff you've been screwed over by...and when I say 'you', I of course mean all of the 7 year old children abused at St Martins by teacher Glyn Dorling, the kid's families, and every other child who has been abused, and all abuse that the ABC has chosen to help cover-up-Ed)...indeed...and just to really piss me off, well not to piss me off specifically, but Stuart is currently holding forth about the "First World Problem" of Mt Gambier's water quality and yet another switch to bore water due to yet more 'infrastructure works', and then another in June...(why not do all of this at the same time they did all the mains pipes recently? why onto bore water, off again, on again, etc? surely it's far more efficient to do it all at once-Ed)...indeed, and tons of calls about how atrocious Mt Gambier's water is because of the chemicals, etc...(yay-Ed)...
And yet another 90 second ABC interview with City Mayor Andrew Lee about Council's Budget and the 4.5% Rate rise and the 'need to sort out debt' and 'doing the heavy lifting due to previous borrowing', etc...(but only months back Council voted to go after a $10million, '$for$' grants/funding pool thingy for a 'Regional Recreation Centre', didn't they?-Ed)...indeed they did Ed, voting to lodge an application for Federal funding, an application that demands Council have $10m immediately to hand 'cos ya' gotta' have the readies, well, ready before ya' can apply...(and what's happened to that then?-Ed)...dunno', it's disappeared as fast as it appeared, I'll check it out...
And yay as a Northern Territory Minister spends $45,000 on a 10 day trip to New York...(and millions of Australians are on the poverty line-Ed)...indeed, here again the glaring reality of the 'born-to-rule' mentality of our current politicians...politics in this country has long been about the entitlement and the fraud and corruption, etc, that comes with it...Mt Gambier City Council is in many of these ways not just typical but exemplary in that it appears to function wholly and solely as a self-involved and corrupt medium for syphoning-off Ratepayers money straight into the pockets of Councillors and/or their families and/or mates...again, proven beyond suein' apparently...elsewhere...
I find it highly bemusing but nowhere near amusing that during the frenzy about the recent Indonesian executions, killing people by way of administering justice, that we 1) barely mention the genocide occurring in West Papua, and 2) all are racing to embrace China where 1,000s of people are executed every year, and in some instances it is alleged for purely political rather than physical crimes...some reports even have accusations of marketting harvested organs from the executed and ideas that this may influence decisions to execute people...whatevs, the reality is that China and the United States of America, amongst others, regularly execute people in the name of Justice...
When you can guarantee me a Judicial system 1) free of politic and influence, 2) that never convicts an innocent person, then I'll think about supporting the death penalty...(I'd have thought that 40 years alone dying in a box somewhere gettin' fed bread and water was a punishment worse than death, so why kill people? apart from the fact that it's cheaper-Ed)...I don't know Ed, it seems to me in many ways like an ego/narcissism/power thing, ya' know? 'look how powerful I am I can order people dead, yay for me'...(sure as heck looks like what's happened in Indonesia-Ed)...damn straight, I ain't never goin' there again, and not as retribution for these executions, but because I don't need to get off a plane somewhere's that might shoot me because my drugs have mysteriously appeared in someone else's luggage...or vice versa maybe...
And not a word of a lie, as I live and type, Mayor Vickery on the ABC Radio and she's off to China with all the other local corrupt Mayors, Council CEOs, and various other stooges...(whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't just 'scatter-gun accuse' all local Mayors as being "corrupt"-Ed)...yeah, you're absolutely right, that would be inappropriate, I know nought about Mayor Vickery other than what I've read, etc, and have never met her...however, I'm pretty sure I can say it about every Mayor, CEO, etc, I have met and I'm not so much happy to do it but I'm more than prepared to challenge any local Mayor to have at me Sir with whatevs 'defamation threats' they feel they can justify...knock ya'selves out champs, let's all have a good hard look at the gallery of stars what is SELGA...(aren't you being a tad massively triumphal and yet tauntingly abusive-Ed)...why thankyou Ed, one does what one can, but I'm just trying to make a point...
And the technical point I'm rather facetiously making is that I take very seriously my responsibility to be as factual, truthful, and accurate as possible with this 'ere blog...beyond that, I believe that no-one will genuinely, actually try to sue me for anything I say no matter how outrageously wrong because there are so very many truly ugly truths surging to splurge themselves onto the page should they be offered the chance...2 points, firstly, obviously that means I could just make shizzle up for the sake of sensationalism but choose not to, and 2) there's clearly a strong foundation to my broader concerns about issues of corruption in the South East Local Government Assoc, etc...
The Bernard Finnigan Trial appears to have disappeared...('ow's that done then?-Ed)...well you take one very large system, ripe with corruption, and then just not do it 'cos you can...('not do it because you can', unfortunately makes perfect sense, they can get away with just not doing it because they are the rules, they are the law-Ed)....indeed...last dated media report I can Interweb is dated April 19th 2015...(but that's nearly 2 weeks since the magistrate 'retired' to consider his verdict in this closed, one judge/no jury, one witness, 2 week long case that started, omg, nearly a month ago, after, sweet baby cheeses, 4 years of changed charges, different Courts, etc-Ed)...and apparently not a word in the media...extraordinary other than this is Adelaide...anyhoos, it's gettin' real late so,
Tomorrow: Catching Up On Some Council Stuff
Some Attempts At Humour In Closing: which I may have used before but just for the heck of it...my 2 cannibal jokes of course, being 'French cannibals are the worst because they'll eat you and the horse you rode in on'...(nice-Ed)...and 'discerning cannibals prefer seasoned travellers'...(ahaha-Ed)...and just for the heck of it...Scandinavian gangsters dispose of their foes by throwing them down the cracks in glaciers where they'll be sleepin' within fissures...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
Monday, April 27, 2015
Somethings That Have Made Me Laugh
Hello y'all and welcome to a hopefully 'lighter' post than yesterday's...I don't resile from any of it, still got plenty to say about ANZAC Day, and from what I've heard today, I ain't Robinson Crusoe...haven't read the specific 'tweets' involved (because I don't 'twitter' hardly at all) but apparently some SBS journalist set sail on a whole bunch of ANZAC 'myths' and said something about implying Aussie soldiers were rapists and plunderers, etc, and for his troubles, he got sacked...
(But wasn't he a sports journalist rather than say a political reporter-Ed)...think so, but I don't really care 'cos I'm not defending him specifically and haven't seen the 'tweets', what I does care 'bout is not who it is, but whether or not he's being punished for 1) gross errors in what he said, or 2) just for saying it...many alleged expert commentators have already defended this SBS dude, saying that what he said is crudely put but factually relatively accurate, stating that it's absolutely appropriate to move beyond the "glorification" of war and ANZAC, etc, that is currently happening (not my words)...and in context, I absolutely agree...(it's always about context with you, isn't it?-Ed)...context this matey...
Who is it dishonours ANZAC more?...1) the person who hazes and/or assaults and/or rapes a fellow soldier and/or 2) the senior person who covers that up...or 3) the person who writes about it on ANZAC Day...(well obviously the senior person who should have sorted it, they're first, they should resolve whatevs and prevent it ever happening again...second of course, the comrade who would behave like that toward a fellow 'digger'...and then last, and I'd need to read whatevs first of course, but I think appropriate discussion rather than this blinkered glorification is not just appropriate but respectfully mandatory-Ed)...beautifully said Ed, couldn't have put it better myself...(except that you did 'cos I don't actually exist so much as I'm a confected literary device utilised to engage availees in a conversation rather than a diatribe-Ed)...orrr yeah, well except for that...
And the glaring, gloomy, looming reality is that every year many Australian men are more than capable of assaulting, raping, and killing women and/or children, and each other, and stealing, etc, etc, and that's in the free, safe country that we apparently are...sticking masses of them in a uniform, handing them weapons, and then shoving them into the insanity of a war-zone, is not likely to change those behaviours for the better...again, not defending that dude 'cos I don't know what he said, but I agree with the broader discourse that these are real issues that we are obliged to acknowledge...moving on lighter matters...
Rude Joke Warning: 'cos I've been trying to get some earlyish nights recently, catch-up on some sleep, etc, so I put on my piggy-jimjams, brush my toothy-pegs, and go to sleepy-bobos (The Goodies-BBC TV)... but instead of extended restful sojourns, I wake up at ridiculous times like 0430hrs...(it's an 'old man' thing, ya' can't sleep more than 5 hours at a go-Ed)...well that's just great...anyhoos, this led me to be recruited by a TV Evangelist...(testify-Ed)...and I've heeded the call...(hal-le-lujah-Ed)...I've given from my very core...(give until it hurts brother, and give thanks that you have it to give-Ed)...absolutely...so I've sent them $1,000 of my seed.........(sorry what?-Ed)...yeah, $1k of Future Fletchers, just waiting for my cheque now...(oh dear-Ed)...what?...(how to explain-Ed)...use ya' words...
(Ok, well, I understand that it was early, you were sleepy, etc, but that ad actually said 'send us $1,000' as being 'the seed you will sew for others', that apparently grows into the Tree of Global Equality, or the Shrub of Salvation, the Hedge of Harmony, some bullshit, but the point being you're meant to send them $1,000 in cash, not as you have, somewhat more liquid assets-Ed)...sorry, I think you'll find they were spruiking for 'your seed at $1,000'...(no you idiot, 'your seed of $1,000...'of', not 'at'...you send them $1k and they'll apparently spend it for you on various 'Christian' projects, etc-Ed)...they want me to just give them $1,000?...(yep-Ed)...bollocks to that, they're not gettin' penny one from me the slags...and that was good seed to......(I think this joke's run it's course, shall we move on?-Ed)...indeed...
Fell Off My Chair Laughing: then coughed, farted, wheezed like an asthmatic accordion, burped, twitched, peed a bit, managed to get back on the chair, only to fall again and...(yes, we get the picture-Ed)...sorry...one was somewhat bemused to hear Bruce Lander, South Australia's ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) Commissioner, stating that 'recent issues/changes/reversals/whatevs occurring with the New South Wales ICAC, those changes won't affect the operation of our ICAC here in Sow Straya'...(but the SA ICAC is basically the absolute antithesis of the NSW one-Ed)...indeed, there-in lies the humour...
(Nuthin' funny about that...what we have is an absurd Secret Squirrel Star Chamber with frightening powers to completely quash issues, smother reportage, etc, etc-Ed)...right again...(the South Australian ICAC is not about exposing, addressing and resolving the corruption that defines South Australia, it has been conceived, constructed, and applied to maintain absolute control over continuing to cover-up corruption-Ed)...is that my hymn book you've got there?...(no no, it's my copy of The Gospel According To Charlie Drake*-Ed)...is this a cheese shop?*...(Norwegian Blue*-Ed)...
And I do not apologise for homaging Monty Python, again, because it doesn't matter what mood I'm in, that scene from Life Of Brian where Brian is captured and dragged before Pontius Pilate, is just the tonic...(he has a wife you know-Ed)...I don't know anything that comes even close in it's surgically insightful dissection of the human condition as The Life Of Brian, and with such ridiculous pantomime, and the stunning economy of language...it also demands of the viewer a certain level of understanding about the times/events/whatevs, and yet beautifully illustrates and educates...what have the Romans ever done for us?...(and albeit with men pretending to be woman pretending to be men so they can attend a 'Men Only' stoning-Ed)...for Jehovah's sake...(he's the Messiah and I should know, I've followed a few)...and you're all different - yes we're all different - I'm not......if you've seen it you'll know these quotes well...
More laughable crap on the ABC Local Radio this afternoon from the 'Renewable Energy' lobby group the Clean Energy Council re the whimsical wonderment of shreckin' Wind Turbines...and yet another appalling 'Dorothy-Dixer' interview where-in the CEC spokesperson just spewed-out unchallenged all the same ol' lies about 'the cost of poles and wires' and 'once erected, Wind Turbines provide free energy', and 'the prices are comin' down, any time now, honest', etc, etc, etc...and then a very lame attempt to address the issues of peak supply at times of minimal energy production...I ran into that problem I have where I'm trying to listen, honest, but the relentless rhetoric as heard so often before, that sortta' switches me 'off'...(its almost like some sortta' 'self-preserving sanity-saving pressure valve' kinda' thingy that just shuts out the bollocks when it gets just too bollocky, even for you-Ed)...yeah, I'll go with that...and I'd just like to close with a Rude Joke Warning...
Everyone Loves A Parade: but not apparently as much as ma' homies down in Ye Olde Melbourne Town (Victoria)...(how so?-Ed)...heard some official dude in an interview last week, talking about the AFL (Aussie Football League) Grand Final Parade and the fact that it's now a public holiday, or will fall on a holiday this year, somethin' or other, and the question was 'will it mean smaller crowds? will peeps go into the city just for the parade?' and similar...and official spokesperson says, 'no way dudette, they love it, there'll be heaps there'...(how could he be so sure?-Ed)...good question Ed...he was adamant that Melbournians had a great fondness for the AFL Parade, and indeed were very keen on any and/or all parades...
RJW:...(sounds a bit odd...exactly how keen are they?-Ed)...very keen...(only very?-Ed)...no, very very...(very very?-Ed)...look, I've got the quote here...(hang on, this better not be another long-winded lead in to one of your stupid pun thingys-Ed)...nah nah, gourd bless, gourd bless...(I gotta' say, you ain't fillin' me with confidence...go on then, so what did he say?-Ed)...yeah, he was certain that the locals don't just like a parade, they love a parade, and I mean like love a parade...(for gourd sake, what did he say-Ed)...hang on a sec...here t'is, and I quote..."You put on a parade and people will come"-The Official Dude.........(and that's why I hate you-Ed)...ta'...
Tomorrow: More ANZAC Stuff
As per feedback, I fully realise that the St Martins Cover-up is that by which I judge all other issues...I know, thanks, exactly how much it has dominated my life since 2002, but no, I don't know where I find the strength and courage to continue to fight, because I am neither strong nor courageous...(well how fortunate for you then that you've been blessed with such an abundance of ego, vanity and stubbornness that you can afford to distill it down to some vague semblance of courage-Ed)...I'll drink to that...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
**PS...just saw some of those 'tweets' on ABC 7.30 and must agree that there's more appropriate ways to talk about these issues...however, it is not inappropriate to question the "Legend Of ANZAC', etc, it is an obligation...(well I'd suggest use of the term 'Legend' begs appropriate discourse because it by definition identifies exaggeration even falsehood-Ed)...
(But wasn't he a sports journalist rather than say a political reporter-Ed)...think so, but I don't really care 'cos I'm not defending him specifically and haven't seen the 'tweets', what I does care 'bout is not who it is, but whether or not he's being punished for 1) gross errors in what he said, or 2) just for saying it...many alleged expert commentators have already defended this SBS dude, saying that what he said is crudely put but factually relatively accurate, stating that it's absolutely appropriate to move beyond the "glorification" of war and ANZAC, etc, that is currently happening (not my words)...and in context, I absolutely agree...(it's always about context with you, isn't it?-Ed)...context this matey...
Who is it dishonours ANZAC more?...1) the person who hazes and/or assaults and/or rapes a fellow soldier and/or 2) the senior person who covers that up...or 3) the person who writes about it on ANZAC Day...(well obviously the senior person who should have sorted it, they're first, they should resolve whatevs and prevent it ever happening again...second of course, the comrade who would behave like that toward a fellow 'digger'...and then last, and I'd need to read whatevs first of course, but I think appropriate discussion rather than this blinkered glorification is not just appropriate but respectfully mandatory-Ed)...beautifully said Ed, couldn't have put it better myself...(except that you did 'cos I don't actually exist so much as I'm a confected literary device utilised to engage availees in a conversation rather than a diatribe-Ed)...orrr yeah, well except for that...
And the glaring, gloomy, looming reality is that every year many Australian men are more than capable of assaulting, raping, and killing women and/or children, and each other, and stealing, etc, etc, and that's in the free, safe country that we apparently are...sticking masses of them in a uniform, handing them weapons, and then shoving them into the insanity of a war-zone, is not likely to change those behaviours for the better...again, not defending that dude 'cos I don't know what he said, but I agree with the broader discourse that these are real issues that we are obliged to acknowledge...moving on lighter matters...
Rude Joke Warning: 'cos I've been trying to get some earlyish nights recently, catch-up on some sleep, etc, so I put on my piggy-jimjams, brush my toothy-pegs, and go to sleepy-bobos (The Goodies-BBC TV)... but instead of extended restful sojourns, I wake up at ridiculous times like 0430hrs...(it's an 'old man' thing, ya' can't sleep more than 5 hours at a go-Ed)...well that's just great...anyhoos, this led me to be recruited by a TV Evangelist...(testify-Ed)...and I've heeded the call...(hal-le-lujah-Ed)...I've given from my very core...(give until it hurts brother, and give thanks that you have it to give-Ed)...absolutely...so I've sent them $1,000 of my seed.........(sorry what?-Ed)...yeah, $1k of Future Fletchers, just waiting for my cheque now...(oh dear-Ed)...what?...(how to explain-Ed)...use ya' words...
(Ok, well, I understand that it was early, you were sleepy, etc, but that ad actually said 'send us $1,000' as being 'the seed you will sew for others', that apparently grows into the Tree of Global Equality, or the Shrub of Salvation, the Hedge of Harmony, some bullshit, but the point being you're meant to send them $1,000 in cash, not as you have, somewhat more liquid assets-Ed)...sorry, I think you'll find they were spruiking for 'your seed at $1,000'...(no you idiot, 'your seed of $1,000...'of', not 'at'...you send them $1k and they'll apparently spend it for you on various 'Christian' projects, etc-Ed)...they want me to just give them $1,000?...(yep-Ed)...bollocks to that, they're not gettin' penny one from me the slags...and that was good seed to......(I think this joke's run it's course, shall we move on?-Ed)...indeed...
Fell Off My Chair Laughing: then coughed, farted, wheezed like an asthmatic accordion, burped, twitched, peed a bit, managed to get back on the chair, only to fall again and...(yes, we get the picture-Ed)...sorry...one was somewhat bemused to hear Bruce Lander, South Australia's ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) Commissioner, stating that 'recent issues/changes/reversals/whatevs occurring with the New South Wales ICAC, those changes won't affect the operation of our ICAC here in Sow Straya'...(but the SA ICAC is basically the absolute antithesis of the NSW one-Ed)...indeed, there-in lies the humour...
(Nuthin' funny about that...what we have is an absurd Secret Squirrel Star Chamber with frightening powers to completely quash issues, smother reportage, etc, etc-Ed)...right again...(the South Australian ICAC is not about exposing, addressing and resolving the corruption that defines South Australia, it has been conceived, constructed, and applied to maintain absolute control over continuing to cover-up corruption-Ed)...is that my hymn book you've got there?...(no no, it's my copy of The Gospel According To Charlie Drake*-Ed)...is this a cheese shop?*...(Norwegian Blue*-Ed)...
And I do not apologise for homaging Monty Python, again, because it doesn't matter what mood I'm in, that scene from Life Of Brian where Brian is captured and dragged before Pontius Pilate, is just the tonic...(he has a wife you know-Ed)...I don't know anything that comes even close in it's surgically insightful dissection of the human condition as The Life Of Brian, and with such ridiculous pantomime, and the stunning economy of language...it also demands of the viewer a certain level of understanding about the times/events/whatevs, and yet beautifully illustrates and educates...what have the Romans ever done for us?...(and albeit with men pretending to be woman pretending to be men so they can attend a 'Men Only' stoning-Ed)...for Jehovah's sake...(he's the Messiah and I should know, I've followed a few)...and you're all different - yes we're all different - I'm not......if you've seen it you'll know these quotes well...
More laughable crap on the ABC Local Radio this afternoon from the 'Renewable Energy' lobby group the Clean Energy Council re the whimsical wonderment of shreckin' Wind Turbines...and yet another appalling 'Dorothy-Dixer' interview where-in the CEC spokesperson just spewed-out unchallenged all the same ol' lies about 'the cost of poles and wires' and 'once erected, Wind Turbines provide free energy', and 'the prices are comin' down, any time now, honest', etc, etc, etc...and then a very lame attempt to address the issues of peak supply at times of minimal energy production...I ran into that problem I have where I'm trying to listen, honest, but the relentless rhetoric as heard so often before, that sortta' switches me 'off'...(its almost like some sortta' 'self-preserving sanity-saving pressure valve' kinda' thingy that just shuts out the bollocks when it gets just too bollocky, even for you-Ed)...yeah, I'll go with that...and I'd just like to close with a Rude Joke Warning...
Everyone Loves A Parade: but not apparently as much as ma' homies down in Ye Olde Melbourne Town (Victoria)...(how so?-Ed)...heard some official dude in an interview last week, talking about the AFL (Aussie Football League) Grand Final Parade and the fact that it's now a public holiday, or will fall on a holiday this year, somethin' or other, and the question was 'will it mean smaller crowds? will peeps go into the city just for the parade?' and similar...and official spokesperson says, 'no way dudette, they love it, there'll be heaps there'...(how could he be so sure?-Ed)...good question Ed...he was adamant that Melbournians had a great fondness for the AFL Parade, and indeed were very keen on any and/or all parades...
RJW:...(sounds a bit odd...exactly how keen are they?-Ed)...very keen...(only very?-Ed)...no, very very...(very very?-Ed)...look, I've got the quote here...(hang on, this better not be another long-winded lead in to one of your stupid pun thingys-Ed)...nah nah, gourd bless, gourd bless...(I gotta' say, you ain't fillin' me with confidence...go on then, so what did he say?-Ed)...yeah, he was certain that the locals don't just like a parade, they love a parade, and I mean like love a parade...(for gourd sake, what did he say-Ed)...hang on a sec...here t'is, and I quote..."You put on a parade and people will come"-The Official Dude.........(and that's why I hate you-Ed)...ta'...
Tomorrow: More ANZAC Stuff
As per feedback, I fully realise that the St Martins Cover-up is that by which I judge all other issues...I know, thanks, exactly how much it has dominated my life since 2002, but no, I don't know where I find the strength and courage to continue to fight, because I am neither strong nor courageous...(well how fortunate for you then that you've been blessed with such an abundance of ego, vanity and stubbornness that you can afford to distill it down to some vague semblance of courage-Ed)...I'll drink to that...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
**PS...just saw some of those 'tweets' on ABC 7.30 and must agree that there's more appropriate ways to talk about these issues...however, it is not inappropriate to question the "Legend Of ANZAC', etc, it is an obligation...(well I'd suggest use of the term 'Legend' begs appropriate discourse because it by definition identifies exaggeration even falsehood-Ed)...
Sunday, April 26, 2015
It's Un-Australian To Not Question ANZAC Day
Hello Turkey, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and of course
Aoteroa (New Zealand), and India, Canada, and all of the other
nationalities involved in the 1915 conflict on the Gallipoli shore, where European powers played-out their Empirical
aspirations and their generals and politicians used their young men as
virtually expendable cannon-fodder...
It is simply not my place to tell others what to feel about ANZAC Day, particularly Turkey/Turkish people, but I do consider it an obligation to honour my grandfathers by adhering to and acknowledging the example they set me...and that example is to question the very nature of what has become very nearly a circus...I question whether many of the people who turn-out to Dawn Services and/or go to Gallipoli, etc, really have any idea what it is they are 'recognising'...it's not particularly their fault as individuals, but I'm sick of hearing the same trite slogans trotted out by students and relatives, etc, because it very quickly becomes meaningless...
Don't take my word for it, really research for yourselves the genuine motivations of the Dardenelles Campaign, and particularly the role that Australians, New Zealanders, et al, were cast to play by our Empirial overlords...we (ANZAC) were the distraction designed to make things easier for British troops landing elsewhere on the peninsula, and the overall discussion (predominantly between Britain and France) was about how to carve up the 400 year old Ottoman Empire after it was defeated...
And today we turn out like prize livestock to applaud the same British Royal family, who 100 years ago were almost predominantly German, the same Britain that officially turned it's back on Australia when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942, cutting us loose as expendably uneconomical and therefore irrelevant...again, read ya' history books...(and then go looking for the truth as well-Ed)...indeed Ed, it is often said that 'the winners write history' and their collective recollectionings can tend to be a little, shall we say, self-excusatory...but I digress...
I do not apologise this time for not doing a post for a coupla' days because this past week has been a confronting and deeply depressing time, and if I've even strayed near the blog, I've been churning out chunks of un-postable anger and vengeful vitriole...(well if that was 'un-postable', how much more angry was it than what's below?-Ed)...no, it's all angry mate, just anger parred-back to something a little less 'sue-able' and/or arrestable...resultantly, I also do not apologise for the infused fury and impending sense of quiet rage that pervades this post and I would like to preface it with a brief re-iteration of my experience of ANZAC Day and what it means to me...I know I've been through a lot of this in previous ANZAC Day posts on this 'ere blog, but not only has very little changed, that change has seldom been for the better...
My life story is often one of extraordinary privilege and even luxury as befits a middle-class white-boy born in this country, this great wide land...(this stolen land-Ed)...indeed Ed, indeed we did steal it, with murder, mayhem, disease, and deceit, and that segues into the outrageously disgraceful way we have treated Aboriginal people...and an opportunity for me personally to acknowledge both 1) those horrendous practices and their devastating outcomes, and 2) the service of Aboriginal people in 'their countries' Armed Services...(and whilst not legally recognised as 'human beings' under 'Terra Nulleus'-Ed)...indeed...
(You know, I find it quite amusing that Australia's first European settlers were predominantly convicts transported because of their crimes, and yet the Empire that judged and shunned them made it's fortunes largely with slavery, murder, and theft, not least of all in the very country to whence It had dispatched it's crooksEd)...interesting observation Ed, but the story I'm telling today starts with the extraordinary privilege of being a boy growing-up in 1970's Australia, and having both my grandfathers still alive, and both of them decorated WWII veterans, and neither having ever attended an ANZAC Day march/commemoration or the RSL (Returned and Services League) despite the fact or even because they would have been lauded as the gentle heroes they were...because of them I have the dual luxuries of a gentle heart and the knowledge born of violent experience...
Pops was a Scottish child immigrant who enlisted and served in the Australian Army as a 'Rat of Tobruk' and fought in many other 'iconic' theatres/campaigns across the Mediterranean,/North Africa, and in New Guinea/the Pacific...he several times made Corporal due to deaths in his unit, but was regularly busted back to Private because of his 'larrikin' nature, including spending time in Gladstone Gaol for briefly going AWOL (Absent With Out Leave)...I spent many ANZAC Days with Pops and Grandma at their house...
*Graphic Violence Warning*- I can only recall one specific 'war story' that he told, a shocking story about his first night in Tobruk when his unit strayed into German positions and his mate was shot through the head...they spent that first night fighting their way back into their own trenches, and then the next 2 days fighting to retrieve the body...and when he grabbed his mates body by the ankles, the corpse had already rotted in the desert sun and the feet came away in his hands...they had to use a sheet/tarp to fetch back his body...I cannot describe the look on Pops' face when he told this story...
He was far happier to 'travelogue' his service as part of the Oz Army...bazaars in Tunisia where they tried to sell the Aussies "chicken, no' shnake...no' shnake, chicken" (as said with a Scottish/Tunisian accent), or time at Gladstone, etc...and Papa was the same, they rarely if ever spoke of their war 'exploits' and neither were ever involved in anything remotely to do with their service...(apart from the Daws Rd Repatriation Hospital-Ed)...indeed, and I'll get to that, now in fact...
Because I've been switching channels to avoid that prime piece of work, that moralless, loathsome, spotted reptile, that betrayer and deceiver, SA Labor's new Veteran's Minister, Martin Hamilton-Smith...how this rancid turncoat can even show his face in public is indicative of an ego swollen to true insanity...(no wonder he fits in so well with Labor then-Ed)...indeed...my opinion of this person aside, how is he allowed to run in a safe Liberal seat, as the endorsed Liberal candidate, and then when elected, just betray all involved and jump to Labor?...(well because 1) the Liberals are so pathetically in-effective, and appear to be more than happy in that role as a perpetual political irrelevance...but far more important is 2) the one genuine bipartisan issue in South Australian politics, the pro-paedophile corruption...he's as absolutely complicit in the St Martins Cover-up as pretty much every other scumbag in Sow Strayan parliament...oh, and beyond that, he immediately gets a massive pay-rise as a Minister-Ed)...super...
Ah, Marty Moose, dear oh dear...just another Liberal leader who knows all about the St Martins Cover-up and has chosen to be complicit because it puts money in his pocket...whatta' disgrace...he gets paid a small fortune for his betrayal, itself an opportunity to actively engage in covering-up paedophilia above and beyond being just a pathetically complicit, irrelevant Liberal Opposition leader...(I think the terms 'pathetically complicit', and 'irrelevant' are KPIs for the Liberal Party in South Australia-Ed)...oh Ed, scythingly eviscerating yet hilariously abusive, you are a lark...
Marty is a simpering personification of the rank selfishness and pro-paedophile corruption that defines South Australia...nothing more, nothing less...I remind availees that I spoke with Marty when he was in Mt Gambier, as the then Liberal leader (late 2007, early 2008?), and in the company of then (and still) Member for McKillop, Mitch Williams...I just happened upon the pair of them crossing the old Civic Centre carpark where the new Library is now, whilst on my way to the bus stop...for 20-30 minutes I described the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and they were animatedly shocked and dismayed, saying 'send me stuff', etc...(and what happened?-Ed)...whatta' ya' think? nothing, business as usual SA style...
And now Marty's Labor's front man for the appallingly deceitful and disrespectful closure of the Daws Rd Repat Hospital...my father is named after the man who was killed in Tobruk and another of Pops' mates whom was a patient at Daws Rd for the decade it took him to die of successive gangrene infections resulting from a lower leg wound, and Pops died at Daws Rd...it is an obscene deceit to try and justify this land grab by the bankrupt Labor government by saying that Daws Rd is 'run-down' and that services will be offered at major hospitals instead...anyone with a fundamental understanding of veterans and their multiple health issues, knows full well that a dedicated facility is the medically ethical and expedient thing to do...and then lets start-in about the moral obligation we have to these people...and then there's Mighty Marty...
It is not my place to tell someone who was involved with any conflict under the service of the Nation of Australia or Aotearoa (New Zealand), what they should and shouldn't think, I'm merely honouring the memory of my ancestors, my grandfathers, by defining the reality of what ANZAC Day was to them, a massively traumatic time that both would have happily lived without...they would have been deeply upset by the relentless often mindless media coverage that long ago stampeded from respectful remembrance into frenzy...gourd knows I broke weeks ago and have been changing channels furiously to avoid ANZAC coverage...and I know exactly where and when it was I broke because actor Sam Neill loomed up on my telly ask-telling me 'why is ANZAC the one we choose to remember?', and my first thought was, 'we don't get a bloody choice, mate, our obligation to honour ANZAC gets shoved down our throats with often cynical agenda...
Gourd knows, often enough in my life I seek succour and strength and motivation in the sense of security that I'm not living my life in some dusty bullet-riddled foxhole in North Africa, or some mud pit in New Guinea, or stuck in the trenches of WWI, etc...(in my experience it's an almost daily exercise for you-Ed)...well, I got some shizzle goin' on, yeah?...(yeah, fair enough-Ed)...
Not A Word Of A Lie: in that I've referred a coupla' times to the Universe reaching out and giving me a pat on the head...(yeah, I remember-Ed)...yeah well this time it was a slap in the face that also sort of went up-side my head...(whaaa?-Ed)...I came home from my first and most likely last ANZAC Dawn Service, switched on the telly, and there was a close-cropped frame-up of our charming Premier Jay Weatherill, that buttoned-down slice of rolled-gold f***ery...and as the camera panned-back, Jay set down his wreath at the Remembrance Shrine on North Tce (Adelaide) and stepped back with all the rehearsed solemn sincerity he could muster...and I snapped like a dry twig with PMT...more,
Tomorrow: South Australia Is An Insult To ANZAC
(Yay, a whole state that by it's very functioning is an insult to the memory of all those whom we allegedly hold in such high esteem-Ed)...indeed, because we insult our ancestors when we let these pro-paedophile scumbags run this state and turn our children into vulnerable prey...and yes, I'm talking to you too Mt Gambier City Council, because by your actions, with your complicit corruption, so you too have betrayed the children in this town, in this entire sick state...
(And then they have the bare-faced audacity, the sheer shreckin' nerve to churn out one of the most cynically hypocritical pieces of dross these sad ol' eyes have seen, their ludicrous Children's Charter-Ed)...and again recently...and I notice that The Border Watch newspaper claims to support this particular document...more tomorrow...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...and every day I try to hold the line, albeit a line of one, in a bizarre pitched conflict with State Authorities as those Authorities remain firmly committed to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and every day I suffer for it quite literally tooth and nail, physically and mentally...and the thanks I get is clearly somewhere well over the horizon...cheers and laters...
It is simply not my place to tell others what to feel about ANZAC Day, particularly Turkey/Turkish people, but I do consider it an obligation to honour my grandfathers by adhering to and acknowledging the example they set me...and that example is to question the very nature of what has become very nearly a circus...I question whether many of the people who turn-out to Dawn Services and/or go to Gallipoli, etc, really have any idea what it is they are 'recognising'...it's not particularly their fault as individuals, but I'm sick of hearing the same trite slogans trotted out by students and relatives, etc, because it very quickly becomes meaningless...
Don't take my word for it, really research for yourselves the genuine motivations of the Dardenelles Campaign, and particularly the role that Australians, New Zealanders, et al, were cast to play by our Empirial overlords...we (ANZAC) were the distraction designed to make things easier for British troops landing elsewhere on the peninsula, and the overall discussion (predominantly between Britain and France) was about how to carve up the 400 year old Ottoman Empire after it was defeated...
And today we turn out like prize livestock to applaud the same British Royal family, who 100 years ago were almost predominantly German, the same Britain that officially turned it's back on Australia when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942, cutting us loose as expendably uneconomical and therefore irrelevant...again, read ya' history books...(and then go looking for the truth as well-Ed)...indeed Ed, it is often said that 'the winners write history' and their collective recollectionings can tend to be a little, shall we say, self-excusatory...but I digress...
I do not apologise this time for not doing a post for a coupla' days because this past week has been a confronting and deeply depressing time, and if I've even strayed near the blog, I've been churning out chunks of un-postable anger and vengeful vitriole...(well if that was 'un-postable', how much more angry was it than what's below?-Ed)...no, it's all angry mate, just anger parred-back to something a little less 'sue-able' and/or arrestable...resultantly, I also do not apologise for the infused fury and impending sense of quiet rage that pervades this post and I would like to preface it with a brief re-iteration of my experience of ANZAC Day and what it means to me...I know I've been through a lot of this in previous ANZAC Day posts on this 'ere blog, but not only has very little changed, that change has seldom been for the better...
My life story is often one of extraordinary privilege and even luxury as befits a middle-class white-boy born in this country, this great wide land...(this stolen land-Ed)...indeed Ed, indeed we did steal it, with murder, mayhem, disease, and deceit, and that segues into the outrageously disgraceful way we have treated Aboriginal people...and an opportunity for me personally to acknowledge both 1) those horrendous practices and their devastating outcomes, and 2) the service of Aboriginal people in 'their countries' Armed Services...(and whilst not legally recognised as 'human beings' under 'Terra Nulleus'-Ed)...indeed...
(You know, I find it quite amusing that Australia's first European settlers were predominantly convicts transported because of their crimes, and yet the Empire that judged and shunned them made it's fortunes largely with slavery, murder, and theft, not least of all in the very country to whence It had dispatched it's crooksEd)...interesting observation Ed, but the story I'm telling today starts with the extraordinary privilege of being a boy growing-up in 1970's Australia, and having both my grandfathers still alive, and both of them decorated WWII veterans, and neither having ever attended an ANZAC Day march/commemoration or the RSL (Returned and Services League) despite the fact or even because they would have been lauded as the gentle heroes they were...because of them I have the dual luxuries of a gentle heart and the knowledge born of violent experience...
Pops was a Scottish child immigrant who enlisted and served in the Australian Army as a 'Rat of Tobruk' and fought in many other 'iconic' theatres/campaigns across the Mediterranean,/North Africa, and in New Guinea/the Pacific...he several times made Corporal due to deaths in his unit, but was regularly busted back to Private because of his 'larrikin' nature, including spending time in Gladstone Gaol for briefly going AWOL (Absent With Out Leave)...I spent many ANZAC Days with Pops and Grandma at their house...
*Graphic Violence Warning*- I can only recall one specific 'war story' that he told, a shocking story about his first night in Tobruk when his unit strayed into German positions and his mate was shot through the head...they spent that first night fighting their way back into their own trenches, and then the next 2 days fighting to retrieve the body...and when he grabbed his mates body by the ankles, the corpse had already rotted in the desert sun and the feet came away in his hands...they had to use a sheet/tarp to fetch back his body...I cannot describe the look on Pops' face when he told this story...
He was far happier to 'travelogue' his service as part of the Oz Army...bazaars in Tunisia where they tried to sell the Aussies "chicken, no' shnake...no' shnake, chicken" (as said with a Scottish/Tunisian accent), or time at Gladstone, etc...and Papa was the same, they rarely if ever spoke of their war 'exploits' and neither were ever involved in anything remotely to do with their service...(apart from the Daws Rd Repatriation Hospital-Ed)...indeed, and I'll get to that, now in fact...
Because I've been switching channels to avoid that prime piece of work, that moralless, loathsome, spotted reptile, that betrayer and deceiver, SA Labor's new Veteran's Minister, Martin Hamilton-Smith...how this rancid turncoat can even show his face in public is indicative of an ego swollen to true insanity...(no wonder he fits in so well with Labor then-Ed)...indeed...my opinion of this person aside, how is he allowed to run in a safe Liberal seat, as the endorsed Liberal candidate, and then when elected, just betray all involved and jump to Labor?...(well because 1) the Liberals are so pathetically in-effective, and appear to be more than happy in that role as a perpetual political irrelevance...but far more important is 2) the one genuine bipartisan issue in South Australian politics, the pro-paedophile corruption...he's as absolutely complicit in the St Martins Cover-up as pretty much every other scumbag in Sow Strayan parliament...oh, and beyond that, he immediately gets a massive pay-rise as a Minister-Ed)...super...
Ah, Marty Moose, dear oh dear...just another Liberal leader who knows all about the St Martins Cover-up and has chosen to be complicit because it puts money in his pocket...whatta' disgrace...he gets paid a small fortune for his betrayal, itself an opportunity to actively engage in covering-up paedophilia above and beyond being just a pathetically complicit, irrelevant Liberal Opposition leader...(I think the terms 'pathetically complicit', and 'irrelevant' are KPIs for the Liberal Party in South Australia-Ed)...oh Ed, scythingly eviscerating yet hilariously abusive, you are a lark...
Marty is a simpering personification of the rank selfishness and pro-paedophile corruption that defines South Australia...nothing more, nothing less...I remind availees that I spoke with Marty when he was in Mt Gambier, as the then Liberal leader (late 2007, early 2008?), and in the company of then (and still) Member for McKillop, Mitch Williams...I just happened upon the pair of them crossing the old Civic Centre carpark where the new Library is now, whilst on my way to the bus stop...for 20-30 minutes I described the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and they were animatedly shocked and dismayed, saying 'send me stuff', etc...(and what happened?-Ed)...whatta' ya' think? nothing, business as usual SA style...
And now Marty's Labor's front man for the appallingly deceitful and disrespectful closure of the Daws Rd Repat Hospital...my father is named after the man who was killed in Tobruk and another of Pops' mates whom was a patient at Daws Rd for the decade it took him to die of successive gangrene infections resulting from a lower leg wound, and Pops died at Daws Rd...it is an obscene deceit to try and justify this land grab by the bankrupt Labor government by saying that Daws Rd is 'run-down' and that services will be offered at major hospitals instead...anyone with a fundamental understanding of veterans and their multiple health issues, knows full well that a dedicated facility is the medically ethical and expedient thing to do...and then lets start-in about the moral obligation we have to these people...and then there's Mighty Marty...
It is not my place to tell someone who was involved with any conflict under the service of the Nation of Australia or Aotearoa (New Zealand), what they should and shouldn't think, I'm merely honouring the memory of my ancestors, my grandfathers, by defining the reality of what ANZAC Day was to them, a massively traumatic time that both would have happily lived without...they would have been deeply upset by the relentless often mindless media coverage that long ago stampeded from respectful remembrance into frenzy...gourd knows I broke weeks ago and have been changing channels furiously to avoid ANZAC coverage...and I know exactly where and when it was I broke because actor Sam Neill loomed up on my telly ask-telling me 'why is ANZAC the one we choose to remember?', and my first thought was, 'we don't get a bloody choice, mate, our obligation to honour ANZAC gets shoved down our throats with often cynical agenda...
Gourd knows, often enough in my life I seek succour and strength and motivation in the sense of security that I'm not living my life in some dusty bullet-riddled foxhole in North Africa, or some mud pit in New Guinea, or stuck in the trenches of WWI, etc...(in my experience it's an almost daily exercise for you-Ed)...well, I got some shizzle goin' on, yeah?...(yeah, fair enough-Ed)...
Not A Word Of A Lie: in that I've referred a coupla' times to the Universe reaching out and giving me a pat on the head...(yeah, I remember-Ed)...yeah well this time it was a slap in the face that also sort of went up-side my head...(whaaa?-Ed)...I came home from my first and most likely last ANZAC Dawn Service, switched on the telly, and there was a close-cropped frame-up of our charming Premier Jay Weatherill, that buttoned-down slice of rolled-gold f***ery...and as the camera panned-back, Jay set down his wreath at the Remembrance Shrine on North Tce (Adelaide) and stepped back with all the rehearsed solemn sincerity he could muster...and I snapped like a dry twig with PMT...more,
Tomorrow: South Australia Is An Insult To ANZAC
(Yay, a whole state that by it's very functioning is an insult to the memory of all those whom we allegedly hold in such high esteem-Ed)...indeed, because we insult our ancestors when we let these pro-paedophile scumbags run this state and turn our children into vulnerable prey...and yes, I'm talking to you too Mt Gambier City Council, because by your actions, with your complicit corruption, so you too have betrayed the children in this town, in this entire sick state...
(And then they have the bare-faced audacity, the sheer shreckin' nerve to churn out one of the most cynically hypocritical pieces of dross these sad ol' eyes have seen, their ludicrous Children's Charter-Ed)...and again recently...and I notice that The Border Watch newspaper claims to support this particular document...more tomorrow...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...and every day I try to hold the line, albeit a line of one, in a bizarre pitched conflict with State Authorities as those Authorities remain firmly committed to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and every day I suffer for it quite literally tooth and nail, physically and mentally...and the thanks I get is clearly somewhere well over the horizon...cheers and laters...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Random Acts Of Bloggin' A Dead Horse
Howdy and welcome to a rather confused post for today April 22nd 2015...over 2 weeks ago, 3 even, I started this post and several drafts later here we are...I can only apologise for the wonky synchronicity and resultant lack of flowage. it's a bit all over the place...please ignore all dates, apologies, etc, other than indicated specifically as today April 22nd...
(**apologies for no post for 3 days and then the subsequent synchronicity issues with rest of post as started 2 days ago...appears Interweb dropping-out through the day, possibly bandwidth demand due to school holidays...I can get connected easy as at this time of the morning (0530hrs) but later during the day, no doin'...also, trying to be busy and get my house actually tidy not just not just a complete bloody mess slightly improved...(yeah, it's lookin' way better, newish desk, etc, and look, there's a bit of floor over there, unless I'm much mistaken-Ed)...you are much mistaken, that's a flooring catalogue what's fallen outta' one of those newspapers...(oh right-Ed)...**)
Gettin' heaps done in my Summer/Flouride/Chlorine devastated garden, eg, re-done completely my 2 main ponds...(yay-Ed)...yep, a few goldfish in each and some cheapy solar lights and it looks great, well at least, gettin' there...and doin' good work with just gettin' outta' the house heaps more often, etc, and do something with a day before it falls fowl of the flow of news..still having all sorts of problems with Interweb connectivity, but yet again it's most likely a combination of local demand for bandwidth meeting the piss-poor availability rather than any specific attempt/s to be rooting about with my computer/this 'ere blog/whatevs...however, have had a third 'scam-spam' email, following on from recent previous ones...(*April 22nd- have had a second 'Toll Road' scam email this week, totalling 4 now in a fortnight*)
Hello United States of America, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Russia, and France...the title refers to the one genuine win that I'll put my hand-up to claim, stake my claim on, the one thing I'd reckon is all about me shoutin' out politely but pointedly, 'hey, what the hell's goin' on with that there then?'...(yeah, when you first put that title to me I thought you were referring to your various alleged attempts at humour-Ed)...sorry, not with you...('wince-some'-Ed)...eh, nice, witty Wilde, witty...but first...(*April 22nd- changed title and subject matter, sorry*)
Kelp Yourselves To Our 'Resources':...and hooray, kicked-off my morning by turning on the radio, currently on ABC Local Radio (as you do every single day, all day, as much as possible, to the point that missing stuff causes you anxiety, even when you're trying to get away from all of the Child Abuse stories with a brief news report about the recently purchased therefore now Chinese owned Ocean Gather Group Beachport and an interview with a woman (sorry, don't know whom from where, but she was a related 'professional' of some description), and she was talking openly about how 'for health and safety reasons and nutrient value, etc, food-grade kelp needs to be harvested live from the ocean not collected off the beach'-Ed)...yay...
And then a lovely interview with former Liberal leader Rob Kerin, appointed by the Rann/Weatherill Labor government to the pivotally prime plum position as head of Primary Resources SA...(I like to call that 'jobs for the boys'-Ed)..I like to put 'fondler' between the 'y' and the 's'...(I don't get th...wait, yes I do, 'boy fondlers'...ooo you are naughty...and are you suggesting that Rob Kerin is some sort of paedophile?-Ed)...nup, just stating the fact that as Liberal leader in February 2005 he had the pleasure of my company, in his office in Parliament House, for nearly an hour, as I explained the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up to him, showed him the documents, etc...(and?-Ed)...well here we are Ed, 10 years later, doin' this...
Couldn't Make This Shizzle Up:...coupla' days ago another Domestic Violence incident in the neighbours...it's been relatively quiet since that last idiot moved out/was moved out/whatevs by the Housing Trust, but last weekend it was on again...in context, it's fantastic because I don't have any option but to call SAPol (police)...(fantastic? that's hardly appropriate-Ed)...because as a Housing Trust (Housing SA) tenant, if I interfere with/harass/reduce to a mangled pulp some shitful piece of gutless detritus who happens to be also a HTt, then chances are I'm the one who gets in trouble, even evicted...(and you don't pulp-mangle people anyway, never have-Ed)...shhh, they don't need to know that...
Anyhoos, credit where credit's due, 2 police cars rolled into my street within 5 minutes (I/they'd confused the addresses), and when I went out to tell them, it was the young cop whom was at my house weeks ago when I thought he had a go at snatching my documents off me...I apologised for being teary and he said 'that's ok' and off they went to the next street...there was no tension or aggression or anything...(teary? really?-Ed)...yeah, it happens every time...once I get past the rage, so then the sadness...and that I can say "every time" indicates how often this shizzle has happened over the 12 years I've lived here...
Insane In The Drain: is the politest thing that I can say about the latest Taxpayer-gouging extravaganza that is the alleged 'Drain Consultation' (by private 'consultant group' New Democracy) re ways to pay for the much needed, much overdue maintenance of South East drains...didn't get the exact figures but by current general funding criteria of approx 3% of value, current 'drain maintenance' gets only 0.9% or less than a third of the standard funding...(and only 25% of that actually hits, shifts, covers the ground-Ed)...apparently...and also apparently the recommendations will go/have gone to Parliament for consideration by Labor Cabinet, but Minister Ian Hunter also said Labor won't be moving from the pitiful $2.2m of current annual funding but they're likely to continue draining peoples wetlands, etc, with this massive new drain going to the Coorong...
(So why waste money on a 'consultation' if there's not going to be a change?-Ed)...so you can say you did consultation...several people called in saying things like 'refuse to pay, it's the only words Hunter will understand', and 'a new drain? can't maintain what they've got', and 'where's all this excess water? we're in the middle of a drought in the driest Spring into the driest Summer', etc, etc...so, to pay for 1) a massive new drain to empty yet more wetlands and bores, etc, and 2) the government's most likely solution for dealing with the failing infrastructure, Labor's answer for both is to level yet another levy against landholders...bastards...(Labor that is, not the landholders-Ed)...ah yeah...
And this following Minister Tony Piccolo saying that reducing speed limits doesn't really affect travel times...(bollocks, by sheer definition if you travel at 100kph instead of 110kph, then if you travel for an hour, you'll be 10 kilometres and therefore some minutes behind the peeps doin' 110...spread that over, say, 450kms, the distance to Adelaide from here...allowing for the appropriate breaks, traffic, etc, it would be just over 4hrs at 110kph, at 100 it's nearly an extra 30 minutes-Ed)...and all this bollocks in excusing Labor's continuing failure/refusal to spend appropriate monies on maintaining country roads, and instead reduce speed limits...(and in the same conversation Piccolo tried to justify the ludicrous $160m tunnel under North Adelaide by stating that it will get some Adelaide commuters to work 4 minutes faster-Ed)...that's just plain offensive...
Credit Where Credit's Due:...as pathetic and 'Dorothy Dixer' as I'd label the recent ABC interviews with Tony Piccolo and that trite piece of work Ian Hunter, the mere fact that these interviews are happening, that these issues are getting covered at all, is down to the existence of the Local ABC...these issues are typically non-existent as far as Adelaide is concerned...and if you, dear availee, are sensing a certain seething loathing pouring outta' this ol' hippy, in the very specific direction of Ian Hunter, then that's because you're not just highly astute, but probably quite attractive as well...he's one of the corrupt pricks from the SARC Inquiry no.52 as per the St Martins Cover-up stuff...
Fell Off My Chair Laughing: to see the new $40million foot-bridge over the Torrens Sewer I mean River ahaha...(no, it is an open sewer...and beyond that a perfect example of just how confected, false, and insanely selfish 'Adelaide' is...that 'River' is an artificial pond created by a weir just down near the Morphett St bridge, and there upstream is the King William St bridge just right there already...so Labor have spent $40m building a superfluous bridge across an artificial obstacle-Ed)...indeed...anyhoos, the new paving is moving and lifting already, and has had to be pulled-up and re-laid...and the brief footage showed orange safety bunting and stacks of 'tiles' and whale oil beef hooked, there they are, more shreckin' grey concrete pavers...(yay-Ed)...and the rank corruption of South Australia is lived large beneath our now uncertain feet as literally a boatload of shitful D-grade Chinese cement pavers are sold around the state and forced on/under citizens by corrupt Councils...
And right there in the vanguard of the Dodgy Pavers Corruption Scandal is the entirely corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, and the insane bastardisation of the Main Street, an insanity that has spewed onto the Flood Plains of Ol'railyard...in the Main St (Commercial St) Council has wasted/rorted literally $millions ripping up and replacing the sound, stable, settled red-brick style pavers that are/were so perfect for foot-traffic areas because their small width and good 'depth' helps to lock them together securely...the small surface area means that weight is usually spread over several bricks/pavers and this minimises even removes the problems of 'pivot movage'...
Pivot Movage: is what I done just make-up to describe the action of someone shifting their weight across a foot-square concrete paver causing the paver/tile to move...it's happening right along the Main...it's fundamental physics that clearly Council engineers /planners/whatevs are completely ignorant to, or they just chose to ignore because the agenda was 'get those pavers/tiles down and the Ratepayers money into whoevs pocket as fast as possible'...I remind availees that the vast majority of those pavers were heavily stained and badly chipped straight off the pallets...these pavers were crap, broken pieces of substandard concrete before even being laid...these were clearly seconds even thirds that some corrupt clown has purchased on the cheap and then corruptly forced on SA, with the rampant collusion of Mt Gambier Council...and this is the corruption that continues to run Mt Gambier into the ground...
Latest Security/Defence Acquisition: is a pair of teflon-coated, bullet-proof budgie-smugglers for our charming PM Tony Abbott...(sorry, what?-Ed)...yeah, least I thinks that's what it was they was talkin' 'bout...(please explain-Ed)...yeah well, I've heard heaps of discourse about this so-called 'Extra Genitational Support', and Tones is the only one I know who serially strips down to a pair of Speedos...(ah, no, I can see where you've gotten a bit confused...I reckon they're talking about Joe Hockey trying to smuggle his dodgy class-biased Budget through a very hostile Senate-Ed)...ah, so more like armour-plated 'Budget-smugglers' really?...(exactly...and of course not to be confused with that other instrument of Smokin' Joe's efforts to try and flog the dead horse that the 2014 Budget has become, floggin' it furiously with what has become known as the 'Joe-Hockey Strap'...no?-Ed)...nice...but is that the main punchline?...
(No, no, I ordered a proper punchline and I reckon that might be it now, those headlights just over at One Mile Ridge Rd...why don't we do the story and finish this 'bit' when the punchline gets here?-Ed)...sure sure, whatevs...we hilariously refer of course to this ludicrous 'Inter-Generational Report' bollocks being constantly spewed-out by PM Tones et al as the Tablet of Truth that defines the fine line between the complete disaster everything is apparently now, and a future like only ever goin' to get like way worse...(we're doomed, doomed I tells ya'-Ed)...the line between disaster and that path to the glorious deliverance unto Fiscal Nirvana, a path that coincidentally just happens to be Liberal Party ideology...(wow, so how coincidentally fortunate for us then that it's the Libs at the helm when their Report reportedly supports the policies they've been floggin' for years-Ed)...sorry Ed, are you suggesting that this Report isn't a balanced and trustworthy indicator of anything, that it's just a preamble to Liberal ideology, a preamble written after the text?...
(Ooo, anyhoos, here's The Punchline now-Ed).........(puff, wheeze, I'm so sorry, wheeze, had a flat tyre, puff, no phone reception out here, cough, hope I haven't kept you waiting? wheeze-TP)...no, no, we saw you coming about a mile off..........well?...(oh right, now then?-TP)...please...(uh-hum...'Oh, when you said Extra Genitational Support, I thought you were referring to Nationals leader and Deputy PM Warren Truss'-TP)..........and that's it?...(whatta' ya' expect for nuthin'? ungrateful prick-TP)...(don't look at me-Ed)......I think it best we all just move on...(fine-Ed)...(suits me.......can I have $10 for petrol?-TP)......sure, hang on, I've only got a fiver, Ed?...(ummm, yeah, here's five bucks-Ed)...(cheers-TP)...yeah, sorry to be so snappy too, been a long day...(no, I understand, none of it's particularly funny, ciao-TP)...
Tomorrow: That Winsome Stuff
That I started today (weeks ago) but never actually got near today, etc, etc...sorry...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
(**apologies for no post for 3 days and then the subsequent synchronicity issues with rest of post as started 2 days ago...appears Interweb dropping-out through the day, possibly bandwidth demand due to school holidays...I can get connected easy as at this time of the morning (0530hrs) but later during the day, no doin'...also, trying to be busy and get my house actually tidy not just not just a complete bloody mess slightly improved...(yeah, it's lookin' way better, newish desk, etc, and look, there's a bit of floor over there, unless I'm much mistaken-Ed)...you are much mistaken, that's a flooring catalogue what's fallen outta' one of those newspapers...(oh right-Ed)...**)
Gettin' heaps done in my Summer/Flouride/Chlorine devastated garden, eg, re-done completely my 2 main ponds...(yay-Ed)...yep, a few goldfish in each and some cheapy solar lights and it looks great, well at least, gettin' there...and doin' good work with just gettin' outta' the house heaps more often, etc, and do something with a day before it falls fowl of the flow of news..still having all sorts of problems with Interweb connectivity, but yet again it's most likely a combination of local demand for bandwidth meeting the piss-poor availability rather than any specific attempt/s to be rooting about with my computer/this 'ere blog/whatevs...however, have had a third 'scam-spam' email, following on from recent previous ones...(*April 22nd- have had a second 'Toll Road' scam email this week, totalling 4 now in a fortnight*)
Hello United States of America, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Russia, and France...the title refers to the one genuine win that I'll put my hand-up to claim, stake my claim on, the one thing I'd reckon is all about me shoutin' out politely but pointedly, 'hey, what the hell's goin' on with that there then?'...(yeah, when you first put that title to me I thought you were referring to your various alleged attempts at humour-Ed)...sorry, not with you...('wince-some'-Ed)...eh, nice, witty Wilde, witty...but first...(*April 22nd- changed title and subject matter, sorry*)
Kelp Yourselves To Our 'Resources':...and hooray, kicked-off my morning by turning on the radio, currently on ABC Local Radio (as you do every single day, all day, as much as possible, to the point that missing stuff causes you anxiety, even when you're trying to get away from all of the Child Abuse stories with a brief news report about the recently purchased therefore now Chinese owned Ocean Gather Group Beachport and an interview with a woman (sorry, don't know whom from where, but she was a related 'professional' of some description), and she was talking openly about how 'for health and safety reasons and nutrient value, etc, food-grade kelp needs to be harvested live from the ocean not collected off the beach'-Ed)...yay...
And then a lovely interview with former Liberal leader Rob Kerin, appointed by the Rann/Weatherill Labor government to the pivotally prime plum position as head of Primary Resources SA...(I like to call that 'jobs for the boys'-Ed)..I like to put 'fondler' between the 'y' and the 's'...(I don't get th...wait, yes I do, 'boy fondlers'...ooo you are naughty...and are you suggesting that Rob Kerin is some sort of paedophile?-Ed)...nup, just stating the fact that as Liberal leader in February 2005 he had the pleasure of my company, in his office in Parliament House, for nearly an hour, as I explained the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up to him, showed him the documents, etc...(and?-Ed)...well here we are Ed, 10 years later, doin' this...
Couldn't Make This Shizzle Up:...coupla' days ago another Domestic Violence incident in the neighbours...it's been relatively quiet since that last idiot moved out/was moved out/whatevs by the Housing Trust, but last weekend it was on again...in context, it's fantastic because I don't have any option but to call SAPol (police)...(fantastic? that's hardly appropriate-Ed)...because as a Housing Trust (Housing SA) tenant, if I interfere with/harass/reduce to a mangled pulp some shitful piece of gutless detritus who happens to be also a HTt, then chances are I'm the one who gets in trouble, even evicted...(and you don't pulp-mangle people anyway, never have-Ed)...shhh, they don't need to know that...
Anyhoos, credit where credit's due, 2 police cars rolled into my street within 5 minutes (I/they'd confused the addresses), and when I went out to tell them, it was the young cop whom was at my house weeks ago when I thought he had a go at snatching my documents off me...I apologised for being teary and he said 'that's ok' and off they went to the next street...there was no tension or aggression or anything...(teary? really?-Ed)...yeah, it happens every time...once I get past the rage, so then the sadness...and that I can say "every time" indicates how often this shizzle has happened over the 12 years I've lived here...
Insane In The Drain: is the politest thing that I can say about the latest Taxpayer-gouging extravaganza that is the alleged 'Drain Consultation' (by private 'consultant group' New Democracy) re ways to pay for the much needed, much overdue maintenance of South East drains...didn't get the exact figures but by current general funding criteria of approx 3% of value, current 'drain maintenance' gets only 0.9% or less than a third of the standard funding...(and only 25% of that actually hits, shifts, covers the ground-Ed)...apparently...and also apparently the recommendations will go/have gone to Parliament for consideration by Labor Cabinet, but Minister Ian Hunter also said Labor won't be moving from the pitiful $2.2m of current annual funding but they're likely to continue draining peoples wetlands, etc, with this massive new drain going to the Coorong...
(So why waste money on a 'consultation' if there's not going to be a change?-Ed)...so you can say you did consultation...several people called in saying things like 'refuse to pay, it's the only words Hunter will understand', and 'a new drain? can't maintain what they've got', and 'where's all this excess water? we're in the middle of a drought in the driest Spring into the driest Summer', etc, etc...so, to pay for 1) a massive new drain to empty yet more wetlands and bores, etc, and 2) the government's most likely solution for dealing with the failing infrastructure, Labor's answer for both is to level yet another levy against landholders...bastards...(Labor that is, not the landholders-Ed)...ah yeah...
And this following Minister Tony Piccolo saying that reducing speed limits doesn't really affect travel times...(bollocks, by sheer definition if you travel at 100kph instead of 110kph, then if you travel for an hour, you'll be 10 kilometres and therefore some minutes behind the peeps doin' 110...spread that over, say, 450kms, the distance to Adelaide from here...allowing for the appropriate breaks, traffic, etc, it would be just over 4hrs at 110kph, at 100 it's nearly an extra 30 minutes-Ed)...and all this bollocks in excusing Labor's continuing failure/refusal to spend appropriate monies on maintaining country roads, and instead reduce speed limits...(and in the same conversation Piccolo tried to justify the ludicrous $160m tunnel under North Adelaide by stating that it will get some Adelaide commuters to work 4 minutes faster-Ed)...that's just plain offensive...
Credit Where Credit's Due:...as pathetic and 'Dorothy Dixer' as I'd label the recent ABC interviews with Tony Piccolo and that trite piece of work Ian Hunter, the mere fact that these interviews are happening, that these issues are getting covered at all, is down to the existence of the Local ABC...these issues are typically non-existent as far as Adelaide is concerned...and if you, dear availee, are sensing a certain seething loathing pouring outta' this ol' hippy, in the very specific direction of Ian Hunter, then that's because you're not just highly astute, but probably quite attractive as well...he's one of the corrupt pricks from the SARC Inquiry no.52 as per the St Martins Cover-up stuff...
Fell Off My Chair Laughing: to see the new $40million foot-bridge over the Torrens Sewer I mean River ahaha...(no, it is an open sewer...and beyond that a perfect example of just how confected, false, and insanely selfish 'Adelaide' is...that 'River' is an artificial pond created by a weir just down near the Morphett St bridge, and there upstream is the King William St bridge just right there already...so Labor have spent $40m building a superfluous bridge across an artificial obstacle-Ed)...indeed...anyhoos, the new paving is moving and lifting already, and has had to be pulled-up and re-laid...and the brief footage showed orange safety bunting and stacks of 'tiles' and whale oil beef hooked, there they are, more shreckin' grey concrete pavers...(yay-Ed)...and the rank corruption of South Australia is lived large beneath our now uncertain feet as literally a boatload of shitful D-grade Chinese cement pavers are sold around the state and forced on/under citizens by corrupt Councils...
And right there in the vanguard of the Dodgy Pavers Corruption Scandal is the entirely corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, and the insane bastardisation of the Main Street, an insanity that has spewed onto the Flood Plains of Ol'railyard...in the Main St (Commercial St) Council has wasted/rorted literally $millions ripping up and replacing the sound, stable, settled red-brick style pavers that are/were so perfect for foot-traffic areas because their small width and good 'depth' helps to lock them together securely...the small surface area means that weight is usually spread over several bricks/pavers and this minimises even removes the problems of 'pivot movage'...
Pivot Movage: is what I done just make-up to describe the action of someone shifting their weight across a foot-square concrete paver causing the paver/tile to move...it's happening right along the Main...it's fundamental physics that clearly Council engineers /planners/whatevs are completely ignorant to, or they just chose to ignore because the agenda was 'get those pavers/tiles down and the Ratepayers money into whoevs pocket as fast as possible'...I remind availees that the vast majority of those pavers were heavily stained and badly chipped straight off the pallets...these pavers were crap, broken pieces of substandard concrete before even being laid...these were clearly seconds even thirds that some corrupt clown has purchased on the cheap and then corruptly forced on SA, with the rampant collusion of Mt Gambier Council...and this is the corruption that continues to run Mt Gambier into the ground...
Latest Security/Defence Acquisition: is a pair of teflon-coated, bullet-proof budgie-smugglers for our charming PM Tony Abbott...(sorry, what?-Ed)...yeah, least I thinks that's what it was they was talkin' 'bout...(please explain-Ed)...yeah well, I've heard heaps of discourse about this so-called 'Extra Genitational Support', and Tones is the only one I know who serially strips down to a pair of Speedos...(ah, no, I can see where you've gotten a bit confused...I reckon they're talking about Joe Hockey trying to smuggle his dodgy class-biased Budget through a very hostile Senate-Ed)...ah, so more like armour-plated 'Budget-smugglers' really?...(exactly...and of course not to be confused with that other instrument of Smokin' Joe's efforts to try and flog the dead horse that the 2014 Budget has become, floggin' it furiously with what has become known as the 'Joe-Hockey Strap'...no?-Ed)...nice...but is that the main punchline?...
(No, no, I ordered a proper punchline and I reckon that might be it now, those headlights just over at One Mile Ridge Rd...why don't we do the story and finish this 'bit' when the punchline gets here?-Ed)...sure sure, whatevs...we hilariously refer of course to this ludicrous 'Inter-Generational Report' bollocks being constantly spewed-out by PM Tones et al as the Tablet of Truth that defines the fine line between the complete disaster everything is apparently now, and a future like only ever goin' to get like way worse...(we're doomed, doomed I tells ya'-Ed)...the line between disaster and that path to the glorious deliverance unto Fiscal Nirvana, a path that coincidentally just happens to be Liberal Party ideology...(wow, so how coincidentally fortunate for us then that it's the Libs at the helm when their Report reportedly supports the policies they've been floggin' for years-Ed)...sorry Ed, are you suggesting that this Report isn't a balanced and trustworthy indicator of anything, that it's just a preamble to Liberal ideology, a preamble written after the text?...
(Ooo, anyhoos, here's The Punchline now-Ed).........(puff, wheeze, I'm so sorry, wheeze, had a flat tyre, puff, no phone reception out here, cough, hope I haven't kept you waiting? wheeze-TP)...no, no, we saw you coming about a mile off..........well?...(oh right, now then?-TP)...please...(uh-hum...'Oh, when you said Extra Genitational Support, I thought you were referring to Nationals leader and Deputy PM Warren Truss'-TP)..........and that's it?...(whatta' ya' expect for nuthin'? ungrateful prick-TP)...(don't look at me-Ed)......I think it best we all just move on...(fine-Ed)...(suits me.......can I have $10 for petrol?-TP)......sure, hang on, I've only got a fiver, Ed?...(ummm, yeah, here's five bucks-Ed)...(cheers-TP)...yeah, sorry to be so snappy too, been a long day...(no, I understand, none of it's particularly funny, ciao-TP)...
Tomorrow: That Winsome Stuff
That I started today (weeks ago) but never actually got near today, etc, etc...sorry...
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...
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