Category: General Musings

Understandably, claiming to be a soldier when you haven’t done the time rankles with those of us who have. Danny Robert Shakespeare is claiming it all and is now having lengthy discussions with the Feds.

HE CLAIMS he shot Osama bin Laden in the foot and served with the SAS in Afghanistan and Iraq. On other occasions he is a wealthy property developer or a former hitman with links to notorious bikie gangs.

No. None of the above. He is just a conman

Over the years, Shakespeare has falsely claimed he was a hitman and nephew of New South Wales organised crime figure Lenny McPherson, that he was related to well-known bookmaker Terry Page, and had links to the Gypsy Jokers motorcycle club.

More claims than an insurance thief.

Detectives say Shakespeare also uses his cover story of being a retired SAS officer, to convince people to give him money.

I didn’t know there was any money in being an ex SASR officer.

He typically claims that due to secrecy requirements of the SAS he does not carry identification.

Yeah. Right. It’s not as if you get to keep your ID Card when you leave the service.

He has tattoos of the word “Nina” on his left thumb, “Angela” on his right wrist with stars, a shark on either shoulder and a yin and yang sign on his chest.

Making him the only ex SASR officer I know of with tattoos. If you see him, ask him to drop in at the monthly SASR Association lunches in Brisbane. Email me for details.

Lats night while I was starting the planning for a trip to Cape York in June, Mother Nature was planning a cyclone in that very area.

CYCLONE Ingrid, potentially the worst tropical storm to strike Australia in 30 years, remains a serious threat as it nears the far-north Queensland coast. In its latest advice the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Brisbane said the cyclone, now downgraded to category four, was today about 220km north north-east of Cooktown and 295km east of Coen and moving westward at 7km/h.

The Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre said there was a possibility Ingrid could again intensify to category five, but as a category four it remained as big a threat as Cyclone Tracy, which devastated Darwin 30 years ago. Winds of up to 290 km/hr (180 mph for metric disadvantaged Americans) will wreac havoc but there are few people living in the target area so loss of life will be minimal, if at all. I just hope they have the track cleared by June. Selfish barstard. The bitch’s name is Ingrid and you can track her here If you are geographically disadvantaged look to the top right hand corner of the continent.

C:\>copy c:\mydocs\mydrctry\letter~1.doc d:\worddocs The above line doesn’t make any sense? Then you never had to learn DOS. I did as I started with computers in the early 80’s. It is the DOS code for moving/copying a document from C: to D: drive. Move, copy, delete, make directory and every other application had to be handled by typing lines of code. And then along came Jef Raskin. Amongst other things, he invented the mouse controlled ‘Drag and drop’ system of moving files or documents.

When the Mac was unveiled in 1984, it radically changed the personal computer industry. No longer were users forced to type commands. Instead, its interface mimicked a physical desktop, with folders and filing cabinets. Documents could be dragged from one area to another.

On 26 Feb he was dragged and dropped in the recycle bin for deletion. He died of Pancreatic cancer but he will always be remembered for taking the drudgery out of computing.

Travelling around Australia? New to our culture? Then check here for pub ettiquettee and the fine details of ordering beer. As someone comments, it’s a bit like our railway system – a different guage for every state and in this case, a different name for beer glasses in every state. I travel a lot and have solved the problem by pointing to a glass and asking for ‘one of them’ of XXXX. It’s a good read considering the lack of gravity of the subject. Hat tip to Robert Corr

QUEENSLAND Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy Minister Liddy Clark resigns as Minister in the aftermath of lies told by her staff and herself. Facts. Stick to facts says Andrew Bolt

Convicted brawler Murrandoo Yanner, a member of the taxpayer-funded ATSIC, tells the ABC if no police are punished, then “under the law, if you can’t get one policeman, you get another”, because “when someone’s killed, someone must be killed in return”. After hearing his threats, Queensland’s Minister for Aboriginal Policy, Liddy Clark, invites Yanner to fly with her on a taxpayer-funded flight to Palm Island to do some “healing” there.

We have a case of sub-human thugs attempting to murder police officers and one of their kind, a self styled verbose thug and criminal ‘leader’ incites murder and the state Labour Government Minister invites him to come help. She pays the air tickets, the Premier sensing a political storm says ‘No Way does the taxpayer fork out for these thugs’ but the Minister ignores him.

The CMC also found that Premier Peter Beattie knew in advance about the airfare funding decision that was the beginning of the end of Ms Clark’s ministerial career. But the CMC found the Premier’s office had also been deceived by Ms Clark and her staff, and had not been involved in covering up the so-called Airfare Affair.

What’s the agenda there? Are the staff just protecting their boss or do they have a agenda that refuses to accept attempted murder as a crime because the perpetrators are Aborigines? I’d like to know.

The CMC found Ms Clark’s media adviser Marie Low and senior policy adviser Bruce Picard were responsible for the lie. It recommended the pair be counselled by Premier’s Department director-general Leo Keliher.

Bloody Counselled! They should be sacked. Now! The problem isn’t just Queensland-based it exists all over the country. In Macquarrie Fields sub-humans riot and try to kill police. (There is no other way to describe intent when the act involves throwing a Molotov Cocktail at police officers) Darlene quotes an Ivory Tower occupant from Griffith Universty who says the problem won’t be solved by a rigid law and order stance but by

…police convincing the residents they were not the “enemy” by tackling the suburb’s social ills with other agencies

Bullshit. Those thugs need to be very aware that when they behave like ferals then the Police are most definitely their enemy. Back in Brisbane the Governmet allow clubs to stay open all night and act surprised when riots occur, samurais swords are used in fights, woman are raped and innocent passerbyes murdered. What’s there to be surprised about? We are just reaping what we have sown. The Government take police off the beat where they can best ‘police’ and put them out on income-shifts earning the government money in traffic fines. Less police on the beat and more drug sellers are active. The kids dope up on amphetamines that halve their IQs and inhibitions and double their aggression. The Police arrest some juveniles but Magistrates, so intent on social engineering, let them loose with a slap on the wrist. What happened?

“He would say that, wouldn’t he?” Not only did I close the last post with a line that only 50 plus year old readers would be familiar with, but I accredited it to the wrong woman. It was actually Mandy Rice-Davies, a friend of Christine, who uttered the immortal line “He would say that, wouldn’t he? Mandy was in court and when the defence claimed that Lord Astor had never paid to have sex with her she uttered the memorable line. The quote entered the English language and basically says nothing objective comes from sources with a vested interest. Mandy Rice-Davies My older readers are now smiling with the memory and the younger ones are wondering what the hell I’m on about. Stay with me. A Sydney reader, Terry M. pointed out my error and started me Googling to refresh my memory. Ah! Now I remember. In 1962 Christine Keeler, a striking beautiful young woman, had run away from home at the age of 16 and become a showgirl at Murray’s cabaret club in Soho, London, where she was employed “to walk around naked”. John Profumo was the British Secretary of State for War, married to actress Valerie Hobson, educated at Harrow and Oxford and had everything going for him other than his pronounced zipper problem. Christine met Mandy Rice-Davies and Stephen Ward, a fashionable London osteopath ,who enjoyed sketching the rich and famous and the three of them often spent weekends at a cottage belonging to one of Ward’s friends, Lord Astor. So did Profumo. Getting better, isn’t it? Profumo and Keeler had a short but torrid affair that most probably would have been ignored by the press except Christine had also slept with Eugene Ivanov, a patriotic Russian who was a naval attach? at the Soviet Embassy – he was also a spy . . . Back in Albany, WA, aged 15, I was undergoing my penultimate year at high school. A task made very difficult by hormones and testosterone bubbling away forcing maths and English into the background while I tried to come to grips with girls. In 1962 we didn’t even know what a girl looked like sans clothes. There was a magazine called ‘Adam’ that had women in suggestive poses but all fully clothed. The only pictures available were hunted out in the school library under ‘Travel’. The odd National Geographic had pictures of foreign woman in various states of undress with a naked, upper torso shot here and there. There, I’ve said it. My sex education was based on the National Geographic magazine. It could be said that men of my age were terribly disadvantaged in that we spent years of our youth imagining woman to be built like PNG Marys. The suckling pigs threw us a bit, but we learnt to ignore that. Albany is a port and I do recall a couple of us talking to sailors on leave and one of them flashing a set of ‘dirty post cards’ The memory is dim however, as the flashing was just that, a flash, and that type of thing needs protracted study. And then along came Christine and that photo in the chair. It was sheer pornography to us as it was very obvious she was NAKED! The press filled in the gaps and we were never the same. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

John Profumo has kept a low profile since the sensational events of the 1960s, mainly occupying himself with charity work. He was named Commander of the British Empire in 1975 for his charitable work. After the scandal broke, the Naval attach? Ivanov was called back to Moscow and never heard from again. Keeler lives quietly in North London, and says she still feels “bewildered” by what happened. Rice-Davies is a grandmother and lives in America.

Mandy Rice -Davies is also quoted as saying;

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

in connection with reports that she was on social terms with Sir Denis Thatcher, husband of ex-prime minister Margaret Thatcher. My problem with women, maths and English eventually resolved itself but not for some years. In my writings in another venue I recorded this in 1964

We had four days off early in 1964 and three of us chose to go to Sydney. For all of us, all boys from the bush, the thought of maybe a million girls in a 30 or 40-square mile paddock must clear up the virginity problem.

It didn’t.

Quote from Bunker Mulligan in a post on Dissappearing Blogs

Thirty plus years ago Staff Sergeant Billy Webb assured me I had absolutely no reason to have an ego, and the only one authorised was his.

I know the feeling, Forty plus years ago Sergeant King suggested the only reason he was allowing me to pass Corps Training and go on to a Regiment was because he wanted me out of his hair. Damn, there was a long line of Sergeants in those early days who failed miserably in recognizing my talents. (In my later years the long line may still have been there but military ettiquette and a natural desire for promotion may have tempered their comments)

LETTING communities know pedophiles are living among them is a bad idea, a prominent New South Wales civil liberatarian says.

Community leaders such as school principals and politicians were not responsible enough to use the information properly, NSW Council for Civil Liberties president Cameron Murphy said.

The man rapes three children, is convicted and serves 14 years. He refuses to undergo any rehabilitation in prison. He is eventually released from prison and then gets 15-month sentence for failing to tell NSW’s Child Protection Register he had a job that gave him access to children. On the face of it I can’t see any signs of Ferguson being a changed man but the civil libertiy people are all up in arms about mothers and fathers demanding their civil liberties. You know… freedom for their children to play and move around the community without being molested.

Opposition Deputy Leader Jeff Seeney, whose electorate includes Murgon, called on all communities that became home to Ferguson to protest so the Government would tighten the laws. Mr Seeney said 519 serious sex offenders had walked free from Queensland prisons in the past five years without completing rehabilitation and they should be put into institutions indefinitely.

The father in me wants him dead. The citizen in me wants him in a position where he can’t molest kids. If he has shown no remorse and refuses rehabilitation then can’t we keep him secure at Her Majesty’s pleasure until we, as the citizens, through our law courts, are satisfied that he wont offend again. Some of these people rape and murder, are convicted, spend time in prison and are then released. They then rape and murder, are convicted…… Do Civil Libertarians notice this cycle. Does it feature in what they say about the rapists liberties and what do they say about the victims liberties? Not much I would think and Cameron Murphy says school principals and politicians are not responsible enough.

Have been very busy this week trying to overcome Spam mainly from texas-holdem.terashells.com. If any reasonable person knows more about these turkeys could they send round a patrol and take them out. Come on..are you listening over there at Midland, Texas. If anyone has an answer to help an old soldier please leave a comment.