I’m off to Legacy now to help set up an Antiques and Militaria auction to raise funds for what I class as a uniquely Australian charity. Legacy exists to help the widows and orphans of veterans killed in wars and those who died afterwards as a result of their war service.
The volunteer workforce primarily comprises former defence force personnel who have a strong commitment and interest in looking after the families of deceased comrades.
Volunteer members were originally called Legatees because they accepted the “legacy of care” for their comrades’ families and this title has continued to the present day. Some 7500 Legatees assist more than 134,000 widows and 1900 children and disabled dependants Australia-wide.
That’s right – 134,000 widows. The story behind the wars we fight. Some people just keep on giving and suffering. You might have not served but you can help Legacy help these widows and their kids. Think about it.
You can view the Legacy website
here
Beside Legacy, this week I have the inaugural webmeet of Brisbane bloggers, organized by Andy Murphey from
Mangled Thoughts, ably backed by Paul from
Paul & Carls Daily Diatribe and Tod McKenzie from……..wait for it………
Tod McKenzie.
I look forward to meeting other people so if your in town get yourself to the Story Bridge Hotel after work on Wednesday. Blonde and large, you can’t miss me. Oh………Ok……….the blonde is really grey.
The SMH has set up a website titled
‘Rugby Heaven’. Check out the TAG guy – shades of Star Wars. No wonder the baby has a sooky look on his face. Still, looks a lot more professional than an overweight ‘white shirt’ security guy. They’ll be behind the scenes and there will be a lot of them – take a long, hard look Jemaah Islamiah. This guy is not your local Kopassus thug and he would relish the chance to prove it.
A tiny Scottish island distillery has been under observation by US agents. The agency had been monitoring the distillery plant and noticed one of the web cams were faulty. They reported that fact to the company!
They said they had been monitoring our webcams because the process of making something very innocuous and pleasant is close to making weapons of mass destruction, apparently,” Mr Reynier said.
The story sounds a bit iffy to me and one you would take with a grain of salt. Why, for example did the agency feel they had to put the distillery under observation to see if they were procucing WMD. Why didn’t they just front the company and ask to see the invoices for chemicals? It’s in Scotland after all, not Iraq.
On a lighter note, Mr Reynier, the MD, abbrogates his responsibilities by using the word ‘innocuous’ to describe his company’s product. Having been a bagpiper for many a long year I can tell you whiskey destroys and you only have to go to a Highland gathering to see it’s ‘mass destruction’ capabilities.
Anyway, just so you know I’m not making it up, check the article out
here
Update: This from an alert reader (see comments)
The Bruichladdich Distillery in Scotland has decided to cooperate with the authorities and has provided the WMD inspectors with their own link. Scroll down to find it.
Ah, it’s great in the sunshine state. Easy morning, lunch then a dip in the pool. Relax for a bit in the warm sunshine giving little thought to the poor Victorians…I mean 10 celcius, rain and the Lions to play.
Half time and I feel a bit sorry for them…but not that much
Full time at 134 versus 84
Ah, it’s great in the sunshine state! Now off to a party, good friends, a birthday and a win to celebrate on a balmy sub-tropical night.
A lot has been written about the great Australian – all complimentary, all deserved. I was, however, saddened by the fact that somehow or other Peter Garret was there to politicise and lower the tone of the event. Since he politicized the Sydney Olympics I have had little time for the man. His mere presence insulted my sensibilities.
It’s true, Australia isn’t perfect but any opening of closets full of skeletons should be debated and resolved in-family. I can happily handle, and even encourage opposing views, but to push a minority view onto the world stage that denigrates this great country, something the great Slim would never have done, puts the perpetrater in a bucket of slops to be thrown out at the first opportunity.
Garrett read a message from Mandawuy Yunupingu, a member of indigenous rock band Yothu Yindi.
“You were the first pioneer of reconciliation between black and white Australia,” it said. “The message in your songs brings harmony and balance between people and the land.”
I’m surprised that Garret didn’t slip in a “and that mongrel Howard still wont apologize”.
It wasn’t Slim’s way. I’m sure he didn’t think in terms of reconciliation. He was just singing to Australians – all of us. Garret, on the other hand, speaks for very few.
I’ve nearly been arrested, or at least spoken to severely in my time about trouser snake problems but
this guy apprehended at Sydney International puts a whole new slant on ‘trouser snakes’
The article goes on to mention;
King cobras, which can grow up to 5m and are capable of killing an elephant, are found across Asia
I’d like to see that. In Thailand years ago I witnessed a little mongoose take out a king cobra in seconds and I can’t see an elephant thinking twice about standing on any cobra that didn’t get out of the way.
Back to trouser snakes; A smile and a kiss might have saved me but it’s not going to work on the Magistrate. This guy is going to do time.
Earlier in the week a Priest conducting a mass was reported as demanding that a person consume the consecrated host in front of him. I was a bit confused about the article and the significence of the consuming ‘on site’ requirement
In a letter in todays Australian,quoted in full below, all is explained. Apparently it is done to stop witches and satanists from getting a valid ‘host’ for their black masses. Yep! That’s what it says. Shades of Salem
I find that a bit mind blowing. With all the problems main-stream religion is having they waste time combating ‘black masses’ when they should be combating ‘black hearts’ amongst their ranks.
An unholy row
If journalists are going to report on a priest demanding that a person consume a consecrated host at a mass (22/9), they should do some research first. What is sacrilegious is for someone to receive holy communion and to take it back to their seat unconsumed, or even to hold on to it after mass. Such a practice is rife among witches and satanists who frequent Catholic masses to get a valid host for their black masses. Whatever Fr Gerry Prindiville’s faults are if any, he acted rightly.
I am disgusted with the behaviour of Sr Dominique and the lynch-mob against Fr Prindiville at St Vincents in Redfern, Sydney. Furthermore, Archbishop George Pell has just as good credentials in social justice as does the previous priest Fr Ted Kennedy.
Fr Paul Stuart
Carlton, Vic
What a load of ‘nothingness’. Get real guys.
Go on over to Paul and Carl’s daily diatribe and redefine ‘
vindictive‘ in your thinking. I don’t care if it is a suburban myth, it’s a good one and a payback for all the poor bastards who have ever been cuckolded.
Back to things that matter.
A drug created by the former KGB to keep its agents sober so that they could drink opponents under the table before stealing their secrets is being sold on the internet to Hollywood stars as a defence against hangovers.
The drug, known as RU-21, is made in Russia and sold as a natural remedy. Hollywood actors are said to be fond of the fix, named after the legal drinking age in the US, which enables them to make the most of the party circuit without the red eyes or headaches on the film set the next morning.
Its makers say it stops the body making an enzyme that turns alcohol into acetaldehyde, a toxic chemical that can damage tissues.
I want some. I wonder if my DVA Doctor would write a script for me?
Full story
here
The Sydney Morning Herald confuses ‘hijack’ with ‘shooting boarding passengers’ in
this article from Bangkok.
Police in Thailand have reportedly thwarted an al-Qaeda plot to attack an Israeli El Al airliner in Bangkok.
Thai police had arrested a man who allegedly had been filming around the El Al counter at Bangkok airport, and in a raid on his home found a plan to attack passengers as they headed towards their plane, the Israeli television report said.
It gave no details about the man, who had been arrested about three months ago, but it said Bangkok airport was considered by Israeli authorities to be a sensitive area for possible al-Qaeda attacks.
Still, the message is there. The bastards still haven’t been put down. They’re still planning on killing innocents.
More pressure needed. More hunting parties!
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