Camped at Eagle Nest near Sharks Bay WA
You can just see the glow of my laptop where I was working on a clients web sIte in Tassie hosted through Rumcorps.net servers in Dallas Texas. As good an office as any!
Whales off the NW Coast
A pod of about 20 whales come fast from astern and passed either side of the yacht, frightening hell out of us.
Fire on the road
No flames apparent so I hardly slowed down until I had travelled a hundred odd meters with no visibility. About the time I started to panic I came out the other side.
Have a good one
Booker prize winner out of order
Man Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan says Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s environmental policies make him ashamed to be an Australian.
Well mate, I’m ashamed that as an Australian you denigrate our country in an international forum and I’m worried that citizens of other countries might believe your left wing ramblings actually represent Australia.
They don’t.
From Cut and Paste at The Australian;
Guardian Australia online, yesterday:
THE winner of the Man Booker prize, Richard Flanagan says he is “ashamed to be an Australian” because of Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s environmental policies …
Flanagan, The Guardian, December 16, 2010:
AUSTRALIA does have a dismal public life largely bereft of courage or humanity
More shame! ABC television’s Q&A, August 27, 2009:
RICHARD Flanagan: I must say I felt deeply ashamed to be Australian through the Howard years
Flanagan, The Guardian, November 28, 2007:
Every mainland capital city now has a water supply crisis so severe that people have been murdered by neighbours for watering gardens.
Flanagan, The Good Weekend, ¬October 21, 2006, on his new book, The Unknown Terrorist, dedicated to David Hicks:
(David Hicks is) just a naive young man who, through the romance of adventure, ended up in bad company …
Flanagan in The Unknown Terrorist, 2006:
…Jesus is history’s first, but not last, example of a suicide bomber.
On all accounts his book is readable and maybe even worthy of the Booker prize that he’s been awarded, but I think I’ll pass on spending good money on buying the book. I wouldn’t want to encourage him or give him any oxygen. There is plenty of good literature available written by people with a greater grasp on reality than this clown, penned by authors who appreciate what a great country we have and would never think of denigrating it publicly like he has.
Local killed in Syria
A QUEENSLAND man has died after travelling to Syria to fight for the terrorist group Islamic State (IS).
Good!
AFGHAN-BORN Zia AbdulHaq, 33, was killed during the conflict on October 3, The Australian newspaper reports.
A foreign fighter believed to have been part of AbdulHaq’s unit confirmed the death to The Australian on Monday, but he has yet to detail how or where he died.
AbdulHaq migrated to Australia in his 20s. He lived in Logan, south of Brisbane, with his now ex-wife and son before travelling to Syria to join IS in August.
RAAF strikes a blow
TWO bombs have been dropped by a Super Hornet in Australia’s first direct strike on a terrorist target in Iraq, Defence has revealed this morning.
Hooray F***k!
Two bombs! The tide of war has surely changed!
Not.
Even armchair-warriors will be aware by now that fighter bombers do not win a war by themselves, even if they cost the Australian government $250 million each. Troops are need on the ground and so far, the Iraq army haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory.
The western powers have handed over the tactical advantage to the terrorists by rattling on and on about how we won’t drop our bombs unless we can be guaranteed that no civilians will be hurt. The Terrorists, who read Facebook, Twitter and local media, react accordingly, adjust their tactics and the subsequent windows of opportunity for the fighter bombers to attack are fleeting.
$250 million dollars per copy of RAAF, USAF and other airforce’s fighter-bombers cruising around looking for politically correct targets, in between refueling training, while the Terrorists hug the civilian population.
It’s going to be a long war.
News reports show videos and pics of Terrorists raising their black flag near Kobane. Why are they still alive, I wonder? If the news cameras can see them why can’t the missiles or smart bombs?
The only people being serious about this war seem to be the Terrorists and if that continues, a lot of innocent folk are going to be decapitated or sold into slavery.
Is there an agenda I’m missing?
RAAF flies first combat mission in Iraq
And doesn’t do anything!
The fighter bombers did not launch any missiles and both returned safely to their base in the United Arab Emirates.
Significantly, the combat patrol was a self-contained Australian operation with the Super Hornets controlled by a RAAF Wedgetail early warning and control aircraft and refuelled by a RAAF KC30 aerial tanker.
It is understood they were airborne for at least seven hours.
Great work if you can get it. Cruising around in Flight Sim mode Combat mode on combat pay with little threat and no targets, practicing air to air refueling.
C’mon, strike a blow, you’ve have been over there for weeks. I note the British government debated deploying their attack aircraft on a Friday and they were attacking on Saturday.
We are looking lame.
Senate Inquiry stinks
Wow, simply wow!
A Senate public inquiry has been initiated into the Newman government based on the fact that Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney refused to give Clive Palmer preferential treatment and approvals to enable development of Galilee Basin coal assets.
The Greens supported this move and can I say again “Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney refused to give Clive Palmer preferential treatment and approvals to enable development of Galilee Basin coal assets”
That’s funny, I thought one of the Greens major ambitions is to see the coal industry closed down and yet here they are backing a coal baron.
Mmmm… maybe they have other priorities.
The Senate inquiry is due to be released a week or two before the Queensland elections……Gee, I wonder if the whole idea is just to sling mud at Newman in the state election.
Couldn’t be, could it? Pup, the Greens and the ALP wouldn’t stoop that low, would they?
The select committee, which will consist of five members but only one from the Coalition, has a reporting date on or before March 27 next year, very close to the date of the next Queensland election.
Palmer, who isn’t even in the Senate, and coincidently is seldom in the House where he is charged with working in the interests of Australia, not his business interests, had to get his minions, Senator Private Lambie and Senator, The Brick, Lazarus to move the motion for the inquiry.
Senator Lazarus said people were on the phone to him crying about the way [the LNP] are running QLD – sure this warrants investigation?
Yes folks, that is an adult saying that and actually using the sentence in the debate.
As a matter of interest, The Queensland Paliament is accountable to the Queensland people, not the Australian Senate. The whole exercise is setting a dangerous precedence and is obviously a vengence attack on the Queensland LNP by a businessman who has been refused preferential treatment, as he should have been.
I wonder if the Terms of Reference can be broadened to include investigation Clive’s withdrawal of $12 million from a mining development bank account funded by a Chinese partner which Palmer used in his campaign to get the balance of power in the Senate.
A balance shared by Lambie and Lazarus.
God help us.
Subjugation of women not on
Personaly, I think the Niqab, Burka and Chador represent subjugation of women but that’s just me. If the woman is brought up in a 7th century environment I can see how they wouldn’t think of it like that. It’s just life, they would think and that is true from their perspective but the rest of the world has moved on.
In the West we depend a lot on body lanaguage and no way would I have dealings with some one who is hiding their identity for whatever reason. If they choose to hide their faces, then in my opinion they choose not to partake of life in Australia. They can’t enter banks, houses of parliament, shops, Police Stations or any government offices. I’m not allowed to enter any of these institutions wearing a balaclava so why should they get a free pass. They also choose to deny themselves the right to a drivers licence and passport.
They need to move on but in the meatime I think they should be denied services whilst dressed like a bank robber.
New security laws
THE Abbott government’s proposed foreign fighters laws would significantly expand the definition of security and extend ASIO’s powers overseas, an independent watchdog has warned.
She says that like it is a bad thing.
The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, Vivienne Thom, has raised concerns about the bill to crack down on Australians fighting overseas. People travelling to terrorism hot spots could be jailed for five years.
Under the proposed laws, enforcement agencies will get extra powers to investigate, arrest and prosecute people who support foreign conflicts.
I don’t even want them let back in the country. Cancel their passports and let them stay in the shithole they originally come from. If they truly are Aussie born then jail them by all means, but I’m not sure if five years cuts it.
World’s biggest hoarder
I’m currently cleaning out the back shed. 4 x 3 metres of storage and full, as my wife says, of stuff I keep for no apparent reason (that she can see!)
I think I’ll point her to this guy,. The link sent to me by mate Bob H. shows an auction in the US.
It is unbelievable….go look
Hawkes flogged Swans
The team that has that chap who publically abuses teenage girls has been flogged in the AFL grand final.
Good news.
Terrorist brings knife to gunfight
A MAN shot dead after he stabbed two police officers in Melbourne last night was a known security risk who had used social media to attack Australian law enforcement as “dogs” waging a “war on Islam”.
The 18-year old has been named as Numan Haider in media reports
The Islamic Council of Victoria this morning expressed “deep sorrow” over the incident and called for an “objective” investigation, saying the attack showed the consequences of alienating young Muslim men.
I think it’s more a consequence of a young Muslim men trying to kill policemen and if you want to go deeper you might question where he lives and where he got his radical ideas from. It is this environment that is isolating young muslim men, not Australian society.
Other media reports he was called to the police station to have a discussion about his use of social media and when he arrived he knifed both officers, one severley, and the Victorian policeman killed him with one shot.
Reports also mentioned the AFP policemen was attacked whilst shaking hands with the man.
I would imagine police forces around the country will be reviewing their handling of terror suspects subsequent to this incident. Maybe the phrases “Don’t shake hands with the bastards” and “treat as dangerous” will be mentioned in the text of emails hitting their inboxes.
Death is never a good outcome but a terrorists death is better than the death of good guys in the war against terrorism.
I trust the policement heal quickly.
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