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08 March 09
Pathetic really!!! Thats the general reason for not updating this site for some time. However let me do one of those things where I say I will and hope I keep my promise.
What an interesting start to the year huh? Economic decline, further decline economically and a new American president. The race to be the first country leader to meet Obama has been run and won by Gordon Brown from the UK. There is although, or was as it has died down since further economic trouble, a petition started by one of our Green party senators to be the first to get Obama out of the country and into a new one. I think Canada got that one though. And lets face, Australia? Why would he come here. Besides K Rudd wanting to save the world from whatever the fuck is in the news right now there really isnt anything here he would like.
Sure he can come and cuddle a Koala, feed a kangaroo and Kevy baby could show him around Kirrabilly house, get Teresa to whip up a Pavlova, then have a wander around the botanic gardens, maybe drop for a look at thr pretty green chairs in the lower house and then the sombre red chairs of the senate. Now I maybe mistaken but I think Obama could give a fuck. Anyhow moving on.
Onto more serious stuff though. Australia is a big place, yet you are never more than 1000 kilometers from the beach. The north of Queensland was under water, in drought and then in the southern state of Victoria, bushfires destroyed countless lives and killed over 200 people. The rest of the country has donated millions in order for these folks and the communities to get going again. Some of the fires still burn as I type this but the danger isnt as bad as the last two or three weeks. As always, politicians, being the folks they are milked it for all it was worth. Some of the rethoric seemed sincere, right up until the political point scoring started. And then the local fire brigades and the other fire brigades started taking pot shots at each other. What a fucking ridiculous situation. As if you would give a fuck as your house and everything you own is nothing but ash. Thye question apprently rises from firemen not being allowed to go and fight fires. I admit this did die down somewhat quickly and nothing as yet has been resolved.
Immediately, those that seemed to know about such things as bushfires made some interesting comments about burning off. There was some years ago (more than I can remember) a Green initiative to say, to the effect, dont burn stuff cos its bad for the enviroment. Now the aboriginals, who admittedly have only been here for 30 - 40 thousand years used to burn back often. Fuck when I was a kid we used to go places and burn the undergrowth so that when a fire did happen, the dry fuel for the fire would be less. Makes sense doesnt it? Add to this that some of the fires were purposely lit by arsonists and the whole fucking thing is a mess. Thankfully, the people really affected by this bushfire can get going again and rebulid. Again. I doubt they really give a fuck about all the bullshit surrounding the bushfires. I assume they just want to move on and start again.
One last thing about the bushfires is they are now trialing an alert system that sends a SMS message to all registered mobile phones in the fire risk area. Seems simple really doesnt it? Ah well yes and no. You see we dont really have the telephonic infrastructure to make it work properly. Yep thats Australia kids. Oh forgot to mention. All victims of the fires are/were entitled to government handouts to keep them going til such tiome as they dont need to. And yep, some fuckers tried to cheat the system by claiming they were in the fire or their relatives died in the bushfires. Never let it be said there arent arseholes everywhere.
In other news, The Mistress and I went to the Gary Numan concert last Monday night. Out fucking standing. More about that soon on the scene and heard page. But for now we will call that a day.
Stay sane unless you have a better option
Wolf
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