How I wish I had learned to type when I was young!
Most people today have acquired the skill through years of necessity as computers and mobile phones have become part of everyday lives.
As a schoolkid, all the " smart " kids learned languages and only the lesser mentally gifted headed off to learn typing, shorthand. bookkeeping or metalwork. What a crock that has turned out to be. As I have matured and wandered haphazardly through this thing called life, I have often regretted that I have had to acquire the skills that would have seen me a much more ably equipped adult.
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When President Trump laid down the gauntlet in 2015 as he descended the escalator and announced that was running for President of the United States of America back in 2016, the enemy knew that they were in for a war where the winners would change the fabric of not only America, but the entire world.
Since then, America has been fighting for its independence and many battles have been won.... and lost.
But the war is not over and, whether or not it is Donald Trump who wins this war is almost irrelevant... he was the man who woke the sleeping giant of patriotism. Now that it is awake, I doubt that it will slumber again.
But what cannot be ignored is that THIS WAR MUST BE WON.
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Around the dinner table Ned describes the Stringybark Creek fight and his past life of persecution by police for things he did and things he did not do and the incarceration of his mother. He denies murdering the police stating it was a fair stand up fight with his enemies who were out to kill him first. All the time Joe Byrne is writing this down as a letter to be given to Superintendent Sadlier with a warning that he will continue his war against the police until his mother and her baby are released from prison.
I have been thinking a lot about bacteria this morning. You must be asking why I am suddenly talking about bacteria? Well, it was all because; last night I got food poisoning and I was as crook as a crook dog that is so crook that it made a crook dog look quite healthy and how I found out about a lady who discovered a bacteria that could eat plastic.
Suddenly, I am interested in plastic and how the environment can be saved because of bacteria and my bacterial food poisoning seems somewhat insignificant.
More importantly, my bout of the belly bug led me to a young woman who could do a great deal to save the planet. Her name is Morgan Vague and I want to share how I found out about someone who needs to be honoured for her work.
And it all started with bacteria.
Read more: Bacteria, lamb chops, plastic and neglected housework
When I was a lad in Western Australia, the fifth of November used to be an eagerly awaited event. That was Guy Fawkes Night, commemorating the apprehension in 1605 of conspirators who plotted to blow up the British Parliament, and were hanged and quartered.
It seems that the townies have lost the plot and it's time for the boys from the scrub in the outback towns to come in and sort this mess out.
It is a fiasco.
As a bushie, I think the people in the cities have taken control over a situation that they do not understand. Let's face it, if we keep this rubbish up, we won't have a country.
Read more: It's time for the boys from the bush to come to town and sort the buggers out
As we sit by, locked up like prisoners and subject to the petty egos of bureaucrats and politicians, are we any different to the penal colony that was established all those years ago?
Read more: Is Australia becoming a Penal Colony all over again?
Media release
Letter from Clive Palmer to Prof Skerritt TGA
Dear Prof Skerritt,
RE: MINERALOGY RADIO CAMPAIGN ON COIVID-19 VACCINES
Get the shot, get the shot! Wait. Never mind. Don’t get it. Vaccine “hesitancy” for young adults just turned into “just say no” because who needs to have a heart attack or a stroke at 25 or 15 years young, all to supposedly “prevent” catching a virus that barely even affects young adults or adolescents? If the chicken pox vaccine or the flu shot was causing blood clots and swollen hearts for kids, teens and young adults, would everyone still be rushing out to get it? The answer is no.
Following the tragedy at Gallipoli, the ANZAC withdrawal to Lemnos was quickly followed by a consolidation of the Allied forces in Egypt. Monash contended that the Gallipoli campaign “failed only in that it did not achieve its objective”.
He added that if the Turkish Army had not been engaged on Gallipoli it would have been a serious menace to the Allies. He further contended that it was, in fact, a strategic victory and as the builder of an AIF tradition that, alone, made it worthwhile. 20,000 Australians were engaged on Gallipoli but their deeds were an inspiration to the 300,000 who followed. Turkish casualties were 251,309 including 86,692 killed. Australia lost 8,709 killed, NZ 2,701, Britain 21,255 and France 10,000.
I have just finished re-reading the first instalment of the Ned Kelly series and I find the same thought going through my mind: are we, the normal ordinary people, being turned into the Kelly Gang?
I cannot help but reflect on history and see too many similarities for my liking. The police and the court system and government seem to feel that we are criminals for standing up for our families. Nothing in what is happening today is that dissimilar to the Kelly Gang who seem to have been bullied and coerced into acting and reacting to persecution. Our elected officials are being ruled by so-called experts giving advice, not opinions. That is dangerous to us and to our future.
I wonder if the goal is to make us so angry, so frustrated and so outraged that we are being taunted into breaking the " law " so that we can be disciplined, dealt with and bullied into submission. I wonder. Being ruled by advice can be very dangerous indeed, except to those who hide behind the apron strings of those that dish it out.
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