My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

What the hell - I may as well jump on the bandwagon:

waffles

and to show I am not biased

miserable failure

I'm in Bourke! :| For most probably two (2) weeks! Even, possibly, *gasp*, over a long-weekend! :| For the love of GOD - why? WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY? SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Save Me - The Tea Party

I must leave you tonight my love, remain so faithfully
I must go off to war my dear, the kings await me
I will go so far away.
I will always love you, but you knew.

I regret to tell you, your man has died tonight.
He was a brave man, he fought a brave fight.
He was killed by the other side.
He was killed by the other men's knives.

She said save me
Save me

Why must you love this man, he is your brother?
This is easy to understand, my son, there is no other.
I cannot pretend to love this man Like my father.
I cannot pretend, mother, there is no other.

She said save me
Save me

When there is no truth, let's end this lie tonight.
This is easy to understand, without your best fight.
But I see a new sun rising in the east
But I see a new sun rising in the east

She said save me
Save YOU!

From Anthony Burgess' preface to the print edition of "A Clockwork Orange":

"...I do not think so because, by definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange--meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."

Jazz is funny. He sits there barking all day long in a fury at the next door neighbour's dog - the funny part is - the next door neighbour's dog is deaf. But none-the-less Jazz insists on barking his little heart out hoping to get a reaction out of a dog that doesn't even seem to notice he exists.

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But apparently they are not current enough for reuters uk - god knows what they and 97% of the world are using if it's not what I have :S

RIH wants me to meet her family. This is scaring the hell out of me!

The cast is as follows:
a father : who hates me for violating his daughter; who thinks that because everytime she mentions my name she is lying; and who makes the Nazi's look like pansies.

a mother : who thinks i'm violating her daughter; who is strictly religious; and is basically a down-trodden beaten housewife who is not allowed to think for herself.

a sister : who seems alright from what I can gather - she at least was intelligent enough to get the hell away from home.

a brother : who always says "waaaaaaaaaaaazuuuuppp!" - now, I am not a violent man by nature, infact quite the oppositte is true, but I will not be able to restrain myself from taking to him with a baseball bat if he insists on saying that to me.

It is either this venture or going home to my own family, who at this stage, are still puting up kelly in our house. This is problematic because, as you may well know (or may not) I almost have an OCD with cleanliness of my body, hands in particular, and the thought of what Kelly could damn well be running around with makes my stomach churn - so I think I will try and avoid that route. There is always the "stay here" option - but even that will not be the best as the house will be full of westies! No one likes a westy! :(

Mr Abbott proving again that politicians are out of touch with the common folk showed his ignorance on why people get pack-raped and violated with blunt objects by sporting teams:

"But I think we have got to understand that if we feed people a diet of mental ... and intellectual junk we are going to damage people."

"It leads to all sorts of bad behaviours and outcomes," he said.

"We are rightly horrified by, for instance, the bad things that sometimes sporting groups get up to on tour and we say 'this is a shocking exploitation of women'.

"Of course it is (but) if the image of women that you are constantly being given is of these sexualised creatures, well, is it any wonder that some people react inappropriately.

"We send so many mixed messages and we wonder why we get dodgy results."

So basically what he is saying is that if you dress like a whore you should get treated like a whore. If you watch violence - you will be violent - and should expect to get treated violent. Do the words "A Clockwork Orange" mean anything to him? .

Weight Lifting
Chi Kung is an ancient Taoist art of body control (it dates back to 2700 BC) and claims to resist disease, retard aging, prolong virility, and for all I know give oneself X-ray vision. Some have taken this unique art to new heights, claiming to achieve sexual nirvana by strapping weights to their penises and doing repetitive lifts. No kidding.

Practitioners of this brand of Chi Kung begin their sessions with an hour-long warm-up to stimulate the senses through breathing routines and stretches. After the blood has been stimulated, the men retreat to a small room and dress down to nothing but a T-shirt and a blue cloth wrapped around the midsection (nudity is strictly taboo). After the penis has been manually stimulated, barbells are then hooked onto a coat-hanger-like apparatus, which is tied securely around the base with a scarf. Students then commence the workout, which consists of several swinging and lifting motions designed to really work the muscles. Beginners start out with two and-a-half pounds, and some have eventually progressed to hefting truly colossal weights—we're talking in the hundreds of pounds. A striking demonstration of this was made in 1995 by a Hong Kong master named Mo Ka Wang, who lifted over 250 lbs. two feet off the floor. Sounds pretty impressive, and even if the supposed benefits fall flat you'll at least have an extra method of carrying groceries.

( cited @ http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRtechnique.html#most_sex_acts )

I think I am turning into a cat - I keep snacking on these little tins of tuna (with salsa, or sweet chilli sauce etc) - I don't even damn well like tuna!

I want a new life. I want to trade mine in. I want to swap mine for another. I want to just jump in a plane to a destination I do not know. I want to wake up and not know where I am. I want to wake up and have no one know me. I want to drive as far as I can on a tank of petrol - where I end up I will live. I want something else. I want.

Democracy American Style :

"We will respond," said Kimmitt, the U.S.-led coalition's top military spokesman. "It will be deliberate and precise and be overwhelming ... We will kill them or we will capture them."

The warning sets the stage for a clash between newly arrived U.S. Marines, who have assumed control of the area, and anti-U.S. residents of a city that has resisted repeated efforts to bring it under control .

(By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY: USAToday.com; emphasis added on "under control")

Isn't democracy about the people choosing for themselves? Where the hell does "control" come into it? Where the hell does " We will kill or capture them" come into it?

I love the way that the American Journalists sanitise the news story: "Civilian Contractors" they were freaking mercenaries getting paid around $15,000 per day to harrass Iraqis'! They were not "Civilian Contractors!"

Van Morrison on Ray Charles : "Ray Charles is proof that the best music crosses all boundaries. His music will probably outlive us all."

Elvis Costello on the Beatles: "Every record was a shock. Compared to R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs."

etc etc - insert a whole bunch of other artists talking up who inspire them...and then....

Little Richard on Little Richard: "A lot of people call me the architect of rock 'n' roll. I don't call myself that, but I do believe it's true."

I'M DYING - Vast

Jesus Christ
are you the son of God
I want to know
you ask that I believe
Not one day goes by
that I don't compromise your love
for the cold love of the world
it's killing me through my own evil pride
Not one day goes by that I don't know that I'm dying
Jesus Christ
are you the savior of the world
I want to see but I still believe
Not one day goes by that I don't realize I know
that no one will ever know where the flowers go
when they are gone
Not one day goes by that I don't know that I'm dying.
I want to say you all are too.

Fyyr Lu'Storm posted on 03-16-2004 @ 06:26 AM @ http://thedruidsgrove.org/forums/printthread.php?t=6996



Them: She's an alcoholic.
Me: What's an alcoholic?
Them: Someone who has alcoholism.
Me: Sounds bad, what is alcoholism?
Them: Alcoholism is a disease!
Me: How do you catch it? Is it like crabs?
Them: You don't catch it, you inherit it like diabetes or epilepsy.
Me: Then it is genetic?
Them: Yes.
Me: You get it from your parents or grandparents or ancestors, right?
Them: Yes.
Me: What about the American Indians?
Them: What?, ya like them.
Me: But the American Indians did not have alcohol until da 'White Man' gave them 'firewater'.
Them: Huh?
Me: The American Indians came from Asia across the Bering Straight land bridge about 15,000 years ago. They had not invented alcohol yet, did not even know it existed. They had no alcohol for 500 generations, at least.
Them: Huh? land bridge?
Me: How can you inherit alcoholism when there is no alcohol?
Them: Well if you are an alcoholic, you just know it!
Me: Ya, like if you are an idiot, you know that too, right?
Them: Yup, like that.
Me: Nods.

Herald's Margo Kingston in her Tuesday Web Diary: "I don't know about you, but when I saw Latham say we had to bring our 850 troops home after June 30 'to defend Australia' I was disgusted. Pure populism it was, and I thought Australians would see through it big time, which they have. It was painful to see Latham's foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd on Lateline last night having to dodge and weave to avoid stating the obvious - that he didn't agree with Latham's hard and fast timetable for exit. Latham has neutralised Rudd with this decision, damaging one of his best assets on national security." (cited @ http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9167862%255E7583,00.html)

I completely agree - Mark Latham has casted serious doubt on his credability. He has been basically lying to the public and been trying to win by playing silly games of deceit. I hope for Labors' sake, I hope four our countries sake; that he lifts his game.

The following is an extract from a book written in 1975:

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a dramatic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating out-break of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 US states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and the extent of the trend, as well as its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they agree they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity. (Gwynne, 1975 cited in Lomborg, 2001)

The above extract was from a book on Global Cooling. Back in the mid-70's the worlds scientists were worried about global cooling - this was used in Lomborg's book to help illustrate the problems with using short-term trends.

There are often problems that arise in Australia's weather due to short-term trends. Often, we are reported to about droughts and major weather events of that nature - however - due to their being such little amounts of data, more often than not, most of these reported weather events are not as extreme as one would have you believe - they are infact, climatic, and not weather related at all. We just do no have enough data to make accurate climate models at this stage, and many of our models we are relying on are based on small amounts of data that have been extrapolated and interpolated to buggery.

The US government is planning on photographing and fingerprintingvisitors from a hell of a lot of countries when they go there. At first I thought, well, who really gives a shit - if you're innocent you have nothing to hide, and if you're not innocent of comitting a crime, then you should be punished. After a bit more thought - it's really quite a dodgy idea. It is going to create the largest database of fingerprints in the world.

Now, we've all heard the old adage that "no two finger prints are alike" - that's all good and well in a utopic world - but our world is far from utopic. The problem is that they only require so many matches on a fingerprint before it is considered to be a match - this was all good and well with the limited amount of fingerprints, of say, an entire state - but when you're basically attempting to catalogue half of the world - there could be any number of duplicate matches floating around there!

Fingerprinting is just to subjective to be of any use on such a large scale and with the limitations we have on matching them (don't even get me started on DNA testing!) is it even worth the time and effort?