guardian of the planet

THUD  new year new beginning my niece (a big strong lass) helped me move the last of my stuff from the storage unit into my new home. Banana boxes full of CD's are not light As we departed carterton I felt this dreadful weight lift off my shoulders. seeya later.  you gave me more than you will ever know. hehehe.  when the lord says get ready you got to move back to the land of my fathers promised myself to stay out of international, local & central govt politics but moves are afoot to unite the whole of the wairarapa under one umbrella. the promise is because cant afford a new pc every time one  of the infantilised pipsqueaks running the show gets a snitcher when they get a mouthful of plainspeaking and then they send a nerdsquad anyways i digress as a strict conservative i.e. a hater of change I was agin this but have changed my mind. In 1984 I had a job reading the Wairarapa Newspapers from day one and what a wonderful world full of colourful characters and eve...

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. —William S. Burroughs

  Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck

 

  People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” — Charles Bukowski

 

the us government would not award purple hearts to black soldiers!  

 

 

 

«When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others. It's the same thing when you are stupid» — Richard Feynman

  Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. - Mark Twain

  "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." - Mark Twain

  sorry but the quote disappeared urrrrkkkkk....

  “You’re Mad Because I’m Free”: When Muhammad Ali Refused to Shrink In 1974, just weeks after shaking the world by knocking out Joe Frazier in the aftermath of the Thrilla in Manila, Muhammad Ali walked onto The Phil Donahue Show, not as a boxer chasing applause, but as a Black Muslim man who refused permission. Facing a mostly white audience, Ali was questioned about his faith, his future, and his confidence. Then came the familiar charge: arrogance. Delivered by a white woman who bristled at his self-assurance, it was the kind of criticism Black excellence has always attracted when it refuses to bow. Ali didn’t dodge, he detonated. He named what she would not: that her discomfort had nothing to do with tone and everything to do with power. That a Black man speaking boldly to white people violated an unspoken rule. That pride in Blackness was still read as an offense. Ali didn’t plead respectability, he exposed hypocrisy. He dismantled the myth of “shared minority status,” r...

 two more days till the new year. it is midsummer here and instead of sunshine we have incessant rain. makes everything grow but not good for living and playing outdoors. the rain is cold. must be the melting icecap in antarctica. the water got to go somewhere. went down to the old place today. have almost finished moving all my stuff from the storge unit to my new abode in Masterton.  Much nicer than the old dive.  It was crummy and the management needs some outside inspection for an organisation that professes to care but is instead intent on using every other penny to build yet another monument to themselves. they seem to have knack for employing people who dont know what they are doing but they don't care as long as they are in charge. pretty sad really. however their time will come. btw I got chipped the other day for taking potshots at St Marks church. I was brought up in the church. One grandfather was at Gallipoli and the Western Front and the other was a Salvatio...

  my twitter feed obliges me to acknowledge those who gave their lives in Vietnam (and other wars) 59,000 men who died fighting for the world in the  palm of my left hand there is a psoriasis plaque slap dab in the middle couple with pruritis and sometimes everything is not so hot however no pain will ever take away the bravery of those who fought and paid the ultimate price might have to give it a rest for a while and endless parade of gallant young men is starting to become just too much and is wearing on my soul

 Ike said Ridgway was his 'fightingest' general!