My preferences for Redgum Ward. I have placed sitting councillors last. It won't mean much. There are about thirteen thousand voters in this ward spread across Keysborough, South Dandenong and the CBD and I'm not letter dropping or handing out how to vote cards. Media are waiting until the last week to run articles on the election and may be restricting candidate letters to the editor. At the end of the day, it is about spending too much money, fetters on local business and garbage collection. The left dominated council are very bad on these fronts. But I'm playing a long game. I want a coherent platform this election so in four years time I will be known. And maybe I can get important issues addressed in the mean time. Car parks. Cheaper, more efficient waste disposal. Better public transport bussing vectors. Less red tape on business. Better youth employment. Better planning so that there are facilities for places of worship and recreation. Better infrastructure for internet. Council aren't responsible for all of that, but they have input in all of that.
Hillary was slippery and offered nothing beyond confusion and excuses. It was made all about Trump. He did not make a gaff. He made valid points Hillary danced around. Sky News in Australia gave it to Hillary too. But Trump did not fail. Did not try to be something he wasn't. Did not appear as Hillary portrays him. In my view, Hillary lost because she failed to slam him shut. The public had low expectations of Trump. He exceeded that. He did not joke as Reagan did about exploiting his opponents youth and innocence. He did not hurt Hillary. He let her shriek, and took the high ground.
Hillary's reply to Trump's claim the budget could be $5 trillion better off was telling. "I was confused by what you offered. I have considered that. It would not offer those savings." She has no hope for America. No plan. Hillary was belled placing a lie on Trump several times. The moderator rushed to prevent Trump from addressing them. But he calmly replied. Hillary's track record is that of failure and murderous incompetence. She stands on her record.
The left wing media pieces were written before the debate. They knew they needed to have to have something to promote Hillary. Hillary gave them nothing in the debate to endorse her. Making up a meme about Trump not shaking a hand when he clearly did just shows they are using the same play sheet.
Hillary has tremendous stamina. Her sustained poor judgement spans decades. Trump could never hope to rival it. Ordinary people would be sacked and jailed had they done merely one thing Hillary has done every year of her public career. Beginning with almost imploding the case against Nixon on Watergate through corruption.
Kevin Rudd has a lot of experience with this. He tried very hard to turn Australia into a toilet.
Did it happen to mention what she said? I am not disputing the assertion that Emma Watson has left wing values. I just would like to judge what she has said by what she has said. I tire of journalists reporting only their opinion.
The Vote Compass question was so bad, so engineered for a result, I refused to use it. Naturally Penny relies on this six year old device of the left.
All Turnbull offers as leader of the Liberals is further humiliation before his resignation. He seems keen to leave a lodestone memory.
Ken Henry has no credibility. He would only oppose spending if the government was conservative. It is not the principle, but the tribe. In fact, Australia spends too much and needed to cut spending when Rudd was PM too.
It is not the first time Obama has promoted a policy that runs counter to reality or the interests of the United States. Hillary wants to continue that work.
Trigger warnings are part and parcel with Safe Schooling. It would be better to raise them with wolves.
Hockey was underrated as treasurer, I believe because he was a stumbling block to Turnbull. Turnbull promised crossbenchers things would be different when he was PM. Not entirely a lie. Now that Turnbull is PM, the only similarity with Abbott's government is Abbott's policies are rebadged and made worse so as to promote Turnbull. What Australia really needs is work choices.
Birmingham has no idea about schooling, based on what he has said, quoted here. Private schools are subsidised by the taxpayer, but if they were to be closed, and students shifted to the public purse, the government could not afford the cost. We need private schools, and they need some public money. Parents using private schools are subsidising public school children too. They should. They do. Safe Schools is evil. Children do not benefit from the program but are exploited by it. They are not safe with it operating. But some adults get sexual pleasure from exploiting all children with Safe Schools. Those adults made choices as adults and are now forcing students to make choices about things they are not equipped through nature to deal with. However, if the Liberals support it, then the program will have bipartisan support because the ALP are corrupt and venal and care nothing for Australia or her children
I don't agree with what Pauline Hanson says, or Lambie, very often. I don't mind them saying it, I can debate their points. But I wish there was someone who could be an advocate for me. For economic conservative favouring Libertarian values (except on religion or drugs). Yet so many so called Christian Conservatives are all over the place. Abbott spoke sense but was undermined by Turnbull and had to do some defensive things so as to not get rolled. Turnbull just takes me for granted. Turnbull is a classic tax and spend left winger. He is big government favouring, and he has contempt for basic freedoms required for a free democratic state to prosper. And then we have Shorten campaigning for corruption. And if Shorten gets rolled it will be by another who feels they can better wield slush funds and exploit. It is telling that a whistleblower like Kathy Jackson is being persecuted by those who accepted her predecessor doing worse.
Clinton has stamina and staying power. Few people could have such sustained bad decision making. Most would have been sacked after their first error. The doormat can set up a slush fund and avoid scrutiny through an illegally established email server that was a security risk. And when she was found out, she had her people smash the phones with hammers. But she can say 'personal income tax because when she was secretary of state, voters personal income tax were vetted by the IRS if they were conservative.
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Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell rock
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bell chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle...
David Daniel Ball calls himself the Conservative Voice.
I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. ...
In Tanami’s red sands where spinifex grows,
Where waterholes gleam ‘neath the sun’s golden glare,
Lived Yaparla, sweet maid, with a heart pure as snow,
Her kindness a light in the desert so bare.
Her father, a wise man, kept songs for the land,
To guard the soak’s waters where life held its sway.
But drought gripped the earth with a merciless hand,
And he sought a new spring to ease their dismay.
Deep in a gorge where the rocks hid the sky,
He found a clear pool with fish dancing free.
But a voice shook the stones with a thunderous cry,
“Who steals my sweet water without leave of me?”
Out slid the Wanyarra, half-man, half a snake,
His scales flashed like opals, his eyes cold with pain.
“For your kin’s life,” he hissed, “one price I must take—
Send Yaparla to me, or your land drinks no rain.”
The father returned, his heart heavy with woe,
And told his dear daughter the serpent’s demand.
“I’ll go,” said Yaparla, her voice soft and low,
“For my people, my country, I’ll walk that red sand.”
She came to the gorge with her digging stick strong,
Singing songs of her kin ‘neath ...
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To adapt the story of Bambi to the Dreamtime of Warlpiri culture in the Tanami Desert, we’ll reimagine the tale with respect for Warlpiri storytelling traditions, cosmology, and the desert environment. The Dreamtime (Jukurrpa) is a sacred framework where ancestral beings shape the land, law, and life, so Bambi’s journey will reflect Warlpiri values like kinship, connection to country, and survival in harmony with nature. I’ll keep the essence of Bambi—a young creature’s growth amid loss and discovery—while grounding it in the Tanami’s ecology and Warlpiri worldview. Since Bambi is a specific narrative, I’ll translate its core themes rather than reproduce the original text verbatim, ensuring cultural sensitivity. The story will be concise yet vivid, as requested.
Bambi in the Jukurrpa of the Tanami
In the Jukurrpa, when the Tanami Desert glowed under the first stars, the ancestral beings shaped the land. From the spinifex and red sand, they formed Jampijinpa, a young red ...
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Folk Song: "The Ballad of Lee Harvey Oswald"
Verse 1
Oh, Lee Harvey Oswald, a man they did frame,
The deep state and CIA, they tarnished his name.
They said he went to Mexico, a lie they did spin,
While he fought for his service, his honor within.
Chorus
Sing for Lee Oswald, innocent and bold,
Framed by the shadows, a story untold.
With courage he stood, though the truth they denied,
A patriot’s heart in a nation that lied.
Verse 2
On that dark day in Dallas, they said he shot Tippit,
Left a wallet behind, but the tale didn’t fit.
Arrested with his own in hand, the proof was right there,
But the deep state kept spinnin’ their web of despair.
Chorus
Sing for Lee Oswald, innocent and bold,
Framed by the shadows, a story untold.
With courage he stood, though the truth they denied,
A patriot’s heart in a nation that lied.
Verse 3
They trained him in Russian, sent him off to the East,
A ...
