Issues on unwanted outcomes
Bob Carr seems to have intervened in a surrogacy case, encouraging a couple to traffic one of their children in 2012. Twins, one boy, one girl were born in India to an Australian couple via surrogacy. Allegedly, the Australian couple only wanted one gender, and so it is alleged they sold the one they didn't want. It is alleged the Australian embassy tried to encourage the couple to keep both, but the then government intervened with a highly placed ALP politician. Bob Carr was foreign minister at the time. Bad parents are a menace. There are good parents that worry that any reference to bad parenting is reference to them. It isn't. Good parents guide their children through adolescence, providing them with rules so that when they are older, resistant to their parents and have hormones preventing clear thought, they still have rules they can rely on to keep them alive. And in the thick of it, parents will struggle to know if they have done right. But parents relying on courts through AVO's on their adolescent children have created a menace which will get harder as the child ages. Comcast had an unhappy customer fired after Comcast allegedly tracked the customer, who had a legitimate complaint and a right to complain, to the customer's work. The work was apparently a client of Comcast. The message being, no one should work for such an employer as Comcast. Australia has budget problems. The budget was appropriate in making needed cuts, but it has been opposed by the Greens, ALP and PUP. Obstructionism will not end before another election, and maybe not then, either. Australia also has problems when the same organisations prevent the PM banning those who speak for terrorism.
Issues on pedophilia
Seventh Heaven, a highly rated Christian tv show, has had a pedophile shock with an actor, the show's lead, the dad, taped confessing to abusing multiple children. Hillsong, the large evangelical Christian church is reeling that the father of a senior pastor, Brian Houston, may have been a serial pedophile. There is no evidence at the moment claiming the church has condoned it.
Issues on terrorism
Hatred is blinding twitter fools to the fact that terrorism is not the same as government. Terrorism is not the same as religion. Terrorism is not the same as war. Terrorism is not the same as culture. Terrorism is not the same as leadership. Just because terrorists oppose some people the hater hates, does not make the terrorist a sympathiser for their cause. AndrewBolt has written "The Islamic State is to Islam what Mao, Pol Pot and Stalin were to socialism." Obama's indecisiveness and incompetence threaten to entangle the US in a thirty year fight against Terror. Women supporting oppression by wearing a niqab or Burka, includes Jessica Rowe. So, do what she asks, and stop following or watching her. Four people claiming to be Islamic are arrested on terrorism related charges in the UK. Australians will and do stand for oppressed peoples, including Islam. There is video proof from a Macquarie University study.
Random issues
ABC hashtag is #ourABC and that is undeniable. But it is supposed to be balanced and for all. And the ABC is not balanced and does not represent all. Greens cheer over making a carbon capture coal plant in Canada with a billion dollar subsidy. No plant food. Expensive. Small. Sarah Hanson-Young is choosy about which whistle blowers she endorses. She is happy for liars to denounce Australia. She is unhappy when those liars are exposed to scrutiny. A union is investigated for accessing personal information from a Superannuation fund they manage and emailing it.
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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 ...
AI adapted
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 ...
