Don't give up on hope. Lisa Wilkinson is one reason I don't watch the Today Show. Even when I still had a tv I had stopped watching it. She is allowed to be stridently left wing. I'm allowed to not watch. Wilkinson had wanted equal pay with her male counterpart on the Today Show. Karl Stephanovic gets about $2 million a year. Wilkins had been paid $1.1 million a year. Wilkinson is not on all the shows Stephanovic does. So channel 9 reputedly offered her an extra $700k a year. Wilkinson walked to join Channel 10's The Panel. I don't watch that either.
Some really awful people are paid a lot. The ABC interviewed Hillary Clinton who shrieked Russians but never explained "what happened" when she lost the Presidential bid. Hillary must feel it was rigged. Because it was rigged to favour her in the debates. It was rigged to favour her in the primaries. And she got a lot of votes in the highest crime areas in the US. The ABC journalist failed to ask basic questions any competent journalist would. How come HRC is so sure the election was rigged, unless it had not been fair? Trump has to drain the swamp, once done, where will HRC be? Prison?
Greg Hunt has backed some loopy left wing ideals in the past. Hunt 'cares' about the environment and is willing to spend over $100 trillion to lower world temperature by less than a degree in a hundred years time. He intends the money to come from the world's poorest. Today Hunt has said he would never approve of nicotine fuelled vapes to encourage people to quit smoking. Hunt claims that no research shows people who vape quit smoking, and so vaping is merely worse than smoking. Only, smoking is legal, but vaping is not. As a public service announcement, I am advising Hunt that there is a thing called the placebo effect. And it is measured in science. And it works. The science is in.
A meme is circulating of actresses hugging Weinstein. As if that in any way excuses him. It doesn't. Victims of sex abuse need to be successful too. And to be successful, many had to hold the devil. And we will soon hear stories of women who never got to be successful, but were ruined by Weinstein. I dislike many that supported Weinstein's politics, but that never meant I would accept what Harvey did. And I have a personal back ground story that gives me direction with this. As a child, I was raped by a family friend. But because I'm so loathed by many, my abusers were forgiven by my family, as I've been outcast. I don't need to prove myself to anyone, or explain what I have done. And neither do Weinstein's victims. And those that are successful, I'm sure it was despite Weinstein, not because of it. He used them. He did not help them. Calling them bad names like prostitutes and claiming they were well rewarded for their services is wrong. But I think some are very jealous of the success of some very shallow people.
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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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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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Content from listening to podcasters Hunley and Groubert of America's Untold Stories. They tell it better than me
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 ...
