Don't give up on hope. I thank Scott McNeil for his dual live FB cast last night. Scott also has a FB page. It won't be the last, and I hope to use it with others abroad. It only works with iPhones atm. I'm overcoming tonsillitis. I had thought it a cold and treated it like that, but when I stopped the treatments it hit with a vengeance. Two weeks without work in telesales and I even cancelled an evening of classes as tutor. My landlord suggested (he is a friend) that if I die, I might choose to buy a couple of iPhone x's and leave it to him. After all, I'd never have to pay for it. But, I'm intending to live. No live casts until next Monday, when I should have my voice back. But my will will provide for him, his family, and my daughter. They aren't worth much now, but my published books are my estate. I have lost everything else.
My landlord is among many things, a Vietnamese Refugee. He and his family kindly allow me to stay at rent a pensioner can afford. It is a privilege for me to work with his young children on enrichment work for school. But I also get to hear about Vietnamese history. The terrible corruption that exists in Vietnam at the moment overshadows a rich and beautiful landscape. Vietnamese invented fish sauce, which is pretty much found in fish oil capsules sold by vitamin hucksters. The monsoonal weather, or poor mountain farming communities have bred a hardy people, such that three Chinese invasions, three Mongol invasions and numerous Cambodian invasions all failed over time. Because of the climate (hot and wet during monsoons) the people have developed food that is fresh and tasty. In modern times, Europeans, like the French have left their culinary mark too.
Things are happening around the world. A year since Trump was elected President by an overwhelming number of electoral colleges. Denialists like Hillary Clinton are trying to get Trump removed from office because of things done under Obama. Trump has been very effective as President, and the US has a plan that will repay her debt. That will change the world for the better. NJ and Virginia have predictably gone back to Democrat control after the conservative Virginian failed to back Trump. NJ had two terms of Christie. Conservatives need to stand for something if they are to be as effective as Trump. Remember when the establishment dissed Trump but the Tea Party with Sarah Palin's influence embraced him? Things are working fine.
Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop each endorsed Hillary Clinton. It looks increasingly likely there is a constitutional crisis and an election may have to be called soon. Bizarrely, as soon as that happens, every single member under question will have disavowed dual citizenship and will be free to campaign in their seats. This highlights the absurdity of the High Court Ruling which places a greater emphasis on foreign governments than Australia's national one, and so an Aboriginal Australian (such as myself by reputed ethnicity, but not culture) might be barred from serving in parliament.
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. ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
