Tim's Bits and Pieces

This amuses me. Apparently the "Power companies say they need carbon trade compensation".

Apparently "Nelson ruined the day" with his apology speech yesterday, the 13th of February. I wonder how they figure that. You should go read his speech for yourself.

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Looks like other people are not surprised that women that dress like sex objects sometimes get treated like sex objects, well duh. Here's another article on this situation. Don't get me wrong, I'm in complete agreement with Dr Such when he says that he doesn't believe "...that it in any way justifies a sexual assault...", but still when you dress and act like a sex object it does sort of hurt your argument that you are not a sex object.

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A couple more interesting links on gun control:

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It's kind of strange in Tassie, they often seem to think of themselves as kind of a distinct nation from the mainland. For example in QLD or NSW it's the federal and state governments while in Tasmania it's the Australian and Tasmanian governments. I'm sure intellectually at least the majority of them do realise that they are actually part of Australia, but it doesn't seem to have fully sunk into their collective sub-conscious yet. For example I'm sure the majority of them think of themselves as Tasmanians, while I think of myself as an Australian not a Queenslander or a New South Welshman.

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This is well worth a read. It makes the claim that the main representatives of the so-called "Stolen Generation" where actual fact abandoned by their families and than taken in by orphanages, [white] foster families and the like. If these claims are true, and I have no reason to doubt them, it puts the Labour governments plans to issue an apology in a different light.

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This is just stupid. What on earth was the matter with the official in this story. Since when can worms be psychologically traumatised? This official should be fired for blatant stupidity, worms love faeces, they should be as happy as a pig in mud [happy as a worm in poo?].

So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb, Seeing visions "over yonder" of the war I know must come. In the corner - not a vision - but a sign for coming days Stand a box of ammunition and a rifle in green baize. And in this, the living present, let the word go through the land, Every tradesman, clerk and peasant should have these two things at hand.  No - no ranting song is needed, and no meeting, flag or fuss - In the future, still unheeded, shall the spirit come to us! Without feathers, drum or riot on the day that is to be, We shall march down, very quiet, to our stations by the sea. While the bitter parties stifle every voice that warns of war, Every man should own a rifle and have cartridges in store!

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"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

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Apparently the "Horrors of war [where] too much for [the] captain". He served for six weeks in Afghanistan last year and committed suicide earlier this year. This is unfortunate and my condolences go to this man's family, but what I mostly wanted to comment on the fact that it was assumed throughout the article that the problem was that the government did not provide him with sufficient counseling. I don't think that is the problem, what I'd instead suggest is that society as a whole would not accept him because he was a soldier. Soldiers are treated as monsters and outcasts because they fought in wars over-seas so no-one had to fight here, and then we wonder why they get depressed. It's not the army that failed him, but society (particularly the left).

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