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Surviving 2012

According to many bloggers, writers and commentators, 2012 is the year in which the earth will either end or many among the living will die through various events. Some predict the return of their Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

During my lifetime I can recall at least a few occasions during which Jesus was said to be returning to earth to take over and a few more wherein we would all be incinerated or blown apart by this or that natural or man-made event. People’s ability to believe almost anything never ceases to amaze me.

If the earth is to be struck by another planet or the magnetic poles are to reverse, there’s nothing we can do about it. In the same way that when the next ice age appears, we may not be able to cope with it. I say may, because we may have become underground dwellers by then and living underground might protect us from the immense cold of an ice age.

The universe plods along totally indifferent to what we or any other living creatures do. In the scheme of things, we simply do not matter, any more than an HIV virus matters. Life and death ebbs and flows. The idea that we are all guided by angels or some other supernatural being is flawed, just take a look around at the vast variety of circumstances in which human inhabitants live.

I deny absolutely any of the supernatural religious events and know that when natural disasters or circumstances work against us, there’s little we can do. Therefore, we have to live our lives the best we can and not dwell on the terrible things that may or may not happen.

I hope 2012 is good to you and yours and will do all I can to make sure it is a good year for me too.

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What do wrist watches and marriages have in common?

Recently I was speaking with a local jeweller about wrist watches. I had dropped off my Citizen solar, perpetual date wrist watch under warranty because it had stopped working. He asked if I had another watch to wear while it was being fixed and I pointed to my aging Tag Heuer 1000 Professional, now 20 years old but still going strong.

I told him that it was now my gardening and golfing watch and that the trouble with good quality, expensive watches like Tag Heuer is that they last so long, you get sick of seeing them. Even Tag Heuer admits that you buy one of their watches to leave for your grandchildren.

The jeweller said that research had shown that most people who buy a watch of any kind get sick of it after about six years. He said then they buy another. But because the old ones still work, they don’t throw them out, so they end up with a collection of working watches they hardly ever wear.

I decided that for the rest of the years I need a wrist watch, I will buy good, but inexpensive watches, although I had intended buying a replacement Tag Heuer (in photo), well within my budget, to last me until I meet my fiery end. For the price of the new Tag Heuer I want, I could probably buy 10 other good Seiko watches and wouldn’t feel unhappy paying $150-$300 for a year or two of wear. I could also then have different watches for different occasions. You know, a Monday watch and a pub watch … or something like that.

While my Tag Heuer lasted 20 years with a couple of battery changes and clean outs, my Citizen solar lasted three years before shitting itself completely and needing replacement parts.

It reminded me a bit of being married. Some people get sick of being married to the same spouse year in and year out. For example, that sexy piece of crumpet Kim Kardashian only lasted 72 days and she got sick and tired of being married to the ridiculously tall, dawkish fellow whose name escapes me. Unlike me, she gave her spouse the flick. But I said I’d stay until one of us dies and I meant it, so I’m still married after 38 years, longer than most sentences for murder.

Every so often the idea of having a change crosses my mind, I see images of beautiful Asian  and Ebony ladies. Then I think of the prospect of having a collection of ladies stacked in my cupboard that are still in good working condition, but not really wanted and I wake up and get on with whatever it is I was doing. I ask myself if it’s better to have an old, reliable watch that has lasted many years, or a slick, shiny new model that might toss it in in a year or two.

How many watches have you got? What are they and how long does it take for you to become sick of them?

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The Sadness of Suicide

Yesterday, a person to whom I had only spoken on one or two occasions, took his life. It’s the third person I have known who has ended their life prematurely. It reminded me of the sadness surrounding this often inexplicable and selfish activity.

While I can understand a person with a terminal illness wishing to end the pain and suffering, the three people I knew showed no outward signs of being unhappy, depressed, or indeed suicidal. But deep inside their psyche, something convinced them that the idea of death was more appealing than continuing to live.

In two of these cases, the first thing that passed my mind was the thought that if only I had known they had a problem, perhaps I may have been able to help them get through it. The first was a colleague police officer working with me at a small police station in the outskirts of a major Australian city. We had only worked together for a few weeks and I had began to like working with him and enjoyed his company, although we had not met outside the workplace. I knew that he was a good football player, married with two children and had a nice house at a coastal resort.

We worked together Friday evening on the 4 pm to 12 pm shift which had been busy. As we departed at the end of shift, I wished him a good night and told him I’d see him tomorrow in time for our Saturday 4 pm shift. He never turned up. By mid-day Saturday he was dead, having shot himself in the head with his service revolver.

Unknown to me, he had been having domestic problems and his wife had threatened to leave him with the children. He must have asked her if she would stay and, when she said no, put the revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. I recall being deeply saddened to know that my new friend was gone. We were both in our early thirties. We both had young children. It was totally unexpected.

Now once again, I’m sorry that my friend never confided in me and let me help him through his crisis. I wonder whether I may have been able to help him believe that living was better than dying. Obviously, I will never know.

As Shakespeare said, “The friends thou has and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”

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The Assault Against Democracy in Australia

Muslim malcontentsAustralia has been a fiercely democratic country since the First Fleet arrived and settled in Botany Bay. We inherited that democracy from the British along with the best system of government and law known to humankind.

Throughout the past 200 odd years, we have modified it to suit our culture, geography and the way we view ourselves within the human group of nations. It’s served us well and will continue to do so, but lately there has been a huge assault on our democratic way of life by left-wing, social engineers and tree-hugging loonies whose world is a make believe world where everything is perfect, everyone is like them and everyone is happy. Unfortunately, that’s nothing like the world the rest of us live in. In that world, there are increasing assaults on our democracy.

First of all, take the Federal Government’s move to force legitimate businesses who have invested millions to establish brand names and brand images, to package their legal products in plain paper. As if it wasn’t bad enough to require them to display photos of people suffering from illnesses, some of which are said to have been caused or exacerbated by the use of the products consumed.  Now they are supposed to pack their products in plain packaging.

Under successive Labor Governments, and with the help of some weaker Liberal/Coalition Governments, we now find ourselves in a position where everyone else is responsible for what people do, but the people who do it.  Everyone who is old enough to read and write knows that cigarettes are unhealthy. People who choose to smoke know the risks and make an informed decision to accept them.

There is currently discussion in Victoria (and probably elsewhere) about introducing a Gambling Card to control the excessive gambling of the few people in our society who are addicted to gambling. We already provide advice, counselling and other support.  But now, even those people who can put $10 through a poker machine and go home will also be caught up in this bullshit, bureaucratic system, if it goes ahead.

In the Northern Territory we have the “Intervention” so that predominately indigenous benefactors of government welfare will have difficulty spending their money on booze and still have a few bucks left for food each pay day. Because they aren’t intelligent enough themselves to manage their affairs, the government has to do it for them.

In Alice Springs (NT) tomorrow a floor price will be placed on all alcoholic drinks sold in the town so that those low income pensioners and others who were buying cheap alcohol will now have to fork out more. Why? Because a handfull of people can’t manage their drinking habit. That’s right. Everyone who buys alcohol will now pay more because some people can’t control their drinking. Once again the burden is placed on the wrong people. What will the drunks do for themselves … nothing, zip, zilch, zero. Fuck all!

We have a government that is pushing a massive new Carbon Tax to make it look like Australia is leading the field in climate management even though scientists can’t agree whether we can do anything or even if there is a climate crisis. However, on closer analysis, it is nothing but a cynical way to screw the so-called wealthy and give the money back to the low-income earners. The government has said low income earners (mainly Labor voters) will get back more than they paid out in carbon tax.

When I was at university studying accounting, I’m sure one of my lectures was about taxation and how it had to be efficient, effective, fair, ethical and so on. If a tax is implemented that adversely affects people, how can that be a good tax? A good tax should not adversely affect anyone.

The government did not have a democratically given right to implement this tax. Out goes a bit more democracy.

Now, the greatest threat to our democracy comes from our unbridled immigration of muslims who follow an ideology, the prime intent of which is to take over every nation on the planet and Islamize it. There is no democracy in Islam. Worse still, there is no freedom. You either shape up or get killed. It’s that serious about it’s aims.

While we can probably suffer a little loss of democracy as the government tries to socially engineer the masses, we cannot afford to lose our democratic way of life to Islam. Islam will not only snuff out our way of life, it will snuff out our freedom, some of our lives, and if it succeeds, a wonderful country like Australia will become an Islamic country with all the poverty, lack of intellect, stupidity, superstition, anger, and tribal squabbling that has held muslim countries back in the dark ages for 1400 years.

Unfortunately, Islam has not done one scrap of good for anyone anywhere with the sole exception of Mohammed, it’s pedophile, warlord founder who was able to enlist his warriors and slaves at the end of a sword. One benefactor in 1400 years isn’t much to crow about now is it?

If you don’t want to become  a Jihad statistic or live under Islam, do some research, write to your local Member of Parliament , form a local action group, join other groups and never, ever surrender.

Dark Horse

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All European Life Died in Auschwitz

This is an article originally in Spanish by Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz … We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretence of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe …

It’s difficult to claim that this article is incorrect. Tell me one good thing that Islam has done for humanity?

Dark Horse

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ADDENDUM

Read this article from Spain which I found on 1 July 2011.

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