Escape the Okie Zone
this a personal creative non-fiction journal about a traveler and his evolving life. He saw the waning warmth of humans through his puppy's eyes and now he see the world through his child's eyes. He thought much of our country's warmth went dormant when Bush held our country hostage! Some of my hostile readers suffering from overinflated egos might actually think that I might be writing about them on this blog! Get a life please ;)Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Hey ! Wanna a picture??
It'll last longer!
Monday, December 29, 2008
The End of the Greedocon Era!
Will this econonomic disaster help us learn to not be consumed all the time with spending ??
The media brainwashes us into thinking the "economy" depends on it!
Rather than just saying to yourself that you don't need those Nikes or a brand new Bubburban or a brand new home you can't possibly afford,
why can't Americans think ahead and save for the rainy day??
So many have been brainwashed by this crazy American attitude that if you don't spend every dime you have, you are a tightwad!
Saving money in the bank or under the matress doesn't help the economy!
Would it not be nice to have enough to afford to tell the Man to just take this job and shove it??What is wrong with saving money for that rainy day or better yet, for that place in paradise??
There is something wrong with rampant consumerism and America's constant hunger for material goods just to keep up with the Jones next door!..
Suddenly you are out of a job
and have to let your home go
for what??
Buy now and who cares about the future until Shylock asks for his pound of flesh!!
Well they are asking for payment now
and this country can't come up with the dough!
America will have to give up it's pound of flesh again at the expense of the American people!
Here in Oz,
a bloke down the beach about where Hedges avenue ends and Flamingo Avenue starts has been rumored to have burned down his beautiful place for the insurance payments...
he was one of these greedocon stockbrokers who bit the dust
even here across the Pacific far away from the States...
the wake of the Madoff madness has reached the shores of Down Unda
so imagine this poor bloke collecting all the the insurance payments for the replacement value of his smoldering mansion ...
and then he sells his burned down place for millions on the beach...
If you want to see how the rich and greedy live on holidays
come to Mermaid Beach
You wonder how many other multimillionaires on the coast ripped off unsuspecting people and even the government???
Ironically, there was a wonderful statue in front of his place with an old man admiring the view..
that is gone now...
I wonder about the very rich family who owns the palace almost next door to us and the brother owns another palace on the same block??
It was worked on for the better part of a year...
Every morning about 6 or 7 we were woken with their noise with laborers working busilyon redoing a palace that looked fine already...
a holiday home for the very rich
What a humongus carbon imprint so he can have his family enjoy Xmas and a couple holidays a y
ear...oh yeah but he supplied maybe a 100 laborers with work... so he's good for the economy!
they had already been working on it for several months before we arrived in September
they import all of the palm trees and extend their area over into what was the sidewalk area for the public to use as a free entrance
Why do people trust greedy basturds
that will generally shaft the common bloke who knows no better
Havent we learned from the depression?...
The only thing that is safe are the government backed banks...
We should question the salaries and credentials of anyone that has acess to our lifetime investments!
PS...Hey it's cool that my site comes up first when you do a search for
"Bush"+"has a grandiose sense of self-importance" "
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Bush%22%2B%22has+a+grandiose+sense+of+self-importance%22&btnG=Search
It seems like I get a hit every other day for Bush and his dry drunk syndrome!
The media brainwashes us into thinking the "economy" depends on it!
Rather than just saying to yourself that you don't need those Nikes or a brand new Bubburban or a brand new home you can't possibly afford,
why can't Americans think ahead and save for the rainy day??
So many have been brainwashed by this crazy American attitude that if you don't spend every dime you have, you are a tightwad!
Saving money in the bank or under the matress doesn't help the economy!
Would it not be nice to have enough to afford to tell the Man to just take this job and shove it??What is wrong with saving money for that rainy day or better yet, for that place in paradise??
There is something wrong with rampant consumerism and America's constant hunger for material goods just to keep up with the Jones next door!..
Suddenly you are out of a job
and have to let your home go
for what??
Buy now and who cares about the future until Shylock asks for his pound of flesh!!
Well they are asking for payment now
and this country can't come up with the dough!
America will have to give up it's pound of flesh again at the expense of the American people!
Here in Oz,
a bloke down the beach about where Hedges avenue ends and Flamingo Avenue starts has been rumored to have burned down his beautiful place for the insurance payments...
he was one of these greedocon stockbrokers who bit the dust
even here across the Pacific far away from the States...
the wake of the Madoff madness has reached the shores of Down Unda
so imagine this poor bloke collecting all the the insurance payments for the replacement value of his smoldering mansion ...
and then he sells his burned down place for millions on the beach...
If you want to see how the rich and greedy live on holidays
come to Mermaid Beach
You wonder how many other multimillionaires on the coast ripped off unsuspecting people and even the government???
Ironically, there was a wonderful statue in front of his place with an old man admiring the view..
that is gone now...
I wonder about the very rich family who owns the palace almost next door to us and the brother owns another palace on the same block??
It was worked on for the better part of a year...
Every morning about 6 or 7 we were woken with their noise with laborers working busilyon redoing a palace that looked fine already...
a holiday home for the very rich
What a humongus carbon imprint so he can have his family enjoy Xmas and a couple holidays a y
ear...oh yeah but he supplied maybe a 100 laborers with work... so he's good for the economy!they had already been working on it for several months before we arrived in September
they import all of the palm trees and extend their area over into what was the sidewalk area for the public to use as a free entrance
Why do people trust greedy basturds
that will generally shaft the common bloke who knows no better
Havent we learned from the depression?...
The only thing that is safe are the government backed banks...
We should question the salaries and credentials of anyone that has acess to our lifetime investments!
PS...Hey it's cool that my site comes up first when you do a search for
"Bush"+"has a grandiose sense of self-importance" "
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Bush%22%2B%22has+a+grandiose+sense+of+self-importance%22&btnG=Search
It seems like I get a hit every other day for Bush and his dry drunk syndrome!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Ok....I figure that it was raining outside after attempting to sleep through Colin's incessant crying in the morning... I get and see him smile at me...It looks like he might 
up end up as redhead...
his grandma sent us some mobiles...He has been constantly watching his new toys as they wobble in the bassinette...
Both of us have so much ADD combined with the inherent laziness in the condition
We bought a fan and carried it back all the way on top of the tram ...about a mile away
with no clue that it would be such an operation to figure out how to put it together
and also the toy that Colin will enjoy...it was missing screws ...so we have to find the right screws at the market and then put it together
I'm thinking that both of us will have to try a little addaboy
tomorrow after a good sleep...we will figure it out...
Now it's almost sunny and I'd rather smoke a bowl and enjoy this Sunday after xmas and write to you while I look out at the ocean...
up end up as redhead...his grandma sent us some mobiles...He has been constantly watching his new toys as they wobble in the bassinette...
Both of us have so much ADD combined with the inherent laziness in the condition
We bought a fan and carried it back all the way on top of the tram ...about a mile away
with no clue that it would be such an operation to figure out how to put it together
and also the toy that Colin will enjoy...it was missing screws ...so we have to find the right screws at the market and then put it together
I'm thinking that both of us will have to try a little addaboy
tomorrow after a good sleep...we will figure it out...
Now it's almost sunny and I'd rather smoke a bowl and enjoy this Sunday after xmas and write to you while I look out at the ocean...
I was curious about some of the searches for my site
They were searching "famous family psychologists marijuana"
and this was one of the sites that came up along with my blog in this bloke's search..
Others have realized how cannabis helps create fantastic ideas! as long as one figures out which garbage to throw out or edit??
William Shakespeare
"Several 17th-century clay pipes found on the site of William Shakespeare's home may have been used to smoke marijuana.Though marijuana degrades over time, eight of those pipe fragments showed signs suggestive of marijuana. Two of the pipe samples also showed evidence of cocaine.The results of the study are published in the South African Journal of Science."
"Several 17th-century clay pipes found on the site of William Shakespeare's home may have been used to smoke marijuana.Though marijuana degrades over time, eight of those pipe fragments showed signs suggestive of marijuana. Two of the pipe samples also showed evidence of cocaine.The results of the study are published in the South African Journal of Science."
Saturday, December 27, 2008
I often get up early for Colin's early feeding ..
then I wait for the sun
and go back to bed to sleep till 9, 10 or sometimes 11...
I need this almost to replenish my soul or I forget how gorgeous the ocean is especially when 
she meets the sun and the waves from the other side of the world where most of my readers are right now
she meets the sun and the waves from the other side of the world where most of my readers are right nowIt is such a wonderful luxury to have this view and this ocean of the world to swim in several times a day...
I had forgotten how to play as adults we very often forget what is was like to play as a child...
I think that I've got a long ways to go before I can call myself a good father... The least I could do is learn to play again as Colin grows and see the w
orld as it opens up to him..
orld as it opens up to him.. Horoscope from Daily Om:
"You can always go within to seek guidance, or a new perspective. By turning away from the trappings of the material world to connect with the source of energy within us, we can renew ourselves and look at life from a different vantage point. By using our inner compass as our guide, we are more likely to discover connections at the right time or even just be in the ideal place when
opportunity comes along. Whether you’ve found a new use for old files or you come up with a way to use your skills with those of various partners, you are likely to discover that the resources have always been available to you, it merely required the initiative to put them into use. Today is a perfect day to tap into all the resources available and creatively consider new ways to bring abundance into your life."
What do you think?
"You can always go within to seek guidance, or a new perspective. By turning away from the trappings of the material world to connect with the source of energy within us, we can renew ourselves and look at life from a different vantage point. By using our inner compass as our guide, we are more likely to discover connections at the right time or even just be in the ideal place when
opportunity comes along. Whether you’ve found a new use for old files or you come up with a way to use your skills with those of various partners, you are likely to discover that the resources have always been available to you, it merely required the initiative to put them into use. Today is a perfect day to tap into all the resources available and creatively consider new ways to bring abundance into your life."What do you think?
Friday, December 26, 2008
I thought about an image that has delved itself into the subconcious...
I have a beautiful Murch painting in loving care right now until we decide on where we we will be ...
We will probably most likely be on our paradise on earth with the damaging sea air??>> Will I need to enclose it behind glass??.. 
But I guess I should not put oil behind glass..
Thank you anonymous ;) I think I was probably told that and forgot.
When I went to sleep as a child that image of the two beautiful blondes with the baby child on the beach was etched inside my subconscious ..
it gave me an image the perfect nurturing females and it was almost heavenly..
It is the most natural painting and so beautifully evocative...How prophetic...!! 
Loving parents with a beautiful baby and on Mermaid Beach.... an image came true..
Loving parents with a beautiful baby and on Mermaid Beach.... an image came true..I wish that there was a copy of it on the internet so I could show everybody but I pulled up some other Murch paintings to give you the feel of his paintings and his idea of heavenly maternal women! ...
It was what I grew up looking at in our cozy family living room in our large home in Rochester!
That image of those two almost heavenly women lovingly taking care of their little female baby must have forever lodged itself in my mind.....
When a woman reaches that point with me where they become my nourishing milk of love
I am theirs...
Who wudda thought?...
Images like these get delved into our subconcious...
It was an epipheny that just happened right now!...
I suddenly realize that when I would fall asleep, I would have images of these heavenly angels nurturing me and later in my adolescent wet dreams making love to me?? Does that help explain some of my inner id feelings??
apparently so..
is that just a little bit too much information??
try to understand these natural feelings...
religion makes us supress these feelings
our culture makes us believe that these 
instinctual feelings are wrong or immoral !
instinctual feelings are wrong or immoral ! It is only natural to realize the feelings we have
and then can actually see how beautiful the result can be....
At this late age it is such a wonderful feeling evolving(?) lover to father....
ppuff, pass
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Xmas to friends and family!!....
"Greetings Garvald from the land of the lost. Rafeal here Wednesday 
24, 2008 colorado springs cl, my brother's house. Eroine and i have added one more boy, Vander, to our family and Aiden is doing great. Your son looks beautifull, Hope all is well in the land of waves and beaches. Is your bike
still running? Hows Father-hood? When did you escape? Hope to here from you."
Wow!! That is so cool that you have a new boy! compardre, Miguel!
When did he arrive into this world?
It's funny that almost a year and a half ago in summer before I met my wife ...
24, 2008 colorado springs cl, my brother's house. Eroine and i have added one more boy, Vander, to our family and Aiden is doing great. Your son looks beautifull, Hope all is well in the land of waves and beaches. Is your bike still running? Hows Father-hood? When did you escape? Hope to here from you."
Wow!! That is so cool that you have a new boy! compardre, Miguel!
When did he arrive into this world?
It's funny that almost a year and a half ago in summer before I met my wife ...
I was visiting your family in that high oasis in the middle of the desert of Arizona
over a few tokes over the line
we were chatting
about the possibilities of me being a father..
I believe you put the idea of having a child in my mind since Aiden was born
I thought about how it changed your life
and now it is changing ours!
and now it is changing ours!
We finally escaped the "land of the the lost" in early September to have our baby and work on becoming full time Aussies! :)
I was just thinking about you guys and I lost your old number with the old cell phone ..
My bike and Buffy are with the inlaws. I had to build an outdoor pen for her.
I've bought a mountain bike here and it runs great... I do all of our family shopping by the vehicle so we don't have to be slaves to autos and have a fantastically low carbon imprint..
"Land of the lost is a great way to discuss the screwed up way greed and capitalism have destroyed the disorganized states of America!
Write another comment, Raphael!
....mmmm....coool...I have some epiphanies and thoughts that need to be written down... Time
keeps accelerating,,,,,I wake up to the baby crying...we are both exhausted ...I go for a swim and bike...
come back surf.... write on this journal only what I feel like telling you about...
The New Year is aproaching...and we have to
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Had to put back the Mozzy screen...I just wish we had a real balcony....
What could be more romantic??...
looking at this everyday...
Just had to really hit the surf today...Now that I bought one of hats that has a strap to stay on and is waterproof....I can stay out in the sea a lot longer!
I felt like I could be out there a long time and strong...a new self image of myself!
It is the coolest feeling when you really hit that wave at just the right angle to zoom sideways along the coast with the wave...swimming twice as fast as any Olympian ...
taking the power of the wave!
It's really being in the zone!
We have to approach the time here as a wonderful holiday...We want to enjoy everyday as much as we can...And celebrate our new family...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Passion Flower was named after Jesus....hmmm..I buy it and put it in my bicycle cart along with a pot of catnip and the next day my flower blooms in the image of Jesus
Just kidding...
But it was so cool about signs...
We have our passion now ..our flower
our child... each day he smiles a little more and moves his head a little more...we have lazy almost idyllic days... we went shopping at the Oasis and we felt more a family than ever before!
I thought about which image of Jesus I should show??
..and then thought of the Okie version...how they imagine if Jesus came back he would drink beer and go hunting with them!
My wife really believes in Jesus. I figure that I am waiting for his second appearance...and then I think about God...
He is easier to fathom than Jesus walking on water and turning the lake into wine!
I buy some passion fruit and I put it on the ice cream and cheesecake...mmmmm....
Monday, December 22, 2008
PASSION FLOWER BLOOMING
ON SUMMER SOLSTICE
Im learning the keyboard so I can perform a masterpiece some day!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
oh...well...another day on the beach
tough life!
Maybe we can take a trip to Byron Bay??
It is such a chore trying to get everything ready for our first trip with the Bub...
I am amazed how a single parent can take care of a baby all by themselves!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
I prograstinate on taking that surf ...
...The days keep swimming by in this beautiful paradise
.....I suppose that is one of the frquent depressing
thoughts that often invades humans' minds...
where as animals don't have that ability or does an old dog realize that he's too old to learn new tricks??
I have an image of a dog deciding he would rather just take a nap instead of going after an old stick!!
Maybe I could do a search for that and see what funny pics show up for a dog debating about the stick ??...
I guess the only thing that I have discipline to do daily is put more pics on this blog that less than 5-10 read everyday...
We need to make another adventure!!....
Where could we go without spending an outrageous amount??
Both of us are so tired being full time parents....
But the wanderlust can compensate for our frequent state of inactivity of winter/summer hibernation??
With our ADD and very tired state of exhaustion, it is almost too much energy to get out to go shopping on my bicycle...let alone mail all these xmas cards that family and friends that we should be in touch with...
I worry that when I send pics to the in laws, somehow porn will be sent ....my luck...
Porn is so horrible... ;)
neked images of women...horrible.. I guess in ancient days it was ok make pictures and statues..but today that puritan ethic invades our cultures...
(low carbon imprint rationale for laziness...I need to send that definition to Urban dictionary!)
I feel almost like not having the energy combined with the overwhelming feeling and need to get together by my extended Australian family...
If the inertia would take hold we would both be so proud of each other... I want to do it without feeling the crutch of ADDAboy...
I suppose that both of could accomplish so much more when we try it...but it is an amphetamine so it would not be at all healthy for my lactating wife...but me??
I try to get into the mindset of that this is our holiday "babymoon"...
We should be enjoying ourselves!!....
Aproaching this year as our very low carbon imprint babymoon is our best philosophy of life for the moment...
No worries mate!
No worries mate!
Hey Mate! Shutup and pass the bloody bong!
Friday, December 19, 2008
A Message From VERONICA
Thoughts
"Thinking is one of the daily aspects of linear living. Everything you participate with right down to the brand of toothpaste you use is a thought process. It's something you do automatically without understanding the grandness of what is occurring.
Every time you think of something it
manifests itself into your daily routine. All occurrences and experience in linear are a result of your thoughts.
Often we are asked to define what will occur with one's life.
A more informative answer would be for us to ask the questioner what their thoughts include. Are they positive? Negative? Or are they a jumble of randomness with no direction? We find that the more troubled the individual is the more scrambled is their thought process.
Our advice is to understand how important thinking is.
If you are currently dissatisfied with your life for any reason take the time to examine your thoughts. If you are truthful with yourself you will be able to see the process that has brought you to where you are now.
How do you change it?
Start by carefully examining what you think about but more importantly how you think.
Consider it.
Your thought creates your reality.
Would it not be a comfort to change those things that are unsuitable for you?
It is within your power.
Thoughts are the most powerful tool in the universe and they are right there in your head.
- VERONICA
Thoughts
"Thinking is one of the daily aspects of linear living. Everything you participate with right down to the brand of toothpaste you use is a thought process. It's something you do automatically without understanding the grandness of what is occurring.
Every time you think of something it
manifests itself into your daily routine. All occurrences and experience in linear are a result of your thoughts.Often we are asked to define what will occur with one's life.
A more informative answer would be for us to ask the questioner what their thoughts include. Are they positive? Negative? Or are they a jumble of randomness with no direction? We find that the more troubled the individual is the more scrambled is their thought process.
Our advice is to understand how important thinking is.
If you are currently dissatisfied with your life for any reason take the time to examine your thoughts. If you are truthful with yourself you will be able to see the process that has brought you to where you are now.
How do you change it?
Start by carefully examining what you think about but more importantly how you think.
Consider it.
Your thought creates your reality.
Would it not be a comfort to change those things that are unsuitable for you?
It is within your power.
Thoughts are the most powerful tool in the universe and they are right there in your head.
- VERONICA
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Coast shark deaths condemned
"Coast shark deaths condemned 
October 22nd, 2008
A LEADING humane society has condemned the killings of two great white sharks caught on drum lines off the Gold Coast. See other readers comments and have your say
A LEADING humane society has condemned the killings of two great white sharks caught on drum lines off the Gold Coast.
The 2.1m female was caught on a line on Wednesday near popular swimming spots at Rainbow Bay.
A second great white, a 2.23m male, bit through a drum line and dragged its buoy into the shallows of Mermaid Beach before dying last week.
The Humane Society International says great whites are protected under state and federal legislation and that Queensland and NSW shark control programs are outdated.
HSI program manager Danielle Annese said the shark control programs had killed tens of thousands of sharks and plunged populations to extremely low levels since their introduction in NSW 70 years ago.
Have your say on the feedback form belowPhoto gallery: Great white sharkGreat white washes up on
beachJaws drop after shark snapshot
``While the NSW government invests in the vicinity of $750,000 annually on its beach meshing program, Queensland maintains a double-barrelled approach to culling this threatened species by employing both shark nets and baited drum lines in their shark control program,'' Ms Annese said.
``Nearly 150 great whites were captured in these two programs between 1993 and 2003, 60 of which were caught on Queensland's drum lines.''
But Queensland's Department of Primary Industries shark control program manager Tony Ham said there was no effective way of measuring the impact nets and drum lines had on great white populations.
``Typically we take somewhere in the vicinity of three and six great white sharks per annum, so it's not a particularly high volume catch of that particular species,'' Mr Ham said.
Mr Ham said interactions between humans and great white sharks often had disastrous consequences for humans.
Mr Ham said at this time of the year great whites were following whales into shore on their southward migration.
``We don't want people to die on our popular beaches,'' he said.
``The Queensland Government considers it too important to protect our beaches.''
Ms Annese said hundreds of harmless animals were killed in shark nets and drum lines every year.
``It is not uncommon for turtles, dolphins, or even whales to fall victim to these programs, yet these statistics are ignored in favour of maintaining the pretence that they are protecting the public,'' she said.
``The great charade is that neither program provides a conclusive barrier between the sharks and the swimming public.''
- AAP "
October 22nd, 2008
A LEADING humane society has condemned the killings of two great white sharks caught on drum lines off the Gold Coast. See other readers comments and have your say
A LEADING humane society has condemned the killings of two great white sharks caught on drum lines off the Gold Coast.
The 2.1m female was caught on a line on Wednesday near popular swimming spots at Rainbow Bay.
A second great white, a 2.23m male, bit through a drum line and dragged its buoy into the shallows of Mermaid Beach before dying last week.
The Humane Society International says great whites are protected under state and federal legislation and that Queensland and NSW shark control programs are outdated.
HSI program manager Danielle Annese said the shark control programs had killed tens of thousands of sharks and plunged populations to extremely low levels since their introduction in NSW 70 years ago.
Have your say on the feedback form belowPhoto gallery: Great white sharkGreat white washes up on
beachJaws drop after shark snapshot``While the NSW government invests in the vicinity of $750,000 annually on its beach meshing program, Queensland maintains a double-barrelled approach to culling this threatened species by employing both shark nets and baited drum lines in their shark control program,'' Ms Annese said.
``Nearly 150 great whites were captured in these two programs between 1993 and 2003, 60 of which were caught on Queensland's drum lines.''
But Queensland's Department of Primary Industries shark control program manager Tony Ham said there was no effective way of measuring the impact nets and drum lines had on great white populations.
``Typically we take somewhere in the vicinity of three and six great white sharks per annum, so it's not a particularly high volume catch of that particular species,'' Mr Ham said.
Mr Ham said interactions between humans and great white sharks often had disastrous consequences for humans.
Mr Ham said at this time of the year great whites were following whales into shore on their southward migration.
``We don't want people to die on our popular beaches,'' he said.
``The Queensland Government considers it too important to protect our beaches.''
Ms Annese said hundreds of harmless animals were killed in shark nets and drum lines every year.
``It is not uncommon for turtles, dolphins, or even whales to fall victim to these programs, yet these statistics are ignored in favour of maintaining the pretence that they are protecting the public,'' she said.
``The great charade is that neither program provides a conclusive barrier between the sharks and the swimming public.''
- AAP "
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
....It doesn't seem to matter which hemisphere I'm in ....I always get to feel the holiday blues...lack of family...
It would be nice to spend sometime with my extended family but they haven't invited us to come see them...
I start feeling down after all this euphoric elation about being here.
I start feeling down after all this euphoric elation about being here.
Then I start feeling overwhelmed with so much to do in such a short life...I don't feel like retiring when I can still work so much...
I think travelling around the country would be so fantastic....
It would be nice to check out the relatives...
Time is flying by...
barely celebrating my birthday...I think we will both feel better after a good long rest..
that is the amazing thing about the rejuvenating qualities of the ocean...
..It was so fantastic taking the whole family to enjoy see at 5 in am!!
It's amazing how much better you feel after a long rest and then looking into the sun early in the am!
Each day I forget how wonderful and blessed we are to live on Mermaid Beach.
The biggest problem I feel is when others resent that both of us are not working
we are taking the time off to have a babymoon and help build the foundations for our family on this wonderful beach....
They want the beach and the backyard to themselves...
They want the beach and the backyard to themselves...It doesn't matter where you go...
some don't want to share the view!
I suppose our apartments are in disrepair from greedy owners who wish the place torn down so they can makes lots of money selling their investment in what they think is the eventual demise of the Parthenon.
I think that my desire to live on this beach is threatened by a neighbor that threatens to call immigration because of this blog or enjoying some herb...(even when it was their's!)
I guess it doesn't matter where you go...
You get nutty neigbors even in paradise!
I see my child and then realize that he can have his place on the beach...
Yeh....keep smiling!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
We met Rob from Ireland today. Coincidentally or serendipitously?? His birthday is on the 15th...They had come to the free open barbecue that is at all Queensland parks this avo.
You turn on a black button and the grill is hot for cooking whatever kind of meat you have....
Well, we had a bunch of really good steaks and pork chops...
So we were going to cook a couple of chops for ourselves...
Well, we had a bunch of really good steaks and pork chops...
So we were going to cook a couple of chops for ourselves...
Of course, being the ADD couple,...
we can't cook, take care of the bub and conversate with friends all at the same time...
too many items to keep track of at once...
So the unthawed slabs were defrosting covered in cheap aluminium foil...
Angela ask me to go home for plates...I come back and there is no evidence of our chops...
Angela has charmed a Corona of the new birthday boy, Rob...
(to be continued)
So the unthawed slabs were defrosting covered in cheap aluminium foil...
Angela ask me to go home for plates...I come back and there is no evidence of our chops...
Angela has charmed a Corona of the new birthday boy, Rob...
(to be continued)
"yesterday is gone, today will be beautiful and lazy, tomorrow will be another gorgeous day and we will live vicariously through the bright outlook from our son whenever he looks out into the world!I know this because it appears to be our serendipitous destiny..."
Saturday, December 13, 2008
"Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture"
By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan
I thought that this article was fascinating about the evolution of a culture that human being naturally love to do...this is the wanderlust that is ingrained in our human race!
"The surf scene foreshadowed the hippie period by at least a decade with many common features. This surf-sedan was painted psychedelic in 1962 on Oahu, Hawaii, a half-decade before the infamous "Summer of Love" in San Francisco"
I thought that this article was fascinating about the evolution of a culture that human being naturally love to do...this is the wanderlust that is ingrained in our human race!
"The surf scene foreshadowed the hippie period by at least a decade with many common features. This surf-sedan was painted psychedelic in 1962 on Oahu, Hawaii, a half-decade before the infamous "Summer of Love" in San Francisco"
wow...that is so cool...
I remember travelling in the 60s with my family...(my older brother and parents)
this "hippy" culture would reach Oz a few years later...but the waltzing matilda desire to wander has always been with the Aussie culture
far more so than in any other country that I've seen...
other than Germany...they love to travel!
I realize at this late age how much of a hippy I am... my wife has joined in the quest for our magical utopia....
the wanderlust was so much a part of my parents coming over to the states after WW2...
He was the travelling Aussie that finds work in all sorts of niches and crannies throughout the world..
They must have the most bohemian gypsy of any nation!
I just came on this blog when I was searching for hippy images and this site that described the teutonic history of the hippy movement came up...
There was a naturist and wanderlust from the gypsies, Bohemian philosophy at the turn of the 20th century...It was not until the late 60's that the term "hippie" became a new media word!
"In 1904 German author Richard Ungewitter wrote a book titled "Die Nacktheit" (nakedness) wherein he 
advocated nudism, abstention from meat, tobacco and alcohol. He had to publish it himself, but it quickly became a bestseller. The vegetarian aspect focused on the purity of the body and soul, with adherence to a regular program of fitness. The German attitude towards nudity has not changed too much in 100 years because even now on a warm summer day people along lakes and rivers can be found enjoying themselves in the sunshine without clothing".....
advocated nudism, abstention from meat, tobacco and alcohol. He had to publish it himself, but it quickly became a bestseller. The vegetarian aspect focused on the purity of the body and soul, with adherence to a regular program of fitness. The German attitude towards nudity has not changed too much in 100 years because even now on a warm summer day people along lakes and rivers can be found enjoying themselves in the sunshine without clothing"....."Another group, called the "Wandervogel", was founded in 1895 by Hermann Hoffmann and Karl Fischer in Steglitz, a suburb of Berlin. They began to take some high school students on nature walks, then later on longer hikes. Soon a huge youth movement that was both anti-bourgeois and Teutonic Pagan in character, composed mostly of middle class German children, organized into autonomous bands.
Wandervogel members, aged mainly between 14-18 years and spread to all parts of Germany eventually numbering 50,000. Part hobo and part medieval, they pooled their money, wore woolen capes, shorts and Tyrolean hats and took long hikes in the country where they sang their own versions of Goliardic songs and camped under primitive conditions. Both sexes swam nude together in the lakes and rivers and in their hometowns they established "nests" and "anti-homes", sometimes in ruined castles where they met to plan tr
ips and play mandolins and guitars"...
Wandervogel members, aged mainly between 14-18 years and spread to all parts of Germany eventually numbering 50,000. Part hobo and part medieval, they pooled their money, wore woolen capes, shorts and Tyrolean hats and took long hikes in the country where they sang their own versions of Goliardic songs and camped under primitive conditions. Both sexes swam nude together in the lakes and rivers and in their hometowns they established "nests" and "anti-homes", sometimes in ruined castles where they met to plan tr
ips and play mandolins and guitars"...cool
"Perhaps the most central Neo-Pagan element in the German folk movements was sun-worship, believed to be the ancient Teutonic religion. From at least the Romantic era, sun-worship was offered by prominent Germans as the most rational alternative to Christianity. The solar images were at the center of a desire to return to natural Paganism and a natural lifestyle in harmony with the earth."
(moonlight on Mermaid Beach)
http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html
from "Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture"
By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan
from "Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture"
By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan
relative fans of Colin MurrayThat man taking my picture is hilarious!
Friday, December 12, 2008
(FROM THE DAILY OM)
all the jobs and relationships you would experience, along with each one’s inherent ups and downs, you would have become overwhelmed. With your head full of information about the future, you would have had a very hard time experiencing your life in the present moment, which is where everything actually happens. In many ways, not knowing what the future has in store brings out in us the qualities we need to grow. For example, it would have been difficult to commit yourself to certain people or projects if you knew they wouldn’t ultimately work out. Yet, it was through your commitment to see them through that you experienced the lessons you needed to grow. Looking back on your life, you would likely be hard pressed to say that anything in your past should not have happened. In fact, your most challenging experiences with their inevitable lessons may have ultimately brought you the greatest rewards. Not knowing the future keeps us just where we need to be—fully committed and in the present moment. http://www.dailyom.com/
Fully Committed to Now: Why We Are Not Shown the Big Picture
Sometimes, we may find ourselves wishing we knew what our lives are going to look like or what gifts and challenges are going to be presented to us in the coming months or years. We may want to know if the relationship we’re in now will go the distance or if our goals will be realized. Perhaps we feel like we need help making a decision and we want to know which choice will work out best. We may consult psychics, tarot cards, our dreams, and many other sources in the hopes of finding out what the future holds. Usually, at most, we may catch glimpses. And even though we think we would like to know the whole story in all its details, the truth is that we would probably be overwhelmed and exhausted if we knew everything that is going to happen to us.Just think of your life as you’ve lived it up to this point.
Sometimes, we may find ourselves wishing we knew what our lives are going to look like or what gifts and challenges are going to be presented to us in the coming months or years. We may want to know if the relationship we’re in now will go the distance or if our goals will be realized. Perhaps we feel like we need help making a decision and we want to know which choice will work out best. We may consult psychics, tarot cards, our dreams, and many other sources in the hopes of finding out what the future holds. Usually, at most, we may catch glimpses. And even though we think we would like to know the whole story in all its details, the truth is that we would probably be overwhelmed and exhausted if we knew everything that is going to happen to us.Just think of your life as you’ve lived it up to this point.
If you are like most of us, you have probably done
more and faced more than you could have ever imagined. If someone had told you as a child of 
all the jobs and relationships you would experience, along with each one’s inherent ups and downs, you would have become overwhelmed. With your head full of information about the future, you would have had a very hard time experiencing your life in the present moment, which is where everything actually happens. In many ways, not knowing what the future has in store brings out in us the qualities we need to grow. For example, it would have been difficult to commit yourself to certain people or projects if you knew they wouldn’t ultimately work out. Yet, it was through your commitment to see them through that you experienced the lessons you needed to grow. Looking back on your life, you would likely be hard pressed to say that anything in your past should not have happened. In fact, your most challenging experiences with their inevitable lessons may have ultimately brought you the greatest rewards. Not knowing the future keeps us just where we need to be—fully committed and in the present moment. http://www.dailyom.com/ Often posts from the Daily OM seem to parallel my life so much...I had 
no clue that our life could be so wonderful when I was mired in the daily intrigue and conflict of a school in the REZ dealing with daily selfish egos of other teachers and staff....
no clue that our life could be so wonderful when I was mired in the daily intrigue and conflict of a school in the REZ dealing with daily selfish egos of other teachers and staff....and now it's
when should I go surfing??;))
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Colin Murray.... What will be in his future??
Will he sail a boat??
Will he become a lifeguard after training with the "nippers" on the Mermaid Beach Surf Life Savings Club??
Each day he takes in more and his eyes become more aware of his surrounding in his new World!!
What a fantastic birth in this Land Down Unda!!!....
We will be getting his Aussie birth certificates
in the next few days!!
Will he sail a boat??
Will he become a lifeguard after training with the "nippers" on the Mermaid Beach Surf Life Savings Club??
Each day he takes in more and his eyes become more aware of his surrounding in his new World!!
What a fantastic birth in this Land Down Unda!!!....
We will be getting his Aussie birth certificates
in the next few days!!
Our first step to becoming an Australian family....
He will be born in Oz just as my father was
He will be born in Oz just as my father was
He will inherit our Australian
families' legacies....
Let's hope global warming doesn't cause our favorite beach won't be taken out with the tides when the oceans rise from the ravages of mankind!!
On another note:
It's funny one of the many reasons folk pull up my site is for "Prograstination"
and this site comes up first
but this other one mentions ADHD
Here is the translated version...
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.adhs-anderswelt.de/index.php%3Ftopic%3D27453.0&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dprograstination%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX
families' legacies....
Let's hope global warming doesn't cause our favorite beach won't be taken out with the tides when the oceans rise from the ravages of mankind!!
On another note:
It's funny one of the many reasons folk pull up my site is for "Prograstination"
and this site comes up first
but this other one mentions ADHD
Here is the translated version...
http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.adhs-anderswelt.de/index.php%3Ftopic%3D27453.0&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dprograstination%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX
12/10/09
wow...it's ayear later and wonder what we have accomplished....
and then what little we have done...
I know that Angela wants her glasses
and I need to get them for her...
I need to spend time reading to Colin each morning or when he wakes up in the morning...
My spirits go way up when I know we can be in Oz next month!
I feel powerless
when I can't go outside because of this freezing col!
Monday, December 08, 2008
BUSH MOVING INTO RACIST NEIGHBORHOOD!
"The impending presence of a former President is ratcheting up security fears. "I am afraid with all the negative press the president has been getting, the whole neighborhood is going to be a target," said a woman, who wouldn't give her name. She carried her King Charles spaniel Friday past the Bushes' new abode.".....
Until 2000, the neighborhood association's covenant said only white people were allowed to live there, though an exception was made for servants. The document, enacted in 1956, reads:
"Said property shall be used and occupied by white persons only except these covenants shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of different race or nationality in the employ of a tenant."
"Said property shall be used and occupied by white persons only except these covenants shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of different race or nationality in the employ of a tenant."
Will we have another Camelot??
"Part of what we want to do is to open up the White House and remind people this is the people's house," Obama told NBC's Tom Brokaw during a "Meet the Press" interview taped Saturday in Chicago.
"There is an incredible bully pulpit to be used when it comes to, for example, education: Yes, we're going to have an education policy; yes, we're going to be putting more money into school construction. But ultimately we want to talk about parents reading to their kids. We want to invite kids from local schools into the White House."
The president-elect said his administration is interested in "elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling to the stars or breaking down atoms, inspiring our youth to get a sense of what discovery is all about."
"Thinking about the diversity of our culture and inviting jazz musicians and classical musicians and poetry readings in the White House so that once again we appreciate this incredible tapestry that's America," he said.
"Historically, what has always brought us through hard times is that national character, that sense of optimism, that willingness to look forward, that sense that better days are ahead," Obama said. "I think that our art and our culture, our science--you know, that's the essence of what makes America special, and we want to project that as much as possible in the White House.""
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/06/obamas-meet-the-press-int_n_148996.html
"There is an incredible bully pulpit to be used when it comes to, for example, education: Yes, we're going to have an education policy; yes, we're going to be putting more money into school construction. But ultimately we want to talk about parents reading to their kids. We want to invite kids from local schools into the White House."
The president-elect said his administration is interested in "elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling to the stars or breaking down atoms, inspiring our youth to get a sense of what discovery is all about."
"Thinking about the diversity of our culture and inviting jazz musicians and classical musicians and poetry readings in the White House so that once again we appreciate this incredible tapestry that's America," he said.
"Historically, what has always brought us through hard times is that national character, that sense of optimism, that willingness to look forward, that sense that better days are ahead," Obama said. "I think that our art and our culture, our science--you know, that's the essence of what makes America special, and we want to project that as much as possible in the White House.""
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/06/obamas-meet-the-press-int_n_148996.html
Isn't body surfing great? He's a natural in the water!!
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Leftovers of Neocon administration help Australia more towards becoming a police state!
So this is a warning to future free spirits that enjoy mind enhancing drugs!! .....
If we are not careful our governments will be heading more towards a police state...
I can understand the harmful substance but weed is less harmful than beer..
the prohibition did not work and neither will the war on cannabis
Medical Marijuana use passed in Michigan as another state that condones the medical benefits of the herb
I believe that Obama will relax the laws on cannabis and maybe it will finally reach over here in Oz??
If we are not careful our governments will be heading more towards a police state...
I can understand the harmful substance but weed is less harmful than beer..
the prohibition did not work and neither will the war on cannabis
Medical Marijuana use passed in Michigan as another state that condones the medical benefits of the herb
I believe that Obama will relax the laws on cannabis and maybe it will finally reach over here in Oz??
Isn't it about ten years behind the states....so maybe the good waves from Obama will reach over here...
A good happy life is possible!
Bush checking out the varying grades of his
home grown hydro in the White House extensive green house. The president has become quite the conniseur of the high quality cannabis sativa grown on his farm.
He will arrange Airforce One to have special transportation of delicate sensitive pla nts to his ranch in Crawford.
He will also keep some plants for his greenhouse in his new home in Dallas where he will write his cannabized induced memoirs.
(just as I say this a beautiful rainbow appeared when I was feeling kinda down) .. and you know what the rainbow symbolizes?? :)
Unfortunately, the crackdown on weed in this country Down Unda, has become much worse under the long 17 year reign of Prime Minister Howard, who was a long standing puppet of the American Neoconservative administration. (He totally backed Bush in this silly war for petrol
that we now can't get out of!)This bloke, Howard, is very fortunately out now...
He was outvoted by the new labor (more liberal) Prime Minister but it will take time for his policies in regards to police surveillance to mellow out. It appears that it will get worse before it gets better.
Now, the once utopian weed haven of Nimbin, NSW, is under 24 hour surveillance and the police walk the beat up and down the main streets daily looking for dealers.
Two years ago they looked the other way when folks sold their cannabis cookies right on the street! The cool little mountain town used to have one cop back in the utopian 70's . Now they have 9!
Police arrest 76 in Homebake drugs bustDecember 7, 2008, 12:30 pm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5196264/police-arrest-76-homebake-drugs-bust/ Police have issued a stark drugs warning to festival-goers after charging eight people with supply and arresting 76 over possession at a Sydney music festival.
An estimated 20,000 music fans attended Homebake, a showcase of all-Australian and New Zealand bands held in Sydney's The Domain between 11am and 11pm (AEDT) on Saturday.
Now, the once utopian weed haven of Nimbin, NSW, is under 24 hour surveillance and the police walk the beat up and down the main streets daily looking for dealers.
Two years ago they looked the other way when folks sold their cannabis cookies right on the street! The cool little mountain town used to have one cop back in the utopian 70's . Now they have 9!
Police arrest 76 in Homebake drugs bustDecember 7, 2008, 12:30 pm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5196264/police-arrest-76-homebake-drugs-bust/ Police have issued a stark drugs warning to festival-goers after charging eight people with supply and arresting 76 over possession at a Sydney music festival.
An estimated 20,000 music fans attended Homebake, a showcase of all-Australian and New Zealand bands held in Sydney's The Domain between 11am and 11pm (AEDT) on Saturday.
Police, along with drug detection dogs, (just like at the airport!) were out in force at the event to target illegal drug possession and use, alcohol-related crime, and anti-social behaviour.
As of 8pm on Saturday, police had made 87 drug detections, involving the arrest of 76 people, they said in a statement.
Eight people were charged with supplying prohibited drugs, including one man in possession of 28 ecstasy tablets, another in possession of 26 ecstasy tablets, two men in possession of 14 ecstasy tablets each, and a woman with seven grams of white powder which was possibly speed, police said.
In total, police detected 78 grams of cannabis (less than 3 ounces) 256 ecstasy tablets and 18 grams of white powder (consisting of cocaine and speed) at the event. (so let's see...that's 78 grams/20,000...so each person has enough for a microgram??)
Forty people were also evicted from the festival as a result of intoxication, fence jumping, or not having a wristbands as proof of a ticket.
Police said the results served as a warning to those planning to take or supply drugs at forthcoming events this summer.
(NSW is really cracking down hard on folks enjoying themselves...I heard a Nazi named Lyons is in charge of drug enforcement for the state)
"Police will be present at all similar upcoming events, and those people found supplying and possessing prohibited drugs, along with any anti-social behaviour, will be arrested and charged," they said in a statement.
hmmm, but it's legal in Adelaide, South Australia!....it's ridiculous that a harmless plant that makes you feel happier and more creative without the side effects of alchohol has been on the list of this drug war for over a century..
what is the real reason it has been illegal for so long??
the govts of the new world order don't want for folks to think and discuss...
Cannabis helps one stretch outside of their normal daily paradigms!
They have done the same to Schwagstock in Missouri...I read that they are cracking down on the
drug use in this little shangra la of 300 pristine acres in the Ozarks!Schwagstock developed a reputation so now they have constant harassment from the the local and federal law enforcement...They have had many illegal drug busts of the music revellers since the event's conception!
This is similar to the way our expanding police forces in the western world are cracking down on festivals celebrating weed!
Here's another example of what has been happening since the the herb of intellectual thinkin, disscussion, and dissent has been under even more attack under the Neoconservative administrations of Bush and Howard...
Cannabis cookie bust: 2kg seized in Nimbin
Large November 6, 2006 - 7:11AM
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Police have charged a woman on the far north coast over the possession of cookies and chocolates made with cannabis.
Police were attending the break-in of several shops in Nimbin yesterday about 1pm (AEDT) when they witnessed an alleged drug transaction in one of the shops.
While searching the premises, they seized bags of cannabis, nearly 2kg of cannabis cookies and 89 chocolates wrapped in foil and made from cannabis butter in a package weighing more than 1.3 kg, police say.
They also seized a sum of cash.
A 51-year-old woman from Jiggi was arrested at the scene and charged with three counts of supply a prohibited drug, two counts of possess a prohibited drug and one count of goods in custody.
She was granted conditional bail and will appear in Lismore Local Court on December 4, police say.
AAP
Large November 6, 2006 - 7:11AM
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Police have charged a woman on the far north coast over the possession of cookies and chocolates made with cannabis.
Police were attending the break-in of several shops in Nimbin yesterday about 1pm (AEDT) when they witnessed an alleged drug transaction in one of the shops.
While searching the premises, they seized bags of cannabis, nearly 2kg of cannabis cookies and 89 chocolates wrapped in foil and made from cannabis butter in a package weighing more than 1.3 kg, police say.
They also seized a sum of cash.
A 51-year-old woman from Jiggi was arrested at the scene and charged with three counts of supply a prohibited drug, two counts of possess a prohibited drug and one count of goods in custody.
She was granted conditional bail and will appear in Lismore Local Court on December 4, police say.
AAP
"wow!! work at the white house is a hell of a lot better with my daily bong in the AM"
What?? Ok I fucked up in Iraq..there werent any WMDS..
I wasn't prepared...Jeb or Sarah will get us out of umm Bagdad when they're elected in 2012!
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Friday, December 05, 2008
"I think I was unprepared for war," 
Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News." "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen." ......"I'm sorry it's happening, of course," Bush said in a wide-ranging interview with ABC's "World News," which was airing Monday. "Obviously I don't like the idea of 
people losing jobs,(I'll be losing mine in a couple of months and have a chance to write reflections on how I fucked up this country!...oh wellI guess I'll just work on my ranch hauling hay and cleaning 
bush!)or being worriedworried heir 401(k)s.
On the other hand, the American people got to know that we will safeguard the system. I mean, we're in. And if we need to be in more, we will."words from our Prez!!"I think it was a repudiation
of Republicans," he told Charlie Gibson of ABC News, according t o a transcript released by the network Monday. "And I'm sure some people voted for Barack
Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy."
(Wow...finally an admision of guilt from this brainwashed leader of fools!)
Now the next neocon puppet really believes that
she can save right wing America. She knows that the neocon think tank will back her up and train her the way they trained GW Doofus!Will our country be stupid enough to vote for her like they did for Bush?
Will they let the right Faux news spin everything in her favor so she looks like the best fascist leader of the right wing?
When I get depressed I just look out from my window to our Mermaid Beach!
Well I just woke up at 420 AM to watch the sunrise that I'll be showing you....after I go to bed and take
a little nap :)
"
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi journalist who shot to fame for hurling his shoes at former US president George W. Bush was jailed for three years on Thursday, stirring outrage from his family and supporters.Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, had pleaded not guilty at the Iraq Central Criminal Court to assaulting Bush during his farewell visit to Baghdad last December."He was sentenced to three years in jail," defence lawyer Yahia Attabi said outside the court.The defendant shouted: " Iraq , long live Iraq ," after the verdict was read out, the lawyer told AFP.Chief counsel Dhiya al-Saadi called the conviction severe."I consider the decision harsh. He was charged with assaulting a foreign leader on an official visit, but I don't believe it was an assault," he said. "We will contest the decision and try to get the verdict overturned."There was standing room only at the courtroom on the edge of Baghdad's high security Green Zone as some 200 family members, reporters and lawyers crowded in.Returning his verdict, Judge Abdulamir Hassan al-Rubaie announced he had taken into consideration that Zaidi is young and it was his first offence, the defence lawyers said.Shoe-hurling is an especially grave insult in the Arab and Muslim world and Zaidi had risked up to 15 years in jail on the charge of aggression against a foreign head of state.Bush, deeply unpopular among Arabs for ordering the 2003 invasion of Iraq , had been at a globally televised news conference with Pr
ime Minister Nuri al-Maliki when Zaidi let rip with his shoes.The president dodged the flying footwear and later joked about the incident.Bush spokesman Rob Saliterman on Thursday said the case was a "matter for the Iraqi judicial system."When the judge asked Zaidi if he was innocent, the journalist responded: "Yes, my reaction was natural, just like any Iraqi (would have done)."After the verdict, his 25-strong defence team emerged to scenes of chaos. Several family members screamed: "It's an American court... sons of dogs."One brother, Uday, said the decision to jail Zaidi was political."This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner... This decision has been taken by the prime minister's office."The family said they would both appeal and proceed with plans to bring torture charges against Bush, Maliki and his bodyguards at a human rights court abroad.A Syrian lawyer told AFP she was preparing to file a complaint in Belgium or Spain.Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders condemned the sentence, calling it "cynical in a country where so many of the people who kill journalists are never brought to justice. We call for his release."Wearing a light-brown suit and thin-framed glasses, Zaidi arrived in a packed courtroom under heavy police escort.Chief counsel Saadi had argued that his client's motives were "honourable.""He was only expressing his feelings. What he could see was the blood of Iraqis at his feet when he watched the US president speaking about his achievements in Iraq ."He also argued that although Iraqi law considered it an attack on a visiting head of state, "his throwing of the shoe did not cause any injury or damage... His goal was to insult Bush for the pain Iraqis have suffered."Zaidi had already spent three months behind bars, Saadi stressed.The Baghdadia television reporter told the court when the trial opened on February 19 that he had been outraged and unable to control his emotions when Bush began speaking."I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner."So I took the first shoe and threw it but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe but it did not hit him either. I was not trying to kill the commander of the occupation forces of Iraq ."Zaidi shouted at Bush: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," before security forces wrestled him to the ground. He also said he was beaten and tortured in custody."
Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News." "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen." ......"I'm sorry it's happening, of course," Bush said in a wide-ranging interview with ABC's "World News," which was airing Monday. "Obviously I don't like the idea of 
people losing jobs,(I'll be losing mine in a couple of months and have a chance to write reflections on how I fucked up this country!...oh wellI guess I'll just work on my ranch hauling hay and cleaning 
bush!)or being worriedworried heir 401(k)s.On the other hand, the American people got to know that we will safeguard the system. I mean, we're in. And if we need to be in more, we will."words from our Prez!!"I think it was a repudiation
of Republicans," he told Charlie Gibson of ABC News, according t o a transcript released by the network Monday. "And I'm sure some people voted for Barack
Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy."(Wow...finally an admision of guilt from this brainwashed leader of fools!)
Now the next neocon puppet really believes that
she can save right wing America. She knows that the neocon think tank will back her up and train her the way they trained GW Doofus!Will our country be stupid enough to vote for her like they did for Bush?Will they let the right Faux news spin everything in her favor so she looks like the best fascist leader of the right wing?
When I get depressed I just look out from my window to our Mermaid Beach!
Well I just woke up at 420 AM to watch the sunrise that I'll be showing you....after I go to bed and take
a little nap :) "
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi journalist who shot to fame for hurling his shoes at former US president George W. Bush was jailed for three years on Thursday, stirring outrage from his family and supporters.Television reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, had pleaded not guilty at the Iraq Central Criminal Court to assaulting Bush during his farewell visit to Baghdad last December."He was sentenced to three years in jail," defence lawyer Yahia Attabi said outside the court.The defendant shouted: " Iraq , long live Iraq ," after the verdict was read out, the lawyer told AFP.Chief counsel Dhiya al-Saadi called the conviction severe."I consider the decision harsh. He was charged with assaulting a foreign leader on an official visit, but I don't believe it was an assault," he said. "We will contest the decision and try to get the verdict overturned."There was standing room only at the courtroom on the edge of Baghdad's high security Green Zone as some 200 family members, reporters and lawyers crowded in.Returning his verdict, Judge Abdulamir Hassan al-Rubaie announced he had taken into consideration that Zaidi is young and it was his first offence, the defence lawyers said.Shoe-hurling is an especially grave insult in the Arab and Muslim world and Zaidi had risked up to 15 years in jail on the charge of aggression against a foreign head of state.Bush, deeply unpopular among Arabs for ordering the 2003 invasion of Iraq , had been at a globally televised news conference with Pr
ime Minister Nuri al-Maliki when Zaidi let rip with his shoes.The president dodged the flying footwear and later joked about the incident.Bush spokesman Rob Saliterman on Thursday said the case was a "matter for the Iraqi judicial system."When the judge asked Zaidi if he was innocent, the journalist responded: "Yes, my reaction was natural, just like any Iraqi (would have done)."After the verdict, his 25-strong defence team emerged to scenes of chaos. Several family members screamed: "It's an American court... sons of dogs."One brother, Uday, said the decision to jail Zaidi was political."This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner... This decision has been taken by the prime minister's office."The family said they would both appeal and proceed with plans to bring torture charges against Bush, Maliki and his bodyguards at a human rights court abroad.A Syrian lawyer told AFP she was preparing to file a complaint in Belgium or Spain.Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders condemned the sentence, calling it "cynical in a country where so many of the people who kill journalists are never brought to justice. We call for his release."Wearing a light-brown suit and thin-framed glasses, Zaidi arrived in a packed courtroom under heavy police escort.Chief counsel Saadi had argued that his client's motives were "honourable.""He was only expressing his feelings. What he could see was the blood of Iraqis at his feet when he watched the US president speaking about his achievements in Iraq ."He also argued that although Iraqi law considered it an attack on a visiting head of state, "his throwing of the shoe did not cause any injury or damage... His goal was to insult Bush for the pain Iraqis have suffered."Zaidi had already spent three months behind bars, Saadi stressed.The Baghdadia television reporter told the court when the trial opened on February 19 that he had been outraged and unable to control his emotions when Bush began speaking."I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner."So I took the first shoe and threw it but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe but it did not hit him either. I was not trying to kill the commander of the occupation forces of Iraq ."Zaidi shouted at Bush: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," before security forces wrestled him to the ground. He also said he was beaten and tortured in custody."
"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known country folk song, and has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia".[1]
The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker making a drink of tea at a bush camp and stealing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker, he drowns himself in a small watering hole and goes on to haunt the site.
The original lyrics were written in 1895 by the poet and nationalist Banjo Paterson. It was first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that the song has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland."
The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker making a drink of tea at a bush camp and stealing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker, he drowns himself in a small watering hole and goes on to haunt the site.
The original lyrics were written in 1895 by the poet and nationalist Banjo Paterson. It was first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that the song has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland."
It's really cool to realize my grandparents and great grandparents were involved in the building of Australia! My Aunt Marjorie knows where my aboriginal relatives live they live
and she is over 90!
"Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag,"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Down came the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,Up came the troopers, one, two, three,"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?"
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me""Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?","You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".\
Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong,"You'll never catch me alive", said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me."
Thursday, December 04, 2008
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/02/05/rove300inside.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/he-was-bushs-fox-now-hes-murdochs/2008/02/05/1202090404193.html&usg=__ICJO5u0i-vQ7vsAQzsbKUfPOkA8=&h=313&w=297&sz=20&hl=en&start=1&sig2=gWdCBm5PDhRD8oNIXTJmoA&um=1&tbnid=OWz3xediPwoXwM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=111&ei=2KM3SYfLLJj2sAOugpzWDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drupert%2Bmurdoch%2Bbush%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DNRupert wants to buy NY Times! http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/09/03/rupert-murdoch-dreams-of-owning-the-new-york-times-nyt/
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and king of all he surveys, wants to buy The New York Times. At least that is what he told Vanity Fair according to a Reuters report.
That would be a vast shake up of this giant wanting to control the media even more!! scary!
"Helen said...
Fair and balanced is a joke. If The New York Times is bought by him, you might as well move to another country. That would be the only way you would get to know what is really going on in this country."
Fair and balanced is a joke. If The New York Times is bought by him, you might as well move to another country. That would be the only way you would get to know what is really going on in this country."
And obviously the above article was written by an Aussie newspaper,The Sydney Morning Herald!
and if this power hungry Australian has his way to totally control American Media, it's time for us to live in another country,
ironically. it's where this bastard came from!
Each day I get excited about coming back to see you...those that for today decided to come into our lives in paradise ..
I decide which pic to throw out there into the blog ocean...to see if there any bites??
I see I get about 5-10 views each day...I reckon there might be 2 or 3 from KC...
then a few from Europe looking prograstination...
I was worried that I wouldnt be able to talk to you as I prograsstinate from taking the bike ride up to meet the rest of my family at Pac Fair...
I don't worry so much when it's my honey's tax refund check...Im happy that the yank dollar has a little more equitable bang for the buck...so #$900 is worth about 1400 Aussie...
Each day while surfing and going through my morning routines of a liter of coffee and local milk with the local honey
I decide which pic to throw out there into the blog ocean...to see if there any bites??
I see I get about 5-10 views each day...I reckon there might be 2 or 3 from KC...
then a few from Europe looking prograstination...
I was worried that I wouldnt be able to talk to you as I prograsstinate from taking the bike ride up to meet the rest of my family at Pac Fair...
I don't worry so much when it's my honey's tax refund check...Im happy that the yank dollar has a little more equitable bang for the buck...so #$900 is worth about 1400 Aussie...
Each day while surfing and going through my morning routines of a liter of coffee and local milk with the local honey
take a load off my mind
until I finally get out for my morning swim with all the sun lotion...
I decide to cook lunch and put up with Ellen Degenerate hitting on all of her beautiful female guest with the same dance routine that she uses on her new subservient wife!!
Now she is on her power routine of prima donna talk show hosts!! dont get me started!!
ppp pass ;)
or pass by the day a little longer while I type to you and
then switch the channel to the view
just to get your dose of the local politics
listening to the really cute right wing Hasselbach give her right wing rehearsed voice box
often overpowered by the other 3 more open minded liberal thinkers....
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
What can I say???
The joys come more abundantly each day...
as we vicariously live through Colin's new eyes opening up from being
in the womb....
Im realizing each day the connection we have..
he has heard my voice from within his Mom's womb
Now he calms down when he hears my voice
each day his mind increases and he has more strength...
The joys come more abundantly each day...
as we vicariously live through Colin's new eyes opening up from being
in the womb....
Im realizing each day the connection we have..
he has heard my voice from within his Mom's womb
Now he calms down when he hears my voice
each day his mind increases and he has more strength...
Should I pray??
do some paperwork??
make a list and phone calls while on the toilet??
hmmmm...
It's a little too early for a beer...
but I'll have a liter of instant Java!
I think I'll go for a swim and bike ride....
Maybe get some groceries
wow....another gorgeous morning .....cannabized, caffeinated and ready to kick some asses...
of those bloody sharks that roam the world surfing for victims....
what kind of bait do we leave out for these creatures without conscience....
do we wait long enough for them to ensnare themselves into the sporadic nets left in the oceans of the blogosphere
or until they get hooked on some fresh bait left on the long hook???....
but some of these old sharks are too cagey and they will continually hover in the currents of the coast continually moving or they will die...
We shouldn't hate these monsters from the deep that are waiting to pounce on any unsuspecting
victims that float frantically in the rip tide
washing them out to see and their ravenous apetites for animal flesh...
sometimes an errant shark bites the bait instead of us
it can't pull the bait tied to the anchor any longer and lays exhausted dying in the surf
waiting for the lifeguards to pull it in
be careful not to drag the hook too fast or it will revive from the fresh saltwater of the surf running through it's gills
and wake up and bite you!!
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
What can I say other than
"We are a hot happy couple!"
OVERCOMING BUBBURBAN BLUES!
I was just watching "Desperate Housewives"...
At the end of each show there is a philosophical Aesops fable type moral often about peoples lives....
They were talking about the sad look on most middle aged mens' faces resigned to their life in the burbs and burbanmobiles..
once in a while there is a bloke that can't stop smiling about his reality...
I sometimes cannot stop smiling hardly believing that this is our family's little home on the Beach!
"I think I was unprepared for war," Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News." "In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen." ......"I'm sorry it's happening, of course," Bush said in a wide-ranging interview with ABC's "World News," which was airing Monday. "Obviously I don't like the idea of people losing jobs,
(I'll be losing mine in a couple of months and have a chance to write reflections on how I fucked up this country!...oh well
I guess I'll just work on my ranch hauling hay and cleaning bush!)
or being worried about their 401(k)s. On the other hand, the American people got to know that we will safeguard the system. I mean, we're in. And if we need to be in more, we will."
words from our Prez!!
"I think it was a repudiation of Republicans," he told Charlie Gibson of ABC News, according t o a transcript released by the network Monday. "And I'm sure some people voted for Barack Obama because of me. I think most people voted for Barack Obama because they decided they wanted him to be in their living room for the next four years explaining policy."
(Wow...finally an admision of guilt from this brainwashed leader of fools!)
Now the next neocon puppet really believes that she can save right wing America. She knows that the neocon think tank will back her up and train her the way they trained GW Doofus!
Will our country be stupid enough to vote for her like they did for Bush? Will they let the right Faux news spin everything in her favor so she looks like the best fascist leader of the right wing?
When I get depressed I just look out from my window to our Mermaid Beach!
Well I just woke up at 420 to watch the sunrise that I'll be showing you....after I go to bed and take a little nap :)
Every day it's a different show from the Pacific....I wish that I had a balcony so I could just walk outside and get a better unhindered view of our destiny .....pp pass ;)
Monday, December 01, 2008
What can I say?? hmmmm....
any relationship goes through ups and downs
My baby has a chance to go on a tax refund spending spree...
I just worry that we can keep the modest expenditure of lower middle class beach bums....
I have herbal induced delusions of writing a bestseller when I see how great the pics are with the verbage of words!!!
any relationship goes through ups and downs
My baby has a chance to go on a tax refund spending spree...
I just worry that we can keep the modest expenditure of lower middle class beach bums....
I have herbal induced delusions of writing a bestseller when I see how great the pics are with the verbage of words!!!
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