I don't know quite why it was that this poem sprang in to my head this morning. But spring it did and I found myself reciting it from memory, though I have not heard it in decades.
Back in the 80's ( the good old days ) my eldest daughter, then aged about 10, owned a copy of the book that beautifully captured the spirit of Banjo Patterson's wonderful bush poem. We gave it to her for Christmas one year and it quickly became her most treasured reading material. So much so that it would be read before she went to sleep and she was known to take it to the toilet to read and recite as she sat there on the throne in her private space.
At 9.41am on Monday 15 December 2014, Man Monis directed Tori Johnson (the manager of the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place, Sydney) to call 000 and say that all those in the cafe had been taken hostage by an Islamic State operative armed with a gun and explosives.
Eighteen hostages were held in the cafe for 16.5 hours. Over that period, 12 of the 18 hostages were able to escape in four separate episodes.
At around 2.13am on Tuesday 16th December, the cafe manager Tori Johnson was executed by Man Moris. Following the execution, police stormed the cafe and another hostage, Katrina Dawson, was struck by fragments of one or more deflected police bullets and died at the scene. The hostage-taker, Man Monis, was also killed in the firefight that followed the police storming the cafe.
Redhead always tells me she hates the alphabet people. She likes words. If you say GITMO she hates it. We may know what it means The Guantanamo Bay detention camp. but GITMO is quicker and easier to type.
GTFO is obviously rather rude language for those of us who were brought up to think that Get the F##k out was probably a little less than polite. Though I do have to confess to using the F word alot more these days than previously.
I was shopping with Redhead the other day and she opened the hatchback of my car and she hit herself on the head as it launched upwards.She did not say " Ouch that hurt. " She , aged 89 said " F#k!" Good on you Mum. We, in our family, call a spade a spade.
Words are vital.
Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, a French retired university professor known for his strong opposition to COVID-19 vaccines such as those presently being distributed in the U.K., was taken from his temporary home in the south of France by a team of “gendarmes” — French law enforcement officers under military command — and forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès. His mobile phones were taken from him, and at the time of writing, he had not been allowed to communicate with the outside world. The order for his internment appears to have been issued by the local “préfet,” the official representative of the French executive.
It has been a bloody awful year. So many elephants in the room that people are breathless, stifled and choking on Political Correctness. I used to joke and say that, one day, they would tax our air if they could. Well, in 2020, they achieved their goal. They didn't tax it. They stole it.
We are now expected to walk around like masked zombies from a B grade movie and be grateful to actually BREATHE.
I want to breathe and live without some interfering bastard from " THE GOVERNMENT " telling me how to live my life. But what is happening around the world right now is very much like that B Grade Zombie movie. And it is not going to be any better if that bitch Karmala steals the Whitehouse.
The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth because of the values and freedoms it upholds.
President Trump, you have made some powerful enemies.
You have challenged the elite, the Washington insiders, exposed the lies perpetuated by the mainstream media, and taken on the career politicians who do not represent the will of the people.
The same people who are trying to take the election from you are the ones trying to prosecute Julian Assange.
Everything you have achieved as President is under threat.
The Supreme Court has just rejected the Texas bid to challenge the 2020 election results in Pennyslvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.Not good news, by any means. However, it does not mean that the War is over - merely a battle lost before the troops were able to engage fire. So what courses of action are left?
Rudy Giuliani, Trump campaign legal head said he felt it was a “terrible mistake.”
“The worst part of this is, basically, the court is saying, we want to stay out of this and … they don’t want to give them a hearing, they don’t want the American people to hear the facts,”
He went on to say
“These facts will remain in history unless they get resolved. They need to be heard, they need to be aired, and somebody needs to make a decision on whether they’re true or false. And some court’s gonna have to have the courage to make that decision,”
I saw an image today that horrified me. A little infant, in a nappie ( or diapers depending upon your country of origion. ) Barely a year old . Holding a mobile phone. It staggered me.
The thought that parents are so preoccupied with social media and telecommunications staggers me.
An elderly woman in Canada has been euthanised to avoid having to live through another COVID-19 lockdown.
90-year-old Nancy Russell ended her life by euthanasia last month in Toronto, Canada so that she did not have to endure another lockdown, despite the fact that she was neither chronically nor terminally ill.
Read more: Elderly woman opts for euthanasia to avoid another lockdown
What we need right now is a bull in the China Shop. Someone who can sort the buggers out.
No wonder the Left hate Trump and want him gone. They have thrown everything they have at getting him out of power and are not worried about breaking every cup, saucer, jug or plate if that means that he and his Presidency is over.
For decades, the Bull in the China shop has signified a rampaging beast who storms through the door and smashes everything to pieces.
Well, President Trump has sure done that. Because it really needed smashing.
Read more: The Battle of the Alamo and the Battle for Justice
Year 2121 is of course now the first year of the final decade the UN designated their Agenda 30 achievement final period, having failed to achieve their goals originally scheduled for Agenda 21 when the Keating Labor Government of Australia became a signatory around 1989/90.
Another part of the climate hoax, creative accounting for global warming leading to the end of life as we know it. But climate scare, climate emergency nonsense, has not been gaining traction, believers have fallen from a high of around 70 per cent of people to about 35 per cent with varying understanding, many for example realise that weather and climate are related, climate is very long term weather conditions based, and varies from climate zone to climate zone, even here within Australia.
The girl actress who shouts: 'how dare you" has also lost traction, and apparently returned to school.
So what's next?
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