hell sucks...

......cool and brisk this morning. Blue bussed down to Greytown  and there was plenty of water in the Waiohine and Mangatarere Rivers. should be flushing them out good before the spawning season.

Went to Masterton yesrterday. Found Carry On Abroad on vhs for 50c at the Family Store and Dispatches at the Hospice store for $1.
Herrs book is very special to veterans and military historians and students of the human conditon.
For those of us who watched the siege of Khe Sanh on the telly as it unfolded it was horrific and another industrial strength grind up on men and material.
Now the nitwits in the USA want to commit men to the Ukraine and the Russians seem eager for a bit of bother too.
Nothing wrong with a bit of war in my opinion but If the Russians got the worst of it and they surely would then it would be odds on for the juvenile offspring of the nomenclatura to try a bomb just to see if it worked.
It has almost become impossible to have any faith in dweebs whose only claim to fame is to have been born to the right parents and mollycoddled thorugh school and tertiary and now they think they are real men.
NO.
Anyway I sort of thought to myself that somebody would have bought Dispatches  for ANZAC weekend reading but I suppose that in the new post modern environment they were all celebrating or vibrating or somesuch.
moving on I have got hold of a digital camera and am working up some songs to put on here with himself performing and on you tube. I have identified a niche and will try and fill it.
Learning to operate the camera is quite a stretch. all sorts of doodads and functions. I will have to re-string the Ibanez too for the extra special punch.

so the old world is passing away rapidly.
Its all being blitzed in a shitstorm of personal aquisitiveness and self agrandisement that bears no relation or admits to no recognition of the past and how we got here.
Everyone wants to be on TV and they sit round watching endless vids and identifying with endless schmuks  and by constant conjunction come to believe that their own thoughts are facts.
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

Go the Sherpas of Nepal.
Having to pander to a procession of rich  spoiled brats for bugger all money is a thankless task and I salute your courage.

Politics in New Zealand.
Economic commentator Rod Oram opined in last weeks SST that New Zealand was perhaps on the way to regressing to an agrarian economy.
Well it might.
It was only the advent of the New Zealand Labour Party in 1935 that saw policies of import substitution as essential for introducing a manufacturing sector and enlarging the power of the proletariat.
All those efforts have beeen largely negated by low cost production of everything in China, Japan and the Pacific rim countries.
We can no longer compete.
But nobody seems to know what to do here.
They haven't got a clue. The ruling class are all fatheads with no real experience of anything and they are like the emperor and his togs.
They aint got none.
they all nebbish!
In the meantime the fleas are getting more and more nasty and vicious while fight for scraps that they neither created nor really know how to manage.
Pretty sad really.
Roll on the new age.