saturday morning...

funny old morning today
one moment hot the next cold
one moment sunny the next rain
take it on the chin
the person nest door is back after their holiday
woke up this morning dreaming about a packet of cigarettes
thank God they had the cellophane wrapping on...
Dave was great yesterday
that's Mr Letterman
Todd Rundgren was on the show playing and singing
he had the stage presence
I had always thought he was some sort of musical recluse genius
but he was no shrinking violet
nice suit
way cool
The Broadway Syncopators were right on form too
and Felicia Collins is still the hottest babe on TV
and she can play the guitar as well!
Dave you oughta get more interested in Cricket
it is the greatest game
not like the instant gratification of Baseball but more dogged grit and determination when some guy is trying to get you out ball after ball.
Next week the New Zealand Black Caps will be in England and lets hope our boys can show the pongos a trick or two
they think we are a gang of colonial hicks but we can play the game and win
you should be able to get it on sky Dave
and hopefully it will go the full 5 days
that's what I call a game!
Found two VHS vids yesterday at the Family Store
One the USAF wartime doco on the real life Memphis Belle and the other a one hour rundown of aircraft used in the Vietnam war
great stuff
The US never lost that war
they didn't want to conquer Hanoi
just keep em busy
there was more at stake than just territory
Been thinking hard about the Ancestry of Fascism

Bertie says that Hitler was in love with science rather than religion
that may be so but he had the winning of the war and consistently did the wrong thing
how stupid can one man and one nation be?
the me262 and heinkel 219 were clearly superior to anything the allies had but his maniacal insistence on bombing troops was an act of psychotic stupidity.

United States Of America...

Bertie

I looked at a site this am which contained the cpation, "is the United States The Most Surveilled Nation on Earth"?
The answer is probably yes but the corollary is so what.
Every society on earth has its fair share of dissidents and criminals who bear watching.
Last night I was reading Bertrand Russells In Praise of Idleness where he does a nifty little piece of analysis on the roots of fascism.
The broad view looking down is primarily jealousy that expressed itself in in some of the nastiest people that ever existed.
Looking at Attila or Alexander and their conquests it was all a big adventure but by the 17th century and the advent of science and then later industrialism the laggers had to find excuses for their lack and inabilities which gradually came to be rooted in race and religion.
Two very spurious notions about the mainsprings of human activity and ideas and very utilised to galvanise hatred and opprobrium.
Unfortunately these corrupt nostrums still work in unifying nations and dictating their wishes.
So in this age we have two conflicting viewpoints.
Hatred of the succesful and the desire to have what they produced.
two irreconcilable categories and very dangerous for the resto f the world who just want to get on with it without the threat of globalpolitic disrupting and ending their existence because some hothead wants to be the big man. 

will.i.am ok...

hamilton metalplane

stinson reliant

lockheed ec121r

sikorsky

doh.

never listened to the black eyed peas and have only ever sen will.i.am on DaveTv but he is in New Zealand at the moment and seems to be a nice guy and he gave $100,000 to set up a learning scheme.

Good onya dude.

great to find a modern singer more interested in people than the Bling.

BTW

Felicia is playing a really cool looking pink Strat lately.

not much happening here at the moment.

a big front sweeping in from the southern ocean with vertical isobars.

I can see it right out of my window.

hope you like the movies.

I dont have them but I recall seeing those three when I was kid and the local movie house was my home.

Sometimes when I see these flix 40 years after the fact Irealise that I was to young to get the full story but they still stand up.

yes indeedy.

I found a copy of Heinz Knokes "I Flew For the Fuhrer" a month ago.

All that WW2 stuff was around in quantity when I was a boy and it seemed as if was almost disposable but it still makes exciting reading but now I just feel for the families and the tragic waste of humanity.

to sir with love...

Another one from the 'BOX'

I must confess It brought a tear to my eye at the denouement of 'To Sir With Love".

I saw it when it was first released and I could have sworn it was in black and white but  it was in colour.

Wonderful movie ful of markers for civility and race relations and life itself.

 a little masterpiece.

Big ups to Claudia Orange.

she knows what for.

no more brrrrrrm brrrrrrm.

hehehehehehe.

and
big ups to Catherine Delahunty
why is it always up to the Green Party to have to do the right thing.
It looks like the government is going to close 'Learning Media' and junk the 'School Journal' because in roundtable speak it doesn't fit the competitive model.
what a bloody bullshit weasel word excuse that is.
Why isn't the resto f the educational establishment geting behind this travesty and calling for the Minister of Educations head.
This seems to be the age of Nonsense.
Nothing matters except overseas travel and expensive hotels for the klingons and the gilmores of this world but nothing for the stuf that really counts.

dont be nosey!

Its all nonsense today.

It was a lovely morning as I walked into town until some peanut head noisepig in an older model Falcon with no muffler decided to come down the street.

New Zealand is the home of infantile panderers who think they have to appease idiots just because they have a car.

The PM thinks he can tell people how to conduct a democracy.

New Zealand is not a business and you cant fire people just because they disagree with you.

Metiria Turei says the PM is becoming hysterical.

more likely he has at last become inane.

and

suddenly solid energy has become unviable.

First of all they ramped it up and now that its blown up completely they can sell it off even cheaper than before.

talk about ccrummy!

Faith is the question in Anglican circles in Auckland. One of the parishioners is suffering from the deadly sin of pride and looking for public opinion to change the mind of the church when he should be looking at himself!

Another infantile suggestion from some computer game maker that is trying to sell its game to the Health Department as a prescription to cure teenage depression.

Yeah right.

What do these people know about depression anyway?

But there will be some nincompoop in the Department of Health who will greenlight it because they have been blinded by the pretty colours and the hip crew doing the presentation.

yaddah yaddah yaddah.

more money siphoned off for nonsense because somebody says they can with no credentials and no investigation.

There is a social distress syndrome here but nobody will tackle the cause only the effect.

just like the paranoid wife killers.

paranoia is a defence against passive unconscious h*m* sexuality.

People with this condition do not know they have it.

they marry because in their cosncious mind they know it is best if they have a wife but in their psychosis they think that that their spouses or significant other are committing the same acts that they wish to.

The thing about narcissitic states is that the person sexuality becomes tied up with and endless and uncoscious search for the self as expressed in other people.

my apologies for the tortuos explication but there is no other way to describe a complex situation.

it cant be done with a one liner.

New Zealand Re-constituted.

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.”

Thomas Jefferson