Editorial Sun Feb 7th 2021
On Friday, at work in the adjacent suburb of Hallam, a lightning storm resulted in power going down across Hallam. Children at the tutorial centre at 8pm were forced to work from fading daylight across summer of Melbourne. Lights returned fifteen minutes later. Work was done and children got a new appreciation of Zeus. When I got back home, I found the internet was down from wifi, but I had phone data operative. I searched for internet failure and found nothing. I waited until next morning, and found a report of NBN failure the night before. I went to work in the morning. At work I was called by my estate agent who had tried to reset the modem in the share accommodation, without success. I told them of the NBN outage report, with the news that the anticipated recovery was on Monday at 6pm, the fourth day from the failure.
I went home and checked the internet again. Still down, I checked the outage reports, and there were none. Not even at my address. Clearly, the estate agent had not got the landlord to raise the issue with the ISP. There is no reason to believe the internet will be restored on even the fourth day if no one is looking at the issue.
What has caused this outage? Internet gets slow whenever there is a thunderstorm. I live in Dandenong, a suburb of Melbourne. There is no excuse for such poor service.
Editorial Thursday 11th February 2021
Having reported the outage to my landlord’s agent, I queried them as to why no fault was reported on the address a day later, two days later, three days later and four days later. The estate agent raised their voice to me “It is not my job to sit by a phone for a telecommunications company hours on end. I’ve alerted the landlord.”
“Yes, but the telecommunications company needs to know there is a fault or they cannot address it.”
“I take your point but I have told you I have alerted the landlord.”
“Have you advised them to report the fault?”
“They said they will fix it. If they haven’t fixed by the end of working day tomorrow I will see to it. Have a good day, sir”
It wasn’t working on day five, but another member of the share household found mail addressed to the landlord from the telecommunications company and opened it. It said that the company was sending a final warning before cancellation. The company was forced to close their cable service and link to NBN instead. The cancellation was to take place on the 15th February, ten days after they in fact cancelled it. Had the company been called when the ‘fault’ was detected, the problem could have been addressed immediately. The agent has still not apologised to me. Neither is the internet connected after seven days.
My oldest sister sent me a near fifty year old school photo of me. I told her that I had lost all my photos when FB booted me. I have no place for such memories, but I’m thankful she thought of me. I had been booted from FB after Jan 6th for not being a good citizen, as I endorsed Donald Trump for President. I am not uncivilised and never condone violence or racism, but FB booted me. My sister, a left wing loony, said I should go somewhere else where I’m accepted. She suggested I use the library to access the internet. She was taunting me. That is how they behave.
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Grateful Thanks to Bobby Darin and Wikipedia's dinosaur listing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_darin
The amazing Vaporman tells me
"I think the song was actually written by Leslie Bricusse for the Musical Film "Dr. Doolittle" (1967). Bobby Darin recorded it later that year for his album "The Music of Dr. Doolittle". Just a few years back (1998?), Bricusse tried a Broadway version of the film, but I don't think it went over very well."
audio was posted at http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=52256
If I could talk to the dinosaurs, just imagine it,
Chattin' with a therapod with ease,
Imagine talking to a t-rex, chatting with Archaeopteryx,
What a neat achievement it would be!
If we could talk to the dinosaurs, learn all their languages,
I could take the dinosaur degree,
I'd study jurassic and triassic, gastroliths and feathers,
Archosaur, feces, and flea!
I would converse in Protoceratopsidae,
And I would curse in fluent Tetanurae,
If people ask me "can you speak Thecodontosaurus?"
I'd say "of courserous! Can't you?"
If I conferred with our feathered friends, man to dinosaur,
Think of the amazing repartee
If I could walk with the dinosaurs, talk with the dinosaurs,
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the dinosaurs,
And they could talk to me!
If I consulted with quadrupeds
Think what fun we'd have asking over crocodiles for tea!
Or maybe lunch with two or three Brachiosauridae
What a lovely place the world would be!
If I spoke slang to Tetanurae
The advantages why any fool on earth could plainly see!
Discussing Eastern art and dramas
With intellectual Stegosauria
That's a big step forward you'll agree!
I'd learn to speak in Ceratopsia
And my Iguanodontia would be extremely good
If I were asked to sing in coelurosaur
I'd say "whynotasaur?" and I would!
If I could parlay with Deinonychosauria
It's a fairy tale worthy of Hans Anderson and Grimm
A man who walks with the dinosaurs and talks with the dinosaurs
Grunts and squeaks and squawks with the dinosaurs and they could talk to him!
Let me hear 'em talk
I'd study every creature's language
So I could speak to all of them on site
If friends said "can he talk in crab or maybe Ankylosauria?"
You'd say "I canny can" and you'd be right!
And if you just stop and think of it
Ain't no doubt of it
I'm gonna win a place in history
If I could walk with the dinosaurs
Talk with the dinosaurs
Grunt, squeak, squawk with the dinosaurs
And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to me!
Roar! T Rex! You slay me!
Have some heart. No! Not my heart! Et Tu Raptor?
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@CharlieC213 Sigh, as is the English language, assuming you meant 'they are extinct' which has a contracted form ..
if i could talk to the dinosaurs that would be pretty useless becouse there extinct
If -I- could to the dinosaurs, I'd probably say something like... OMG PLEASE STOP BITING MEEEEE D: D: D:
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Don't give up on hope. A cruise ship booted a family of 26 today after they made the ten day journey very difficult for other passengers. It just does not sound like fun. Cruises are supposed to be about journeys in comfort. Incredible views. A holiday experience. They are not cheap. But for any number of reasons, the enjoyment is not what it should be. Sixteen years ago Dianne Brimble went on a pleasure cruise and was, apparently, drugged and raped and died. Those responsible for her death got token sentences after NSW police bungled the investigation. Because cruise ships cross borders.
The tragic shooting in a Florida school is being investigated. 17 dead and the killer captured. Some ask "Where was God" in the tragedy. In the US, God is not welcome in public schools. One can guess where God was in the life of the shooter. Also, who the parents are, and what the friends are. But one does not know, only guesses. It is not very different as with those selfish ones who spoil a pleasure cruise. But it is a different order of selfishness. One victim's family is playing politics, blaming isn't going to help them heal, or fix the problem. It did not used to happen. Gun laws are tighter now than they ever have been. Here is a thing, maybe allow God back into schools. Instead of safe spaces, allow discussion and debate. Allow criticism and let students see how criticism can be constructively addressed. Or is it the case that the pain is too entertaining to let go?
Oxygen thief Malcolm Turnbull has been savaged by Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce. Barnaby Joyce is competent and in many instances as MP, excellent. Turnbull is merely a time serving ditherer who has thrown the future of the Liberal Party under a bus.
I am reading a research article by Matthew C. MacWilliams , University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PhD student. The article was popular among #FakeNewsMedia. Matthew begins his article with a quote about how parties nominate a candidate. He then follows that up with "Meticulously researched and persuasively presented, the party decides theory of presidential nominations quickly became gospel for Americanists and the lens through which the popular media handicapped and interpreted the presidential primaries and caucuses. But in 2016, confronted with an historically unprecedented number of major candidates for the Republican nomination for president, party insiders failed to anoint a standard bearer." Of the historic number of representatives, who would have been a standard bearer? Is there any that currently withholds conceding to Trump? Isn't it the case that the 'party decides' model was followed?
Federal ALP are in disarray too, but because Rudd 'saved furniture' they are able to look powerful in blocking good administration. The anti Abbott campaign, led by the media has bitten, and public perception is that the federal Liberal Government is not very good despite its success in every sphere it controls. The partisan media very loudly direct campaigns against the federal government while they are largely quiet about the state NSW government. Both governments rely on independents to pass important legislation. for NSW it is Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats who are needed to get things past an incompetent ALP and Green alliance. Federally, PUP has been siding with the ALP and Greens. It is unlikely PUP voters thought that was how PUP would behave. Many are saying how Mr Abbott has to change. But Mr Abbott is not the problem, but a functioning cog in a good administration which is being blocked by the inept and corrupt.
NSW has problems with a corrupt judiciary too. The behaviour of the ICAC is no less outrageous than the HRC, no less partisan. And a partisan media with few that even pretend to be balanced make the problems worse. With an election six weeks away in NSW, it would be good to know what the ALP believes it has to offer. Sadly, he health or teachers unions are running campaigns when both are compromised by slush fund issues with the ALP. Is that what a vote for ALP is going to be? More corruption? More theft from union members? Are the ALP planning to not fund growth but use state assets to extend tax?
In 1987, I was busy and desperate, working several jobs to get through university, living in the Liverpool Motel and failing much. I visited a friend in Chatswood. We were hanging at the top of the station steps waiting for my train home. It was getting close to 11pm. A few police come by and order everyone onto the platform. I say my friend lived in Chatswood. They said "Go home." I say my friend lived in Chatswood, but I was catching a train home." One police officer smirked and said "Why, just so you can hold hands?" and I told the two police men to fuck off. I was about twenty years old and did not know what to expect. I was arrogant. My friend was scared, and bolted, as the senior constable unbuttoned his sidearm and rested his hand on the undrawn weapon, and approached me, eyeballing me. He ordered me to produce ID. I had my university library card and a train ticket. They escorted me onto the platform and wanted to know where I was living. I lived in the Liverpool Motel, but felt a friend's place in Lindfield was closer. The two policemen explained they could take me to the station and charge me with obstruction, or take me to a back alley and beat me up if I continued to act smart. It was a humbling introduction to ALP Premier Unsworth's Sydney. I'd never interacted with police before. It illustrates how quickly standards get corroded by pop culture, where a mere twelve years later an arrest able offence became hip and cool and edgy.
Another brand began on this day in 1937. Nylon. Made up of two cities NY and LONdon, according to pop culture. Although it wasn't named that way. It was named after cotton and Rayon, so it ended with ON. NYL was accidental, it was going to be called NURON as in 'no run' but sounded too much like a nerve tonic. But I was born in NYC and my Nanna was born in London. I don't think I will be able to patent that name for any children I might have. But I'm really good on the right pair of legs.
In 1742, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, became British Prime Minister. 1804, First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur led a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. 1852, Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, was established. 1862, American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1866, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington became British Secretary of State for War. 1874, Silver Dollar became legal US tender. 1881, the Canadian Pacific Railway was incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). 1899, Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag ReykjavÃkur, was founded.
In 1918, the Council of Lithuania unanimously adopted the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of PharaohTutankhamun. 1930, the Romanian Football Federation joined FIFA. 1934, the Austrian Civil Warended with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund. 1936, elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. 1937, Wallace H. Carothers received a United Statespatent for nylon.
In 1940, World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark was boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners were freed. 1943, World War II: Red Army troops re-entered Kharkov. Also 1943, World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. 1945, World War II: American forces landed on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. 1957, the "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm was abolished in the United Kingdom. 1959, Fidel Castro became Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
In 1960, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton began Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, began the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961, Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) was launched. Also 1961, the DuSable Museum of African American History was chartered. 1962, Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany killed 315 and destroyed the homes of about 60,000 people. 1968, in Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system went into service. 1978, the first computer bulletin board system was created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). 1983, the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoriaand South Australia killed 75. 1985, Hezbollah was founded. 1986, the Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. 1987, the trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, started in Jerusalem.
In 1991, Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez was assassinated in Managua. 1998, China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. 1999, in Uzbekistan, a bomb exploded and gunfire was heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov. Also 1999, across Europe, Kurdish rebels took over embassies and held hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan. 2005, the Kyoto Protocol came into force, following its ratification by Russia. Also 2005, the National Hockey League canceled the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs. 2006, the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the United States Army. 2013, a bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan killed more than 80 people and injured 190 others.
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Today's reading: Leviticus 17-18, Matthew 27:27-50 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Leviticus 17-18
Eating Blood Forbidden
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'This is what the LORD has commanded: 3 Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox, a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it 4 instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD--that person shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 27:27-50
The Soldiers Mock Jesus
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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