The cardinal pell Poem: Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me:Altar Boys and altar toys the sacraments surround the precious heart the thorny head the holy sword has found. The glue of faith with sticky guilt​,​ to boot​,​ the chaliced semen of some awful brute.

If euthanasia is wrong for you, then don't do it...don't enable someone to kill you. That is pretty simple. No one particularly wants to kill you. It's up to you. if turning up at 3am to an emergency department with a terminal illness with three hours of life left, demanding you live forever, then don't do it. It's up to you. if palliative care doesn't suit you in terms of not functionally controlling the end of your life, then don't do palliative care. These are not hard notions at all. We are mortal guys and gals and death will happen. There is no need to be too worried about any of that. Death knows us and our bodies far more intimately than we will ever know death. And, after all, life isn't everything.

The Euthanasia debate is slowly coming up in Victoria with legislation on the horizon and so I have thrown in my two cents worth, thus: As a veteran palliative care nurse for well over 25 years, having worked in 2 states as a Pal Care Registered Nurse, a Clinical Nurse, a Clinical Nurse Consultant and senior health project officer, the main writer of palliative care strategic plans, having won a state premier's award for excellence in service establishment and provision, and a Govt advisor who established a very good free standing palliative care inpatient and outreach service-which wasn't easy, I remain, as always, in favour of Euthanasia as do 50% of my colleagues. I expect, as usual, palliative care services will use the 'threat' of euthanasia to demand more funding as, historically, palliative care has only been funded basically so that governments didn't have to consider euthanasia...but the truth is that one is usually dealing with very different people, people who choose palliation, and people who would choose euthanasia if given the chance.

BREXIT: England breaks away from Europe because England has its own ideas...it is a divorce, and is a real human divorce, with all the lawyers etc...but the divorce is real and for good reasons. I wish Englanders well, as most Irish-made folk do...they are the neighbours, we deal with them, we marry them...but they are not us...good luck to England and good luck to the end of the United Kingdom. The nature of Kingdoms is to, equally, both rise and fall. The UK is in free fall to failure as a state...and there's nothing unnatural, or to do, about that. In the antipodes here, Australia, having never ever been independent of anyone...must find its own way and the only reason it must find its own way is the truth coming in that being connected at the hip to the UK or the USA is a very bad idea for Australians who have hope in the future. We must move from the notion of parasite to human independence. That's hard, for sure, but a hell of a lot of countries have done that and have reaped that reward and self respect over the centuries. Australia, very late in the day, has to do that...because it has to do that...because the world has changed...and because the time is right. To exist is one thing...but to exist for the pleasure for others is different...If we do not determine for ourselves who to be, then the time will determine who we are and the sad limits of what we can be...for other peoples' jokes, for other peoples nuclear waste dumps, for other peoples wealth, and for other peoples' pleasures.

I'm thinking of revamping the blog so that it will just be about North Asia rather than all the other topics that have come into it.

A quarter of the whole round world is China. China is held together not by the Communist Party of China, nor by massive money, but rather by Chinese Women. Now you know who you are really dealing with...just accept it for the next 300 years. Save yourself a lot of grief. Gain yourself some happiness. They keep families together. They know men to their core, and some even still like men. They have been doing that for 5 thousand years without a pause. No one else, no society on earth, does that. They do know exactly what they are doing and they do know exactly how to do it.

The attainment of abiding human economic wealth and power is based upon 3 factors that never change: 1: You inherit it. 2: You steal it. 3: You marry it. there are other very infrequent happenings, for sure, but they are far too insignificant to even be worthy of the statistical analysis of the 7.5 billion of us. in terms of the stats, a person creating enormous wealth for themselves is an anomaly and hardly ever happens. This is one reason why, to me, the 'notion' of 'choices' comes up so often in our present day-dream, and, always, supporting the status quo, and, this is why, to me, it is so interesting as a concept. Do we really have these choices? Really? Is a Gambian at 3 or 33 making choices or are they simply doing what they have to do? Is an Australian from Aurukun or Parramatta really ever making choices? Did people flock to the Grenfell Towers rather than Edinburgh Castle by choice? Do soldiers fight for their country by choice? Really? Or through having no other path? I'd be interested in hearing views on this as 'choices' seems to be one of the more prevalent of our current myths about life on earth. In time it will be replaced by more fitting and believable myths, for sure, but just now it is an interesting one.

The attainment of human economic wealth is based upon 3 factors that never change: 1: You inherit it. 2: You steal it. 3: You marry it. there are other very infrequent happenings, for sure, but they are far too insignificant to even be worthy of analysis. This is one reason why, to me, the 'notion' of 'choices' come up so often in our present day-dream. Do we really have these choices? Really? Is a Gambian at 3 or 33 making choices or are they simply doing what they have to do? Is an Australian from Aurukun or Parramatta really ever making choices? I'd be interested in hearing views on this as 'choices' seems to be one of the more prevalent of our current fallacies about life.

The massive fire at the Coolaroo Recycling Centre, North of Melbourne has caused A Huge Cloud of Particulate Gluten to drift across Melbourne's CBD. Citizens are advised not to leave their Coffee Shops, and to not get out of their imaginary safety zones for any reason whatsoever.

My three favourite philosophical phrases I'm trying to perfect in my reasonably brief lifetime: 1: It doesn't matter. 2: It does matter. 3: That's it! I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!

My three favourite philosophical phrases I'm trying to perfect in my reasonably brief lifetime:
1: It doesn't matter.
2: It does matter.
3: That's it!
I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!

Australia Poem

AUSTRALIA 2017

Girt by Sea

this island made

in fact for me

and not for those who were

nor for those who'll be...

this nation,

girt entirely

by me

in my surplus

obese

entirety.

The worried well are worried and well now none of us are going to hell and so they teach their kids their truth and seek for sooth, for sooth, for sooth. The worry-less world it rolls along an occasional punch, an occasional song and thus defines this best address ah, welcome home, forgive the mess.

OPTION ONE: I think basically that the separated whole of Korea does need to be whole again, as countries do seem to need to be whole again, and it can only be whole when other countries leave it alone to work out its issues. OPTION TWO: The next best alternative is for the North to be subsumed into China as a province. At least this would deal with the poverty issues of the North...and set that new Province on the China industrial road to a much better life. These people are, in fact, Manchurian anyway. The whole North of China, Korea, and even parts of Russia, are Manchurian. Maybe it is about time the Manchurians took control of their own nuclear weapons, wealth, and massive resources...and looked at Japan, seriously, and with due prejudice to right old wrongs in the North of Asia.

"If North Korea was attacked by the US, then China and Russia would both be in Pyongyang well before the American troops could be there...and then there would be a massive almighty world war fist fuck for control of the most strategically and economically important place on earth......and no one wants that...so Kim Jong Un is a far better alternative. Any solution must not involve Japan, a country most hated by both North and South Koreans en masse, and for good reason".

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