Border Control at Warringah Airport, Sydney. Just knowing that Tony Abbott is there on Voluntary Community Service for the cavity searches makes me feel a lot safer about National Security, as an Australian. All oiled up, I just hope he doesn't disappear completely up a Bishop's arse.

Noticing that 3 Federal Govt Ministers this week have made their plans to not re-contesting the upcoming Federal Election because they wish to spend more time with their families. That's exactly what Alpha type characters do once they've fought and struggled their bitter way to positions of significance and power, of course...they just go home to be with the kids. Take them to soccer. Australia may not have to have an election this year if the Members of the Government keep going home to be with their kids at the present rate. Just hand over the keys to the Opposition, and start talking about the costs of after school care and kids parties amongst themselves. I wish Peter Dutton would go home...but I would feel sorry for his family I must admit. Imagine having him at home all the time. "We need to stop the toast! If we are going to have any toast it must be toast that we choose to have and have in the manner we choose to have it with the various prescribed condiments." For the sake of your family Peter, you should stay in Canberra. A good few years grumbling in Opposition would be better for everyone.

World Travel used to be, for me, about going somewhere and living there for awhile. It has never been about having a holiday and staying in a nice hotel and looking at stuff on any tour. My travels were about living somewhere else for a medium or long time, going slowly broke, and with heart mind and soul looking out at things. Learning. Being, walking about. So my journeys have been less frequent than those of many Aussie holiday makers around the world, for sure, but having a holiday wasn't really the point. If one is fortunate to be born in Australia and saved a bit, then one doesn't need holidays in exotic places...but rather it is better to actually live there. The hotel I liked most was a 2 star hotel in the Italian Quarter in Paris, mostly because of the lazy big breakfasts, the bowls of warm coffee, the bread, and sharing the tiny lift with an emotional naked large breasted girl who had been thrown out of her room by her beau, and getting to know her, and help her. I gave her my leather jacket...partly because she was cold, but mostly because, naked, she looked so good in it. Much better than I ever looked. Still, I remember the warm bowls of coffee most.

Did you ever notice that just after the Malaysian plane was knocked out of the sky over the South China Sea, that, almost the next day, the PM of Malaysia received a gift of $800,000,000 from the Saudi Royal Family, even though he didn't know them that well, but still, a nice gift is a nice gift...and that the day after that, Mr Obama arrived in Malaysia to offer them a really big favourable military weapons and trade grant? It was on that day that the PM of Malaysia, having studied the data about the plane going missing, noted that the plane had, um, changed directions entirely, for no reason at all, and went to crash itself far away, far far away, thousands of miles away in the sea, where no one was looking.

MINDFULNESS:Mindfulness: Sounds of the Sunset. ...Distant cars on the highway, like waves on a Melbourne beach. ...TV news talking about politics, some ABC gay guy talking about non-binary sexuality and toxic things ...within the moment...the sound of the 2nd hand Apple keyboard, bit bop. bit bop, ...nearby, the sound of Mrs Fitz swinging back and hacking the Murray Cod fish head into pieces with the Chinese machete. Life: Heaven on a stick.

I see Scott Morrison, the PM, has dropped an important Australian Aborigine into a marginal seat with a 12% Aboriginal constituency. My god, Scott Morrison, with an election coming up within a few months, is a Visionary. He was hoping that Mr Mundine would declare himself as a gender-fluid non-binary transexual woman, but still, I guess, in the interim, a conservative black bloke will have to do.

Life at 65.5 years.At a time in life when I'm very happy with the 'machines' in my possession...the simple Nissan truck, the 7 year old second hand apple iMac, the big Samsung fridge, the new remarkably inexpensive Haier Chinese washing machine...the $40 ZTE telephone...my Citizen watch...the lawn mower, I don't need, in the garage..but might need some year in the future... the 10 year old $70 microwave...the old un-smart TV on which I watch the news..., and the little free 4 year old Samsung tablet on which I watch movies at night. I don't actually need many things now and I don't like new things at all unless the old one breaks. Kind of a nice time in my life. Still wouldn't mind the 2003 Ducati 999S Testastretta Super-bike...and even they are at a much much better price now, and have always well looked after by bizarre OCD old baby-boomer blokes who have now 'gone into care' into some relentlessly horrible nursing home in Australia, put there by their lovely daughters and sons who are, really, just sick of the terribly demanding and smelly poor old cunts. Perfect time to score a bargain.

The Truth Seekers/ Mr & Mrs Fitzpatrick. They often didn't talk much. They both worked different shifts, and a lot of them, in different professions, but usually arrived together at home at about 1am, and they would make some dinner or snack for each other. Sometimes a barbecue. They usually ended up in bed at about 2am or 3am somehow. She would be playing some game on her phone, some game that went 'beep' and then 'bop' and he would be watching some netflix movie or series on the tablet in the bed. Facing opposite directions, she would usually throw her leg back over his hip. His job was to hold her small foot in his large hand, and massage it for awhile, and then forget to, until her foot kicked him, then he would massage it again for awhile until he forgot; and that's how they lived their joy in the world, in that intimate silence when all that was ordinary was glowing.

The reaction to PM May's Brexit Plan based upon the referendum to Leave...total rejection, seems to be the compelling outcome. Thus the UK will stay in the EU, not by hook, but by crook. Labor's vote of No Confidence will fail. No new election. The Tory Govt will not fall. It was always a 'big ask' to tell a Government that didn't believe in Leaving at all, to organise the Leaving. Neither the Conservative Party or the Labour Party believe its a good thing to leave the EU. It does provide a glaring hole in the notion of democracy in the UK, for sure but I think the only outcome will be, in the future, fewer referenda.

The Band - The Last Waltz - The Weight feat. the staples singers

Prince - 1999 (Official Music Video)

JAMES BROWN - Sex machine (Long 12'' Version Videoclip)/ what can you say? Just dance.

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live) - OFFICIAL PROMO

looking forward to NE China in Summer, 2019. I can wear polyester pants, a white polyester shirt with buttons undone from the bottom up and the shirt ends tied together at nipple line, exposing my gut, and carrying a very cold bottle of beer in the street, resting it on my belly, to cool it down, the way successful Chinese men of my age do on any hot day. I can do that. Maybe even buy a small singing bird in a cage to take home, or a cricket in a matchbox, to show my friends. And, late at night, put on pyjamas and pick up a tin and walk downtown to buy a meal of noodles and fish, put it in the tin, and walk home, stopping to smoke from time to time, and listen to the little cricket in my pocket. Maybe even join an impromptu gang of old men in similar pyjamas on some corner and talk about this and that in the hot night. Talk about gambling, and women, and crickets and bird song.

We'd all like Senator Derryn Hinch to die a happy man.

World Refugees are an issue and mainly due to the massive destruction caused by the US UK and in our little way Australia in terms of military action, driving, bombing, millions out of their homes. Germany accepted a million people, and all of them those terrible terrorist arab refugees, and within a year has retrained and employed 400,000 to work in Germany's massive industrial factories, jobs, housing, security, tax, etc... as there was a severe worker shortage, and, by doing so, Germany's economy is moving ahead quite well compared to the countries like the UK etc who succumbed to fear mongering and racism, and whose economy is going down the toilet. Australia continues okay financially, because we continue to ride the wave of Chinese business, the only thing that has kept our schools open and our pensions and hospitals functional for the last 25 years.

I see the Minister for Home Affairs an Au Pairs, Peter Dutton, having stuffed up with bantering on about cancelling the citizenship of an Australian when he can't do that, is sending Scott Morrison off to Fiji to either make the guy a Fijian Citizen, or to fuck up Fiji, it being Our Backyard. Peter does have the power of the Mad Bald Right behind him, and the PM doesn't, so Scott will do his bidding. Now today Peter Dutton announces he will create a registry of sex offenders names and postcodes and pictures etc, when he knows the States won't support it and his government won't fund it anyway, and it won't work...but that's not the point. The point is: Fear... Alert the voting public, before the May election, to 1: Terrorists. 2: Paedophiles. I suppose Asians, the usual suspects, are next. You can read him like a cheaper thriller novel. Pure Pulp Fiction.

What other sacred cows can I poke today... Oh, the American opioid crisis based upon prescriptions by real doctors... well, you see, opioids are brilliant for assuaging serious pain. They are the best...especially opium, heroin, morphine. they are brilliant. Nothing can get better than them. We even have developed and evolved opioid receptors to receive them, gratefully, and have our own endorphins are made of similar really good stuff.The simple, natural organic opium poppy. The problem is that once the cause of the pain and the pain itself has resolved, and that's a period of a few months, has passed, then, well, people keep using them...which is not a good idea at all, obviously. this is bad guardianship by doctors. The synthetics, the oxycodones, the fentanyl, the bupremorphines etc aren't as good as pain relievers, and they are far more addictive, yet they are prescribed far more often these days because the people who make them say that they are better and less addictive...simply because the companies can't patent opium...so they invent this artificial shit, and people believe them. fentanyl is ok, if one enjoys hallucinations...usually furless rabbits running about the room...but fentanyl is uneccesary. If you have serious pain, especially pain related to your own mortality/terminality, then stick with morphine, heroin and opium, they are far more effective and far more natural. Many folk will say they are allergic to morphine, but hardly anyone on earth actually is. In 30 years of palliative care, I never met one who is physically allergic to morphine. The best test is to sub-cut 1mg and you will see if there is any allergy, and there isnt. People are just scared of the name, that's all. Morphine with a tad of methadone in it, to prolong the analgesic effect and to cover some bone pain morphine doesn't do well, toss in some midazolam for the fear, a tad of haloperidol to remove any nausea, is always best in terminal cancer situations...they will serve you well...this other shit is all about the profits for the drug companies and to assuage the paranoias of society...whilst watching people die in pain because...hmmm...nothing can be done...poor us. we would rather see someone racked with pain than have them sitting up in bed eating dinner and drinking wine and smoking cigars when it comes to our bizarre fears of mortality. Life has its joys and pains and that won't change. We can fix pretty well all the pains, but we can't fix the greed, nor can we fix the willingness of companies and governments to prefer to do harm rather than do good...that's the human condition...and that won't change.

Indigenous Australia: 60,000 years of traditional meaningful continuous culture, and not one wheel.

Can we deport Peter Dutton to South Africa so he can fit in with rich white traditional Afrikaner culture and value system? He is obviously oppressed here and is terribly afraid of losing his job. To me, he does have refugee status.

Pell

A fish rots from the head down: Top Vatican official Cardinal George Pell has been convicted of sexually abusing minors by a criminal court in Australia.

According to multiple reports, Cardinal Pell, who is the Vatican’s third most powerful official and a close advisor to Pope Francis, was convicted in Australia on charges that he sexually abused two choir boys in the late 1990s.

The Daily Beast reports:

The Vatican’s third most powerful official has been convicted in Australia on all charges he sexually abused two choir boys there in the late ’90s…

A unanimous jury returned its verdict for Cardinal George Pell on Tuesday (Australian time) after more than three days of deliberations…

The Inquisitor reports:

Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s third most powerful official, was found guilty on Tuesday of sexually abusing two choir boys in the late 1990s, a decision that makes him the highest-ranking Catholic Church official to face criminal convictions.

Pell is Australia’s highest ranking Catholic, the Vatican’s Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, and a close adviser and friend to Pope Francis. He is the highest ranking Vatican official to ever go on trial for sex abuse, and he is now the highest ranking Vatican official to be convicted of crimes concerning sexual abuse.

Pell took leave of his position at the Vatican last year to stand trial in Melbourne, where he was accused of sexually abusing two choir boys when he was the archbishop.

According to reports the victims were alter boys in the choir at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and were sexually abused by Pell inside the church.

The Catholic News Agency reports Pell will be sentenced in early 2019 and will not be incarcerated prior to his sentencing.

In addition to being found guilty of molesting the choir boys at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Pell is also accused of sexually assaulting two boys in a swimming pool in Ballarat, Victoria. A criminal trial concerning that case is expected to begin early next year.  

Pell has denied all accusations of inappropriate conduct and claims he is innocent. He is expected to appeal his conviction.

In the past Pell has shown little sympathy for the survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy, and is on record claiming:

The Catholic Church is no more legally responsible for priests who abuse children than a trucking company which employs a driver who molests women.

Bottom line: Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s third most powerful official and a close adviser to Pope Francis, has been convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia.

Top Vatican Official Cardinal George Pell Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Choir Boys (Image via YouTube)

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Talked with Google executive guru last night over dinner: he said: I talked to the Uber driver on the way here who complained that train drivers get paid $200,000 a year here. It doesn't seem right, I mean the low skills they need to...drive some train. I said 'well, you can either be in a strong union and get paid $200,000 a year, or drive an Uber for $7 a ride. Its up to the market intelligence of the driver.'

NURSING:i am at the end of my nursing career so, mostly just look back rather than forward about it. In the thirty or so years of it, there was a decade of good progression, in about the middle, but then it relapsed into what it was before.

ETIQUETTE: On the difficult matter of knowing that Chinese Capitalism is the only way forward for the next 300 years, and the heydays of Western Capitalism have eddied away, I take the brilliant attitude of the Australian Government's Scott Morrison, in terms of Cultural Cosplay, and, when Chinese guests arrive and ask if they should remove their shoes, I advise... take off only one shoe per person...this is quite enough. We are very moderate, and clever. We'll trick 'em. Wink.