Referendumb, Australia

I've been making my contribution to the lively colourful discussion on the Referendum YES/NO facebook site, but I think I've annoyed far too many folk...so I'll have a rest. Its about pacing myself, and my invective, or it'll run out.

"I'm impressed by your hard-wired generational vitriolic hatred for Australian Aborigines. Good on you! At least you are giving the Chinese one day off."

Tomorrow Night's game between Ireland and Australia in the womens soccer world cup, I'd expect Australia will win 4-0/ 4-1.

Commonwealth Games

I think the best idea for the Commonwealth Games would be to have them each 4 years in the same country, a member of the Commonwealth, that is a developing Nation.

Each Commonwealth country could put in some money every 4 years to keep it afloat and to contribute to the development of the country, health services, education, agriculture, technology, and also help keep the Commonwealth kicking along, as it is a useful thing.

You could put limits on it, say, for a twenty year period, then it would go to another developing host Commonwealth Nation.

Would help a lot with Nation Building and all the connections between people.

Victoria cancelling the Commonwealth Games

I like the Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews. He makes good decisions, and if its a bad decision, he changes it.

The impact of the severe Covid lockdowns in Victoria = thousands, or tens of thousands, of people lived, people who would not have lived otherwise. Good decision. That's a good human government. It did a really, really hard thing.

Now, with him cancelling the Commonwealth Games in the State, well, that's very wise.

Very expensive and blowing out in costs as all things do, with the State, like the rest of Australia, proceeding into a world recession this year. Don't waste the billions of money on a sport games publicity show that will last 12 days. Save that money. We will need it. That's responsible government.

That's a good idea. That makes sense. Well decided, Mr Andrews. Stay the course.

Cluster Bombs for the Ukraine?

Wednesday, Washing Day, and the clothes are on the line, as ordained in the Holy Scripts of Yore and Elders.
I saw the common blackbird this morning, tooling about in the garden. So, good to see.

As I was hanging out the washing I thought about The Ukraine getting a lot of cluster bombs from the USA.

Now, Cluster Bombs are really awful things, hundreds of little bomblets, many of which go off, and many don't. Many just lie there for ten, 20 years waiting for a child to step on them, then Boom! No legs!...as still happens every day now in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, from the bad old days of American penetrative imperialism.

Cluster Bombs are a real Cluster Fuck that defines true hatred for an enemy, and their children, in a very real and abiding way. You can't just go and pick up the ones that don't go off. Why? Because then they go off!

Odd that the Ukrainian President, our Hero, will be dropping them on the Ukraine, itself, his own beloved countryside, and his very own loved peoples, but only where the Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian Folk who like Russia, who live there as the Majority. All those troublesome Eastern Provinces he's been trying to neutralise and effectively 'sterilise' for many years.

Kind of shows the true Mettle of the Man... who is beginning to make Mr Putin look like a bit of a humanitarian in comparison.

Dropping cluster bombs on your own people, even if those folk don't really like you, is not a good idea. That blood and shattered bone in the present and in the generations to come, doesn't come out in the wash. That's a real War Crime. That's a real and hateful Cunt Act.

2023 Womens World Cup Football, friendly game, Australia versus France

Womens World Cup, Friendly, France V Australia.

Result: Aus 1 Fra 0.

An interesting preliminary game, without much risk. Both teams do and can play very well, and true, it is good to see that the Aus finishing side, at 90 minutes, was competent.

The concern with Australia is that the strength is in the attack, with great strikers, and with a semi-okay defensive line, with Polkinghome being the linch-pin for the defence. Putting pressure on that defence, and somehow taking out Polkinghome would leave Aus quite vulnerable to an assertive, attacking opposition. They'd have to contain Kerr and the other 2 Aus strikers, for sure, which will always be a hell of a task.

Australia should do well. I expect an advance from Number 10 to about 6 for Aus after this competition. Will they win the world cup? Unlike the men's game, yes, they could. The US, the UK, Netherlands ...these are very serious teams and brilliant players. They are both very excellent and skilled athletes and very hungry driven and very talented individuals.

Melbourne Chinatown

So, the other night in Chinatown, due to my Mental Health Eyes...always assessing, even though now clouded in a nice way with soft glaucoma, keeping eye contact, always, I met a few really dodgy folk in alleys...and gave them cigarettes. One of them remembered me from work. I didn't remember her. Not much of a memory I guess.

They used to be in asylums. Streets are better.

I used to, in my former life, in end-stage palliative care, walk about noting who was about to die in the street, on trams, in offices, drinking cappucinos, eating healthy buns, getting off buses etc; You can pick em pretty easily, if you've had the right background training over the many years. There's no mystery. There's a real guaranteed trajectory there.

Don't worry, there's no conflict, never any conflict, people just don't want to know anyway. What good would that do? Just let it be, and stand clear and get out of the way of the paramedics.

I try not to do that anymore.

Its a drag.

Mental Health is much more fun.

Everyone is kinda still living for a little while.

It feels a lot better on a cold night.