40 Winks

Life has kind of sucked for me in recent times, there's never any fun in that, no matter what you may intimate from the notion that 'sucking' is a good thing. Some good news did hit the street the other day however. My Aunty whose Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring residence is in Belgrade, has managed to steal her friends house in Paris for the month of September this year. As luck would have it, the invitation then got shot to my address in Sydney, Australia, meaning that if I can get togethor the $$ for the 22hr flight, then I can line up free accommodation. As they say in the classics, 'Sweet'

Now, let me draw your attention to something that ticked off more than just a few people the other day and has really gotten under my skin. Actually, let me call it the most MORONIC statement of the century, without going into aspects blatant racism. So, lets welcome to the table Liberal MP Dana 'the bigot' Vale . Her comments regarding the abortion drug RU486 and her concerns for 'Australia' went a little something like this;

Australians were ...'aborting themselves out of existence' ....continuing on to say that Australia could become a Muslim nation within 50 yrs.

Interesting to note that Dana's electorate encompasses the lovely area suburb of Sutherland whose VB swilling bretheren decided to bash a few 'lebs' and anyone else with 'different' coloured skin, different shaped eyes or dark hair a few months back. How does someone who represents 100,000 people and is a member of the incumbent political party actually get away with a non-sensical, ignorant, stupid and blatantly rascist line like that ? By direct association she's saying that 'Australians are not Muslim !?'...really ? Should we perhaps also add that Australians aren't Buddhist, Hindu, Atheists or any other denomination that isn't Protestant or Catholic. Was that a direct shot at Muslims of Middle Eastern descent ? What the F**K did she mean by that exactly ? I mean I could go on with how many sorts of wrong that is but really, it would be better just to write to her directly and point that finishing Yr 9 should probably be a prerequisite for entering parliament.

This is what the idiot looks like;

Here's her e-mail address: Danna.Vale.MP@aph.gov.au

The sort of crap that she came up from her small minded, dim witted, pea brain of a skull should warrant the same in return. To her I say, 'Go to hell' ....oops, she's a member of the Liberal Party, too late.

Would you like fries with that ?

Hmmm - this might be a little too close to the mark !

Your Life Path Number is 4

Your purpose in life is to build your vision. You are practical and responsible. You work hard, knowing that there are no shortcuts in life.You work for a better life for yourself and those you love, but you are not an idealist.Trustworthy and honest, you also demonstrate great courage. People can count on you. In love, you are a loyal and committed partner. You are the ideal spouse. You don't give up easily, and sometimes you can be too stubborn and unwilling to change.You also can be too conservative at times. You sometime miss out on good opportunities.Also remember that not everyone can work as hard as you, as disappointing as that is!

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Insignificant Lives

Something of a little more substance today, partly because I received an e-mail from the Cabinda High Commission by atrocities perpetrated by the Angolan Armed Forces over the last week. Why do I have an interest in Cabinda ? Well, a while ago my interest was sparked in various exclaves around the world, of particular note was Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish) located in Morocco and Kaliningrad (Russian) located between Poland and Lithuania...anyway, these are whole other stories. Until 1975 Cabinda was a Portuguese Protectorate, known as the Portuguese Congo...that was until Marxist troops from Angola (a popular movement for the Liberation of Angola), invaded the state.

Now, as you can probably guess, like many states in Africa, there has been civil war, atrocities and wholescale abuses for over 30 years. For a state that is oil rich but small in terms of population and looking to secede from Angolan control, you can only imagine the type of hardship they've been required to endure. My reason for mentioning this isn't arbitary or to make mention of a trivial cause, it's simply to point out that around the world there are gross human rights abuses being perpetrated everywhere. There aren't enough adjectives in the dictionary to be able to significantly outline how delplorable this all is. What's worse, in a continent that's forgotten by the rest of the world, these people's lives are so cheap that really they are regarded as insignificant. We only need to think back 12 years to how the West acted in the instance of Rwanda, where an 'insignificant total of 1,000,000+ people were murdered', to realise that these people mean nothing.

I understand that the extent and breadth of human rights abuse means that it will never be stopped in its entirety, the point here is that there needs to be acknowledgment of abuse in all corners of the globe and then a real desire to curtail the problems that exist. One life is not less significant than another, more needs to be done in support of every persons right to live their life as they choose without fear of repression.