Joel Bowman, surveying the scene from Mermaid Beach, Australia... Welcome back to another Sunday Sesh, that time of the week when we gather at the virtual watering hole to take stock of positions, inventory munitions and test precognitions... all with the abiding help of a Bundaberg Rum & Ginger Beer, known in these parts as a Dark ‘n’ Stormy.
I’m a 75yo whose maternal grandfather went to school with Will Rogers. And so a quote from Will: “if you think you had problems with taxation without representation; you ought to see the problems you have with taxation with representation.” Comment about 1930.
Great article Joel. As a fellow Aussie, living in Perth, I was seriously disturbed by our state & federal government’s reaction to covid, but even more disturbing was the spineless enthusiasm in which many west Australians embraced the closed border initiative, all in the name of being ‘safe’! Our country needs its mongrel back and wokeness abolished. It needs risk takers and people who are accountable for their actions, not entitled champaign socialists. I hope we see a massive pendulum soon, otherwise I may become your neighbor in Argentina!
Can anyone say “Julian Assange”…! His incarceration is the embodiment of the repression we are currently facing. They say “this too shall pass…”, but I am concerned that the trend remains down…
Another example of our species proclivity to dominate, subjugate, exploit, oppress, torment and murder others.
I look forward to Joel delving not into this incurable human trait, but into our species mysterious desire for a strong leader; someone to tell us what to do.
Our history is replete with these people. Most seized and kept power through violence; some -- notably Trump -- democratically.
Regardless, we seem to desire being told what to do until we don't.
Interesting historical account. Thank you for that. Has me thinking about how the history of "The English speaking peoples" as Sir Winston characterized it, has been one of rebellion followed by forgiveness and then a firmer solidarity, as seen in two world wars and multiple "police action" taken since, the world over.
The Aussies, the New Zealanders, the Canadians and the Americans, standing shoulder to shoulder with our British cousins. Sure, we'll squabble now and again, but at the end of the day we'll come together, as we know the freedoms we defend are a legacy worthy of preservation.
My maternal Grandfather fought with the Blackwatch Highland Regiments in WWI, my paternal Grandfather and my father, with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI and the Army Air Corps in WWII. and, in doing so, bought us all some breathing room.
This Memorial Day, I will toast (Rum and Ginger Beer, eh?) to the memory of our ancestors, our common fighting spirit, and those animating principles which stir it. I sense we're only taking that breather at the moment, unfortunately. Stay vigilant.
Thanks Joel - they say every day is a school day and I’ve certainly learnt today. We hear a lot (in the UK) about the US fight for independence but precious little about the struggle of Aussie’s to run their own affairs. All highly relevant if we are to stop the sleepwalk into an Orwellian nightmare.
Joel great to see that you've not lost your love of Australian history especially the parts that count ! Sadly as we Australians are heading towards our two hundredth anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion it will barely be remembered as it's no longer taught or even talked about since it's now viewed by the supposed educational social designers as inappropriate for modern children and will only encourage rebellious behaviour and cause strife and social violence. As you will know the act of Violence of ANY kind is now seen as abhorrent behaviour and must NOT be tolerated especially within the fmaily unit between husbands and wives .. were such a relationship actually still exists ?
Yes even the age old problem of men and their addictions of all and any kind have been dissected by our social do-gooders and identified as to which are off limits and which can continue as social norms like All violent contact sports are OK as are gambling/loosing hating your neighbor and his favorite footy team and of course anyone in the military is excused from violent behaviour of any kind as long as it's directed towards some who's been identified as an enemy by the social managers and bureaucrats. One of the saving graces of the massive Indian/Asian migrations that you may certainly recognise even up at the Gold Coast, is that this rapidly increasing portion of the population which is significantly greater than any of the official sites and bureaucrats will acknowledge as we have already in this current year invited over 900,000 desperate Asian student s to come and invest their parents savings in buying an Australian property apartment business of any kind simply as a safe investment for billions of people who can not rely on their country of birth to up hold their rights to assets of any kind. As my Chinese friends have often said it's easy for us Magna Carta folks to have some faith in our governments but in most of Eurasia/India/Africa south central America OWNERSHIP is only recognised as long as you don't pose a threat to the RULING class whoever they may be. That is exactly why humans from ALL countries continue to flood into these old empire countries who have destroyed the native people with their rules/laws of ownership and self determination. For that (Western Order/Magna Carta) folks are now deemed to
to be enemies of the state as pirahas who have never contributed one iota of progress to the worlds native people .. no schools medicine roads nutrition hospitals etc all these developments were unnecessary and unwanted (just ask those remaining pretenders of native mobs in Oz) who are constantly yelling (always was always will be) as if they would actually go back to eating grubs and living in the bush .. but instead we white folks are guilty for trying to improve our and their lives
and so the world is now threaten by those despots who seek to destroy our western order into their eastern fascist dictatorships and so mr Putin/Xi and the gang of other tyrants in Europe Africa and most of South Central America are now having open slather of destroying everything that our wicked colonialism ever produced because we in the west have Crucified our selves on our own cross while these despots are laughing and threatening us with the technology we've gifted them!
Yes after this tirade you might well go back to the land of the Pampas because you have at least one sliver of HOPE .. while we fondle around in stupidity trying to solve the Adam & Eve issues ..
DEAR JOEL WOW. MERMAID BEACH. HOW ROMANTIC. BUNDABERG RUM. GINGER BEER. DARK AND STORMY. SO EXOTIC. YOU HAVE ME IN A FANTISTIC DREAM STATE ALREADY. BUT---BACK TO REALITY. TWO IMPORTANT GOALS FOR NEXT 130 DAYSM 1. ELECT A DECENT PERSON OF THE HOMO SAPIENS FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. 2. STOP WORLD WAR 3 IN
SORRY. I HIT THE POST BUTTON PREMATURELY IN COMMENT ABOVE. LOTS OF MISTAKES WHEN ONE IS ALMOST BLIND. BUT, JUST ;OOK AT ALL THE FUN I HAVE. ADDENDUM: COOIE CUTTER SIML.E INSTRUCTIONS WILL FOLLOW. I PROMISE. THEY WILL BE POSTED AT LIAM'S LADDER. YES. WE FINALLY HAVE OUR OWN SUBSTACK UP. PRIMITIVE---BUT USABLE. PLEASE FOLLOW ME THERE. I WILL BE MAKING MY FIRST POST THERE IN ABOUT 2 TO 3 HOURS. I PROMISE.
So today, what does a vote count for anyway? And when votes don't count, we start thinking, " Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Everything is so broken; what will happen next?
I’m a 75yo whose maternal grandfather went to school with Will Rogers. And so a quote from Will: “if you think you had problems with taxation without representation; you ought to see the problems you have with taxation with representation.” Comment about 1930.
Great article Joel. As a fellow Aussie, living in Perth, I was seriously disturbed by our state & federal government’s reaction to covid, but even more disturbing was the spineless enthusiasm in which many west Australians embraced the closed border initiative, all in the name of being ‘safe’! Our country needs its mongrel back and wokeness abolished. It needs risk takers and people who are accountable for their actions, not entitled champaign socialists. I hope we see a massive pendulum soon, otherwise I may become your neighbor in Argentina!
Can anyone say “Julian Assange”…! His incarceration is the embodiment of the repression we are currently facing. They say “this too shall pass…”, but I am concerned that the trend remains down…
Another example of our species proclivity to dominate, subjugate, exploit, oppress, torment and murder others.
I look forward to Joel delving not into this incurable human trait, but into our species mysterious desire for a strong leader; someone to tell us what to do.
Our history is replete with these people. Most seized and kept power through violence; some -- notably Trump -- democratically.
Regardless, we seem to desire being told what to do until we don't.
Interesting historical account. Thank you for that. Has me thinking about how the history of "The English speaking peoples" as Sir Winston characterized it, has been one of rebellion followed by forgiveness and then a firmer solidarity, as seen in two world wars and multiple "police action" taken since, the world over.
The Aussies, the New Zealanders, the Canadians and the Americans, standing shoulder to shoulder with our British cousins. Sure, we'll squabble now and again, but at the end of the day we'll come together, as we know the freedoms we defend are a legacy worthy of preservation.
My maternal Grandfather fought with the Blackwatch Highland Regiments in WWI, my paternal Grandfather and my father, with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI and the Army Air Corps in WWII. and, in doing so, bought us all some breathing room.
This Memorial Day, I will toast (Rum and Ginger Beer, eh?) to the memory of our ancestors, our common fighting spirit, and those animating principles which stir it. I sense we're only taking that breather at the moment, unfortunately. Stay vigilant.
Thanks Joel - they say every day is a school day and I’ve certainly learnt today. We hear a lot (in the UK) about the US fight for independence but precious little about the struggle of Aussie’s to run their own affairs. All highly relevant if we are to stop the sleepwalk into an Orwellian nightmare.
Joel great to see that you've not lost your love of Australian history especially the parts that count ! Sadly as we Australians are heading towards our two hundredth anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion it will barely be remembered as it's no longer taught or even talked about since it's now viewed by the supposed educational social designers as inappropriate for modern children and will only encourage rebellious behaviour and cause strife and social violence. As you will know the act of Violence of ANY kind is now seen as abhorrent behaviour and must NOT be tolerated especially within the fmaily unit between husbands and wives .. were such a relationship actually still exists ?
Yes even the age old problem of men and their addictions of all and any kind have been dissected by our social do-gooders and identified as to which are off limits and which can continue as social norms like All violent contact sports are OK as are gambling/loosing hating your neighbor and his favorite footy team and of course anyone in the military is excused from violent behaviour of any kind as long as it's directed towards some who's been identified as an enemy by the social managers and bureaucrats. One of the saving graces of the massive Indian/Asian migrations that you may certainly recognise even up at the Gold Coast, is that this rapidly increasing portion of the population which is significantly greater than any of the official sites and bureaucrats will acknowledge as we have already in this current year invited over 900,000 desperate Asian student s to come and invest their parents savings in buying an Australian property apartment business of any kind simply as a safe investment for billions of people who can not rely on their country of birth to up hold their rights to assets of any kind. As my Chinese friends have often said it's easy for us Magna Carta folks to have some faith in our governments but in most of Eurasia/India/Africa south central America OWNERSHIP is only recognised as long as you don't pose a threat to the RULING class whoever they may be. That is exactly why humans from ALL countries continue to flood into these old empire countries who have destroyed the native people with their rules/laws of ownership and self determination. For that (Western Order/Magna Carta) folks are now deemed to
to be enemies of the state as pirahas who have never contributed one iota of progress to the worlds native people .. no schools medicine roads nutrition hospitals etc all these developments were unnecessary and unwanted (just ask those remaining pretenders of native mobs in Oz) who are constantly yelling (always was always will be) as if they would actually go back to eating grubs and living in the bush .. but instead we white folks are guilty for trying to improve our and their lives
and so the world is now threaten by those despots who seek to destroy our western order into their eastern fascist dictatorships and so mr Putin/Xi and the gang of other tyrants in Europe Africa and most of South Central America are now having open slather of destroying everything that our wicked colonialism ever produced because we in the west have Crucified our selves on our own cross while these despots are laughing and threatening us with the technology we've gifted them!
Yes after this tirade you might well go back to the land of the Pampas because you have at least one sliver of HOPE .. while we fondle around in stupidity trying to solve the Adam & Eve issues ..
PLEASE FORGIVE CAPS ALM.OST BLIND
DEAR JOEL WOW. MERMAID BEACH. HOW ROMANTIC. BUNDABERG RUM. GINGER BEER. DARK AND STORMY. SO EXOTIC. YOU HAVE ME IN A FANTISTIC DREAM STATE ALREADY. BUT---BACK TO REALITY. TWO IMPORTANT GOALS FOR NEXT 130 DAYSM 1. ELECT A DECENT PERSON OF THE HOMO SAPIENS FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. 2. STOP WORLD WAR 3 IN
ITS TRACKS.
Thanks for the history lesson!!
Loved Climate Alarmagedon!
SORRY. I HIT THE POST BUTTON PREMATURELY IN COMMENT ABOVE. LOTS OF MISTAKES WHEN ONE IS ALMOST BLIND. BUT, JUST ;OOK AT ALL THE FUN I HAVE. ADDENDUM: COOIE CUTTER SIML.E INSTRUCTIONS WILL FOLLOW. I PROMISE. THEY WILL BE POSTED AT LIAM'S LADDER. YES. WE FINALLY HAVE OUR OWN SUBSTACK UP. PRIMITIVE---BUT USABLE. PLEASE FOLLOW ME THERE. I WILL BE MAKING MY FIRST POST THERE IN ABOUT 2 TO 3 HOURS. I PROMISE.
SINCERELY,
LIAM
As is all movements, a few have to die for the rest to enjoy! Unfortunately that is the way of this "evil" world.
Cheers!
So today, what does a vote count for anyway? And when votes don't count, we start thinking, " Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Everything is so broken; what will happen next?