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The PM has the audacity to tell people ... while standing in their burnt out town, that didnt get support, that the Armed Forces have been involved for 3 weeks . I suppose their 'involvement' does not include rescuing thousands of people trapped on beaches . Blatant BS and stupidity 'in the field' , in people's faces during emergency situations and mourning the dead is going to cause massive upheavals .... I would not be surprised if a few government 'luxury homes and HQs ' get fire bombed after this . You can only push people so far .... they know voting doesnt change anything . - so it looks like government agencies would not back burn for the last few years as they wanted to preserve their 'carbon credits' to try and balance all the stuff they promised to do, but then didnt (and then got into trouble off UN for .. and then said 'WE' dont have to do what UN wants, and how dare they tell us what to do - even though we support UN when any other country is criticised by them ) thus letting the huge amount of flammable trash build up, in the forests that has contributed to present disaster . . The phones are back on, a friend down the south coast rang me , she is in a small pocket of unburnt coast , next to a lake , but has scrub between her and the coast . They think it might go up tomorrow - another danger day . She is an invalid ( waiting for a now cancelled spinal fusion ) and has no power - fridge and freezer off and food gone, no lighting, telecommunications, etc . They where allowed to go to a near by town that got supermarket supplied last night . They opened the road north of Nowra to try and evacuate the mass of holiday makers stranded there - 50 cars at a time with police and fire escorts .... its still on fire and people have to drive past trees on fire , up in the crowns . Fire evacuation zones ;

Yes, he should stick to citing 'Sadhguru' instead .... the one that 'explained' how aliens did a head transplant to make Ganesha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggi_Vasudev#Politics,_religion_and_pseudoscience wanting people to take mercury in Indian medicine as its traditional, using 'tantric science' to raise the dead , being a suppirter of Hindutva party ( the Out of India ... and other stuff ... party ) , supports destroying mosques in riots , supported , strongly , the stupid airstike India did against Pakistan in 2019 ( Balakot ) on a 'terrorist camp ' ; Indian intelligence sources claim that the camp was located in a hilltop forest, 20 km (12 mi) from Balakot, and that it was a resort-style facility, with space and room for 500–700 militants, including a swimming pool, cooks and cleaners. and "a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis," who were preparing for launching another suicide attack targeting Indian assets, were killed." Neutral sources have asserted that the munitions dropped by Indian warplanes appeared to have hit several trees in a wooded area. { Satellite-data analysis by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Nathan Ruser concluded that there is "no apparent evidence of more extensive damage and on the face of it does not validate Indian claims regarding the effect of the strikes.} This has got gendao all over it

Did he enclose $20 with it ?

How Gendao sees himself 'scoring points' here ; This is how we see it ; Yes ... the (your) imagination is a wonderful thing

... I use two pillows next to each other with a gap between , lying on left or right side my head is up on pillow, on back my head is in the gap and not pushed forward . By doing that ..... I am sorta like Gandhi ... suck on that one Gendao

At the moment I am staying near Trial Bay at Arakoon . It was an old gaol there you can walk around inside and look in the cells It was built for WWI Aussie POWs .... the rare one that didnt want to war for 'God King and Country' but mostly Aussies that where not allowed to go to war - they where denied the ' honour ' . One, for example, was 'interred' because his grandparents where German ! Some cells are set up as where, with dummies or pictures, with the prisoners history available to read But after a while, the authorities realised they where not going to run away, even if they got out, where would they go ? It was the only thing around in that area back then and entirely serviced by sea . So they started to let them out for walks .... along the rocks 'Mermaid Pools' SW Rocks through the rainforest to the beaches and around to SW Rocks via the beach and while you are out there ... see if you can find any fresh food ... everyone is sick of these God damn naval rations ! So, while our good and loyal citizens, where doing proud for their country, invading Turkey and failing, dying on the beach, or elsewhere living for months in trenches bombed by artillery and amongst their own shit and dead. These (genetically) suspicious Aussies and pacifists where shamed by not being trusted and allowed to go and fight 'for their country' , instead they got punished by being interred at Trial Bay ..... wallowing in Mermaid Pools, bush walking, swimming and fishing and having fish, oysters and lobster for dinner . That'll learn them !

The possums and my teacher ( he has ring-tail possum totem ) thank you . Yes, and those rescued koalas, similar , now they can walk and climb , the problem is there is where to release them to ? Even without the fires, the drought is intense. When coming down the Man River , just before the fires started, it was a chain of stagnant pools with dead rotting kangaroos everywhere . here where I am staying at Arakoon ( near South West Rocks) heaps of eastern greys have come into settlements looking for water . people are starting to put out containers for them with ' please fill me up signs ' I drove around yesterday with a water supply and topped some up even moved into the old abandon gaol here (I am about to do a post on this place )

Fire at Mogo Zoo !

thats one fancy icecream cone he has got !

" My goodness... what a lovely coat you have ! "

Not really ..... back in the 'good old days' all types of 'people' where around .... lizard ( snake , actually ) men .... Note the red circled bit and the arrow ( in case you missed it in the picture ) Green skinned octopus men/ gods/ aliens ; Elephant people ; Alien Dr Moreau experiments on Egyptians of course, science and logic and intelligence dont reveal the real truth here . I knows what I be seeing here ... and dont try to tell me otherwise ... or I just bang on my 'information filter' louder .

Gosh ! Where to start . Of course, people did not cancel their Christmas plans or holidays .... massive never happened before bushfires ? Thats not stopping MY holiday ! So huge amounts of people, as usual for this time of year, have hit the coast. All over the place, including the whole south east coast of Australia . Then yesterday and the day before fires got worse, spread at alarming rates, spotted and made more and many joined together. This has cause massive evacuations of residents and holiday makers but where do they evacuate to ? Many roads are closed ( eg, the main highway south in that area has fire across it at 6 points ) so people are being herded into and rapped in the last remaining unburnt areas . In some places, this is ON the coast ... on beaches and in the water . Some fire crews have had to give up tryig to fight the fires as they are too busy setting up perimiters around these masses of people to protect them . In one place 4000 people are seeking refuge on the coast . last night I saw film of people; trapped out on wharves , lined up on beaches, .... cars parked in a lake with the shore burning, burnt towns (including Cobargo , a beautiful historic town and the site of Bruce Pascoe's native grain development - that could have helped change Australias agriculture - that would be gone too ) Line of cars pulling boats and caravans in traffic jams, unable to flee as they are lined up to try and get petrol . The PM comes on tv assuring us the military is being mobilised ... BS ! where is the aircraft carrier and the helicopters promised days ago ... why are thousands of people being left on beaches and wharves last night ? And as usual , no end in site , worse conditions predicted for the weekend . Some film showed total darkness at 10 am . When some light appeared, I saw a red orange landscape with people on the beack, which was red , the water was red, the light itself was red and the sand blowing in the strong wind was red - it looked like they where on Mars . I am feeling pretty lucky for myself at the moment . I have been concerned about an old dear friend I recently got back in contact with , her place, down in the southern fore zone got protected by a lake, good fire fighting, weather and wind changes , the fire went around their small coastal town to the west and then the wind changed and drove it towards Nowra , the major town on the south coast. She is in this little bubble of unburnt , but all around her is cut off . A fireman was killed and two others injured when their fire truck was picked up by a 'fire tornado ' lifted into the air, flipped over and dumped on its roof down in a gully . The whole south east corner of OZ is on fire . Last night tele was out from Nowra down ; no phones mobile or land line, no internet, or tv .... and surrounded by fire and night time 0 scary shit for them , only communications is by radio .

Its just silly thinking cats pulled a chariot or anything .... what where you thinking ! I am going back to my sensible Aussie Christmas celebrations ;

Indeed ! and why use the whip or the bit when there is that dogs head carving on the front of the 'chariot' (actually a cat powered skate board ) ... a reverse ' carrot on a stick ' (actually if you look closely I think its articulated , she presses down the wooden 'accelerator' with her foot and the head moves forward onto their rumps and the wooden jaws close ) .

Errrmmmm axolotl isnt a fish . Its an amphibian that 'got stuck' half way through being a 'tadpole' to a land animal . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny

Drew, there is no use continually sending me PMs as I will not answer them until you send me $20

Ahhh ... thats what I like ...... so non-religious that they stick the Easter ( 'dead guy on a stick' ) symbol on Xmas love it ! I bet you guys never realised Jesus died on his birthday ! And by the way , where is my Xmas chocolate eggs ? Even some of these would do ;

- I just planted a friends pond out with some and put some in one of my fish ponds, its just started to sprout new leaves . There are a fair few growing in this area . The trick is getting them, you often have to go a bit far out and get the root out of the bottom, or they just break if you try to pull them out . So I eventually saw a pond near the road, with some scrub cover to sneak through. Due to drought, the pond was very low and the lotus close to the (now ) edge - perfect . So I got to near the edge , rolled up my trouser leg and went towards them ... glitch ! soft mud , next step , glotch! deeper ... next step ... GLOOP ! in up to my knees ! And couldn't get my legs out - thick black sticky slimy mud ! Had to sorta lie on the surface and get one leg out at a time, that would NOT come out unless I left my sandals down there . So I did . Got some lotus roots and plants out, sloughed my way back to the edge then decided I didnt want to abandon my sandals , so I had to lie front down in the mud and stick my arm down and feel around for them . Got them back. But now me, my clothes and sandals are covered in thick black sticky stinky mud and the only water to wash with is back in the pond over the mud . So I went back to the car and got rid of the pants and put some swimmers on and washed my feet and legs a bit with a drink water bottle , and drove home a mess ! But I did It ! I captured the rare blue lotus from the wilds ! Now, I just need some type of long pole with a snipper and basket on the end ( ! my old avocado harvesting pole ! ) to go and flog some already flowering ones . I'll get back to you on this .

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/28/unesco-expresses-concern-over-bushfire-damage-to-australias-gondwana-era-rainforests https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-27/bushfires-devastate-ancient-forests-and-rare-wildlife/11733956

It all looked brown and orange in the distance. I suppose thats better than black, it means the trees will probably resprout, some of the steeper ground is bare but it probably had sparse cover before . I saw a rather vigorous smoke column on the eastern front down in a steep valley, one ridge away from some houses . So far in this state alone around 3 .5 million hectors (about 8 1/2 mill acres ) has burned ... and its still going ( in the past few years we have had a total area burned for the whole season of about 280,000 ha ) and we are only half way through this year . This isnt climate change . Its climate changed ! As I said earlier from my foray up valley by road, the fire has caused some little landslides . Well, apparently there is a BIG landslide up valley, into the river, thats why its a mud clay mix at the moment . Who known how long that will take to clear. When it gets down to the town , then people will notice, since its the towns water supply ! Luckily I put in rainwater tanks a few months back and the rain filled them . With a YUK river, a heat wave approaching , and a cicada cacophony .... I'm off to the coast again . problem now is holiday makers and NYE, which I usually avoid at all costs .

When I would tell the Aboriginals racist jokes they would interrupt me and pre empt the ending with one MUCH WORSE (about them ) than the ending I was approaching ! Some , to me, seem fun and innocent though .... Teacher to little Aboriginal boy; " Jackie , how do you spell elephant ? " " Ooooo errrmmm ..... e ... l ... e .. ? ... f ... ummmm u ... n ... t ! .... Elephant ! " " No Jackie, thats not right . " " Yes Miss , its right . " " No . I said it ISNT right ! " " And I am saying it IS ." " Why are you arguing with me and saying its right when I clearly told you it isnt ? " " Because you asked me how I spell it . "

Urk, the river went up a bit but has turned a thick ochre brown , no visibility in it whatsoever . I never seen it like that , I was talking to an old farmer this morning and he agreed, never seen it like that in 45 years here . Either its all the drought dust and the hastily badly made emergency bulldozer roads and fire breaks through the upper forest eroding or there has been a massive landslide somewhere upriver ? Soon I am going for a drive , down valley , up mountain, across escarpment top, to the ' Rim of the World ' near Deer Vale to get a view down into the upper valley to check out where the fire was . .... still is ? (they dont tell us this stuff ) . Here is the valley fire earlier , Deer Vale is at the mid centre above the fire . My place is east of 'Darkwood' (the fire actually got to the area at the 'd' in Darkwood ) On the area burnt ; " ...This area has created its own environment with high-rain fall periods that flood the surrounding lower areas below to the freezing winters where snow falls on a regular basis then to the summer periods where the dry heat can leave you feeling dehydrated. It is reported that this area that was created by volcanic activity holds over 1000 different species of plants and trees where the altitudes range from sea level to the highest point at 1610 metres above sea level. .." https://woolgoolgaoffroad.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-ebor-volcano.html

and now for something completely different and rude * bad language and political incorrectness warning *

I went to the doctor once for heat rash . He was gruff and uninterested ... so ( he he he ) ... he writes out a prescription and says "Put this on it ." I took off my shirt and applied the prescription to the rash ..... " It isnt working doctor ! " So he gives me the strangest look and then ; " No , take THAT to the chemist and he will give you a lotion and you have to put THE LOTION on the rash . " Me ; " Ooooooh ! Okay then . "