tell History and Heal

It is time for Australians to drop the phrase "truth telling".

It is both racist and offensive.

Yes, we all understand that Blak people were "there" and that their memories are still painful.

Yet "Truth telling" is used to tell the world that the *only* truth -- of our shared Australian history -- is the spoken memories of Blak people.

The obvious corollary is that any words spoken by Whyt people must be lies.

Are the Whyt written records also lies?

What about photographs taken by contemporary Whyt people?

Are they also Whyt lies?

The phrase "truth telling" is both racist and offensive.

What it does is to drive a wedge between Blak and Whyt Australians.

When we refer to "history telling" --then we can build a true picture of our shared Australian history.

A history shared by Blak and Whyt.

Yes, the truth may be ugly. It may be painful.

"truth telling" is deliberately one-sided and racist.

"history telling" allows for the complete story to be told.

This may allow healing -- possibly even understanding.

Then we can move forward. As one country.

If that is what we want.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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This is 

You can not Back into the Future
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Consulting Dexitroboper

   

miller opinion

andrew miller does his usual wandering waffle, until his opinion piece finally reaches a point:

Jump at every chance you get to drop your kid somewhere.

i'd say more:

drop them off.

pick them up. at any age. any time.

be there for them.

you may gain a small view of the lives that they are living, building.

dont just hope to build memories

....enjoy it now

seeing yor children, perhaps even helping them

...

 is one of the great joys of being a parent.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

who else to blame

home schooling notoriously attracts the weird.

or, to be polite, the people who do not fit comfortably within the standard parameters of people at school.

it may be the weird kid or the weird parents... or both.

home schooling then isolates them... from the more normal school environment.

the skinny ballerina had years of home schooling.

the education department provided support. for education.

should those teachers also provide psychological counselling? child welfare reports? perhaps direct police reporting?

no way. their job is education. that is their training

just a few moths bck a school teacher dared to put a school kid on the scales. he was above average weight, the teacher reported.

the parent -- not even a weird home school supporter -- went nasty and abusive. How dare you say that my little johnny is fat, she screamed.

and that was a "normal" parent.

no.

let the teachers teach.

if we want full social and psychological counselling -- employ people who are trained for it. and pay them for it.

and when that fails to save the skinny ballerina.

find a Big Brother solution that does work.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Wattle, Odette Brown

Wattle, by

Odette Brown

short story

and that is the end of that

Last year I wrote stories for the daily paper's short story competition.

no expectation of winning, perhaps a wild hope of being noticed.

i deliberately wrote stories that *I* would enjoy reading.

Today i read a"yarn" winner. the author complains about the difficulty of a writer gaining recognition, or publication. so far so good, i can agree.

now i can also understand.

here's a comparison:

Another winning yarn is about an old woman, the author's granmother, smoking and dying and complaining in lonely misery.

there's a Jack Reacher book that begins with a teenager's mother dying of terminal something. the mother is a drunken, lonely, alcoholic drug addict.

the jack reacher book then develops as expected. with several "nice" people dying unpleasantly and fifty or more nasty people dying very ... satisfactorily.

but here's the thing:

in that one introductory death of mother, the jack reacher book packs in more ... positive affirmation... mother-child love and loyalty

... more hope... than in the yarn which dedicates itself to just one death.

truth to tell

... the yarn mother may not even have died.

the story was so "meaningful"

... so packed with "significance?"

... that I may have misunderstood.

not to worry. it's in the bin now.

and next year i shall write stories for my own enjoyment.

with no "yarns"

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Oh, and btw:

This post will go to reviews -- and to rants

I tried to use the Google Blogger app to update the original post.

By the time I had successfully (I hope) updated -- the app had deleted, discarded, drafted, lost... the original post.

Time to uninstall that app.

And this update is done on the PC. Where what you see is, quite often, what you get.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

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great australian yarn

and that is the end of that

Last year I wrote stories for the daily paper's short story competition.

no expection of winning, perhaps a wild hope of being noticed.

i deliberately wrote stories that *I* would enjoy reading.

Today i read the "yarn" winner. the author complains about the difficulty of a writer gaining recognition, or publication. so far so good, i can agree.

now i can also understand.

here's a comparison:

the winning yarn is about an old woman, the author's mother, smoking and dying and complaining in lonely misery.

there's a Jack Reacher book that begins with a teenager's mother dying of terminal something. the mother is a drunken, lonely, alcoholic drug addict.

the jack reacher book then develops as expected. with several "nice" people dying unpleasantly and fifty or more nasty people dying very ... satisfactorily.

but here's the thing:

in that one introductory death of mother, the jack reacher book packs in more ... positive affirmation... mother-child love and loyalty

... more hope... than in the yarn which dedicates itself to just one death.

truth to tell

... the yarn mother may not even have died.

the story was so "meaningful"

... so packed with "significance?"

... that I may have misunderstood.

not to worry. it's in the bin now.

and next year i shall write stories for my own enjoyment.

with no "yarns"

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?

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http://my3rs.blogspot.com/

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

cash and teal

Spending limits could "kill off teals (21 nov 24)

No great loss there.

Okay, Labor have a great fear of electoral opposition.

As soon as McGowan gained power in WA he passed laws which made it very difficult for out-of-Metro electorates to get anyone into parliament.

So, no surprise that Albo fears, and acts against, "teals"

But who are these teals that anyone should worry?

First, they call themselves "independents". They are not.

Then they, teals, act almost as though they are a political party with a shared power.

They are not.

Most of the teals are sponsored by one very rich man. Who is he? What are his political views? We are not told.

He pays the money as "Climate 200" -- a "climate action group.

We do know that Climate200 grew out of an almost identical group, something200.

 All we know of that first group is that it threw out the Climate200 founder

... so we have two billionaires fighting for power... not a good basis for any group with acceptable aims.

So the prime -- only? -- teal sponsor is a man with allegiance only to himself.

But, when he -- as the one and only teal sponsor tells a teal "independent" what to do, will they obey?

Of course they will.

They will obey this one man -- a man with unknown ideas, unexplained ideologies -- obey or lose all funding.

These teals are not "independent".

They act as if they are almost a political party.

Yet they have no party members.

aside: The Legalise Cannabis Australia party has party members. Enough to be registered as a real political party.

It's not always easy but LCA has at least done the hard yards.

The teals have no party members.

No party rules.

No platform, no policy. Nothing.

Teal politicians are a bunch of power-grubbers who take almost anonymous money -- in order to bolster their own power.

What do they really want?

Cross-bench power is all that they will admit to.

The sooner these frauds are removed from parliament -- the better.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

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Rio Stinko

Rio Tinto has a serious "cultural" problem.

an established culture of bullying and sexual harrassment of the few female staff in the largely male workforce.

Bullying and harassment are serious society-wide problems, well beyond the ability of one organisation to correct.

so Rio takes the easy approach. Bows to the woke brigade and says, we will balance the numbers of male and female managers.

this position, they say, is set aside for a woman. But I am an equally qualified, experienced, skilled male. too bad, this job will never be yours.

Rio pretend surprise but, it's okay, they are able to tick the task as, done.

sure, workplace bullying continues. sexual harrassment continues. workplace morale is lowered but

... one woke box is ticked.

well done, Rio.

Perhaps Kelsie Prabawa-Sear of Nature Play WA can apply the Rio non-solution to the non-problem of children's playgrounds.

Kelsie has attended conferences where other people have counted boys and girls playing physical games which they seem to enjoy.

How dare they enjoy!

Kelsie has no interest in asking girls if they are at all interested in, for example, skate parks and pump tracks.

in the Kelsie world, individual preferences are not relevant.

kelsie is ready for the Rio response:

Gather fifty girls. Mixed ethnicity, mixed ability, interest is not relevant.

force them to attend a pump track. Force them to skate and to pump (no, I have no idea, either).

Count the numbers, present a paper at a woke conference in an exotic overseas holiday resort. Gain more academic publication points. Well done Kelsie.

Or, here's my suggestion:

suggest that children go outside and play in the park.

With their friends, boys and girls. Perhaps even meet and make new friends.

with the 5% of women watching, another source of Kelsie hatred, well, they can be parents. Acting, as parents do, as parents. Supervising and just, keeping an eye on their children.

that is my advice.

if Kelsie will forward her contact details, my invoice for consultation will be sent.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Anson is as Anson does

Vanilla then cinnamon, 

by Anson Cameron,

Okay, not too bad :-)

The story is good, with a satisfying ending. Well written.

... deserves to be Overall winner. And depressing enough that I will not bother to read any more "yarn" entries.

Really... I prefer to *enjoy* what I read.

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earlier: Is this correct:

The much-hyped long-listed "yarn" by an established author is to be permanently hidden behind the requirement for a "min $32" online subscription?

(No. The story is printed in the Sunday paper, so that's okay)

Readers who only pay for a daily paper will never know what hints he used to let his friends on the "independent" panel of judges know who he is.

Perhaps a passing reference to his great grandad Joseph Furphy?

What other furphies are carefully hidden behind the interests of online marketing?

For example. We will never discover how he was able to bypass the stated requirements for narrative structure. 

He is proud to say that he cannot be bothered to think of either a start or a finish.

What else if carefully hidden?

Makes. You wonder, doesn't it.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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btw:

... i like to think of this post as

... the joy of inventing a conspiracy theory :-)

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?

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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Aus yarn competition.

I submitted several short stories to the short story competition I The West.

No, I did not expect to win. ( though a well done mention would have been terrific :-)

But no surprise when the top 50 list was published with no mention of me

Today, The West published one of their "better" entries.

Now I feel a whole lot better.

The published story is... crap.

Stereotype overlaid on cliche.

Woke mysticism with pointless violence. Ben Elton Muppet structure: not sure what to do so... blow everyone up.

My own stories are mild.

Nonsense. Designed to elicit a smile, perhaps.

Logical constructs within their own illogical worlds.

Providing, perhaps, a light message of the potential down side of unthinking development.

That's what I try for, anyway :-)

My own stories would be embarrassed to stand with the rubbish that, today, was presented as being a "good" short story.

In such awful company... I am pleased to go unnoticed.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Barely a ripple of a rort

Paul Murray need not be too concerned about Labor electoral staff campaigning with taxpayers' money. This is a very minor issue.

For example: The year 2024 offered several major opportunities for Tourism in WA.

The Huge World Tourism and Trade conference WTTC24 was held in WA. A golden opportunity to present WA to the world as a unique and exciting tourism destination.

TourismWA began the development of a brand new phone app -- specifically designed to promote tourism in Western Australia. 

Another ideal opportunity to make a grand impression at WTTC24.

On a smaller more personal note, I began discussions with a tourism political advisor. I would guess that he fell into the category of "electoral staff".

As it turned out, the man had no skills.

He was unable or reluctant to read emails.

He failed to grasp the concept that communication is better when it is two-way.

After six wasted months he was barely able to drag himself back to the question which I had raised in my very first email.

Worse: he had a terrible fear of being in the same room as a new -- possibly unique -- idea.

Had this man read the note about, You are always campaigning? If so, he was a very sad failure.

At the end of six months,

This electoral officer had campaigned for  nothing.

There was no sign of a new TourismWA app.

WTTC24 had come and gone with barely a whimper.

My own offer, opportunity, had been killed by advisor stupidity.

Three unique -WA- tourism opportunities were

 dead.

If this was Labor campaigning

... then nothing at all was lost to electoral office duties.

This electoral officer was a Ministerial Advisor Tourism.

The only loss of benefit was to Saffiotti.

If this man is the best available

... no amount of rorting will provide any actual benefit to Labor.

Nor, unfortunately, to Tourism in Western Australia.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Dangers with disinformation

Today's editorial is correct: a bill to ban disinformation is dangerous.

Disinformation is impossible to define.

It depends on... the point of view.

Does the proposed Bill even mention, Truth?

Probably not. Truth is equally difficult to define.

And yet...

Wikipedia, somehow, manages to present "truth".

At least,

Wikipedia presents information which is ... accepted... as being Truth.

Okay, they work in areas where facts may exist.

Perhaps...

Perhaps Australia can provide a "fact-checked database of rumours, claims, conspiracies...

For example:

I know that the Moon is made of cheese.

It must be true...

I saw that Wallace and Gromit have been there and have eaten the Moon cheese.

This would be Followed by a Wikipedia-style... analysed, argued, finally accepted... explanation of Wallace and Gromit. And why their "truth" may be less than true.

Who knows, this may weaken the dangers of some of the wilder conspiracies.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

State election date

The date of next WA state election is already known. March 8th 2025? I think (well, I should know it, but... :-)

The date is set by legislation.

The date is set, already, by long-established legislation.

It is not a political football to be changed at the whim of a pollie.

And yet...

There are always ways to override a law.

If the Federal government wants to change, to override, an existing state law, it's easy enough...

Make an appeal to a suitable court.

The High Court seems happy enough to ride roughshod over existing laws. To allow criminals free access to Australia, for example.

All Albo needs is a loophole, a well-paid lawyer and an appeal to the high court.... and our election date will be changed.

Openly. Honestly, legally.

Meanwhile... the date is set. By law.

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so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Housing

... young people are unable to get into the wealth-creating housing market...

The wealth- creating housing market? Says it all, doesn't it.

No wonder people have difficulty finding somewhere to live.

When I am in power...

We will talk about entering the housing market... in order to find somewhere to live.

Nothing to stop you making a profit from owning housing.

But... neither will there be anything with the intention of increasing your profit.

Housing is for living... shelter, security... a roof over our heads.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

LinkedIn -- wow

Have to admire LinkedIn

It looks at your profile, skills, experience etc

... and recommends jobs that may suit. and how are similar skills being received?

Today it's "enhanced by AI" and tells me

...

""2,473 individuals in Consulting Dexitroboper roles like you are getting views

Wow! And there I was thinking that even Google doesn't know what a dexitroboper is :-)

lol at AI

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

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Realpolitick

It's  great news that Premier Cook is willing to do the job for which he will be well paid.

He is willing to spend millions in order to speed up the approvals process for major projects.

Not the evaluation process but, straight to approvals.

Cook will not waste time with our pointless democratic processes.

There will be no question of what is wanted by electors.

No nonsense about, would anyone prefer to preserve any natural environment?

No.

If CCIWA members want to dig an enormous hole in our state -- it will be approved.

No doubt, behind the scenes, CCIWA members will be returning the favour. With paid-for votes and future sinecures.

Thank you, Cook, for getting on with the money-making  work of realpolitick

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Not reading for pleasure

12nov24: Printed in The West

On Sunday, Kate Emery is worried that less children (and less adults) are reading for pleasure.

A few years ago, The Road by Cormac McCarthy was added to school curricula as a compulsory text.

There is no way that any decent human being could read The Road for pleasure.

And yet "we" forced our children to read it.

"We" clearly did not want children to enjoy the reading.

So "we" forced

  our children to read a book with no possibility of reading for pleasure.

For whatever reasons, "we" have done our best to remove the pleasure from reading.

And now "we" have succeeded.

Congratulations.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Ya gotta laugh

A plane loses an engine.

Lands safely, in Brisbane, but...

It's big news.

By luck the ABC has one of its reporters on board that plane. The reporter is able to provide a first-hand account of the story. The fear. The fire. The bangs as... something nasty happens inside the failing engine.

But hang on a sec.

That ABC Reporter is Mike Willacy.

Isn't he the reporter who hears... or imagines he  hears,

Bangs from gunship helicopters in Afghanistan...

Does the man have a serious hearing problem?

Coincidence?

Ya gotta laugh

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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

non-diplomatic Rudd

Very entertaining, possibly honest, views of Rudd as a diplomat.

I look back to my own personal ranting blog. On 20dec22 I post:

I had not realised. Albanese hates Americans. but now it is obvious.

he has sent Rudd to be Australia's ambassador to the U.S.

those poor Americans.

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So now what?

Drag Rudd home by the short and curlies.

Send a real Ambassador. One who has actual training or experience.

Or an Ambassador who at least understands the meaning of "diplomacy".

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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btw and NFP:

If your Editor wants to pay for a regular column, get in touch.

eg:

My Three Rs

This is a time limited offer.

Definitely no steak knives :-)

I'd call it: The Bleeding Obvious :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

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Closed to communication

Howard Snow is correct. There is no need for an engineer to speak... nor to understand ...  English.

From my own brief attempt at Engineering I remember the poster, popular amongst engineering students:

Six munce ago I cooden even spell injineer.

Now I are wun.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

The fed opposition describes "the high court loss as embarrassing". And demands that the government act immediately.

Says it all, doesn't it.

Pollies are not interested in law and order.

They have no interest in the safety of Australian citizens.

The pollie priority is...

What can we do to ... score political points... or to embarrass... some other pollie.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

trump landslide

The front page tells us that Trump has made "the greatest comeback in political history".

Please note the word "political".

Trump did it -- this time -- with no attempt at armed insurrection.

No use of weapons of war.

Trump won a victory through the US ballot box: the centrepiece of democracy within the US.

Just as the Australian ballot box is the centre of our own style of, Australian democracy.

We now have the freedom -- the democratic right -- to welcome -- or fear -- the result.

That's democracy.

A lot of challenge -- but still a good option.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

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So what.

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Bit coin confusion

The headline reads,

Bit coin hits record high on friendlier regulation.

And I thought the whole point of bitcoin is...

Investment which is free of all that stifling regulation.

Let the mrket govern itself, all that good stuff... freedom from government, etc, manipulation, control, restriction... etc , again... :-)

Shows how little I know.

Oh well, put that monopoly money back under the mattress :-)

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

I hope I was dreaming

I hope that I was dreaming when I heard, or, I hope, mis-heard, this snippet of news:

WA has a billionaire miner. Yes, another.

This one has been found to have acted... without regard for ethics. Yes, another.

What I think I heard:

The unethical billionaire donated $9,000 to the WA Labor party. Well, why not. That's how any billionaire buys political favours A very cheap price, too.

And yet... in light of today's news...

with various individuals and organisations rushing to distance themselves from the now *in* famous billionaire -- and his money and his possibly-corrupting influence...

Our Premier is asked, Will you return that "tainted" money?

I mean, How stupid can Premier Cook possibly be?

Of course he -- or the Labor Party -- will return the money.

No-one... no one honest... wants to be associated with "tainted" money.

I mean, mud sticks.

But No.

Premier Cook says,

No, we will not return that $9,000.

What?!

Surely I imagined that? I hope so.

Remember Blazing Saddles? The list of thugs, crooks, criminals, etc who are required to attack Rock Ridge?

Will Premier Cook take dirty, stolen, tainted money from any or all of those criminals?

Of course he will. Why not?

Money -- to Cook -- is money. His money now.

So Premier Cook will keep the tainted money.

And be forever associated with its tainted source.

Just how stupid is Premier Cook?

Just hand back the money. With a polite apology, perhaps. In light of the current news, we can't... etc etc.

Back away. Now.

Or forever be the WA Premier who will take money... is that "gift" a bribe? From anyone, Is that person a real criminal? Where did they get their money ?

etc etc etc...

I hope that I was imagining that half-heard snippet of news.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

half blind, half deaf, dying of cancer,

So what.

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Trump wins

In hindsight...

This is why Trump won:

Americans are sick and tired of being told that they must put everyone else first.

Immigration: so a million people want to walk out of Mexico and -- against all laws -- those people "must" be allowed to walk into the US. 

Why?

Because those million people are more important than the existing 500million US citizens. Really?

Imports:

The US "must" allow China to sell cars in the US

Why? So that China can build up its car manufacturing at the expense of manufacturing in the US?

But why.

Because... the people of China are more important than... the millions of current US citizens who earn a living in US car manufacturing. Really?

Trump says, make America great.

Which sounds a lot like...

Put America *first*, again.

I think Americans like that.

I would.

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And tomorrow...

In Australia:

Let's put Australians first.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Fake ABC

As expected, The West is making a full meal of the ABC's stuff-up on "war crime" reporting from Afghanistan.

This time -- The West is correct.

Sometimes the ABC is Australia's  conscience. Digging into topics which the rest of us ignore, or would rather deny.

This time -- the ABC went out of its way to destroy individual reputations.

Destroy, apparently, for no better reason than to build a saleable story.

Using faked sound effects. So fake that they now admit it was... done for deliberate effect.

An eyewitness who... even at the time... admitted that he saw nothing.

Then repetitious interviews with locals.

Locals who, guess what? Are the enemy.

The reporter expects honest answers from the very people we are there to kill,for be killed by?

Oh, bloody hell.

We -- our people, our government -- send young people to risk their lives, to defend themselves against an enemy who have already demonstrated murderous treachery.

And reporters ask these enemy, Did our own soldiers treat you nicely enough?

Bloody hell.

The West complains of the $400,000 court cost.

I complain about the complete lack of honesty.

The West covers up, hides, ignores, denies its mistakes, its bias. No worries, it's a commercial organisation, there to make a profit.

The ABC claims to be news we can trust.

Then shows that it is perfectly willing to lie... to lie, in support of its own -- or its employees' -- private agendas.

I'd sack the lot of them.

From lying reporter to failing to -manage director.

Then rebuild as an organisation which can be trusted.

Trusted at least to be honest.

"Truth" is variable. A conscience may include bias and misunderstanding.

Outright lies are unacceptable.

 

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Fly high or fail.

Don't we just love our criminals :-)

So he is a "cut-throat dealmaker? I don't care, it's not *my* throat. Not this time, anyway.

He "flew too close to the Sun"

Funny, I always thought that criminals gained heat from flying in the opposite direction.

Then we have a column of his "advisers" who have sucked up... been tsucked up... as close as possible.

Adding a veneer of respectability to the throat cutter.

Sports stars. Politicians. Business leaders.

You can bet that there advice was hedged around with plausible deniability

Perhaps you could do this... not that I would suggest it of course... but you... may want to consider what could happen if...

All the time, hoping to catch some of the golden bounty which drips from the grubby hands of the man with more flexible morals.

And now watch those moral cowards back away...

It happened with the casino enquiry.

Oh, I didn't really know what was happening.

I was paid a heap so I just... turned up and nodded. We were never in a real... business relationship...

Just, well, you know, chaps helping chaps with a bit of highly paid... oh, but never deliberate... image enhancement.

The man built his own business.

Made his own billions

He is fully entitled to use his own property as he sees fit.

Or even use it as far as he sees that he can get away with it.

When he draws in other investors -- includes other people in his dealings. That is when he owes a duty of care... a moral duty... to those other people.

They may all be aware of the lack of moral standards. That may be why they are standing so close to the man... to profit from the actions of the one man who is willing to ignore rules.

The man still owes a duty of care to those uninvolved... so very carefully uninvolved...

People who are now depending on one cut-throat businessman to bring home the gold that they are afraid to grub for, themselves.

And now the poor man is left with nothing.

Well, nothing except the few billions which he will have salted away... somewhere. Somewhere hidden but... very accessible... when he needs it.

Ah well.

If I were ever offered a few million to help a crook to look more honest?

Would I happily accept?

Or would have the courage to at least say...

Just let me think about it.

I would probably accept the benefits.

Rationalise my reasoning.

Take the benefits.

Perhaps within some limits, I've done that, before.

Our criminals offer so many benefits to the rest of us... 

Is that enough reason for us to love --and even support -- our criminals?

It's reason enough for most of us.

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Too old for UOM

I glance quickly at a news article about a new floating jetty in Broome.

Two hundred metres, I read.

A long jetty, I think.

Then read it again...

How old am I? I think.

Why would anyone measure a jetty in metres?

I read again.

No. Not a two hundred metre jetty.

200m, perhaps.

The correct -- the interesting measure of the jetty is...

It's a $200m jetty.

Ah, that's more interesting :-)

The news from Broome is about a two hundred million dollar jetty.

Ah! That's more like it :-)

The jetty may barely reach from sand to sea.

Two hundred metres? Who cares.

But look how much it costs.

I must learn to read more carefully :-)

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

more woke than you

Caitlyn Rintoul feels uncomfortable when her share driver makes a casually racist comment.

Okay, so Rintoul is desperately woke, no worries about that.

"That generalisation was unhelpful", she informs the driver.

Good grief.

You are paying someone to drive you somewhere.

Are you so desperately afraid of being seen to be human that you must respond to stupidity with parrot-fashion political correctness?

Whatever happened to the simple but sad shake of the head.

Perhaps even a raised eyebrow.

No.

Rintoul must prove her superior wokeness with a superior put-down. 

The poor thing.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

half blind, half deaf, dying of cancer,

So what.

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truth, belief, response

Which experts did Miller, 4th Nov. believe?

Then what action did he take?

He happily sneers at "government experts" who were slow to recognise covid risks.

Knock knock.

Did Miller fail to notice that the CEO of WHO -- the World Health Organisation -- WHO was in denial, 

Who's there? 

of any covid risk at all, till it was far too late for an effective global response.

Rambling into another topic, Miller wonders about the role of humour in serious illness.

Well, that probably 

Grandad

depends on the ill person.

 Are they ready 

Stop the funeral!

I still find that hell funny.

to laugh? Some are not.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

half blind, half deaf, dying of cancer,

So what.

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Bloody brilliant

04nov 2024: amazing...

This letter was printed in The West as WA needs imagination.

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Which then generated a Letter in response. (05nov 24) Vibrant naming culture

... that letter is the image below.

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I missed both letters, it was the busy rogaine weekend.

No worries, the response was sent to me as an image in an email.

And then...

Here is the amazing bit:

It took me a few minutes to find each page of the papers,

they were in a nearby bin.

Followed by twenty minutes to copy the letter image... from an email to this blog!

amazing :-)

My first letter:

There are a dozen stories leaping off that clothesline. Dozens more from the child, though requiring a larger stretch of the imagination.

Of course the questions are "tough "Would you prefer that everyone were told to write... exactly the same answer?

Perhaps we will expand our schools of economics and engineering. Traditional shelters for students with powerful brains but absolutely no imaginations.

No wonder WA has such a small number of authors. And such a large number of people whose chief skill is to dig holes. Exactly as and where and as deep as... as they are ordered to dig.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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the response:

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half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Appropriately declared

Yep, that's the problem, isn't it.

Politicians -- and business managers -- are driven by... profit, power, self-interest.

They need to be... or they will be driven out by ... people with stronger drives for... profit etc.

Pollies and managers may have attended a course on, perhaps, business ethics.

I've read and signed the General Electric employee ethics agreement.

What it boils down to is: do not be caught.

Caught at what?

They have no built-in standards.

Biggles had built-in standards. He

never entered business nor politics.

Real people do the minimum.

They write their own "standards" then employ clerks to keep records which will -- within their self-written standards -- will all be within the self-set rules.

The pollie can then confidently state, all of my bribes, indiscretions, kickbacks... have been appropriately declared.

If not, of course...

The recording clerk is there to get the blame.

Pollies have no in-built sense of right or wrong.

If they did... I'd probably disagree with them anyway :-)

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper

   

Not a rant!

Spud King meets the pope.

I can't help it, I'm pleased :-)

I'm guessing that Galati is catholic.

In which case, meeting the pope would be a terrific thrill. For Galati, perhaps even a highlight of an already successful life.

Sure, it did not "just happen".

But I can't help it, I'm pleased. A great thrill? For a bloke I don't even know?

One man, with an extra happy memory. A touch of extra happiness in the world.

Just a nice little story.

Which makes me smile :-)

half blind. half deaf. dying of cancer.
so what?
notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper