Kia ora
Having absented myself for some time, perhaps time to return and do something about the prodigal manner in which I have treated the Local Manor! Local Media [Fairfax (sic)] have facilitated comment on "Topical" issues and never one to let an opportunity go bye, or is it by? I put in my 2 cents worth.
Predictably any comments which contradict current MSM Policy at any given time, fail to see light of day, altho I have had some success in ignored posts being accepted at a later date ie 4-8 hrs later, depending on who is in charge of 'Administrating' duty, being either more gullible or perceptive about what I have to offer; take your pick.
Current concerns centre about curbing self destruction as in the rising trend of suicides and whether or not euthanasia is an acceptable means of terminating one's current existence on a Planet which is hopelessly f@#$%^ed up trying to determine where to start the next World War!
For light relief we are titillated with stories of families in "Poverty", looking after a clowder of cats made homeless due to earthquakes. Mind you, pictures accompanying the said (sad?) story reveal parents grinning like Cheshire cats, kids well dressed and furniture most certainly way and beyond what I would spend on it.
Interspersed with all such depressing news there is a glimmer hope that Global Warming might, and I use the word 'Might' carefully, reduce the cost of heating. Currently we are supposed to be experiencing Summer, but it is bloody cold and wet as opposed hot and dry! Then all the hullabaloo about 'drink drivers', an emotive issue which is played to its fullest extent, this despite the fact that more people continue to be killed by "SOBER" drivers than anything else. Paul Joseph Goebbels, in his capacity as Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich must be turning in his grave at the way current bullshit manipulates the masses!
Yes dear friends, Shit Happens! The Media and their Political Masters have seen fit to present such occurrences as all the more reason why we ought to, without question, obey Big Brothers every utterance. While we do so at our peril, we seem to be bereft at any meaningful objection to their endeavours.
C'est la vie!
Arohanui
Aio
Bill