Hedonist Palace

Over population

2009-11-24T18:37:00.002+02:00

Over population is a huge fucking problem.
Pun intended. Stop looking at pollution and dwindling resources and start looking at effective birth control.

Groetnis

Talk sense

2009-11-24T18:37:00.001+02:00

Don't talk a lot, but when genuine passion moves you, say what you have to and say it hot.

Groetnis

The nature of life

2009-11-24T18:36:00.002+02:00

Such is the nature of life, that as soon as consciousness enters the sphere of realism of a person, the innocence takes absence, to make space for survival.

Groetnis

Pussy Galore

2009-11-24T18:36:00.001+02:00

“You cunt.” “No, Sir I can.”

I love pussy, yes I do. I love pussy and how about you?

Groetnis

The human condition

2009-11-24T18:35:00.000+02:00

We are made to suffer others’ stupidity for our non-compliance to the human condition: Compliance to all things moral or not.

Groetnis

My word is my bond

2009-11-24T18:33:00.002+02:00

A cunt holds promise. We know what we might get, if we behave like we should, so that we may behave as we want.

Groetnis

Manipulation

2009-11-24T18:31:00.000+02:00

Manipulation is a necessary part of life. Even babies do it and are often more accomplished at it than some adults. We think it beneath us to do. We are wrong........

Groetnis

Not funny, but nice.

2009-09-30T21:41:00.001+02:00

Imagine having a doctoral in debauchery and the common sense to know what does or doesn't suit you and does the least amount of harm and the consequence of mind to do it in moderation. That is bliss. Knowing yourself is more fun than the experiments to find out.

Growing wiser

2009-09-30T21:40:00.001+02:00

I was a ferociously busy and inquisitive child, never really naughty apart from being disobedient some times. Look at my profile picture. I was an exquisitely diligent student of debauchery when I was a young man and have now graduated to my doctoral in al factors ad nauseam of all things immoral and outrageously far from the norm, even though I wouldn’t call myself a practitioner of such behavioural science anymore.

Men are either horny or hungry...So THEY say.

2009-09-30T21:38:00.000+02:00

So.... If I don't have an erection, please give me a sandwich.

I wish I knew who THEY were.

First and Second

2009-09-30T21:36:00.000+02:00

Firstly you cannot be a big or a small ARSE-hole. Secondly I feel distinct disdain towards myself if I have to disappoint someone. So….. If somebody takes me or treats me like an ARSE-hole, I might as well be the biggest ARSE-hole they have ever met in their lives. The same rules apply in the opposite direction as well. I don’t treat all people the same. People that say they do are liars. I do give you the benefit of the doubt, but will treat you on merit from then on. These are the applied doings towards people outside of my circle and do not apply to my loved ones or people that I’m in a mutually benevolent friendship with. I am a selfish ARSE-hole, most of the times, living for myself, but I do take the time to smell the lovely flowers next to the road from time to time.

Internet Ethics or lack thereof

2009-09-30T21:34:00.002+02:00

I would put my balls on a block with a very heavy and dull axe in the air over them. *thinks it might be a bit over the top, but here we go* Many, emphasis on many and not all, of the obnoxious and inconsiderate people on here, the internet, will not behave like they do on here, in public, except if they are narcissistic clemency seekers. They might have to apologise in real live where as they don’t have to here, because all social responsibility has been removed on a site like this. Faceless. Otherwise…………….Some people are just borne or raised ARSE-Holes. Tough.

Put your freak on.

2009-09-30T21:34:00.001+02:00

Poor people, when doing certain things, are called freaks, but when the wealthy do the same they become eccentrics. Weird isn’t it. Same shit, different rules. Priceless or at a price?

Criticism

2009-09-30T21:30:00.002+02:00

Acid, like anger, does more harm to the container that it is stored in than the object it gets sprinkled and/or poured over. Water from a duck's back. If a message of criticism is delivered in a palatable fashion, it should be considered by the recipient, but never if it is delivered as an insult.

Suicide

2009-09-30T21:30:00.001+02:00

Suicide is the ultimate punishment for your loved ones, because you, the suicide victim, actually hate yourself, so you also hate the others and subconsciously want to punish them. Sad, but true.

Love yourself first

2009-09-30T21:29:00.001+02:00

If you have no self love you cannot love others.

Circles in circles

2009-09-30T21:27:00.002+02:00

Stupid is as stupid does, in the immortal words of one Forrest Gump.
If you waste your life in the pursuit of stupidity, you will succeed in at least one thing. If you wish to commit suicide, because you are a failure and you succeed at your task, wouldn't that negate committing suicide on grounds of being a failure, because you would have succeeded in at least one aspect of your life’s quest, but you would not be there to celebrate your triumph of being successful, because you would be dead.

Love they'n self

2009-09-30T21:27:00.001+02:00

I am intoxicated by the exuberance of my own verbosity.

Stupidity knows no bounds

2009-09-30T21:25:00.000+02:00

If you are being a provocateur, be prepared and don’t complain when you provoke reaction. Complaining then is just stupid and childish.

Our Elderly

2009-09-30T21:22:00.000+02:00

I think it a horrible thing when some adults die; the knowledge and wisdom that goes adrift into nothingness after they are gone.

The Strong - New Editions

2009-09-30T21:12:00.000+02:00

David and Goliath, Samson and Delilah, Jack and the Beanstalk Giant…….. Et Al. Rather be clever than strong. The intelligent will become the new strong.

Why are children so happy? Some adults?

2009-09-30T21:11:00.000+02:00

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, that can afford buying a car, I rejoice in the fact that our civilisation still has hope, because there are some of us, myself included, that never forgot what it was like to be a child and experience stuff for the first time and then keep enjoying them. So if it were to be impulsive and/or wrong to have fun, I think there is something wrong with the judges and not the doers.

What is the norm?

2009-09-30T21:10:00.002+02:00

Insanity is trying the same action twice, expecting a different outcome. Insanity is just as much a state of mind as sanity.

Cheerfully facing each day

2009-09-30T21:10:00.001+02:00

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I recon that a reasonable person has to behave as though we were damn sure of it. If at the end our cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate we would have been cheerful and have had a ball of a time.

War and why

2009-09-30T21:08:00.000+02:00

It is inevitable that not all people agree on all things and if that does happen and there is no solution then it does sometime happen that they have to go to war on it. BUT that doesn’t give the strong the right to impress his opinion on the weaker, nor does it mean that the strong is always right.

Heroes

2009-09-30T21:07:00.001+02:00

Heroism is not defined as only saving some ones' life. It is heroic to help and old lady to cross a street. Heroism and chivalry are very close related. If you have a troubled relationship with your wife and you decide to make the relationship work for the sake of family, or any reason that you can justify and believe in, without being emasculated, you are a hero. But it is the epitome of being human when you save somebody’s life and knowing that without you being, this other person would have left this life too early.

Equality

2009-09-30T21:06:00.000+02:00

We are all of the same species, human, different, male and female, but not equal. Not all men are created equal. We don’t live in equality. We do end up equal, because we all share the same appointment with death.

Politics

2009-09-30T21:05:00.000+02:00

The more unreadable an opinion becomes when beleaguered with higher learned words, in the minds of the illiterate masses, the more they think it is very important and the voting electorate will come a running like sheep to the s/laughter of the well read few of the intelligencia.

Shining someone is not always nice

2009-09-30T21:03:00.000+02:00

We should all try and catch a falling star and put it in our pockets, not to hide it, but to shine it with the cloth in time so that it may again shine better than it did before. Shining in essence is abrasion that brings out the shine. We shine each other by how we shave and bump into each other, but the product is shameless in its glory, that we shouldn’t hide once it happens.

A "why" is why we are all here

2009-09-30T21:02:00.000+02:00

We are looking for answers on what we think and feel. If someone gives me a negative without an explanation, they are in essence stealing my possible lesson from me.

Experience is another word for; previous fuck-ups

2009-09-30T21:00:00.002+02:00

When you are wrong or you have wronged, apologise with heartfelt agreement and repent, BUT if you are right you are right and then stand your ground. I make lots of mistakes everyday, but I seldom lose the lesson that comes with the errors.

Self Love

2009-09-30T21:00:00.001+02:00

Learn and choose to love yourself first. Then you will believe that somebody else can love you and you will trust and believe, when they compliment you. Humanity has two very distinct vices, the fear of success and failure, where the fear of success is the most prevalent, because we all inherently think we are not worthy of being successful.

True Friends

2009-09-30T20:59:00.001+02:00

A person with bad breath has bad so called friends.
To be nice to people you have to be NOT nice sometimes, because the truth is NOT nice in the worlds' eyes.
It is an art telling people stuff that is not nice. You have to be not nice to be nice.
It is not what you say, it’s how you say it, BUT you have to say something. The more you do it the easier it becomes.
Don't talk a lot, but when genuine passion moves you say what you have to and say it hot

Losers and losing.

2009-09-30T20:58:00.001+02:00

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
It is written that you should love your enemies, not conform to them or their beliefs. You cannot loose with love. Love is the path of most resistance. Love is sometimes not nice. You have to be cruel to love and show love. Cruel = Honest.

Friends

2009-09-30T20:57:00.001+02:00

True friends should stab you in the front.
I actually prefer that, to being stabbed in the back by "friends."

Why do we have enemies?

2009-09-30T20:56:00.003+02:00

Show me a man with NO enemies and I will point out a man to you that has never believed, nor stood up for his beliefs in his life.
I have lots of enemies. It must be a good thing. It means that I've stood up for my beliefs, sometime in my life.

Men

2009-09-30T20:56:00.001+02:00

Cowboys don’t cry, BUT they shouldn't be stupid either, which we are sometimes.

The truth can be so simple.........sometimes

2009-09-30T20:55:00.000+02:00

The difference between bravery and stupidity is the outcome.

Manipulation is necessary

2009-09-30T20:54:00.001+02:00

Willpower is housed in the mind. Will and endue the will of others, to be willing, with your strength of mind and impeccable character. Power lays all in the mind.

Age doesn't matter

2009-09-30T20:53:00.000+02:00

Age is all about mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Tattoo

2009-09-30T20:51:00.002+02:00

This man walks amongst us; but is not one of us.

Opposite?

2009-09-30T20:51:00.001+02:00

Would the female of male chauvinist be a female chauvinist? Or a feminist?

Bigots

2009-09-30T20:50:00.001+02:00

There is one thing worse than a bigot. A non-patriotic, racist, illiterate, confused, ignorant bigot fool.

Seduction

2009-09-30T20:49:00.002+02:00

Seduction is the art of verbalising, with whatever means, the dance of the body and mind of another, interpreting what it wants. Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

Sex and Trouble

2009-09-30T20:49:00.001+02:00

It is not sex that gets me into trouble, it is the lack thereof.

Naughty, but Nice

2009-09-30T20:48:00.002+02:00

If it is in deep, it is in decent.

Conflict is good

2009-09-30T20:48:00.001+02:00

We cannot and shouldn't just all get along. It is unnatural. Everlasting peace is the dream of a resident of Utopia.
We are made to suffer from the love of the argument. That is what gives the human race the edge over the other species. We have the free will and the choice to say NO. NO. NO. NO, a thousand times no and therein lays our worst weakness and our tremendous strength. Where there is a NO there is strife, BUT there is also hope.

Rotten Eggs

2009-09-30T20:47:00.000+02:00

I feel utter irritation, when receiving a rotten egg without the relevant explanation. Haven’t people the slightest modicum of decency to disagree with you in your face? Where are the times when gentiles disagreed with honour? I can take a slap in the face, but prefer if it were not to come from a ghost.

Large penis vs small or broken penisses.

2009-09-30T20:46:00.001+02:00

Having a big penis – hurts women more, than a small or broken one.
You have to be careful where you point it and how deep. Not that I would know, it is what I heard. *GRINS*

Optimism

2009-09-30T20:45:00.004+02:00

When attempting to do the impossible, take heart in the fact that you’ll have little competition. See things as they could be and not as they are. Optimism is here to stay.

Art of war

2009-09-30T20:45:00.003+02:00

War is manifestly an art and not a science, an art by which, as is true of all arts, the sublime cannot be taught.

Me, Myself and I

2009-09-30T20:45:00.001+02:00

I’m the best slave master in the world. I am my own slave. I work for myself. No one on earth drives me harder than myself. This is the only way I stay motivated.

Freedom

2009-09-30T20:44:00.003+02:00

Freedom is only freedom with rules and discipline, within reason. Chaos and order is as far or as near as the east is from the west.

Religion

2009-09-30T20:44:00.001+02:00

People that want to talk to you about religion, never want to discuss your views, only theirs.

Vagina

2009-09-30T20:43:00.000+02:00

Vagina – what a delicately scrumptious word. Almost like mango. It makes the mouth water at the mere thought of what the word entails and the promises it keeps hidden.

Drunks

2009-09-30T20:42:00.002+02:00

I feel distinct disdain towards drunken people, remembering that I’m a teetotaller, when they don’t take NO for an answer. NO, I will not make an exception and have a drink with you, when I didn’t even have champagne at my wedding. I don't mind what they do to themselves, but why do I have to tolerate their numb faced demeanour.

Duplicity

2009-09-30T20:42:00.001+02:00

Sexually, we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a guy out there exactly the same as me?

Idiots

2009-09-30T20:41:00.001+02:00

I see stupid people everyday all around me and they don’t know that they are stupid.
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigour, their God-given right to be stupid.

Plagiarism.

2009-09-30T20:40:00.002+02:00

Purists Unite. We have a new religion.
We all do it. Just be honest about it and don’t give it off as your own. If you put your own twist or interpretation on it, then it is different.

Boys and Girls

2009-09-30T20:40:00.001+02:00

Life is unfortunately cruel and unjust. Deal with it.
You have a boy with 10 girlfriends and he's the man. You have a girl with 10 boyfriends and she's a slut.

Rokvolk

2009-09-30T20:39:00.002+02:00

Why does the hen run away from the rooster?
She doesn’t want the other hens to think she is a slut.

Woman begin by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Sex is here to stay

2009-09-30T20:39:00.001+02:00

They’ll never make fucking unpopular.
They will never detract anything from the world’s favourite pastime. Even when they tried making liquor illegal in the states it didn’t stem the growth of sales. What is the oldest profession in the world? Spanish inquisition? Fordyce’s sermons on morality?

Can and Want

2009-09-30T20:38:00.001+02:00

I want you, to want to fuck my brains out, not fuck me because you can.
Don’t be doubly condescending in thinking that I don’t know the difference and that I’m that desperate. I am exactly at the right place and for the right reason; I’m here because I want to be. Do you? Be honest.

Lust and Love

2009-09-30T20:37:00.002+02:00

Lust is a feeling. Love is a choice.
I'd screw the pants off a lady I don’t like nor love, for that matter, if I find her looks appealing. That’s just plain lust. Love is sometimes not nice so you have to choose it.

Idiots

2009-09-30T20:37:00.001+02:00

I find these two kinds of people utterly fascinating: those that know all and those that know bugger-all.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Red Heads

2009-09-30T20:36:00.000+02:00

When red-haired people are above a certain social status, their hair colour becomes auburn.
They think they are smart. I know the truth. They are closet ginger people. Nothing wrong with that, except that they think it is beneath them. Idiots.

The truth about.....

2009-09-30T20:35:00.000+02:00

Education is something which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Sex vs Milk & Cookies

2009-09-30T20:34:00.002+02:00

I think sex before bedtime, beats milk and cookies hands down.
I know that the calcium in milk is conducive to peaceful sleep. Cookies are nice, BUT having sensory overload before sleeping is the best. Guaranteed

Junk Culture

2009-09-30T20:34:00.001+02:00

I feel distinct disdain towards the parishioners of the junk culture.
Junk sex, food, relationships, culture, materialism, humanism and realism.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder

2009-09-30T20:33:00.000+02:00

Pretty is nice. Beauty is exquisite. Sexy comes in all shapes and sizes and takes your breath away.
Asking someone to be spontaneous, defeats the initial objective of spontaneity, as is explaining a thing of beauty. You either have it and get it or you don’t. Those that know won’t ask and those that ask won’t understand.

Why we can't always have what we want

2009-09-30T20:32:00.000+02:00

Not having what you want is less important than wanting what you have in life and appreciating it for what it is because:
There are two severe tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is actually getting it.

Black is black

2009-09-30T20:31:00.000+02:00

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

If you want to be difficult, make sure that you are right.

There is nothing worse than standing your ground and then finding out it is not yours in the first place. Wrong title and everything. Being right is not necessarily being right. If it is popular opinion that it is right and in taking up that stance and it is right in your opinion, you are right. But it may be that you are wrong in somebody else’s eyes, but you have to start somewhere otherwise you’ll end up going in circles. Black is black and gravity sucks.

Generally speaking

2009-09-30T20:30:00.002+02:00

All generalisations are false, because the basis thereof lies in the self, including this one.

Relationships have a shelf life

2009-09-30T20:30:00.001+02:00

I have looked at this opinion (READ: My truth) from every conceivable angle, considered it very carefully, examined my past relationships and then came to this staggeringly saddening conclusion:
Every relationship has a shelf life. It has to end or evolve to stay alive.

Sex and Love

2009-09-30T20:28:00.001+02:00

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

We all have different ways of expressing and experiencing love and sex; many languages and ways of interpretation. Different is good.

There is a distinct difference between sex and love. Both sexes want the same thing, SEX and LOVE, but have different ways of expressing it and or getting it. Men give love to have sex and women give sex to get loved. You don’t love your hand when you practise self love. Then why do you have to give love to get/have sex? Sex is sex and love is love. We as a civilisation should learn this and promulgate its concept. We as a “civilisation” have lost that x-factor that keeps defining us as we are and as we were.

Smoking

2009-09-30T20:22:00.001+02:00

I love cigarettes. Why don't people just leave me alone when I'm smoking? I don't bother you when you are having "Me" time on the toilet. I don’t drink alcohol, rape woman, molest children or hit my wife. I don't fornicate with other woman. I smoke cigarettes. Please be so kind as to BUGGER OFF and let me smoke in peace.

The truth

2009-09-30T20:21:00.001+02:00

The plain and simple truth. It is rarely plain and simple and most likely NOT true.
If you hear these words you should be prepared for the worst nonsensical babble. Watch out here it comes.

Being good doesn't mean being nice

2009-09-30T20:20:00.000+02:00

We are here to be in good relation to every soul and being. To help, guide and protect. We have negated our creation purpose sense for materialistic gain and made that the goal instead of the means. Love is tough and sometimes not nice. The point is that we are already all and should thus share. Good does not equal nice.

Past - Future

2009-09-30T20:19:00.000+02:00

The farther backwards you can look and remember the more smooth the future distant paths will look and eventually become.

Hipocrisy - The new AIDS

2009-09-30T20:18:00.001+02:00

I would rather tolerate a bigot, than study the art of hypocrisy. Realism and respect for an opinion, compared to inconsistency, triumphs. Tangible defeats the in-tangible.

Lifebuoy #2

2009-09-30T20:16:00.002+02:00

Accept the fact that you don’t know all. Listen to the advice and criticism of those that you are in a respectful mutually benevolent loving relationship with.

Lifebuoy #1

2009-09-30T20:16:00.001+02:00

Look after yourself, because if you fail, you won’t look after the others, but be a burden to them.

Materialism and what it could accomplish if we want it to.

2009-09-30T20:13:00.000+02:00

If you don’t have all, you’ll want all. If you have all, you’ll need more and if you are there, share.

Be all you can be

2009-09-30T20:12:00.000+02:00

If you are not all, you’ll want to become all and if you are all, share.

So once again we check our nuts

2009-03-05T16:30:00.000+02:00

We, the long suffering men, have been in a unilaterally decided conflict by woman, for as long as I know and it seems for as long as I live. They are at war with us even though we are not at war with them. They suffer from what I commonly refer to as penis envy. They have tried and succeeded in a fair deal of righteous emasculation of us their men folk. We are playing and living according to their rules, because if we had to level the playing fields we would be able to hit them when they hit us or when they step on your ingrown toenail intentionally, which they do because they know and misuse their status of privy with us.

They have forgotten what it is like to act and behave and be a lady.

So……………….

If you want to be treated like a lady, act like one. I will in return do what I have always done and that is to be a human being and a man.

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur

2009-01-23T17:10:00.000+02:00

The inequity of “Friends”, lucidus intervallum.

Having had the misfortune of being subject to infatuated disbelief (Read: judgement) by certain friends in the last few weeks, regarding my open-minded lifestyle, I took up the pad in an effort to circumnavigate the pitfalls associated with friendship and what this concept should envision in the individual, as well as my view on others’ conceptualization and asinine disrespect of friendship and the clear rules of engagement for this, the epitome of mutual benevolence.

The love of the unrequited love

2009-01-23T16:59:00.000+02:00

Why are we infatuated with the love of all things that we cannot have or aren’t good for us?

Due to our infatuation with ourselves and the inexplicable belief that we are all exceptional and unique, we (Read: I) have developed an esteemed self loathing relationship with things, deeds or persons that are unwilling/unable to love us back.
We the long suffering public have all and a sunder experienced it in one permutation or another, whether it be the love; lusting, longing, wishing, asking for a object of desire or just a plain old simple addiction. It has to return unrequited at some stage for us to emulate towards the emotional nirvana with the post fix of maturity.

Life is cruel and unjust and that is just the way it is. We want stuff we can’t have. We are kept alert and we keep trying to excel in all aspects of our innate lives in order to buy and ascertain “possessions” in human and feckless objects’ shape.

We keep chasing the pot of self-envisioned rejection at the end of the rainbow in the hope that it will change to a Barry White song, but keep setting ourselves up for failure and end up with a simple requiem. We can and will not be satisfied with what we have been dealt and keep trying to steal, yes steal, other peoples cards and charges instead of concentrating on our own hand and/or finding out what we have and what we are charged with performing or how to go about it.

So…………….

We have a flip of the coin chance of being right or wrong. If we can be selfish and uncivil for just a moment to reflect on our inner sanctum and be honest with what we see, no matter how meagre of brilliant our so called trivial existence envisages itself and let the truth that have been benign in our souls spill into our spirits we might see the manifestation in our physical beings. Be happy with what you have been given. A 100% live to life with as you choose.

Now that is Nirvana…..

An end of innocence

2009-01-09T14:55:00.000+02:00

There is and should be a point in every man’s life when he realises that he has reached a point of no return.

For what has been a privileged, star child, limitation of responsibility existence, turns into a monotonous perennial reception that everything conceivably beautiful and which he holds sacred will be regarded to have turned to a pile of shit in his hands, as he created it or were partly involved in the creation of this self or inflicted, harmony threatening confusion and meaning utter despair for his loved ones and for himself in the search for the correct way of dealing with monogamy(READ: relationships) and reaching relationship nirvana. Difficult I should say, BUT not impossible. Balance = possibility.
He will be regarded as the creator of this destroyer of happiness even if his intentions were as pure as the days are filled with golden rays of sunshine. Even hard boiled eggs have a heart of gold.
We all know that on the clearest fine and hot days we get the harshest of storms in the afternoon or evening even if they only last a few minutes. The storms have to restore the balance, because it is natures’ way of getting rid of the sunshine and the energy which she turns into life giving water. It is with fire as with water; they are good servants, but bad masters.

Relationships are good servants, but bad masters.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

We, the passion people, are all doomed to become emasculated in our search for the modicums of monogamous relationships truths that will mortgage a partnership even if that truth negates the grain of what our “monstrous” emotional passion plains can sustain and in the irreparable damage that does to the limited spectrum emotions of what the other party can and will sustain in concordance with the way they experience their feeling or not. We still feel more variation and that is the problem. Insufficient knowledge for the verbalisation of emotions for the not so passionate persons deters from the full understanding of how and what we the ‘passion people’ feel balanced against becoming insurmountable oddities of emotional outburst to them, but which are merely verbalisations of emotions for us, which they don’t know and never will comprehend. You cannot change how somebody feels, nor can you argue the merits of the severity of emotions we as “passion people” experience.
Who is at fault? We are because we feel too much and have a much more vivid experience in life that translates into more qualified verbalised and outrageous emotions that are seen as wild rantings and ravings, but are merely a lesson in a method of education that reveals to the passionate and conceals from the not-so-passionate the limits of their knowledge regarding the verbalisation of emotion and the unexplored realm of life and feeling.

War between the sexes

2008-05-02T10:35:00.001+02:00

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

War is manifestly an art and not a science, an art by which, as is true of all arts, the sublime cannot be taught.

Between the sexes, there has always been a war.
We men have been in love, fallen in love, died for and lived for woman since the beginning of time. Woman, however have been at war with us, without us knowing it.

Adam and Eve. Samson and Delilah et al. The examples are as numerous as they are varied.

They have been vying for our attention. They are competing, with other woman and men, for men’s attention and/or affection. They are seeking that inherent stamp of approval from their male counterparts. They are trying to be better at male dominated sports or sectors of society that have been the domain of men since the Grand Canyon was a mere river.
Q: Why is that?

Why can’t we men do more than one thing at a time without bungling one of the tasks?
Early Homo sapiens.
A male and female were living in a cave with their 5 kids. A Sable Tooth Tiger jumps in, mauls one of the kids and kills another. All the kids scream, including the wife, the male grabs his club and zones out all the noise and the blood and confusion and focuses on the Tiger to kill it or drive it away. The female consolidates the kids whilst hiding them and treating the wounds. The male returns after killing the beast. Howls like a lunatic. Filled with laughter after their ordeal and consoles his wife with the fact that the beast is away. She’s still in shock, but has successfully treated the kids’ wound as well as her returning husbands’. Everything has returned to normal.

Male focuses on protecting his primary the female, and their kids, secondary. If something were to happen to his kids he could always have others with his partner. Without her he has to look for another partner, which would want offspring of her own and might more often than not, not look after his current kids.
Female focuses on protecting and looking after her primary, the kids, then the secondary, the male. The male can look after himself and his main focus is her, not the kids.
The circle is complete.

I don’t have the skill of multitasking, down to an art, like woman do. I believe that I didn’t receive that gift. I’m content with that.
I am what I am.

Why do men fancy females’ breast so much, if their design is so simple?
It is built into our Medulla Oblongata.
Homo sapiens are the only primates without protruding mouths. So if the females of the species didn’t have protruding breasts, their offspring would suffocate whilst feeding.
We like breast, because it tells us that this female is safe and won’t suffocate our kids.

I love everything about woman. The way they talk with gestures, sway when walking, smell in the morning and at night, touch without touching and speak without speaking, straight to your heart.

A: Men have negated to make woman feel like woman and to keep expressing it in every facet of society. Woman won’t accept the fact that they are what they are, Women, in all their glory. With niggles and jiggles that I see, but let go, because I know that it is just my opinion. To you woman folk, they are part of being a woman. How beautiful femaleness is, if it finds its right expression.

We all have our place under the sun. We were created that way. I, as a man, accept that I can’t be a woman and allow a woman to be just that, a woman. Why don’t they pay me that courtesy as well? Let me be a man. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. I can dish it out and take it, can they?

Groetnis

My Dad

2008-04-27T19:11:00.002+02:00

Huldeblyk - Kol. Pa. Punch. J.P.A. Botha
Begrafnis – 29/03/2007

Ons was eendag by ‘n gedenkdiens van een van Pa se vriende, toe Pa my in die ribbes pomp, na vele sprekers al hulle herrinneringe van die betrokke persoon gelewer het. Hy se toe ons moet seker by die verkeerde diens wees, want die ou wat hy geken het was maar ‘n ou bliksem gewees en die ou waarvan hulle hier praat was net "nice".

So ek hoop julle herken die man van wie ek gaan praat.

Ek lees vir julle ‘n brief wat ek vir my Pa geskryf het & vir hom gelees het ‘n ruk terug toe ek en hy afskeid geneem het van mekaar. Dit is slegs ter illustrasie van die man wat ek geken het en hoe ek oor hom voel.

Kol. Pa. Punch. J.P.A. Botha

Die ampsbenaming hierbo is slegs bree trekke van die verskeie ampsbenamings wat my pa hom in bekwaam het.
Hy is en was veel meer as dit vir my.

My Pa

Dankie vir alles wat Pa is & vir my teenwoordig gemaak het in toepaslike terme sodat ek dit kan verstaan.

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”

“Great success, always comes at the risk of enormous failure”

Dankie vir alles wat Pa my mee toegerus het, om die wereld trom-op te loop & my merk te maak.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het om ‘n man onder die manne te wees. Pa was dan self DIE man onder die manne.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het om ‘n goeie man vir my vrou te wees. Nie altyd deur voorbeeld nie, maar met die idée dat niks onmoontlik is nie,’n mens kan ‘n vrou gelukkig & tevrede maak.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het hoe om verskoning te vra as jy verkeerd is en dit te bedoel, al was Pa Groot + verkeerd & ek ‘n kind was reg.
Dankie vir die voorbeeld van hoe God is wat ek by Pa kon leer & met hom te kan praat soos met Pa.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het dat mens nooit te oud is om te leer nie, & kans gesien het om by my te leer en te evoleer. Alhoewel die meerderheid leerwerk aan my kant gedoen is.
Dankie dat Pa my intelek gestimileer het, deur altyd my duisende irriterende vrae te antwoord met wysheid.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het om my baklei, kwaad, hartseer en intelek te gebruik om die regte ding te doen al se die wereld wat.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het om niks as vanselfsprekend te aanvaar nie. Ek bevraagteken & bepeins dit tot vandag toe.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het om vir myself te dink en om ander mense se opinies te respekteer, al is hulle hoe van die pad af.
Dankie dat Pa my gered het van myself & dit verstaan het, toe ek op my wildste was & maar net nie kon uitgewoed raak nie. Ek het nog nie die vrae gehad nie, maar Pa kon vir my die antw. gee.
Dankie dat Pa ‘n man op ‘n perd was & my/ons op die regte pad gehou het deur hardhandig Botha taal te praat & met wyse woorde. Ek sou al in die gutter gewees het, as Pa ‘n sissie was.
Pa en Ma het ‘n groot/goeie job gedoen met ons kinders, al moet ek dit nou self se.
Dankie dat Pa my nie geleer het om nederig te wees nie. Ons is dan “afterall” koningskinders. Royalkids/Royalty.
Dankie dat Pa my ondersteun het met my keuses. Reg of verkeerd.
Dankie dat Pa my geleer het om verantwoordelikheid te vat vir wat ek verkeerd doen & hoe om dit op te los. Hel en dit was baie.
Dankie dat Pa die stukke opgetel het as die liefde verkeerd geloop het of as die lewe my ‘n paar klappe gegee het.
Dankie dat Pa teruggestaan het, al was dit hoe seer vir Pa, NIE my verantwoorlikheid gesteel het nie, sodat ek die lesse kon leer & die skoolgeld self kon betaal.

Ek is jammer dat ek nie altyd Pa kon trots maak op my nie.
Ek is jammer dat ek Pa baiekeer teleurgestel het en ge”drop” het..
Ek is jammer dat ek nie altyd na Pa geluister het nie, Pa was altyd so wys.
Ek is jammer dat ek lelik met Pa gepraat het en dit Pa seergemaak het.
Ek is jammer dat ek Pa se karre opgedonner het.
Ek is jammer dat ek Pa se tools laat wegraak het.
Ek is jammer dat ek te besig was om by Pa te sit sodat Pa my goed kon vertel & met my kon praat.
Ek is jammer dat ek nie opgehou rook het nie. Ek sal nog binnekort.
Ek is jammer dat Pa so groot & sterk, so siek & swak geword het & moet seerkry en lei.
Ek is so jammer dat Pa kanker gekry het. Die skelm bogger wat gekom het soos ‘n dief in die nag.
Ek is jammer dat Pa moet doodgaan.

“I have never seen a wild thing feeling sorry for itself.
A small bird will fall frozen dead from its bough,
without ever having felt sorry for itself”
Ek sal ook nie.
Ek IS NIE ‘n jammergat nie. Glad nie. Pa het dit ook nie vir my geleer nie.

Jammer dat ek Pa nie kan beter maak nie. Ek glo God sou as hy wou. Dis nie die pad nie. Ek sien dit nou.

Pa gaan ‘n vreeslike leemte in my lewe laat & ek is demoer in daaroor.
Ek weet nog net nie vir wie nie, maar ek weet dit sal gesond word. Dit moet ook so wees.

Ek hoop pa kan my vergewe vir al die nonsens wat ek aangejaag het & as ek teen pa gesondig het. Ek het Pa lankal vergewe.

Pa is & sal altyd die rots bly, waarteen ons, onsself skaaf meet & toets. Veral ek.
Pa het kolosale voetspore gelaat om in te volg & Pa gooi ‘n groot skaduwee wat moeilik is om onder uittegekom het.

Elke man het ‘n “defining” moment in sy lewe.
Die dag as Pa se oe toegaan begin myne, want dan kan ek slegs op God vertrou en wat Pa my geleer het.

Ek wens Pa kan verewig by ons bly, maar ek weet dit dit kan nie.
Ek bid dat Pa vinnig sal gaan en sonder pyn.
My saak is reg met Pa.
Dit gaan sleg wees hier sonder Pa en ons gaan jou vreeslik mis.
Maar ons sal oraait wees
Ek weet ons sal mekaar weer sien op state van goud.

Pa is en sal altyd my hero bly. Pa is my Alpha Centaury.
Ek sal Pa altyd onthou as ‘n man op ‘n perd. Die man onder die manne. My Pa. My hero. ‘n Groot & sterk dinamiese slim man.
Onverskrokke en vreesloos.

Dankie dat ons, ons plek in die gemeenskap kan volstaan met ons koppe omhoog & kan trots wees op ‘n bakgat Pa.
Dankie dat Pa my reg geleer het, sodat ek ‘n verskil moet maak.

Ek SAL ‘n verskil maak.

Groetnis & lekkerwees. Ek salueer jou.

Ek is oneindig lief vir Pa.

Jou seun

It is a 100% my fault

2008-04-27T19:05:00.000+02:00

It is a 100% my fault. So what.

What am I afraid of? You miss a 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Sanity is a state of mind. Just like insanity. Praise the universe with taking the gift given. Life in all its glory.

Get hurt. Fall in love. Get drunk on drink or on life.

Walk barefoot on the grass.

Problem with most adults are that we forgot that we were once children that enjoyed playing. Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. Doesn’t mentioned anything of being happy, now does it?

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

I’m a teetotaller by choice, because it limits the amount of memory of the fun I had. I have few inhibitions and my own high morals. I like myself and I like living.

Just do it, but do it well, if I could paraphrase Nike.

Groetnis

I cannot stand it, being surrounded by fools.

2008-04-27T19:00:00.002+02:00

I cannot stand being surrounded by fools or ugly people.

Beauty is in the HEART of the beholder.

So…..

I surround myself with people that I find attractive, obviously in more ways than one.

Intellectually, emotionally & spiritually.

If however they are female I have to find them sexually attractive as well, otherwise the friendship cannot work. I cannot give the same amount that I would like to give in a friendship if I don’t also want to shag them senseless. You do not necessarily have to act on the feelings.

You just have to be honest on why the friendship exists in the first place. What are you getting out of it?

I just chose to have friendships with females, if that happens, only if I find them to be sexually attractive, as well as the three above mentioned contributes. I find that if you are honest from the start, first with yourself and then with your “friend” it tends to be easier.

Sex is in essence a simple friction process that our brain interprets as pleasure.
WE complicated it with not being emotionally mature enough to say that fun means fun.
THAT’S IT. Fun.

Love is a choice, not a feeling. Lust is a feeling.

Making love is not what we were taught it is. You and your lover making love (Read: having sex) under the stars or with candle light. Making love is also that, but only when your heart gets consumed with though for the other person combined with an itch in your loins. Making love is writing them a piece of prose when they are away or with you. Doing something completely out of character like remembering their birthday or going to your mother in law.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Groetnis

Will the honest ones please rise

2008-04-27T17:31:00.001+02:00

Headlines today say that the Justice bosses crooked the books. Law enforcement is dismal on page 3 and the President defends his ministers as “clean” also on page 3. Health has a shortage of skilled workers --- Pg 3. A judge faces possible impeachment – Pg 4. Another has his business interests probed ---Pg 4. Working class people increasingly send their children to non-government schools since public schools are “dysfunctional”. The ex Deputy State President faces rape charges and has “bizarre beliefs”, this after leading the country’s “Moral Regeneration Programme”, ----- Pg 13. Please note he has massive support! The E.U. stops its financial aid to Hamas in Palestine just after South Africa host the leaders of this country with red carpet treatment??? The Editorial section is even more damning: Judges Integrity has been tainted. Cape Town, the mother city is in crisis with power shortages and political bickering with its electorate indecisive and the media calling an excellent new mayor a “mammary”.

Daily, we the long suffering public, have to be treated to a new story of corruption in the officialdom in our “New democracy”. New democracy? Since when? Surely a government in a democracy is elected by the enfranchised electorate. This has always been the case in South Africa. After all, the current government walked into a parliament building that has stood for nearly a century. So what is this nonsense about a new democracy? By this reasoning Great Britain was never a democracy since one half of the current electorate was disenfranchised, namely all the women. The same would be true for most of the western world. This is as ridiculous as the on going belief that communism still has merits. We have had Zumagate, Oilgate, Travelgate, and now ministers allegedly not for not disclosing their business interests to Parliament AND the New Deputy President involved in one questionable activity after the next. One is forced to ask will it never end. In addition to all of the foregoing, South Africa slavishly supports and/or tolerates the disgusting Robert Mugabe and his thugs. The history of corruption and thievery in this country since 1994 is a sad tale indeed. Of course most of the culprits belonged or belong to the ruling party.

There is now an admission that there is a skills shortage in South Africa. Of course those skills are now comfortably oversees or they are marginalised by the new god; Affirmative Action. This is especially glaring in the public service where we now have a nice darker hue which is by and large incompetent and semi-literate AND corrupt. Only the money grubbing SARS is efficient with the rest of the public service dismally useless and arrogantly, incompetently corrupt. Of course every facet of existence in South Africa is rigidly controlled by the disgusting communist/socialist unions. It seems that a healthy dose of Tannie Maggie Thatcher is sorely required to inject some measure of blessed sanity into proceedings.

The burning question is: What is wrong with the west? Are they blind AND deaf AND dumb AND monumentally stupid? It is patently obvious that the good infrastructure existing in 1994 has not been maintained. Now essential services are falling apart, particularly health, sewerage, power, roads, rail services, home affairs, policing, and fire services being the most glaring examples. We are told that South Africans are confident in the future. It is however my opinion that they live in a dream world where they have grown to accept rubbish standards as the norm and they believe that because they still have credit all is well.

Reality however is that not a single government initiative has worked as planned and we are fed on a diet of new plans and tiresome verbiage daily. The SABC trots out ANC propaganda faithfully each day and our President travels the globe painting a rosy picture of SA while “Rome” burns and staggers under an ever increasing load of new babies each day.

The west applauds vigorously and gives a little investment in the belief that this country is a miracle with a magnificent constitution.

Eish!!!!!

We're drowning

2008-04-27T17:30:00.001+02:00

We South Africans and all of Africa for that matter are suffering greatly under the burden of a monumentally irresponsible breeding programme. One wonders if we are just demonstrating a national concrete like intelligence or is there a, couldn’t care less attitude to our future. A future which the Politicians tell us lies in our children. What absolute rubbish! This is a blatant lie since a population growth rate at the present levels equates to national suicide. If anyone doubts this statement we have only to look at the statistics of growth for the last decade to be extremely frightened.

Anyone with a modicum of intelligence can calculate in simple arithmetic that for each baby born there must be a clinic, a home, a school, a school bus, a teacher, a doctor and the hundreds of other support services used by each human being on the planet. Of course these babies all need to eat an ever increasing amount as they grow up. They therefore place a crushing burden on all goods and services not to mention the ultimate demand for jobs in a largely automated and mechanised world. In the modern world economy tertiary education has become a prerequisite for any type of decent employment. This is expensive and places an ever increasing burden on both business and governments, world wide.

In addition to the above the world is wrestling with a decreasing supply of oil and other sources of energy. Therefore a burgeoning supply of babies who will use buses, cars and electricity will only exacerbate the current energy crisis exponentially. Even paper is becoming an expensive commodity, especially toilet paper for politicians to use as serviettes as they disseminate more garbage. Every conceivable article used by society is under threat as we breed blindly onwards. Apparently men must have heirs and women just cannot wait to see if that complicated, badly designed, plumbing system actually works.

What in heavens name is wrong with society? You need a gun licence, but no licenses for a “gun” that have the potential to ruin millions of live aka “Corporal Hitler”. Are we all consumed with a burning desire to commit the worst possible form of suicide? Do we all want to drown in a sea of babies? And all this in a world, where the pill as well as various, very efficient contraceptive measures, had been given to us by medical science. Incidentally these measures are for free or at the very least they are cheap. At least the Chinese took a small but insignificant step in the right direction. Action, drastic action is required to cut the birth rate to a level where the population growth rate is decidedly negative for some 50 years and then mankind can asses the damage, effect repairs and carry on responsibly in a world of zero population growth in a recovering ecology. Perhaps one could even fix the massive pollution problem and attend the causes of global warming.

We, as a couple, will not contribute to the baby infested world of tomorrow.

Tell me another one

2008-04-27T17:29:00.001+02:00

So we have come to the end of another “Human Rights Day”. We in S.A. have been treated to a diet of our own form of purgatory. A rehash of Sharpeville, The evils of Apartheid, Gandhi, et excruciatingly boring al. 40 years after the event, one would think that certain people could move on after putting the past behind them. No one denies that the event was a tragedy, but to belabour the issue over and over again seems slightly tiresome. Furthermore to use the word massacre seems, in relative terms, to be somewhat excessive given the numbers claimed. 30,000 lives could qualify as a massacre for sure and could also possibly warrant a day of remembrance. I don’t see that happening in our national calendar, nor was it requested; ever. At least on that issue sanity ruled.

Of course it is probably futile to even bother to waste time on mentioning the fact that the interminable spate of tears over issues long past and better consigned to the history books, could have been more profitably spent on the tragedy of not one but two consecutively corrupt Deputy Presidents’, the numerous scandals involving many senior office holders in the ruling party and their lack of embarrassment over same, the dismal state our power delivery and other service delivery, the disgustingly high rate of crime, the rape of our women and the persecution of such victims by the justice system after the event, the rape of our constitution by the ruling party when it suits them given their domination of parliament. After all they have changed it 13 times so far in 12 years, ably supported by a very pliable and loyal constitutional court. The ever increasing power of the ruling party, the puerile efforts at opposition by others, because this is Africa and we are cursed with voting sheep across the continent. What of the power of the unions, who constantly strike in pursuance of ever increasing wages for ever decreasing production? What of the fascination of our youth and the wealthy with hard drugs? How stupid have we become to dabble in these dangerous substances. What of the dismal inefficiency of our police and justice system. What of the slaughter of our white farmers, the numbers of which make Sharpeville pale into insignificance? No tears there I note with interest. Cash in transit heists make Al Capone look like a saint by comparison. Given the foregoing shortened list of ills, there are more pressing problems I am sure, than a morbid preoccupation with a 40 year old incident in the violent history of this country. After all, it is fact that Africa was conceived in blood, born in blood, raised on blood, lived on a diet of blood and will die in blood. Please remind me about the “Proudly South African” campaign? Also remind me about the hordes of emigrants wishing to return? Maybe we should wait for April 1st for that and then we could also believe Adv. Erwin esq. about the sabotage of Koeberg.

Welcome to Africa and Alice in wonderland.

So...What's to celebrate about?

2008-04-27T17:27:00.001+02:00

This is Africa where we all have to live and battle to make a living . We were born here and have stood by while a once nett exporting continent degenerated into the begging bowl of the globe. In the interests of political correctness sane people have taken the back seat and say nothing.

Colonialism and apartheid have become the whipping post on which all Africa’s ills must be and are blamed. However colonialism virtually disappeared some 40 years ago and the mineral and agricultural wealth of the continent was relinquished by the European powers. There was a good and functioning infrastructure which while leaving a lot to be desired, functioned, and was maintained and properly administered. The British territories in particular were, (in the context of the times), well run and functioned with a reasonable measure of efficiency. This is not to say that these territories were a bed of roses or la dolce vita, but there was PEACE and the health services worked. One could even get a passport without bribing the official. The ubiquitous British civil service could even be termed literate and there were the age old rules of “Their Britannic Majesties” which were scrupulously applied and at times a gunboat was used to urge errant parties to mend their ways which they did with great dispatch. It could be said, with some truth, that Britannia ruled the waves and never waived the rules. By and large we were all safe under the Union Jack. Of course hardly anybody worthwhile went to the “FOREIGN” colonies. After all they speak French there.

THEN THE AMERICANS CAME WITH A CRUSADE TO APPLY THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE WORLD WITH AN ALMOST INDECENT FERVOUR AND NAIVETE. This was backed by a rampant dollar and the fears generated by the Cold War with the Communist Block. Poor Britain, having stood virtually alone against Hitler and won the war now faced crushing debt to the New World. She had been forced to relinquish valuable assets and military bases world wide to the Americans. Her empire had become too costly as result and she was now a second rate power with a mielie mouthed Labour Government. Sir Winston Churchill was gone and the Unions reigned supreme presiding over the descent into the abyss of virtual poverty. Under this lamentable dispensation Britain and the other Colonial powers gave up their colonies in Africa. The French happily departed as did the Spanish, Belgians (leaving a disaster in the Congo, thus proving quite conclusively that Africa was not ready for the mixed blessings of democracy), and much later the Portuguese after some 500 years of relatively benign administration in colonies where there was no colour discrimination at all. Apparently Africa wanted its “Uhuru” and it wanted it now and to hell with the consequences.

There followed a period of chaos and blood shed and destruction which palpably demonstrated the correctness of the “profits of doom” such as Robert Ruark in the book “Uhuru“. The Congo fell into chaos almost immediately following independence and the world was treated to pictorial evidence of the savagery of a country in the hands of incompetents and greedy half wit, semi literates, in the persons of Lumumba (murdered), Kasavubu, Tshombe (ultimately murdered) Mobutu (Sergeant, shortly General) and others. Corruption became and stays the order of the day and civil war and mayhem rage to this day some 40 odd years later. In fact the entire region is still unstable and includes Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and most of Central and East Africa. Tanganyika now Tanzania was left to the tender mercies of Dr. Julius Nyerere and his one party dictatorship which proceeded to ruin a once viable economy and infrastructure. Zambia deteriorated into a beggar state under Kenneth Kaunda who presided over the ruin of the once fabulously wealthy copper mines through the common African programme of nationalisation (read Theft). The sick joke of the continent was Big Dada Idi Amin who, while slaughtering his own people provided a laugh occasionally by his insane buffoonery. West Africa was also in chaos and ruin and remains so to this day. Witness the Ivory Coast currently, also Liberia and Niger. The once peaceful and stable African Continent was now a strictly no go area especially if one was of a lighter hue or a nun or catholic priest who valued their neck and other human appendages. Of course land (farms), were stolen with gay abandon and most of the white farmers in East Africa especially left with nothing after generations of solid contribution. OF COURSE THE WHOLE PROBLEM WAS AND APPARENTLY STILL IS COLONIALISM OR ITS LEGACY.

South of the Zambezi some of Africa still functioned well under responsible government. All these governments were CAPITALIST and democracies under a literate and responsible thinking electorate. The two Portuguese colonies were run by Salazar from Portugal under a relatively benign dictatorship and even so functioned well. We viewed the chaos with shock and disbelief that a responsible Europe could have allowed it all to happen. South Africa and Rhodesia enjoyed relative peace and good government. The civil services were competent and literate. The police actually did their job and were by and large honest and didn’t take bribes at every turn. Health services worked and in South Africa were amongst the best in the world especially at the largest hospital in Africa, Baragwaneth, where some very fine doctors were trained and practiced. Common crime was definitely under control and the justice system was manned, by and large, by competent people who applied the law scrupulously and in most cases, fairly. This is not to say that these were model countries and that there was a fair dispensation in respect of race but at least all people were better off than those in the rest of “Free Africa”. Most of the Southern Africans regardless of race had something to eat and some sort of shelter.

Just five short years after independence most of the African countries were under harsh dictatorships and food had become a problem. Most of these countries had already asked for and been given “aid” from the west in cash. Of course very little of this aid ever reached the common people for whom it was intended. None of the projects funded were completed on budget and there was always some “problem“, requiring even more “aid”. The gullible west pumped in billions upon billions in aid, loans, et al and has yet to see a credible return.

All these newly independent countries bar one proclaimed Communism/Socialism to be the panacea of all ills and all castigated colonialism as the cause of all their woes. Of course the Capitalists were and are a rather nasty lot always exploiting the poor of Africa and “stealing” her wealth. The fact that there wasn’t a single mine of any sort or description before colonialism didn’t ever enter the equation. Africa had never farmed on large scale and although cattle are well nigh a religion, there was no large scale beef production for commercial purposes. In fact there was NOTHING for commercial purposes at all before colonialism. Even the wheel was largely undiscovered especially in sub Saharan Africa and the horse was only introduced by the Arabs and Europeans in this region relatively recently.

Africa wails and gnashes it teeth over the issue of slavery. Of course no one in this camp admits that slavery has been a feature of Africa since biblical times and that the Arabs and Egyptians started the whole process only to be followed much later by the Europeans as the new boys on the block. What is amazing is that a relative handful of Arabs and Europeans were able to capture literally hundreds of thousands of black Africans and force them into bondage without a full scale war or uprising of any significance. It is a historical fact that no other peoples on earth allowed themselves to be taken into slavery on this scale. After all everybody from the Egyptians to the Arabs to the Greeks to the Romans and latterly the Americans had African slaves. The Dutch notably obtained theirs elsewhere and acquired some craftsmen to boot the descendants of who are now honourable and very educated, literate and productive members of society. These people have contributed to the collective in no small manner and have retained their unique culture without a great furore.

Until the blessing of Uhuru, there had only been small tribal skirmishes. The notable exception, of course being the Zulu king Shaka who welded his people into a proud and proper nation which he ruled with an iron fist for a very brief period. However by and large there was no organised system of government and definitely none of characteristics recognised by academics as identifying civilised societies. This was a very primitive continent, notwithstanding the recent insane headlong rush by certain learned persons to prove the contrary in the interests of political correctness and appeasement.

The great friends of the new free Africa in the eastern block of Europe and in communist China also contributed their fair share to the new Nirvana. One saw a vast influx of the weapons of war, notably the ubiquitous Ak47 with which the entire continent is now cursed. All of a sudden there were sporadic wars across the continent and the predictions of “One man, one vote, once”, became a sad reality. “President for life” was and is the order of the day. One party dictatorship is a rather special African phenomenon and custom. “The Masses” vote the same way faithfully, no matter how bad the party in power since they are all suitably indoctrinated by state owned media and handed a few sops at election time or when the mood turns nasty in the slightest. Of course, the ruling elite and their friends live la dolce vita while mouthing all the platitudes about the starving poor at every G8 meeting in order to garner more handouts from these countries. It must be said that since the fall of communism the rhetoric has changed somewhat, but, essentially the pleas are the same. “Give us money”.

And what of the billions that have already been handed to various African countries? These largely loaned monies have never been paid back and have somehow disappeared into foreign bank accounts. Now the cry is that these vast amounts must be written off. This is probably the best course of action since the chance of recovery of these monies is nil. The wealthier nations however have learned a few lessons and now insist on some conditions being attached to new loans. Good governance, a clean civil service, completion and inspection of projects etc. etc. The African response to these requests is as predictable as it is ridiculous. They do not wish to be held to ransom and dictated to by the capitalist west. Such a pity that their erstwhile Communist pals are now also virtually bankrupt and cannot help. So much for the paradise of Socialism and Marxist/Leninist divine doctrine which we were all assured was the saviour of humanity if only we would give up our freedom of thought and all other freedoms in our decadent capitalist societies. According to these people if we were all equally poor then all would be well while we shared a one roomed dwelling with two other families and stood in long lines for non existent bread and other basic commodities (a la Mother Russia) and while the secret police looked on or inspected our “papers” ad nausea, banned Bibles and tapped our telephone calls. Thank God and Pope John Paul 2 and The Church for the collapse of this rather wonderful system of slavery which in the long and lamentable catalogue of human depravity has few equals.

Back in the decade of the 60’s the South was stable, well armed, competent and wealthy. “It” could never happen here they thought. So they suffered the indignity of Mr. Macmillan in the S.A. Parliament blustering about the “Winds of Change” and waved him farewell with nary another thought. Ian Smith declared Rhodesia independent in 1965 after numerous tedious meetings with that pipe smoking, non-decrypt, individual Harold Wilson. All in the South cheered and soldiered on while Rhodesia successfully broke all international sanctions using South Africa as her supply chain. At the same time South Africa had a spot of bother in her mandated territory South West Africa. By the time the 70’s arrived the Portuguese territories had trouble with communist inspired terrorists, S.W.A. was at war with Swapo terrorists and Rhodesia had her little terrorist problem coupled with sanctions. The “racist” South had to suffer the international castigation of the Third (bankrupt) world at the U.N. ably appeased by the western powers in the interests of minerals and influence against Russian domination of the continent. The Americans in their typically inept fashion tried to buy it all and forgot the valuable lessons of Mr Churchill and World War 2 on appeasement i. e. dictators cannot be appeased. Consequently Africa sank deeper into the quagmire of debt, corruption and bad governance. For the first time it was clear that Brittania and Labour had waived the rules. A brief respite was offered during the time of President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher (the “Iron Lady”, who also briefly taught the Argentineans a short lesson in humility and good manners and the respect to be afforded Her Britannic Majesty’s Government by lesser mortals), but this was relatively short lived. The Portuguese departed in 1975 when the mother country went communist and after Mr. Vorster of S.A. abandoned Rhodesia it fell to Mr. Robert Mugabe in 1980. South Africa fought on in SWA despite court cases at The Hague (Won 1, Lost 1) and even quelled disturbances at home with some success.

However, majority rule was in and, it seemed, moderation and good sense was not in fashion. The ultra liberal sentiments of the American East Coast Establishment were ably preached by Pres. James Carter and his illogical lackey Andy Young who was just an annoyance and a demonstrable fool and took up valuable space in our newspapers. He, it must be said, palpably proved that he was a displaced person in the United States and should, perhaps, have been assisted in his stated desire to return to his roots in Africa where he obviously would have fitted in perfectly amongst Idi Amin, Mobutu, and all the other recently educated, elevated and newly wealthy gentlemen.

It may just be propitious to recall a film made those years titled “Africa Adieu”, which portrayed quite vividly the savagery and slaughter when Africa was let loose (“free”) after independence. The murder rape and destruction was on a scale unimaginable. Indians, whites, Nuns, Priests, et al were slaughtered wholesale all in the name of “Uhuru”. Cannibalism was even shown in the film and the world was temporarily shocked. One wonders if a copy of that film is still available today and what our new “leaders” would say about the scenes therein. Well do some of us recall the slaughter of the white Portuguese in Angola and the tragic scenes as they fled with what they could carry into SWA, ditto in Mozambique, recall that BOTH these formerly fantastically rich countries, degenerating into long civil (tribal) wars and into the worst poverty and second worst corruption in Africa, so much for their freedom. This author can testify to the unspeakable chaos and disaster in both these counties having worked there for some time. What of the former Congo, now the DRC, pillage, rape, corruption, disease, destruction, and every evil of which mankind is capable, abounds. ALL of these abound in ample measure to this day. 40 years after independence (Please note that Japan recovered in ten years after World War Two after being utterly destroyed and suffering the first Atom Bomb). In addition, most Asian countries which were also once colonies of European powers, are now world class economies and very strong indeed. HOPELESS in the extreme!!! Sanity has fled as if Africa was a disease in itself. And what of the Globe’s greatest current scourge, AIDS. You guessed it, originated in the DRC. What of Sudan, Chad, Cote D’Ivoire, Liberia, Rwanda, Burundi to mention but a few. Then there is the once shining hope of the West, ZIMBABWE. Now in ruins after the tender ministries of that very suave, so educated my dear, Mr. (Mad Bob) Robert Mugabe, an absolute disaster of the first magnitude and the laughing stock of a cynical west. He begs for money all over when he can borrow enough cash to fuel his aircraft to make the trip.

ONLY BOTSWANA DEMONSTRATES ANY DEGREE OF SANITY AND NORMALITY ------------- AND WHY IS THIS ?????????????

THIS LEAVES THE
REPUBLIC of SOUTH AFRICA
As the beacon of hope,
In an otherwise dark and disastrous continent. South Africa (SA), the country of apartheid, the colour bar, the Afrikaner, Johannesburg, Gold, Diamonds, Platinum and much mineral wealth, also the country of the Cape of Good Hope, Kruger Park, and massive agricultural wealth.

W E L L

They say it is a small miracle. They say it is a rainbow nation where all is well and is likely to continue in this idyllic state for the foreseeable future. They say there is a bright future ahead. They all say “No Problem in South Africa”. So we are all told that SA is alive with possibilities and that we are not sliding down the slope into typical African chaos.

The S.A. economy is, by all reports, in excellent shape. After all we hear that all the indices say that we are exhibiting good financial discipline and all is well.

THEN

Why do we have such low foreign investment?
Why is there no mad rush to by foreigners to put their money into S.A.?
Why is our unemployment so astronomically high?
Why is our crime rate so high?
Why are our health services in such a dismal state?
Why do we have so much corruption?
Rape is a feature of our everyday news.
Cash in transit heists are our national sport.
Robberies in shopping malls are at epidemic proportions.
Car hijackings we don’t even mention any more, they’re common to our way of life.
We all live behind barriers and high walls with heavy security.
We have multiple deaths of children in our state hospitals.
Numerous civil servants and officials are under investigation for crimes or alleged crimes.
We are now the proud possessors of Africa’s new Big Five.
They are: Murder, Rape, Hijacking, Armed Robbery, and Kidnapping. To these must be added Cash in Transit heists as the newest sport.
Our roads are suicide alleys roamed by the taxi’s which break all the rules with impunity.
Almost weekly we read of a new case of racial discrimination.
Even our Deputy President is alleged to be a crook and a rapist to boot.
In addition well qualified citizens have left S.A. for safer and less stressful life overseas (where they are not relieved of their possessions by affirmative shopping in the early hours of the morning). Especially, some of our more experienced Portuguese citizens, who have experiences of the blessings of African independence, in Mozambique and Angola where their families were slaughtered in the name of freedom.
There is now a huge campaign to publicise those few South Africans who want to return as if people are queuing to come back to this paradise characterised by informal settlements (read, squatter camps), escalating crime (especially capital crime), walled suburbia, atrocious service delivery, monumental corruption, especially in high places, repressive laws. Reverse racism, restrictive (progressive) labour laws, and a myriad of other ills which don’t follow accepted norms of good governance and behaviour in a globalised society which operates on western standards.

There is a massive drive to convince us all that “African Culture” should be recognised in our day to day dealings. This from suitably suited and well heeled black gentlemen who have recently emerged from their bullet proof Mercedes Benz or BMW cars. They always stay at the best western hotels where they eat the best Cordon Blue meals and drink the best South African wines (introduced to the fairest Cape by the Dutch and the French and currently cultivated by their descendants). These people have been educated at some of the best Universities in EUROPE and the USA and they speak the Queens English with excellence. Very seldom do they use their own languages and their wives only shop at the best western style shops where they buy the best designer clothes purveyed by well known western designers, so much for an adherence to “African Culture.”

In South Africa, we have a rich history. We have beautiful buildings to whit, the Union Buildings, Groote Schuur (the head of state’s official residence, now not in use for that purpose), the Pretoria Station (burned down by a mob), Parliament (due to be moved), and numerous others which are falling into disrepair and are not used due to a disenchantment with the past. What has a building to do with the actions of a past regime and does the shunning of a building cancel the history of the persons who used it? Do the new cancel the old and is the new “plastic edifice” a balm to hurt feelings and sensibilities. The flag under which two world wars were fought and under which thousands of good men, black and white, gave their lives for freedom from tyranny has been replaced by a meaningless rag. A flag, which by its’ composition, reflected the history of this country good or bad. The history, that is impossible to change. This flag could have been suitably changed to reflect the new dispensation and preserve the reflection of the essential content of our history. After all there was no recorded history of S.A. before the advent of the settlers in S.A. It seems that the heritage of a large and disproportionately valuable section of the S.A. population is caste aside with gay abandon in the lemming like rush back to dubious “roots”, which if the truth be told produced no great cultural or scientific or industrial works. There was no body of art, no books, no great symphonies, no great buildings, no great cities, none of the properties by which societies are judged to have advanced beyond mere subsistence. Surely such an august authority such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica can be relied on as the yardstick by which the definition of civilisation can be judged. Africa, lamentably, falls far short of this definition. Of course, Africa will refuse stubbornly to accept the facts of its history and will blame everyone else for its woes. The truth is however that the continent is now on the “catch up” road. A road, that unfortunately seems to have no end. And so the majority rules and the Americans have achieved their aim and are comfortable while the pioneers’ descendants are persecuted by the self righteous majority of a beggar continent which was well on the way to self sufficiency if saner voices had been heeded.

Sadly the descendants of a once proud nation of farmers and riflemen have allowed themselves to be enslaved by the majority and its racist laws. These are the people who held the largest and most powerful Empire in history at the wrong end of a Mauser rifle for three years. They taught the British lessons in musketry, humility, respect, democracy, bush craft, endurance, horsemanship, and finally produced the man who gave us the UN and the RAF and who kept us all honourable by going to war against Corporal Hitler. And why did they allow themselves to be relegated to 2nd class citizens in the land of their birth. They were brow beaten into believing that they were ALL responsible for the atrocity called Apartheid. They emerged from the Anglo Boer War beaten, impoverished, uneducated and tired with their women and children abused in the concentration camps. My own family suffered this tragic fate. No small wonder that they were not about to relinquish the land for which they head suffered so many trials and tribulations into the hands of a perceived totally unprepared and even more backward “electorate” of illiterates. They themselves were not totally literate and were, if the truth be told, rather unsophisticated. They were ripe for the propaganda of their better educated peers who sold them the policies of “Swart Gevaar” and independence from the British heel. Consequently they, like the pitiful Americans, could never see the bigger picture. They were safe in their isolation at the southern tip of Africa. They had their own Monroe Doctrine syndrome. The world was another planet where the British reigned supreme. They would be masters of their domain and they would secure S. A. as the heaven of Afrikaner Dom which they proceeded to do with the revenues from their minerals and agriculture. The fact that the English mined those minerals and held all the major businesses failed to occur to them. They governed and were in the majority (results of a massive breeding programme) and rode rough shod over the niceties of Democracy, Christianity, and ultimately over civilised behaviour. Now, they are confused, apathetic, with guilty consciences and most of all they are frightened out of their wits. They also suffer from amnesia. They forgot that they are a nation of free men and of riflemen. They forgot that they can defend their rights and that there is a word in all languages which free men use when their principles are threatened. NO, NEE, NIEN, NYET, NO, a thousand times NO. They bicker among themselves and refuse to present a united front in parliament to a dictatorship of the communist/socialist majority who exhibit a large, public collection of crooks as they enter parliament daily. For the record the similarities between the present bunch and the erstwhile Nationalist crowd is uncanny in respect of dishonest behaviour which they cover up and, on occasions, justify with their spin doctors ably assisted by the state T.V. and radio in the form of the SABC.

If there is a shining example of the disaster that is Africa, it is Zimbabwe. This once strong, once wealthy and beautiful country sought to maintain responsible government. She even unilaterally declared independence from Great Britain who stubbornly refused to see the destruction in the rest of the continent and act suitably. The British were ably assisted by the Americans. In 1980 “freedom arrived”, amid fanfares and a sham election won by the “charming”, President Robert Mugabe. He was feted as Africa’s shining hope in a sea of insanity and savagery. He promised paradise and immediately took away the white guns. He steadily became more repressive until he has now utterly destroyed Zimbabwe. He has presided over the sinking of the good ship Rhodesia by theft, corruption, lies and every depravity known to mankind. Inflation runs at 400%, agriculture is destroyed since the theft of white farms, industry is non existent, petrol has run out altogether and Mugabe begs for money from all and sundry while he blames Britain and the whites for all his problems.

Amidst all this South Africa’s ruling party does nothing to punish and or remove this miscreant dictator. And why? Uncle Bob is a “struggle” hero. He is therefore a semi God and untouchable. Thus we are treated to a typical example of Africa’s twisted reasoning in the complicated sphere of the global village. A rather tragic soap opera where Mbeki practises “constructive engagement” (a la Reagan) which he calls “Quiet Diplomacy”, and he thinks he is teaching the west new tricks. The truth of course is that Mugabe’s only claim to membership of Homo sapiens is the fact that he stands erect. South Africa’s acceptance of this miscreant is positive proof that the ruling party only pays lip service to the rules and waive them at will in the typical fashion of all leftist governments. The slaughter, theft and suffering in Zimbabwe obviously also “leaves them cold”. Why, even the august person of Nobel Laureate Bishop Tutu couldn’t make an impression on the ANC to act honourably. The ANC are “honourable men”, but who do they think they’re fooling?

SO
Is there cause for very grave concern? Without a doubt.
1) We have an ex Deputy President who allegedly committed fraud while in public office and who cant run his own finances. He has been bailed out constantly by a gang of proven thieves and ne’er doer wells’. Also “struggle heroes”. He is now accused of rape. Amidst all this, he has MASSIVE support among the trade unions, ANC Youth League and worst of all the Communist Party. They all think he’s great. The mind boggles!
2) We have a new Deputy President who says we can learn from Zimbabwe about land issues.
3) We have a President who says AIDS is not caused by HIV and to hell with the scientists. They’re all wrong.
4) Already, numerous civil servants have been found guilty of crimes ranging from fraud to rape.
5) MP’s are guilty of using public funds in a vast travel scam-- Travelgate.
6) MP’s are allegedly involved in a petrol scam --- Oilgate
7) The government has passed the new Firearms Control Act. They’re taking away the guns. Does that look familiar?
8) The government admits to contemplating land expropriation with a scrapping of the “willing seller, willing buyer” concept. A rather familiar concept of “Uncle Bob’s”.
9) The new mining act effectively nationalises the mines and minerals
10)The health services are in such disarray that the health minister admits that she will not go to a state hospital. None of our ministers make use of state health services.
11)The private sector complains bitterly about our labour laws and claim that they aid in unemployment.
12)Unemployment is rampant, running at above 30%.
13)Black Economic Empowerment only enriches a small sector of the already elite.
14)Black housing for the poor is way behind schedule.
15)The rollout of ARV’s to combat AIDS is painfully slow and way off the stated targets while the health minister advocates a vegetable diet as a prevention/cure. Alice in wonderland/Mad Hatter!
16) The white farmers are being slaughtered by criminals on the farms. The police act under protest it seems and hardly ever finds the culprits.
17)The judiciary is embroiled in a racist debacle with the judge president at its midst.
18)The gaols are overfull and there is no relief in sight.
19)Rape and child abuse is rampant and out of control with an inefficient and apathetic, poorly funded police force unable and unwilling to act.
20)Illegal immigrants are the order of the day and are swamping us in crime especially drug dealing among the Nigerians.
21) Tourists are regularly the targets of criminals and just recently we had some 20 Germans attacked and robbed in Soweto.
22)Visiting hunters are subjected to harassment and delays at our entry airport. This is a multi million rand industry and is consequently slowly dying. So much for job creation.
23)We are hosts to the African Parliament at vast cost to the S.A. taxpayer who has to suffer the presence of corrupt fools, buffoons, dictators and mass murderers.
24)Abuse of women and children has now made us an international scandal.
25)We all sleep and live behind lock and key in virtual forts and fortified suburbs and a trip to a shopping mall could be one’s last.
26)Mini bus taxi’s own the roads and are involved in a very large proportion of the slaughter on our roads. They have turned the roads into a game of vehicular Russian roulette.
27)Our youth have great difficulty finding work after school, especially if they are white, or rather, not black. Affirmative action reigns supreme. The Promised Land is at hand it seems.

So who would want to live in a country on the way to chaos and eventually ruin. The only reason why sensible people stay is economic. They don’t have the money to leave and what’s more they’re mostly too old and or established to go elsewhere. It’s quite obvious that South Africa is slowly slipping into the typical chaos so prevalent in the rest of Africa. The chances of replacing the ruling party by a more free market democracy is nil given that just like the rest of the continent we have an electorate of voting sheep who will vote ANC regardless of how badly they govern. Witness Zimbabwe where the ZANU –PF win even though they have ruined the country. The same is true of all of Africa’s countries and elections in this continent even though they are declared free and fare are a sham. In very few cases has the ruling party been ousted and then almost always accompanied by bloody riots etc.

Despite all of the foregoing the wealthy countries continue to pour money into Africa. They are insulted by these neediest and are angrily questioned when they wish to impose some conditions on the dispensing of further aid. They are even required to write off previous unpaid loans. Africa exhibits extraordinary effrontery in this regard which is way beyond what is normally considered to be good manners. These politicians are monumentally thick skinned, even for politicians. They are not even ashamed that they govern so badly, squander the GNP and then beg for more money from those who are more responsible and industrious. It’s amazing that the erstwhile friends, the erstwhile communist world, are unable to pay and are, in any case unwilling to do so. Even China, which is slowly embracing the free market has reservations and wants its pound of flesh. One would ask, “What is the solution?” Is there a solution? There does not appear to be one and there seems to be an increasing amount of apathy to find such a solution.

For forty years chaos has reigned in Africa as it does to this day. Can it be reasonably be believed that there can be a sudden about turn or a change in the psyche of this dark continent which was conceived in blood, born in blood, fed on blood and knows only blood in all its dealings. It is a rather cruel continent and the Sub Saharan part of it is to all intents and purposes ruined beyond repair especially the former Portuguese colonies.
It seems that the only way forward for the moneyed countries (the so called G8 group), is to withdraw altogether and caste Africa adrift. Seeing that they (the Africans), claim to be so smart they will have to learn to row their own boat in the global economy. After all they have all the raw materials to sell to an industrialised world. They have supplied the labour to mine these for decades. They claim that they can farm the once productive acres once owned by the colonists. Why should the world carry Africa and then be vilified for it. Surely Africa has the brawn to get on with it and if this fails then things can’t get much worse. In any case Africa is overpopulated and riddled with AIDS. There is no way that the raw materials will be lost to the industrialised world since they will be the only method of acquiring foreign exchange by African governments. Perhaps then African governments will realise the need for responsible governance. Of course there will be a period of abject poverty and suffering by the common folk in Africa. So be it. It is high time that the African electorate vote responsibly, if that is possible.
If it is not, then it may be propitious, in the fullness of time, to recolonise the continent with qualified personnel (in all fields), who have guaranteed tenure in those fields. These guarantees by the wealthy powers and to be reinforced in the traditional way will signal a return to tried and tested old values. Perhaps even the Americans can be taught some manners and decorum. They possibly could be taught to face reality and cast off their rose tinted spectacles. Africa may even be coerced into curbing her unbridled breeding programme and in the final analysis she will emerge lighter and more amenable to sensible advice and tolerant of expertise which she will acquire by diligent attendance at the University of agrarian and industrial development run by those who have been there and got the T shirt through hard experience. Failing all of the above, let the place sink into the sewer it created all on it’s own through its own childish greed without the urge to work to satisfy that greed. Who cares: it’s ruined anyway. Even the wild life will ultimately be murdered to feed the starving millions and to make way for the insatiable African appetite for more land to accommodate useless small scale farming ventures which are doomed to failure again. What a tragedy to have to say: “To hell with it all”. It’s a hopeless case, so please, Mr. Rich Man, don’t give any more money or aid in any form to these spoilt, ungrateful and totally irresponsible children who just broke into the store.

Q E D

Please help, Sir Winston

2008-04-27T17:25:00.003+02:00

What happened to all the old standards and conventions? In times gone by when men were still men and certain codes of behaviour applied. Men fought duels (which saved a lot of lawyer’s fees); they had exclusive Gentlemen’s clubs, did not wear ear rings and did service to defend King and Country. Chivalry was the order of the day and a Gentleman’s word was his bond. Gentlemen played Rugby and cricket and wealth was not the only measure of a gentleman’s good standing in society. In addition when they made war, they made war on other countries and declared their intentions formally by diplomatic note. They DID NOT make war on a particular man or clique thus there was no confusion and, in modern terms there were no “innocent civilians”. The issues were and still are clear cut.
Thus it was that the Allies made the Germans pay dearly for their support of Corporal Hitler and the Italians paid for their support of Il Duce and the Japanese paid for their support of the Emperor as did the Argentineans for their support of their Head of State for the invasion of the Falklands. In the same fashion all anti-social behaviour or waiving of the rules must be punished whether it is on a personal level or an international level. If it is perceived that such behaviour is intended then action must be instituted to urge the miscreant’s to change his/her/their ways very swiftly. It must be made clear to such individuals and their supporters that retribution will be swift and devastating and that in the modern day and age war is total and only unconditional surrender can be the result. In addition there must be some sort of retribution against the leadership after the surrender.
The lessons of World War 2 have proved that dictators and errant behaviour cannot be appeased in the fashion of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Chirac. Of course the French have a history of prevarication when stern action is required, after all the Allies had to rescue them twice when they could have been the source of their own salvation. What ever happened to General de Gaulle’s principles? We all briefly had the blessed sanity of Reagan and Thatcher but sadly we all now live in the PC world of the pitiful UN and its quasi world government where “international consensus”, at all costs, is the aim, as if this is a practical possibility or even a desirable result. So we appease all sorts of villains and terrorists who mysteriously become freedom fighters and then become the government, ultimately imposing their weird ideas on us all and by this declension successfully change decency into evil.
Thus we have the pitiful Americans repeating (Mr. Bush), the same mistake as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan. “We have no quarrel with the Iranian people”. This, in the face of TV coverage of thousands supporting the racist speeches of Islamic Fanatics in the guise of Mr. Ahmadinejad and all the mad Mullahs. They are always cheered by hordes of their followers who number in their millions. So where are the innocent civilians? These are the people who wish to have atomic weapons in order to:
a) Sweep Israel into the sea
b) Hold the free world to ransom
c) Manipulate the oil price
d) Dictate the course of events in the Middle East
e) Impose Islamic principles on us all
f) Ultimately destroy all Iran’s neighbours since that is the nature of absolute power.

One must ask if the possession of nuclear weapons by Iran will not drive the globe closer to an atomic holocaust, given her utterances vis a vis Israel, the holocaust and Mr. Sharon and the Israeli leadership? Must Israel capitulate in the interests of the rest and for “the greater good”? Who or what will we, the west, be prepared to sacrifice next? Where will we draw the line? Is there a line? Or will Hollywood and the liberal American and European establishment standby and sacrifice ALL of our values and principles until us (if Sir Winston can be misquoted somewhat), sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted by the lights of a perverted religion. Is there any doubt that in the eyes of the Arab world we are “the Infidel” and Zionism is the enemy? Mr. Sparks, in a recent article in the Star newspaper claims, that the west is powerless against the Iranian threat and his basis for this, is the possible control of the oil weapon by Iran. Well, that may be true IF the west does not act swiftly, timorously and with enough force and Churchillian determination to make the Iranians and the Arab world desist from their unacceptable behaviour. Only then will his “Crescent of Islam”, be ameliorated and become benign. Failing such action, we will experience a tyranny (debatable) only once surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
Is there any doubt that law, language, literature and common conceptions of what is right and decent: a marked regard for fair play, especially to the weak and poor, a stern sentiment of justice and above all, A LOVE OF PERSONAL FREEDOM, all of which are characteristics of the Western Hemisphere, will disappear into the abyss of Islamic fanaticism? That same fanaticism which already stands accused of so many brutal acts of terrorism including aircraft hijackings, Munich, Lockerbie, 9/11, and so on ad nausea, for all of which Islam has claimed responsibility.
In the days of the Shah, Iran (Persia) was reasonable and relatively wealthy and on the way to literacy and enlightenment, SAVAK notwithstanding. Now, only the elite and the Atomic weapons programme share in the oil riches. I would plead for a stern warning to Iran, not by way of sanctions but by the tried and tested method of a Western ultimatum to cease its blustering or face the consequences AS A PEOPLE. Let us not impede but rather vigorously support Israel and listen to the voice of reason from there. If we needed a warning of the dire consequences of appeasement of the fanatic Islamic terrorists it has been graphically given to us by the recent victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections. This proves quite conclusively that these people do not want peaceful coexistence, but an annihilation of the State of Israel and a Jihad against the West as the final aim. It also proves that General Sharon was wrong, even though his motives were probably benign. If there are Islamics who want peace and a reasonable accommodation, even those currently living among us, will someone please tell us all how to tell them apart from the bad guys.
Until then I’m afraid that the old adage rings true: “Eternal vigilance is the price of peace” and lets add, “The survival of our values and principals and way of life”.

After all some one is hiding Bin Laden quite successfully??????????????????????

Peace in our time is not always a consummation devoutly to be wished!!!

Our Guns

2008-04-27T17:24:00.001+02:00

This is supposed to be “A Nation of Riflemen“. After all, some of us held the largest empire in history at the wrong end of a Mauser for three long years. We taught them lessons in humility, respect, horsemanship, bush craft and guerrilla warfare quite convincingly. Back then we had the will to resist and the personal pride to match. I wonder what happened to these people. Did they disappear within one generation or have they become a bunch of lily livered wimps with no sense of values since they got an education and became “Townies” with fancy German cars and houses in fancy suburbs and a “Staats Teater” to boot? And what of the mainly English speaking section of the population whose forebears valiantly fought in two World Wars as volunteers to defend civilised principles and freedoms and keep us all free from tyranny?

Maybe all these did not have the benefit of a good history master at school? Perhaps these poor souls do not know that every horrible little dictator in the sad and lamentable history of oppression initiates his iniquitous reign of terror by a programme of “gun control” and the excuse is always hidden behind the facade of “crime control”? Witness Corporal Hitler, Senor Mussolini, Joe Stalin, Mad Bob Mugabe, Castro etc. The list is nearly as endless as it is tiresome. The results of these programmes are equally tiresome and shocking with holocausts and land grabs and genocides perpetrated on an unarmed citizenry in the most reprehensible fashion. These citizens all trusted the politicians and meekly obeyed the law of the land to their eternal regret. The Americans on the other hand refused a similar attempt by the British and today have a model Democracy and all the freedoms any reasonable person could wish for. They also protect their right (please note, RIGHT) to carry and bear arms, very jealously. So much so that it is enshrined in their constitution.
They never forgot that there is a word in all languages which free men use when their freedom is threatened by politicians and their well meaning, very liberal, impractical sheep. The word of course is “NO” a thousand times NO. Strange, that the advocates of Gun free societies are almost always fronted by prominent women? We have our Ms. Judy Bassingsthwaite and various other stalwarts, whose tedious impractical prattling in voices that shatter glass we have to stoically bear, which we do. We have broad shoulders and much patience. What is of concern is the fact that good people actually listen to them regardless of the mass of solid, competent evidence which proves their case to be just so much drivel. Of course, one day, hopefully someone will inform them that it is unbecoming for a lady to be involved in such mundane issues. Perhaps I’m just a little old fashioned. I’m also sure they have another phrase for people like me beginning with a capital M, that is just unfortunate and of no great consequence.

The truth however is that once these worthies have, God forbid, achieved their aims only the police and the army and the criminals will have guns. Then, once these have been suitably equipped with black uniforms and jackboots or some other distinctive gear, the crimes against humanity will begin a la Zimbabwe. The citizenry will be powerless to resist at all and will meekly have to comply. Far fetched? I don’t think so. After all they said it was impossible to kill all the Jews? They said Mugabe was “such a cultured, reasonable man, my dear”. He was so charming, wasn’t he? And now……………….

I would like to ask what one calls it when one’s property is confiscated without compensation of any sort, especially when that property is legally in your possession, to begin with. Surely this is known as theft on a grand scale and is against the constitution AND the Ten Commandments and Common Law. Of course our Government now applies the teachings of Dr. Goebbels, i.e. if you tell a big lie often enough you will be believed to be telling the truth or words to that effect. That the new Fire Arms Control Act is, amongst other evils also grand larceny by the Government, seems to me to be as clear as daylight. The act is flawed in many other respects as well and these have been pointed out rather glaringly by others, but no one seems to point out the most dangerous aspects of this law.

We all know that historically the greatest evils are committed when good men do nothing. Therefore, my dear fellow citizens I shall paraphrase Sir Winston once more and with his kind permission I wish to urge you in the interests of us all and of posterity, with regard to the F.C.A. as follows:
“Let us brace ourselves to our duty”, and do all possible to resist this iniquitous, impractical law with all our might since it will be a sad day when we are enslaved because we have no means to resist. Already we are virtually at the mercy of the criminals and they are definitely not about to comply with the F.C.A. Recall that the world ignored Sir Winston until it was too late! The Second World War in all its glory.

Israel

2008-04-27T17:23:00.001+02:00

General Ariel Sharon lies in a hospital in a coma after a massive stroke. Israel and the entire Middle East is in limbo and all the world lingers in uncertainty. According to most news vendors General Sharon holds the “peace process” in his hands and there is no Israeli leader who has a plan for the road ahead. The Sunday Times latest editorial refers.

Certain very influential newspapers and the “Palestinians”, wish to portray General Sharon AND Israel as some sort of ogre. The word butcher is used and the “Palestinians” and the Islamic world are painted as innocent and aggrieved parties. Of course one is asked to forget that these “aggrieved parties” stand accused of numerous indiscriminate acts of terror against the State of Israel and the slaughter of Israelis, Americans, and Australians and assorted others all in the name of Islam. In addition anyone who gives even tacit support to Israel becomes a target for these miscreants. In addition to the blatant terrorism, Israel has had to fight numerous full blown wars, which she won very convincingly against massive odds, apparently much to the surprise and disappointment of most of the “humanistic” establishment. How often have we all heard the Islamic world declare their tiresome intention to drive “Israel into the sea”? These, descendants of Ishmael, do not deem it fair that the descendants of Isaac have an equitable share of the ancestral land? Anyone who has watched the destruction and Israelis’ bodies, resulting from Islamic and Arab and Palestinian warmongering and suicide bombing and still doubts that these people are the enemy, must be blind and deaf. For the record, there has never been a single Israeli suicide bomber. It is therefore patently obvious to anyone with even a modicum of intelligence that Israel is not and never has been the aggressor. Let us all not forget that these are the “Children of God”, who have to suffer the aggression.

So to Mr. Sharon, he is a military man and in that position, he was charged with defending Israel’s legitimate interests. He was a high ranking officer in many wars. In this position he was required to prosecute the business of war, which at times means that the enemy must be taught the error of his ways rather decisively. This necessarily means that people die and that, in the words of General Patton; “The OTHER guy has to die for his country, in order to win the war or to break his will to fight”. Unlike the pitiful Americans, the Israelis win the wars and know that in modern warfare, there are no “innocent civilians”. That, unfortunately, is the nature of war. Therefore General Sharon made the Arabs pay handsomely at Qibya in 1953 for the killing of Israelis. He was instrumental in Israel’s victories in 1956 and again in 1967. In 1982 he orchestrated more victories in Lebanon earning the ire of the entire Arab world. Isn’t that tough? It seems that when Israel survives, the liberal, unprincipled world hates her. What would these worthies have her do? Give up? And go where? What of 4000 odd years of persecution, and the pogroms and holocaust, as well as the historical persecution/slaughter of Jews, by all and a sundry, including the Christian establishment. General Sharon has been a loyal soldier and has done what is necessary to ensure the survival of Israel, in the face of impossible odds. He has done it with excellence and flair and in order to make the omelet he has broken some Palestinian eggs. So be it. They started hostilities in 1948.

The peaceniks wish to make us believe that an accommodation with the “Palestinians” is possible. This writer, in the Churchillian mould, believes that only when there is unconditional surrender, can Israel afford to be magnanimous. The way to such a conclusion is hard and bloody and not always clean but it is the only way to deal with megalomaniacs who are prepared to commit suicide for a cause and do so in the name of religion. The present “Intifada”, is positive proof of the insanity of these people. Mr Sharon takes a walk on the Temple Mount and now there’s all this killing? Ridiculous in the extreme and for anyone to equate the current problem in Israel with that in SA under Apartheid is equally ridiculous. It behoves all who wish to make a claim to being civilised to remember the lessons of history, particularly those of world war two and to support age old rules of reasonable behaviour between men and peoples and nations. Let us not waive the rules since if we do; we do so at our peril!

Finally, sanity seems to be prevailing

2008-04-27T17:21:00.002+02:00

So, the European media have annoyed the immigrant Muslim community in some major European countries. Apparently they printed some cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad. Cartoons of a man, please note, a man, who is said to have been a prophet.
They are surely entitled to do this under the rules of a free press and of freedom of expression in a secular state IN EUROPE. The complainants are resident in these countries by their gracious consent. Such residence is certainly not a right at all. They are there for various reasons the chief of which is that they either study at European institutions or they provide labour in the lower echelons of industry. Very few are professional people. As guests in these countries they are required to “fit in”, and demonstrate good manners without attempting to impose their culture and customs on their hosts’. If they have become citizens, they should then adopt the customs of their new homes and be good citizens. After all one would expect them to adopt the values of their new countries since no one begged them to become Europeans. The desire was and is theirs and theirs alone.
We have had to watch the unacceptable mob riots in France recently and schools have had to correct the dress worn by these people in order to ensure conformity among pupils in respect of school uniform. How diabolical that the Muslim community flout the rules with impunity on the pretext of “culture” and religion which is all very well if their practices do not inconvenience others or give offence or disrupt accepted traditions of the hosts. This is known as demonstrating good manners and acceptable behaviour. We Europeans are required to respect and follow Muslim countries so why should they not reciprocate the gesture?
Their behaviour just proves how prescriptive this philosophy is, and just how unreasonable its followers can be. Small wonder that the West is very reluctant to accede to the Iranian nuclear programme. Is there any valid reason to expect that country to act responsibly on the world stage once it has the “bomb”, especially given Iran’s sentiments and pronouncements on the state of Israel?
It would be very interesting indeed to hear what the so called Non-aligned world has to say since it definitely is aligned and it is aligned with any idea that is anti the West. This phenomenon has been evident for many years only to be temporarily toned down when these countries beg for money (aid) and various other concessions from the Western world. Of course some of these countries have rather substantial European populations who have been citizens for generations and who despite this are viewed as settlers and “colonialists”. These people are systematically disarmed on bogus pretexts and are then over taxed, ultimately robbed and persecuted shamelessly. Perhaps in time to come Churchillian reason will prevail and the West will cease to appease these people and impose some reasonable standards of behaviour particularly in respect of the Islamic world, regardless of the oil price.