To Be Continued...
Friday, August 28, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme...Everything I Want...And Preferably Yesterday! (An Entitled Generation's Plea To 'Have it All' - Right Away - I Mean (to say) 'the Juicy Bits'...But None of the Difficult Stuff)
"Yes, let us have all our innate/inherent rights - but none of the concurrent responsibilities. All the privileges of adulthood, but none of the associated responsibilities. All the dessert, and none of the vegetables."
In other words, let's have our cake and to eat it too.
And thus and so an ultra-entitled generation seeks to extend the voting age lower and lower...whilst its standard-bearers will equally vociferously argue that the age of criminal liability be pushed out further and further (towards the late teens)...
Yes, as a good and close friend once taught me, wanting its cake and to eat it too...
Reminds me somewhat of some words with which King Solomon - at the height of Israel's glory as a nation - ended his much-loved Book of Proverbs:
After describing a certain generation, using that very word four times (30:11-14), we find the following words - separately stated for sure, but perhaps relevant to the aforementioned reference:
The leech has two daughters - Give and Give!
In other words, let's have our cake and to eat it too.
And thus and so an ultra-entitled generation seeks to extend the voting age lower and lower...whilst its standard-bearers will equally vociferously argue that the age of criminal liability be pushed out further and further (towards the late teens)...
Yes, as a good and close friend once taught me, wanting its cake and to eat it too...
Reminds me somewhat of some words with which King Solomon - at the height of Israel's glory as a nation - ended his much-loved Book of Proverbs:
After describing a certain generation, using that very word four times (30:11-14), we find the following words - separately stated for sure, but perhaps relevant to the aforementioned reference:
The leech has two daughters - Give and Give!
Perhaps the Supposedly 'NICE' Left Ain't Necessarily So Very 'NICE' After All (is said and done)...Or Prithee Tell Me Why They're Not Rehiring/Re-engaging New Zealand's Longstanding and Well-respected Sexual Violence Campaigner/Advocate Louise Nicholas?
Or as the undervalued National M.P. and Nicholas namesake Louise Upston so ably articulated as she spoke at the conclusion of the parliamentary debate mid-afternoon today:
Why otherwise has the Government now dropped/dumped Louise Nicholas from her advocacy role on behalf of victims of sexual violence throughout Aotearoa-New Zealand?
As Upston well if succinctly expressed matters, there seem to be only three likely reasons (here repeated in the order she put them):
*She'd been increasingly (if privately/non-publicly) asking the Government a number of uncomfortable questions (presumably about their approach to the subject).
*Her erstwhile public criticisms of the (governing) Labour Party's own track record in the area, as per its youth camp scandal a year or so ago.
*The Labour Government simply doesn't like independent voices per se/fullstop;
(and certainly when it can't control those voices and the direction in which they might happen to go!)
(My own added explanation thrown in for good measure.)
A bit of a worry (as people say), and in my own view especially so in light of the way the previous (Helen Clark-led) Labour Government of 1999-2008 handled/dealt with New Zealand's late great prison reform advocate Celia Lashlie, similarly 'dumped' or the like for her own well-known independent-minded assessment of things in the criminal justice area...
No, the ultra-nice Left ain't really quite so nice after all, going by their (on-the-ground) track record anyhow!
Why otherwise has the Government now dropped/dumped Louise Nicholas from her advocacy role on behalf of victims of sexual violence throughout Aotearoa-New Zealand?
As Upston well if succinctly expressed matters, there seem to be only three likely reasons (here repeated in the order she put them):
*She'd been increasingly (if privately/non-publicly) asking the Government a number of uncomfortable questions (presumably about their approach to the subject).
*Her erstwhile public criticisms of the (governing) Labour Party's own track record in the area, as per its youth camp scandal a year or so ago.
*The Labour Government simply doesn't like independent voices per se/fullstop;
(and certainly when it can't control those voices and the direction in which they might happen to go!)
(My own added explanation thrown in for good measure.)
A bit of a worry (as people say), and in my own view especially so in light of the way the previous (Helen Clark-led) Labour Government of 1999-2008 handled/dealt with New Zealand's late great prison reform advocate Celia Lashlie, similarly 'dumped' or the like for her own well-known independent-minded assessment of things in the criminal justice area...
No, the ultra-nice Left ain't really quite so nice after all, going by their (on-the-ground) track record anyhow!
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
But As Far As 'GodZone'/'God's Own' (Aotearoa-New Zealand) Being a "Hellhole" - According to the Jokester-in-Chief Currently Presiding Over the United States of America - Well, They Do Say (As We All Know) that 'It takes one to know one'...But In This Particular Instance It's Plain as Daylight that the Person Talking (Out of a Hole in His Head? - to be Generous!) is Wholly Lacking in THIS Quality (of Self-Awareness) Also
Necessary Disclaimer:
Though - to quickly clarify - I'm most assuredly not damning my own truly great nation as such a pit of the Devil, nor for that matter alluding to the increasing suspicion around the world that Trump's own nation seems to be rapidly hurtling under his watch in that particular trajectory, but to the man himself (having such *unChristlike qualities)...
As far as NZ Inc constituting a "hellhole", and that (in two other short news-segments in various press conferences etcetera) having recently experienced a "surge" or the like in our Covid-19 situation...
...again, for those pitiful enough to deign to even dignify such remarks by any sort of response whatsoever, anyone with any insight can only say 'Your envy is clearly showing, Mr President."
Though - as per usual - such offhand/'throwaway' (quite literally) comments and 'observations' are a proverbial country mile or thousand as far from the real facts as could almost be possible, why the heck wouldn't they be, and why the heck wouldn't America's present Pontificator-in-Chief be [envious of NZ Inc in general and its popular leader in particular]?
Jacinda Ardern has of course - indeed post-March 15th, 2019 and the Christchurch Mosques' Massacre - been quite literally feted from pillar to post by all and sundry, including and especially by such high-profile and long-respected magazines and newspapers as Time Magazine and the New York Times (including in headline articles and cover stories). But especially since New Zealand's significant - but no, certainly not unique - success in dealing to the coronavirus...
...though claims, including especially by Ardern and her political colleagues here, that the disease has been either eliminated or eradicated have indeed been proven over recent weeks patently untrue.
Yet to even attempt to somehow make some sort of comparative disparagement of New Zealand, with its 22 deaths (all many months ago now) thus far (and, all told, 1500-odd cases of covid-19 from the get-go to today), with the present (and previous) situation throughout much if not all of the U S is so laughable as to be pathetic in the extreme...
but it sure is providing more than adequate cartoon possibilities and comedy fodder for kiwis...
*Again, to be perfectly measured as well as charitable.
Though - to quickly clarify - I'm most assuredly not damning my own truly great nation as such a pit of the Devil, nor for that matter alluding to the increasing suspicion around the world that Trump's own nation seems to be rapidly hurtling under his watch in that particular trajectory, but to the man himself (having such *unChristlike qualities)...
As far as NZ Inc constituting a "hellhole", and that (in two other short news-segments in various press conferences etcetera) having recently experienced a "surge" or the like in our Covid-19 situation...
...again, for those pitiful enough to deign to even dignify such remarks by any sort of response whatsoever, anyone with any insight can only say 'Your envy is clearly showing, Mr President."
Though - as per usual - such offhand/'throwaway' (quite literally) comments and 'observations' are a proverbial country mile or thousand as far from the real facts as could almost be possible, why the heck wouldn't they be, and why the heck wouldn't America's present Pontificator-in-Chief be [envious of NZ Inc in general and its popular leader in particular]?
Jacinda Ardern has of course - indeed post-March 15th, 2019 and the Christchurch Mosques' Massacre - been quite literally feted from pillar to post by all and sundry, including and especially by such high-profile and long-respected magazines and newspapers as Time Magazine and the New York Times (including in headline articles and cover stories). But especially since New Zealand's significant - but no, certainly not unique - success in dealing to the coronavirus...
...though claims, including especially by Ardern and her political colleagues here, that the disease has been either eliminated or eradicated have indeed been proven over recent weeks patently untrue.
Yet to even attempt to somehow make some sort of comparative disparagement of New Zealand, with its 22 deaths (all many months ago now) thus far (and, all told, 1500-odd cases of covid-19 from the get-go to today), with the present (and previous) situation throughout much if not all of the U S is so laughable as to be pathetic in the extreme...
but it sure is providing more than adequate cartoon possibilities and comedy fodder for kiwis...
*Again, to be perfectly measured as well as charitable.
But Having Said All of That (As I So Often Have to Say), NO, I Didn't Come Down in the Most Recent (Pre-Advent) Deluge. And YES, I'm Only Too Well Aware of and Acquainted with the Telltale Signs, Symptoms, Fingerprints, Signature of a Congenital Liar, Especially When HE (in this particular instance) is Blindingly Obviously Staring One Smack Dab in the Proverbial
And so it was yet one more 'clincher of a confirmation' for me when just yesterday (early) morning upon BBC Radio I heard that D J Trump's own sister (it seems) has just come out 'outing' her highfalutin' 'bro'(ther) as just such - having engineered the faking of a varsity degree no less (through the - evidently able - assistance of an erstwhile friend/acquaintance).
It is a matter of no small amusement (and sense of well-warranted deja vu) for me to have instantly recalled having, only a couple (if that) of weeks earlier, in chatting with my own brother, compared the U. S. President to and with an old family friend (and more significantly flatmate of 31-33 years ago)...
...whom a fellow flatmate - who found it quite unconscionable and moreover physically impossible to properly stomach (at the best of times) suffering any fool gladly - then likewise 'outed' for having falsely claimed (on an ongoing basis, as a source of pride and bravado, or rather braggadocio) to have spent a year or two at the (well-known internationally recognized) university here (in Dunedin, New Zealand)...
...but following hard upon some fancy footwork, meticulous inquiry and investigation was nowhere upon their books, i.e. had never ever done any such thing...
It is a matter of no small amusement (and sense of well-warranted deja vu) for me to have instantly recalled having, only a couple (if that) of weeks earlier, in chatting with my own brother, compared the U. S. President to and with an old family friend (and more significantly flatmate of 31-33 years ago)...
...whom a fellow flatmate - who found it quite unconscionable and moreover physically impossible to properly stomach (at the best of times) suffering any fool gladly - then likewise 'outed' for having falsely claimed (on an ongoing basis, as a source of pride and bravado, or rather braggadocio) to have spent a year or two at the (well-known internationally recognized) university here (in Dunedin, New Zealand)...
...but following hard upon some fancy footwork, meticulous inquiry and investigation was nowhere upon their books, i.e. had never ever done any such thing...
Monday, August 24, 2020
"I Know a Predator When I See One." REALLY? I'll readily concede, that's a great, even high-flying declaration and sentiment. But (I just can't help myself, I have to declare) I'm of the old school, which still happens to believe that 'Decent' IS As 'Decent' DOES: And No, Whatever Donald J Trump's (Seemingly Innumerable, Even Incalculable) 'Faults', 'Failings' and Far More Egregious Crimes and Misdemeanours, There's An Old But Ever True Saying: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right...
So no matter how 'decent' and 'Christian' Mr Biden may try to present himself to an unsuspecting, readily credulous, even, dare I say it, gullible (American) public,
a true - as in biblically orthodox, and Christ-following - 'believer' doesn't wink at sin...and/or gloss over or otherwise dismiss well-founded and substantiated allegations, and certainly not those of a serious nature...
...which I at least consider those emanating from his former aide, Tara Reade, to most definitely be.
As my own Master and Lord Himself so aptly put it two millennia ago (admittedly in an altogether different context, yet it is not irrelevant to mention here):
Unless you (yes, presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden) repent, you too will [ultimately] perish.
For, just as the 'good folk' of your native land, the U S of A, never ever really 'owned' as in publicly confessed and *repented of their great sin in relation to their countrymen and women - not only black Americans but native Americans as well - from centuries of slavery through the following century of segregation and all the rest, onto the systemic police brutality and violence (of the following half century) upon which the torch of light and truth has only now at last been brought to bear and shine,
unless you too own and publicly confess to and repent of - let the political fallout come as it well may - your own 'crime and misdemeanour' thereabouts, apart from proving yourself (never mind President Trump's own well-known and arguably way more egregious acts both personal and 'presidential', whether pre- or post-inauguration) wholly unfit to assume the world's most powerful political post - alongside that of the Papacy/Vatican/Holy See of Rome - according to my Bible at least, and on associated good biblical authority, you not only are not in any way, shape or form a 'decent' person, much less 'Christian',
but, once again according to my reading of the word of God, will one day perish, and that for good!
*For true biblical repentance involves the sort of thing that my own nation of New Zealand and South Africa also has long since engaged in. Whether in the latter case the 'Commission for Truth and Reconciliation' or in the former the ongoing Treaty of Waitangi settlements throughout the length and breadth of Godzone/God's Own, repentance - to quote my blogpost title - is as repentance does...
...and involves a - substantial - measure of reconciliation and restitution...
...neither of which seem to have thus far occurred in the United States of America...
...and yet seem at long last - and not just from the political Left but from numerous standard-bearers of the evangelical 'Right' even - to be approaching full steam ahead...
a true - as in biblically orthodox, and Christ-following - 'believer' doesn't wink at sin...and/or gloss over or otherwise dismiss well-founded and substantiated allegations, and certainly not those of a serious nature...
...which I at least consider those emanating from his former aide, Tara Reade, to most definitely be.
As my own Master and Lord Himself so aptly put it two millennia ago (admittedly in an altogether different context, yet it is not irrelevant to mention here):
Unless you (yes, presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden) repent, you too will [ultimately] perish.
For, just as the 'good folk' of your native land, the U S of A, never ever really 'owned' as in publicly confessed and *repented of their great sin in relation to their countrymen and women - not only black Americans but native Americans as well - from centuries of slavery through the following century of segregation and all the rest, onto the systemic police brutality and violence (of the following half century) upon which the torch of light and truth has only now at last been brought to bear and shine,
unless you too own and publicly confess to and repent of - let the political fallout come as it well may - your own 'crime and misdemeanour' thereabouts, apart from proving yourself (never mind President Trump's own well-known and arguably way more egregious acts both personal and 'presidential', whether pre- or post-inauguration) wholly unfit to assume the world's most powerful political post - alongside that of the Papacy/Vatican/Holy See of Rome - according to my Bible at least, and on associated good biblical authority, you not only are not in any way, shape or form a 'decent' person, much less 'Christian',
but, once again according to my reading of the word of God, will one day perish, and that for good!
*For true biblical repentance involves the sort of thing that my own nation of New Zealand and South Africa also has long since engaged in. Whether in the latter case the 'Commission for Truth and Reconciliation' or in the former the ongoing Treaty of Waitangi settlements throughout the length and breadth of Godzone/God's Own, repentance - to quote my blogpost title - is as repentance does...
...and involves a - substantial - measure of reconciliation and restitution...
...neither of which seem to have thus far occurred in the United States of America...
...and yet seem at long last - and not just from the political Left but from numerous standard-bearers of the evangelical 'Right' even - to be approaching full steam ahead...
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Plague, Pestilence...and/or Pestilential, 'Pestiferous', Pest (of a Fellow, I mean President): Facing the Crisis of the Ages
"In the year '20-20' " - in resonance with the famous introductory line/refrain/chorus - '25-25' - from the 1970s' chart-topping hit 'The Age of Aquarius' -
we Earthians (homo sapiens) are, it would appear, faced/confronted with the crisis of the ages:
covid-19/the coronavirus...climate change...the (current) American 'Commander-in-Chief'...
To reverse the order...
Donald J Trump (2020 and Beyond): is he the coming Antichrist? Well, some evidently believe so.
Is climate change/global warming not just 'for real', but is it set to put an end to life on earth as we('ve) know(n) it?
Or is it the unlucky last of these three, the dreaded and dreadful, deadly and devastating coronavirus/covid-19, that represents the crisis of our age...and indeed of the ages?
Or is the latter - indeed are all three - but the (biblically) necessary precursors to and of the coming crisis in the cosmic conflict...
...and moreover the celestial footprints in the countdown to Armageddon and the long-cherished, much-anticipated Second Coming/Advent of Jesus the Christ to our world?
Put on your seatbelts, folks, I can readily assure - if not reassure! - you that coming instalments in this here blogsite/blogpost - alongside those in my original blogsite, i.e.
http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/)...
and those in one of my latest websites, i.e.
http://666MYSTERY666.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/) -
will keep you well and truly strapped to your seats for the forseeable...
as - over coming days - weeks - months - years (if time and circumstances permit - 'all else being equal', in other words) -
these specific subjects, and many more related matters, are traversed in greater detail...
we Earthians (homo sapiens) are, it would appear, faced/confronted with the crisis of the ages:
covid-19/the coronavirus...climate change...the (current) American 'Commander-in-Chief'...
To reverse the order...
Donald J Trump (2020 and Beyond): is he the coming Antichrist? Well, some evidently believe so.
Is climate change/global warming not just 'for real', but is it set to put an end to life on earth as we('ve) know(n) it?
Or is it the unlucky last of these three, the dreaded and dreadful, deadly and devastating coronavirus/covid-19, that represents the crisis of our age...and indeed of the ages?
Or is the latter - indeed are all three - but the (biblically) necessary precursors to and of the coming crisis in the cosmic conflict...
...and moreover the celestial footprints in the countdown to Armageddon and the long-cherished, much-anticipated Second Coming/Advent of Jesus the Christ to our world?
Put on your seatbelts, folks, I can readily assure - if not reassure! - you that coming instalments in this here blogsite/blogpost - alongside those in my original blogsite, i.e.
http://nuffsaid:consideryourself-frombothsidesnow.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/)...
and those in one of my latest websites, i.e.
http://666MYSTERY666.blogspot.co.nz/ (or .com/) -
will keep you well and truly strapped to your seats for the forseeable...
as - over coming days - weeks - months - years (if time and circumstances permit - 'all else being equal', in other words) -
these specific subjects, and many more related matters, are traversed in greater detail...
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Yes, We're Indeed, Well and Truly Living in The Day and Age of Ye - Usually Impurely and Pettily - Partisan Press (or Rather (Mainstream Western) Media Generally), Whereby Their Motto (Unlike That of Yours Truly) Might as Well Be: 'Bestowing Brickbats and Bouquets With Fear (of) and Favour Toward None...-Yeah, Right!
Bravado, Bluster or Brave and Brilliant Declaration of Defiance Mellowed and Modified by Implicit Recognition of Providential Provision: Hong Kong Media Tycoon Jimmy Lai's 'Reading' of the "blessing of God" in his Patently Unjust Arrest...As the Selfsame Elevates him to Newfound Hero Status Throughout the Gutsy Little Island State as Ye Ole Saga of 'David versus Goliath' is Reformulated and Reconfigured for the Umpteenth Time...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
And Regarding (My One-Time Rival for the Electorate Seat of Dunedin South, Soon to Become Known - 'Forever After' - as Taieri) Retiring M.P. Clare Curran's Recent Interview (Post Her Parliamentary Valedictory) Concerning the Present State of So-Called 'Journalism' (in God's Own/Godzone in Particular), as in the Glut of 'Editorializing' By (Especially) Political Correspondents at/from the Beehive...Her Criticisms, Whether Somewhat the Result of Jadedness on a Personal Level or Otherwise, Also (see Preceding Post) Pretty Much Sum Up the Current 'State of Play' Vis-a-vis the Prostitution of Modern-day Mainstream 'Journalism' Throughout At Least Aotearoa-New Zealand and the United States of America, Anyhow...
As For Ye Mainstream (Western) Media's Obsessive, Almost Paranoid Focus Upon All Things Trivial These Days...'Give Us (All) A (Collective) Break!' -That's A Futile Fancy However, As We're Long Past Time When, Quite Frankly,They Could Give A Damn...
As so eloquently conveyed (in quite different and far fewer words) by Newstalk ZB's nighttime talkback host Bruce Russell in the wee small hours overnight...
Hey, d'ya think the election of former celebrity host Donald J Trump might just have somewhat to do with this whole thing...
...as in the American media's own sensationalizing of all things trivial (as in his remarks about *President Obama's not holding United States's citizenship)?
No, I'm off on the wrong track entirely, aren't I...not!
Correction: no, the matter itself wasn't trivial as such, but the comment/suggestion that such a thing was the case was clearly such utter drivel that ye mainstream media ought to have instantly relegated it to the journalistic dustbin...
Hey, d'ya think the election of former celebrity host Donald J Trump might just have somewhat to do with this whole thing...
...as in the American media's own sensationalizing of all things trivial (as in his remarks about *President Obama's not holding United States's citizenship)?
No, I'm off on the wrong track entirely, aren't I...not!
Correction: no, the matter itself wasn't trivial as such, but the comment/suggestion that such a thing was the case was clearly such utter drivel that ye mainstream media ought to have instantly relegated it to the journalistic dustbin...
Monday, August 10, 2020
And As For Monsieur Macron Being the Solution to Lebanon's Woes: If He's the Answer, Lebanon's In Much Bigger Trouble Than Anyone Realizes...For Last I Heard (and Understood from History, Not Only That of Present-day France), the Jesuit Order - Far From Solving the World's Problems - Are Pretty Well One of The Chief Sources and Origins Thereof...
Believe me or not, but one day soon you - and this entire world - will 'discover' this way too late...to do anything about it...
For like the hapless Frodo in Shelob the Spider's labyrinthine maze, they'll then be trapped (with)in this evil ancient order's web, and will be helpless to pry themselves loose...
"Yes, I Might Not Happen to Agree With You, I Might Even Seriously Disagree With You...But I'll Defend to the Death Your Right to Say [What You Believe]"...NO LONGER, Apparently: How Have We Now Reached A Time and a Place Wherein This is No Longer True? (And, No, It's No Longer the So-Called 'Right'(Wing) That's - Generally - Abandoned This Time-Honoured Ethic (of Civility).)
And hey, as for mentioning/citing specific instances thereabouts, I really wouldn't know where to even begin...
Saturday, August 8, 2020
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