winsor68

A well known young member of this forum who I have known online (and met in person) for quite a few years now got married 4 years ago today. Anyway...his beautiful wife is a musician songwriter known professionally as Elizabeth Rae and I have been listening to her first originals album on iTunes, FLOWERS, for the last week or so...and I wouldn't normally worry too much but I really do enjoy this album and I am stunned at her incredible talent so I wanted to share it here because this girl deserves to go a long way. I figure the only way I am going to see this artist play in a stadium show is if she gets famous so please buy her album and help to make it happen.

So...Do yourself a favour.

During the last Ramadan, a london train was derailed due to overspeed on a bend. the train remained upright, and there were no reported injuries. The driver admitted that he was fasting and had not ingested food nor drink for over 13 hours prior to the incident. Some religious regulations need a little more flexibility in the modern idiom where jobs such as these are concerned but did not exist in the 7th century.

STYX.. . .( wearing a shirt this time ) with a rather good appraisal of why WE in the West, really do not understand Muslims.

 

After giving it a lot of thought, I thought I had discovered that we should not pay homage to multiculturalism here in Australia, but instead should embrace multi-ethnicity.

I thought that multiculturalism meant that anyone in Australia could practise their cultural traditions of their ancestors, be they those of Great Britain/Ireland; Europe; the Middle East, the Sub-continent, Asia or Polynesia. I also thought that if I said that anyone's cultural practices were not in tune with Australian Anglo-Irish customs, then I was being racist.

 

I wanted to get a good definition of "multicultural" to include in this post, so I went googling and found this one, which is the official Australian Goverment slant on multiculturalism:

 

Multiculturalism encompasses government measures designed to respond to the cultural and ethnic diversity of contemporary Australia. It plays no part in migrant selection. It is a policy for managing the consequences of cultural diversity in the interests of the individual and society as a whole.

 

 

 

The Commonwealth Government has identified three dimensions of multicultural policy:

 

• cultural identity: the right of all Australians, within carefully defined limits, to express and share their individual cultural heritage, including their language and religion;
   
  
• social justice: the right of all Australians to equality of treatment and opportunity, and the removal of barriers of race, ethnicity, culture, religion, language, gender or place of birth; and
   
  
• economic efficiency: the need to maintain, develop and utilize effectively the skills and talents of all Australians, regardless of background.
   
  

 

Now, this all sounds like most of us whose ancestors arrived in Australia before 1945 have to kowtow and tug our forelocks whenever some post-1945 arrival cries "Racist"

 

However, reading on, I found this:

 

There are also limits to Australian multiculturalism. These may be summarized as follows:

 

• multicultural policies are based upon the premises that all Australians should have an overriding and unifying commitment to Australia, to its interests and future first and foremost;
   
  
• multicultural policies require all Australians to accept the basic structures and principles of Australian society - the Constitution and the rule of law, tolerance and equality, Parliamentary democracy, freedom of speech and religion, English as the national language and equality of the sexes; and
   
  
• multicultural policies impose obligations as well as conferring rights: the right to express one's own culture and beliefs involves a reciprocal responsibility to accept the right of others to express their views and values.
   
  

 

It is Government policy that those who want to enjoy the rights of a multicultural society must accept their responsibility to meet the obligations of the policy. I'd say that it is about time we emphasized the responsibilities before granting the rights. The horse has to go before the cart.

 

Old Man Emu

So obviously if you didn't see, it didn't happen. Doesn't matter that Merkel herself has made statements about it, or that the Cologne police chief has been stood down over it or that you can't open any paper without seeing it , been all over television news.....it never happened because it doesn't fit your ideological view. Credibility.....gone.

You are obviously still walking around with rose colour glasses on. It is on a lot of different news feeds. Which part of it is BS?

Its common knowledge Don that multiple girls were sexually assaulted in Cologne Germany on news year eve by recently arrived refo's.

Canadian school children sing Moslem welcome song celebrating the slaughter and subjugation of Jews and Christians and the slavery and rape of their women:

 

I love Nylon String Guitar. Beautiful.

Sure, send you wife over there she can tell you how funny or creative it is.

Bottom line is raping of non-Moslems is not only permissible in Islam but expected. A good Moslem should follow the example of Mohammad who did just that (many times). So they are just practising their culture.

Winsor is either amused that so many women got molested in Cologne or he refuses to believe it actually happened.

A British woman visiting Cologne said fireworks had been thrown at her group by men who spoke neither German nor English. "They were trying to hug us, kiss us!" she told the BBC.

Is it any wonder? Given he anti Muslim sentiment being widely expressed I am not surprised by the report.

Even funnier...every report gives differing numbers... hmmm. It seems people are just making anything up and reporting higher and higher numbers... I wonder why???

Well you still haven't told me of these recent "advances"....what have you got?I'm guessing that you have some involvement in the field.

 

The company I work for has just employed several extra people and spent just over a million dollars upgrading their safety system....a lot of management are Not happy. As these lot have been visiting every workshop around the country with their great new system showing everyone how it works at great expense, more than a few people have asked "what has changed?" They get red in the face and try to distract people and change the subject, because nothing has changed. They've spent over a year and a lot of money rearranging it and calling it new.

 

Australian health and safety people need a massive shift in mindset before most people will take them seriously.

 

Advancements....what are they????????

You are joking right? In Australia someone is still dying at work on average once per week...but overall there have been massive improvements to WH&S in the last 100 years....especially mining.

What recent advances in safety would we referring to?To be an advancement, would suggest have improvement. I haven't seen anything new or better for years now in the workplace heath and safety arena. We may have some improvements in vehicle and helmet technology, as well as some medical advances, but no, safety (road and workplace) has just been more of the same, applied more rigidly, with much the same result.....bugger all.

 

The only real advancements I can think of at the moment are remotely operated tools for those with really dangerous jobs like Explosive Ordnance Demolition.

I wonder if there is a correlation between people using phrases like "political correctness gone mad"/generally putting sxxt on recent advances in safety... and those calling for reduced gun controls/wanting to own big automatic guns?

I think there is. Similar mindsets. Just goes way over their heads?

Mate works as a driver for a large transport co.......every driver is issued a largish o/nite type bag, they must carry at all times.........contains,

hardhat..hiviz vest..first aid kit.. raincoat..safety specs..ear plugs..plus 2..3 other things i can't recall, ..........they drive trucks, they do 3 days induction.....and every week they sign off a "toolbox" sheet about some bullsh!t topic.

 

Kids, at school, are discouraged from "risky" activities, they are wrapped in cotton wool more and more. Kids run / ride / walk, straight out onto pedestrian crossings, knowing they can demand any vehicle at any distance..........TO STOP. Might just be the one vehicle approaching the crossing, but kids now won't wait, let the vehicle pass, before the kids cross the road. The buggers ride their bicycles along the footpath, then cool as pull straight out onto the ped crossings. We have created "school zones" lower speed limits that's ok, but it's also embedding further disregard into the kids for their own self management / awareness etc.

 

Fast forward 10yrs ......the mind just boggles.

Same as kids were doing 100 years ago...

Big rise in German attacks on migrant homes in 2015

Maybe it is the migrants buying weapons to defend themselves against home grown terrorists...?

http://www.dw.com/en/attacks-on-refugees-in-germany-double-in-three-months/a-18833991

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34487562

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/europe/germany-migrants-attacks-asylum-seekers-backlash.html?_r=0

Took some photos yesterday...

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We found this Barbary Dove outside with missing tail feathers about 6 months ago... it is the second Dove we have found and nursed back to health from our yard. The first was a Native and as such was released after recovery...but the Barbary is not...so he is still living with us in his own cage and his name is Smokie Skywinsor...

He is pretty big now and makes the most beautiful soothing noises and is very friendly.

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I think you could add atheists, republicans, socialists and anyone who votes Labor or Green.

And that's the heart of the problem, ISIS is State funded in the opinion of many.

It's not an opinion...the bankers know EXACTLY where the funding is coming from...

Agreed, ISIS will not be stopped by bombs, they certainly wont be stopped by talking about it or posting pictures on social media.Regardless of who started it, it needs to be stopped in it's tracks.

 

Troops on the ground will be needed, and it will need to be thoroughly destroyed. World leaders need to stop pandering and get serious.

 

Might like to ask yourself how your life might change for the better under IS?

Personally I feel for the families that have lost innocent loved ones, butchered and torn in an instant and those that are left seriously injured and traumatized, many of whom may never fully recover. Can't find so much sympathy for the feelings of perpetrators, sympathisers and enablers.

 

 

Except few of them say so. Notice how the leaders have never pronounced a fatwa against Islamic terrorism?

There is one of those enablers now....

That video is nothing but propaganda. Of course there is a problem and it is a bloody big one...but the sort of rubbish being spread such as that above is not doing anything to help.