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Permalink Reply by Robert William Nickisson on May 3, 2012 at 1:30pm

Hi Ebony,   Just a sample, from one paper on one Day I could add many more if a tally over six  months was listed. Justice is not only Blind but looking the wrong way. Law and Order just words soon to be listed in future dictionaries as meaningless.    Regards Robert WN

2/5/12 WOMAN has been bashed to death on a footpath in Brisbane's north, Police have detained a 27-year-old man, at the scene, who is yet to be charged.

2/5/12  Man stabbed to death at a Bus Stop last night at Brookdale

Police  confirm a body found on a creek bank is Brisbane mother Alison Baden-Clay

 

Ebony Jackson said:

You are a brave man Robert - you are prepared to go where others won't.

Yes I support the reintroduction of the death penalty.

People who kill the vulnerable and disabled elderly, violent rapists, those who steal and terrorise children, sexual predators who murder, drug lords who deprive liberty of innocence and inflict terror.

My list is endless.

The prison system is a revolving door - recidivism is high.

Justice for victims of abhorrent criminal violence is never achieved or ever appropriate.

The community should not have to accommodate murderers and rapists, or extreme fear from unacceptable violent crime.

If anybody chooses to take the life of another - they don't deserve to live.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Cox on May 8, 2012 at 11:43pm

Barbara sorry to hear about your plight,Yes you have to read the fine print even people in workshops get burnt at times by some,not all of these Insurance scammers with so called extended warranties.

A few tips on your European cars in general always use a good quality synthetic oil in the Transmissions find a specialist private workshop,Most Brands and in some cases specific models often have people who specialise in some vehicles,These people also tend to be the better factory trained Technicians,We are not Mechanics these days not when many modern cars have Various Computers controlling everything over a networking system based on internet protocols,very high tech and leading edge and hence expensive.

Most European cars have good backup of companies sourcing genuine parts as used by the manufacturers direct from the supplier to the factory but at a much lower price,some research will save you lots on service costs.

 

There are other things people are not generally aware of of a technical nature that also make a big difference to how long the car lasts.For instance the latest standards for Engine Oils are more about appeasing the Greens and prolonging life of the Catalytic Converter the device that in theory cleans up the exhaust. emmisions.

Quality oils once contained much more of an additive known in shorthand as ZDDP a compound of Zinc and Phosporous,This was in fact the chief anti wear additive package in oils but has been greatly reduced in the latest oil specifications to place more of an emphasis on Convertor life than engine life.

Bad tradeoff in my opinion as engine repairs are far more expensive than replacing a catalytic convertor say every 5 years instead of say 10 years.

 

A good synthetic gearbox oil  changed more often can easily triple the life of a gearbox so the right information and maintenance schedule will pay of long term  and this is important as fewer and fewer of us can afford to replace cars every couple of years so we aviod expensive repairs.Therefore best we look after our cars as best we can.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Cox on May 8, 2012 at 11:57pm

Robert William Nickisson said:

Hi Ebony,   Just a sample, from one paper on one Day I could add many more if a tally over six  months was listed. Justice is not only Blind but looking the wrong way. Law and Order just words soon to be listed in future dictionaries as meaningless.    Regards Robert WN

2/5/12 WOMAN has been bashed to death on a footpath in Brisbane's north, Police have detained a 27-year-old man, at the scene, who is yet to be charged.

2/5/12  Man stabbed to death at a Bus Stop last night at Brookdale

Police  confirm a body found on a creek bank is Brisbane mother Alison Baden-Clay

 

Ebony Jackson said:

You are a brave man Robert - you are prepared to go where others won't.

Yes I support the reintroduction of the death penalty.

People who kill the vulnerable and disabled elderly, violent rapists, those who steal and terrorise children, sexual predators who murder, drug lords who deprive liberty of innocence and inflict terror.

My list is endless.

The prison system is a revolving door - recidivism is high.

Justice for victims of abhorrent criminal violence is never achieved or ever appropriate.

The community should not have to accommodate murderers and rapists, or extreme fear from unacceptable violent crime.

If anybody chooses to take the life of another - they don't deserve to live.

Robert and Ebony I used to work on Police Vehicles and listening at times to some of the conversations from various officers the average Australian would be horrified at what really goes on and never gets reported to the public.

I can remember one instance where the Girl on radio despatch replied to a rego check by a highway patrol officer with the immediate reply of Caution do not approach without backup,This was then followed by about 10 minutes listing various aspects of the listed driver of that vehicle.

That included known to be armed,Assault with a knife,Assault with Firearm,Armed Robbery,Sexual Assault, Larceny,Robbery in company,Dangerous driving Drug Dealing need I go on why wasn't this person behind bars or more importantly with a first name of Mohammid the background  obviously was usualy claimed as Midddle Eastern or Mediteranean when they bothered to report their various anti social antics.

Often they refuse these days to expose the background of people in many attacks,when that happens it is generally easy to figure out what groups in society are likely offenders as they treat them with kid gloves.

 

Realisticaly we have imported much of our crime over the last twenty years,It used to be a major event involving gun crime or assault or murder every year or so,Now ir seems to be more often weekly and the UN and Australian Politicians are to blame for that change,some will never fit into Australian Society.

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Permalink Reply by Robert William Nickisson on May 9, 2012 at 8:39am

Hi Stephen, Your reply to a Questions & Answers  commentseems to have disappeared into outer space. Try again to lodge your reply if you still want to contribute. regards Robert WN 

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Permalink Reply by Barbara lee on May 9, 2012 at 9:50am

Just have seen your reply. Thankyou for taking the time to write your response here and for your great sound tips, you sound like a mechanic, you really know your stuff Stephen on many levels as you have demonstrated in different other discussion.  I'm impressed especially with the story about the boat people, you went into such great detail to make sure we got it right.  wow.

cheerio

Barb and a special barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to say Thankyou.

Stephen Cox said:

Barbara sorry to hear about your plight,Yes you have to read the fine print even people in workshops get burnt at times by some,not all of these Insurance scammers with so called extended warranties.

A few tips on your European cars in general always use a good quality synthetic oil in the Transmissions find a specialist private workshop,Most Brands and in some cases specific models often have people who specialise in some vehicles,These people also tend to be the better factory trained Technicians,We are not Mechanics these days not when many modern cars have Various Computers controlling everything over a networking system based on internet protocols,very high tech and leading edge and hence expensive.

Most European cars have good backup of companies sourcing genuine parts as used by the manufacturers direct from the supplier to the factory but at a much lower price,some research will save you lots on service costs.

 

There are other things people are not generally aware of of a technical nature that also make a big difference to how long the car lasts.For instance the latest standards for Engine Oils are more about appeasing the Greens and prolonging life of the Catalytic Converter the device that in theory cleans up the exhaust. emmisions.

Quality oils once contained much more of an additive known in shorthand as ZDDP a compound of Zinc and Phosporous,This was in fact the chief anti wear additive package in oils but has been greatly reduced in the latest oil specifications to place more of an emphasis on Convertor life than engine life.

Bad tradeoff in my opinion as engine repairs are far more expensive than replacing a catalytic convertor say every 5 years instead of say 10 years.

 

A good synthetic gearbox oil  changed more often can easily triple the life of a gearbox so the right information and maintenance schedule will pay of long term  and this is important as fewer and fewer of us can afford to replace cars every couple of years so we aviod expensive repairs.Therefore best we look after our cars as best we can.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Campion on May 9, 2012 at 4:43pm

What's to stop the 'temporary' visa holders from applying for a 'permanent' one, or indeed overstaying as happens now.

He has to have more policy than, 'Stop/turn back the boats'.  One-liners are for comedians, not aspiring Prime Ministers.  Seems like at this stage he is more suited to the former occupation, than the latter which he so dearly covets.  God help us all.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Cox on May 11, 2012 at 10:45pm

Ebony I do have some insight as one of my  flatmates for a time was a Senior Commanchero and I knew a number of the people involved in the Milperra incident,It will be interesting to see what channel ten comes up with as I know facts directly from the sources,And believe me those two responsible for the Book Brothers in Arms about the Milperra Massacre should have stuck to what they did first Puberty Blues being their first work.

Both the Girls now well and truly Women who penned Brothers In Arms self exiled themselves to London  because of the fabrications in the Book.

Whilst some Police do at times cross the line much of the percieved corruption such as tip offs to crims comes from not the Police Force as such but the Various Police Services(Ie the Public Servants who are not Sworn Uniform wearing officers.

When you think about the basic lack of backup from most in the Court System,You somtimes wonder why the Police even bother.

There are Horror stories the general public will never know,I know that the bastards who raped and murdered Anita Cobby all those years ago should have been burned at the stake as far as I and others were concerned for  what they did to that poor wretched girl.

There really are people on this earth that deserve only death as an option for their Evil Sadistic ways.

 

Charles Manson and his cult of young killers will show those worried about Law and Order that things haven't changed in almost 40 years around this world as far as the worst of them goes.

What has changed is the lower levels of crime and violence have escalated out of control, and in many cases we have yet to experience, some will escalate to unbound Evil on a possibly far more common level than in the past.

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Permalink Reply by Robert William Nickisson on May 12, 2012 at 7:11am

Hi Stephen, Watching vicious crime on the increase and murder and killings becoming almost as common as jaywalking is today the lot of the law-abiding people in Australia. Killers knowing their lives are sacrosanct and they can kill at will and the only deterrent you may get caught means having the scales of justice tilted firmly on the side of the killer/murderer. The scales must be rebalanced so that your life is worth just the same as any other life therefore if you deliberately murder or kill you pay the supreme Penalty. The words “you will be taken from here to the place of execution”   should have a haunting ring on the mind of any individual contemplating any such crime. If used a few times in our Court systems it would soon lower the number of individuals willing to risk resorting to Killing and Murder. The soft Glove approach has failed as has our Court system where the Judges lack backbone and on the other side of the bench the Lawyers must make money and unfortunately there is no money in victims. So I believe the answer is a return to the Death Penalty and it is made a mandatory sentence for killing and murder. Regards Robert WN

Stephen Cox said:

Ebony I do have some insight as one of my  flatmates for a time was a Senior Commanchero and I knew a number of the people involved in the Milperra incident,It will be interesting to see what channel ten comes up with as I know facts directly from the sources,And believe me those two responsible for the Book Brothers in Arms about the Milperra Massacre should have stuck to what they did first Puberty Blues being their first work.

Both the Girls now well and truly Women who penned Brothers In Arms self exiled themselves to London  because of the fabrications in the Book.

Whilst some Police do at times cross the line much of the percieved corruption such as tip offs to crims comes from not the Police Force as such but the Various Police Services(Ie the Public Servants who are not Sworn Uniform wearing officers.

When you think about the basic lack of backup from most in the Court System,You somtimes wonder why the Police even bother.

There are Horror stories the general public will never know,I know that the bastards who raped and murdered Anita Cobby all those years ago should have been burned at the stake as far as I and others were concerned for  what they did to that poor wretched girl.

There really are people on this earth that deserve only death as an option for their Evil Sadistic ways.

 

Charles Manson and his cult of young killers will show those worried about Law and Order that things haven't changed in almost 40 years around this world as far as the worst of them goes.

What has changed is the lower levels of crime and violence have escalated out of control, and in many cases we have yet to experience, some will escalate to unbound Evil on a possibly far more common level than in the past.

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Permalink Reply by vivienne skeen on June 13, 2012 at 4:09pm

Excellent article

Jan Courtney said:

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM CORY BERNARDI

This is well worth reading -  awards to people like Singer shows what a sick society we are becoming -  We need to stand up for decency people !     Jan

13 June 2012

The Upside Down World of Moral Outrage

The topsy-turvy world of moral relativism and PC judgment came home to roost this week. The disengagement of common sense and the absurdity of minority opinion dominating public debate was on display for all to see.

From an abundance of material, there are two notable examples that illustrate just how far we have come from applying common sense to most situations.

The first involved two Olympic athletes who had the temerity to have a photograph holding guns. No, they weren’t part of the Olympic shooting team. Their great crime was to be members of the Australian swimming team who, during some down time, went to visit a gun store and took a couple of snaps with the legal weaponry.

When the photos appeared on Facebook, the ‘outrage’ began. They were condemned by sections of the media and the usual suspects who seem to loathe anything that doesn’t involve lentils, left-wing politics and chanting Kumbayah.

The AOC were swift to respond with the two ‘gun lovers’ to be banished from the Olympic village immediately after their events are completed. I wonder if the officials considered for a moment that maybe the range practice endorsed by Swimming Australia in the name of team bonding might have given these lads a taste for more of the cool feel of blue steel.

Some levelled their criticism at the ‘gangster’ poses of the two rebel athletes. Frankly, I think the poses they struck were consistent with what many other young men faced with the same circumstances would have struck. They were having fun and not hurting anyone.

Unless you count someone having a different view from you as ‘hurt’.

You see, the relativists will defend to the death freedom of choice, as long as it conforms to their opinion.

You can criticise religion - as long as it’s not Islam.
You can have freedom of the press - as long as it only publishes agreeable material.
You can have freedom of speech - as long as people are not offended by what you have to say.
You can even defend the right to life, as long as you don’t want it to apply to the unborn.

Actually, that last statement is somewhat wrong. It is no longer only unborn children that the great lefty thinkers think it is okay to kill. Some of them are happy for the recently born to be despatched in the name of humanity.

As worrying as this is, remarkably, the chief proponent of such thought was awarded our nation’s highest honour this week. Philosopher Peter Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Mr Singer may well be an intellectual but I find much of what he ‘intellectualises’ about morally repugnant. He supports the infanticide of children who are born with disabilities that the parent doesn’t think they can cope with.

This stance gets even creepier when you consider that he is a leading animal rights activist pressing for human rights for great apes.

Am I the only one who wonders how someone can simultaneously press for the right to life for monkeys and the right to kill children and still be taken seriously?

But Singer’s advocacy doesn’t end there. He has been involved with a philosophical assessment of beasteality, writing a foreward for a book on the joys of animal love.

In what marked a hitherto low point of the ABCs Q & A program, he actually defended consensual pleasure between a woman and her pet dog.

In his post-award interview, Singer acknowledged his ideas were somewhat controversial but noted the award was indicative of the open and tolerant nature of Australian society.

Unfortunately, openness and tolerance of diverse opinions only seems to go one way.

One could argue that there are many other Australians who have shaped public debate in this country for a much more positive outcome than the likes of Peter Singer.

Perhaps we should celebrate those that first maintained encouraging people smugglers with weak border protection programs would result in many deaths at sea.

If they had been listened to, many lives would have been saved.

Perhaps we should congratulate the brave defenders of women’s equality prepared to stand in the path of the sexism of Islamic doctrine.

Or give awards to those that refused to indulge the totalitarianism of the communist bloc by engaging in the appeasement policy heralded by so many on the left.

All would be worthy in my opinion. Instead, we ignore the defenders of our social and ethical mores and fete the radicals who seek to re-engineer our world.

Perhaps both are worthy of recognition. I’m actually pretty sure they are, if only as a celebration of the battle of ideas.

However, to afford the Peter Singers of the world public accolades whilst condemning two young athletes who had a photo taken holding some guns, suggests just how unbalanced our public discourse has become.

 

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Permalink Reply by vivienne skeen on June 13, 2012 at 4:09pm

Kathy Jackson compares Shorten to Dracula

Jeff Turnbull
June 12, 2012 - 10:59PM
 
12 June 2012   The Age

It's been 22 years since a trade union official addressed the right-wing think-tank HR Nicholls Society but this did not deter outspoken Health Services Union secretary Kathy Jackson, who walked away with a standing ovation.

Straight off the bat on Tuesday, Ms Jackson, a member of the ALP, admitted she had been attacked for daring to speak to the society but said she would rather have a dialogue than call each other names.

But the woman who blew the whistle on the NSW branch of the HSU did have some names for the Labor elite, such as comparing Bill Shorten in his role as Workplace Minister as like having Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

"Bill Shorten is an international grandmaster in the process of using unions as chess pieces in ALP factional warfare," she said.

"Bill Shorten as Minister for Workplace Relations is the most obvious example of Dracula being in charge of the blood bank."

Her speech centred around stronger regulation of unions in promoting confidence of their members and the need for reform in the union election process.

"Big money in union elections, like big money in all elections, threatens the democratic foundations on which a health union depends," she said.

She said rank-and-file members have no chance of getting elected unless they are part of the leadership ticket or a member of a well-sponsored reform group.

The cost of campaigning can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars which favours the incumbents, she said.

Ms Jackson also said HSU East general secretary Michael Williamson recently told another official that he had a $2 million war chest available to him to fight union elections inside and outside the HSU.

She claimed HSU members had been outraged over the Craig Thomson affair, although NSW members were being bombarded with information saying she was just making everything up.

"They're saying 'She's crazy' and some people are actually buying that," Ms Jackson said.

"Ultimately, what the 70,000 members are concerned about is what is happening to their money."

She said their union subscriptions should be going towards employing industrial staff, research staff and organisers "but where it has been going is somewhere else".

© 2012 AAP

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/kathy-jackson-comp...

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Cox on June 15, 2012 at 10:19pm

Vivienne as well as that grub Singer lets examine all the benefactors of the top Awards.

Peter Beattie basically bankrupted Queensland or at least set the wheels well and truly in motion,there are also still questions to be answered about Justice heiners report which happened under his watch.

Gareth Evans,he who in the year 2000 at the UN changed the meaning legally of National Sovereign Rights to be National Sovereign Responsibility,This change allowed NATO and Barack Obama to attack Libya and organise the overthrow of Muamar Gadaffi and his Murder by radical Islamists,His ties along with George Soros to a Organisation called Crisis Group International which is implicated in being a main force behind the so called Arab Spring which is enabling Radical Islam to take control in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Seems the more undeserving you are the more likely you get rewarded by those Lefty types selling us out to Slavery,Witness the biggest mistake other than not dismantling Keatings UN sellout policies by John Howard was giving Flannery Australian of the year a while back,I bet he now regrets that as much as Alan Jones regrets helping that grub Oakshot launch his political career.

 

At least Alan Jones is trying vigerously to amend that mistake,John Howard needs to aid in the removal of UN shackles of Slavery apon Australia even if behind the scenes.

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Permalink Reply by Colin J Ely on June 16, 2012 at 12:21pm

Talking of Queens Birthday Honours..

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent!  ;-) .......

'Mr X' AFSM AM, was awarded the AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queens Birthday Honours List.  Now, Mr X is my former boss, so I know a little about him and his service. Now, while I don't deny his dedication, he lived on site in a government house, and often was at the centre working in his own time on weekends, I used to refer to him as the worlds best Jap! He never invented anything, he used to go overseas every couple of years to a big government conference and copy what was on display there. Being Government, there was no copyright and he was free to use, indeed, in the spirit of international brotherhood in this field, there was often a deliberate and free exchange of ideas, information and experiences.

I remember once i was asked to source a specialised pump for one of his projects. I rang up a pump company, who asked me such embarrasing questions, such as, 'how many litres per minute?' I asked him this, his reply was to show me the photo and say, 'this is it, this is the pump I want!' So the pump salesman asked me another embarrasing question, 'what was the viscosity of the fluid we wanted to pump? I asked 'Mr X' this question. His reply was, you guessed it, he pointed to the photograph and again exhorted me, 'this is the pump, this is the one I want' The very helpful pump salesman then helpfully suggested he come out to our workplace with his bottles of various viscosity liquids. The boss seemed a bit perturbed that he didn't know the viscosity of Napalm off the top of his head. Well, we eventually bought a sample pump and one of the tradesman set to work to make this urgent piece of government equipment, after about two weeks he was taken off this project to do something else, the partially completed 'urgent' project was placed on the window ledge, where it would not surprise me to know it still lays?

So while an AFSM might have been deserved, I think an AM was stretching it a little bit

Colin J Ely (NM, ADM)

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