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Letter to Christine Milne - Are the Greens The Insurgents?

Dear Senator, I know what you are trying to say to me accompanied by Sarah Hanson Young, the tearful little girl but please do not distort the truth in the process. These people spent hundreds of thousands to smugglers who, if they were refugees as you say, could have used that money in attempts to turn their situation around so please do not pull at my heart strings for them when nothing is done for the old guys sleeping rough in the doorways west of the city and the Vietnam vet behind the gardeners shed covered in newspapers from the cold in the West Tce cemetery at 2 am.

I belonged s few years ago to a small team of volunteers who roam the area with an offduty policewoman between 2am and 4 am on Sunday mornings with hot pie floaters and soup. We were the Ghost Busters. Allow me to address the problem of those already in the country in detention.

Stop the politicking for a change. It does you and Greens no credit to ignore the very simple fact that it is the children with our children to provide the harmony of integration. Start calling the “Detention Centers”, Hostels. Separate the men over 16 from the rest. Open the gates during the day. Call for volunteers as Mentors, pay them to accompany mothers with children and all unaccompanied children under the age of 16 to the local school. Make time for it to be set up with harmony the key purpose. Issue the TPV’s to them.

That leaves males above 16 who are in the majority who should be put to small Council work teams or fruit harvest etc. to qualify for their food shelter etc. Get them all to name themselves for new identity TPV’s. That will fix the destruction of real identity. What’s in a name anyway? Not much evidently, if the original one has been thrown away for it would be an impossible task for the AFP. Hardly an issue methinks, for what would we do if they came from the moon?

You must as a Senator play a part as custodian of the Nation with a duty to be seen as protecting it above all else. It is way above your Party politics. There are Afghanis. Yet our own have been dying to protect the Afghanis from themselves. What does that make you and the Greens? There is enough written to describe first hand observation of the ways of life and death in regions of Islamia. Would you know for sure if they were running away from it or bringing it with them? It would be prudent to be hard nosed about it when an Imam in Sydney one time described Australian women by the way they dress as “covered meat”

With Best Wishes and Good Luck
Bob Stewart

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 19, 2012 at 7:52am

Yes Stephen and callitris and atlantica and deodara does the same. Two big trees cut to make room for extensions to one of parent's early homes. The action of sunlight and exposure changes the surface color to the muddy grey described by Stephen to be sanded or planed off. I have some offcuts in a box on a shelf in the shed, the surface exposed discolors even for those small pieces but they have been there for years. My understanding is that the cedar oil vaporizes

Stephen Cox said:

Caroline just never make the mistake of trying to age western Red Cedar as it goes a rather muddy grey color and loses it's beautifull color and almost luminous glow that appears when oiled correctly.

An interesting method of timber treatment I have never seen practiced before or since was practiced by my Mothers Cousin,He actually used to Pickle timber to get a very different finish to anything other than maybe some driftwood I have come across at times,Most unusual effect and I have always wanted to experiment with the method on different timbers time permitting at some point.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 19, 2012 at 8:04am

There are 3 Caroline. The panel colors are light red, the hunting tartan is green and the royal is white, The "binders" are dark blue, yellow, and scarlet with very narrow black dividers in the hunting tarton but not in the others.

Cheers Caroline

Dr Caroline Wright said:

I have been meaning to tell you Bob that during a trip to Britain in the late 1980's we were visiting Scotland and we found out that the Wright family is part of the MacIntire Clan so we had a made-to-measure kilt made for me. It has red, navy and light blue in it.

What colours are in the Stewart Clan tartan?

Fond regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 19, 2012 at 10:25am

"Pickle" as in ........? I have made different pickles and been pickled at time in my youth. Is this form of "pickling" a family secret?

Stephen Cox said:

Caroline just never make the mistake of trying to age western Red Cedar as it goes a rather muddy grey color and loses it's beautifull color and almost luminous glow that appears when oiled correctly.

An interesting method of timber treatment I have never seen practiced before or since was practiced by my Mothers Cousin,He actually used to Pickle timber to get a very different finish to anything other than maybe some driftwood I have come across at times,Most unusual effect and I have always wanted to experiment with the method on different timbers time permitting at some point.

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 19, 2012 at 10:42am

Thank you Bob for sharing information about your grandfather and your family history. Thrust the Stewart Clan to have three tartans whereas the McIntire's only have one.

I really love my kilt as it is made in a lighter weight material than would be needed in cold, snowy Scotland. The people in the shop asked me where I was from and suggested that I choose the lighter weight material which was very nice of them. The overlapping pleats sit so beautifully and when I was younger I would do a bit of a Highland Fling just to watch what the pleats would do! Of course it was not cheap to buy.

When it arrived in Australia I received a telephone call at the University from Australian Customs and had to pay tax on the kilt which made it even more expensive. The funny thing was that if I have been able to bring it back with me in my suitcase I would not have had to pay the extra tax. Go figure!! But it all add to the history of the kilt which will be passed down from mother to daughter to grand-daughter to great grand-daughter..........

Fond regards

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by Jan Courtney on July 19, 2012 at 1:19pm

So what's the point then Ms. Milne ?????

National Breaking News

We will take panel seriously: Milne

From: AAP
July 17, 2012 1:56PM

THE Australian Greens say they will take seriously the recommendations of an expert panel on asylum seekers but insist they will not support any measures aimed at deterring people from getting on boats.

Greens leader Christine Milne and her immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young joined government and crossbench MPs for a meeting with the panel, led by former defence chief Angus Houston, in Canberra on Tuesday.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 19, 2012 at 3:06pm

Exactly Jan. What's the point? Nothing will change unless it is forcibly changed by circumstances out of control of the Greens

Eureka Bob

Jan Courtney said:

So what's the point then Ms. Milne ?????

National Breaking News

We will take panel seriously: Milne

From: AAP

July 17, 2012 1:56PM

THE Australian Greens say they will take seriously the recommendations of an expert panel on asylum seekers but insist they will not support any measures aimed at deterring people from getting on boats.

Greens leader Christine Milne and her immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young joined government and crossbench MPs for a meeting with the panel, led by former defence chief Angus Houston, in Canberra on Tuesday.

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 22, 2012 at 6:49pm

My Letter to Christine Milne

I wish to express my outrage at what your party has done to set Tasmania and its economy back to the 20th Century.

How dare you say that Farmers can not harvest the trees they have grown on their own properties as an investment so that on maturity these tress will provide timber for the building industry and much needed finance for their families.

How dare you say that we need to lock up an extra 15% of forests (a total of 60% of Tasmania) to be deemed to be high conservation forests thereby cutting off production of timber. This has resulted in the loss of jobs in the timber industry and saw mills and all but brought the small towns that they lived in to a virtual halt.

How dare you oppose the Pulp Mill which would process the timber that is not good enough for building materials into pulp to be sent overseas to be made in compressed wood for building materials. This would have provided much needed jobs at the plant, for the development of infrastructure, for the building industry, and for nearby towns.

How dare you sent and finance Greenpeace youth overseas to tell lies about Tasmania Forestry so that The markets for our products become non-existent.

You are a disgrace to Tasmania, its future and the community you pledged to serve.

A Very Disgruntled Tasmanian

Dr Caroline M. Wright

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 22, 2012 at 7:41pm

Bev. The story is the pattern on all the Willow Pattern chinaware. It is blue and quite common produced in vast numbers.

Bob

Beverley Prescott said:

I actually have three different sizes of those chests here - Mum's very old one (nice middle size), then I purchased a larger one in the more recent years and then when a shop had a half price sale, I purchased a baby one for my grandkids - however, it hasn't got to their place yet!!

I do not know the stories of the carvings though.

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 23, 2012 at 9:08am

The third "How Dare You" section '...the timber not good enough for building materials into pulp.... ' should read ...'the timber not good enough for building materials into wood chips ....'. Sorry about that folks :-)

Dr Caroline Wright said:

My Letter to Christine Milne

I wish to express my outrage at what your party has done to set Tasmania and its economy back to the 20th Century.

How dare you say that Farmers can not harvest the trees they have grown on their own properties as an investment so that on maturity these tress will provide timber for the building industry and much needed finance for their families.

How dare you say that we need to lock up an extra 15% of forests (a total of 60% of Tasmania) to be deemed to be high conservation forests thereby cutting off production of timber. This has resulted in the loss of jobs in the timber industry and saw mills and all but brought the small towns that they lived in to a virtual halt.

How dare you oppose the Pulp Mill which would process the timber that is not good enough for building materials into pulp to be sent overseas to be made in compressed wood for building materials. This would have provided much needed jobs at the plant, for the development of infrastructure, for the building industry, and for nearby towns.

How dare you sent and finance Greenpeace youth overseas to tell lies about Tasmania Forestry so that The markets for our products become non-existent.

You are a disgrace to Tasmania, its future and the community you pledged to serve.

A Very Disgruntled Tasmanian

Dr Caroline M. Wright

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Cox on July 28, 2012 at 9:00am

http://www.overclockers.com.au/image.php?pic=images/newspics/27jul1...

One for Bob and all the others into Woodwork from another site I am a member of,Worth a look OH&sS would have a heart attack.

After all this thread is more about how inconsequential we consider Milnes personal agendas

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Permalink Reply by Dr Caroline Wright on July 28, 2012 at 11:15am

That is one big bit of something. Perhaps Christine Milne would not mind if we ran a Guessing Competition about what the lathe is actually making. My guess is that it will form the base of a large table.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Stewart on July 28, 2012 at 12:27pm

We have kept the Faith Alan, Secret Men's Business remains secret..for now anyway. But isn't this a great way to respond to Christine Milne and her Insurgents?

alan mikkelsen said:

I should have come clean and admitted that;

1) I did know that CNC was an acronym for Computer Numerical Control

2) Than CNC is used extensively in modern die making etc.

3) That multiple axes (at least 3) for controlled movement of the cutting tool(s) are a feature of same.

And that's it! On a scale of 1 (dumb) to 10 (probably Bob and Stephen), I might have scraped in a 2 :-)

But if for some weird reason you might like to explore further, maybe this link could help. Disclaimer!! As a 2 max dumbo, no guarantees!! :-)

Cheers bro' al