tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59456162012-03-08T13:28:33.126+11:00" We will all be rooned ". You know I said it first ! Neil Mitchell, Jon Faine and Alan Jones have now all said it. Normally imitation is flattery. But now with even the Greens saying it, its mostly noisy parrot fashion stuff.journeymanjnoreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945616.post-30875219674518524812012-03-08T13:26:00.002+11:002012-03-08T13:28:33.172+11:00

We don't watch the ABC --- they scare us too much .....and then run a shocking night of shocking humor Wednesdays .Doesn't work mate .  Rather watch Bruce Parry on SBS. His great Series on The Arctic He hangs around long enough to really get a feel for what's really happening and is not afraid to let the people speak. Beats so many who are out to point fingers and poke them into windmills

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The best bit about not being taken seriously by the media is that you don't waste time chasing quickfix and hype; We are not trapped in a false comfort zone created  by living in a cave ; a self righteous self centred comfort zone where you can cocoon yourself constantly and deal directly with the one direction criticism that manages to force its way down the entrance. ( Symbolized by Woolworth's

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Nothing creates better mental health than a trip outside.  If you're a miner or a speculator , be  a steer  for a day .  You WILL see things differently away from the moving coloured  screens that fake the real world and trick those who spend too much time in front of them . If we have a spare dollar out here , we put it where it pays reliable dividends . We don't have enough spare dollars to

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I guess with hindsight its correct to say that "we" have sometimes pushed some country too far .But I am not convinced we haven't done some good ; and with our better understanding our kids will do better. In a dry and precarious land we all shower and live together pretty well. Its not as though we are exactly "in charge "either. Kangaroos love jumping our fences and camels ignoring them , There

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Now you may say "takes one to know one " You'd be right,  and that's the point . We all live with uncertainty and that can scare us . Here though , you see a few cycles more than most and you worry less and predict more. Be wise to be open to learn . Ya see , with people who worry about our territory  is they they don't experience it ....so they just don't know . And lookin at how they talk

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The community I grew up in had a few great sayings . One of  the best was 'takes one to know one ". Which means if you think you know the motivation of another , be careful you didn't source it from your own mind . Something about logs in your own eye there ?

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Polys wonder why we don't trust them . What I don't get is this idea they have at the moment that "We Must We Should , We Have to - trust them " . "Climate change" - whatever that means . How come,  all of a sudden, we should not only change speed ,  but change tack with  these dictator( they know what's best - not us ) .  Somehow now you have become so well intentioned AND so capable - even

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You bet . Most of us on the farm wait too long to find one. So , it's not easy to find a woman for this unique and tough  job .The farmers wife has to be someone very, very special. I was 42 before I introduced wonderwoman  from the big smoke to a world even she could not always cope with. You see,  for starters there was always something EXTRA to add to the days work ;  It's as true today,  as

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Not as though it doesn't happen in the city,  but its gotta happen out here sometimes to save us from going mad .  I nearly went mad the other month trying to milk 250cows for someone who needed a break for the day .   The story is here .

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 They are so innocent . Like kids, pity they don't stay that way . Notice there is a bit of duck shoving going on and the lineup is getting a big ragged at the back .Some one' striying to pass , scamble up the ladder , jump the queue , so what's new  eh ?. The good thing is that following mother duck is good .Following some duck who doesn't know where they going is not using the brains your

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After seeing Hacker befuddled by the bureaubrats ,I never thought I'd see the day when a leader,particularly one who has none to deal with, defend them. I've lived to see Bob Brown do it on Jon Feine's program, a few days ago.Some city folks tell me I lead a sheltered life out ere , No politickan and such: but we see a lot . We have to study all our lives to survive . And we can see a dud

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Or so he says- half way up a tree and without food for more than 20 days. Maybe he was mad before he sought to blame the government He wouldn't be the first man in rural Australia to be driven mad by the childish , ever changing and hypocritical logic of the green lobbyists. Tree huggers, let alone anyone else, are not supposed to resist the idea of carbon trading on our behalf - the greater

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Was in bed thinking as I often do about why the citicentrics are worried about the world warming. It had been a typical climate warming scare day at 40 degrees but now i up to my ears under the blankets . They like things simple they do. Maybe the worriers think its as simple as burning equals warming which would be true if the heat didn't escape .But it does - every night when there is no

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no sheep ere It used to be that, once every few years, we would tell em "Yeh mate, this is how it is !" They would like to hear what we've got say and we'd tell em We'd tell them what to ” think”. we'd try anyway , Elp em out Now they tell us what WE should “think”. \Hang on a minute mate ! We are no sheep....We don't follow you. Infact, while we are on the subject of sheep , I am inclined

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I mean, like I said some months ago, the city is more worried than I am .It seems to me that noone really knows quite what we are worried about. Is it rising sea levels , more storms or hotter weather , too much co2 or too much methane ? Lucky for me cows; they don't know we are about to stick something truly breathtaking up them ! When the greens come out here and show us how to keep the

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Hard to believe isn't it .Its like they are on drugs or somethin . some new religion . The ink is just dry on the ozone layer disaster and the sky is falling again . The situation is said to be so serious the Powers that be need to act straight away . "the day of salvation is today - thursday - if we don't act its disaster; things will melt irrevocably" said john feine in response to his well

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945616.post-1170677836287080762007-02-05T23:02:00.000+11:002007-02-07T23:05:43.526+11:00

He was down in the gully talking water ,drought .We'll all be rooned" i said "having to put up with the patting possums brigade; doing all the things nice city folks think we farmers should do . Let alone the things we " do wrong" i said .We try but half of it makes no big picture conservation sense mate . You give them time to tell you what they know as we do out ere but they don't even know

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945616.post-1170453574070955202007-02-03T08:41:00.000+11:002007-02-05T23:02:09.226+11:00

Gee that bloke from the UN the other night ( friday night ABC NEWS - top story ) was confusing . I mean was it "90% probably land clearing "or "90% probable burning fossil fuels. Hope the PM doesn't go and spend another 10 billion dollars before he finds out . WAs it him that was certified or the subject that was certainified . They worry me these city folks - especailly talking about the weather

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i can't quite get the gist of why Thwaites is offering mosquito aquiriums to the city folks for the 1 in 1000 yr drought( as he reckons ) ,. seems to me the 1000 bucks would be better spent on something else - One gilmore prize wouldn't cost as much , but it would do more good than these tokens for the idols !!! The silly old tanks technology brigade will be little better than a bucket

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Like chooks with their heads cuts cut off , they run around in a panic . Finally they get the word Before it was "its 100 yr" drought "no it 1000yr" and from MR Thwaites " no , its worse than that , according to my tealeaves - its never happened before " . what would the polys know and why do they think we would belive them and the media hype ----the Age ; of all newspapers seeks ---such

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"We'll all be ruined "me city mates said. They're worried . It used to be that i wus the only one worried about the weather . Now thems go into a panic .They just about kill me if i say " she'll be right mate " . Has the world gone mad ? "It's all that heat that our cars are pumping out" they say. "its crating warmin - we need to walk more .....cause its warming " "Well i am not sure about this

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What this country really needs? Subject: The ARMY Dear Mum & Dad, I am well. Hope you are. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil the Army is better than working on the farm - tell them to get into the Army quick before the jobs are all gone. I was a bit slow in settling down at first, because you don't get outta bed until 6am. I like sleeping in now, but all you do before brekky is make ya

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You've got nothing to worry about mate, compared to those panic merchants in the big smoke! Did you notice how much panic the polys are in over water and our world heating this week. and whatever else is wooryin em/ about us ? not sure why they get that way -- do you? They obvoisly don't know much about big picture cycles ----like the last glacial!

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945616.post-1084491103026310582004-05-14T09:21:00.000+10:002004-05-14T09:31:43.026+10:00

Realistic views of the future? One thing I can't fathom is this talk that Bob Brown knows where he is going. He's a realist? By watching TV many of my city cousins think they know whats good for the country . And more than us. we country folks area supposed to be too close to the issues or just " doing the wrong thing by being here", or somethin "We can get all our sugar and milk cheaper

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945616.post-1083549690263347942004-05-03T12:01:00.000+10:002004-05-03T12:05:52.310+10:00

M1 Did you hear that Bob katter hasn't even got a passport? According to city folks that means we are dumb we don't know what we are talking about on economic matters! M2 Rather my money with you mate than with them !

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"You poor bastard" They may not say it, but too many think it . This is a call to our fellow Austrailans to stop patronising us , and start supporting systems of sustainable land management - those who look after their country and their food supplies. From our point of view , poverty is one thing, but predjudice is worse!. It' s very tough when our passions are treated with patronising

Little Johnnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5945616.post-1078787964304067602004-03-09T10:19:00.000+11:002004-03-09T10:51:40.546+11:00

"They are very good people, they've worked very hard and they don't deserve what's happened to them," the PM said as he addressed sugar farmers in the marginal seats up north last week . Don't you hate it when Canberra thicktanks knows something they clearly don't .- and they treat you like ignoramusus's as they pat you on the back and say " your'e a good bloke - but work harder and if your

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You know one of the funniest things I've ever seen is John Cleese doing those surviving committees videos. Truth is they are worsely run than they ever were! I reckon many of the problems governments have is because they believe too much in "community consultation" . There's something missing i reckon Its important to talk but not weigh up everything with numbers . the "maths model" of

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Terrible terrible . The Otways are being ruined . Come and see for yourself what logging has done, the history, the impacts , the precious and unique. Hear what those who have managed it say on site before they are forced out forever. November 29/30 . Details on http://ourland3.tripod.com/otwaysoptions

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We'll all be ruined "Its unbelievably wet ... " The cows are getting bogged and we are up to our armpits in it . You should have been at the Colac show . the place was a mud bath -people walking around in gumboots and it wasn't just a tribute to Cliffy . While we know you blokes up near Donald wanted more, we've had enough . Don't forget the meeting at Simpson on Friday night . where you

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As geoff from geelong said today scabby mouth is no reason to panic . panic prize goes to the bob brown for cynically employing widespread ignorance to promote their less acaeptable agendas ( the closure of industries)

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