by Barry Rumpf

Have you noticed in the TV news clips of teachers and students protesting in the streets supporting movements like BLM and other misguided fads. Many of them looked as if they came from a CFMEU picket line.

Irrelevant? I think not. Back in the old days when such erstwhile fundamentals as literacy and numeracy were still of prime importance and education had not been hijacked as a convenience for teachers, as opposed to a service for students, far more than imparting knowledge was involved.

Education had a commendable role in imposing a code of behaviour, of setting standards of conduct, of leading by example. This benefitted even those students who were not otherwise getting the best out of their schooling. It helped instil the essential elements of character forming.

I’m sure we all remember that fateful month of March. One after another states began to issue lockdown orders, closing businesses, restricting travel, and ordering people to stay home. That was the month when the United States went from viewing COVID-19 as a minimal threat to issuing some of the most draconian lockdown measures in the entire world. 

Life changed almost immediately.

The stock market plummets, the unemployment rate skyrockets, the masks get tighter, the social fabric frays. The government goes on an unprecedented power grab exerting more control over society more viciously and more arbitrarily than ever before.

The Drones are out there every day and every night. Patrolling.

I was speaking with Redhead this morning and she informed me that there was a new image of her home up on the internet - and my little Getz was parked outside her home. Google Earth or some drone was sneaking around taking snapshots and she was quite gleeful to tell me how lovely her house looked. Wasn't the shrubbery looking lovely? Didn't the driveway look clean and well tended? 

Well, Redhead, aka Mum, you should be very thankful that the photo captured a little Getz and not the backyard shower.

" Australians have suffered a ‘massive incursion’ of their rights" 
"Australians have allowed their freedoms to be usurped by power-hungry politicians and bureaucrats who, if not telling untruths, are "fiddling with the truth”

I nearly got shot yesterday - not by a gun but by a shower head on the rampage. And I can tell you it was one very angry showerhead. Here is my story of how I nearly died yesterday - death by showerhead.

It was a cool winter's morning and I had stripped off and stepped in. I had noticed, over the past few months that I had to turn the taps on more than I previously did. I stood under the dribble that was coming out of the shower rose and thought to myself that even my shower was depressed. After all, there is not much to be cheerful about these days and it is not to be unexpected that even household appliances and fixtures and fittings could be suffering from the misery of 2020.