General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently.
You'll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of an ABC interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?
GENERAL COSGROVE:
We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL COSGROVE:
Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?
The radio went silent and the interview ended.
im still here
ill post bub pix soon... shes 6 months old now!!!
i have been sick with the flu or something for 2 weeks (no exageration)
little steps ...little steps
rinse and repeat
i want another but this week has been good
i spent the last few days renovating my backyard removing weeds and invasive plants and replacing it with ordered chaos (how i like it) with borders and herbs and flowers and good stuff
Oh! I have chickens now too... Bantam crossed with an egyptian breed so their smaller than regular chooks and lay light brown eggs about 1/3 smaller than a regular chook egg and they shit on shop bought eggs for taste.
so yeah i have embraced my inner hippie :D
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and yeah when i go back to work ill be beginning my new roll as a supervisor (still doing medic -wouldnt give that up nomatter whats thrown at me)
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i have decided that all my excess eggs will goto the local op shop who each friday give away free bread (fresh) i have 6 chooks who (when they get bigger) will lat a minimum of 3 each a day. I eat a lot of egg whites but that still leaves a carton or 2 for the op shop. Im also going to get 4 more chooks in a few weeks from my aunt (where i got these ones) so there will be more eggs!
that is all
The Heart Sutra
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, meditating deeply on Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that the five aspects of human existence are empty*, and so released himself from suffering. Answering the monk Sariputra, he said this:
Body is nothing more than emptiness,Which means...
emptiness is nothing more than body.
The body is exactly empty,
and emptiness is exactly body.The other four aspects of human existence --
feeling, thought, will, and consciousness --
are likewise nothing more than emptiness,
and emptiness nothing more than they.All things are empty:
Nothing is born, nothing dies,
nothing is pure, nothing is stained,
nothing increases and nothing decreases.So, in emptiness, there is no body,
no feeling, no thought,
no will, no consciousness.
There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.
There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.
There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.There is no ignorance,
and no end to ignorance.
There is no old age and death,
and no end to old age and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,
no end to suffering, no path to follow.
There is no attainment of wisdom,
and no wisdom to attain.The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and so with no delusions,
they feel no fear,
and have Nirvana here and now.All the Buddhas,
past, present, and future,
rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and live in full enlightenment.The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra.
It is the clearest mantra,
the highest mantra,
the mantra that removes all suffering.This is truth that cannot be doubted.
Say it so:Gaté,
gaté,
paragaté,
parasamgaté.
Bodhi!
Svaha!
Gone,
gone,
gone over,
gone fully over.
Awakened!
So be it!
* Emptiness is the usual translation for the Buddhist term Sunyata (or Shunyata). It refers to the fact that no thing -- including human existence -- has ultimate substantiality, which in turn means that no thing is permanent and no thing is totally independent of everything else. In other words, everything in this world is interconnected and in constant flux. A deep appreciation of this idea of emptiness thus saves us from the suffering caused by our egos, our attachments, and our resistance to change and loss.
Dont hurry growing up.
tonkin highway
pouring rain
80kmh
toyota echo
aquaplane
360 deg spinning
400m slide
went across 2 lanes the middle island and into oncomming traffic
ate a sign
my poor little car is well damaged
im ok
very fucking scary
pants were shat.
ok this morning i lost control of my car in pouring rain doing 80 clicks... my car was like a pirouetting(sp?) ballerina
they are not truly good deeds.
If you fear others will find out about your bad deeds,
those are truly bad deeds.
Henry David Thoreau
2. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.3.The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.Albert Einstein
5. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
6. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
7. Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
8. Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill Hicks
9. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much
as your own unguarded thoughts.
Buddha
10. Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.
The Dhammapada
Yes, its more awesome than 20 awesome things.
But FUCK being a parent is hard. In an awesome way tho.
Awesome being, living in an almost permanent state of zombie. Trying to do hosework in between H-Bomb-poo-filled-nappies, bouts of wind = crying... omg so much crying, bathing = crying, feeding = crying until fed. Its a chess game and my nearly 2 week old daughter has almost got me in check.
Lack of sleep, food, peace and quiet has me in a state something similar to a soldier in a jungle waiting to be anhialated by the next onslaught from the enemy... except my enemy is the foulest smelling, sticky, mustard coloured poo grenades and they sneak up on you. In that moment when shes in your arms, staring up at you with he big blue eyes and your thinking its all worth it, out of nowhere you might be lucky to hear a grumble then BAM a sound similar to what my mates call a 'Shart' (its a fart but you follow through) your nostrils are assaulted by a stench that you could never possibly believe would come from something so cute. A smell that melts the paint off walls, burns the hairs off your nose, kills roaches for miles and keeps away any prospective babysitter for the next 6 months.
It should be bottled and used as a form of birth control... 1 smell and you would be double bagging 'little johnny' for life.
Olivia is beautiful and i love every minute with her and id have it no other way.
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