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TraLa said:
Why beat a dead donkey? I mean aside from the fact it is boring, it is really really pointless.
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Why beat a dead donkey ?

Because it is part and parcel of a tried and true way of skinning it.

What ya do is, after carefully slaughtering the beast ButOfCourse, is make small slits near the hoofs, insert some sort of tubing just under the skin, then tie-off/secure.

Then you start beating the dead beasty while somebody (or yourself) blows into the tubing.

What this does is allow the skin to be separated from the meat.

As the process continues, the whole beast on the outside is kinda blown up like a balloon. In a hot climate without refrigeration it is wise to have others assist in the beating as well as the blowing as well as rolling the dead creature around on its back, etc, so that the skin can be evenly loosened near all over and removed and the animal butchers and distributed as fast as possible.

After the skin is well and truly loose, the clubs can be put down and the blowers get their breath back.

Tis then a simple matter of slicing the skin up the legs, across the belly, and around the neck, and it all basically falls off in one useful piece revealing the meat that can now be butchered and distributed, leaving next to nothing behind to show it happened other than a hole in the air and spare spot on the hitching ring/wall insert where a donkey used to be.

I've seen the age old process from start to finish and the most memorable aspect of it all (aside from seeing the dead creature being rolled around on its back with its legs up in the air as folk beat upon it from all sides) was seeing an urchin happily struggling off (presumably back to her family) with the donkey's severed head in her arms.

It was far from boring or pointless; I found it all to be quite fascinating, and I'm happy with the way my 8cents a day was spent to bring such knowledge / know-how to me.

In the words of SBS, "the world really is an amazing place", yes ?

Oh, and the same process apparently works well for goats too. :)

regarDS
 
Girl found alive after 10 years being kidnapped

http://www.19actionnews.com/story/2...ing-woman-amanda-berry-calls-cleveland-police

According to police a woman claiming to be Amanda Berry called 911 Monday. She said she was kidnapped 10 years ago and said she is currently at a home at 2210 Seymour.

She also told the dispatcher that Gina DeJesus was with her.

A third missing woman, 32-year old Michelle Knight, was in the home with Berry and DeJesus. It's believed Knight disappeared when she in 2000.

And wow I am amazed that the guy that did this managed to get away with it for so long. I wonder what he'll plead when this gets to court? People like this should face the death penalty.
 
Mud Cake said:
http://www.19actionnews.com/story/2...ing-woman-amanda-berry-calls-cleveland-police

According to police a woman claiming to be Amanda Berry called 911 Monday. She said she was kidnapped 10 years ago and said she is currently at a home at 2210 Seymour.

She also told the dispatcher that Gina DeJesus was with her.

A third missing woman, 32-year old Michelle Knight, was in the home with Berry and DeJesus. It's believed Knight disappeared when she in 2000.

And wow I am amazed that the guy that did this managed to get away with it for so long. I wonder what he'll plead when this gets to court? People like this should face the death penalty.
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According to a news article 3 brothers have been arrested.

http://nation.time.com/2013/05/06/2-women-missing-for-a-decade-found-alive-in-ohio/
 
TraLa said:
Vote 1 Labor
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The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E.
A billion Dollars ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

Stamp Duty
Tobacco Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Income Tax
Council Tax
Fishing Licence Tax
Petrol/Diesel Tax
Inheritance Tax
(tax on top of tax)
Alcohol Tax
G.S.T.
Property Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Vehicle Licence / Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

Carbon Dioxide Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 60 years ago and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt.

We had the largest middle class in the world. Mum stayed home to raise the kids, Dad and teachers were allowed to discipline kids.

A criminals life was uncomfortable.

Boat people were kids sailing on the harbour.

What the hell happened?
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What do you think the hell happened, trala ?

regarDS
 
Got crippling debt ? "Relax, don't worry about it"

From last night's Q&A, where Fabian Socialist Julia Gillard dared to face questions from ... children.

Transcript available here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3740192.htm

all bolding and putting of words in mouth/thoughts in head, mine. :D

AMBER KUKAS: Hello. Before the Labor Government was elected, there was a major surplus of funding and after spending the money on numerous projects we are now in deficit for an ample amount of money. My question is: what affect will this have on our generation given that we will be facing higher taxes and levies to pay off this debt from the Government?

JULIA GILLARD: Well, my all up message will be you can relax a bit about that ... [blah, blah, blah ... perhaps if I drone on talking down to these un-unionised prostitute spawn (for, according to my own published socialist writings, "marriage is prostitution") enough while I move these cups around enough, they will forget where the pea is as well as not notice the hand cutting their parent's purse strings] ... I think people kind of intuitively know that it’s been a pretty tough period for business and if it has been a tough period for business [my plan to ruin capitalism in Oz and advance socialism and the loss of freedom and independance is going spleeendidly, muhahahahahaha], that means they are making less money. If they are making less money they are paying less tax ... [blah, blah, blah, are their eyes glazing over yet ? time to say "oh look, a unicorn" or at least some sort of "abbottabbottabbott ... wait, what was I talking about, my droning voice has managed to tune even ME out ... ghods, I hope Tony Jones will come to my rescue soon ... whose stupid idea was it to put me in front of questioning kids ? who let that question through ?] ... Now, we have got to work our way back to a surplus and obviously pay off the debt but the scale of the debt is around 10% of GDP. What does that mean? It is the same as someone who earns $100,000 a year having a mortgage of $10,000. And I think most of you would know, you’re probably living in homes mum and dad are buying, that they have got mortgages well in excess of $10,000 and they’d happily change places with someone whose mortgage was just 10% of their income ... [whew, I think I got away with that ... a bit hard to get out of things by calling kids misogynists after all, especially when it is a girl asking the question, dammit]

TONY JONES: I have just got to pull you up there. I mean your first message was relax. We had to break our promise on the surplus but relax? Is that what you're telling Wayne Swan?

JULIA GILLARD: No [FLIK you very much Tony ! I thought this was OUR ABC ! We've give you billions over the last few years and just given you a whole bunch more and loaned some more on top of that and this is how you treat me, your Queen ?], I never say relax to Wayne Swan. Quite the reverse actually. No, poor old Swanny never gets to relax. No, my message was in terms of you worrying about this for your long term future, that is not something that you have to worry about for your long term future. [well, I certainly won't be worrying about it; I'll be living it up on my parliarmentary pension and over the top index linked lifelong guarenteed superannuation that next to no one in the private sector, especially not Real Tax Payers could EVER hope to see. muhhahahahahahaha. Dontcha know that when it comes to socialism that we are all equal cept some of us are more equal than others and that I deserve to forever have more than any of you ? muhahahahahaha muhahahahahaha muhahahahahahaha ... wow, that really echos in here !]
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TL : DR ?

Ok, short version.

Kid asks PM "we had money, you spent it all and more, and now who is going to pay ?" and/or "my generation is being lumbered with the debt of your foolish spending"

PM replies "relax, don't worry about it"

Oh, the poor woman is just misunderstood and simply just wants to be loved eh ?

regarDS
 
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BTW, does anyone here know what/where this is ?

whitethrone.jpg

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oh, never mind, google images was my friend

Fascinating reading here, too.

"Houston, Petrus Romanus has landed" ?

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From here:

This twenty-meter-wide brass and bronze sculpture behind the current Pope, Benedict XVI, is located in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall which was completed in 1971.

The Official Vatican spin on this horrifyingly evil appearing sculpture, supposedly in the words of Fazzini, who is no longer among the living to confirm it, is that "Christ rises from this crater torn open by a nuclear bomb; an atrocious explosion, a vortex of violence and energy."

If this is, indeed, a modern depiction of the Resurrection of Christ, why then does it bear such a bizarre alien chthonic resemblance to a demonic, Satanic image?

Why is the word "Christ" noticeably absent from the name of the sculpture? Just who is it, really, that is shown being "Resurrected" here?
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Anyhoo, in other old news:

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regarDS
 
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derspatz said:
Not one of these taxes existed 60 years ago and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.

What do you think the hell happened, trala ?

regarDS
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You're right, in the 1950's they didn't.

But it must be said, while it is true that after suffering for decades through The Great Depression, Australian unemployment was at an all time low and we as a society were beginning to prosper, I think the fact women were encouraged to stay home and work on needle point and Valium addictions, aboriginal people where treated as second class citizens, and the less fortunate and vulnerable were exploited and institutionalised, to the point 60 years later we are still appalled by the findings, suggests it wasn't all tickle kisses, sunlight and laughter.

I am not sure what you are asking?

Quite frankly, I don't want to know. Trying to decipher your posts is like trying to decipher and make sense of the Bible, to me it is a futile and joyless exercise, much like flogging a dead donkey.

RegarDS
 
TraLa said:
Trying to decipher your posts is like trying to decipher and make sense of the Bible ...
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Here, perhaps this "bible wheel" might help. What ya do is make a circle of the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alephbet then wrap the 66 books of Protestant Canon around it (either on the inside or the outside, she'll be right mate) and then you ... oh go read it for yourself. :D

... much like flogging a dead donkey.
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So, not content with merely observing the proven usefulness of beating a dead donkey, you now wish to talk about stealing it ?

regarDS
 
derspatz said:
Here, perhaps this "bible wheel" might help. What ya do is make a circle of the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alephbet then wrap the 66 books of Protestant Canon around it (either on the inside or the outside, she'll be right mate) and then you ... oh go read it for yourself. :D



So, not content with merely observing the proven usefulness of beating a dead donkey, you now wish to talk about stealing it ?

regarDS
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I stopped clicking your links by around week 2 of joining this nut house. And as always I am unsure of the real point of your quote, given that I have absolutely no use in flogging a dead donkey.
 
Hallelujah it's dead Jim !

... now to collect and bury the corpse.

... and what a massively expensive and utter waste it has all been !

... how sad that your children's children will still be paying for the idiocy and waste inflicted upon this nation by the self-seeking, self-serving fabian socialist greenazi government.

From here:

I watched the global warming scare this week drowning in a pool of red ink, right on my television screen.

I don’t just mean Climate Change Minister Greg Combet being forced yesterday to eat his mendacious words, having blown a gigantic hole in the Budget .

First there was Monday night’s Q&A on the ABC, where students fired earnest questions at Prime Minister Julia Gillard on such things as bad sexism, poor boat people, and evil Israel.


But not one of these well-coached idealists asked a question on global warming.

When Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister faced students on Q&A in 2010, he was asked at least a dozen.

Back then, and after, Labor was so sure global warming was the new moral crusade that it gave us a carbon tax we didn’t want and didn’t vote for.

It was just as sure – and just as wrong – the rest of the world would also impose stiff carbon taxes, so we would not be alone in driving up power prices and killing jobs .
Greg Combet was so certain that he last year linked Australia’s carbon trading scheme - to replace the carbon tax in 2015 - to Europe’s, the world’s biggest.

He was betting a committed Europe would ramp up its own price to $29.

The Government then figured how much it would earn from all that loot – and blew the lot, with $1.4 billion promised in tax cuts from 2015.

You couldn’t tell Combet he was mad – Europe was too broke to slug business like that.

But now the truth can be denied no longer.

Europe’s price is bogged at under $5, and if it’s still near that by 2015, the Budget will have a hole north of $7 billion a year.

So Combet was sent out yesterday to admit the promised tax cuts, meant to compensate for the tax, would not be paid.

But the full story is that the $23 carbon tax Labor gave us last year has been entirely for nothing.

In two years the price will fall to a fraction. Companies will simply wait for that rather than invest in expensive technology to cut their emissions – which wouldn’t change the global temperature anyway, even had it risen these past 15 years.

What a colossal folly. What a criminal waste.
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In Edinburgh there is this famous bit of pavement that is spat upon prolly many times a day. You can google why.

spitonthis.jpeg

I propose that similar bits of pavement be set up somewhere suitable in every capital city in Oz (including Cantberra) and and the names of Fabian Socialist Julia Gillard, Greenazi one-world-government I-want-my-alien-overlords Bob Brown, Combet, Milne (etc etc) along with "greens" and "alp" be firmly bolted into it to be similarly spat upon for what they have done and what they tried to do to this nation. :D

regarDS
 
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winter is coming

amazing footage of "glaciers" moving in on houses

see: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/wave-of-ice-marches-on-homes-on/story-fnd134gw-1226640404192

IT'S A SCENE that could be from a '70s horror movie: A wave of ice crystals relentlessly marching towards homes in Minnesota in the United States.

The massive ice floes have also destroyed 12 homes and damaged another 15 in Canada, which boarders Minnesota.

According to emergency officials, a total of seven homes in Ochre Breach were "literally crushed" by the ice that rose up within minutes pushed by strong winds, Winnepeg Free Press reports.

A resident caught footage of a wave of ice that creeped off another lake in Minnesota - as foam froze and was pushed ashore by strong, icy winds.

Billions of needles of ice seemingly crawl up out of the lake and swarm over the shoreline.
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regarDS
 
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