Movie review: Training Day (2001, Denzel Washington)

 Trailer:

https://youtu.be/DXPJqRtkDP0

Like Idiocracy, this is a really cool movie from the past twenty years or so with a black american leading character. It's all about policing (not a comedy though). Denzel Washington plays a dodgy cop. Unfortunately or not, I cannot remember any actual details from this movie apart from it was pretty cool. Same as that Samuel L Jackson movie where he's a school teacher in south central LA or somewhere. Movies that leave a good impression long term, over decades, of actually being good movies. I'll buy a day's viewing from YouTube of this Training Day and watch it and write a review (can't remember a thing).....

The other aforementioned movie is called 187 or something like that, Samuel L Jackson plays schoolteacher Mr Garfield in the ghetto. I probably won't watch it again as I don't like watching movies a lot of movies much anymore but I'll definitely watch Training Day tonight as I recall it was a pretty good movie and it's been an extremely long time.... If I ever end up making feature movies when I'm 70 or something I wouldn't want to pollut e my style with the low cultural level generally subpar intellectual level of movies generally out there (intellectual snob). Even if a backward society demonstrates its inability to be worthy of any movies I could make, I still wouldn't want to pollute my formula one like intellect and education with inferiority quality engine oils (cheap Hollywood trash), hence the few movies I watch anymore, if any at all (intellectual snob).

Scene from 187 Mr Garfield: 

https://youtu.be/QYulTU7uakM

Standby....

They're pretty good performances by Washington and Hawke. Even president Camacho is in this movie believe it or not but it's before he gets into politics. The plotline about the Russians is extremely implausible however but everything else was very plausible in certain circumstances. Certainly things have been that corrupt here in Australia and often still are!

Tire change! NASCAR or Formula One?

 Tire change cuz

https://youtu.be/JY0Ag0fMxz8

Je suis content avec le prix: $169 une pneumatique

So it's todo un pit estop right now. Just got the two front tyres on the 2016 SUV changed. Front left tyre had a metallic screw in it like a week or so, deflationary. Changed it myself for the spare held in place under the vehicle at the rear. Meantime my utility vehicle is being serviced by moi and also my buddy from El Salvador back in Compton or wherever I'm from. We were servicing it the other day and chatting in Spanish when we saw two detective cars, unmarked, with flashing lights and sirens whizz by on Luxford Road, (I grew up in 612 Luxford btw) like ten minutes apart, one a Hyundai Sonata and the other I don't recall (probably a Holden). He's the only guy in the world I talk with in Spanish. If you're fluent in a language and only talk it like once a year it's pretty spesh (special). Very mysteriously, like magic, most recently I noticed my car horn on the utility vehicle started working again first time since I bought it, it has never worked for many long months. Also the driver's window was down a bit one night while I was sleeping on the boat however I don't recall leaving it open in the rain with my expensive SUV electronic key in harm's way, very uncharacteristic of me, possible fairy invasion spooky shit.

Pitstops gone wrong cuz:

https://youtu.be/ti3ELIlAGlk

Moments later,

.... just changed the oil filter on the utility vehicle. That's more than the official Holden servicing would do for my General Motors SUV. Mechanics in Australia will absolutely rob you blind (if you let them) then just go back to Cali with their Jacob on like Game or something. My buddy the El Salvadoreño said to change the air filter and fuel filter but I'll just get him to do it when we do the spark plugs back in the ghetto, talking in Spanish (Castilian to be precise). 

I also need to change the oil on the SUV but couldn't be bothered today. Time to squeeze in some relaxation before things get busier. Resting is extremely important, whether you do it like a bear for an entire quarter year or longer or just an hour or so, wherever you can get it, you have to really do it properly. So I'm not going to bother describing my recent meeting with my local sailing club ex-commodore, or my time in Compton (yes I went there), neither the Greek Australians in Melbourne. Coz I need to chill now, so I'll just watch formula one pitstop confusion..... 

C'est la vie say the old folks..... I met two men recently, one 89, the ex-commodore, and another 82, at the tyre mechanics today and they're both in outstanding health from what I can see, I wouldn't mind living like that my friend, I can assure you.

Man look at the brakes flame up on that Mercedes during the pitstop, absolutely amazing, that's exactly how se llaman. Amazing.

Shit will definitely go wrong, getting out of the pits, still with formula one:

https://youtu.be/VdmjjTNW-8Y

Yeah the Australian and American air forces used the wide open green spaces near the above ground electricity tower corridors to pile up munitions to bomb the Japs during WW2 nearby Luxford Rd around Whalan etc, Tregear. No doubt.

Break it down Camacho!

 

https://youtu.be/BuMBmK5uksg

They don't speak Camacho's language they say he's too savage.....

https://youtu.be/CEG4xZUP2qo

I give my word, he's gonna fix the dust storms too, ha ha ha

https://youtu.be/ig446isvXlI

And he's gonna do it all in one week! Ha ha

  

Thank you Baltimore, it's got what plants crave....

 Thank you Baltimore...

https://youtu.be/rISYCquFeI8

Brawndo bro....

https://youtu.be/kAqIJZeeXEc

The amazing jellyfish

 Jellyfish,:

https://youtu.be/-irjnOIjNcs

A few days ago, last Saturday, after weeks of flooding rains all up and down the Eastern seaboard of Australia from indooropilly to Penrith, I noticed the body of water, Pittwater, where my boat is moored, was fairly murky and muddier than usual from the storm water runoff. Farthermore, I noticed an abundance of large jellyfish about the size of a two gallon bucket. In fact I tried to catch a few with my two gallon bucket, to no avail.

Scum of the earth, meet scum of the earth

 9News: Putin spokesman refuses to rule out use of nuclear weapons if Russia faced an 'existential threat'.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/russia-ukraine-war-putin-says-nuclear-weapons-could-be-used-in-face-of-existential-threat/dbfbcd4c-ca5b-4305-bdc4-b2653280206f

Call me brainwashed by my father, Napoleon (an absolute despiser of what he neverendingly referred to passionately as the 'scum of the earth', now possibly reincarnated as a half Ukrainian half Korean), or extremely underwhelmed by the likes of CNNs Christine Amanpour and Pesky Peskov, Pesky Putin's, s-s-s-sp-spokeman (but not like spoke in a bike y'all). 

That Christine Amanpour immediately appears to the casual and brief observer as scum of the earth seems self evident, as Thomas Jefferson would say. The fact that Putin's advisor even talks to her at all indicates clearly that he is scum of the earth, apart from being a Bolshevik anyway which is basically scum. It also indicates weakness. And rubbling cities and testing out hypersonic weapons and threatening nuclear war likewise indicates weakness to me.

The only existential threat is Putin's failing sex drive, completely normal for a man his age, and his stunning incapacity to come to terms with it. And Russia's ass backwards thieving cleptocrat leadership caste.

Scum of the earth indeed.

Science creates primitive living 'robots' (life forms) called 'zenobots', they exhibit greater intelligence than Russia's cleptocratic leadership class:

 Scientists hope to develop simple life forms that can clean up water or air, kind of like how God made algae:

https://youtu.be/u1l4aXh1UG8

AC/DC: finding electrical solutions for the Red Herring

 

Spoke to Baltimore radio call screener last night from the Red Herring, probably daytime in America somewhere.

So today I saw a marine radio, waterproof and floating running vhf channels, only $129. Beautiful. I'll probably get that one and can use it from the Red Herring to contact the local sailing club radio station or another yacht or else marine rescue. Similarly when I finally take the plunge and sail to Sydney harbour from Palm Beach, I'll need it to contact marine rescue indicating my movements in case of an accident. So another thing to master. They were selling an EPIRB satellite beacon emergency transmitter for $250 and this is mandatory for going out more than two nautical miles beyond the coastline. It sets you up to be rescued via a satellite beacon. As I won't be going out more than two nautical miles I won't be needing that just yet.

So how would I charge this waterproof floating phone sized radio on the Red Herring and how can I install a USB charger for my phone (which also can be used to call water police or probably marine rescue as well and can be used as a navigation aid*). Well that's what I was looking at today and there are very simple and elegant options for that which I'll come back to. They're certainly on my mind.

* Mental note, install telescope and two lenses on Red Herring, stow it in port side cupboard foot of bed. Bring water and diesel. I'm not ready to navigate by the stars but I would like to look at them. 

Shooting in my hometown: mecca for white trash and crime

 

I try to stay away from the place, (so far it's been a few months), some guy got gunned down. Gunshots are common but you never know if it's just fireworks alot of the time you're there....

https://youtu.be/8dc5SQ2Re2E

I'm at my old worksite in Willoughby (way on the other side of town, the right side) from last June, trying to catch up with my favorite colleague from there, I even got him a beer like he asked....

Willoughby one can-o-beer

https://youtu.be/TWTfhyvzTx0

This just in: after spending an hour, and having a beer, (pronounced can-o-beer like Kenobi) with one of my favorite people in the world (10-11pm), a former work colleague from previous worksite from last June, and returning to the Red Herring in Avalon to listen to American radio and sleep (WABC, zzzzzzzzzz sleeping).... At 2am local time two strangers enter a house in Mt Druitt to rob it:

9News: Man stabbed on first night in new Sydney home.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/mount-druitt-stabbing-appeal-home-invasion/8c0018be-6bae-4b82-b0f5-8d889e7c3081

I can tell you the perpetrators were likely young people and from the area. This area is so evil you could probably spend your entire life murdering people there and not be noticed. How horrible. I once visited out if the blue during my fancy elite film school days with all the elite top gun journalist students mostly super wealthy. I saw two or three kids and immediately intuited they were bored and didn't feel like walking so would steal a car just to get home (they had no bus money either or else no interest). Well I couldn't tell where my intuition ended and overhearing the facts began, but I also intuited that if I walked and talked with them for a while they might put it out of their mind, with their dopey young bravado (the town is full of bad dads, drunks, or no dads at all, single moms). So that's really what happened!

Where else can three family members and even an illegal alien suicide in your garage and you sell the piece of crap property for top dollar? Nowhere else I know of! With 300,000 plus people plus better surrounding suburbs all around, the folks just take it all in their stride. 

Some are apparently blessed:

When I returned penniless to the town from Bulgaria, in early 2009*, my brother, Joseph Stalin, introduced me to an old man. He and his wife had actually grown up in Berowra, a relatively nice place not far from my beautiful town I live in (when not on the boat), Mt Colah (million dollar house U$ caching!) 'why on earth do you want to live in Mt Druitt if you're from Berowra?' I asked him.

Oh we were young and poor and couldn't afford anywhere else. We don't have any problems here at all. Only problem I can see is your brother (Joseph Stalin) is starving his dog. Bla bla bla, no problems here.

So you get a lot of people like that, no problems!

Well I went through hell in that town a million times, but the real truth is that returning to that town from Bulgaria was absolute heaven as I have never seen a more hellish and horrible place than Bulgaria. I believe it's not from the Turkish yoke, the five hundred year Turkish oppression, but from the communist era under Russia. A mere fifty years. These Russians only can export perversion, group sex and misery. It's thoroughly amazing how they can be so adept at manufacturing misery. Amazing. And amazing how the people become immunized and used to it. Well, as I said, I can relate, already having gone through hell, but as a result, I can completely understand anyone's desire to expel Russians from their land, no question. I mean why the Nazis would actually deeply and thoroughly INVADE Russia is an entirely different question.

I mean there are some really excellent Russian people, no doubt about it. Impeccable people. However the economic model is absolute poison and destined to create misery. Lots of countries have nukes, China is stockpiling nukes. Communism is even suitable for the Chinese: socialism with Chinese characteristics. But communism does not work for Europeans, this has been my conclusion after two years in Bulgaria and almost two years in china. Communism from Russia breeds misery and perversion, it's corrosive to the human condition, like acid. A little acid ok, you can clean up gunk, so everyone should get out to eastern Europe now and then as tourists but this condition is just hostile poison.

This leadership caste in Russia is NO GOOD. Cleptocrats, robber barons. No way Jose! The Russians need to get rich or die trying as 50 cent says. As the Chinese say: to get rich is glorious. Russia is super broke and Putin and his cronies are super greedy predators.

Fox's news analysts: loads of experience, sheepish and foolish on china

 Watch:

https://youtu.be/wL84Rdp-sho

I'm not dismissing their talent and ability outright. But let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet. It's ok if you're not as sexy as the blonde lady but hold on a second. Jennifer Griffin is saying Biden's call to Xi was so important.

Joke. Don't see you laughing, as my father used to say. These guys are good at graduating university and pleasing the lesbian doggooding left wing nutjob professors out there in lala land american university, but not at all understanding of china.

Xi and Putin and everyone know Biden is ineffective and half asleep. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese fed him some brain altering chemicals to make him even more docile and senile before stealing the election for him, with big techs non collusional help.

The Russians have rubbled up a lot of Ukraine but apparently only killed 109 kids, that's not that bad. I wouldn't talk about war crimes and note the ridiculousness and ignorance of American and other pundits talking about war crimes (AFTER Fallujah: 14 times higher nuclear radiation than Hiroshima! Facts anyone??) The thing is there are no principles the groupsex pervert Bolshevik Russians have to foist on Ukraine worth the Ukrainians swallowing so I can't see them giving up and rolling over. Better to join Europe, if not NATO.

People need to focus on: Ukraine effectively prosecuting this war. Grain exports from Ukraine and Russia, effect on global food prices. Vladimir Putin's zipper/ego problems and the ramifications. Leadership change in Russia going forward. In a word: reality.

When Jennifer Griffin, an abbo I hold in some esteem, says Biden's call to Xi is 'uber' (paraphrasing) important, I'm like yeah that's retarded.

The thing to do hear/here is continue arming Ukraine until they are done fighting there. The Americans from DC cannot seem to park their egos at the door and realize this situation is bigger than sleepy Joe and dumbo redhead peppermint Patty (and america), they're not getting it yet. These are the people that don't see 9/11 happening.

Fortunately, since we're at war with Russia on Ukraine's side, there are many other alert players: France, Germany, Turkey. Anthony blinkin'. Arming Ukraine, sending rockets and drones. This war must be prosecuted to push this dumbo Russian regime BACK. They are only going to understand force and strength. Including the economic measures bravely taken by so many different elements. Stupid Russians.

Fuggen shluts!

Ok let's look at the arch rascal Lavrov, praising Tucker Carlson:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/sergei-lavrov-praises-fox-news-coverage-ukraine

I've put the Guardian version and I'm well aware the Guardian is left of center in their bias. However in this case you get the same version as on newsmax. I'd classify Tucker Carlson as an abbo. Since the war broke out I have no time for Tucker as it would just detract from the focus on the facts and reality and Ukraine surviving and winning this onslaught. I'm the expert, I got brutalized by my eight years older brother, Joseph Stalin, from ages ten to sixteen until I knocked his tooth out. Putin needs his tooth knocked out, he needs clear damage like when Turkey shot down their fighter jet. In fact, the Russians are extremely cautious in Ukraine's airspace and like my brother, only have one card to play: brutalizing the smaller weaker person. Do I give a shit about Tucker the abbo and his dopey cholesterol tv dinner empire now? No. But the arch rascal Lavrov and the defense minister slut Maria and Putin and all these bullies love Tucker. Fuck these people let them go to hell.

Ukraine is going to win this war and I'm going to document it. These dopey Russians might understand american media is messed up, this is a function of American universities being corrupted by illicit drugs and adultery and whoring. Fine. This does not mean the dopey Russian bullies ruling class aren't lying through their dopey need to be knocked out teeth about Ukraine. They're only doing this coz Biden is there and he's super placid like a seventeen year old mutt. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese drugged him up. This is not good when american elections are rigged and the media goes crazy left wing. But america is still a mighty democracy and will prevail and Russia still has the same problem: dopey arch rascal leadership class. You can be a dopey arch rascal with power and state facts, doesn't mean you aren't a liar and a villain. Rascals! Oh I forgot to mention cleptocrats. Man if the FSB assassinated Putin and replaced him with me, first thing I would do is withdraw from Ukraine and focus on building Russia's economy from a piece of garbage petrol station to something with actually diversity that's actually bigger than Spain's economy. Coz you know, like Russia's population is more than triple Spain's. I'd sell off all the looted, stolen stuff stolen from the backs of the Russian babushki and give it all back to them, probably $5000-$10,000 for every Russian babushka out there. Fricking dopey oligarchy, cleptostate. Scum if the earth, of, not if, dopey word processor. Scum!

Man Spain is a perfect example for Russia. Not that Russia should be catholic or speak Spanish but Spain represents a strong willed nation perfectly happy to distance itself from its previous colonial interests (everything south of Texas, hello did you notice how Spain turned all of that giant india into southern Spain, anyone noticing?). Spain still doesn't bother learning any English or diluting its culture with anyone, just maintains its treaties with everyone and has something Russia is still too backwards to get: a fully diversified economy. Not just lots of weapons like dumb abbos. That's what Russia needs: less dumb abbo more Spain diversified economy. 

Entre flores fandanguillos y alegria,....

https://youtu.be/99NgfUpS4rk

Now listen to what Kim says... This pandemic is wrapping itself up, global supply chains are messy, Ukraine and Russia supply like a quarter of the world's wheat and corn I think (could be wrong). Anyway Kim is talking about YouTube censorship:

https://youtu.be/lnsByps85gE

Going for a little solo sail, slept ok on the Red Herring last night and phone is low battery so better stop playing with it. Dismissed.

Thank you Baltimore, thank you

 

https://youtu.be/rISYCquFeI8

It's what plants crave....

https://youtu.be/kIZ9YuPm_Ls

It's got electrolytes

Vladimir Putin, dumber than a sack of hammers*, having his Billy Madison Knibb High football rules moment

 

Total dumbass:

https://youtu.be/e7fv7nT4Jog

Was talking to my buddy Lenin last night, he doesn't get it either. I guess the industry was a revolution and Knibb High football rules or something:

https://youtu.be/Ec7rCsNFn30

*& Sickles

What time is it?

 Yo, you got the time?

https://youtu.be/llwgHjfagBo

Army ration packed meal found in Russian tank expired February 10, 2015

 

Wow! That's ten days before my daughter's actual birthday. She's a quarter Russian too! Wow.

I have heard it all now. Ha ha ha, if an army marches on its stomach, this army is going to be looting in Kiev and everywhere else. What a disgrace.

On top of that they're switching off the water and incoming supplies to millions of Ukrainians so you're going to get civilians dying of dehydration if they can't get snow.

What an absolute disgrace. What kind of way is that to run an army or a war? Horrible.

https://youtu.be/J7ZIE5-XSiY

Ok here's an Oliver Stone interview with Putin from like 7 years ago. I didn't even know Oliver Stone interviewed Putin, so I watched quite a bit and will comment on that:

https://youtu.be/-fajGIA_0dw

First of all, Oliver Stone is not someone whose films I especially like however it's not easy to make big budget films I would think and I don't know how these directors do it. I think Oliver Stone and Putin come across as likeable people when they're together but movie directors are often abusive. Anyway they both seem like nice guys together. I'll tell you, Oliver Stone doesn't come on my radar much but I went to Queensland, Brisbane a number of years ago, like 10, and visiting my Russian buddy Sergei there (let's call him Tchaikovsky, just to give him a famous person nickname), we might call Putin 'Rich Valdes', who isn't famous, since Putin is already famous. So going to Queensland for me is a rarity and a funny thing, but each time it has turned out ok. I found a book on Oliver Stone in Indooroopilly and read a bit, he was saying Fox News is group-think (that's true).

This Putin is a Libra, and the Libras like Putin are logical and calm people and often try to find balance. They have a tendency to promote brotherhood however you would think the opposite in Putin's current case because of Ukraine, we'll come back to that.

I'll tell you, Olivier Stone would have worked with many professional actors and as a wannabe filmmaker myself, I've attended around two months total of acting lessons. One time a teacher told me to hold a cane up vertically with the palm of my hand and it was an absolute freak show as I was spinning around and really working everything and that cane (stick) was not falling bro, I was holding it up quite a long time. I'm sure if you talked to many professional actors they might hold it up less time. Certainly I felt tremendous confidence in the presence of other actors. That can contribute to a better outcome with an exercise like that.

I went sailing today and actually saw a literal film my father had left lying around years ago. It was made by two if his brothers and one of their wives like in the 1970s, on actual film, with pink floyd song and other music, images of Asturias in the mountains in Northern Spain. Maybe I made a new friend too as the film guy that showed (his projector and screen) it to me will join me for a sail at some point. I'm chummy with my brother Joseph Stalin's long time friend Lenin also, he's getting quite old and I caught up with him some weeks ago with my brother's little petite amie from before he hanged himself. The thing I liked that Putin said most was about how in Russia there's a saying that people destined to hang will not drown. We have many great sayings in Spain also. If I reincarnate in a position to know Russia as I have to know Spain in this lifetime, then I will see what is great there then. I see what is bad in Spain but as a patriot I don't dwell on it. Similarly as an Australian I try to focus on the positive without dwelling on the many negatives. Every country and individual has its strengths and weaknesses and kind of like snowflakes. I had a spiritual realisation of this after my mother died and marked her passing with an Aboriginal family over a number of days. God bless her for that. 

Anyway I will try to catch up with Lenin again and bring Stalin's petite amie along one more time. I like Lenin's (current wife), very likeable. Maybe I can bring Lenin for a sail also.

I definitely think the Russians have fucked up with Ukraine. I do not think they're going to get the result they're looking for and Putin was always kidding himself if he thought the Bulgarians and Romanians were going to let the Americans bomb him. Neither the Latvians and Lithuanians, nobody was trying to get into a war with Russia. I understand the strategic significance of the plane between Germany and Moscow however if NATO ever attacked Russia through that plane, using Ukrainian territory, they'd expect the plane to be nuked. 

Russia has severely fucked up. Everyone with half a brain in Russia must see that. Even if Putin can get out of Ukraine now, how the hell is he going to get Visa and MasterCard and all the other shit back?

My Russian girlfriend in Hollywood told me Russia was fuck up. This is what she meant. Even the textbook from Russia I was studying in those days at the homeless shelter in downtown LA taught vocabulary by showing every item like radio and everything, ne rabota (doesn't work).

Total fuck up bro, cannot sugarcoat it for Vlad. That army is absolutely going to get its dick knocked in the dirt by the Ukrainians, I guarantee it. Won't be the first time Russia does this, what happened in the war with Japan in 1905.

It's a dog eat dog world, that's for sure. Putin fucked up. Comes across as a swell guy along with Oliver Stone though, that's clear. Mas claro que el agua, we say in Spain. Funny the water in my world is very murky as we had a very severe flood from and around Indooroopilly to the Hawkesbury and Nepean rivers around western and North western Sydney. In English we say it never rains but it pours!

Better watch some blink 182 before I get a man crush on Putin and Stone and their bromance. Totally sick of man crushes bro.

https://youtu.be/vVy9Lgpg1m8

Hey here's a Spanish joke for you, Spanish guy knocks on another Spanish guy's door and asks: do you espeak English?

IF! (comes the response, si) BETWEEN! (entre)

Just to be super clear, consider the guy at the top of the slippery slide in the blink 182 song, how he slaps that fat guy's ass, you wouldn't want to be that guy right, either guy actually. Well I'd rather be that guy (or even the fat guy) than Vlad, because Vlad is just painting himself into a corner. I say no way Jose, no way.

Consider:

https://youtu.be/vVy9Lgpg1m8

More difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a rope to pass through the eye of a needle

 

So looking at those last examples of Jesus, it's even better to invest money in usury than not to at all. Many of Jesus'parables make mention of a boss or master. We might as well consider this to be the supersoul or Hindu Atma resident in every soul and representing God's oversoul or supreme coconsciousness.

So when money is invested even just in usury, if not in actual investment or business, it's better for God something is happening and not static and most importantly God (or the servant master is reckoned with).

In the reference to the rope passing through the eye of a needle, Jesus was talking to fishermen in a fishing community and their wives/families and these people were always busy fixing their fishing nets with some kind of string. Despite not having an industrial revolution, they did have needles.

Going off the details in Spencer Lewis' mystical life of Jesus, the folks would want a strong rope to fix their nets. So Jesus is likening a strong rope to a rich man. And entry to the kingdom of heaven to the eye of a needle. This looks interesting to me, when you consider heaven is built on usefulness and providing and receiving uses for and from others. If you think about good and evil, however it manifests, it seems the good things are useful and the bad things are not only not useful but deleterious.

Nets to catch fish are useful. Fish are useful. We might think of fish in the abstract as facts, so catching many fish could refer to apprehending many facts. For example recently on this blog I mentioned that the United states military, God bless their cotton picking little hearts, pumped Fallujah so full of uranium depleted bullets that they left it with fourteen times the amount of radioactive poisoning than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. This is a fact. So we might represent it as a fish (fact). Not many facts nor many fishies. Just one solitary fact. Like a lone fish.

 

So continuing, rope is good, it is strong. A rich man is like rope, good and strong. Can rope be used as twine to effect slender repairs on a net? Maybe not. Before the industrial revolution, God knows what they used for string, camel hair, who knows? There was no plastic or factory made materials. Just cotton, camel hair, hair in general, fur. Cat gut maybe, you name it. The fishermen wanted something slender but strong. That was the problem, getting bigger meant losing suppleness and pliability. Thinking about the metaphors, you have to wonder about a net. It forms a cohesive whole and is only as strong as its weakest link, it will lose fish where it breaks. You can imagine this was where the gentiles fished in Galilee and how the sophisticated Jews of the big townships must have looked down on the gentiles as uncouth. But imagining the function of a net, and considering the metaphor of fish as facts, whether you subscribe to it or not.

A net might be compared to a school or investigative body or even a judicial body, investigating facts. A break in the net could represent a failure within the school. We saw this with Judas I suppose. And Jesus and Judas certainly had their differences about money, most notably with the foot massage expensive perfume episode.

Anyway it makes me wonder. It's kind of like that Led Zeppelin song, in the sense that it makes me wonder....

https://youtu.be/QkF3oxziUI4

I mean I understand flexibility as represented by a thin chord vs a strong, thick rope. When I was on my 20s I was always poor and never tried to even get rich, to the point of laziness... But always having under like $5000 at all times, I was really free to move around, China, America, France, wherever. I mean really I only stopped coz the net of my mind was broken and couldn't hold facts I suppose, otherwise I'd just keep going travelling everywhere. Very easy to travel when you're young and poor. You're never worried about maintaining your wealth or property or getting more. Very flexible.

sharetrading with Benji: first orders taken, portfolio open.... short term watch: BNO:US ($31) & OIL:US ($32)

 

music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RKCP9XvzQ

ok let's look at this, around $60,000 australian dollars in american shares:

Holdings value

58,917.62

Code	Last	Avail to Sell	FX Rate	Value AUD
BNO:US	30.170 USD	250	1.348	10,164.57
BRK/B:US	324.870 USD	20	1.348	8,756.16
GOOGL:US	2,648.590 USD	4	1.348	14,277.38
MSFT:US	285.590 USD	15	1.348	5,773.09
OIL:US	32.090 USD	200	1.348	8,649.15
TSLA:US	838.300 USD	10	1.348	11,297.27

the FX RATE is 1.348 so even if shares were a good price in America on a given day (ie 24/2/22 for Tesla, only $750), you can see i've bought ten shares in Tesla for roughly $838, so definitely i missed the boat on Tesla

now i got the Berkeshire Hathaway and really, if you wanted a safe bet, just park all your money with those people, however I didn't do that, and I'm openly proclaiming to be an absolute mug at this game, but anyway I've got 20 shares with those guys at roughly $325 u.s. each and expecting them to rise

then i have shares in Google at around $2650 american a pop.... my offer for Amazon shares was rejected so i'm just not going to bother any more and gonna sit pat on what i've got...... I mean i really don't feel confident buying shares but at the same time i've been mindful of that parable of Jesus about the people that invest for their boss (God) and the guy that just buries it and doesn't even get interest and then returns it to the boss............ i didn't want to be that guy......... actually i'm fixing on buying an investment property in my name but first we have to get one in the mrs' name (so that's two) and i'm also looking at buying a small business and getting out of bus driving so i'm  not going to spend more than 60K at the moment.......... 

so you see I have four Google shares and fifteen (not fifth dean) Microsoft shares, i think we call these 'acciones' in spanish (actions)

now finally i think i have what are called equities... i'm not even sure what an equity is.... i mean really now's a good time to buy any share that the Russians have been exporting like Nickel.......... you could probably make a bunch of money on nickel futures or something like that as Russia exports 10% of the world's nickel......... i mean people are such hypocrites, they're just going to buy that russian nickel from china so that's why i just bought the Tesla shares, this is a powerful company because of china's heavy investment in electric cars and i'll just let the chinese and Tesla figure out how they're going to get nickel, because, to be honest with you,

bringing it all back to Jesus; we won't be able to enter the kingdom of heaven if we're not like the little kids. and the little kids don't constantly think about money and shares and i don't really want to either.... if i really wanted to get super rich (actually even more moderately wealthy than i already am) i'd just keep investing in australian real estate, which is what i'm going to do anyway, but i just couldn't be bothered thinking about it much coz i'm not that interested............. i will have to keep an eye on the two OIL equities i have, however, as the other shares are a long term hold, i regret not getting amazon shares but i'm not buying anything more for now:

BNO:US   (bought 250 shares at around $31 u.s. a share) 

OIL:US     (bought 200 shares at around $32 u.s. a share)

I'm telling you, with this crazy Biden admin, all you had to do was park all your money in oil when Biden won the election and you'd be laughing all the way to the bank, that's for sure. Biden and oil are like water and oil, they don't mix.

relevant Jesus teachings as per the gospels:

14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,[a] each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. 17 So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. 18 But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.’

21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

22 “The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’

23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

24 “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’

26 “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

28 “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. 29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

sharetrading with Benji: first time for everything!

 

wow i sure know how Russia feels, being rejected by everyone and still having my go it alone mentality.... truth is though, i have always been free to do so many things but many times just felt enslaved by bad company or the wrong attitude....

that might be why it isn't really until now that i'm going for shares in the stock market.... i put in my very first orders some days ago, maybe a couple of weeks or three can't remember, however the market was pumping before the russia ukraine war and my orders were too low and weren't fulfilled..... now microsoft shares are down almost $25 and google shares are down almost $100, so we'll see how we go....

honestly i should have bought Berkeshire Hathaway shares back then because they're already up $10! even with the war! i'll have to get some.... very good time to get tech stocks in my opinion however my opinion in this area is worth nothing...... i wish i had understood ahead of time Biden administration's messed up policy and how rich it would have made me buying crude oil....... still might have to get some

to describe the abstract emotional states involved in Benji's thinking, consider the old dancing man in one flew over the cuckoo's nest, he's dancing so hard the orderly needs to slow him down.....

consider how he might dance to macklemore or simon and garfunkel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zNSgSzhBfM&list=RD2zNSgSzhBfM&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RKCP9XvzQ

also, how might that old man dancing actor look in the role of Buffalo Bill in the epic finale of Silence of the Lambs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovQk7fd4_Co&t=22s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtGl1dX5qI&list=RD2zNSgSzhBfM&index=2

well none of my orders have been accepted by sharemarket sellers yet but i'll keep you posted.... i think my four google shares order will be fulfilled at $2664 u.s. each next 24 hours....

Tesla shares bottomed out exactly when Putin invaded Ukraine on the 24th february, bargain prices: $750 u.s. a share.... already up $100

Britney's next job: the Wonder of the Seas

 

After mastering the art of walking like a homeless person, and finishing her stint in Vegas, how about a turn on the world's biggest ocean liner: the Wonder of the Seas? I'd be surprised if they wouldn't want her cabaret routine....

news.com.au: Insane detail on ship bigger than the Titanic.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/cruises/royal-caribbeans-mammoth-cruise-ship-wonder-of-the-seas-sets-sail/news-story/148a3a3e1f80097382bd95b5568614dc

Why American generals are ridiculous in alleging war crimes against Putin and Russian military

 

Extreme case in point:

https://youtu.be/BpOxHfspwWI

Yes the Russians are targeting civilians. Yes no one cares much when the victims were sand niggers in the Middle East or Muslims in Chechnya.

Suddenly the victims are white people, it seems so much more important. When discussing why American generals are absolutely joking and ridiculous when bitching about war crimes of the Russians, you have to look at American use of depleted uranium in bullet heads, and also Agent Orange in Vietnam. American generals should not be lecturing about ethics, leave that for the college professors. They should be lobbying for relief for Ukraine.

Some idiot say war crimes?

https://youtu.be/3fvV2Lx36WU

https://youtu.be/RNi_1pbSqGY

Having said that, I would absolutely not trust the Russians in anything they're doing and would not agree to give them half of Ukraine which is what they want, including the gas and oil reserves underground in the east. 

Nuclear fallout in Fallujah 2004, fourteen times higher than Nagasaki and Hiroshima! You don't need a big bomb to spread uranium, bullets will lodge into walls sprayed in by helicopter gunships and will slowly leak out depleted uranium for years. America is not in any position to lecture about rules of war and war crimes, absurd! The truth is the Nazis were more humane using gas chambers, quick and painless. Who's the monster?

Ukraine war watch, a war Russia can't win, spillover effects

 

Logistically, Russia's military has failed again. What took years in Afghanistan with the CIA constantly arming the Taliban with stingers and training Osama bin Laden, will take mere weeks in Ukraine before reality finally dawns on Putin and his late in life mid life crisis becomes finally apparent.

Without going into details of Russia's failed logistics (normal for Russia) and glossing over Russia's brutal anti-civilian tactics of directly bombing civilians (easy to get away with when the victims are sand niggers, not so easy when the victims are white, to put it bluntly, more war-crimey).

How else will sand niggers be effected? Ukraine and Russia provide roughly a third of the world's wheat and corn. Great news for their competitors, more bad news for the middle east where the bad news never ends. Do gooding Vlad just had to take a note from all the do gooding do gooders of generation y and z, the millennials, the great champions of anti-sand niggers as an actual valid term. The do gooding scum of the earth championing the left wing nutjobs in America with their carbon intensive corn ethanol and do gooding rechargable cars. There's Vlad trying to get Ukraine's massive energy reserves underground the eastern half of the country, do gooding for his precious Russian race he cares so much for like a goose that lays his precious golden eggs. Do gooding son of a bitch.

Sand niggers will starve under the high food prices. Between fuck up Biden and fuck up Vlad, supply chains will be shot. If you'd bought a ton of shares in crude oil a year ago you'd be so rich. I need to watch this guy yell for a while just to cope:

Hmm which version is best?

https://youtu.be/hv6FJ-U3css

 https://youtu.be/XfmVBmDKLZI

It's not going to be fun watching the inevitable Ukrainian victory as the Russians will end up pulverizing so many apartment buildings on the way out. And killing and maiming civilians. No fun.

Putin and his dopey wives

 So he has the first wife who he was married to for like thirty years, super long time, and their two grown up kids, hiding out in a nuclear war proof bunker near the Altai mountains, if the rumours are true. So just in case it's a full-scale nuclear war, they'll be ok. What a relief.

The new Mrs, the young hotty super glamourous Olympic gold medalist gymnast is kicking it with the four kids (yes four), in Switzerland, apparently. Switzerland apparently is a fortress from nuclear winds. This could indicate Vlad might be confident of not losing them, in the inevitable event of a nuclear war.

Switzerland: nuclear fortress,

https://youtu.be/ha66FfC-N18

I say down with the mafia state in Russia. Vote in that dissident Alexai Navalnoy and get a proper two party system there and free media. Dopey Russian cleptocratic dictatorship de mierda! Annoying!

¡Me cago en diez joder!

Better check in with Her Majesty. Holler. The self checkout at the supermarket coughed up twenty cents randomly even though I paid electronically with a second replacement card of two now mysteriously disappearing and reappearing bank cards. Of course Her Majesty's likeness is a graven image on each coin in Australia. Had just paid a grand in cash twenty paces from said twenty cents coin dispensing machine for my own personal mooring block and chain and buoy for the Red Herring (giving me moor, mo-mo-m-m-m-m-m-moor). I still think Prince Charles should abdicate and make way for William before all the coins get re-pressed. Just my personal opinion. I think Her Majesty is doing pretty well considering her age, surviving coronavirus. Unfortunately it could still create complications for Her Majesty however her health is admirable.

news.com.au: Putin hiding lover and kids in Europe.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/putin-reportedly-hiding-lover-and-children-in-europe-switzerland/news-story/f8e9a8bbb97f7b03c55fe3c3beb86c93

 

I would not be surprised if Her Majesty and Mr Putin come into relationship with each other in their next lifetimes, that's for sure. Not as a couple I meant as members of the same family. Obviously not with the current age difference either. Putin isn't that young however, but his wife is. I think he's not ageing well this Putin. I wouldn't be surprised if he's annoyed by a lack of youthful vigor he was accustomed to. Seems like a devoted family man, however.

PEOPLE: Prince Charles Gives Update on Queen Elizabeth's COVID Recovery: 'She's a Lot Better Now'.

https://people.com/royals/prince-charles-gives-update-queen-elizabeth-covid-recovery/

Benji battlespace: putting on our Da Vinci©πBuffalo Bill® night vision goggles

Donning:

https://youtu.be/ovQk7fd4_Co

The Budapest memorandum:

https://youtu.be/iazbkT46JeY

Sometimes you have to bomb shit, here you can watch the Pentagon getting bombed:

https://youtu.be/0SL2PzzOiF8

Benji's CIA Pentagon best bet:

Take up some drones and block the roads into Ukraine from Belorussia and Russia on the northern front. Block their convoys at the other end up north also, ie near Kiev. Mention Budapest memorandum if anyone asks. Fly out. Only used unmanned drones. Don't ask don't tell.

Fox News Greg Gutfeld discusses mother in law and evil in the same paragraph, time for Dick Cheney?

Greg discussing mother in law and evil in the same paragraph:

https://youtu.be/jJ9G1oRYvKM

As soon as he mentioned evil I immediately thought of Dick Cheney on Leno dressed as Darth Vader:

https://youtu.be/66FRAcBu9PA

In other news I'm still extremely dissatisfied with myself for my choice of running mate in the presidency of life (extremely subnormal/dopey Mrs, no point being disappointed with her for being extremely ignorant and subnormal, that's just who she is, time to face reality and come to terms with my self-dissappointment). Maybe I would have been happier married to Dick dressed as Darth Vader all day (very likely). Just self tested negative to covid. Still feeling fairly easily fatigued but ready to give bus driving a shot on Monday.

Covid-19 pound weight loss

Ok so it's been since Tuesday morning of last week and it's soon 11 days after initial illness after I sleep tonight, it being around bedtime now. So coming on 11 days sick. Hoping to get back into the swing of things on day thirteen, Monday.

I have shed a whopping 19 pounds, to put it the American (pre 1969 Australian way). 19 pounds! Imagine how much weight that was to carry around everyday plus how taxing it was on my backbone, heart, muscles in general. I mean I had pretty good cardiovascular health, a lot better than now. But all that fat was just horrible really. Even my little daughters, 7 & 5 were calling me a fat pig on a regular basis in the most matter of fact terms that it could not be reasonably refuted. (Ie telling them to 'shut up you dopey trashbags' would have been grossly inappropriate and injust.)

I'm definitely not in six pack territory however if I can lose another fifteen pounds that's going to be fairly slim and trim. Not sure how I would maintain that but really it's all about portion control. Just eat half a lemon and drink tea all day.

One thing that was grossly wrong was drinking half a gallon of milk like everyday in coffees. That's too much milk: half a gallon a day, however this has been normal behavior for me in Australia, at least two pints a day. I did not do this in China, America, Spain, France, Bulgaria, South Korea. It's definitely a bad 'stay-at-home' habit that I have to stop. I need to avoid milk almost altogether. The way cows are constantly kept pregnant in industrial settings, to produce more milk just seems wrong and unhealthy.

I do not care to give up meat, however as a practicing Muslim I suppose I can eschew all non halal red and white meat. Normal healthy portions for me are like one hamburger a day, with an egg and meat, some cheese, maybe a very small side of vegetables. Then just snack on some fruit or nuts, something light.

Covid 19 has been an absolute God send so far as it has arrested my greedy appetite.

I need to avoid processed foods/sugar. No yoghurt from the supermarket (criminal sugar), no soft drinks (too much sugar). No coke Zero (bloating/stretching). Stop drinking coffee at all just switch to tea all day with lemon and honey. I can totally do this. I have been fasting or eating super light for almost eleven days now and feeling great! So much weightloss. Being a fatty sux.

 

Ukraine war, update:

Russian soldiers looting Ukrainian grocery stores, stealing strong cash boxes (safes):

https://youtu.be/OoM5yx1IVFY

Did they only bring three days food?

According to Belorussian president attack map, Moldova is also supposed to be annexed:

https://youtu.be/aBh1px-7erM

Judging by the current Russian tactics, either occupy peacefully telling everybody to stay inside, or heavy bombardment, terrify locals into submission, it seems the Russians are looking to occupy long term and also occupy Moldova which means basically extending Russia's border all the way to NATO and turning Ukraine into a Belorussia.

Here's an interesting DW German documentary on three Ukrainian female soldiers in the war in Donbas prior to the Russian 24/2/22 invasion. (Post Russian annexation of Crimea).

https://youtu.be/axXrIb__qPw

I don't believe the Russian government or intelligentsia when they talk about wanting to liberate Russians in Kharkiv or Donbas or Transnistiya. In fact they're probably killing a ton of them and there will be plenty of ethnic Russians moving against them. The Russians under Putin are a gullible, ignorant people. If their leadership bombs Russian people in 1999 or 2000 and says it was the Chechens and use it as a pretext to bomb Chechnya, then the people believe it. The Russian population are a population of suckers that believe everything their dopey government tells them. This problem has no solution without regime change in Russia. It's going to be years of sanctions against the Russians unless they want to drop a nuke. The Russian population is all going to switch over to cryptocurrency by the looks of it. If the Russians drop a nuke on NATO it's going to be a war that ends their government with a treaty. 

Few in the Russian intelligentsia could believe that their government could run a false flag operation and bomb their own people, because they're suckers. The government in Russia are a bunch of dopey self serving cleptocrats under the clepto-tyrant Putin. What do we have democracy for if not to push back against these dopey 20th century relics?

Putin super clear two months ago: did not want NATO creeping eastward, Western countries worried about transgender rights in the meantime

 Two months ago, super clear:

https://youtu.be/MOkl2XgZlw0

Covid recovery? Scary moment

 

Had arranged by email with my boss to get back to work 130pm then woke up 2am Wednesday needing to poop, experiencing abdominal pains. I went inside to crap, through the neverending rain, flooding parts up the coast. Then started experiencing covid shortness of breath for the first time, plus discomfort. Finally started passing stool and it was a struggle to stand up and get myself cleaned up. Then I started fainting and had a blackout moment while standing over the toilet, wherever food in my gut causing diarrhea whatever, kind of hurting down there.

I think I need to crap and pee some more. I went back to bed shaken but feeling comfortable in bed. It has been 90 minutes. Called my employer to let someone know I wouldn't be coming in. 

Back on the can crapping out more diarrhea. That was a scary moment like 90 minutes ago here, fricking almost collapsed blacked out with my pants around my ankles and a crappy butt. Short on breath. Haven't fainted like that since I was a lot younger. I mentioned on the blog having occasional blackouts since teenage years or earlier. The last one I remember was in Bulgaria like thirteen or fourteen years ago, kind of just stopped doing that. Smoking wasn't helping. 

 

It was a pretty scary moment a moment ago, I can tell you. I'm feeling a lot better now. Good thing I've been able to empty my intestines. I think to avoid long covid I have to lose all the weight and keep it off. I also think I need to get out of bus driving, it's not a job for sick people.