The Native Iowan

Golly, it’s 2nd week October, and I am way behind.

Way behind on numerous fronts…

I am thinking that this is a by-product of being very busy and getting heaps, and heaps done, competed, accomplished. And, also, being bone tired, leg-weary each day, And sleeping like a log .

It is all good.

Today, this morn, is a wrap in the blanket and watch blood-sport Sunday. I am cooking a big pot of beans and a couple nice racks of ribs. Son, Don, has been visiting; pet-teen, Mendoza is around (somewhere), Big G will stop by later.

The coffee is good, the house is open, the air is crisp, the sky is overcast with a scent of rain, a promise of some moisture.

And, as I sit, ruminate, watch, study the goings-on around me, I scratch my head. I find that, as I age, I spend more and more time just simply scratching my head in wonderment…

We have “The Voice to Parliament” vote, here in the land of Aus. This is a move to change the constitution and “enshrine” an “indigenous” voice in Parliament. What it will be, how it will work, who it will include is confused. No answers have been given, just vague, feel-good ideas of how a VOICE will end early child mortality, increase longevity, and solve all the social problems of the class of folks here down-under, that suffer the most – but have the most spent on them.

I won’t chase the numbers but, a quick look and we find:

On a per person basis, government welfare expenditure was $13,968 per Indigenous Australian, compared with $6,019 per non-Indigenous Australian in 2012–13—this equates to expenditure of $2.32 per Indigenous person for every $1.00 spent per non-Indigenous person.15 Aug 2023

So, this referendum is aiming to solve all the problems, SOCIAL, FINANCIAL, PERSONAL, MEDICAL, EDUCATIONAL… all the problems…

Yea, right… I see shams like this as nothing more than wealth distribution programmes designed to buy votes.

In the US I watch as the might, the weight, the strength and resources of the central government are used to silence, stall, stop, censor a political foe… The Donald is simply too loud, too wealthy, too autonomous for the powers that be, I am not speaking of blue v red. It is the weight and power of both main political structures that is being levied against The Donald. He threatens all and everyone.

And I must say, I agree when DT says he is fighting this battle for the people, to ensure the powers of the central government are not gratuitously used against the common-man.

I am incessantly confused and amazed when smart folks I know think it’s fine for DT to be roasted by the corrupt powers that control. They think DT deserves it, should rot forever in a dark, dank cell. That the wrongs and transgressions of the likes of the Biden-Crime-Family, or the Uber-corrupt-Clinton gang, or the sins of the Obama-masqueraders are minimal in regards to DT’s failings.

And, as those who applaud the use of the system against a private citizen, I caution that such actions, once sanctioned, may well become the norm.

I dig the idea that the US Congress kicked K.McCarthy out of the speaker’s seat, then took a break form business.

The Speaker is the 3rd highest position in the US system. When there is no Speaker, Congress must do no business until a new Speaker is elected. So everything stops.

Sure, makes sense to me.

Let’s see what I have been doing…

Making a stick for my old buddy DB…. was out cleaning up rusty, tangled barbed wire and found this:

So I took it home…

and cut it up… the wood is dense. It throws sparks when I cut it…

Have a 47Ariel on the lift. Mendoza is going to learn-how-to on this project…

And the beat goes on

More later