Not Trampis

Wednesday, 26 August 2026

Dolly Parton

I should have written this yesterday.

I loathe country and western music so I was no fan of hers. She had a poor voice and a very limited vocal range. This was never more apparent than on her most famous song . Whenever she attempted to sing it she killed the song but Whitney Houston sang it she hit it out of the park!! ( it made her $20m) I should add her voice limitations never were a problem as she was a country and western singer/songwriter

I remembering reading somewhere a long time ago she was a sex symbol. Big breasts ( which she heavily 'advertised') do not a sex symbol make. She had a poor body, terrible hairstyles and was frankly unattractive. This did not matter and neither should it have.

Okay so much for the negatives. Now for her large positives.

She was one hell of a businesswoman. She left around 600 million. She was one of 11 children in a family so poor that when she was born her parents paid the doctor with food as they had no money. She thus never forgot her roots.

She was also a philanthropist of high distinction and had no problem in giving money to causes she valued from her fortune. Making more money was not of top of her list.

She wrote a lot of songs but for the love of it never to get more money. If that came then she was blessed if not she still liked the song.

She also married her high school sweetheart and was still married to him when he died.

It is unusual for a person to die and everyone has a good word about them. That is the greatest tribute you could give her!

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

The wars in Ukraine and Iran

Ukraine learnt very quickly not to use patriot missiles against drones. The US military clearly has not in the middle east. It has wasted many patriot and tomahawk missiles. Why is this? My guess is two reasons.

Hegeth sacking various top military leaders
The US political disdain for Ukraine. They simply do not believe there is anything to learn from that war.

It is immediately apparent that the problem is the political leadership at the Defence department. Hesgeth has been an out and out failure. He clearly does not have a strategic brain in his body. It was his job to advise Trump of the possible problems and he did not.

He attempted a shock and awe effort to beat Iran and it backfired badly. Iran is clearly the big country in the middle east. US allies nol onger are relying on the US for protection they are turning to Ukraine who successfully use drones against drones. They also do not want any escalation as they believe Iran could destroy a large part of their industry.

Another thing I thin a lot of people are missing is that both Russia and China would be egging Iran on (not that it would take much egging) to take a hard line thereby using a lot more missiles.

It is hard to see any settlement until after the mid-terms. This is merely a jimmy carter redux.

It is hard to see any peace in Ukraine simply because Putin cannot afford one politically. It is victory or death. Yet he cannot win but he lives on in hope. Think about this. Ukraine produce a lot more drones than Russia and use them much more strategically. They also recognise Putin's bluster now for for what it is.

Can I add I hope Ukraine do not fall for the Hitler gambit. He had the UK on its knees and then changed the bombing to london. Russia is deliberately targeting Ukraine's population. Ukraine should not attempt this but continue its present destruction of russian industry particularly oil. It is paying off bigtime.

Monday, 24 August 2026

Immigration

It appears a number of people want immigration to be curtailed. The problem is not the figure some people want but HOW to get there.

Andrew Bragg came up with a figure for net overseas migration of 180,000. He did not not say how he would get to that figure but said it would have a 'modest' effect on the university sector.

Pauline Hanson has confirmed that one nation would reduce it to 130,000 but that back packers and the like needed for agriculture would be exempt.

Cutting immigration down to the above levels would hit :

back packers and the like who work in agriculture
skilled labour for housing, manufacturing etc
Family reunions
Universities
The federal budget

Now if you exempt agriculture from immigration cuts it therefore means you are going to cut larger in other areas.

You will have noticed various spokesmen (yeah they are mostly men) for employers associations saying quite loudly they need skilled immigrants for businesses as that labour simply is not avaalible locally.

Family reunions would probably be the first target as it has less economic impact and affects less people who vote!

Universities would be hit bigtime as foreign students is a large revenue earner for them. There would be need for at least some, if not significant, boost to universities funding from the federal government.

The federal budget would be hit by several billion dollars.

Thus what do we have. Wages would increase as highly skilled immigrants are reduced. you also need large spending cuts and/or large increases in taxation or a blow-out in the deficit.

Until we hear HOW immigration is to be cut to levels below 200,000 then I would suggest the people have no idea of what they are talking about!

Sunday, 23 August 2026

The Swans imbroglio

It seems all week we have been hammered by the disgrace of the 6 swan players who went out drinking until the early hours of sunday morning ( after their match) and invited some women back to their hotel. One of the women was sexually touched.

Herein lies the problem of the modern secular society. You can have sex with anyone you want provided there is consent. therein lies the problem. What is consent.? It is a very hard question for society to answer. Is yes yes? Is no really yes? Do you have to verbalise it? Does it apply to marriage and if so what is the point of marriage?

One final point. why do people complain about getting burnt when they are so close to the fire. In this case why would any woman go back to the hotel with the men at such an hour?

In this case if the players were not drunk they were still 'liquored up'. I would have to ask why and again why did they invite the women back to the hotel? My guess is it was not to have a cup of tea. I believe most have girlfriends so were they wanting to cheat on them?

Now since I believe only a husband and wife should have sex I simply do not understand what is going on here. Secular society is all over the place on this.

Also playing professional sport and drinking after the game has a bad history. Again I do not understand the need to get drunk into the wee hours after a game.

Society has a problem here but als no answer