Apologies in advance – this article uses an expression of Profanity for which there is no other suitable word available in the English language at this time in relation to politicians and their games in Parliament.

If the “f” word offends – please leave this page now.

There’s an old saying, “There are only two things for sure
in life my boy, Death and Taxes”

It’s origin appears to have come from one of the three
following sources:

Daniel
Defoe, in The Political History of the Devil, 1726:

“Things
as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.”

Benjamin
Franklin (1706-90) used the form we are currently more familiar with, in a
letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789, which was re-printed in The Works of
Benjamin Franklin,
1817:

“'In
this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

Another
thought on the theme of death and taxes is Margaret Mitchell's line from her
book Gone With the Wind, 1936:

“Death,
taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

There would appear to be a third or fourth rule to add to
the above.

 

Global Warming.

 

I turned on my air-conditioner tonight at 11:08 p.m.

 

I had too, the temperature from the three laptops, server PC
and the five hard-disks in the corner of the bedroom sent the temperature in the
room up to 28 degrees. Normally I don’t have this problem until October.

 

It’s August in Sydney.
The month when the cold winds usually chill the body to the bone.

Huh? What cold winds…..

 

We had two of the hottest days in the last thirty years recently.

 

My Momji Maple trees didn’t even loose all their leaves this
winter – didn’t get cold enough.

My Serissa Foetida’s were flowering a month ago.

 

I moved from Darwin
13 years ago – for business, but it was becoming way too hot anyway.

Now it looks like I might have to move again.

 

I wonder what property prices at McMurdo Sound
will be next year…..

 

For anyone that wants, desires, needs crisp refreshing air –
full of oxygen and not diesel fumes, I guess the price won’t matter.

 

That’s good – I look forward to rediscovering the King
Emperor Penguins.

 

In case the opportunity of Real Estate won’t be made available
on the worlds largest “Heritage Listed” national park, I guess at 51 years of
age, I can squeeze a few more wheezing years out of Sydney – or maybe I’ll
check out property prices in Tasmania.

 

But what the hell are all you young people going to do ?

 

Huh ?  Think about it.
Maybe ignore it for a couple more years if you’re a real couch potato; then do
something about it.

 

What ?

 

Well for a start, you can contact your Liberal member and
say that Carbon emissions are off the political agenda and to stop “Fucking
around in the senate.”

 

Don’t want to do that cause he/she is a big important
politician ?

 

Well – let me tell you something…. If you don’t do something
about it – you won’t ever get to be as old as him/her.

 

You’ll cook first. 
Unless of course you move to McMurdo Sound,
Tasmania or

 

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      NEW
ZEALAND.

References:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/death-and-taxes.html

Sydney Temperature Spikes as Melbourne Lashed by Winds, Rain

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aN3hwaaS1pYI

 

Sydney Temperature Records

http://australiasevereweather.com/links/temprec/sydney.htm

 

Sydney Temperature Records – August

http://australiasevereweather.com/links/temprec/syd-d08.htm

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