Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Food for oil ...maybe for thought
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dogsatdawn as well as dogs there are ravens croaking and craving – here’s the latest croak:
Food for oil program
With the price of petrol surging up higher and faster than a Texan gusher, when is the government going to realise that some of us can’t afford to feed the appetites of both cars and children? Let alone adults and pets.
Many people need to drive to get to work, where they hope to earn enough to feed, clothe and house their family. This especially true when equipment, people and other items have to be carried and/or where public transport isn’t an option. How are carers, contractors, peripatetic community workers and others supposed to pay for the gas they have to spend (and most of them don’t get ‘mileage’ or if they do, it nowhere meets costs) out of their often minimal wages?
Of course, transporting food from the farm or wherever to the consumer will be much more expensive especially in a circuitous system such as ours where tomatoes and turnips may travel on a sort of cook’s tour (ha ha) from regional and rural field to suburban warehouse to country town shop. This last may be quite close to where the veggies were actually born in the beginning. As for those poor farmers who’ve been sucked in to the ‘farmers’ market’ system, I don’t know how they make a cent anyway but having to journey to and fro accompanied by business class beetroots won’t boost their incomes!
It seems that government garners an excise tax (38 cents a litre?) and then the 10% GST on top of the total price (which includes the levied excise). In other words- a tax on a tax. The federal Treasurer reckons that the states are raking in the GST so they could reduce that. But last I heard NSW, for example, didn’t seem to be to getting back the amount of GST that was paid in NSW and ended up with the feds.
Whatever, governments -state and federal between them -could do something to water down the effect of petrol prices (today around 37.9 cents a litre). But then, by all accounts, water will soon be more expensive than petrol so maybe we should stop topping up our glasses with Chardonnay skins and top up our tanks instead.
There is a lot of talk about how President Bush should have done more about a pre-emptive strike on the effects of Hurricane Katrina. But the oil companies apparently knew Katrina was hoving into their orbit at least a week before she did because the hoicked up the prices 10 cents litre in that week. Then in a post-emptive rationalization, the oil companies said oh wow! Prices will really have to go up now because Katrina has inadvertently knocked over a large tract of Gulf oilers.
Is there any hope that the UN will step in to provide relief to people suffering from the sanctions of economic rationalism and outright government and corporate gluttony? Isn’t it time we had a Food for Oil program??
From Mongrielle Australia 12/09/05
Hey – I got a letter in the paper at last… Re: Hunters or Collectors SMH News review 10/9/05:
When the director of Taronga Zoo, Guy Cooper, remarked "I'm afraid the last thing you'd ever float on the Australian Stock Exchange is an elephant", he'd apparently forgotten about the white one...Telstra.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Us dogs are taking a fence at the invasion of yet another cyclone (nothing like Katrina but still a curse in its small way) circumferating and cur-tailing our freedom and frolics. Someone said it was because kids might fall in and get drownded or poisoned. If that’s so – first – the beach is only 10 yards or metres from this photo spot and 2nd - these ponds have been around unfenced for many years. How many kids have fallen in? Don’t parents have any responsibility to make sure their offspring don’t wallow in the water unless they can take care of themselves? That’s why it’s easier to have dog children…are there no workhouses?? Or maybe that question goes with another rave…
doggers delight
posted by mongrielle at 5:27 PM 2 comments
This cemetery was such a blooming superb and scented example of how life goes on…until the tidy freakers got going and started mowing and chopping everything that’s not already dead. A few outcrops of flowers and plants survive but for how long o Lord?
life goes on
posted by mongrielle at 5:26 PM 0 comments
at least 2 dogs are allowed - the Irish Celtic corner
posted by mongrielle at 5:25 PM 1 comments
coast geranium loves these graves
posted by mongrielle at 5:25 PM 1 comments
Freesias and alyssum in their season are some of the most sweet-smelling and courageous plant critters the natural flowering things in Waverley cemetery - a tribute to life and lives
posted by mongrielle at 5:24 PM 0 comments
Bouquets and bush blessings to the wonderful workers who have not only preserved but revived the native plants in this most marvellous Malabar Headland. And congratulations and thanks also to Danny and Sally from Randwick Council who led us on a 4 hour bushwalk round the headland on Wednesday 8 September. Some of us would have learned a lot – even I id if I cd remember it! But for sure I hadn’t realised just how much of the apparently eternal natural flora was only around thanks to the efforts of Friends of Malabar Headland, Magic Point and others who battled with the beastly bitous and other evil invaders (such as the VeeBee jeebies who break beer bottles for fun) you can see Illawarra escarpment from here at south west malabar
posted by mongrielle at 5:23 PM 0 comments
what flower is this?
posted by mongrielle at 5:21 PM 0 comments
a beautiful thing or 2
posted by mongrielle at 5:19 PM 0 comments
fuschia and marvellous moss
posted by mongrielle at 5:16 PM 0 comments
rabbit art
posted by mongrielle at 5:14 PM 0 comments
Magic and Boora
posted by mongrielle at 5:13 PM 1 comments
towards Panther rock at magic point
posted by mongrielle at 5:11 PM 0 comments
spiky start to spring flowers walk at malabar
posted by mongrielle at 5:10 PM 0 comments
Sunday, September 04, 2005
rui says - just try and keep ME out!
posted by mongrielle at 1:22 AM 0 comments
sudoku? sudogu?
posted by mongrielle at 1:21 AM 0 comments
hey we used to be able to run free ...like dogs
posted by mongrielle at 1:20 AM 0 comments
another piece of man's work
posted by mongrielle at 1:20 AM 0 comments
still life ..bodies in a landscape
posted by mongrielle at 1:19 AM 0 comments
what a piece of work is man's
posted by mongrielle at 1:18 AM 0 comments
native sculcha or rusticating ratbags
posted by mongrielle at 1:18 AM 0 comments
parched earth policy
posted by mongrielle at 1:01 AM 0 comments
and seek
posted by mongrielle at 1:00 AM 0 comments
and hide
posted by mongrielle at 1:00 AM 0 comments
rui and gui play hide and seek
posted by mongrielle at 12:59 AM 0 comments
gui finds Buulldogs cap but he is a Swannies supporter
posted by mongrielle at 12:59 AM 0 comments
omigawd a cyclone has struck Malabar Headland but it's kinda eclipsed by Big Easy doin it so hard
posted by mongrielle at 12:58 AM 0 comments
still green after all these years
posted by mongrielle at 12:56 AM 0 comments
recycle the goddamn cyclists
posted by mongrielle at 12:56 AM 0 comments
Friday, September 02, 2005
ephemeral all right - butterflies at the bay
posted by mongrielle at 11:04 PM 0 comments
last look at the real world
posted by mongrielle at 11:03 PM 0 comments
that's me on the far right
posted by mongrielle at 11:01 PM 0 comments
the railers have landed
posted by mongrielle at 11:01 PM 0 comments
Whitehaven on Whitsunday
posted by mongrielle at 11:00 PM 0 comments
Hideaway heaven
posted by mongrielle at 10:59 PM 0 comments
if stones could speak ..to the white shoe brigade
posted by mongrielle at 10:59 PM 0 comments
Hideaway beach but not for long
posted by mongrielle at 10:57 PM 0 comments
on the level at Hideaway...
posted by mongrielle at 10:57 PM 0 comments
the low road to hideaway
posted by mongrielle at 10:56 PM 0 comments
closer look at the residents
posted by mongrielle at 10:56 PM 0 comments
current residents - can you spot them?
posted by mongrielle at 10:55 PM 0 comments
end of the road...so far
posted by mongrielle at 10:54 PM 0 comments
open slathering to Hideaway bay
posted by mongrielle at 10:53 PM 0 comments
Hideaway soon to be cutaway and concreted
posted by mongrielle at 10:52 PM 0 comments
fast forward to Pentecost
posted by mongrielle at 10:47 PM 0 comments
eagle's view
posted by mongrielle at 10:36 PM 0 comments
panted up to Passage Peak - it's breathtakingly worth it!
posted by mongrielle at 10:36 PM 0 comments
lowering like the lowland isles
posted by mongrielle at 10:34 PM 0 comments
mystic moments
posted by mongrielle at 10:33 PM 0 comments
lone mangrove winking at Catseye beach
posted by mongrielle at 10:32 PM 0 comments
towards Whitsunday
posted by mongrielle at 10:31 PM 0 comments
not canary coloured but a cart worthy of Toad
posted by mongrielle at 10:30 PM 0 comments
all roads lead to ...construction zone!
posted by mongrielle at 10:29 PM 0 comments
far shore - see it before it goes to concrete
posted by mongrielle at 10:28 PM 0 comments
wonders of the waterworld
posted by mongrielle at 10:27 PM 0 comments
Hamilton ho to the islands
posted by mongrielle at 10:26 PM 0 comments
a dogless sunset
posted by mongrielle at 10:25 PM 0 comments
Friday, June 24, 2005
dogsatdawn
Us dogs want to share some of the excellent adventures we have around our patch every morning early. Sometimes the moon is shining as bright as day and we trip (well I do..) along the shining paths of sand and rock like urban gorillas. Other times it is dark as a dungeon and we cavort through the cemetery singing and graufing to entertain the dead.In our expeditions we often meet wild(er) creatures - mostly not the dreaded human - rabbits, foxes, possums, owls, hawks, herons and other birds, squids, rays, and fish.We smell fresh wild plants and flowers, grasses, seas and ...sometimes the sewage from the local plant.We see all manner of beautiful things - sunrise over the city, the harbour, the open sea, the cliffs, the rock steps, the trees and native bushes and trees.Hope you can join us even if only in doggerblog land.
posted by mongrielle at 11:48 PM 1 comments
Sunday, May 22, 2005
stairdogs
posted by mongrielle at 10:26 PM 0 comments
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· doggers delight
· life goes on
· at least 2 dogs are allowed - the Irish Celtic cor...
· coast geranium loves these graves
· the natural flowering things in Waverley cemetery ...
· you can see Illawarra escarpment from here at sout...
· what flower is this?
· a beautiful thing or 2
· fuschia and marvellous moss
· rabbit art
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dogsatdawn as well as dogs there are ravens croaking and craving – here’s the latest croak:
Food for oil program
With the price of petrol surging up higher and faster than a Texan gusher, when is the government going to realise that some of us can’t afford to feed the appetites of both cars and children? Let alone adults and pets.
Many people need to drive to get to work, where they hope to earn enough to feed, clothe and house their family. This especially true when equipment, people and other items have to be carried and/or where public transport isn’t an option. How are carers, contractors, peripatetic community workers and others supposed to pay for the gas they have to spend (and most of them don’t get ‘mileage’ or if they do, it nowhere meets costs) out of their often minimal wages?
Of course, transporting food from the farm or wherever to the consumer will be much more expensive especially in a circuitous system such as ours where tomatoes and turnips may travel on a sort of cook’s tour (ha ha) from regional and rural field to suburban warehouse to country town shop. This last may be quite close to where the veggies were actually born in the beginning. As for those poor farmers who’ve been sucked in to the ‘farmers’ market’ system, I don’t know how they make a cent anyway but having to journey to and fro accompanied by business class beetroots won’t boost their incomes!
It seems that government garners an excise tax (38 cents a litre?) and then the 10% GST on top of the total price (which includes the levied excise). In other words- a tax on a tax. The federal Treasurer reckons that the states are raking in the GST so they could reduce that. But last I heard NSW, for example, didn’t seem to be to getting back the amount of GST that was paid in NSW and ended up with the feds.
Whatever, governments -state and federal between them -could do something to water down the effect of petrol prices (today around 37.9 cents a litre). But then, by all accounts, water will soon be more expensive than petrol so maybe we should stop topping up our glasses with Chardonnay skins and top up our tanks instead.
There is a lot of talk about how President Bush should have done more about a pre-emptive strike on the effects of Hurricane Katrina. But the oil companies apparently knew Katrina was hoving into their orbit at least a week before she did because the hoicked up the prices 10 cents litre in that week. Then in a post-emptive rationalization, the oil companies said oh wow! Prices will really have to go up now because Katrina has inadvertently knocked over a large tract of Gulf oilers.
Is there any hope that the UN will step in to provide relief to people suffering from the sanctions of economic rationalism and outright government and corporate gluttony? Isn’t it time we had a Food for Oil program??
From Mongrielle Australia 12/09/05
Hey – I got a letter in the paper at last… Re: Hunters or Collectors SMH News review 10/9/05:
When the director of Taronga Zoo, Guy Cooper, remarked "I'm afraid the last thing you'd ever float on the Australian Stock Exchange is an elephant", he'd apparently forgotten about the white one...Telstra.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Us dogs are taking a fence at the invasion of yet another cyclone (nothing like Katrina but still a curse in its small way) circumferating and cur-tailing our freedom and frolics. Someone said it was because kids might fall in and get drownded or poisoned. If that’s so – first – the beach is only 10 yards or metres from this photo spot and 2nd - these ponds have been around unfenced for many years. How many kids have fallen in? Don’t parents have any responsibility to make sure their offspring don’t wallow in the water unless they can take care of themselves? That’s why it’s easier to have dog children…are there no workhouses?? Or maybe that question goes with another rave…
doggers delight
posted by mongrielle at 5:27 PM 2 comments
This cemetery was such a blooming superb and scented example of how life goes on…until the tidy freakers got going and started mowing and chopping everything that’s not already dead. A few outcrops of flowers and plants survive but for how long o Lord?
life goes on
posted by mongrielle at 5:26 PM 0 comments
at least 2 dogs are allowed - the Irish Celtic corner
posted by mongrielle at 5:25 PM 1 comments
coast geranium loves these graves
posted by mongrielle at 5:25 PM 1 comments
Freesias and alyssum in their season are some of the most sweet-smelling and courageous plant critters the natural flowering things in Waverley cemetery - a tribute to life and lives
posted by mongrielle at 5:24 PM 0 comments
Bouquets and bush blessings to the wonderful workers who have not only preserved but revived the native plants in this most marvellous Malabar Headland. And congratulations and thanks also to Danny and Sally from Randwick Council who led us on a 4 hour bushwalk round the headland on Wednesday 8 September. Some of us would have learned a lot – even I id if I cd remember it! But for sure I hadn’t realised just how much of the apparently eternal natural flora was only around thanks to the efforts of Friends of Malabar Headland, Magic Point and others who battled with the beastly bitous and other evil invaders (such as the VeeBee jeebies who break beer bottles for fun) you can see Illawarra escarpment from here at south west malabar
posted by mongrielle at 5:23 PM 0 comments
what flower is this?
posted by mongrielle at 5:21 PM 0 comments
a beautiful thing or 2
posted by mongrielle at 5:19 PM 0 comments
fuschia and marvellous moss
posted by mongrielle at 5:16 PM 0 comments
rabbit art
posted by mongrielle at 5:14 PM 0 comments
Magic and Boora
posted by mongrielle at 5:13 PM 1 comments
towards Panther rock at magic point
posted by mongrielle at 5:11 PM 0 comments
spiky start to spring flowers walk at malabar
posted by mongrielle at 5:10 PM 0 comments
Sunday, September 04, 2005
rui says - just try and keep ME out!
posted by mongrielle at 1:22 AM 0 comments
sudoku? sudogu?
posted by mongrielle at 1:21 AM 0 comments
hey we used to be able to run free ...like dogs
posted by mongrielle at 1:20 AM 0 comments
another piece of man's work
posted by mongrielle at 1:20 AM 0 comments
still life ..bodies in a landscape
posted by mongrielle at 1:19 AM 0 comments
what a piece of work is man's
posted by mongrielle at 1:18 AM 0 comments
native sculcha or rusticating ratbags
posted by mongrielle at 1:18 AM 0 comments
parched earth policy
posted by mongrielle at 1:01 AM 0 comments
and seek
posted by mongrielle at 1:00 AM 0 comments
and hide
posted by mongrielle at 1:00 AM 0 comments
rui and gui play hide and seek
posted by mongrielle at 12:59 AM 0 comments
gui finds Buulldogs cap but he is a Swannies supporter
posted by mongrielle at 12:59 AM 0 comments
omigawd a cyclone has struck Malabar Headland but it's kinda eclipsed by Big Easy doin it so hard
posted by mongrielle at 12:58 AM 0 comments
still green after all these years
posted by mongrielle at 12:56 AM 0 comments
recycle the goddamn cyclists
posted by mongrielle at 12:56 AM 0 comments
Friday, September 02, 2005
ephemeral all right - butterflies at the bay
posted by mongrielle at 11:04 PM 0 comments
last look at the real world
posted by mongrielle at 11:03 PM 0 comments
that's me on the far right
posted by mongrielle at 11:01 PM 0 comments
the railers have landed
posted by mongrielle at 11:01 PM 0 comments
Whitehaven on Whitsunday
posted by mongrielle at 11:00 PM 0 comments
Hideaway heaven
posted by mongrielle at 10:59 PM 0 comments
if stones could speak ..to the white shoe brigade
posted by mongrielle at 10:59 PM 0 comments
Hideaway beach but not for long
posted by mongrielle at 10:57 PM 0 comments
on the level at Hideaway...
posted by mongrielle at 10:57 PM 0 comments
the low road to hideaway
posted by mongrielle at 10:56 PM 0 comments
closer look at the residents
posted by mongrielle at 10:56 PM 0 comments
current residents - can you spot them?
posted by mongrielle at 10:55 PM 0 comments
end of the road...so far
posted by mongrielle at 10:54 PM 0 comments
open slathering to Hideaway bay
posted by mongrielle at 10:53 PM 0 comments
Hideaway soon to be cutaway and concreted
posted by mongrielle at 10:52 PM 0 comments
fast forward to Pentecost
posted by mongrielle at 10:47 PM 0 comments
eagle's view
posted by mongrielle at 10:36 PM 0 comments
panted up to Passage Peak - it's breathtakingly worth it!
posted by mongrielle at 10:36 PM 0 comments
lowering like the lowland isles
posted by mongrielle at 10:34 PM 0 comments
mystic moments
posted by mongrielle at 10:33 PM 0 comments
lone mangrove winking at Catseye beach
posted by mongrielle at 10:32 PM 0 comments
towards Whitsunday
posted by mongrielle at 10:31 PM 0 comments
not canary coloured but a cart worthy of Toad
posted by mongrielle at 10:30 PM 0 comments
all roads lead to ...construction zone!
posted by mongrielle at 10:29 PM 0 comments
far shore - see it before it goes to concrete
posted by mongrielle at 10:28 PM 0 comments
wonders of the waterworld
posted by mongrielle at 10:27 PM 0 comments
Hamilton ho to the islands
posted by mongrielle at 10:26 PM 0 comments
a dogless sunset
posted by mongrielle at 10:25 PM 0 comments
Friday, June 24, 2005
dogsatdawn
Us dogs want to share some of the excellent adventures we have around our patch every morning early. Sometimes the moon is shining as bright as day and we trip (well I do..) along the shining paths of sand and rock like urban gorillas. Other times it is dark as a dungeon and we cavort through the cemetery singing and graufing to entertain the dead.In our expeditions we often meet wild(er) creatures - mostly not the dreaded human - rabbits, foxes, possums, owls, hawks, herons and other birds, squids, rays, and fish.We smell fresh wild plants and flowers, grasses, seas and ...sometimes the sewage from the local plant.We see all manner of beautiful things - sunrise over the city, the harbour, the open sea, the cliffs, the rock steps, the trees and native bushes and trees.Hope you can join us even if only in doggerblog land.
posted by mongrielle at 11:48 PM 1 comments
Sunday, May 22, 2005
stairdogs
posted by mongrielle at 10:26 PM 0 comments
Previous Posts
· doggers delight
· life goes on
· at least 2 dogs are allowed - the Irish Celtic cor...
· coast geranium loves these graves
· the natural flowering things in Waverley cemetery ...
· you can see Illawarra escarpment from here at sout...
· what flower is this?
· a beautiful thing or 2
· fuschia and marvellous moss
· rabbit art
Archives
· May 2005
· June 2005
· September 2005
About Me
Name:mongrielle
View my complete profile
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