Shooters Harpooned

Have you noticed the negative portrayal by the Greens of licensed shooters now that there’s a proposal to allow them into national parks to shoot and kill certain animals?

The greens are up in arms and are cranking the scare machine into top gear referring to shooters as irresponsible, manic, wasteful, barbaric, trigger-happy, amongst many others.  If the Greens are to be believed then these shooters wantonly shoot at hikers.

The reality is quite the opposite.  Licensed shooters are highly skilled, they respect the weapon they are using.  They are sensible, not wasteful, as every bullet costs money and they sometimes like to take the carcus away.  They are respectful of others and the animals they are shooting.  They know how to kill it without undue stress to the animal. Also, lets not forget they are registered, and one false move results in removal of gun licenses forever.  These guys are highly regulated in the storage and use of their weapon, if they want to keep using it they will use it properly.  They are not stupid.

Also the animals they will be allowed to shoot are feral, in plague proportions and usually introduced species reeking havoc on our ecosystem. 

Shooters are better environmentalists that those who claim to be ‘green’.  These ‘do gooders’ don’t see the bigger picture.  An increase in feral animals equals increased damage to environment and therefore endangering native animals.

Fever

I find it embarrassing and amusing watching thousands of young girls screaming for pop singer Justin Bieber.

They share their unyielding devotion.  They ask him to marry them.  Why is it then that they seem oblivious to the fact that he already has a girlfriend?  I bet Selena Gomez doesn’t carry on like these fanatical admirers do.

If one of these fan girls that love him so much actually got to meet him they wouldn’t be able to talk to him.  They would be so taken by his presence that their tongue would be rendered useless and they would look foolish.

They love him, want to marry him, yet they wouldn’t be able to talk to him.  That sounds like a great relationship.

If his career didn’t rely so much on their screaming masses I would like to think that he would abhor such behaviour.  It will be interesting to see what happens as he grows up.  Hopefully these girls grow up to and see the folly of their ways.

Not Right

I don’t mind sounding like a broken record when referring to this pamphlet I found in the Medicare office.  Emblazoned on the cover was “Have a Medicare card – it’s you’re right”.

Please government stop peddling this message.  This is what has led to the demise of the health system.  It’s having people think of health services as rights instead of privileges.  It’s the lack of respect for health services that leads to the endless demands from the masses for government to ‘fix it’. 

Government will never be able to fix anything until there is a collective attitude adjustment, and it starts with how we regard our public services.

Continue to view them as a right then enjoy a health system that will continue to decline.  Adjust the attitude and regard health services as the huge privilege it is and you will see an improvement.

It’s up to you, not the government.

Stubborn or Just Realistic

The older generation, especially those that lived through war times, tend to be stubborn when it comes to the administration of health care.  “I’ll be right”, they say casually.

I like this attitude and more people should adopt it, however it has its flaws.

The elderly tend to only ask for help when they really, really need it.  This can result in the request coming too late for help to be effective.

Younger people need to take a leaf out of the book of the older generations.  Don’t be too proud to ask for help but be realistic.  There’s no need to be impetuous, and get majorly worked up immediately.  Just look at the bigger picture regarding your condition.  Is it really and emergency or can I wait to see my GP?  Sometimes a good sleep works wonders. 

Seems that the further we get away from war times the more spoilt we become and we don’t know how to deal with the smallest amount of suffering.

Here We Go Again

The Project covered a story about the ‘glass ceiling’ women have to break through to climb the corporate ladder. 

Natasha Stott-Despoja was on.  She claimed that we’ve had years to deal with this “problem”.  Really? Problem?  We’re still forgetting that most working women have no intent on climbing the corporate ladder.  Rather they are very willing in sacrificing some career advancement to have children.  It’s only the vocal minority that see this as a “problem”.

Some bozo was calling for quotas of women working in public and private sectors.  As if the current ‘targets’ aren’t bad enough.  Quotas and targets defeat the purpose for which they were intended.  Instead of gaining a job on merit, which is what all the complainers say they want, they will now get it potentially on tokenism.  Or there may be the continual speculation of whether it was gained on tokenism.  This would create immense pressure to perform.

Feminists want a level playing field.  But there never will be.  Men and women are different.  Why is that people continually need to be told that?  We have different aptitudes.  Men have strengths in leadership.  Women have strengths in nurturing.  This isn’t to say that women can’t lead and men aren’t nurturing.  It’s a generalisation, because it’s generally true.

A case study from Norway was shown and it featured some interesting consequences from its policy of quotas.  The policy was bound to all publicly listed companies.  So they found that many publicly listed companies got out of the stock exchange.  They also found that there were boards with women directors but it turned out to be the same women on multiple boards.  So no net gain for women in Norway.

People need to really think about what they aim to achieve by such policies and look at their potential side effects.