JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE:OUR END OF MONTH CATCHUP!

So it's the last day of April and it's catchup time. Who's done what, and what happened from it.

For those reading about it for the first time, the original post can be read here and you can join the Facebook and Myspace groups, just click on the bits in my sidebar.

Well let's see, this month I sent out more submissions for my book, some have said No, but I'm still waiting on others. I've sent to the UK too.

Still writing in my journal and looking at my affirmation folder.

And started having 10% of my pay automatically deposited into my savings account. Believe me, you don't miss it, and you'll have a fatter bank account at the end of the year.

And basically that's it. Besides stalk, er, following Scott Pape, but y'all know about that.

Tomorrow will be affirmation day peeps, don't forget to tune in.

Jewels xxoo

Weird shit going on in the world today!!!!!

Wildlife experts in southern India are hunting a rogue bull elephant who is thought to have gored 12 female tuskers to death because they spurned his sexual advances.

The Times of India said on Wednesday that a 15-member taskforce has been set up to catch the aggressive male, called Alpha, who has been on the run in the jungles of Kerala state for the last three years.

Kerala's chief wildlife warden, K.K. Srivastava, said eight female elephants were found dead in the vast Periyar reserve between February and June last year. 'Post-mortem reports and other evidence suggested that these were caused by the same tusker. Two more females were found dead on March 12 and 21 this year. The nature of injuries point to the same culprit,' he told the daily.

Two other deaths have been blamed on 25-year-old Alpha, he added, without specifying when the females were found. Alpha's behaviour has been blamed on 'musth,' a surge in the male reproductive hormone testosterone in bull elephants that leads to aggressive behaviour.

Forensic tests have shown that all the victims had puncture marks, indicating that they resisted a male who tried to force himself on them. The wounds matched the dimensions of Alpha's tusks, the newspaper said.

The former deputy director of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, P.P. Pramod, said Alpha needs to have his tusks trimmed but they had to catch and tranquilise him first, which was risky. 'If it fell flat on its chest it will die instantly. So we need to follow it and lift it as soon as he collapses,' he was quoted as saying.

Well even animals are horny bloody bastards.

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Two arrested over monkey meatballs - Sunanda Creagh, Reuters April 29, 2010, 12:45 am

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday.

The pair poached dozens of rare Javan langurs, also known as silver-leaf monkeys, from Baluran National Park in the east of Java island, according to a statement released by Indonesia-based animal protection group ProFauna.

"Police found 30 kilograms (65 pounds) meat estimated to come from 20 - 25 individuals, two rifles and a live langur," the statement said. "The couple admitted that they had known what they did was against the law and they hunted the monkeys for their meat because beef and chicken were more expensive than the protected monkeys."

Meatball soup, known locally as bakso, is a popular dish in Indonesia.

The statement said police were now broadening their investigation to include checks on vendors suspected of selling the monkey meatballs, while ProFauna was in talks with the national park caretakers to prevent further poaching.

Indonesian law states that perpetrators of wildlife crimes face a maximum five year prison term and a fine of 5 million rupiah ($555), but the law is not always strictly enforced.

dear God, what's the world coming to,

Jewels xxoo

QUOTE OF THE WEEK!

Show me a man and I'll show you a pig!

LOL CATS WEDNESDAY!!!!!

My Favourite Things: DISASTER MOVIES!!!!!

Over the weekend I finally got to see the movie, 2012. Got the dvd from my library as I'm too stingy to shell out mega bucks to visit the cinema. But that got me to thinking how many other disaster movies are there.

I've seen many, and it's definitely my favourite genre, and anytime there's been one on tv I've watched, although I'm not too sure that Zombie movies come into the category but I saw I AM LEGEND not too long ago and it freaked the shit out of me.

But I watched 2012 on Sunday and LOVED IT!!!!!

I LOVE DISASTER MOVIES.

DAY AFTER TOMORROW, ARMEGEDDON, ASTEROID, DEEP IMPACT etc, etc, etc.

Anytime something gets blown up - INDEPENDANCE DAY, demolished, washed away, tipped over - POSEIDON, TITANIC, I'm there.

The special effects astound me and that's the only reason I watch these movies. For the special effects.

I loved the effects in 2012 so much I'm watching it again before taking it back.

I HAVE GOT TO SEE IT AGAIN!!

So that got me to thinking is there a list of disaster flicks?

So I googled, and found a wikipedia page, there's heaps more but that would make this post too long. So tell me how many you've seen from the list below. I've seen heaps.

Jewels xxoo

Geological disasters -

Cave-In! (1983 TV)
On Hostile Ground (2000)
Cave In (2003 TV)
The Core (2003)
Landslide (2004 TV) AKA Buried Alive

Avalanches -

Avalanche (1969)
Avalanche (1978)
Avalanche Express (1979)
High Ice (1980 TV)
Lavina (1982)
Avalanche (1994)
Avalanche (1999) (AKA Escape From Alaska)
Vertical Limit (2000)
Avalanche (2001)
Avalanche Alley (2001)
Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)

Earthquakes -

Deluge (1933)
San Francisco (1936)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
The Night the World Exploded (1957)
Crack in the World (1965)
Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
Deathquake (1980)
The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
Aftershocks (1998)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Epicenter (2000)
Deep Core (2000)
Epoch (2001)
Epoch: Evolution (2003)
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2004)
10.5 (2004)
Descent (2005)
10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
2012 (2009)
Megafault (2009)

Meteors -

Armageddon (1998)
Anna's Storm (2007)
Asteroid (1997)
Deep Impact (1998)
The Fifth Element (1997)
A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
Impact (2008)
Meteor (1979)
Meteor (2009 TV) AKA Meteor: Path to Destruction
Meteorites! (1998)
Post Impact (2004)

Volcanoes -

2012 (2009)
Dante's Peak (1997)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
Dragon Head (2003)
End Day (2005)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
Krakatoa: The Last Days (docudrama) (2006)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)
Nature Unleashed: Volcano (2004)
Pompeii: The Last Day (docudrama) (2003)
St. Helens (1981)
Supervolcano (docudrama) (2005)
Terror Peak (2003 TV)
Volcano (1997)
The Volcano Disaster (2004)
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
When Time Ran Out... (1980)


Floods and tidal waves -

2012 (2009)
2022: Tsunami (2009 Thailand)
252: Signal of Life (2008 Japan)
Condominium (1980 TV)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Daylight (1996)
Deep Impact (1998)
Deluge (1933)
Flood (2007)
Flood! (1976)
Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)
Haeundae (2009 Korea)
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Killer Wave (2007 TV)
The Last Wave (1977)
Nippon Chinbotsu (1973 Japan) AKA Tidal Wave
Nihon Chinbotsu (2006 Japan) AKA Japan Sinks
Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu (2006 Japan) AKA The Entire World Sinks Except Japan
Noah's Ark (1928)
Noah's Ark (1999)
The Rains Came (1939)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997 TV)
Vajont (2001)

Climatic disasters -

Absolute Zero (2005) (TV)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
Countdown: The Sky's on Fire! (1998)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
End Day (2005)
Hard Rain (1998)
Heat Wave! (1974)
The Hurricane (1937)
Hurricane (1979)
Ice (1998)
Lightning: Bolts of Destruction (2003 TV)
Lightning: Fire from the Sky (2001 TV)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)

Global warming -

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
Countdown: The Sky's on Fire! (1998)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Fire Next Time (1993 TV)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Waterworld (1995)

Tornadoes -

Atomic Twister (2002)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Devil Winds (2003)
Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2004)
Night of the Twisters (1996)
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV)
Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister (1998)
Tornado Warning (2002)
Tornado! (1996)
Tornado - Der Zorn des Himmels (2006)
Twister (1996)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

Fires -

15 Minutes of Fire (1997 Australia)
Ablaze (2001)
Backdraft (1991)
City on Fire (1979)
Dante's Inferno (1935)
Fire! (1901)
Fire! (1977 TV)
Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991 TV)
Firestorm (1998)
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993 TV)
Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone (2006 TV)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Inferno (1998 TV)
Knowing (2009)
Ladder 49 (2004)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)
Raging Inferno (2007 German TV) AKA Das Inferno - Flammen über Berlin
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
San Francisco (1936)
Scorched (2008)
Superfire (2002 TV)
Terror on the 40th Floor (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Trapped (2001 TV)
Volcano (1997)

Epidemics -

Absolon (2001)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Signs (2002)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Blindness (2008)
Cabin Fever (2003)
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
Carriers (1998)
Carriers (2009)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Children of Men (2006)
Contagion (2001)
Contagious (1997)
Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Doomsday (2008)
Daybreakers (2010)
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Epidemic (1987)
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Flying Virus (2001)
The Happening (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Omega (2007)
The Invasion (2007)
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Last Man on Earth (1924)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
The Omega Man (1971)
Pandora's Clock (1996)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Plague (1978)
Quarantine (2008)
Runaway Virus (2000)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Smallpox 2002 (2002)
Spill (1996)
SST: Death Flight (1977)
Thirst (1998)
Virus (1980)
Virus (1981)
Virus (1999)
Voyage of Terror (1998)
Warning Sign (1985)
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
Undead (2003)
Zombieland (2009)

Space disasters -

Anna's Storm (2007)
Armageddon (1998)
Asteroid (1997)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Countdown: The Sky's on Fire! (1998)
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
Deep Impact (1998)
Doomsday Rock (1997)
Earthstorm (2006)
End Day (2005)
End of the World (1977)
A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
Impact (2008)
Inferno (1998)
Judgment Day (1999)
Knowing (2009)
Lifeforce (1985)
Meteor (1979)
Meteorites! (1998)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Signs (2002)
Solar Attack (2005) AKA Solar Strike
Solar Crisis (1990)
Sunshine (2007)
Supernova (2005)
Tycus (1998)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
War of the Worlds (2005)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Without Warning (1994)

Man-made disasters -

Blackout (1978)
The Core (2003)
City on Fire (1979)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
From Beyond (1985)
I Am Legend (2007)
Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
On Deadly Ground (1994)
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Shadowzone (1990)
Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center (2002)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009)
World Trade Center (film) (2006)

Airplanes -

9/11 (2002)
Air Crew (1980 Russia) AKA Ekipazh
Air Force One (1997)
Airport (1970)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport '77 (1977)
Airspeed (1998)
Alive (1993)
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990 TV) AKA Aftermath
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV) AKA A Thousand Heroes
Crash Landing (1999)
Crash Landing (2005)
The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)
The Day Britain Stopped (2003)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV) AKA Freefall: Flight 174
Fearless (1993)
Final Descent (1997 TV)
Final Destination (2000)
Fire and Rain (1989)
Five Came Back (1939)
Flight 93 (2006)
Flight of The Living Dead (2007)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Flight to Holocaust (1977)
Ground Control (1998)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The Hindenburg (1975)
Knowing (2009)
Mayday! (2005 TV)
Millennium (1989)
Miracle Landing (1990)
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Nowhere to Land (2000 TV)
Pandora's Clock (1996)
Panic in the Skies! (1996 TV)
Passenger 57 (1992)
Skyjacked (1972)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Starflight One (1983 TV)
Stealth (2005)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)
Terror in the Sky (1971 TV)
Turbulence (1997)
United 93 (2006)
A Wing and a Prayer (1998 TV)
World Trade Center (2006)
Zero Hour! (1957)

Ships and submarines -

Atlantic (1929)
Britannic (2000)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Gray Lady Down (1978)
Hostile Waters (1997)
In Nacht und Eis (1912)
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Juggernaut (1970)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
The Last Voyage (1960)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Noah (1998)
Noah's Ark (1929)
Noah's Ark (1959)
Noah's Ark (1999)
Poseidon (2006)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Raise the Titanic! (1980)
S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV)
Saved from the Titanic (1912)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Titanic (1943)
Titanic (1953)
Titanic (1996 TV)
Titanic (1997)
U-571 (2000)
Ghost Ship (2002 film)
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
The Little Polar Bear (2001)

ANZAC Day and what it REALLY means!

I know that today is the ANZAC Day holiday, even though ANZAC Day was yesterday.

The day we celebrate, for want of another word, the day that Australia fought the first world war on Turkey's coast in a blood bath that was the stupidest thing ever, and then onto France, and pretty much depleted the male race from Australia.

From Wikipedia - When war broke out in 1914, Australia had been a Federal Commonwealth for thirteen years. In 1915, Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of an Allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula, under a plan by Winston Churchill to open the way to the Black Sea for the Allied navies. The objective was to capture Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany. The ANZAC force landed at Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Turkish Army commanded by Mustafa Kemal (later known as Atatürk). What had been planned as a bold strike to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915, the Allied forces were evacuated after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. The Allied Gallipoli casualties included 21,255 from the UK, an estimated 10,000 dead soldiers from France, 8,709 from Australia, 2,721 from New Zealand, and 1,358 from British India. News of the landing at Gallipoli made a profound impact on Australians and New Zealanders at home and 25 April quickly became the day on which they remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in war.

Some would see it as celebrating our freedom, (we didn't need to be freed), fighting for the flag, (although that's just a piece of material), fighting for the country, (sorry, you fought on someone else's soil), and thanking all the people who fought, (even though there are no actual ANZACS left, they're all dead), and so that is why they have asked survivors of other wars, and children and grandchildren to walk in the parades instead.

My problem is not the marches, the celebrations, the drinks and war stories, the travelling to the war zone to see what all the fuss is about, although if you keep getting upset at the memories then don't go.

My problem is, it's a holiday.

I don't see why it should be, or why we should be forced to celebrate a war we should not have gone into, or the fact that thousands died doing it.

It was a disgrace, disgusting, and we should not be celebrating it because of what it was. A death trap for all who went.

Sure, there were those who came home, then lived some form of life and had a family, suffered depression and post traumatic stress, and then died with barely a "who gives a shit" after struggling to be recognised, to receive pensions and benefits, medical and mental help, and were generally not given a crap about until the day they died.

Countries treat their war "heroes" like shit. Expecting them to go and do their "duty" and then come home in either a body bag, or a shell of their former selves.

Why do we celebrate this?

What is there to celebrate?

People go on about how Australia would not be where and who we are today if it were not for the diggers.

Really?

You really think that!

You have no idea what would have happened if we had not gone to war. Although some claim we would be owned by the Japanese, but that was only after World War 2. Maybe, maybe not. And yet it happens time and time again.

For every war fought, our leader fearlessly sends off men and women to either die or come home wounded.

How many American service people have come home in body bags or without arms and legs, to be left in the gutter without benefits or even the acknowledgement of what they have done for "their country".

Country's leaders don't give a shit about how many will die, how many will come home without body parts or with severely fractured minds and souls.

Our fearless leaders would not go to war themselves they're too gutless. They just send "their people" instead.

So, why do we celebrate such revolting atrocity?

I don't know, but I still don't think there should be a public holiday for it.

I've seen old diggers bawling their eyes out at the memories of losing their men in war, the sins committed, the friends lost. And time and time again I ask myself, why? Why do they do it? Why do they do it year after year knowing that it's going to kill them just a little bit more emotionally, if they have any emotions left at all. Aren't they just shells of the men they used to be? Aren't they heartsick enough after decades of anguished memories to NOT go back every year? To not relive the pain, the terror, the fear of dying and losing their lives, their mates, their mental capacity?

Apparently not.

I've heard psychiatrists say that it's not healthy to live in the past, and if you live in the past you won't have a future.

These men, these war survivors live an existance, but the pain remains. The memories, the hell, the love and loss, the mental demons and physical anguish, it all remains.

So why do they keep reliving what they fought so hard to forget?

Why do we keep celebrating something that should be let go of?

The day should be remembered by those who choose to.

Those who want to.

Those who wish to put themselves through the pain and misery every year for the rest of their lives.

Not by the rest of us who have chosen to live in the moment, who worry about today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, next decade.

We have to worry about now, and live our lives for us, our loved ones, our FUTURE.

NOT the life that is 95 years in the past.

Celebrate how you want peeps, and don't let anyone tell you how you should be doing it. It's none of their business.

Jewels xxoo