Come to think of it, why the RC church never excommunicated him because of his abortion record as health minister is beyond me too. I’m sure Mannix would have.

Latest on SNCF sabotage. Apparently fires have been lit beside lines.

https://news.sky.com/story/vandals-target-paris-olympics-by-setting-fires-to-damage-high-speed-train-routes-13184855

No great socio-political insights to report from Fiji, Cats, because we’ve not left the confines of this resort for four days. However one aspect of industrial relations did impinge upon consciousness, and not from the ‘staff’ servicing our every need either. Oh no. They are well paid and come with the territory we are paying for. ‘Twas when on our first afternoon on a sunny day we went for a swim in the Adults Only pool. Not many there because some winter renos were taking place, driving adult aesthetes to the two other pools given that it was post school holidays. We stayed for the length of it, a big twenty-five metre long pool where Hairy and I happily did our laps, me showing off my new teal blue-green swimsuit to replace to one stolen in Sydney. Shame about the colour – pace Hairy – but it is a stylish one-piece with a classy midriff buckle and fits well with some cross-over draping, a multi-size that fits well now yet suits future aspirational slimming targets, that’s the benefit, teal or no teal, so thank you Jantzen.

A small group of eight young Aussie chicks and four blokes from their group were having a pool cocktail party on and near the steps at the entrance end. Did I hear one cocktail being called a Climate Driver? I think I did. As I did my first lap I noticed the work going on up the far end to the left, which consisted of many workers removing a large expanse of old decking and replacing it with new stuff. They were still at the removal stage, but what impressed was that there were so many of them. Swimming back to base, I started my second lap and assuaged boredom by counting the men working on site. All Fijians, eleven wearing white hard hats and tradie company uniforms, ten wearing two different sorts of standardised gear but no headgear, and six in nondescript work clothes, one wearing a fedora with dreadlocks. So there were 27 men on site doing this one job, which though large I suspect could have been done by a team of six Aussie tradies in a morning.

These guys seemed to have been there most of the day already, because it was approaching 4pm knockoff time. I watched as a few of this crew desultorily picked up a few small planks each and wandered off, while others sat holding bits of string up, or swished a broom around or just looked busy doing nothing. Two Fijian men in white hard hats then wandered in and looked around, said a few things and disappeared. I also noticed two Fijian plumbers from the same company, no hats, working on pipes on the right hand side near my (unmarked) lap lane.

As I swam back to base again near the steps the young blokes and their girls were noting the activity and the numbers of workers. I heard one of them saying to the other blokes what were they doing over there, milling around, and how many were there, hard to tell from here.

Twenty-nine, I announced to them as I stood up before my next lap. I’ve just counted them. Plus two white-hat supervisors. On Fiji time and Fiji rules, though I didn’t say that bit out loud. The job was still only half done when we swam there today, two days later. We had really heavy rain last night, a real tropical downpour, which might have also clipped their work wings.

Went to see Deadpool and Wolverine.
Good fun. First movie been to for a while where cinema was full.
You have to stay untill last credit to see one of the funniest bits. The clue there was something to come after credits was the number of people still not leaving.

Conclusion on page 43.

That bloke is a deadset wanker, fool and bullshit artist. Anyone who believes anything he says has quite severe comprehension problems.

For a starter every floor of those two buildings weighted around 4,500 tons. A Boeing 767 weighs about 80 tons and both planes were traveling at about 500 mph and were carrying about 15,000 gallons of jet fuel.

If that is not enough data, how about the initial impact being equivalent to approximately 85 tons of TNT being detonated in each building. The structural damage caused by the aircraft hitting the buildings was catastrophic, then the burning fuel weakened the steel enough for the south building to collapse first because there was about 150,000 tonnes of building above the damage and there was 76,000 tonnes above north building impact zone.

The same people who believe the crap this goon puts forward probably believe that the windows blowing out were caused by explosives. How about each floor covering almost an acre (4046 sqm) in area and being 3.5 m high so there was approx 14,000 cubic metres of air in them. That air was instantaneously pressurised to almost infinity as over a million tons compressed it and it had to go somewhere. It blew out the bloody windows as it pressurised the lift and stair wells.

Arky I don’t know why you were impressed. Even at 1.5 speed he is only speaking at a reasonable speed. There’s nothing substantial there. Too many drugs, too many parties, too much booze. Wrecked himself. Almost said as much when asked if he read a lot he said not anymore.