Buckle Up, Bitches

I am now wondering has the world gone 'Bonfire of the Vanities' again.  My nephew's picture is now the subject of an online petition with Change.org.  Oh well.  All this over a bum. 


Things to be excited about: I will probably receive my complimentary author copies of 'Silver Studs and Sabre Teeth' in about two weeks or so. 


Things to be pissed off about (buckle up, bitches, I'm feeling cheesed off):


1. This idea bandied about of paying kids to eat their vegetables.  WTF, seriously?  The little brats will probably take their filthy lucre (and will probably palm off their vegies on the dog when Mum and Dad's backs are turned) and buy lollies.  This type of half-arsed idea gets thrown into the ring when parents are told they can no longer discipline their kids (and no, I DON'T listen to talk back radio and find Laws, Hadley et al nauseating).  How's this for parenting? EAT YOUR DINNER OR GO HUNGRY!  It worked on me, and you know something?  I'm healthy, have good eating habits, and have this thing called Respect For Others.  Pay your kids for eating their vegetables?  Oh, I already do.  I pay them by NOT landing my foot in their arses.  Oh, and dessert, too.


2.  Gina Rhinehart blathering about entitlement, and how entitlements should not be handed out so lightly.  Okay, how about we cut some of the entitlements to politicians' salaries, freebies and tax breaks?   Gina, you're what's known as a member of the Lucky Sperm Lottery in that you jumped out of one of Lang's balls, and ergo are quite well off.  I do not begrudge you this at all, and actually think you have a very good work ethic and a brain for business.  But if you've never despaired at the pile of bills, wondered how you're going to make a mortgage repayment, become depressed at the approaching Christmas season and had to tell your children they just have to miss out on a particular outing; if you've never had to wrangle with Centrelink about an application for Disability Support Pension and the hoops they want you to jump through, which you cannot jump through because your back is fucked, then kindly be quiet.


3.  Derryn Hinch.  He's been released from gaol today, and I am over all the fawning he has received on social media.  Am I the only one who thinks he acted like an arrogant blowhard who believes he is above the law?  The law of suppression is to ensure justice and due legal process is carried out without prejudice and perversion, and to protect the identity of victims who are often known to the perpetrators of these hideous crimes.  He's lucky he didn't get a shiv in that new liver of his.


Well, am off to lunch with my other half, and then home to continue with my Work In Progress.