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QLD Election
Although the press have acted to cloud the issue, it isn't really a choice, unless it is Hobson's Choice, where historically, the stable manager offered customers their choice of the closest empty stable or nothing at all. For Queensland, the choice is responsible government of Campbell Newman or anarchic posturing of the incompetent, unreformed, corrupt ALP. And the LNP have to go to a higher standard than merely winning government. They need to win government and have Campbell Newman win his seat. On record, we have a 'can do' LNP capable of righting the ship of state in stormy times and allowing for prosperity, or we have the union dominated hamstrung ALP who say many things they never do, but are certain to spend more than they earn and limit the growth opportunities of Queenslanders for decades to come without benefiting their constituents if they aren't corrupt. So Palaszczuk doesn't know the 10% GST figure excluding fresh food and education. Newman may not be able to spell Palaszczuk's name without notes, but he certainly knows who she is. Newman can support industry and grow the economy. Palaszczuk can shrink industry and promote corrupt unions at the expense of people. Palaszczuk will promise to save the coral reefs which aren't endangered. The good people of Queensland and Asgrove trusted Mr Newman before, and he hasn't failed them. Hopefully they will trust him again. Hopefully they will not trust the unreformed party that delivered two floods without insurance.
Protestors getting paid
The Australian Film Industry are a protected mob who don't deliver what they are capable of. There are exceptions, and one looks forward to Maximum Choppage as much Kitchen Whiz. More often, radical activists dominate, taking oxygen away from interesting story lines and promoting their fantasy. Tim Blair provides an example of an abysmal project against Coal Seam Gas which has no merit, but will probably be well funded.
Also there are jihadists who use the name Islam to for a payday in getting artists silenced. It would be good if the Jihadists were silenced by Islamic leaders pointing out that Islam is not threatened by such. But sadly those leaders who could speak out are cowardly and impotent and one feels, agree with jihadists. They bring Islam into disrepute.
On this day in history, Charles I of England was beheaded in 1649. In 1661, the dead man, Oliver Cromwell, who had been responsible for ordering Charles I's death was ritually executed by order of Charles II. In 1703, 47 Ronin avenged the death of their master. In 1790, testing was done on the first life boat on the river Tyne. In 1835, Andrew Jackson was threatened with assassination by house painter Richard Lawrence. It is apparent Richard was mentally ill. The prosecutor at trial was Francis Scott Key. He was found insane and lived the rest of his life in an asylum. H P Lovecraft would have been inspired. In 1889, two selfish, self indulgent lovers, one of whom was the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, committed suicide. Twenty five years later, the world was aflame. 1908, Ghandi was freed from jail. In 1945, German refugees on board a ferry were torpedoes by a Soviet sub. 9500 people died in the worst maritime disaster known. 1948, Ghandi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. In 1956, Martin King's home was bombed after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Bigots claimed one was a reason for the other. 1965, over a million people attended the state funeral of Winston Churchill. In 1968, the Tet offensive began, marking the collapse of North Vietnam's offensive capability, afterwards they used terror tactics only. 1969, The Beatles last performance was on top of the roof of Apple Records. The police stopped it. 1971, Carole King released Tapestry.
2014
Watching an ABC chief defend the ABC at an ABC Media Luncheon shown on the ABC, I got a good view as to why it is so hard for many to see why there has to be change. We live in a lucky country where not much seems wrong. Compared to an African nation where youth are kidnapped and raised as soldiers we do things well. Compared to a nation which fought a civil war over communism and has borrowed more than it is ever likely to earn, like Greece, Australia looks financially responsible. Compared with a nation that jails or kills people for being related to the wrong person, like so called Palestine or North Korea, Australia is just. But Australia struggles with injustice, with debt spending and with education. And the ABC is part of the problem.
When Pete Seeger died the other day, his life was summarised by the ABC and it misleadingly said he had been "tarred with the brush of communism" during the McCarthy era. In fact, he was a communist who supported administrations which murdered over a hundred million people and threatened world peace. Seeger was also fabulously wealthy, something he sought to deny others in his pursuit of idealising poverty. But the ABC did not and could not say this. The reason being that the ABC is the same, having made the same choices. And that is what makes it so difficult to argue with in their defence of those choices. They don't see the harm they have done, because it is not so bad in Australia.
Only there are terrible things that happen in Australia. There is injustice, as when building industry is held up by stand over people. Limiting profit and growth. There is corruption of the judicial system, so that things not written in the constitution have been inferred and foisted on the Australian peoples by unelected lawyers. There is a school system which is ideologically driven by people who do not respect cultural assets.
Australia is a great nation. It is worth patriots dying for her. But their sacrifice deserves better than the ABC gives.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1018, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire concluded the Peace of Bautzen. 1607, an estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the Kingdom of England were destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. 1648, Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück was signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded. 1661, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England was ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1667, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceded Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
In 1703, the Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master. 1790, the first boat specialising as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne. 1806, the original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spanned the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, was opened. 1820, Edward Bransfield sighted the Trinity Peninsula and claimed the discovery of Antarctica. 1826, the Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, was opened. 1835, in the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but failed and was subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen. 1841, a fire destroyed two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. 1847, Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco. 1858, the first Hallé concert was given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. 1862, the first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched. 1889, Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
In 1902, the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London. 1908, Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. 1911, the destroyer USS Terry made the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba. Also 1911, the Canadian Naval Service became the Royal Canadian Navy. 1913, the British House of Lords rejected the Irish Home Rule Bill. 1925, the Government of Turkey threw Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. 1942, World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. 1943, World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago was sunk and a U.S. destroyer was heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. 1944, World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, began in central Italy. Also 1944, World War II: American troops landed on Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1945, World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sank in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster. Also 1945, World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberated over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp. 1948, Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
In 1956, African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home was bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1959, MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard. 1960, the African National Party was founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. 1964, Ranger program: Ranger 6 was launched. Also 1964, in a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrew General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. 1965, some 1 million people attended former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point. 1968, Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. 1969, The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
In 1971, Carole King's Tapestry album was released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sold 24 million copies worldwide. 1972, the Troubles: Bloody Sunday — British Paratroopers opened fire on and killed fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. Also 1972, Pakistan withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations. 1975, the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. 1979, a Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. 1982, Richard Skrenta wrote the first PC virus code, which was 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". 1989, Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. 1994, Péter Lékó became the youngest chess grandmaster. 1995, workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. 2000, off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. 2003, the Kingdom of Belgium officially recognised same-sex marriages. 2013, Naro-1 became the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
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QLD Election
Although the press have acted to cloud the issue, it isn't really a choice, unless it is Hobson's Choice, where historically, the stable manager offered customers their choice of the closest empty stable or nothing at all. For Queensland, the choice is responsible government of Campbell Newman or anarchic posturing of the incompetent, unreformed, corrupt ALP. And the LNP have to go to a higher standard than merely winning government. They need to win government and have Campbell Newman win his seat. On record, we have a 'can do' LNP capable of righting the ship of state in stormy times and allowing for prosperity, or we have the union dominated hamstrung ALP who say many things they never do, but are certain to spend more than they earn and limit the growth opportunities of Queenslanders for decades to come without benefiting their constituents if they aren't corrupt. So Palaszczuk doesn't know the 10% GST figure excluding fresh food and education. Newman may not be able to spell Palaszczuk's name without notes, but he certainly knows who she is. Newman can support industry and grow the economy. Palaszczuk can shrink industry and promote corrupt unions at the expense of people. Palaszczuk will promise to save the coral reefs which aren't endangered. The good people of Queensland and Asgrove trusted Mr Newman before, and he hasn't failed them. Hopefully they will trust him again. Hopefully they will not trust the unreformed party that delivered two floods without insurance.
Protestors getting paid
The Australian Film Industry are a protected mob who don't deliver what they are capable of. There are exceptions, and one looks forward to Maximum Choppage as much Kitchen Whiz. More often, radical activists dominate, taking oxygen away from interesting story lines and promoting their fantasy. Tim Blair provides an example of an abysmal project against Coal Seam Gas which has no merit, but will probably be well funded.
Also there are jihadists who use the name Islam to for a payday in getting artists silenced. It would be good if the Jihadists were silenced by Islamic leaders pointing out that Islam is not threatened by such. But sadly those leaders who could speak out are cowardly and impotent and one feels, agree with jihadists. They bring Islam into disrepute.
On this day in history, Charles I of England was beheaded in 1649. In 1661, the dead man, Oliver Cromwell, who had been responsible for ordering Charles I's death was ritually executed by order of Charles II. In 1703, 47 Ronin avenged the death of their master. In 1790, testing was done on the first life boat on the river Tyne. In 1835, Andrew Jackson was threatened with assassination by house painter Richard Lawrence. It is apparent Richard was mentally ill. The prosecutor at trial was Francis Scott Key. He was found insane and lived the rest of his life in an asylum. H P Lovecraft would have been inspired. In 1889, two selfish, self indulgent lovers, one of whom was the heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, committed suicide. Twenty five years later, the world was aflame. 1908, Ghandi was freed from jail. In 1945, German refugees on board a ferry were torpedoes by a Soviet sub. 9500 people died in the worst maritime disaster known. 1948, Ghandi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. In 1956, Martin King's home was bombed after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Bigots claimed one was a reason for the other. 1965, over a million people attended the state funeral of Winston Churchill. In 1968, the Tet offensive began, marking the collapse of North Vietnam's offensive capability, afterwards they used terror tactics only. 1969, The Beatles last performance was on top of the roof of Apple Records. The police stopped it. 1971, Carole King released Tapestry.
2014
Watching an ABC chief defend the ABC at an ABC Media Luncheon shown on the ABC, I got a good view as to why it is so hard for many to see why there has to be change. We live in a lucky country where not much seems wrong. Compared to an African nation where youth are kidnapped and raised as soldiers we do things well. Compared to a nation which fought a civil war over communism and has borrowed more than it is ever likely to earn, like Greece, Australia looks financially responsible. Compared with a nation that jails or kills people for being related to the wrong person, like so called Palestine or North Korea, Australia is just. But Australia struggles with injustice, with debt spending and with education. And the ABC is part of the problem.
When Pete Seeger died the other day, his life was summarised by the ABC and it misleadingly said he had been "tarred with the brush of communism" during the McCarthy era. In fact, he was a communist who supported administrations which murdered over a hundred million people and threatened world peace. Seeger was also fabulously wealthy, something he sought to deny others in his pursuit of idealising poverty. But the ABC did not and could not say this. The reason being that the ABC is the same, having made the same choices. And that is what makes it so difficult to argue with in their defence of those choices. They don't see the harm they have done, because it is not so bad in Australia.
Only there are terrible things that happen in Australia. There is injustice, as when building industry is held up by stand over people. Limiting profit and growth. There is corruption of the judicial system, so that things not written in the constitution have been inferred and foisted on the Australian peoples by unelected lawyers. There is a school system which is ideologically driven by people who do not respect cultural assets.
Australia is a great nation. It is worth patriots dying for her. But their sacrifice deserves better than the ABC gives.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1018, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire concluded the Peace of Bautzen. 1607, an estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the Kingdom of England were destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. 1648, Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück was signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded. 1661, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England was ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1667, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceded Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
In 1703, the Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenged the death of their master. 1790, the first boat specialising as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne. 1806, the original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spanned the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, was opened. 1820, Edward Bransfield sighted the Trinity Peninsula and claimed the discovery of Antarctica. 1826, the Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, was opened. 1835, in the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but failed and was subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen. 1841, a fire destroyed two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. 1847, Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco. 1858, the first Hallé concert was given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. 1862, the first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched. 1889, Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
In 1902, the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London. 1908, Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. 1911, the destroyer USS Terry made the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba. Also 1911, the Canadian Naval Service became the Royal Canadian Navy. 1913, the British House of Lords rejected the Irish Home Rule Bill. 1925, the Government of Turkey threw Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. 1942, World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. 1943, World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago was sunk and a U.S. destroyer was heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. 1944, World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, began in central Italy. Also 1944, World War II: American troops landed on Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1945, World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sank in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster. Also 1945, World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberated over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp. 1948, Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
In 1956, African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home was bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1959, MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard. 1960, the African National Party was founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. 1964, Ranger program: Ranger 6 was launched. Also 1964, in a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrew General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. 1965, some 1 million people attended former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point. 1968, Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. 1969, The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
In 1971, Carole King's Tapestry album was released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sold 24 million copies worldwide. 1972, the Troubles: Bloody Sunday — British Paratroopers opened fire on and killed fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. Also 1972, Pakistan withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations. 1975, the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. 1979, a Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. 1982, Richard Skrenta wrote the first PC virus code, which was 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". 1989, Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. 1994, Péter Lékó became the youngest chess grandmaster. 1995, workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. 2000, off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. 2003, the Kingdom of Belgium officially recognised same-sex marriages. 2013, Naro-1 became the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.