Author: Kev

THE Australian Greens will introduce legislation that would stop Japanese whalers being allowed access to Australian services such as surveillance craft.

In short, they want the Australian people to support an environmental terrorist. I’ve posted on the leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Paul Watson before and from my reading can only class him as a dangerous enviro-whacker who should be behind bars.

But that of course will never happen, particularly while we have people listening to the likes of Garret and Brown.

Update: Well last night’s news went over a treat for the eco-terrorists. They managed to position their ‘Stealth Boat’ in such a manner as to make it impossible for the Jap trawler to miss it. The ensuing publicity will boost their coffers for another season particularly while the Government and the media are giving Watson uncritical TV exposure every chance they get. No one, and I mean no one in the government or media are questioning what the hell they are dong there risking life and limb and vessels at sea in what is basically a publicity stunt.

Garret and Gillard are talking absolute rubbish. Gillard is even saying they, the Government, are going to seek legal advice on the hiring of planes to monitor the eco-terrorists. I’ll save the government money – it is completely legal for an entity to hire planes to monitor situations that, by experience, are dangerous to ships and crews going about a legal business.

It’s not about whaling folks. It’s about publicity, fund raising and hatred of humans who eat sea or land creatures.

The bastard should be in gaol, not on TV.

Update II Ady Gil crewman tells of Japanese whaling vessel terror. Bloody Hippie freak. I hope you have nightmares and wet the bed well into your 60s from the terror caused by yourself and the crew.

My Wife, Daughter and self went to the movies last night and saw Avatar in 3D. I had read many critiques on the politics of the film but being a computer nut, I was keen to see the graphics in 3D.

It was worth it but my first thoughts were Star Wars 7

Being a conservative and hater of all things Left I had to smile at several of the cliches used.  Fighting terrorism with terrorism was one that stood out as an ideologically insertion as no one was using terrorist tactics and the portrayal of the US military as evil versus the local indigenous Noble Savage Na’vi would warm the hearts of any Lefty.  All the trees and animals, including the Na’vi’,  enjoy access to a cache of neuronal connectors that emanate from their heads, that pass through their plaits or their extra appendages .  Mother Gaia writ large for the Greenies in the audience. An ideal world, they would think….. if only it was true on Earth.

There are some that actually believe that is the case now…weird.

Sigourney Weaver had a scene where she is giving instructions to Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) as she settles him in a Avatar link machine. “Just empty your mind…that shouldn’t be hard to do!” Ha ha, that had the anti US/Military component of the audience giggling and nodding their heads wisely.

Ah yes, the stupid soldier!

But having said all the above it didn’t take me long to develop empathy with the locals and I enjoyed the final outcome.

Some of that empathy could have come from the near naked delightful, athletic form of the women and the way animators had them moving but that could just be the limbic part of my brain gaining ascendancy for a moment.

The Motion Capture, Virtual Camera, Digital 3D Fusion Camera System is going to be very hard to beat for years to come.  In an aside to my daughter I remarked I am so lucky to live in this age with computer graphics bringing to life computer generated actors, plants and animals that are so believable yet so removed from any known form. Our imagination is now the only limit on story telling.

The film stands out as graphically extraordinary, particularly when viewed through 3D specs.  Reality invaded the theatre with animals and jelly fish like seeds from the Holy Tree causing me to duck to avoid them and the terrifying heights of floating mountains had me clinging to my seat lest I fall thousands of feet below.  Colour and shape of local flora and fauna was brilliant, often drawing me to just look and enjoy the scenery when the script became a bit hard to accept.

Do yourself a favour, and go see but make sure it’s 3D. Ignore the political ideology and just go with the flow…you won’t be disappointed.

On my recent trip (5 states, 68 days and 14,000km) I stopped off at a small town south of Adelaide and looked up a cyber mate.  He is into remote controlled model airplanes and I had an enjoyable day or two playing with big boys toys.  I particularly like the helicopters  and spoke (fantasized) about slinging a sawn-off 10/22 ruger under a chopper and sorting out the local crows.

As I left to go further West my mate gave me a model chopper to take back to Queensland for his nephew with the instructions that I had to learn how to fly it so I could teach him on hand-over.

As I struggled to get control of the little beast I remembered my childhood where my toy of choice and necessity was a 6in length of 3×4 with a Sunshine milk tin nailed to the top to simulate a petrol tanker. This was way beyond that and my son (late thirties) and I took turns to pilot the thing.

Flying a chopper is very difficult – toy or real, it ain’t easy (read Chickenhawke CH 1 if you don’t believe me) so I now have to find the local model airplane shop to buy new rotors damaged by thirty of fourty prangs.

Being a Top Gear fan I was therefore interested in this little item (pictured) that I came across while reading The London Times. A  Stig Copter for 50 Pounds (can’t find the pound symbol) that includes a gyroscope to stabalize the machine thus saving all the damage.

Now where did I hide that 10/22?