Hmm: more of Methane than Muck methinks...
P2 has tacked his 'You Tube' channel onto the blog - HERE - apart from being an invaluable research 'tool' there are some interesting side bars and data which spin off from the video segments. For example; the 'Sen. McKenzie' "Shit Show" clip has attracted 5, 800 views and 46 comments. The down to earth questions, the support of a top class team (Fawcett and Caravan) backed up by their own crew came awful close (no cigar - yet) to unmasking some seriously unpalatable truths. These 'truths' have been, for a long while now, self evident. Stand out like 'dog's balls' in the vernacular. One can go back over a decade in estimates video captures and witness intelligent, able Senators framing the same, similar questions, seeking answers which are; or should have been, blindingly obvious in this week's episode of the great Australia Aviation Shit Show. Results (as per the tote) - zero change. The pathway to today's 'episode' (clearly identified way back), has, irrevocably, led us to the current untenable mess; as witnessed across the globe by all aviation related areas of governance.
“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”
Traditionally; when one mucks out a stable, wellington boots, a wheelbarrow, pitch fork, shovel and hose pipe are required. The sequence of use as old as man and animal in mutual dependence. These are the tools the Senators use in their attempts to ring the changes - IMO those tools are currently useless. I watch the video and see the earnest attempts made to 'nail a fart to the wall' - which, as the even the village half-wit knows; is nigh on impossible. But that is the task set for the Senators. They must get through the nebula of noxious gas which protects the deepest pits and strong, deceptive defences built solely to protect 'the system'. A system which is far beyond any controls intended and 'signed up' for under the Chicago Convention/ICAO. Those controls gradually eroded over the decades to being the legal equivalent of a wet noodle; one which the Senators are trying to stuff up a tigers arse.
“It wasn't fair, but what is? Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”
Many wise heads have 'solutions' - there exists a body of seriously qualified, experienced expert assistance. There is ICAO and the Convention; there is world best - 'gold standard' - law, practice, assistance, process, practice and experience available. Yet every once a while, we have to endure the expensive, non productive Estimates farce. Good, honest, well intentioned Senators striving to get to grips with what has been a national disgrace for a couple of decades. The last episode defining, in graphic, gory detail just how little control may be (has been?) exercised by government and its Mandarins and blatantly ignored
"I've seen monkey-shit fights at the zoo that are more organised than this."
Aye; it is down to those responsible for organising the 'shit fights' for the current mess; they are the names at the top of a long list of 'appointees' hired for almost anything other than actually having a blind clue how to restore Australian aviation back to the first world standards. CASA - Spence - led around by and reliant on a bloke who should be selling used cars. ATSB (words fail) and ASA has been allowed to degenerate into a shambles. ICAO compliance reduced to a lawyers expensive mind game and legal arm wrestle. Not Bloody well good enough; Engineering in the pits; medicals a complete dogs breakfast; air traffic control ridiculous; accident investigation a little more than publicity top cover; - the list; just like Topsy grows and grows. Airports in the hands of developers; RAAF paying fees on Commonwealth land for an aerodrome built with public money. Top tier of the half wit class on a million plus a year. Time methinks for 'government' to grow a set; acknowledge the glaringly obvious truths and get off it's well protected rear end and sort it out - fast type. Fat chance - right?
“Come on! Laugh at it all! Or at least laugh at something!
All the shit will still be there to deal with when you're done,
but you'll be in better shape to deal with it!”
But enough; the You tube videos clearly and unequivocally demonstrate where the problem lays. Take a 'head count' of those at the last Estimates session; take a guess at the cost to the public - in dollars per hour - for the entire pantomime : then ask "what's the benefit of that expenditure"? No brainer question really - you know the answer; its writ large, in public for your viewing pleasure. Buckets $2.00 a piece - available at the entrance; (you'll need one).
“There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.”
It looks very much as though it may storm tonight; the air is 'close' as Grand mamma used to say; big dog, who is wise in the ways of the weather is paying attention - sniffing the breeze; cat has decided to settle in 'her; workshop box (made on request) and the lumber for next weeks work is quietly getting used to the workshop. I reckon it will only take one word from me and the whole crew will be at the door, ready to roam. "What say you dogs?" Ayup, they are ready/ "Away then".
“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”
Selah....
P2 has tacked his 'You Tube' channel onto the blog - HERE - apart from being an invaluable research 'tool' there are some interesting side bars and data which spin off from the video segments. For example; the 'Sen. McKenzie' "Shit Show" clip has attracted 5, 800 views and 46 comments. The down to earth questions, the support of a top class team (Fawcett and Caravan) backed up by their own crew came awful close (no cigar - yet) to unmasking some seriously unpalatable truths. These 'truths' have been, for a long while now, self evident. Stand out like 'dog's balls' in the vernacular. One can go back over a decade in estimates video captures and witness intelligent, able Senators framing the same, similar questions, seeking answers which are; or should have been, blindingly obvious in this week's episode of the great Australia Aviation Shit Show. Results (as per the tote) - zero change. The pathway to today's 'episode' (clearly identified way back), has, irrevocably, led us to the current untenable mess; as witnessed across the globe by all aviation related areas of governance.
“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”
Traditionally; when one mucks out a stable, wellington boots, a wheelbarrow, pitch fork, shovel and hose pipe are required. The sequence of use as old as man and animal in mutual dependence. These are the tools the Senators use in their attempts to ring the changes - IMO those tools are currently useless. I watch the video and see the earnest attempts made to 'nail a fart to the wall' - which, as the even the village half-wit knows; is nigh on impossible. But that is the task set for the Senators. They must get through the nebula of noxious gas which protects the deepest pits and strong, deceptive defences built solely to protect 'the system'. A system which is far beyond any controls intended and 'signed up' for under the Chicago Convention/ICAO. Those controls gradually eroded over the decades to being the legal equivalent of a wet noodle; one which the Senators are trying to stuff up a tigers arse.
“It wasn't fair, but what is? Life is a crap carnival with shit prizes.”
Many wise heads have 'solutions' - there exists a body of seriously qualified, experienced expert assistance. There is ICAO and the Convention; there is world best - 'gold standard' - law, practice, assistance, process, practice and experience available. Yet every once a while, we have to endure the expensive, non productive Estimates farce. Good, honest, well intentioned Senators striving to get to grips with what has been a national disgrace for a couple of decades. The last episode defining, in graphic, gory detail just how little control may be (has been?) exercised by government and its Mandarins and blatantly ignored
"I've seen monkey-shit fights at the zoo that are more organised than this."
Aye; it is down to those responsible for organising the 'shit fights' for the current mess; they are the names at the top of a long list of 'appointees' hired for almost anything other than actually having a blind clue how to restore Australian aviation back to the first world standards. CASA - Spence - led around by and reliant on a bloke who should be selling used cars. ATSB (words fail) and ASA has been allowed to degenerate into a shambles. ICAO compliance reduced to a lawyers expensive mind game and legal arm wrestle. Not Bloody well good enough; Engineering in the pits; medicals a complete dogs breakfast; air traffic control ridiculous; accident investigation a little more than publicity top cover; - the list; just like Topsy grows and grows. Airports in the hands of developers; RAAF paying fees on Commonwealth land for an aerodrome built with public money. Top tier of the half wit class on a million plus a year. Time methinks for 'government' to grow a set; acknowledge the glaringly obvious truths and get off it's well protected rear end and sort it out - fast type. Fat chance - right?
“Come on! Laugh at it all! Or at least laugh at something!
All the shit will still be there to deal with when you're done,
but you'll be in better shape to deal with it!”
But enough; the You tube videos clearly and unequivocally demonstrate where the problem lays. Take a 'head count' of those at the last Estimates session; take a guess at the cost to the public - in dollars per hour - for the entire pantomime : then ask "what's the benefit of that expenditure"? No brainer question really - you know the answer; its writ large, in public for your viewing pleasure. Buckets $2.00 a piece - available at the entrance; (you'll need one).
“There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.”
It looks very much as though it may storm tonight; the air is 'close' as Grand mamma used to say; big dog, who is wise in the ways of the weather is paying attention - sniffing the breeze; cat has decided to settle in 'her; workshop box (made on request) and the lumber for next weeks work is quietly getting used to the workshop. I reckon it will only take one word from me and the whole crew will be at the door, ready to roam. "What say you dogs?" Ayup, they are ready/ "Away then".
“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”
Selah....