Charlie Don't Surf?!

I recently wrote a post about Charles Manson dying on the 19th of November this year -

Charles Manson Dies on Mitzvah Day?!

And in that post was a shot of the Queensland 'Courier Mail' newspaper (above) of November 19th, 2017 with Margot Robbie, who is rumoured to be playing Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino's next movie about the Manson murders.   

Next to the picture of Margot Robbie in the newspaper was a headline the read 'Stinging attack aimed at Surfers'.

"Charlie Don't Surf is a famous line from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, spoken by Lt. Col. Kilgore as justification for taking a beach at the Mekong Delta so the American soldiers could go surfing.

American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as "Victor Charlie" or simply as "V-C." "Victor" and "Charlie" are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet, corresponding to 'V' and 'C', respectively.

"Charlie," when used alone, referred to communist forces in general, both Việt Cộng and Vietnamese."

"Charlie Don't Surf", is also a song by The Clash from their album Sandinista!

Seeing the newspaper with Margot Robbie and the Surfer's headline which referred to a Gold Coast suburb named Surfer's Paradise on the day Charlie died (we are nearly a day ahead of the United States in Australia, so Manson probably hadn't died when the paper came off the press) got me to thinking back to the 2014 Sync Summit where Violator Hellspawn was pulled up on stage while he was wearing a "Charlie Don't Surf" t-shirt -

Sync Summit Synopsis
"It was already a significant weekend in light of the 45th anniversary (1969) of the Abbey Road photo and the Manson murders."

Violator Hellspawn's "Charlie Don't Surf" t-shirt, 2014

You can watch the segment of the 2014 Sync Summit involving Violator Hellspawn and his "Charlie Don't Surf" t-shirt in the You Tube below, but 

WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE AND LOTS OF SWEARING IN THE FOLLOWING VIDEO

Syncnado 2: The Second One or: The Jungian Thing 

Charlie may not be able to surf, but he sure sinks ... I mean syncs ... even when he is not here anymore.

Axl Rose Charlie Don´t Surf

I wonder if they make "Charlie Don't Surf" (Full Metal) Jackets as well?-)

Wipeout!!!

A Bloody Close Call and Not Crying Wolf by the Looks of it Either

"Video of the 2 to 2.5-metre reptile leaping out of the water at Cape Tribulation, injuring a 24-year-old woman, has gone viral since it was posted late on Monday by Ally Bullifent.
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection confirmed a tourist was attacked at a creek in Cape Tribulation.
A Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service spokeswoman said the woman was treated at Mossman Hospital for lacerations to the left thigh and was discharged overnight.
A video of the attack and a photo of the injury has so far garnered more than 1,840 shares and more than 800 comments."

Probably a good idea to keep tattoos of pets away from the water, too;-)

And remember there are worse things than crocs out there.

"Dogs are very closely related to wolves, most closely to the gray wolf, as measured by genetic testing.

For many years, dogs were thought to have descended from wolves, but the current thinking is that they share a common ancestor.

Regardless, the two species are very closely related, and can even interbreed."

Dogs Seem to be Reining More Than Cats at the Moment ... at Least in the Newspapers

Dingo not strictly a wolf ... or a dog

"Scientists have concluded that our iconic native 'dog' is its own unique species
Since the arrival of Europeans in Australia some 200 years ago, the dingo has been known as Australia's native dog.
But new research has concluded that the dingo is actually its own species.
Research led by the University of Sydney has definitively classified the dingo as a distinct Australian animal, Canis dingo.

"Most people think dogs and dingoes all descended from the wolf," he says.
"But it's more likely that they're descendants of the cousins of wolves, not Canis lupus as the wolf is, but something different.""

And dingoes are seen by some indigenous peoples much like the coyote is seen by some Native Americans do, as a trickster.

Woven Energy Podcast # 10 – Shamanism, Evolution and the Domestication of the dog

But that's for another post that I'm writing at the moment about Paris and her dingo encounter and her "Paw Form" as the sarcastic Australian press put it -
Paris Jackson's "Paw Form" and Her Encounter with The Trickster in Oz?

Once more into the fray...

The X-Factor in Planetary Resources Sustainability or Just a Big Cowspiracy of Bull?

I watched the movie 'Cowspiracy' recently after first watching 'What the Health' which were both on the Australian Netflix site. 
WTH?!!

And while I have decided to eat a mainly Vegan diet from now on (I'm still going to eat honey and maybe break my diet for big family occasions like Christmas dinners ... still no pig though) for health reasons, I do think the agricultural industry does appear to hog the water way too much for a planet whose population is rapidly growing and in need of drinking water.

I think it's going to be hard to convince such a large group of meat eating, milk drinking, cheese eating, ice cream licking earthlings to give it up though.

Official Cowspiracy T-Shirt

I think it would take something close to a miracle to achieve something like that when you take a good look around in western society and see just how much meat, dairy and poultry is for sale.

I wouldn't say it's impossible though, but old habits die hard, no matter how stupid they are.

These days it's becoming harder to see what's bull and what's not.

Sometimes fighting bull is what you gotta do;-)