FROM CHARLES BABBAGE TO TOO MUCH CABBAGE.

The title says it all really, from The Brit who invented the computer to a very well known vegetable that is good for you, but can lead to sickness if overindulged in, so the equation I draw between The NBN & the ever growing criticisms of it are plain to see. The NBN sounds & looks very flashy & a tool for the betterment of Australia, but that can be said for many other Internet delivery systems available right now & yet to be invented, invented in the not too distant future too ! I will not be boring the You Tube viewers that care to read my thoughts here with the multitude of alternatives to The NBN but it is a given to know they are there & are far more cost affective than this potential white elephant, also if any of you wish to find out more about NBN alternatives, the net is a great place to start of course. This Big Don You Tube video starts with the much lorded 2007 version of Kevin Rudd doing his sales pitch to the long suffering Aussie voters regarding The 2007 ALP version of The NBN, but before that I have included a most appropriate audio grab from the 1970 movie "Waterloo" who's director Dino De Laurentiis passed away on 10th. November 2010. I think Kevin Rudd would have made an interesting Napoleon Bonaparte as they both ended up "Meeting Their Waterloo !" Many people both inside The ALP & many outside it, feel as Michel Ney, Marshal Of France did when those words were uttered to the great man. We then move onto the current growing unease over the folly of The NBN with 3AW's Neil Mitchell & 2GB's Jason Morrison talking with Sunrise's Kochie which was TX'ed 16/11/2010. Then it's onto one of my favorite ALP Men, The Doyen Of Teflon Graham "Richo" Richardson, who features in another of Big Don's You Tube videos & a link is given at the end of this piece. Watch it all as it's great fun & features a couple of other interesting fellows too ! Richo pulls no punches about the diabolical state his party is in these days & as an old ALP numbers man it is good to see he has not lost his antenna as to the prevailing views & thoughts of the voter. I recall fondly our talk back chats when Richo was a "Shock Jock" on Sydney's Radio 2GB some years ago & he really does have a feel for the national barometer, both then & now. We then move to another grab from Seven's Sunrise where David Koch exposes The Greens media spin that toppled somewhat prior to Election 2010. As with The ALP The Greens can not handle media exposure that is not to their liking & when someone with balls like Kochie takes them on their vulnerability is naked for all to see, we need more media types like Kochie that says it like it is ! Oh & by the way, before some say that Big Don is in the pay of Network Seven or alike, hold your horses....I say it like it is too & am beholden to no member of the fourth estate anywhere ! Just wanted to make that clear as some have tried to give me a serve over this issue in the past & lately, please don't try to serve it up to me, as you will get a return serve like no other, but have a go anyway, I love it ! Anyway with that out of the way, kick back & enjoy this video...I know I enjoyed editing & viewing it. That's for sure !!! A little footnote to the passing of Dino De Laurentiis, I recently spoke to a lovely lady @ The TCN Lair & she informed me that although Waterloo is still in their library, Channel 9's rights to show the film have long since expired, it would be nice if that movie was given a dusting off for many discerning viewers to once again view. I play my politics like Wellington played Bonaparte.... Link To Richo & Co. : - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZTCQdFAuDI