Bob
I think the desacraters got it right and the Nazi's inverted the swaztika...
The swaztika has been around for t'ousands of years..see the pattern on this plate..an old Native American symbol...
http://www.hecol.ualberta.ca/ritual_...o1humwell.html
As a matter of fact it was a Japanese symbol..
Quote.....
"This is the Shorinji Kempo manji, or symbol; it is also the Japanese symbol for a Buddhist temple. At first sight, the manji can be easily mistaken for the Nazi swaztika. However, the manji represents the opposites of the world: heaven and earth, good and evil, life and death. This contrasts with the misrepresented use of the manji (in reverse form with the brackets facing the opposite way) by Adolph Hitler during World War II; he inverted the manji's design in an attempt to use its meaning for his own selfish reasons: power and greed.
See Symbol here
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/shiga96/pages/kempo.html
Let's stick to CMP's...
(As for the weather in Oz....winter is coming and you are going to be shakin' in you boots at + 10C.....)
Poor bast*rds...
Woke up this AM to the prospect of freezing rain...30 CM of snow and 60 KM gusts..and -10C....
Think I'll zip out in the back fourty,find a sleeping polar bear and kick it in the sack....
It's Saturday and I need my inspiration for my daily run....