Polar Bears, Pigs

The 'Ranges Reveille', the newsletter of the Outer Eastern & Yarra Valley Sub-Branch of the National Servicemen's Association of Australia (Victorian Branch)INC. came in the mail last week. The 'Ranges Reveille' is published four times a year for members and usually consists of five black and white A4 pages printed both sides.
In this June newsletter, the front page had a reproduced photo of diggers in a trench with rifles at the ready. Above the photo were the words WESTERN FRONT 1917, and then, Ready to 'go over the top'. Underneath the photo were the words SERVICE TO THE NATION.
I suppose this didn't raise many members' eyebrows, but it did strike me as somewhat incongruous. Or am I nitpicking to suggest that the front page of the NSAA newsletter should actually have something to do with National Service 1952-1972? No big deal, though.
Page 2 listed member's birthdays for June, July and August with birthday wishes and a list of four new members with dates of service and some social notes. No problem there.
Page 3 had another photo on the top half of the page, this one, I assume, computer enhanced. The caption was 'The REAL Cause of Global Warming' and the photo was of three polar bears lolling on the ice with various bottles of refreshments. One was wearing head phones, another had what looked like a gameboy machine, while the third turned a spit holding a penguin over a fireplace. It was at this point I wondered just who it was putting this newsletter together.
Underneath the polar bears came the ANZAC DAY REPORT where I learned that at the main parade in the city "over 600 Nasho's, immaculately uniformed and marching in two companies were given a rousing and enthusiastic reception by the crowds lining Swanston St. and St. Kilda Road to the Shrine. After the march, our foot-sore and weary warriors were forced to take a break at the 'Clocks' Tavern for 'refreshments' before catching the train home."
At the foot of the same page, the final article headed NATIONAL MEMORIAL FUND says, Members donations have now reached $107,000. There is also the Government grant of up to $150,000. This means we have raised almost 2/3 of the total cost.
On the last page of the newsletter there is, as always, a photograph of Jason Wood M.P. Federal Member of La Trobe, and Tony Smith, M.P. Federal Member- Casey with an acknowledgement thanking these men for their support of the Sub-Branch and their staff for their kind assistance in printing the newsletter.

And there was my membership subscription renewal, a request for payment of $22.
I'm not renewing. I'll send $22 instead to Oxfam, Wateraid, or World Vision to help some poor bugger who doesn't have freshwater. I'll write to NSAA, and my local member Jason Wood, to explain my non renewal. I'll suggest that the hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for a national monument be instead used to help the disadvantaged in Australia, and/or elsewhere in the world. Maybe those adversely affected by global warming would be a good starting point. If NSAA were to do this I'd be happy to rejoin.
Pigs might fly.