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We have always been used to it. Nothing has changed.

I reckon I could do a better job of predictions with more accuracy, than his airy shots in the dark. But I would not be in the least surprised to see Trump fabricate a National Emergency, so he could declare elections suspended, and make himself President on a continuing basis.

Two candidates put themselves up for election and one of them received more votes than the other.

I've received my latest power bill and it's the first time in four or five years I've had to pay anything. I think all the government subsidies have run out except for the state government pension discount of about $90. With all the cost of living subsidies, my balance was always in the black for a few years there, but price increases have whittled the balance down so I'm now in the red by about $180. It was good while it lasted, but now back to the real world.

I listened to one expert economist whose surname was STAMMERS when I was a Superannuation Fund Trustee. Surprising the fancy dinner Invites in TALL Buildings you get when you can sign a BIG Cheque. Nev

That whole area must be like one big sink. I remember when we worked around Lake Eyre in 1984, we were camped on the Macumba not far from where it heads into the lake. The north bank we were camped on was low but across the waterhole looking south, the high sand dune system had been cut vertical like a knife leaving a sheer sand cliff of about seventy or eighty feet height above the water line. At a later date I was up there and it was amazing to stand there among flood debris and look down on the camp so far below. It's hard to get your head around 80' floodwaters when you can't see it, but the evidence was scary enough. It was a similar thing when we took the chopper up the Warburton, huge vertical cuts in the sand dune system like a knife through butter. Where I live, the nearest town recorded 90" of rain for January in the late 1800's. Local history says the road was cut for five months that year.

"THEY are sitting on OUR OIL". and when this WAR is over Petrol will be almost FREE. Prominent Headlines in the Newspapers in the USA at the time. Haliburton made a fortune. Owned by VP. Dick Cheney's wife. That's post Desert Storm a turkey shoot of exposed Iraqi soldiers fleeing from Iran.. Nev

The other runway is too short unless the wind is quite strong from the appropriate direction.. Nev

Not sure anyone wants the extreme ones. Pakistan and Afghanistan are at war. Sunnis and shiites don't get along. Gotta feel sorry for India. They Partitioned and still have the Mussies attacking them.. Iran is shiite and NOT Arab. They are always quick to point that Out. Saddam Hussein of Iraq was given the green light to attack Iran by the USA then BABY Bush attacked IRAQ for having WMD's. A claim which was always FALSE. Nev

There's plenty of countries that accept and welcome those of that belief. If they don't want to accept our standards they can go find somewhere else.

A hole pile of trouble. The hole of creation. Anyhow Tiger IS a Cheetah. Nev

Kristi Noame has been knocked off.. It's sudden death in the Trump show. No part of the world is OFF Limits either. Nev

A beyond question election, for Putin? You have a Vivid Imagination. Opposition people die questionably and he wins at 98%? . Nev

I'm staggered by the enormous levels of rainfall and flood damage in the North of South Australia, the SE of the NT and the SW areas of Qld, from the massive rains they've had over the last few weeks. I was looking at the flooding on Elkedra Station, SSE of Tennant Creek, they got 600mm in ONE day, double their annual rainfall average. It just blows you away. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/flood-damage-cattle-stations-nt/106391070 Then there's the damage in NE and East of S.A., the Barrier Hwy looks like a disaster zone in places. Never seen so much road damage for years. And then I was watching videos of the raging torrents of water coming down through the Flinders Ranges creeks, it was like something you'd see in a tropical zone. This is Warriana Creek at Beltana, S of Leigh Creek. Nothing surer than the fact that Lake Eyre will fill to overflowing shortly.

Just needed to quote my own post so that I could post his video which relates to Australian elections during WWII.

I've never been able to figure out how someone believes there is an all creator god and there is a heaven & hell but also believes in evolution. There is a blind eye in there somewhere or a bob each way..

One of the world’s biggest car companies has suffered a massive $37 billion loss and blame has been laid squarely on one key reason. Stellantis, whose giant portfolio of car brands includes Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Ram, Chrysler, Jeep and Maserati has just recorded a net loss of €22.3 billion ($37 billion) it said was due to “over-estimating the pace of the energy transition”. In other words lack of demand for its electric vehicles. It has now made “a strategic shift to put customer preferences and freedom-of-choice back at the heart of the Company’s plans”. Last month the planet’s fifth biggest car company behind Toyota Group, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group and General Motors was forced into an embarrassing backdown because customers had simply not signed up to its green energy dreams. Those dreams have now become nightmares. The $37bn loss was even greater than the $29bn predicted. “Our 2025 full year results reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition and of the need to reset our business around our customers’ freedom to choose from the full range of electric, hybrid and internal combustion technologies,” Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said. “In the second half of the year we began to see initial, positive signs of progress with the early results of our drive to improve quality, strong execution of the launches of our new product wave and a return to top line growth. news.com.au

I don't think Down East is a troll and I welcome his perspective. His rebuke was based on fact. Yes, he went aggressive on it, but no one has so far disputed that fact. It is easy to blame the US for everything, but as I have mentioned on the What has Putin Done now feed, the Europeans also caved in.. The "insult", IMHO doesn't detract from his point, although I agree, we should purely play the ball and not the man. "That is complete crap".. would be better but remember, the US have different cultural norms and the term used, "you are full of it" is in context of what you have presented usually, and not a general aspersion (although, yes it cane be in certaincircumstances)- but that was predominiantly the west coast for me. East coast could be different. And I am sure some will say I am full of it now 🙂 You forgt the role the fourth pillar of government - the press - plays. The press today is increasingly partisan and and misleading in their approach, and this is the primary method of informihng the public, who are increasingly time pressed just keeping their heads above water - exactly as the politbureau want it, I would suspect. so... IMHO, is spot on and applies to others I can think of - ScoMo, BoJo, and even Putin when it was more ore less democratic in Russia for that very short window.

Yeah ... Predicting the death of a 96 year old. Amazing!

Well they haven't said anything that isn't true. Unlike the prick in the pic

I think only Noddy and Big Ears would believe the world could happily tick along without major power dominance. Back to what I said earlier, the three choices to be dominated by are Russia, China and the U.S. Every power has it's pros and cons, but I'd still prefer to be under the domination of the U.S. than the other two. The Americans have their faults, but Putin and Xi don't really demonstrate any sort of society I'd like to live under. The Europeans will never get their act together to compete with the top three for power, not in your dreams.

Jerry, That would be the same Ukraine that the USA promised protection from Russia, if it gave Russia it's nukes back. The same USA that has ensured Europe pays inflated prices with restrictions on its military. The same that uses its bases in foreign countries to use military and economic power to force countries into unfavourable trade deals. The same country that has forced coups, overthrown elected governments and destroyed countries to suit their particular whim. The USA is a militaristic predator not a benevolent friend.

The inmates have been running the asylum since 2016, with a 4 year break

America gives them plenty of reasons to call Death to America. Look at it from their point of view.. Nev

It's not about continually targeting and taking out each new leader. The Americans have to deal with 50,000 hardened, dedicated, Revolutionary Guard troops, 1000's of ruthless Religious Police, and a multitude of Imams who are telling their adherents that America is Satan and coming to kill them all. Unless you have an extensive, well-thought-out, long-term plan to deal with those relentless threats, then a pile of "targeted bombing" without troops on the ground, and subversives and spies within Iran - all working seamlessly to ensure a total overthrow of the religious nutters running the place - then all the Americans will end up doing is setting the stage for "Iran-run-by-religious-nutters, MK 2". Israel has great success in neutralising opposition to them, because they use all of the above - and MOSSAD has spies everywhere, and utilises cutting-edge electronic technologies, to ensure success.

GON, do you really think that this current "Muzzie bombing" campaign will produce a highly satisfactory outcome? I'll wager it will only harden a lot of radical Muzzies to form more, "Death to America" groups.

The biggest problem is, typical of American adventurism with their finest military equipment, there appears to be little proper planning for a desirable outcome in operation Epic Fury. It's like losing your temper with something that's not working properly, and hitting it with a hammer. You might feel good about assuaging your frustration in the short term, but the item become completely buggered with the hammering, and it has to be replaced with a new one, simply because you became furious with it, and attacked it without any thought for the outcome. Neither Trump, nor Hegseth, nor any of the MAGA mob running the show, can clearly articulate their long-term plan and satisfactory outcome for Iran. The messages they're sending are confused and confusing. Hegseth says his plan is not to carry out regime change. So, if the attacks are not about regime change, what are they about? Epic Fury is quite likely to become Epic Failure, if Iranian civilian casualties continue to mount, American deaths continue to mount, and world opinion - and especially Middle-Eastern opinion (from those Middle-Eastern countries who are sitting on the fence, or initially U.S.-friendly), turns adverse towards America. The Americans are very good at starting wars with a total lack of vision and planning, as regards the long-term outcome. It appears to me, they just feel the need to "kill a lot Muzzies, 'cos they hate us".

Somebody shouold tell the Yanks to keep their shovel in their own shit.

They look ready for the front line.

My entire point was that the Euro's have been constantly calling the USA warmongers for the past 50 years, but they are always the first ones to call the US President whenever there is a situation in the world that might affect their economies. They have been been neglecting their own militaries knowing that the Americans are stupid enough to keep bailing them out. The Euro's had a royal meltdown when Trump called them out for not keeping their pledge of committing a few percentage points of their GDP to military spending. The EU should be its own power. There are 29 countries in the EU and there is no excuse for them not making a joint effort to protect their economies and sovereignties. The US has done 75% of the heavy lifting in keeping the Persian Gulf open to world trade while Europeans and many other countries reap the benefits. Then the Europeans turn right around and bash Americans to appease their left wing voters. As far as my fellow Americans go, we should not be trusted any longer because there there is no continuity in foreign policy from one election cycle to the next. On top of it all, we are in a non shooting civil war right now. Might sound crazy to some but it's very true. We used to be country first.........but now days we are party first.

There is Plenty of History going back more than BC. The Old Testament has some really scary stuff in it, so to believe everything there would BLOW your Mind , somewhat. Religion considers the Universe to be about 6200 Years old and WAS created in 6 days. Science has a much more likely suggestion.. FAITH requires you Believe a lot of things, one being that not ONE hair of your Head will be Harmed without God Knowing about it. That Would make He/her/ IT a very BUSY entity. He is god of the Universe and HE MADE us in his own Image but we turned out Imperfect so that Christ, his only son who was conceived with Mary (the Virgin no less).had to DIE on the cross with 2 common criminals so that we could Live forever AND He is coming back to be with the faithful and they go to heaven where there ARE many Mansions. IF you don't believe all of that you are Godless and a HEATHEN and going to a Place CALLED HELL. where there WILL be Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of teeth. Ronnie Raygun believed "WE are in the Last days" and therefore Have no need to do a lot of things to Help the Planet/. GW Bush was a reformed Born again drug addict, who falsified the reason for attacking IRAQ (It wasn't ABOUT OIL. Not much it wasn't). Nev

I rather like OME's analogy - the old bible was a compendium of ancient writings, sprinkled with some ideology.

When I come back from the Inland I find the green of the coast very Pleasant by comparison. Nev

I live on the highway that runs to Warren. From my front gate it is about 70 kms away. Warren is on the Macquaie River. Although the Macquarie River doesn't have the deep gouge in the landscape that we associate with a "valley", the rain clouds seem to follow its course and that means it diverts away from my place. I drove into Dubbo yesterday for shopping. Dubbo is about 60 kms south from Gilgandra. As I got to about 20 kms from Dubbo I noticed that the paddocks were greening up. About 25 kms south of Gilgandra there seems to be a boundary between the catchments of the Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers. This seems to split the path of storms. The radar often shows the storm cells tracking to the south of this divide, so the storms avoid the Castlereagh catchment. Since farming around here involves the growing of winter grain crops, most of the ground cover in summer is just dried standing straw. About the only greenery is the grass at the edge of the road that has been watered by the run off from small storms.

My daughter went to the first day of the F1 GP weekend yesterday. Was initially turned away although she had bought her tickets months ago. The reason? The zoom on her camera is 125x, equivalent to 3000mm. Maximum allowed is 30x. She was directed to another security area where she was waved through.

They buy struggling companies and don't help their Name much. Nothing really to do with electric vehicles worthiness per se and I'll never get back the time I wasted reading the article. Nev