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The US have just announced that to reduce lives lost in wartime, they are going to single pilot operations for aerial refuelling aircraft. That makes sense as they know the aircraft are sitting ducks, so why waste a pilot when they get hit. They could take it further and not send any aircraft up, thereby not risking any pilots. Which is the way of future wars and even the Ukraine war. Use drones instead.

No wonder we are getting floods Just look at the area in that photo above which is impervious to water. Nearly 90% of the rain that falls in that area is going straight to the drainage system and very quickly.

He preached in WA that people should trust in God and not governments, saying that governments could not be trusted. How very true when you look at his government. We did not know much about him when he became PM, but it didn't take long to see that he was useless. What really pisses me off is that the LNP made him PM and the LNP persisted in promoting him even when it was obvious that he was no good. Now he wants the top job at the UN, just think of how much damage he could do there. I reckon God must be turning in his grave.

Talking of best Aussie Prime Ministers, it seems our past PM has got a bad case of religion. I keep seeing reports of what he is preaching in church. It appears he has finally gone mad, like his mate Trump. I only hope that the symptoms are seen before he gets the top job at the UN or something similar. He would be good at the UN because he is just about as useless as the UN. They would pair up well.

I had a holiday in India years ago and the dog problem there was so bad that I kicked every dog I found asleep in the daytime, to get my own back for the barking at night.

If I was building now I would go for a composting toilet. They are pretty well designed now and have minimal smell, plus they save a lot of water and don't require pumping out at great expense every few years.

Those Dunlop tyres were awful and fitted as standard to many cars. I found that you got a short bit of notice, when they went out of round, just before they blew. Maged to get them off and claim on them a couple of times. I ran a GT Cortinaon Michelin X tyres until I came to Qld, where there good roadholding meant nothing when the walls were pierced by stones. Back to the thrust of this discussion. I have for a long time reckoned boys should be taught to drive at 14 years old. That way they can scare themselves before their hormones take over. What steadied me down was after sliding a big army truck around on the depot slippery roads, I was called in front of the CO and dressed down severely, because I had frightened a civilian worker on the depot. Did me a world of good. I used to teach the young women who worked on the depot to drive in an AEC Matador. Crash box and a big slow diesel engine, Oh how I would love to get in one now, accelerate, declutch, neutral, have smoko, declutch and put it in the next higher gear.

Scumbag has been giving a speech in Korea about why the coalition lost the election. His reasons are that the electorate was fed up with the good way that the government ran the Covid health system and that the electorate was fed up with the Federation and the Constitution. Now I don't know who he was trying to impress, but blind Freddy knows the Federation and Constitution were nothing to do with it. The Covid handling went very well as Scumbag explains and we have a low death rate. But was it anything to do with the Federal government. To me it appeared that the state governments ran a good campaign in spite of all the attempts by the Feds to wreck it. As far as the federation is concerned I just don't understand what What he should have explained was that the electorate was fed up with the lies and monetary rorting of the system by the Morrison government. It was so bad that even government ministers did not keep quiet about it. No doubt he is trying to put a shine on his reputation, but he was in my opinion our worst prime minister, bar none. If they were honest even Barnaby Joyce and Emil Mackron would agree with me.

It looks as if they are still trying to pin something on Trump. All the evidence points to him having caused the riots in January. What I wonder is why they cannot see that Trump is mentally unstable. But then they in this case are politicians and they cannot see what they don't want to see.

There is one major catastrophy waiting to happen, been predicted for about 50 years as imminent. That is the San Andreas fault ripping apart cities in the USA. I wonder if it will happen, could it be like global warming?

It is not only un vaccinated people allowed in. Our whole quarantine system seems to have been abandoned. We now have Veroa mite, fire ants and foot and mouth which are not stopped by our border enforcers. I used to always come into contact with cattle when I went back to the UK on holiday and always declared that on my return. Got my shoes disinfected, Does that happen now? It would seem not.

Where I am I am just wondering what is happening. We keep hearing about all the rain, but not getting it here. The La Nina was supposed to give us a wetter year than usual, but so far our wet season failed, only about 60% of average. We have nothing to complain about as November and May were wetter than ever before and they filled up our dam and have kept the grass green. So far it is a dry yea with the looks of a wet one. A couple of normal months and it will be all dry grass, ready for a good fire season, especially as it is difficult to get the grass burned nowadays. I did see the effects of flooding in NSW and got stuck for a couple of days between Bellingen and Casino when the Bellinger river flooded.

The conservative party or whatever it is calling itself must be bereft of people with leadership skills if it is going to take that long to find someone to vote in as PM. I wonder what would have happened if Boris had dropped dead? Would it take months to replace him? I doubt it, so why so long now. My theory is that the party is the same as it has been for 70 years. In the 1950s it was useless and took Britain into a war that it could not justify and was really intended to give Israel a crack at controlling the Arabs rather than anything else. That was the Suez crisis and Anthony Eden was the chief clown then. At the moment it is just like our coalition and the Yank Republicans. It has a leader who has won an election and doubts that anyone else in the party could win the next election, so it sticks with the clown it has.

That is saltpetre used for making gunpowder. I don't know if it is anywhere near as dangerous as ammonium nitrate, which is used for mining blasting and also can cool beer. Add water to ammonium nitrate and it is a super cooler. Add oil fuel and it is a super explosive.

What happens when the telescope looks back and sees before the start? Will it just be black? Rather like looking back when you exceed the speed of light and can see yourself coming.

Qld has a cruise ship with Covid infections aboard. I can only wonder at the way people are going back to cruises, when it is obvious that they are not going to prevent the disease spreading.

The driveability of modern cars is way better than those of say the 50s and 60s. The roads are way better than they were even 5 years ago and still we have too many accidents. It would not matter how often drivers were re tested, they would be on their best behaviour during the test. The real reason we have so many accidents is that drivers either make the wrong decision or even more often don't make a decision. I always find it interesting to watch the decision making process of other drivers. How often have you seen the driver that wants to overtake, but cannot come to a decision as to wether or not it is safe? I reckon if we had to go back to the days before synchromesh or automatic gearboxes and sharing the roads with slow moving trucks, we would probably have less accidents, because drivers would have to stay awake and make decisions more often.

One of the worst disasters looming is Foot and Mouth. Until a few years ago we were all checked when returning to Australia from overseas and que and I am afraid that it will let in foot and mouth, which is reported as not affecting humans, which is B/S as it does affect us and is known as undulant fever. We have succumbed to dropping anything that impeded easy travel or could upset travellers, without worrying about the consequences.

Jerry I agree wholeheartedly with you except for one tiny point. Everyone denigrates Neville Chamberlain for his "Peace in our time" The truth is that Britain was in no position to take on Germany then. It needed time to build up its armament. The present situation is that Russia is expanding arms and man at a great rate, which does not worry Putin, because he considers them expendable. It is up to the rest of the world to take on the challenge and so far all I see is a load of wimps, who put themselves forward as our leaders, but who in actual fact are taking us down the wrong path.

So true about great grandchildren. Mine live over 1000km away, so I only get to see them about once a year except when covid steps in and the one coming up to 14 years I haven't seen for a couple of years. The way they develope I am afraid I could be a great great grandparent in a couple of years. One big fear now has to be the risk of nuclear war as we have seen several nuclear powers being run by clowns. Food is also becoming a problem, even for those countries which produce excess food, because the starving countries will push up the price and reduce the availability.

I have seen lead pipes used in England for water reticulation. My father took over a pub in Sussex and they needed curtains in a room. No problem my father drove a nail into the picture rail above the window to hang it from. Only problem it was a lead water pipe, we had to plug it with a sharpened wood spile until we could get the plumber. Originally plombeur, meaning worker of lead in French. One of the biggest suppliers of sayings was the sailing industry. Just one. Drudgery comes from drudging, which is manouvering a boat by dropping a weight on a rope from the bow and letting the tide carry you backwards and using the rudder to move across the channel.

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I read somewhere that Twiggy is going to produce clean electricity in the NT and supply Darwin and Singapore. Singapore is going to have an undersea cable from Darwin. That cable is supposedly going to be built in Gladstone. I wonder where. There is only a refinery producing alumina from Bauxite and an aluminium smelter in the area. The aluminium is produced in the form of bars about 200mm in dia. and 2.5metres long. It is going to take a lot to transform them into an undersea cable, which I assume has several conductors and a load of insulation. A new factory needed, but at least there is plenty of room for such an endevour as the government bought up all the best agricultural ground in the area and called it industrial land and it has been producing very little for the last 25 years.

The conservative party or whatever it is calling itself must be bereft of people with leadership skills if it is going to take that long to find someone to vote in as PM. I wonder what would have happened if Boris had dropped dead? Would it take months to replace him? I doubt it, so why so long now. My theory is that the party is the same as it has been for 70 years. In the 1950s it was useless and took Britain into a war that it could not justify and was really intended to give Israel a crack at controlling the Arabs rather than anything else. That was the Suez crisis and Anthony Eden was the chief clown then.

But the UN never settled any disputes and is a vast money gobbling organization. If they solved a problem there would be no jobs for the boys and no money coming in.