nomadpete

My astute friends already do!

Nah. That's not a wisom thing. That's measurement issue. He's been telling his wife 50mm is eight inches, for too long.

Thanks. I was not trying to blame DJ per se. Such things tend to take longer than an election cycle to develop. One point that you raised might be very significant to short term influences (maybe happening recently). The stats don't show whether the gap between 'haves' & 'havenots' has become a problem. At the extreme end, the billionaires have recently done extremely well. Average joe, not so much. That might skew the averages.

Some silly sarcastic political pictures...

Maybe this isn't caused by Terrump. Maybe it's always been thus. Maybe this is just A.I. b/s?

Did you know..... that there are some strong people in the world, prepared to give USA the finger....

Therein lies the rub. Uncle Sam is really in the toilet, probably for another 3 years. After that without any signs of an alternative party or an ethical electable candidate, the toilet gets flushed. Turn the clock back to pre civil war (but with more dangerous weaponry) A depressing thought. Alas there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Nothing personal Jerry. I couldn't resist. PS one of the reasons I sold my bike was the fear that if it fell off the kickstand I know I can no longer lift it back up. All the best for a quick recovery. Then onya bike laddie!

Sorry OME. I was just being sarcastic. (The lowest form of wit)

Mods Please move Jerry's above post to the appropriate thread.... the "WTF! Maybe I'm getting old!" Thread.

Does this really deserve it's own thread?

Don't underestimate the power of testosterone. It's not just for men. Women run on it too!

Umm, Jerry.... not 'he'.... "Rochelle Bilal, was sworn into office on January 6, 2020. She is the first elected African American woman to hold sherriff position in Philly county's history.

I call "BS". None of those suits would have the gonads to do anything brave.

The situation in US seems to cast the ICE staff as paramilitary. Neither real police nor military but more empowered than either. Not everyone is pleased. But I don't see that changing things.

Don't knock it, it is working well. (For some.)

Senate can go, too. All they do is squabble and slow down progress. I really thought the Muskovite was going to do that. A dictatorship is, by definition, the simplest, lean government.

Well the people elected him because he promised 'small government'. And that's what they got. You really only need one decision maker! Might as well sack congress now, they only make trouble.

Give him credt for being honest! It would be disingenuous to use the Defense Department to invade a foreign country, wouldn't it?

Concerning the US border control agents, I am disgusted to see the 'agents' wearing large 'POLICE' labels on their uniform. As far as I can tell, they are NOT actually police, do not have police training, do not have the legal authority of police. Yet they are armed, and can use lethal force. Another instance of over reach by a government 'authority'.

With apologies, I take that statement back. It came from a unverifiable source. I should have checked before posting.

Seems that body cameras have not beed issued to all agents. If there was any body cam footage, it is being witheld. Quote from Fox News (USA):- MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Bystander videos showed an ICE agent shooting and killing a driver in south Minneapolis. It is not clear whether the ICE agent had a body-worn camera that recorded what happened right before the shooting. ,................... Body-worn camera footage from a similar incident there led to the dismissal of charges against a woman who was shot by a border patrol agent. The woman was charged with trying to ram federal agents with her vehicle. DHS called her a "domestic terrorist." But the woman's attorney said the U.S. Attorney's Office dropped the charges after reviewing body-camera footage of the incident. "And they're still labeling her a domestic terrorist, even though the charges have all been dropped by the attorney's office," Christopher Parente told the FOX 9 Investigators. "So in this case, I would tell everybody what I told them in our case. I would be very suspect of any press release that is put out right now by DHS."

Well I arrived back in Tassie and stepped off the plane into 29 degree heat (yeah I don't expect you lot to call that 'heat'). A total fire ban was imposed all weekend due to heat and expected wind up to 100kph. Tassie being tassie, whilst heatwave and wind stoked the fires ravaging the mainland, we got a cool weekend - dead calm and rain. CRIKEY IT'S WET! Thankfully only one vegetation fire down our way and it started in the middle of the night. Promptly dealt with by a couple of crews. Wilder fires are the new norm.

It's time to bump this thread. When is a war not a war? Answer:- When it's a Special Operation. That works for Pooten and his best buddy in USofA. It worked so well for orange-atan, that he has lined up a bunch of Special Operations...... such as Mexico (wasn't that where they got Texas & Mississippi?), Cuba, Panama, Greenland, Canada...... These have been mentioned.

It appears the americans can.