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I can do the bend no problem. It's getting up again that I struggle with.

I've already started.

It will come down to how many people in the swing states make the effort to vote. Trump may generally have the edge in the polls but they only measure voting intentions, not votes lodged and counted. Anything could happen at this point and Joe is not helping.

They won't have to. He'll do it for them.

It will be interesting to see if the polls are right. They have been wrong often enough before. If Trump does get back in it will also be interesting to see how many MAGA supporters still think he’s their saviour in a year from now. They will all be worse off, as will we most likely, but they may then finally start to see him for the moron that he is.

I think the Democrats realise that alright but they can’t mount a strong counter argument because the border is chaotic and they are in charge. If they say the immigrants commit fewer crimes than the rest of the population the Trump voters and a lot if the swing voters won’t believe them and Trump will just rubbish them for it. They can’t win that argument.

Michelle Obama at a rally in Michigan yesterday comparing voter expectations of Harris and Trump: “We expect her to be intelligent and articulate, to have a clear set of policies, to never show too much anger, to prove time and time again that she belongs,” Mrs. Obama said. “But for Trump, we expect nothing at all, no understanding of policy, no ability to put together a coherent argument, no honesty, no decency, no morals.” Probably sums up why Trump is still in the race and may win, unfortunately. The bar for him is very low.

He’d be more likely to put the price up.

That is awful!

They've seen the reno in progress and decided to move to a better place?

If there is an afterlife then I think we're all headed there, no matter what we believe. If there isn't, then we're all headed there too.

The difference between being alive and not being alive is both subtle and strange. Who really knows what happens. I suspect the lights just go out, which seems a bit disappointing, however I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised one day.

Yes, it’s a well known quote but judging by the photo, I don’t see much evidence to back up the optimism.

Looks young enough to be his grand daughter. Wishful thinking, Nev.

He’s provided plenty of evidence that he doesn’t have an IQ of 150.

On the other hand, he may lose badly.

She is campaigning to contest an election. She is serious about and has spoken about the Middle East and many other topics. Trump is also campaigning but has nothing to say about it except that it wouldn’t have happened if he had been in charge, which is complete nonsense. Updates about the conflict are available practically all day, every day on any news broadcast. There is no reason for people not to be well informed if they are concerned about what’s going on, which we all should be.

There won’t be a civil war but it will be chaotic because both camps expect the other side to cheat and rig the outcome and both sides are already heading for the courts.

Kris Kristofferson has sung his last song, aged 88.

In 2020 I drove from Portland, Vic to Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road in a day. The ocean was flat calm all the way out to the horizon for the whole trip. Not a ripple or even a shore break. It looked like a lake. I've never seen anything like it. A very rare day for Bass Strait.

I bought a Maton acoustic in 1982 and the paperwork that came with it said they used a `double cantilever' truss rod design that was unique to Maton. The rod had two kinks in it that was supposed to apply an internal upward pressure on the neck. I wrote to them, said I was a structural engineer and that their elaborate truss rod design was unnecessary and that the theory on which it was based was not optimum for what they wanted to achieve, going on to explain with diagrams how they could quite easily fix it. In due course I received a polite letter signed by Vera May herself, thanking me for my advice, but that they were happy with the design they had. She and her husband Bill established the firm. Vera died in 2022 aged 102.

Need a proper pic of Zoro's houseboat to see where this deck is going.

Yes they used 126 format film cartridges. The image was nominally 26mm square.

How’s he going?

I watched it. I wouldn't say she knocked it out of the park but she did very well. It was notable that she looked at Trump a lot, but he never looked at her, just looked at the moderators. He must have been told not to look at her, because she was grinning at him a lot of the time, and it would probably have set him off even more. He trotted out all the usual lies, but at the same time seemed to do most of the talking. He never answered a direct question, of course. His supporters will say he walked all over her, but I think she did the job she had to and the Democrats should be happy. I just wish she had challenged him to turn and look at her just once.