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A French, a German and an Italian spy are captured one day. The captors grab the French spy, take him to the next room and tie his hands behind a chair.They then proceed to torture him for 2 hours before he finally cracks, answers all questions and gives up all of his secrets. The captors then grab the German spy. They tie his hands behind the chair in the next room too and torture him for 4 hours before he finally cracks and tells them what they want to know. They then grabbed the Italian spy. Once again, they tie his hands behind the chair and begin torturing.4 hours go by and the spy isn’t talking. Then 8 hours, then 16 and after 24 hours they give up and throw him back into the cell. The German and French spy are impressed and ask him how he managed to not talk. The Italian spy says, ” I wanted to, but I couldn’t move my hands.”

Superman actress Valerie Perrine dies at 82 after a long battle with Parkinsons Disease.

By that logic, the CEO's of Coles, Woollies, the banks, Qantas, et al, should pay less tax because their staff pay tax? The tax is in what THEY earn, not their staff.

When things are going his way, it's always his idea. When they are going wrong, he'll blame the first person to come along.

U.S President Donald Trump suggested Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the first to advocate military intervention against Iran, telling a Tennessee roundtable: “Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, ’Let’s do it because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.’” The Iran war enters its fourth week with conflicting administration accounts about decision-making. Some officials claim Israel was preparing to strike regardless, while others cite Iran’s nuclear threat. Trump said Iran’s retaliatory strikes were unexpected, contradicting reports that internal warnings were issued but ignored. The conflict has killed 13 American service members and caused a regional crisis. Trump extended his Monday deadline for Iran by five days, with uncertainty about how the war began and who ultimately decided to start it. The war began with US strikes in late February and expanded across the region, with over 1,500 killed in Iran, 1,000 in Lebanon, 15 in Israel, and 13 US personnel.

Thought I'd check on a memory I had. Web search: When were Australian interest rates 15% " Australian interest rates reached 15% during the 1980s, primarily driven by high inflation and economic instability. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, inflation in Australia surged due to global oil crises and expansionary fiscal policies, pushing interest rates to 10.38% by 1974 and continuing to rise. By the mid-to-late 1980s, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised rates sharply to combat persistent inflation, with rates peaking at 17.5% in January 1990. During this period, rates frequently exceeded 15%, especially in the late 1980s, making it one of the most volatile and expensive borrowing periods in Australian history. These high rates were part of a broader global trend to control inflation, but they also contributed to a recession that lasted into the early 1990s. I was paying 7.5% on my house because bank staff home loans were half public rates. I bought my house in 1979 after being transferred back from Sydney to Melbourne.

Depraved or deprived?

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Good ole TACO.

Occupy Democrats FB post: Here’s all the INSANE things Trump said today in just ONE press conference today: Said his idea to put ICE in the airports was "like the paper clip? Do you know the story of the paper clip? 182 years ago, a man discovered the paper clip” (it was invented 127 years ago) Said he’s deploying ICE to airports to make Democrats “go crazy” and arrest “illegals” at the airport (he means tourists) Said talks with Iran went “perfectly” (Iran says no talks happened) Said “it's a dangerous business” in response to the plane crash at La Guardia that killed two people Attacked Joe Kent for remarrying too quickly after his wife was murdered by ISIS (this is false) Said the Strait of Hormuz will be controlled by “maybe me” and “maybe the ayatollah” Floated bringing in the National Guard to work TSA Said the military should still get $200 billion if the war ends because it’s “nice to have it” Excused lifting sanctions on Iranian oil by saying “I just want to have as much oil in the system as possible” Said that Iran had agreed to “15” points and then said points 1,2, and 3 were “no nuclear weapons) This is all ONE presser! His brain is complete mush, and we cannot continue allowing a man who is clearly this demented remain in office.

A related story. https://7news.com.au/news/bossley-park-motorbike-crash-two-teenagers-killed-after-mayors-calls-for-bike-safety-at-infamous-intersection-in-sydneys-west--c-22037672

I recall a couple of months ago driving up a main suburban street at around 55kph, and a young bloke on an e-bike was keeping pace with me, riding up the footpath on the back wheel only. Some houses along there had hedges, and if an elderly person came out of a gateway, I hate to imagine the result.