onetrack

Prime ribs.

Positive-thin-king.

Negative feedback.

I've got some bad news for a very large number of "Christian" Trump supporters - and that bad news is, they won't be going to Heaven, because they place their faith in the Gun God, not in the God of the Bible. Their very worship of the Gun shows they have no faith in their Heavenly God to protect them.

Trump's constant, massive BS line, that he's going to make every grocery item cheaper for Americans, the instant he's elected, is a standing joke now. Just like his massive BS about being able to stop the Ukraine War in one day. Beef prices in the U.S. are going ballistic. The Americans are eating more beef than they can produce themselves, and their herd is at an all-time low. Steers are bringing US$3,500 (AU$5,200) a head in the U.S. So much for Trumps BS about increasing sales of U.S. beef to Australia with his tariff deal, they can't even meet domestic demand. And those beef buyers in the U.S. are now paying 10% extra on the massively-increased purchases of Australian beef (our beef exports are up 16% recently). Bacon and pork prices in the U.S. are also going ballistic, along with eggs. And now the Trump/MAGA adherents are saying that Trump never did promise anything of the kind. America must be the land of suckers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/us-cattle-prices-soar-increasing-demand-for-aussie-beef/105776020 https://www.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1hcreaf/just_so_everyone_is_clear_heres_a_clip_of_trump/

Absolute, total, Right-Wing Christian Fundamentalist BS - the same as this Instagram post, below. These people are NRA diehards, they worship guns as the ruling God. Modern firearms are excellent for killing human beings at long range, accurately, with guaranteed results, and can kill multiple numbers of humans in seconds. The safest societies are the ones with strict firearm controls. As an additional benefit, suicides are markedly reduced with major firearm restrictions. After the Port Arthur gun buyback and the major reduction in firearm numbers, the suicide rate in Australia went down by 60% - because most suicides are by firearm and they present to depressed people as an easy quick death. All that's needed here now, is to jail murderous criminals who trade in, and carry illegal firearms, for much longer periods. You carry a concealed firearm, you're planning the death of someone. That's planning a premeditated murder, and should have a minimum jail term of 10 years, actually served, not reduced because of good behaviour. At present, they get a slap on the wrist for being found with an illegal firearm, and it's taken off them. So they promptly acquire another one rapidly. Dealers in illegal firearms should get 25 years. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOo_or-ibD2/

That's way too obtuse for me, it looks like some gaming symbols.

I can't wait to see the vastly improved statistics in all these areas come out soon. So, I guess this means mass and random shootings will decrease to barely measurable levels? - schools will be able to report better teacher to student ratios, and better graduation rates? - hospitals will provide immediate and low cost health care? - and "genuine, legal" Americans will come out of hiding from those criminal immigrants, and line up for all those new jobs?? Personally, I reckon the mass and random shooting rates won't even alter (because its angry White Americans who are carrying out most of the mass shootings) - and the schools and hospitals will still struggle to cope, because they can't get menial jobs filled. Anyone who does front for all those newly available jobs will want high rates of pay, because they're far better educated, and consider themselves more intelligent than any third-world immigrant. It's interesting to note that the USPS has run up a monstrous deficit caused by decades of massive losses, largely caused by having to pay employees according to their education level, rather than the job they're actually doing. So you have people with PhD's sorting mail, and they are being paid double what a lowly-educated immigrant would do the job for. So, not much chance of lowering costs in any area where educated white Americans are being employed. Then there's the problem of trying to get rich white Americans to do jobs that are simply hard work - the trades (electrical, plumbing, bricklaying, etc), construction labouring work, truck driving, anything where there's a need to get hands dirty and put in long hours. Rich white Americans don't want these jobs, they want managerial positions and office jobs, where they feel they belong. America is shortly going to suffer from a major inability to find enough people to do lowly-paid menial work. That then means the pay rates for these jobs skyrocket as employers get desperate to fill these positions. Higher pay rates for these jobs means wage inflation, and an overall increase in inflation. Add in Trumps tariffs, and ordinary Americans will soon be crying out that they can't afford anything any more. Australia, despite its major immigration increase, still has problems trying to find people to do the above-mentioned jobs. I see local farmers advertising for road train drivers for upcoming harvest work. They're offering $60 an hr - and they still can't get enough truck drivers. No-one wants to be away from home and family for long periods, and put in long hours of hard, tiring work. The same goes for a raft of other jobs, I got charged $200 hr for an electrician and his apprentice recently, that was $140 hr for the sparky, and $60 hr for his apprentice. And I was lucky enough to get him within a couple of weeks of wanting the job done - and his phone rang incessantly while he was working, with clients looking to get electrical work done. I hate to think how we'd go, if we immediately sent 200,000 immigrants home. We had our bathroom renovated last year, completely gutted and rebuilt. The two blokes doing the hard yakka, ripping out the old tiling, ripping up the floor, and doing the new tiling, were both Iranians. Decent, hard-working blokes who were glad to be away from all the Middle Eastern problems of dictators, Mullahs running things, Stone-age social mores, and constant wars with random murders, caused by tribal hatreds.

Trumps attacks on the media, lawsuits and intimidation threats and having media hosts removed from their jobs if they even poke fun at him is extremely concerning and a prerequisite to criminal Hitlerian tactics. After the Reichstag Fire in 1933, Hitlers emergency decrees suspended individual rights and constitutional protections, giving the police broad power to act without legal limits. Now we see Trump Presidential Decrees of "emergencies", at whim to prosecute his plans to turn America into the MAGA model of an extreme right-wing, Christian-fundamentalist dominated society, with lesser or no rights for immigrants, gays and lesbians and any group that opposes Trump or his supporters. Under the Nazis, specific groups were targeted for arrest, removal from public life, and eventually, genocide. Trump has already had hundreds of leading public servants removed from their jobs because they opposed him. Now we see Trump using the military to replace police forces in various cities to "restore order" and "reduce crime". You only need to replace "the U.S. military" with the Gestapo and Nazi stormtroopers beating Nazi opposition protestors to a pulp, and even killing them outright on the streets, to see where America is heading. Just watch out for Trump suspending the Constitution as a result of another "emergency" - which was Hitlers final criminal act of total control. "Trumped-up" reasons behind so many of his illegal actions is a great irony.

The MAGA mob specialise in maintaining feral, visceral rage, against anything they see as counter to their beliefs, aims and plans. They especially enjoy painting anyone with anti-Republican beliefs, to be "the enemy" of America. It's McCarthyism for the 21st Century.

End up behind bars.

Turn a blind eye.

My sentiments are, I'll take all the gold I can get, cheap! 😄 I thought gold was reaching incredible values in the early 1980's, when it reached US$850 oz in January 1980 - but with pricing adjusted for inflation, the current gold price has already soared above 1980 equivalent values. However, if there comes a sharemarket crash (and there will be one, eventually), then the current gold price will look like a bargain. That's what all gold investors bank on. Not bad for a metal described as a "barbarous relic" by John Maynard Keynes, and also described as useless to any monetary value system, by many economists.

Walking ahead of British Royalty is NOT protocol. But Trump has form, he walked ahead of Queen Elizabeth, too. It's all about Donald. As someone else remarked, they should've just treated him as a badly-behaved toddler, and waited for him to come back, and walk with them.

Here's an interesting, current, Reuters article on the Chinese car industry - and it exposes what a mess the Chinese car manufacturing industry is in, solely due to Govt policies that encourage overproduction, far beyond the capacity of both Chinese and world markets, to absorb the numbers of vehicles being built. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-sending-its-world-beating-auto-industry-into-tailspin-2025-09-17/

The true cost of nuclear power is well hidden, though, and it can't be measured just by accidents, and lives lost in those nuclear accidents. The true cost has to involve the total cost of nuclear waste, and the clean-up costs for those accidents mentioned - and for any potential future accidents. Too many areas selected for nuclear power plants are earthquake-prone. And I can't believe it's only 32 deaths in total - hundreds died from radioactivity exposure during the Chernobyl cleanup, the Russians are good at hiding casualties, they just bury them with falsified records, or non-existent records.

Hey y'all, you gotta understand, this here killin' of Charlie Kirk was a perfect example of how the God-Given 'Merrican Constitution works just fine, to protect the freedoms and liberty of every 'Merrican man and woman!! You see, that Robinson guy was truly fearful of a tyrannical gubbmint coming to get him, threatening his hard-won freedoms, and taking away his hard-won liberty and human rights!! He was truly fearful of a vengeful Kirk and his Big Buddy Donald Trump coming to take his gay and transgender rights offa him, and probably even looking at not being able to get a job, all because of that Tyrannical Gubbmint!! So he did exactly what any gun-loving, red-blooded 'Merican Patriot would do! He killed that TYRANT!! - and exercised his fabulous, God-Given Second Amendment RIGHT, to fight back against a TYRANNICAL Govt, that was a-coming to get him!! This guy is a hero! - not a murderous killer!! I hope some good ol' Second Amendment-loving lawyer explains all this in fine detail to that TYRANNICAL prosecutor!! - and that Robinson guy is set free, lauded as a terrific PATRIOT, as he should be!! Hallelujah and Amen, Brothers in Christ! God works in mysterious ways to ensure that the Land of the Brave and the Free, stays that way!!

Bad intentions.

And now it'll cost you a heap of time, and producing the evidence, to argue you were legally parked. 😞

Sorry to tell you this, Nev - but the CBA was sold off to the private banks in 1997 by the traitorous Keating Govt, and the champagne glasses have been clinking in the boardrooms of the nations Big Four Banks, ever since they removed a Govt-owned bank from opposing their constant greed. King O'Malley is spinning in his grave.

She's holding a couple of butternut pumpkins, right?

I'm getting worried now, virtually all the stars of my younger years and my era are gone, or just about gone. To add to my gloom, I've been looking up all the veterans I served with in Vietnam, and I've found a large number of them have died. The bloke who slept in the bed next to mine in our hut in Nui Dat, just died late last month, I never saw him again after I left 'Nam, and it appears he got dementia and spent the last few years in an aged care home. He was just an ordinary, decent enough bloke, he didn't achieve great fame or fortune, he came from Canowindra, he went back to Canowindra after he did his National Service, and apparently just lived out his life there.

It's in the realm of the finest American conspiracy theories to say that the climate change agenda is run by big, vested interests. It's like saying the fossil fuel industry is controlled by the Arabs, it's not possible, because of the sheer number of players and nations involved in the energy industries - and in the climate change agenda. You can't buy off all the scientists. We get more propaganda from America today than we ever get from China and Russia, the people running America today are in the same mold as the McCarthy mob - which feral mob destroyed a lot of good people with their hunt for largely non-existent "reds" in America, who the McCarthyists decided were ruining America. What a disgusting mob they were - and the mob running America today are little different.

The air quality in Beijing has apparently improved out of sight since the city has started to discourage polluting IC engines, and encouraged transport to move over to EV's. It appears nearly all taxis in Beijing are electric. In addition, large investments in rail to move people around, have done their bit to cut transport emissions. So, there has to be some benefit in any attempt at reducing polluting emissions. The argument that our efforts to cut emissions will only be a drop in the ocean, because China is doing nothing about cutting emissions, is a fallacious one. https://sustainablemobility.iclei.org/air-pollution-beijing/

I thought this biting cartoon was pretty good.........