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The latest assassin, Ryan Routh, is a former Trump voter who has actually seen the light and appears to have arranged some of his brain cells into some sort of working order. He wrote a book in 2023, and in it, he says - QUOTE: "You are free to assassinate Trump," Routh wrote of Iran in an apparently self-published 2023 book titled Ukraine's Unwinnable War, which described the former president as a "fool" and "buffoon" for both the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots and the "tremendous blunder" of leaving the Iran nuclear deal. Routh wrote that he once voted for Trump and must take part of the blame for the "child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless". I find it interesting that Routh, typifies the average Trump voter - working, but owns little by way of assets, permanently angry about global and U.S. events, has a minor criminal record, obviously spends a lot of time online ranting, is prepared to resort to firearms and kill people to solve problems, at the drop of a hat - but, in a departure for the average Trump voter, was trying to recruit fighters for Ukraine. New bodycam footage shows dramatic arrest of Trump suspect (msn.com) This is the best comment I've seen on Trump for while, and it comes from a Springfield Ohio resident, Felicia Duncan. She wrote a letter on Monday to the Cincinatti Enquirer, saying "he brings out the crazies" - QUOTE: She argued, "Trump "brings a lot of this stuff on himself." "When he continues to push lies about legal immigrants like the ones in Springfield, Ohio; when he continues to insist he was not the loser of the 2020 election; when he continues to spout how he wants to use our military to round up' and deport immigrants who are not white from this country, he brings the crazies out," Duncan wrote. "One of those crazies tries to shoot him."

China is in deep s***, economically. It looks like that invasion of Taiwan might go on the back burner for a while yet. Not many saw this Chinese recession coming - certainly not the Chinese - but every major boom is always followed by a recession, and China has been booming for over 30 years. One of the problems for the rest of the world that is relying on large Chinese sales, is that China has been stockpiling a lot of products it imports - whether it's iron ore or grains, they've got more than enough on hand for their now-shrinking economy, so if you're intent on making a killing cracking into the Chinese market, it looks like you could be well advised to look elsewhere for sales of your products. https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2024/09/16/chinas-fading-hunger-for-grain-spells-trouble-for-world-farmers/

I'm surprised at how nearly all meat-and-bug-eating birds, won't touch dead meat, or dead bugs - they like them alive and warm and wriggling. But crows love anything dead, and actually seem to prefer carrion to a lot of other types of food.

The difference with the "Telstra network" aftermarket phone service providers, is they get throttled back on the Telstra network, and Telstra don't make all their towers available to them. You don't generally find this out, until after you've signed up with them.

Yes, the pressure on the Australian continent as it's pushed NE is the reason we have regular earth tremors and earthquakes. The Australian continent is the fastest-moving continent on the Earth. I reckon we're about due to have another decent earthquake, it's been a long time since we've had a substantial one, they seem to come about every 50-60 years. The Meckering earthquake here in the West in 1968 was a pearler, it would've caused quite a few deaths and a lot more destruction if it had occurred in a more densely populated area. I was driving a dozer when it hit, so I didn't feel a thing. But the brother, who was canvassing for work nearby, came back to my damsinking job just before midday (the earthquake happened just before 11:00AM), and he said he pulled into a farmhouse, and as he arrived, the water tanks on their high stands were wobbling from side to side! Locally, there were reports of concrete water tanks with open tops, that had lost sizeable amounts of water, as it sloshed over the sides of the tanks under the shaking. https://www.ga.gov.au/education/natural-hazards/earthquake

I think the Fonz and Ron Howard look pretty good for their age - unlike a few other actors or actresses that are younger than them, and who show the ravages of alcohol and drugs.

So .... when I ask the love of my life if the Earth moved for her last night, she can say "Yes", without worrying about lying to me?

Where are you located, newsaroundme?

My God! An evangelistic parking enforcer!!

It's been 20 to 27 degrees, and beautiful clear sunny skies here on the left coast, since last Sunday. It's like Winter just shut off in its tracks last Saturday, and Spring has Sprung in full force. The car actually gets hot if you leave it in the sun! The forecasts are 21 to 28 degrees and sunny, for the next week.

It's a pretty stupid idea to add sodium bicarbonate and citric acid together - because one is a strong base and one is a strong acid, and they react strongly and neutralise each other, to produce water and carbon dioxide. I've been using citric acid for rust removal for over 40 years and it works just fine by itself. You just take the item out of the solution and pressure wash it, and if it's still not fully cleaned, you return it to the bath for more acid action. The important thing with citric acid is keeping the acid bath covered, so no sunlight can access it. Sunlight breaks down the citric acid fairly rapidly, and it then loses its rust removal effectiveness. If you really want to improve the cleaning, you use an amine such as EDTA. This amine is called a chelating agent, and it's very effective at rust removal and improves the performance of citric acid. You don't need much of it, because it works so well, and this is a good thing, because it's bloody expensive! The commercial rust removers such as Evaporust use amines, and they just charge huge amounts for a small amount of EDTA. https://allchemical.com.au/shop/edta-disodium-salt/ https://brainly.com/question/30252282

Mick Hucknall of Simply Red. He looks like s***, and he's only 64!! That's what happens to you, when you screw over 1000 women!! (or so he says).

See if this works for you ....

He looks just like the sort of bloke who take a hammer to a chunk of gelignite (or powergel) laying on an anvil, just to see what happens!! 😞

I occasionally look at "idiots at work" videos or "close calls" videos - but these videos always have a partly-naked girl in the primary photo in the link, which never shows up in the video ...... no matter how much I look for her!! 😄

Maybe I've got a sick sense of humour, but this one really tickled me....

I have the same problem as Willie, but I've never found a phone pouch that works satisfactorily. I've tried belt-mounted ones, and upper-arm mounted ones, and they all suffer the same problems - with the primary problem being the one, that you can't get the phone out quick enough to answer calls. This is not helped by the fact that mobiles only ring for just a few rings, before they stop ringing and go to messagebank.

I found the YT links were usually a lot of clickbait crap, anyway - with every second link showing a photo of a near-naked female, which had no relevance to the crap in the rubbishy video, most times. You could remove 90% of YT videos and you'd never miss them. "Instructional" or "Important Advice" videos which have zero value, and are solely airhead entertainment videos, make up a lot of the rubbish on there.

I've read that when you lose weight, your cholesterol level goes up. This is because the fat and cholesterol which is stored in your body organs, and especially the liver, has nowhere to go but into your bloodstream. Thus, your blood tests show up elevated cholesterol levels for some time after you've initially lost a fair bit of weight. The cholesterol levels then eventually come down to normal levels, once the fat and cholesterol in the bloodstream is eliminated. I'm fortunate in that I don't have, and have never had, a cholesterol problem - despite eating a lot of red meat and also scoffing lots of butter. My most recent blood test came back with excellent results for every single item on the list - except for my PSA, which is elevated by about 30% on the last test. My GP was concerned enough about the elvated PSA level, to actually phone me to check to see if I was O.K., and to check I had another appointment with my urologist soon. I assured him I was fine and my next appointment with my urologist was the following week. When I saw the urologist, he wasn't unduly concerned about the rise in the PSA level. He says PSA goes up and down substantially, can be affected by strong exertion (I told him my PSA level was likely to be up because of the amount of exertion I indulged in, shifting my entire workshop contents. I lost about 4 or 5 kgs as a result of that effort) - and he said PSA can vary considerably from person to person. He said PSA was only one of the factors they look at, when keeping up surveillance of prostate tumours, and it can be unreliable.

Jerry, your girl has exceptionally long fingers, which makes her extremely artistic. Does she possess a great deal of artistic skill in any one area?

What is it about Victorian magpies, that they're so vicious? I can't remember the last time I was attacked by a magpie, the West Aussie magpies must be more laid-back. I can recall a story (I think it was last year) about a bloke in Melbourne who just sat down on a park bench, and a magpie landed in front of him, then flew up and pecked his eye out, blinding him! The bloke didn't even have any interaction with the magpie - maybe the Melburnian magpies are just all crazed pyschos? Something to do with Melbournes weather?? 🙂

It's not quite as stupid as it sounds, Marty, apparently the cheque presenter made a convincing case and was very persuasive. It was probably more than 20 years ago, might have been 30 years ago, I can't find any record online of the incident now. It was in the pre-internet era where cheques were presented daily, and normally honoured. But yes, the sheer size of the cheque would raise suspicions - but there's plenty of people who are quite capable of producing a payment of that level, without batting an eyelid. One of the things that interests me about Lotto is the number of obviously very wealthy people who buy tickets. They spend huge amounts on tickets, I've seen them spend $200-300 at a time, but it's obvious they don't really need the money. Some interesting stories on Reddit - and one of the outstanding things about Lotto wins, is how few people can handle their wins wisely, most blow it within a short time and are back to a 9-5 job with no money. My workshop neighbour had a mate who won $30M, he reckoned you would never know, he didn't splash the cash in an extravagant manner, but he drove a top of the range Beemer. The in-laws of one nephew of SWMBO won $1.9M around the early 1990's. The ticket was shared by two women, one of them was SWMBO's nephews MIL. Her hubby was just a taxi driver. They got $950,000 and enjoyed an "upgraded" lifestyle for about 3 years - then the taxi driver got cancer, and died! I suppose at least he had 3 years of good worry-free lifestyle. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/15f4iyf/do_you_know_anyone_that_has_actually_won_lotto/ I'm convinced some people are just plain lucky, time after time. The son of a former farmer client, an already wealthy family, bought a "scratchie" when they first came out in the early 1980's. The top prize was $50,000. So Ross buys a scratchie, and wins the $50,000 first prize! But wait, it gets better. The Lotteries Commission had a "second chance" draw of $25,000 on the scratchies, whereby you placed your losing ticket in the second chance draw. So Ross buys another scratchie and loses - and puts his losing ticket in the second chance draw - and wins the $25,000!! This was only about 18 mths after his $50,000 scratchie win. Then Ross moves in closer to Perth, and buys quite a few hundred acres in a very nice high rainfall area about 80kms NE of Perth. He does very well out of the farm, over about 30 years - then a mining company rolls up and starts drilling on his farm. Next thing, the mining company announces a massive find of platinum group metals on his and neighbours properties - with a mine planned in the next couple of years - so they offer to buy Ross's farm at DOUBLE the market price!! Bear in mind that farmland prices have already gone ballistic, tripling in value in the last 15-20 years - so Ross walks out with another mega-million dollar win!! The bloke has the Midas touch!!

It would take an army of helpers and you'd run out of time to buy all the tickets - and the ticket numbers are not limited, they can keep increasing up to the cut-off time, thus increasing the total prize pool. There was an idiot here in W.A. about 20-odd years ago, who thought they could win first prize by buying half a million dollars worth of tickets - with a fraudulent cheque. They spent about $480,000. The newsagent had to employ extra people to print the tickets - then found out the cheque had bounced. It sent the newsagent bankrupt, and there was only about $180,000 in win money to cover the loss. The bloke was jailed for fraud, but I guess that was little comfort to the newsagent, who lost everything.

The difference with America is that gun ownership is a Constitutional Right - every single person in America, no matter how crazed, is ENTITLED to as many firearms as they want to own. In Australia and the U.K. and N.Z., gun ownership is a PRIVILEGE, to be earned by showing you NEED a firearm for a specific use, and that you're not mentally unstable, or deemed to be a violent offender.