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One of the interesting parts of Jone's forecasting was forecasting repeated cycles in the weather extremes. Droughts and heatwaves feature large in the weather cycles, and the 80 year cycle is the most pronounced. We endured the worst drought in living memory in W.A. in 1980, and it coincided with the Federation drought, with the worst drought year during the Federation drought, being in 1900, in W.A. There was another bad drought in 1944-1945, that struck both W.A. and the Eastern States, and the current drought in W.A. earlier this season, and in S.A. and Victoria this year, coincides with the 80 year cycle.

Nev, his name was actually Inigo Jones. My father followed his long-range weather forecasts with something approaching obsessiveness.

The U.S. has organised to give around 2000 "obsolete" Humvees to the Ukrainians. Even though the U.S. deems the Humvees as obsolete, they're still very capable, and battle-proven. Plus the fact they are not high-tech, are highly mobile and easily operated, and can be turned into many types of weapons-carriers, makes them a real asset to the Ukrainians. https://www.forbes.com/sites/vikrammittal/2024/10/29/why-the-recent-us-aid-package-to-ukraine-included-2000-humvees/

Apparently ROYGBIV is dead, and the experts have decided that Indigo doesn't actually exist. It seems that Isaac Newton settled on 7 colours for the spectrum, because he was a great believer in Pythagoreanism, and Pythagoras believed the number 7 was crucial to every scientific, mathematical and physics discovery. https://www.scientificminds.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-roy-g-biv-kathy-reeves-115.aspx#:~:text=Indigo is omitted because few,it as a separate color.

That question is far beyond my pay scale and training, Marty! There's plenty our puny minds cannot grasp, when it come to what's on the other side of the curtain.

Interesting little box you found there, Willie. I was surprised to learn from the box, that the Engineers ran A.A. Companies in WW2. What I find even more interesting is that the box has a serving soldiers name on it, indicating it was deemed property under his personal care - and I'm puzzled as to what that item may have been. Obviously, it was valuable and of great importance. The name R. Reed and the 56 A.A. Coy RAE, leads me to dig up the blokes history. It appears he was Q50102 Sgt Major R.E. Reed (Warrant Officer Class 2 or simply WO2 or WOII) in 56 A.A. Coy, which was based in Brisbane. I found him listed in the Coy's War Diaries for 1942, which are the only ones I've examined so far. On that date, he marched out of HQ's at Lytton, to go to Amberley. According to the Roll of Honour, WO2 R.E. Reed transferred across to the Artillery later on in the War, and was still serving in the R.A.A. when he was demobbed - but he'd gained a commission to Lieutenant by that time. See the company War Diary record for 26-5-1942 in the link, where he's listed at the top of the page - https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/AWM2019.366.2651/bundled/AWM2019.366.2651.pdf Robert Reed's service history - https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=43992&c=WW2#R

So, this is their last Czech-out??

Trump keeps playing the "fear of illegal immigrants that will kill all your family" card - and the Dems are too dumb to realise that's a critical factor in U.S. elections. They all live in fear of being killed by a random murderous stranger, carrying potent firearms. Trump will win, I reckon, exactly as Willie has postulated, helped by the Electoral College gerrymander.

I see where the Katter Party vote halved in this election. What happened, to bring that about?

I couldn't imagine that Putin would be particularly reliant on Iranian rocket fuel, this attack would be designed to degrade Iran's ability to lob ballistic missiles into Israel. But Putin's military is obviously reliant on Iranian military support, and the Iranians appear to have supplied plenty of the Shaheed 136 drones - which are powered by a copy of the German Limbach 550 2 stroke, 4 cyl engine, and which engine simply uses a 2 stroke petrol mix for fuel. However, anything that degrades Irans military manufacturing capabilities is good news for Ukraine.

Klingons, of course!!

Well, that makes you a proper social outcast then, doesn't it? How do you live a full life without FB??

My personal preference is towards some of the intellectual films of the 1960's - such as, "Nude on the Moon". The Plot: A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women. Classic stuff! 😄 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056293/

He'd be better off naming it, the Ministry of Trump Alternative Reality. He wouldn't know what Truth was, if it smacked him in the face.

No-ones forcing anything onto you, Nev. I just make it clear I believe there's an omnipotent God who made the Earth liveable for us as it is today, and he also made the Adamic creation. I have no problem with science continually proving that Gods Laws of Nature exist, and I believe that science reinforces the Biblical story - which is largely the story of the Adamic creation. There are other life forms on this Earth that weren't made by God, I'm convinced of that - even human tribes. But trying to convince me that a theory of an evolutionary process led to our exceptionally complex human bodies, and our life support systems from primordial ooze - all devised by an amateur scientist in an era where no major scientific instruments existed, and in an era when they didn't even understand the existence and propagation of germs and bacteria and diseases - is not something I can accept, because it is total fallacy. I've mentioned this previously, and I'll repeat it. There are in excess of 200 life support systems in the human body. They are all necessary to sustain human life. If just one of those systems fails, we will die - not necessarily immediately, but we will certainly die. For evolution to produce all 200 life support systems of the human body, in the correct order to sustain human life, is about as likely as me pulling 200 cards, numbered 1 to 200, blindly out of my pocket, in the correct numerical order. Yet, supposedly intelligent and highly educated people continue to promote evolution as the basis for all science. It's simply not true. Evolutionary development may appear in some species, whereby they change to adapt to new conditions and circumstances - but nowhere can evolutionary science show us new life being formed from primordial ooze. It's all supposition. The fact there are 100 religions all promoting different views of different Gods is simply testament to human failings, and all trying to fill a need that vast numbers of people have, to worship an omnipotent being, who supposedly controls many things. I believe God controls very little on this Earth, he set the ball rolling, and if it wobbles or runs into an obstruction, then that's the Laws of Nature and Physics and Science at work. The bottom line is that science has no answer for what lies beyond the grave, and has no answer, when someone who is recorded as clinically dead, comes back to life, and gives detailed and accurate descriptions of their lifeless body lying in a hospital bed, and clearly describing the actions the doctors and nurses carried out on them, while they were recorded as dead. This is described in Dr Moodys book - and Moody was no "God-botherer", he was somewhat agnostic until he started regularly coming across patients with amazing stories of things that they saw when they were dead - and those stories contained repeated similar events, from people who had been brought up in a relatively wide range of religious belief systems. I don't have a problem with people who don't believe in any kind of deity, but when I'm offered a potential free reward in the afterlife (of which I know little), simply by acknowledging and believing in the Biblical God and Jesus Christ and the Biblical story, then I'm not going to knock it back!

Of course there's NOTHING THERE, for a bloke who didn't believe in God, and who worshipped money and enormous power instead. I'd be disappointed if Kerry Packer actually got into Heaven. Dr Moodys book, Life after Life is a worthy read, it was written by a Doc who saw many patients return from clinical death with a wide range of experiences from "beyond the curtain". He wrote that the part that impressed him was the children experiences during clinical death, because of their simple honesty and lack of life experiences, and the fact that they reported experiences that could not have been hallucinations or repressed memories.

Workers pi$$ing and shXXing in the crops is more like it. Too lazy to go to the toilet - and besides, don't the Chinese use human faeces for fertiliser? Just one reason I won't buy Chinese vegies, no matter how much the sellers tell us how good their product is.

The cardboard cutout of Daniel Andrews taken to Scotland was a stunt by the Herald-Sun, and Sky News is making a feast of it. But no matter how you look at it, it was certainly a massive waste of Victorian taxpayers funds by Andrews. https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/scots-thrilled-with-daniel-andrews-over-decision-which-forced-victorian-taxpayers-to-pay-for-glasgow-games/news-story/c5dec288c6f5e84f4fea28383b26aaa5

Canberra is the home of Teslas, they have Tesla ownership levels that are the highest in the nation, and more than 50% higher than NSW overall. https://evcentral.com.au/teslas-by-postcode-where-evs-in-australia-are-most-popular/#:~:text=Canberrans big on Teslas&text=That gives the ACT the,31.1 Teslas per 100%2C000 people.

I was absolutely staggered to see the level and cost of the damage and destruction in Western N. Carolina from Hurricane Helene. It's been costed at US$53B just for that State. It will be interesting to see how the Federal compensation plays out, whether it becomes a political football (as the Republicans would no doubt like), or whether the North Carolinans will become more favourably disposed to vote in Kamala ,when they receive Federal disaster monies. What I find appalling is that the ordinary, everyday North Carolinan is bearing the brunt of the hurricane losses - largely due to the fact that 93% of the population is un-insured against flood or crop losses. It appears there's a combination of factors at play - U.S. homeowners unaware that their insurance doesn't cover flooding, insurance companies keen to avoid payouts, and trying to deal with mounting losses caused by increasing natural disasters, and Govt flood maps that are seriously out of date. https://www.aol.com/north-carolina-government-calculates-hurricane-212213021.html https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-helene-shows-insurance-industry-that-no-homes-are-safe-north-carolina/#:~:text=Many homeowners in North Carolina,in which disasters are covered.

Canberra is the home of rich and powerful people. The average wage in Canberra is substantially higher than any other State, and the positions they mostly hold in bureaucracy, ensure they wield substantial levels of power over us mortals.

I just remembered I have an old rotary dial phone - in pieces. I have no recollection of how I came by it, apart from the fact, that a mate who worked for the PMG, gave me number of boxes of phones and components at least 10 years ago. I have no idea of how it works, or how it goes back together. Pete, do you want another project? I guess these things have some collector value now, but I guess the value varies substantially, too. I seem to recall the mate gave me some switchboard items, too. It could be a while before I find the rest of the items, after my huge workshop move, everything is still in disarray. I know there's quite a number (perhaps around 15 ) of the later 800 series phones in the collection, which are probably "antique" to the internet generation!

At 56 secs into the video, you can see two small puffs of smoke to the lower left of the doomed aircraft, this is the pilot and co-pilot ejecting. Follow the ejection smoke as it travels downwards (and to the left of the frame as the camera pans right) - and at about 1m 00sec, on the left of the screen, inside the bracketed frame, you'll see two parachutes moving slowly earthwards. Surprisingly, not everything on YooToob is true! More high-value Russian POW's to swap for Ukrainian POW's, at an exchange rate of 10 Ukrainians for 1 Russian!

I didn't know that Ron Eli's son, Cameron, stabbed his mother to death in 2019. Cameron was then shot by police in what appears to be typical U.S. police force over-reaction. It seems that Cameron was in the grip of drugs, and possibly even intent on "death by police shooting" when he was confronted by police. It must have been depressing for Ron Ely to try and cope with the knowledge, that despite ceasing acting work to spend more time raising his children, it was wasted effort on his son. https://people.com/crime/fatal-shooting-ron-ely-son-cameron-determined-justifiable-homicide/

One of the best things we can do is ignore Lydia Thorpe and her need to be continually angry and bitter, discontented, and abusive. You give her more exposure, it's the oxygen she thrives on. Nothing would make this woman happy, apart from turning back the clock to 1788 - which, as we all know, is impossible. As with many Aboriginals, she thrives on abusing whites, while she takes advantage of every generous offering given to her by Anglo-Saxon culture and development. She wouldn't be alive today if her tribes were left in the state they lived in in 1788, she would've died an early death from starvation or simple diseases, for which her tribal society would've had no cure. As a woman in her tribe, she would've been voiceless, and regularly sexually abused, with no-one to turn to for retribution. Her tribes laws would've been patriarchal and cruel. It's only because of the vastly improved cultural, legal, medical, engineering, scientific and technological life that she now lives, that she can now get up in an orderly House of Govt and protest about colonisation events that no-one can change - and for which events, the Indigenes have been adequately compensated for, on many fronts - with the financial and land rights compensation given to them, being more than any other country in the world. She has no grounds that gives her the right to abuse the current people in control of our style of Govt. In former times she would be accused of sedition and overthrow of the Govt of the day.