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Bump in the night.

Blood is thicker than water.

Back door.

Multiple issues.

2 under Par?

Gee, you really kept us waiting for the answer! 😞

Law enforcement needs to concentrate on breaking up youth gangs, this is where all the problems start, from neanderthal tribal alliances. One bad egg gathers a gang around him, pollutes their juvenile thoughtlessness with criminal actions and plans, and it all goes to hell in a handbasket from there. Criminals rarely work on their own, they rely on criminal cohorts to keep them informed, help cover their tracks, and to go on criminal "adventures". Reform starts with juvenile reform camps, sometimes called "boot camps". The juvenile crims need to be taken out of their criminal associate environment, taught self-discipline, taught to avoid criminal urges and taught that they have self-worth. Much criminal juvenile behaviour stems from bullying, low levels of IQ making them prone to criminal behaviour and encouragement to commit crime, and poor parenting. The boot camps need to replace the poor parenting with fair but firm training and activities that occupy their time, teaches them useful skills and which burns up their physical energy. An old farmer told me once, his Dad had a saying, "young men and young horses need to be worked hard!". Juveniles with excessive time on their hands, and no outlet for their energy, is something needs to be addressed. This is where the Police and Citizens clubs used to do good work. The clubs seem to be declining in their activities, no doubt due to overworked and burnt out police officers.

China's major advantage is simply mass production abilities. I'm always staggered at the average Chinese factorys production capabilities. Individual starter motor factories can pump out 4,000 large industrial starter motors a WEEK. The same for turbocharger manufacturing - a single Chinese factory can produce multiple hundreds of turbochargers a week. When you consider the complexity and precision needed in a turbocharger, that's some major effort. The Chinese have imported all the important manufacturing machinery from Europe or the U.S. - often with the European or American companies assistance, because they love selling stuff to China. The Chinese orders dwarf all other orders for these machine tool companies. Chinese EV's are flooding the market and doubling their penetration efforts - because the Chinese Govt has encouraged over-production, and now they have new Chinese EV's filling warehouses and storage places everywhere. They have resorted to auctioning them online in China, and they are selling the cheapest models for as low as US$9000. China knows it can dominate car manufacturing with their EV's, and they want a big slice of that huge pie and they will get it. The Korean and Japanese and European and American car manufacturers will either lose a big slice of their market share, or they will have to adopt Chinese EV technology into their products to sell them, the same as every other European, American, Japanese and Korean product is now often made in China. All Teslas sold in Australia are made in China - but the Chinese fully intend to make their Tesla copies cheaper, and just as attractive. The Chinese will soon figure out how to crack the SUV market, which is where the real money is. Even though Toyota is the wealthiest and most highly regarded car manufacturer on the planet, they are about to get a swift kick in the goolies from Chinese cars, that will be directly attacking Toyotas stranglehold on the SUV and 4WD market. What is advantageous for Australian buyers is the decline in U.S. sales for Chinese cars (due to Trumps tariffs) has improved the Chinese offerings available to us, as the Chinese seek to enter more markets to reduce their reliance on U.S. sales. https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/byd-to-unleash-new-model-rampage-99759

The above all reminds me of this song. It's lucky they inserted a few gals, who still do look good........ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgd9hitEAE

The CEO of the Chinese car company Xiaomi has revealed what most already knew anyway, about how the Chinese have gained the leading edge in the sales race for EV's - Xiaomi purchased no less than THREE new Tesla Model Y's, and dis-assembled them all, to the last nut and bolt, and examined every part of the design, to use the information in the design of their new EV models. https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/secret-to-chinese-brands-success-exposed-xiaomi-boss-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-with

Unfortunately, the Musk Pi-Phone is as phoney as Trump. It doesn't exist, and Musk has no plans to produce a phone. Snopes Pi-Phone claim is False - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tesla-pi-phone-starlink/

Love each with kindness.

I'm surprised Hegseth didn't make it compulsory to become a Born-Again Christian before you can don a U.S. Military uniform. This pair are fixated on returning to a "real mans Army", but unfortunately, even their "real mans Army" hasn't won any wars since WW2 - and that WW2 effort was successful because they had the backing of the entire output of American industry - which was being operated by a very large proportion of women employees. To say they "won" the Iraq war is on a par with all of the wars Trump claims he's won or stopped. Iraq is still a tribal, totally corrupt mess, without a functioning democratic Govt.

Joining the fray.

Unsurprisingly, ladders are the primary cause of injuries needing hospitalisation, amongst males over 45 in Australia.

It doesn't get any better.

There can't be very much chicken, in a chicken royale, for $3.75!!!

Bridal shower.

Possibly because the (female) video taker knew exactly what was going to happen?? I reckon there's some painful injuries in that lot. A mate tied a ladder to a big set of bi-fold doors (4M high) to work on the door track. But he only tied the ladder and door against the prevailing breeze. Once he was up the top of the ladder, the wind turned 180° and gusted, making the door move, and throwing him off the ladder. He fell 4M onto concrete on his left side and shattered his elbow, and broke his left femur. The surgeon had to screw a plate in his elbow, and run a 10mm diameter stainless pin right through the length of his left femur. He spent 2 months in hospital and 3 months in a wheelchair, then another 2 months on crutches, before he could walk again. It was a hard-learnt lesson. Made worse by the fact he was 70 when he did it.

Unfortunately, despite all your anti-renewables bashing, the pace of solar, grid battery and wind turbine installation is only getting faster each day. And perhaps surprisingly for some, the big miners are in the forefront of installing renewables for power for their mining operations. The chances of installing NP in Australia recede daily, and first off, the NP promoters have to overcome the resistance of the majority of the population, who don't see it as viable or economic - and there are multiple State laws in place, against Uranium mining, that would need to be rescinded as well, is NP was to proceed. https://thewest.com.au/business/mining/andrew-forrests-fortescue-inks-green-energy-supply-deals-with-chinas-byd-longi-envision-and-xcmg-c-20146954 The biggest single renewable energy resource that is sneaking up on energy planners, is the amount of rooftop solar on homes, which is approaching double the energy generation that is planned for grid installation. The simple solution is to harness that massive level of solar energy being produced, that is often under-utilised during the day, when homeowners are at work. To that end, efforts to install grid-scale batteries and home batteries are to be applauded. Add in EV's, which are increasing in numbers steadily, and whose electrical storage can only add to the available energy sources, thereby meaning the energy sources available can only continue to increase.

A KFC salesman goes to see the Pope. "Your Holiness. I work for KFC, and we'll offer you $10M to change the reading of the Lord's Prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread', to 'Give us this day our daily chicken.'" The Pope is aghast! He tells the salesman, "I can't just go changing God's word for money!" The man comes back the next day: "How about $50M!? Now, think of all the good the Church could do with all that money, Your Holiness!" The Pope is unimpressed. "Look, I told you. I just can't do it. I'm sorry." The guy is back a week later. "Our final offer- $500M. Take it or leave it." The next day, the Pope calls in all the Church Cardinals. "Boys, I have good news, and I have bad news. The good news is, we've raised $500M for Catholic Charities." The room erupts! Everybody is so happy! The Pope waits for the room to settle down. Then, he says. "And now for the bad news. We've lost the Tip Top Bread account."

Thought for the Day ..... If you loiter in a Tibetan spiritual leaders sandwich shop every day, then... ... you dilly dally in the Dalai's deli daily.

BS on an industrial scale, typical of Trump. What is amazing, is that so few Americans seem to care whether he speaks the truth or not.

Halloween chuckle....... What's the major problem when you have twins, that are both Witches? You never know which Witch is which.

FB quizzes would be only trying to suck you in, to get eyes on their advertising, and clicks on their page, so they can then put up more crap!