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Perhaps it is becasue people think that the system is out of control. There are so many thngs impacting on us that cannot be controlled by ourselves, or by politicians. People must be thinking that since the place is going to Hell in a handbasket, it must be the fault of our traditional leaders from both sides. Therefore they decide to give the non-traditional a go.

A circuit breaker is a very important thing in a circuit, but it doesn't do the work the circuit is meant to do.

Thanks for bringing me up to date.

It used to be that Americans held their President in the highest regard and showed the greatest of respect. Trump has caused those things to be abandoned. He's attending a basketball Grand Final in New York, and instead of being cheered by one and all, he is being booed unanamously. We all love sport grand finals. By deciding to attend this one, Trump has prevented thousands of fans from enjoying the experience. The comom fan has been barred from going near the venue, or to participate in the parties that are part and parcel of the event. It's probably made worse by the fact that the New York team hasn't been in these finals for years. A lot of us know what it feels like when your underdog team finally makes it to the top. To paraphrase England's King Henry II, "Who will rid us of this turbulent pest?"

Who says that it can't happen again? Ther power was always there in the Constitution, it just wasn't used before. That's the reason we have out Head of State as we do.

A government in the current political climate is fighting battles on many fronts. Its first duty is to provide wise governance. To do that it has to deal with a global economy that is shivering with fright because of the actions of the USA. That means it has to deal with cost-of-living. It also has to deal with what people are saying about the causes. One of those that people are saying is immigration. It would be a very brave government that shut the doors to immigration. I could list a whole heap of reasons, but you can fill the list from your own experiences. The next battle is dealing with how it responds to the murmerings of disquiet the people are making. It is clear to see why ON is proving popular. It provides an outlet for complaining. The unfortunate thing that I see is that ON has no documented policies. Also, the candidates it puts up have no experience in governing. The other three major Parties at least have that experience. The way I see it, if ON won government, we would end up in a pretty poor position. The question is: would the Govenor-General dismiss a ON government?

I remember the HD being called the Holden Disaster, and the HR the Holden Revenge.

Ramseet??? I thought you meant Ramjet. I wanted o post this video as a bit of a joke, but as I listened to the song, I realised how American kids of the Boomer generation were being subjected to jingoistic propaganda.

I'm doing a lot of thinking about the Hereafter. I go to a cupboard and think, "What am I here after?"

You know you are old when you see the first model Commodore or an XD Falcon with historic plates.

A big AI company wants to create data centres in Australia that will require more electricity than we are capable of generating. Data centres' demand for energy will increase more than sixfold from 2024–25 to 2040, surging from 2 to 13 per cent of the country's total energy use. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/ai-data-centres-pressuring-energy-transition-greenpeace-says/106722390

Just found out that Lorraine Bayley (Grace Sullivan) passed away on 28 February 2026 aged 89.

"Jerry built" has a couple of possible sources. From an 1856 use in Liverpool, "built hastily of shoddy materials," from jerry "bad, defective". Thr jerry could also be a corruption of "jury" as used in the term "jury mast", a temporary mast put up in place of one that has been broken or carried away." and the earliest citation given is from 1616, with the spelling lury mast. It is wrong to associate "jerry built" with anything German, unless the thing was built by a post-war German refugee working for a shonky house builder.

Don't tell Jerry that!

I noticed on that unsealed road beside my place that the corrugations run from one side of teh road to the other. It's a road that only has one vehicle at a time on it so there is no need to keep to the left. Most people would drive straddling the crown. One would think that wheeltrack ruts would form and that the corrugations would be only in those ruts. I wonder why, then, that the corrugations are right across the road.