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He's just appointed a bloke as the head of all US Intelligence Services who has no experience in Intelligence at all. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-william-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence-tulsi-gabbar-rcna348036

Ever wonder how come corrugations form on an unsealed road? Here's a video which explains it. The video is a bit slow to start so advance to 6:30 to miss the fluff.

I think that once did say something that was the truth, but that was probably the only time.

Isn't a politcal party an alliance of like-minded persons?

I've given up believing anything that Trump is reported to say about the Middle East situation. This morning the ABC reported that he had said that he had got Israel and Hezbalah to stop shooting at each other. He also was said to have claimed that a peaceful end of the Iran situation was at hand. To my mind those were the ravings of a person with no hold on reality.

Who'd be a grain grower? In May it was too dry around here to plant. Over the past week we have had good falls of rain. Now the ground is too wet to get onto. The end of the sowing ssois fast approaching, so it may still not be possible to get a crop in.

Unfortunately a lot of people are being killed, wounded and having their futures adversely affected in the meantime.

That doesn't sound correct. I thought submarines travelled faster on the surface.

So it's now an insult to say that a bloke was hung like a donkey?

What exactly is Iran's ideology? Nobody seems to have laid it out for examination. Sure, it's dominated by a theology. How much impact have the actions of the Isrealis and the USA over the past 78 years influenced that ideology?

Had a really extraordinary rain occurrence last night. Before I went to bed, the sky was clear. About an hour and a half later I began to hear a strange rushing sound from outside. It's hard to explain it until I tell you what happened. The sound at first was a bit low pitched. I wondered if it was a truck approaching, but the sound was coming from the opposite direction from the highway. The sound seemed to be getting louder as it was approaching. Finally the sound arrived and with it extremely heavy rainfall. It was as if a fire hose was in use. If there is rain from a thunderstorm, it usually starts with scattered drops and then the main fall catches up. But last night it was like a wall of water was moving across the land. The boundary between rain and no rain was distinct. This rainfall continued for a short time, maybe five minutes or so, then abruptly stopped. Later that night I saw that the sky was clear again. This morning I checked the ran guage and saw that it regaistered 11 mm of rain. That brings total rainfall since last Monday to about 75mm. There is standing water in the more level paddocks and some dams now have water in them. The creek which runs through the place is roaring and the frogs are making quite a racket.

Down, down, down I go. the qu seems to actually have been an Old French spelling change. It's all tied up with the name of that part of a church/cathedral where the group of singers is located. c. 1300, queor "part of the church where the choir sings," from Old French cuer, quer "(architectural) choir of a church

We often comment on the peculiarities of English spelling. Her's one that got me wondering. How is it that the group of letters, 'choir', produces the sound 'kw-ire' when spoken? I took a dive into etymology and found this: The meaning "band of singers" in English is from c. 1400, quyre. It was re-spelled mid-17c. in an attempt to match classical forms, but the pronunciation has not changed. Now I wonder where 14th Century English got its spelling from.

Prince William is going through the business affairs of his Royal relations and pulling the rug out from under a lot of them. Actually, it is William, his aunt Princess Anne and his uncle Prince Edward who are running the show. William hates Camilla. Anne doesn't like her. The three of them are sick of the likes of Andew's kid sponging off their Royal links. I think William is trying to improve the image of the Royals.

I don't think that the basic Human Rights have been stripped awy. It's the more trivial that people whinge about. It's hard to come up with a list of Rights that people seem to think they have lost, or the extent of former rights.