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The creator is long term. Joined in 2017. I don't think it's AI slop.

Just goes to show you how one war causes the development of weapons to be used in another. The Ukraine knows how to deal with the drones that the Iranians are using because the Iranians licensed the production to Russia which has been sending them to the Ukraine since the start of the recetn war. Now the Ukraine is paying back the USA by providing its drones for the defence of US bases in the Middle East.

Nev,have you been listening to Nightline on the ABC? I heard that bit about the Evangelicals on that programme yesterday afternoon.

My Dad used to caution me not to piss before my water came. I checked that Scratchie that I thought was worth a motza. I was wrong. It wasn't a winner. So all the plans I had for using the money are cancelled. The funny thing is that I'm not broken-hearted. For a couple of days I got enjoyment thinking about what I would do with the winnings. I know now that Lady Luck does not give her smiles freely. I'm no better nor worse off than I was before I was given the Scratchie. However, I haven't changed my opinion that Scratchies are a was of money, like all other forms of gambling.

I was told today that a young bloke in my town (a white boy) was arrested by the AFP for posting a threat to Albo in Facebook. What concerns me is the number of young men in their 20s who are being arrested for posting stuff like that and also the number who are being caught with child exploitation material. Ah! The benefit to Society of the Internet!

When a U.S. president is impeached, the House of Representatives has formally accused them of high crimes and misdemeanors via a simple majority vote, acting like a grand jury. The process then shifts to the Senate, which holds a trial to decide whether to remove the president from office. According to Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, a president can be impeached for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors". This includes abuse of power, violating the public trust, or breaking criminal laws, though "high crimes and misdemeanors" is a broad term not limited to statutory crimes. So, he would have to be convicted, by the Senate, of something like a war crime. I doubt if the sort of crimes that you could call private crimes - fraud, sex offences etc., would be sufficient to remove a president on conviction. So, the kick Trump right out of the White House, the Dems would have to control both the House of Representatives and Senate, and convict him of something like abuse of power. Abuse of power by a president occurs when the executive uses their authority for improper personal, political, or improper gain, rather than the public good. Examples often include leveraging federal resources for political investigations, obstructing justice, or overstepping constitutional boundaries regarding war powers or executive orders.

It stopped at 10:00 am yesterday. This morningI was able to do a load of washing and hang it out. It should be dry by lunchtime.

DON''T MENTION THE WAR! That classic line from Fawlty Towers is definitely one that Trump has never heard. In answering a question during a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Trump compared the secrecy of the attack on Iran with that of the Japanese on Pearl Harbour in 1941. He made things worse by saying that teh Japanese were better at secrecy than the US. Although you might not like the source of this link, it does give the facts of the incident. THis link was the first one I grabbed. https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/donald-trump-draws-gasps-with-shocking-pearl-harbor-quip-in-front-of-japanese-pm-over-iran-surprise-attack/news-story/c04ab4a76828c2131067bb896d307727 One day the leader of an allied country is going to get insulted in the Oval Office and have the guts to stand up and walk out.

It has been reported that it will take maybe five years to repair the damage done to the oil facilities in all of the Gulf countries. That's five years after the end of the 'everlasting war'.

The Chinese yuan (CNY), or Renminbi (RMB), is the official currency of China and ranks as the world's fifth-most-traded currency as of April 2025. It is a Reserve currency for the International Monetary Fund and is seeing growing use in international trade. A few countries are looking at leaving the $US and moving to the Yuan which is probably a good idea considering teh amount of trade the rest of the World does with China. The only reason the World uses the $US for trade is because the USA was the strongest economy in 1944 when the Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations. IN 1944 just about every non-Axis country was up to its neck in debt to the USA, and the former Axis countries would be beholden to the USA for reconstruction. Bretton Woods the place in the USA where 44 countries, including the United States, Canada, European countries, and Australia, met to govern monetary relations among independent states. The Bretton Woods system required countries to guarantee convertibility of their currencies into U.S. dollars with the dollar convertible to gold bullion for foreign governments and central banks. The Bretton Woods system was supplanted by the Jamaica Accords in 1976. The accords allowed the price of gold to float with respect to the U.S. dollar and other currencies, albeit within a set of agreed constraints.

When I was a new Constable back in 1980, fresh from the Police Academy, I was posted to Campsie, which is next-door to Bankstown. The Division included Lakemba. At that time it was strongly Lebanese. One of the notoriuous families there was the Alameddine family. They crooks then are now old men, but the now we have the third generation which is carrying on the criminal activities. The Alam al-Dins, also spelled Alamuddin or Alameddine, were a Druze family that intermittently held or contested the paramount chieftainship of the Druze districts of Mount Lebanon in opposition to the Ma'n and Shihab families in the late 17th and early 18th centuries during Ottoman rule. The Sydney branch of the family came as refugees from the Lebanese Civil War.

While we tend to think of oil as a fuel to be burned, it has many other applications even including pharmaceuticals. So disruption of supply can affect a host of other products. Anyway, if 25% of oil supplies are cut off, where is the other 75% coming from? Of are those other oils not suitable for fuel production. Remeber, "oils ain't oils, Sol".

My cup runneth over! It began to rain last night as I went to bed, and has continued to do so throughout the night and into the morning. It has not ben the flooding type of rain, just a steady fall which allows the water to soak in. Now all that is needed is for the seeds laying in the soil to sprout for winter feed.

There were war games held a few years ago around Hawaii. Our clunky Collins Class sub "torpedoed" a US destroyer or such through the sheer cunning and seamanship of our Captain

I don't gamble using most common forms. If I happen to go to a club, I might have a little tickle on the pokies, but with the idea that playing them is a form of entertainent and I expect to have to pay for the time I am being entertained. Therfore I set a limit, usually not very much, on how much I am willing to pay for the entertainment. If by chance (and the pokies are pure chance) I should win some money, that makes the entertainment better. Do you gamble with Scratchies? I don't, but they are a convenient way for someone to give you "a little something" along with a birthday card. My sister gave me ten dollars worth of assorted scratchies today for my birthday. That was five Scratchies. My experience with Scratchies is that you scratch them; look at them, utter "Oh, well", and toss them in the bin. My expectations were met with three of them. Any further disappointment I expected was dispelled when I saw that I won $2 on one of them. As I started to scratch the final one, I thought that I was just going through the motions, and I would have four out of five duds. You could have knocked me down with a feather after I completed scratching the last card. I'm no expert in these things, but I think I won $5000.00! If not, I've won something with three of a kind. I won't tell my sister until I have confirmed the win, but I think the right thing to do would be to give her a thousand, at least. Because of her generosity in giving me a place to live, I've been able to build up a bank roll that makes me feel somewhat financially comfortable. If it is a win, it's a windfall. I think I should share the joy. Begging letters will be returned marked: "Receiver to Pay Postage"