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Yep. Implied threat. That don't call him TACO for nothing. TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out.

There are calls for the money taken as tariffs to be returned to the busineses that paid them, but how can those small businesses return the small portions that individuals paid? Imagine Walmart trying to identify each customer who bought a packet of AA batteries that came from China and carried a tarriff amount, which Walmart had passed on in its retail pricing. Don't forget the sales taxes that are applied to the shelf price at the check-out. We might complain about a 10% GST, but it is a much simpler way to tax sales than the multi-layer system in the USA. If teh retail price of thos batteries rose due to the passing on of tarrif costs, how does the extra sales tax get calculated and returned? What a mess!!!!

They seem to be getting close to the point where a decision will have to be made. The Navy can cruies around all it likes, and that is not going to kill anyone. But as soon as the first bit of ordnance is ordered to be launched, the time for a decision has arrived.

How can you respect the US military when it refused to carry out what most people would see as unlawful orders. I woinder if its commanders have spurs as well.

Ha! Ha! His appointed cronies on the Supreme Court have just declared his method for imposing tariffs was illegal, so they come off. Any tariffs in existence prior to those his method imposed will probably stay, but they were mainly down aroung 10%. Billions of dollars were paid to the US Government through his tariffs, but it appears that it would be impossible to refund money to those individuals who paid it. No doubt Big Busiess will have the records to recoup what it paid, but Joe Citizen remains screwed. One has to wonder if the insult of the exorbitant tariffs will be forgiven by those countries whose trade suffered from them.

I don't think GON was commenting on technical ability. A smidgeon of racism lurks in his comment.

That's just it. Propose things that appeal the baser instincts in an effort to run on personal popularity. Quick fixes that do not always examine possible consequences.

What a politcal Party needs is a philosophy. Then it needs to develop policies that would enable that philosophy to be applied to the needs of the people the Party wishes to govern. As far as I can see, PHON doesn't have much of a philosophy other than hatred for others. Has anyone seen PHON's policies on trade, education, public health and so on? You might not support the policies of either the LNP, Labor or the Greens, but at least they seem to have policies. That's why Independents and likes of the TEALs could not form an effective government.

I reckon you are correct. Trump is the tool of faceless puppetmasters.

The US has sent attack groups. Russia has sent early warning aircraft. It is really getting to the point where the assassination of Trump would be the only thing to begin restoring world peace.

When was the last time you had a counter lunch in a pub?

It is a quirk of the Hate Speech laws that, as I understand the law, saying that to noone in particular is not an offence, since it is not directly an incitement to violence. In NSW, this is the wording of the offence: 93Z Offence of publicly threatening or inciting violence on grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex or HIV/AIDS status (1) A person who, by a public act, intentionally or recklessly threatens or incites violence towards another person or a group of persons on any of the following grounds is guilty of an offence-- Of course, my opinion is that the current worldwide increase in overt racism is the product of what we are told is the World's greatest democracy, and you know which one I mean.

Since it wil be my son's family coming up for the funeral, it will most likely be the Sealion that I will drive. It's funny, but the thing that I want to test is how the vehicle decelerates from 100 kph to 80 kph. I have found just where to take my foot off as I approach the 80 zone at the edge of town and slow to 80 as I reach the speed sign. Similarly, I know where to back off from 100 as I approach my driveway.

I would say that it is the children who are the problem. Imaging how they think after growing up in an ISIS dominated society. I bet none of those children knows how to play Footy or League; has ever ridden a skateboard, or done anything that kids of a similar age in Australia have done. Those kids ae, unfortunately, the next generation of Islamist radicals.

That means Adelaide only got back half the number of wheels it lost to Melbourne.