old man emu

OK. The Party Abbott was fighting was the Labor Party. Just ignore that for a moment as I concentrate on what I want to say. It seems Abbott's sole aim was to gain power. He was elected to provide good governance to the Nation. That was more important than going for Power for Power's sake. He might have got the top job if he had won, but where would that leave the Common people? No better off.

How many of us are right-handed? Cars are designed for countries which drive on the left right side. That means that dashboard layouts are suited to a driver who has controls accessible by the right hand. Here, that same dashboard layout is on most people's left hand side. Those people aren't used to doing accurate things with their left hand.

The problem with fitting all sorts of electronic whizz-bags to cars is that when the whizz goess bang, the car stops working. I can see the benefit of a GPS, but with a small screel, not a dash-wide screen that could be used to watch a Cinemascope epic. I remember when portable DVD players arrived. It was illegal to have one in a vehicle within the view of the driver.

So. The LNP has intimted that it is willing to form a coalition with ON. Not in an atempt to provide good governance, but for the stated aim of "getting Albo out of The Lodge". I bet that would Make Australia Great Again.

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.

For all their expertise in hardware sales, it is strange that Bunnings' attempt to get into the British market failed. Probably it was due to cultural differences such as we have seen with the failure of Starbucks and some other US mobs in Australia.

If it's the heavy trucks that are causing the corrugations, how do you explain corrugations in minor roads? I have an unsealed road beside my place. It starts at the intersection with the sealed highway. The road is mainly used by light vehicles, and when a heavy does use it, the speed is low because they have either just turned into the road or are coming out of a dip where the creek crosses the road. Also, the distance between the crests of the corrugations is shorter than the footprint of a truck tyre. After following the conversations here, I get the feeling that no one watched the video which show a demonstration of how these corrugations form.

He pulled another swifty. He settled out of Court so that the matter would not be tossed out by the Court. The settlement included $US1776 Billion, payable from taxpayer money, plus an incredible set of conditions that prevent the IRS from going after him, his family and his mates. There is no oversight on how the money is distributed. It is the most incredible out-of-court settlement in the history of any legal system so far developed.

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.