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You are Oh, so right in that statement. One might describe her as an inscrutable Asian lady. In my opinion, she is the best person in both Houses at doing her job.

Here's a reporter's story (I wouldn't call the writer a journalist) that to me clearly indicates a failure to provide an explanation to the family and public of the stages of a Coronial Inquiry. That gives fuel to the claim that the Police were withholding information. 1. The incident occurred on 29th November 2024. The deceased died on 2nd December 2024. (Notice the reporter used the American system of stating a date. I used the Australian one.) 2. The next step would be the conduct of a post mortem. That involves organising a Pathologist to do the investigation and then to write up the results. I'm sure that samples would have been taken for drug/alcohol analysis. Give a couple of weeks for the results to come back, especially since the Festive Season would have shut down the forensic labs. So the Pathologist might have only been able to finalise the report of the PM in the middle of January. 3. Meanwhile, would be conducting crime scene examinations and interviewing witnesses. The deceased would have been formally identified by the day after death, and a preliminary report submitted to the Coroner shortly afterwards. 4. By the end of January it is clear that the investigation revealed that the cause of death was not due to any living person's criminal act. So there was nothing to bring before a Criminal Court. 5. Since the decision not to proceed with a prosecution was made, the death simply meets the criteria for a Coronial Inquest to determine who died, when and where they died, and the cause of death. The Coroner would most likely comment on the circumstances of the death. A Coroner can make a finding that someone is criminally liable for the death, or that there is no criminality. I, too would be interested to learn the cause of death. That fact has a great impact on whether or not the death was justifiable in all the circumstances. I'm sure that a distinguished barrister will be engaged by the family of the deceased to act on their behalf at the Inquest to probe at depth the evidence provided to the Coroner. I wonder if the family will tell the Coroner the reason why the deceased entered the home, disguised and armed with a weapon.

Self-defence of oneself or of another under attack has always been allowed. The only caveat has been that the resisting force must not be greater that the attacking force. In other words, hand to hand; same weapon type to same weapon type. Let's ask a few questions of the deceased's mother. Why had he been in prison and had been in and out of juvenile detention since he was 12? What role did she play in teaching her son to respect the rights of other people? “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” is a proverb that means early influences have a lasting effect. Who is the source of those early influences? I'm charitable enough to think that the society the mother and son grew up in wasn't ideal as compared to some other societies, but all societies have basic rules. And the society I am referring to is not the pre-European Indigenous society. These people lived in a European society, taking the ups and downs of that society. Another point that I would raise is that, if the deceased had been confined in institutions from the age of twelve, why wasn't he given an education which might have allowed him a glimpse of a better life. Not that a better life was much of a chance in an isolated town where the odds of gaining employment are blown out be the colour of one's skin.

My gripe? I'm getting jack of all the shit about Trump. I wish I could alter my YouTube algorith.

I don't know if it is sign of OCD, but I was brought up to be organised. Also, I've had the sad experience of doing this after my wife died, and also when my Mum moved out of her home to go into care. I'm still trying to decide what things that produce memories of my wife I am going to keep. I don't want to burden my kids with the same problems.

AI is pretty good, but it can't do the impossible.

I'm preparing to review my Last Will & Testament. I've got a good collection of "boy's toys", but what will become of them when I'm planted? It would be nice if my son of grandsons got them, but they live in one of those McMansions with now place to set up a workshop. My son has a few tools, but since the grandsons live with him, he has nowhere to make a workshop. I don't see my grandsons being likely to enter a woodworking trade. My daughter has no use for them, and unfortunately she might be a widow in a decade as my SIL has cancer. I don't want to burden my kids, who are my Executors, with having to try to sell the tools. The return would not be worth the price of the effort. I am thinking of telling the kids to take the tools and my carpenter's workbench to the Men's Shed. But what do I do about all the household stuff? I've got rid of a lot of manchester and the like. I've yet to go through the boxes the kitchenware and stuff is still in. All that will got to the local OP shop.I even wonder about my motorbike. I have indicated that it should go to my son, and down his line, but I wonder how they will keep it roadworthy. As the King of Siam was want to lament, "'Tis a puzzlement".

Are you trying to usurp my role on this site????????

Just to give you an idea of the typical lawn areas of a modern house in one of Sydney's recently developed residential areas. Go ahead to about timestamp 5:30 to see the 'back yard'.

In urban NSW, the clothes line in the form of the venerable Hills Hoist is but a tribal memory. There is barely room on a building block for a McMansion, let alone a rotary clothes line. Besides, kids nowadays remain inside to get on line.

Dumb ignorance on my part. I just expect that some semblance of adherence to the Constitution will occur.

And not a jot of gain for their cause, except the condemnation of the rest of us.

We expect thread drift, but now you've introduced Rorke's Drift.

Regarding the birthright order. The Order only affects the defined persons born after 75 days from the signing of the Order (sometime in March 2025). It is not retroactive. However the commencement of legal action will prevent its coming into force until the legal action is completed. That process will drag on for at least four years when the next President, likely to be a Democrat, would most likely can it.

A government is like a business corporation. It has a Board of Directors who make decisions based on the application of their expertise to the advice provided to them by the next level of management below them. And that level gets the material to develop that advice from those lower in the hierarchy. What Trump has done is cut the Board of Directors off from that advice. It also seems that he intends to abandon the gatherers of advice creating material. Thousands of years of human civilisation has taught us that experience can only be gained over time. It's true that a short period of concentration on 'theory' can kickstart gaining experience, but there needs to be experienced people available to direct that period of concentration. By wanting to purge the public service, Trump is ignoring those thousands of years of civilisation. In Australia, CEOs deplore the complexity of our Unfair Dismissal laws, but at least they protect businesses from arbitrary dismissal. Then again, what more can you expect from a person whose most famous catch phrase is 'you're fired'?

The poor of South America are learning that the USA is not the Home of the Free, and that the American Dream is all in the mind.

You could have been hung out and left to dry.

Donald John Trump.

Dunno about Zulu time, but I've experienced Fiji time.

I feel somewhat the same. The people whose deaths are reported are our contemporaries and the celebrities of our youth. Our memories of them have them in their prime, not victims of the ravages of time. Hearing of their passing reminds us of our own mortality.

I've got a battery-powered clock that didn't keep accurate time. So I took the battery out. Now it shows the correct time twice a day, and I don't have to mess about putting it back or forward before and after Daylight Saving Time.

Two legal challenges to Trump's actions have already been filed in the District Court of Washington DC. One relates to the legality of the body known as DOGE and the other relating to Trump not recognising birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. As the presenter of this video says, grab your choc top and popcorn and grab a seat in the courtroom. There will be plenty of entertainment there, especially since the judges there lean to the Left, having been appointed by Clinton and Obama. Trump is a persistent litigant. Now he has become a persistent respondent.

No news of the recently dead. Has Death taken a holiday?

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has just ordered the Mexican Army to deploy along the Mexico/USA border to repel the invasion of US citizens of the Republican persuasion who are fleeing persecution by people of the Democrat persuasion. On a serious note, Trump claims he has a mandate (the authority to carry out a policy, regarded as given by the electorate to a party or candidate that wins an election) to do what he is doing. However, obtaining a mandate through an election implies an overwhelming level of electoral support. Trump didn't even get 50% of the total votes cast. It was the stupid Electoral College system of determining the Presidency that put him there.