Bruce Tuncks

Amazing aint it that we see just how undemocratic the US is but they can't see it themselves.

For those of us who are arithmetically challenged, like me, the current rate is about 20,000 dollars a day. A medical graduate just out of school and with no specialty gets about $1000 a day. Even these guys don't have to work in the country unless they want to.

They ( medical specialists) get between 3 and 6 million a year. They do not need to consider living in unfashionable places, nor be married to unfashionable women. This could easily be fixed by making medicare payments geographically-based. They do work harder than their counterparts in communist places.... a cardiologist from the old East Germany once said how he used to only do 2 procedures a day, before "liberation", where he now has to do about 12 a day. I guess it depends on just who is paying.... I notice here that public patients are treated poorly compared with private patients.

Yep, I thought that the first time too....BUT, he only just won and with a lot of help from russia. That will all be a negative for the next time. AND he lost against old Biden, I reckon the gulf will only grow.

I'm so sure that he will not get back that I will bet a bottle of red.... any takers? I bet the won wine would taste extra good!

I reckon every bit of news from Ukraine about how bad the russians are should be hurting trump. Mind you, although I would not have voted for him, I well understood that some of those who did were hoping for anti-corruption action...."drain the swamp" resonated with me. Well what a big mistake huh, he was as corrupt as any we have seen. I don't think he will ever get back.

We are not seen as a rich but empty land in my opinion. We are nearly all desert, and the non-desert parts are really small. It was the worst unfortunate thing that we look large on a map of the world.

What about the antarctic sea ice? The lack of it this year can only be the result of increasing ocean temperarures.

Bugger, Nev you have destroyed my last remaining thing that made me think things were not going to blow up... Those who are ( like Putin) dictators have such enormous power that it is hard to see any improvement in their lot, so ( I hope ) they will prefer to not launch a nuclear war. But if power makes them insane, this might not apply! I always thought that it was poor people who went the silliest when getting great power, as Hitler and Stalin showed. Those who were born rich ( like Churchill) seemed to be less insane as time went by ... I dunno where Putin is on this scale, but I worry, and Trump was silly but born rich I think. Maybe my theory is not so good huh.

I would agree with that but you don't need a treaty which I think has been proven worthless. Personally, I would have a thousand specially made drones with dirty bombs in them and inertial navigation systems to rain onto the victory parades in biejing, washington or moscow or wherever. I reckon these drones skimming the sea surface would mainly get there, but you would only need one to avoid being shot down to do the thing.

Nev, are you saying it was correct to sign the non-proliferation treaty for altruistic reasons?

It took some time, but I finally found that Ukraine had signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty many years ago. It seems to me that this treaty has done nothing to help them from being invaded and subject to nuclear threats by Russia. What does Australia get from having signed this treaty?

How can republicans in Texas still claim that their current heatwave is "natural"? They sure are saying that global warming is a hoax. I reckon they have been paid for by the fossil fuel lobby.

I'm with old K on this one... there is a pic of a young man, about to be executed by the taliban, which haunts me. The caption read" communist schoolteacher " which could mean anything at all. They were once called "the northern alliance" and they were given thousands of stinger missiles which they used against the russian helicopters to great effect.

PS... I overstepped the mark in saying that I started the school..... It was really John Kinsman, the local Anglican priest. He was a good guy who was building a plane in real life. He was not on the school board though.

Thx guys! Now I know that bool means water, I reckon bool lagoon is repetitive. Mind you, only about six weeks ago, there was no water in bool lagoon, I was dismayed. The boardwalk was high and dead dry. Yes, there is water on it's way via Mosquito creek, so by now it may have some there. PS, I once lived near Larapinta Drive, apparently that means lotsa water in Arunta.

I've wondered what"bool" means in aboriginal vic language. We have the Bool Lagoon, Warrnambool and Underbool that I know of.

Well I started a school called "trinity college"and I was too scared to ask after I nearly got burned at the stake aver the level spirit happening. So I asked an old mate, who lives in a suburb of Adelaide called Trinity Gardens. He said the answer was to turn on the asker and ask him " who or what put that blasphemous question in your head? SO, on the subject of the trinity, you can count be as a muslim.

Gosh I agree with you guys... how awful to treat those musicians badly.

It is a problem to me. Some place names I don't mind changing, for example Ayer's rock. Ayre didn't venture out of Adelaide as far as I know, but he did finance some explorers. Some I do mind, like lake Eyre. Eyre was a great explorer. I would particularly dislike changing the Stuart Highway to some indigenous name. Getting back to Ayer's rock, or Uluru as it is now called, what have the blacks ever done to deserve the name? And why can't a place have 2 names? Many countries have names different from what we call them.

What really is a prophet? Is he somebody who can fortell the future? How would cross-lotto work if we had one of them? Or maybe the prophets were not that good... I just don't know. Are there any prophets around today?

They used to wear habits, giving us the joke about the nun with a dirty habit. In Alice Springs in the 1950's, most Catholics went to church on Sunday. If you missed, a pair of nuns, conspicuous in their habits, would visit you, ostensibly to see if you were well but the whole town knew that you were in trouble for not going to church. Gosh, they were smarter at getting people to church than the other lots.

You guys are probably right, but I still reckon that the way Germany was treated after WW1 caused Hitler to get in and Macarthur learned well from that, as witness the Japanese to this day. I will study the stuff though. But were we not allies of the Chinese? There was the "himalayas " air route to china for example.

Those Lutherans didn't muck about.... you had to know them very well to understand that they didn't believe their own stuff, gosh they laid the jesus stuff on with a loaded trowel. But one day, this no-account girl was molested on the bus by a couple of boys from important families, and the school took their side against the girl.

Thx nev. I only did the stuff cos the wife was a high-school teacher and she said that her kids were NOT going to THAT school. In the event, the kids didn't last long at the anglican school.... the daughter was sent to an all-girls school, and the son finished up in a Lutheran school. I stayed well away from both these schools, as I reckon I had already done my share.