Grumpy Old Nasho

I don't know why we import beef, but if you study Free Trade agreements, you'll probably find the answers.

Foreign corporations have feedlots here and the beef is exported. I think it's cheaper to produce it here. Aussie farmers got shoved aside once again.

"Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”. That's what was next to, or close to the school. Why weren't the kids given the week off, given that missiles were whizzing around overhead?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-06/hizb-ut-tahrir-listed-hate-group-under-bondi-laws/106422810

That's off topic. Something closer to the topic, because it's about muslims, is that our Fed Govt just announced that a certain muslim organization has been banned in OZ. Too extreme they reckon.

Two candidates put themselves up for election and one of them received more votes than the other.

Have the courage to handle it in an intelligent way.

Make it low risk for a start. And don't be fooled by superannuation's 8%, there's too many takers. Also superannuation needs to be monitored for fluctuations and volatility which may not be fully understood by young adults. As an ordinary worker, I lost ten years of gains in the 2008 crash, I was back to square one. I couldn't draw the money out because I had not yet retired, so I moved it to the Cash portfolio and left it there. Cash is like term deposits, and you don't lose any of it. I also had bank accounts and bank term deposits which I salary sacrificed into, a small amount each week. This built up and the returns started to overtake my Super returns. In the end Super was insignificant and my Bank account strategy paid off, beating my Super by hundreds of thousands of dollars, even after paying tax on my earnings. After retirement I was in a position to pay cash for a residential property to max $250k, with funds left over. And I didn't start early, I started late in the day. There was no bank fees, just continuous interest three months at a time, heaps of it, it left my Super in it's dust, regardless of what my Super portfolios were.

Probably the same reason I joined ... to provide some opposition to the excessive far-left viewpoints that distort facts and truth.

That's why the West should never have imported muslims. The cry "Death to America" is meant to go out to all muslims around the Globe, against the USA and it's Western allies.

Like Vietnam - 95% of 20yr/old Aussie conscripts knew nothing about the North's determination to win at all costs. The North soundly whipped the French at Dien Bien Phu. Then they chased Australia and US military away for good. Robert McNamara visited Vietnam after the war and said to them: "We didn't know who you were, what you were like." After the deaths of 56 thousand US soldiers, and 500 Aussie troops, we see McNamara laughing and smiling with the Communists.

Well they kept chanting "Death to America" ... we'll see if that stops now.

Iran was/is globalizing the Intafarta.

They're mostly inbreds. Marrying cousins.

I did exactly the same thing just a few minutes ago. I was searching for a cheaper rate and chose Origin, then got a phone call from iSelect to change me over from AGL. After going over my bill, AGL failed to deduct one of my discounts. I won't chase the discount. Instead I've finished up with them

What do you make of this? I used the automated chat feature in my provider's (AGL) website and asked if I am charged more for still having an old meter instead of a new digital meter. This is the answer I received ... The type of meter you have can affect your electricity charges. If you have an old basic meter, you may receive estimated bills more frequently, which can lead to higher charges if your actual usage is lower than estimated. Digital meters provide more accurate readings and can help you avoid estimated bills, potentially leading to lower costs. However, whether you are charged a higher rate specifically due to your meter type depends on your tariff plan and usage patterns. Apparently they're allowed to estimate usage and charge me accordingly. Huh! Is this North Korea we're living in?

Yeah I'll have to get a generator and some solar panels, the mains power supply has proven to be unreliable and too costly. There's one more thing I can try. My provider (AGL) suggests on my bill, to change my plan, so I'll research that and see what I come up with.

Is that an insult? Are you getting me mixed up with someone else? The topic is Solar/Wind power and what it's costing us.

No, I'm in Mid-West NSW, with a supply of candles in my pantry. They get used at a rapid rate because four are used at a time for lengthy outages. Memories come flooding back how my Grandmother, living by herself, in the fifties, without electricity, just candles after sunset in the evenings. And here I am, living the same way on many occasions, in 2026 modernity. Although, now I have small portable LED lights as well as candles.

$0.3699 There's other charges as well, all the funny money they rip out of you.

I've filled 23 1/2 pages of a medium size writing pad with dates and times of blackouts since 2015 - twenty lines per page, and each line represents a blackout. Moreover, I can't see an end to these blackouts. And there's no end to charging more for power.

When is solar and wind power going to be cheaper than fossil fuel power? Why aren't politicians jailed for misleading consumers?

We are being ripped off, that's what's happening. We foolishly believe that "clean" energy is cheaper, but it's more expensive than what fossil fuel power was.

We have solar and wind generation farms, yet my latest quarterly bill is as high, or higher, than many bills I got before wind and solar. Does this prove that "cheap" electricity from wind and solar is a hoax?

Pauline Hanson was jailed for the same thing.