Grumpy Old Nasho

Time for big cull I'd say.

On the Mainland in 2024 24.71 people 45.16 million kangaroos

Our rates have already gone up, but we're seeing nothing for the extra money. Slashing can't cost that much, I've seen it done before with only 3 personnel and a heavy vehicle with the slashing equipment, if I remember correctly.

The thing is, if Councils don't do enough to minimize roos on the roads, the Councils should pay. It's their property and the onus is on them to make the roads safe to use. Pot holes and roos are proliferating with a lack of action by Councils. They could slash the vegetation both sides of back roads. That would make an enormous difference, the roos that jump out, are nearly always hidden in that vegetation.

The last one I encountered, just the other week, was panicked by a speeding car coming the other way. I was doing my usual 60k/h but the other car spooked the roo, a big male, and it crossed between us. Luckily, neither of us hit it but it was close. I estimated that I would have hit it had I been going faster, say 80 instead of 60, in the 100k/h stretch. This was on the narrow hilly winding road I have to go on to get to town, before I join the main Highway. The lesson for me is to slow down even more if the odd car coming in from opposite direction looks like it's speeding.

The roos need to be culled, there's just too many of them around where I live. It's not uncommon to see a dozen dead roos on the way to town. There's Council signs beside the roads, but that's it, they do nothing else to stop the carnage.

I've collided with four kangaroos so far, damaging my two vehicles. Can I sue the Local Council? If you were to say it's the responsibility of the motorist to avoid kangaroos, then how can it be done? I did an experiment, which entailed driving at different slow speeds to see what the kangaroos would do. Anything over 70k/h on a back road is high risk and very likely to hit a roo that jumps out onto the road. At just below 70k/h, the risk is much lower, but the risk is still there. So I kept going with the experiment and found that 60-65k/h was the fastest speed allowable to avoid hitting kangaroos altogether. I observed what the roos do a various speeds. If you're going fast in a 100k/h zone, roos jump out onto the road right in front of you and you'll hit them. If you're doing around 75k/h, you have a better chance of avoiding a roo, but one could still surprise you if it's unseen and jumps out of tall grass. At 60-65k/h, the roos will nearly always hesitate and stand still, or jump back into the bush from the side of the road. As funny as it sounds, roos need time to think. This slower speed gives them that time. I have not hit anymore Kangaroos since I've adapted my driving to that slower speed on back roads. Traffic whizzes past me, and they cause all the road kill, not me anymore. Wombats are also at risk, they run out in front of vehicles. Again, the slower speed is necessary. A photo I took of someone else's road kill near my village ....

Trump is getting rid of Antifa.

Yeah look how much money we spent on the Vietnam war .. and it was all wasted. Hope you've never voted for the major parties, I never have.

It doesn't pay to be muslim. They ought to change to another religion.

And look how we've ended up.

Trump's da man in the Middle East now - can't deny that.

What is the electricity in the Human brain, AC or DC?

Nahh, Robodebt didn't catch on, so nothing else "Robo" will either.

You're definitely off your rocker if you pay $30,000 and eventually get nothing for it. The money is extorted out of you like a mob gangster asking a shop owner for protection money. And penalties apply in both cases. But I suppose a car owner can always stop driving cars ... and the shop owner could have packed up and opened somewhere else far away where there were no gangsters.

I pointed out that the major parties have a major flaw in their psyches. They fail to understand that when money is spent for a service, if the service is never used, then the money should be refunded, or in the case of CTP insurance, at least 80% of it, because there are administration costs for the insurance companies. But technically, the motorist is not using the service for what it was intended for, receiving a payout. Politicians need to re-think CTP insurance and come up with a fairer outcome for motorists who never make a claim. There is already a law for when buying goods and services online. "If you don't receive the product, you're entitled to a refund." It's law, and it needs to be extended to CTP insurance.

That type of insurance is not compulsory, it's voluntary.

In other words, I'm obligated to be nothing less than a one man charity. Where does it say in the fine print that I must be charitable to accident prone drivers? It's all in the cliché, "you don't know how insurance works". I know how it works alright, take every cent of my $30,000 even if I never make a claim. If you never use the service, it's time for a substantial refund. I also know that money earns interest, but who gets any of that interest? The insurance companies keep it all. It's a scam. It's a bit like my two years conscription, I gave that compulsory two years, and got SFA at the end of it, not even a thank you. I hope y'all can see the criminal pattern in the major parties psyches, who brought in this compulsory insurance - let the insurance companies take, and give nothing back if you never make a claim.

I want something for my $30,000. Why should they get all that money, and I get nothing? It's a scam of the highest order, because it's not voluntary, it's compulsory, and if I never make a claim, I haven't actually used their service and I deserve to get my money back, or at least 80% of it, I'm not a charity for bad drivers who injure people. With compulsory third party insurance, bad drivers are rewarded, and safe drivers are penalized. Seems arse about, and one day it'll have to be fixed. Safe drivers who never make a claim, are the ones who should be rewarded. You can't argue against that, pretty foolish if you do.

If you know anything about the Human mind, you'll know it has to change and be stimulated now and then. Thinking the same things all the time means the Mind becomes stale and zombified. Under the Democrats, there was a train of thought that everyone in the World had to be helped without any compromise on that direction of thought. No one was bad, and no one was good, everyone were just humans needing assistance, no matter who you are, or where you are. This mostly ignored nationhood, national boundaries and borders, and citizens' taxes could be used to these ends. The voters in the US recognized this "zombification" that was catching on, and decided to "change peoples minds" and de-zombify the United States, thus stimulating the Human mind around the world, and preventing the Mind from going stale and thinking certain limited thoughts only. The Human mind needs all sorts of stimulation to keep it alive. Germany and Japan decided not to allow this with the result that millions died, and their cities were reduced to rubble. The Soviet Union also decided not to allow it, and it fell, but alas, it changed to something nearly as bad, oligarchy. Millions died in communist China, then they changed to allow greater stimulation of the Mind, and now we see China as it is today, a sort of super power. But the government is not to be criticized. Australia allows stimulation of the Mind, but that stimulation is in name only, it goes nowhere if the major parties and their followers don't like what you're saying or doing, they have their own separate stimulation, separate from everyone else. It's important to change your mind on occasions for life to go on. Remember Jim Jones? He, and no one in his flock changed their minds, and they all died, young.

Trump is doing alright, everyone is saying. He's fixing the Middle East - so there you go.

I'll be losing about $30,000 by the time I hand in my license. I want a gold watch and a Fijian holiday.

I'm half sovereign citizen. I don't vote anymore because I received nothing for the two years conscription I endured under duress. Onetrack also went through it, guns were shoved in our hands with the idea of killing people, if we were ordered to do so. Instead of voting, I pay the fine and treat it as just another bill that must be paid like any other bill. Another reason I don't vote is because compulsory third party motoring insurance has no provision for a substantial partial refund if you never make a claim over your entire motoring life. The tens of thousands of dollars I've paid in premiums will be lost if I never make a claim. That money will go to CEOs to contribute to their next Rolls Royce or Learjet. You'd think they'd give me a gold watch or something for being a safe driver all my life, but guess what I'll get? a kick in the arse, like I got when I was discharged from conscription. I can well understand where sovereign citizens are coming from, but I wouldn't go that far, I prefer to remain in the system to enable change, working on getting rid of inhuman politicians who think conscripts deserve nothing and wishing for us to all die off. We badly need a Bill-of-Rights, so we don't get kicked around and ripped off, under the guise of inadvertent tyrannical government policies and "mob" majority rule.

Albo let the wives and kids of Islamic terrorists back in, quietly let them return from the ISIS killing grounds. I could never vote for a party that does something stupid like that.

I'm not, I just sit on the sidelines and watch everyone else go mad, it's hilarious most of the time. Can you imagine a drone with a dress and lipstick, might even fool the enemy.