Grumpy Old Nasho

Nothing but power outages today, they're back! Started 8:30 this morning, and the third and last one (I hope), finished just now. The first one was a notified outage, the other two weren't. Since I had no electricity, I took the opportunity to drive all the way to town to inquire at my bank about not being able to get a code for online banking. The guy I spoke to, probably a supervisor, had no idea there are areas out here without mobile coverage, I had to fill him in on what it's like out here. He busied himself working out what I could do. After a while, he came back and said "Ring this branch when you need a code, and a female (her name was provided) will give you one". Quite a step backwards if you ask me.

The Greens are not getting enough votes.

The major parties have had 125 years to get it right. In all that time you'd think they would have learned that democracy means more than just having an election every three years and then treating the electorate with contempt. They're simply not the kind of people we want governing us anymore, they've had their day, their psyches are no longer fit for purpose.

I can't get a code anymore for my online banking changes. The bank will only send a code via mobile phone now, not landline, the way I used to receive it. I don't have a mobile, and even if I did have one, there is no reception here. I'm up the creek without a paddle. In this respect, online banking doesn't exist for me any longer, I'll have to drive all the way to town, at their whim, and do my banking at the counter. The only other way is to buy a mobile phone, travel 10ks or more to higher ground, download the code, rush back home, enter it, hoping I haven't been automatically logged out due to inactivity. Everyone around here will be similarly affected. There's no consideration for bushies anymore, if there ever was.

I can't get a code anymore for my online banking changes. The bank will only send a code via mobile phone now, not landline, the way I used to receive it. I don't have a mobile, and even if I did have one, there is no reception here. I'm up the creek without a paddle. In this respect, online banking doesn't exist for me any longer, I'll have to drive all the way to town, at their whim, and do my banking at the counter. The only other way is to buy a mobile phone, travel 10ks or more to higher ground, download the code, rush back home, enter it, hoping I haven't been automatically logged out due to inactivity. Everyone around here will be similarly affected.

The sky is falling in, for the ALP and the Coalition.

The cost of living is way too high. The ALP and Coalition have no idea how to reduce it, that's why One Nation is doing so well ... we've got to have a change. Yes, I have cash stashed already, for electricity, vehicle rego, compulsory third party insurance, Council rates (just increased 30%), and food bill increases are emptying my wallet. Petrol has gone up, so has diesel. A haircut costs me $35, nothing fancy, just a quick back & sides of my thinning grey hair. We need to put the major parties out to pasture, they've been at it too long. They've lost their way, they're still stuck in their old elitist ways. They're forgetting who the real boss is, us grunts trying to make ends meet. Ignore the people, and you're done for.

Pretty good, hey!

The rear tyre is made of worn out piston rings - very clever.

I'll ask AI how bad the ALP and the Coalition are first, before I vote for anyone.

Of course, you won't need AI if you are already a rusted-on party voter.

Use AI to decide who to vote for. My question: "Can I use AI to decide who to vote for in elections?" Answer from ChatGPT: "Yes. AI can be useful for informing your voting decision, but I’d treat it as a research assistant rather than letting it make the decision for you." The answer was a lot longer than this though.

I've thought about it many times. It's a bad practice because the overseas beneficiaries of the money inadvertently acquire a distorted sense of their own value and worth. They'll always expect a handout and think it's their human right, perhaps traveling for family reunions here in OZ. Or for trickle donations to foreign terrorist organizations. Australia is $2Trillion in debt at present (Fed and States), how are we going to pay that off? - that's another important question. We need to keep as much money here as possible to build the economy. Halving the amount of remittance sent overseas would be a good move. Govt's can put a lower cap on it. Hanson would, that's why she's there. The major parties won't, they're too internationalist, looking after everyone except Australia.

For every billion sent in the form of remittance, a billion less should be sent in the form of Foreign Aid.

That's a pretty gloomy message, what do you propose should be done about it? We can't stop the weather, or change it much, just cloud seed to make some rain, that's about all. If there are any clouds.

Commercial jets still use up oxygen and spew out pollution ... so Bowen and Albo are frauds.

Commercial jets ... do you know there's no less than two thousand in the air at any given time in the world, using up oxygen and spewing out pollution. Chris Bowen needs to realize that every time a plane full of immigrants lands in OZ, and every time Airbus Albo hops on a jet to go embrace his overseas socialist mates on "official" business.

Chewed houses have lower value. I bought some epoxy putty to cover the chewed areas. I know, that's why I'm complaining about them. They need a sizable cull.

My rates went up 30% this year, out here in the bush would you believe. Nearly a thousand dollars a year and we're still driving on dusty dirt roads in my village. And kangaroos are in plague proportions. Cockatoos gnaw the wooden parts of my house. I'm charged for sewage, but I don't have sewage - go figure. My land is zoned Commercial and Residential at the same time - go figure again.

The ALP and the Coalition have seen better days, they've been at it since 1901. It's time for a change. Voting on the issues would be more productive. Candidates would be voted in to form a committee to work on the issues that voters voted on and see as priorities. The Committee will be disallowed from changing those priorities. Directly work for the people in other words, and cut out all the political mud slinging and self interest.

SBS should be sued for their show "Go back to where you came from" ... they could have named it something else entirely. They inflamed the national debate, inciting and provoking racism for their own ends - stirring the pot, and knew they'd get away with it. Both the ABC and SBS need to be defunded until they come to their senses, then a stronger watchdog to keep them in check.

You'd be surprised how many people, including Aboriginals, who don't want so many Asians here. An Aboriginal I spoke to in the early eighties said he wanted neither Asians nor black Africans in Australia. People are voting like this now, and O.N. is benefiting.

Would an EV pull a heavy laden box trailer up hill do you think? Would there be enough torque from the electric motor?

Become an *Islamic* republic perhaps? Gotta watch these muslims, they'll do anything to further their cause for Allah. Mehreen Faruqi didn't think things through before she opened her gob. If she got all the things she wanted, expressed in her "school kid" statement, she'd still be living on "stolen" land ... so, would she go live somewhere else and leave the Aboriginals in peace? ... not likely, she'd probably pretend to be their saviour and advise them of the virtues of Islam. God willing.

He said he won't be a Dan Andrews or a Jacinta Allan ... Crikey, great endorsement for his own party. That won't go down well with far-left Albanese & Co