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Besides, it's not a war if nobody is fighting back.

I think there is a misspelling in that sentence. 'Own mortality' looks more like it.

Funny you should say that, thanks for pointing that out. What it means is, the documents I had to sign when I was conscripted into the Army weren't valid either. I was under duress of a two year jail sentence. Had I used my noggin, I wouldn't have signed them.

OME, At that price buy 10 pairs of thongs for any sudden blowouts...the shoes are a ripp off.

Density altitude. Worse at Alice Springs where the runway is at 1100 ft asl. Nev

Should change the thread name to Crikey it's Hot. Top temp today 42.9°, 44° at Tulla. They had to unload some cargo from some planes, they were too heavy for the heat.

Stay SAFE. Easier said than done in this RAW Country. Top half Flooded. The rest burning.. Nev

Stay safe.. hope it doesn't reach your property

Heat, visibility, gusts and lack of Oxygen are a problem for Aircraft. It's easy to overstress the Aircraft and have insufficient LIFT and power. Nev

It's halfway through summer and the pair of thongs I have ware standing up to daily use quite well. The sole is compressed a bit under my foot, and my son's dog chewed a bit of the sole off, but not enough to make the thongs unserviceable. However, years of experience have taught me that a good pair of thongs can suddenly have a strap broken or suffer some other catastrophic failure. So today I went into town to get a spare pair in case the inevitable happens, leaving me unshod without replacements. So I drove the 75 kms to town and hit Big W and K-Mart. I had no success at K-Mart because they had no stock, but Big W did. Would you beleive that the regular retail price for the pair of thongs I got was only $1.50? Nice! While I was in the shopping centre I had a look for a pair of casual shoes to backup the ones I have been wearing this summer. You could have knocked me down with a feather. A pair I saw was priced at $160.00, and I bet they were pumped out at some Chinese manufactory.

Heading our way.

I can’t believe choppers can fly in this wind.

The corruption of TOTAL POWER. You can Ignore the wishes of EVERYONE. That's HOW this GUY OPERATES.. Nev

The New York Times interviewed Trump on why he wants to own Greenland and why security agreements and cooperation are not good enough: The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. It was not enough to exercise the U.S. right, under a 1951 treaty, to reopen long-closed military bases on the huge landmass, which is a strategically important crossroads for U.S., European, Chinese and Russian naval operations. The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. “Ownership is very important,” Mr. Trump said as he discussed, with a real estate mogul’s eye, the landmass of Greenland — three times the size of Texas but with a population of less than 60,000. He seemed to dismiss the value of having Greenland under the control of a close NATO ally. When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.” In other words, it's not about national security concerns or not having access to rare earth minerals - it's all about feeling good about having a piece of paper that says he owns it.

Trump announces US land strikes on drug cartels in Mexico and chillingly declares his 'own morality' is the only limit on his unchecked global power after Maduro capture Read the report here.

Dozens of houses lost in Harcourt and Sutton Grange, including my daughters. We are OK due to a wind change.

It's been so dry at my place since April that there is hardly anything in the paddocks to carry a fire. I'm even noticing that trees in the paddocks away from the creeks and gullies are starting to die.

A taste of HELL. Nev

Wish it was wet now. Choppers and fires around us. Blowing a gale.