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Totally brainwashed - or braindead.

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Julie Andrews Turning 89 - this is hysterical! To commemorate her birthday , actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was 'My Favorite Things' from the legendary movie 'Sound Of Music'. Here are the lyrics she used: (Sing It!) - If you sing it, its especially hysterical!!! ) Botox and nose drops and needles for knitting, Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings, Bundles of magazines tied up in string, These are a few of my favorite things. Cadillacs and cataracts, hearing aids and glasses, Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses, Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings, These are a few of my favorite things. When the pipes leak, When the bones creak, When the knees go bad, I simply remember my favorite things, And then I don't feel so bad. Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions, No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions, Bathrobes and heating pads and hot meals they bring, These are a few of my favorite things. Back pain, confused brains and no need for sinnin', Thin bones and fractures and hair that is thinnin', And we won't mention our short shrunken frames, When we remember our favorite things. When the joints ache, When the hips break, When the eyes grow dim, Then I remember the great life I've had, And then I don't feel so bad

Trump went looking when Boeing couldn't deliver till 2027. https://au.yahoo.com/news/qatar-gift-400m-jet-wasn-031429616.html

In the 1960's I was a teller with the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd. At one branch I was posted to, one of the customers was a licenced grocery store. One Christmas they gave me a bottle of Cutty Sark whiskey. It sat in a cupboard for about 5 years until finally I gave it to my brother in law as a Christmas gift.

George Wendt, who played Norm Peterson in Cheers has passed away on 20 May 25. It is understood he died in his sleep at home. He was 76.

Time travel?

Post by Feminist News · I was on my morning walk when the notifications chirped in my pocket, interrupting the beautiful songs of nearby birds, "Elon Musk to step back from DOGE"; another headline read, "Musk to scale back political donations"; two more from Politico, "Why has Elon Musk disappeared from the spotlight?" and "Musk fades into the background" Nonsense. Bullshit. Hogwash. Elon Musk and DOGE are more actively involved in the government than ever and he's also still benefiting from his government connections. Musk's presence during Trump's Middle East trip was intended to serve mostly as a kickback for his gargantuan donation to Trump's 2024 campaign. And as we'll see, Elon cleaned up with the Saudi and Qatari royalty. It's important to acknowledge that Elon and his DOGE accomplices have already caused immense, likely permanent, damage to the underpinnings of our government and society—the most essential federal workers who staff the institutions and services we depend on, from water quality, food inspection, cancer researchers, air traffic controllers, Park Rangers, teachers and IEP instructors, the people at the IRS who audit corporate tax cheats. It's essential to recognize that DOGE's destruction is not diminishing—it is accelerating. DOGE is expected to double its headcount in the coming weeks and hire 100 more of Elon's twenty-something-year-old associates drawn from his various private companies. I don't have space here to review all the damage DOGE has done, but one recently reported story shows how DOGE disabled the Social Security phone system, claiming there was 40% fraud. When an independent analysis concluded the real number was closer to .0002%, the DOGE boys moved along and retreated from their efforts. In another incident, Elon's former employees hacked into the U.S. Department of Labor and transferred a trove of documents onto private servers. Elon's personnel didn't have the legal right to access, much less steal, the troves of data concerning Labor Department violations and disputes of Elon's own companies. What you have in this case alone is outright felonious hacking of the US government, and any Democrat worth their spittle will put prosecuting Elon Musk at the top of their agenda. That House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries and Senate leader Chuck Schumer haven't began legal proceedings against Musk is yet another indication of their totally failed and tepid leadership and refusal to confront the fascist moment. We see clearly Elon is more involved than ever. He just no longer wants credit. He's no longer dancing around with a fake chainsaw. It's the same exact operation as before, just a different brand. Further proof that Elon is more involved in the Trump White House was demonstrated on his recent trip to the Middle East, where Musk was treated more as the leader of the free world than Trump. Photo after photo confirms this. You can see the Saudi sheiks bowing to Elon and ushering him around, lavishing billions upon him every time he sat down in front of an audience or reporters. To be sure, Trump and his dopey sons got some meaty crypto crumbs, but they were side portions compared to Elon's haul. Let us review the slurry of payola kickbacks: Musk's company SpaceX secured approval to provide its Starlink satellite internet to Saudi Arabia; In Abu Dhabi, Musk’s other company Neuralink announced a deal; SpaceX is closing a deal to provide internet service to Emirates Airlines; Musk's other enterprise, The Boring Company, inked an agreement with Dubai’s transit authority; SpaceX inked a deal with South Africa ahead of Trump's upcoming trip; In arguably the biggest prize, Musk's xAI secured undisclosed sums worth an estimated tens of billions, with the Middle Eastern investors promising more in the near future. Following in the footsteps of his partner in crime, Elon even secured the bag for his whole family. His mother Maye, recently accompanied her son to a conference in Dubai. Elon's brother Kimball announced agreements with Qatar and Abu Dhabi. Elon's father, Errol, with whom he has a fractured and fraught relationship, is busy inking deals with the Emirates from Gulf States for an institute dedicated to 'time travel' and $200 million for his own crypto coin. We've barely scratched the surface but one thing that should be clear is that Elon Musk is still deeply involved in the Trump administration. He is still pillaging our government and he's still extracting as much as he can from his connections before he leaves the carcass depleted and blanched. With Trump by his side, Elon is signing tens of billions in deals with corrupt oil dictatorships looking to buy their way into the inner sanctum of our democracy. Trump and Elon are only too happy to sell them the keys. The gullible American press are too happy to play along and help them sell their PR. Make no mistake, Elon Musk is still in charge. The billionaires coup is accelerating— the only thing that's changed is the spin.

Aspartame is not used in the No Added Sugar cordials, but the ones used may be as bad or worse They are 952 Cyclamate, 950 Acesulphame K and 955 Sucralose. Concerns around artificial sweeteners tend to focus on whether they can cause cancer, weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular problems. But government food regulators have repeatedly found artificial sweeteners to be safe, and the Cancer Council says there's no clear evidence that artificial sweeteners cause cancer in humans. A 2019 review concluded there is no strong evidence linking artificial sweeteners to any positive or negative health outcomes – although the authors did note that there's not enough evidence to rule out potential harm from long-term use, and further studies are needed.

That bloody Trevago ad, sometimes twice in the one ad break.

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I was watching Matt Canavan and a girl from the Libs on TV. Poor girl couldn't get a word in. Canavan just kept talking over the top of her.

I'm using Windows 11 Home on both my laptops. My older one, with lots of stuff on it has problems with the keyboard and a couple of the ports don't wok, so I have a plugin keyboard and a USB hub to drive the accessories. One day I'll get around to having it repaired. I have had no problem running software I have had from Win 10, and even some from Win7. I bought the second laptop as an Aldi special for less than $200 to have a poprtable machine that didn't need a hud and a lot of other gear. Both have antivirus and VPN for internet privacy. I mentioned a week or so ago about the voice typing optioin. A couple more shortcuts have come up on FB. You can bring up a menu of emojis, GIFs and symbols using the Windows key and semicolon. Symbols such as £ € °(for angles) ℃ ℉ and many more, without having to remember the Alt codes. And you can select GIFs such as: and so on. If you are using Xcel, Ctrl and semicolon will put the date in the selected cell, and Ctrl,Shift and semicolon will insert the time. Unfortunately this does not appear to work with Word or other text boxes.

My paternal grandfather never sat down to a meal without a long neck bottle of Vic Bitter on the table, and rolled his own cigarettes, Havelock tobacco and Tally Ho papers. My father did not drink or smoke. If he went to a pub, he drank sarsaparilla. My two sons don't smoke, but have a drink occasionally. The elder of the two worked as a barman in a number of hotels and nightclubs years ago. The younger one has managed a couple of pubs over a period of 25 years, and has been manager and part owner of a pub in Ascot Vale for more than 15 years. See photo. My late wife and I at dinner at the Union hotel.

Right Nev, one bottle of cordial from Aldi costs me $2.70 and lasts me a week.

It's not just that one guy. This morning there is a protest outside parliament house with about 500 farmers and 200 CFA fire trucks with sirens blaring. With the drought, they are saying this levy will push many over the top with depression and possible suicides, and prices will explode.

Another totally random thought. I was watching a discussion on TV about the amount of tax that the goverment hopes to collect from cigarettes - $7 billion - but how that high tax is pushing people to the black market cigarettes that are flooding the market, and the illegal vapes that are selling everywhere. You go down the street and see boxes of them in shops and see people puffing smoke like the steam from a steam train. What I can't understand is why people do it, and why they started. I know I am pretty weird, unique even. I have never smoked a single cigarette and couldn't conceive of smoking a vape. It's the same with alcohol. I have probably had the equivalent of two cans of beer over my 80 years. I have probably had 5 or 6 glasses of wine over the course of my life.The only alcohol I have had in the past 10 years is the brandy my daughter cooks in the Christmas pudding or cake each year, maybe half a flask shared by all the family. I don't drink soft drink either. I haven't had a Coke or Pepsi in a number of years, not even a paper cup. I have had the occasional bottle (less than one per month) of zero sugar lemonade, or sparkling spring water. I drink coffee without sugar, one or two cups a day, sometimes none, and water, with zero sugar cordial. Like I said, weird.

We often comment on the abominable education of Americans. Tonight while eating dinner, I was watching Wheel of Fortune. The topic was Aminal, and the letters revealed were D U _ _ - _ I L L E D P L A T Y P U S. The woman had the option of guessing the answer, or spinning the wheel to win more money. She spun up $1,000, and had to guess another letter to lock in that money. She guessed F and naturally lost.

Weird weather lately in Victoria. A few days with only 2 or 3 mm of rain. Worst drought in years. So bad they've had to fire up the desalination plant, and rationing is on the cards. And last night was the coldest this time of year for 79 years. Minimums of 2 deg in the city, -1 in the eastern suburbs and -5 deg at Coldstream. Supposed to be colder tomorrow, before winds turn northerly and end frosts for a while.

Interesting fact: A shark will only attack you if you are wet.

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Sorry Nev. Afraid not.