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  1. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Watch this Youtube video of a bonus round. After the woman spins the prize wheel, they cut to the puzzle board. The 6 given starting letters, R, S, T, L, N. E, appear in the lower left corner. If any of those letters are in the puzzle, they are turned on by the hostess. The contestant then selects their 4 letters, Again, the correct letters are turned on. Based on the displayed letters on the puzzle board, the contestant has to guess the puzzle in 10 seconds to win the prize.
  2. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Careful Nev, you're starting to sound like GON.
  3. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Power Outage is correct. Nev, it's like Scrabble. You get so many letter tiles. If you can fit them into a word, so good. Sometimes you can't. If you want to make a word but don't have one of the letters, too bad. If your answer 'intake' had been correct, the N tile would have been used. As it wasn't, obviously 'intake' wasn't the correct word.
  4. red750

    Brain Teaser

    When the bonus round is loaded, the topic (i) is displayed. Six letters (ii) are given to start the solution - R,S,T,L.N and E for every game. The contestant then picks 3 consonants and 1 vowel (iii), and if they had spun up a wildcard in the preliminary rounds, they pick a 4th consonant. All the correct letters are entered in the puzzle. If your solution had been correct, the given N would have appeared as indicated by the yellow arrow.
  5. https://michaelwest.com.au/this-is-not-journalism-the-bowen-beat-up-and-the-iran-war/
  6. One Nation has leapfrogged Labor to hold the primary vote majority in one key state, new polling finds, as the party makes major gains across the country. https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/one-nation-surpasses-labor-coalition-in-queensland-newspoll/news-story/048e8652eaf681cc599911831be1b093?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers
  7. red750

    Brain Teaser

    A long way off. Note that the given letter N is not in the second word.
  8. GON, You complain that the CTP is compulsory. That's what the "C" stands for, Compulsory Third Party. But it's only compulsory if you drive. Don't drive and you won't have to pay. It's like travelling on a train or bus. Buying a ticket is compulsory. Don't travel by bus or train and you don't have to buy a ticket.
  9. Speaking of Artemis, I see that their crapper has failed again
  10. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct.
  11. GON,, go out and have an accident. Break a couple of legs, lose an eye, then make a claim. That way you'll get part of your money back, at least.
  12. This might give you some idea. The area around the Strait of Hormuz. Territory to the left of the image above Mountains around Tehran
  13. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Pretty close. The fact that the letter I was picked but not put in the last word ruled that answer out.
  14. red750

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    Correct.
  15. Iran wants to charge ships tolls for passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is claiming sovereignty over the waterway in the middle of the war, and it's important because about one-fifth of the world's oil and gas goes through that waterway. NPR international affairs correspondent Jackie Northam reports. KCCU Public Radio - a service of Cameron University National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
  16. I only drive my 22 year old Holden Astra 4 cyl about 230 km per month. My 3 month rego renewal is due in a couple of weeks, for $116.34.
  17. An internet search brought up this from the Idaho State Legislature which I couldn't access But there was a report in the Idaho Capital Sun.
  18. He called it sickening. He called it evil. Then he signed the two harshest laws in the country. No hesitation. In March 2025, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed two laws that together created the harshest punishment framework for child sex offenders in the country. HB 380 made sexual abuse of children under 12 a capital crime punishable by death when at least three aggravating factors are present. HB 37 made the firing squad Idaho's primary method of execution, replacing lethal injection as the default. Both laws take effect on July 1, 2026. When signing HB 380, Little said: "The sexual abuse of children is sickening and evil, and perpetrators convicted of these crimes deserve the ultimate punishment." The House passed the death penalty bill 63 to 0. The Senate followed 30 to 5. Before HB 380, Idaho had no mandatory minimum sentences for child sex abuse. The state is spending $950,000 to retrofit its maximum security prison near Kuna for firing squad executions, and construction is already underway.
  19. ๐“๐‘๐”๐Œ๐ ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐ƒ๐โ€™๐“ ๐ƒ๐„๐‹๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐๐„๐๐ˆ๐๐† ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐’๐“๐‘๐€๐ˆ๐“ ๐Ž๐… ๐‡๐Ž๐‘๐Œ๐”๐™ ๐๐˜ ๐€๐‚๐‚๐ˆ๐ƒ๐„๐๐“ โ€” ๐‡๐„ ๐ƒ๐„๐‹๐€๐˜๐„๐ƒ ๐ˆ๐“ ๐Ž๐ ๐๐”๐‘๐๐Ž๐’๐„ James E. Thorne (@DrJStrategy) published a piece on X that has racked up ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ in hours, and it deserves every one of them โ€” because it explains the single most misunderstood element of Trumpโ€™s Iran strategy. The conventional criticism is that Trump is too slow to reopen Hormuz. The reality, Thorne argues, is that the delay ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ. Trump is deliberately withholding the American security guarantee at the moment of maximum stress โ€” not because he canโ€™t clear the Strait, but because doing so too quickly would let Europe go back to sleep. For decades, Western allies built their economies and green energy mandates on a silent assumption: ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐‡๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ณ. They ran down their militaries, underfunded NATO โ€” the U.S. carries ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐›๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐๐€๐“๐Ž ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  โ€” and lectured Washington about multilateralism from the comfort of a security blanket they never paid for. Then Trump pulled the blanket. On March 15, he told the world that countries receiving oil through Hormuz should โ€œtake care of that passageโ€ themselves. The initial response was exactly what Thorneโ€™s thesis predicts: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas declared โ€œ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜Œ๐˜œ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ป ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏโ€ and added โ€œ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜Œ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ.โ€ Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the UK all initially rejected the call. Then the pain arrived. Oil surged from $๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ $๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐š ๐›๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ. Tanker traffic through the Strait dropped ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ%. Over ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ anchored outside waiting for safe passage. European energy prices spiked. The โ€œnot our warโ€ posture became economically untenable. Two weeks later โ€” on April 2 โ€” ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŽ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ launched a coalition to secure the Strait. The UK hosted the inaugural meeting. Europe didnโ€™t just join โ€” theyโ€™re now scrambling to lead, with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper chairing the talks. The very nations that said it wasnโ€™t their problem are now volunteering ships. Thorne frames it in Hegelian terms: Trump โ€œ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜บ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ.โ€ The contradiction being that Europeโ€™s energy systems, industrial bases, and geopolitical sermons ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐-๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ง๐ž๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ. The prize isnโ€™t just reopening a chokepoint. Itโ€™s a reordered system where access to secure oil flows is ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐ง ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ โ€” not assumed as a right. A world where the United States sits at the center of the hydrocarbon chessboard. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ. ๐“๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ $๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐จ๐ข๐ฅ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐.
  20. Showing results for can the space under the hood of a mustang mach e still carry parcels without the waterproof frunk? Search instead for Can the space under the hood of a Mustrang Mach E still carry parcels without the waterproof frunk? No, the space under the hood of a 2026 Ford Mustang Mach-E cannot carry parcels if the optional waterproof frunk is not installed. Without the frunk option, the area beneath the hood is sealed off or left as an unoccupied void containing electronics and fluid reservoirs, effectively locking the cargo space behind a paywall. While the physical volume remains, access is denied to owners who do not pay the extra $495 fee to install the plastic frame and liner required to use the space for storage. 2026 Model Year Change: The frunk is no longer standard equipment; it is now an optional extra. Without the Option: The under-hood area is sealed, preventing the storage of items like charging cables, groceries, or luggage. With the Option: The $495 upgrade restores access to approximately 4.8 cubic feet of storage (reduced from earlier years due to a heat pump).
  21. Well it was on the tele at the Shed, but I couldn't hear it. Others talking over the top of him, making jokes, and someone in the workshop using the belt sander. But I knew he was lying, his lips were moving.
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