Jerry_Atrick

OK.. I get what you say.. I am not sure hoe the first line of your response correlates to thee second line of your response? I don't see the causal link... We may have been nore or less of a threat to ourselves (and it is your assertion with lack of statement exactly what is the threat and any quantification).. .But they two are not related. We face simulataneous and unrelated threats all the time. We often deploy resources to multiple threats.

I am not sure I understand the correlation between corruption/organised crime and conscription, to be quite honest. One redeeming feature of Albos is he supports the Hawks...

Hi attack on democracy and accountability has been so brutal, and is being acquesced to, that it is doubtful the Democrats will persist beyond a token force, depending on how he deploys the national guard after the mid-terms.

Someone must have liked Bolte - he was Vics longest serving premier of 17 consecutibe years. Too early for me to form any opinion on the man, but it would seem performance has no correlation to political success, nor monuments - there is a bridge named after him in Melbourne in 1999. Ahh, that was under Jeff Kennet's watch.. No wonder. BTW, you know the quality of person I am by the people I hang out with. A mate of mine started dating John Cain's daughter, but he put a stop to that very quickly.. Can't have the riff raff in.

This deal means we pay and they don't have to deliver.. Chump will be fuming anyway as he has never had a deal that good.. seems Biden is a better deal maker for putting America first. UK is still not sure what it is or what they are there for

That's the rub.. the opposition, especially in Vic, seems to live in an alternate reality. We need a strong opposition that provides a credible alternative. They used to be. The reports this morning that Presutto has been thrown a $1m lifeline in staving off bankruptcy in settling his defamation loss.. but it would come with a condition that holds the Vic Libs to ransom by a property developer who would stump up the cash. That cannot end well.

There is an old saying that was attributed to a prominent eary US food entrepreneur (Kraft?), but turns out to be a general response to the massive amouunt of food waste in western countries, especially the USA, "I make more money from the food consumers waste at the bottom of the jar, than they eat".. The amount of food waste befire the "multi-buy" promotions kicked in was massive, and I am not sure these multi-buys have increased it. I am guessing they would more increase obesity levels..

You may need some divine intervention.. St Huberts of Coldstream may release such inspiration 🙃

Safety in numbers 😉

It's not like it is an unknown profession and they go into it blind, is it? Therefore, the potential rewards to them or those they represent must be greater than the cost of that exposure and for some that will be the betterment of society as a whole (which may not align to your or I view of betterment), and for some, it is to achieve more vested interests. The senior politicians - the ones alledgedly making the decisions are increasingly making decisions that seem to favour vested interests rather than the interests of the community as a whole. Of course, what one person thinks is beneficial may not be what another does. The fact that they volunteer to enter what is a public role means they are going to be critically assessed.. And that is the way it should be. Otherwise, how will public figures of whome the public has entrusted them with, for which they are very well rewarded, especially at the senior level. Their salary is only a small portion of the benefts, which are not FBT-able, which they accrue. After adding the FBT that would have been paid, and suddenly, they are on a good wicket - not to mention the cushy lobbying and other corporate jobs they land afterwards. No one said they are all bad.. But, the leadership of both of the major parties do not act in the interests of the population. Albo has hosted lunches and dinners at many thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars per head for fund raising for the ALP. Every PM and senior minister does for every party. These are not really available to you or me, even if we wanted to splash the cash to get a seat. These are for different commercial and industrial leaders to discuss things relevant to their economy. They are not spending this money for no return, are they? I am not going to post it, but Monique Ryan's now famous question to the PM about the attendees of one such lunch, to which the speaker took exception, was not answered, but landed a personal attack on her by Albo himself. And don't give me this BS that we need these titans of industry... to keep jobs going blah blah blah... We should have been transitioning our industries years ago, which would have been a more gradual, less disruptive transition, to allow us to become world leaders and have genuine Aussie corporations leading the way.. Employment would be higher, GDP would be higher and the US slapping tarrifs on us would be jusitifed (in a relative sense). Instead, we give our resources to foreign corporations and companies for free so that other countries reap all the benefits, let alone a couple of true Aussie companies. I agree with Juice Media.. There is the shit party (LNP) and shit lite party (ALP)...

Yeah.. I don't think he's appealing to our demographic... Of course he is wanting to make a better and/or more independent living than he did as an English teacher. But at least he is trying to educate a more dispassionate demographic and get them thinking about their future

Its not the supermarkets or stores that are stumping up the buy one get one free.. It is the suppliers that are paying for the promotion (unless a store has a slow seller that is costing them to keep). The suppliers want to attract people to their product and behavioural economics (which is a fancy term for the psychology of selling) has realised that more people will react for to getting more items for their money than saving money on a single item. If you're with a mate, and there are two drinks or choccies for the price of one, you are likely to shout your mate because it will cost you the same. Your mate feels good, you feel good, and you've paid the same as it was 50% off.. but you don't care that you paid it, because you were buying one anyway. If you buy two at 50% off each, for some reason it doesn't have that same feel good factor because you know you are spending more than you have to for yourself, and your mate knows it too, so if he is not as enamoured with that particular drink/choccie, he is likely to buy something else for himself. Given the idea is to get your product to more people, or have the same people enjoy it for more time and therefore more exposure and if they like it, will buy more of it at full price, it is often more effevitve in their aim of selling more on a sustained basis than simply reducing the price of one

I thought it was what isn't between his ears is the problem 😉

Most mining and fossil fuel energy companies have a crap record.. Actually, come to think of most industrial, energy, mining, and chemicals companies (and I am sure a few other categories) have a crap record. It was more irony... I subscribe to that fella and he presents facts and sources for most of his claims.. Australia (and the world) need more like him. Michael West has also appeared in at least one vid with him. I think we accept MW is of goo integrity.

So, facts don't matter? Only the people who present them? He's hardly obscure.. having raised well into the hundred thousand dollars to finance billboards and irritating Santos execs enough to respond in their corporate propa... er communications I have read a few of the 900+ comments and I can't discern what type of people they are.. but I can discern that more and more are getting p155ed off with successive governments not only shortchanging Australia but brazenly giving out corporate welfare..

Farting from arse? Seriously, to get a seat on train.. that is what I was doing 🤣

I know we all have to go, but for this fella, it seems too young

Well, here is yet another example of Albo to the rescue.. of big corporate interests at the cost to Aussies, again

Pulling out of the French deal cost us something like $9bn Committing $380bn for options on subs is plain nuts. Albo, too, could have pulled the deal as a new government but elected not to. Led by donkeys comes to mind.

There can always be exceptions

Well, you say that, but my view is that in the land where dog is alleged to live, they are very well intending what they are doing.. Yeah.. not all of it goes according to plan - what ever does, but they are not there to make america greeat again.. and ieven if they were, "great" is a very subjective word. To them, great is them enriching themselves and those who have enabled them. Yeah, we now have a new mwaning of TACO, but the swings in the markets would be well able to be predicted and who makes money off swings in the market most? Those who know when that predictability is about to occur, and when. They couldn't give a poop about what the US population thinks of them, let alone any other country. But, it's great news keeping the riff raff out, even if their only crime is to have some satire on their phone that mocks DT or the reiblicans.. and even then they don't really need it. Makes great divise news at home. Divide and conquer. The fact it stuff their economy or even brings down the "empire" is neither here nor there to them.. they will have got what they want and leave it for some poor schmuk to clean it up. They are very competent at what they want.. just not what the USA or world needs. And it doesn't matter.. The Aus awareds are clearly as flawed as any other. And while symbolic, it is a another thing that makes people thin the swamp is full and needs to be drained... and cue a DT 2 at some stage to promise just doing that.

That was taken from my kitchen window.. we look down on the pheasants... er... peas....ants 😉 We shoot one of them.. just can't remember which 😜

*cough* *cough* .. Hold trhead resurrection, Batman... Anyway, I read today that SFM was honoured in the Kings Honours today for his leadership during the COVID crisis. I didn't realise that the honours system in Australia rewarded ineptness.. Maybe ints an upside down/downunder thing? Let's see... I can't recall him doing any leadership at all.. In fact, he tried to throw a spanner in every works aimed at managing the pandemic. Firstly, it was the states that bore most of the responsibility. Secondly, he was trying to open things up when closing them down was largely working. Thirdly, to ge the vaccines, it apparently wasn't a race even though he wanted to open everything up. And finally, when there was not much happening with respect to getting Australia prioritised, it was ex-ex-PM, Kevin Rudd that made the calls, not SF-Boody-M: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/rudd-claim-reveals-the-call-morrison-never-made-20210713-p58969.html This article, although not critical enough is SMF's lack of management of the COVID crisis, sums up the debacle: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/king-s-birthday-honours-1lvw

Onto another positive. A Buzzard has taken up residence at our place. He seems to like a big old tree of some wort we have (under a tree protection order, so we can't even prune it without permission and I think a tree surgeon has to do it). Here are a coupl of photos of it perched on outr cottage on site. Sorry about the grainy results. It is an el cheapo phone:

Self Service: I am not sure which was fuirst, but in early days it was supermarkets, nixknamed self-serves. Then petrol stations or garages, as they are called here. And I get it.. improved efficiency gets customers through their experience quicker, drops the prices, and makes money. Good. Of course now we have self0serve checkouts, and these are a little problematic it turns out, but technology will catch up to make it harder to get away with, literally, daylight robbery. But we also have self service for business functions, where it has to be said, is not necessarily the best way forward. I am converting contractors to permanent employees and I gave one of my contractors an extended period to stay as a contractor an account of quirks in our holiday policy. I came under pressure from more senior management to rein the notice back, so I popped a quick email to HR to let me know the implications. The response - all of our policies are self-service now, here is a link, pls read it. I responded by asking if she didn't know their policy and her response was of course she did. So I responded, "Don't you think it would be a lot cheaper for you to spend 5 or even 10 minutes emailing me the answer, than for me to spend an hour reading the policy, and if I didn't quite understand it, having this exchange, anyway?" Not had a response, yet. But, this form of self service speeds nothing up - slows stuff down, doesn't reduce the number of staff we need, and costs more.