old man emu

I'm gettng sick and tired of having to pay homage to a Nation whose attitudes towards its people are so opposite to those held by Nations considered to be civilised.

You missed the point of my gripe. All I was griping about was the scarcity of conveniently-sized containers of chocolate flavoured milk in comparison to the plethora of similarly-sized containers of other flavours.

I seem to recall some mention of Concorde needing shielding from solar radiation.

Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden or secret attack, of a person—especially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives. It appears that Kirk fits the definition as he definitely was a prominent person in the USA who expressed ideological ideas.

Because I'm not at home. I'm in a supermarket, doing grocery shopping after which I will be getting in my car to drive for an hour to get home. I want to have something to drink while I'm driving home. I don't drink soft drinks or fruit juices, and I don't like coffee flavoured milk drinks.

It's not the conveying of the liquid that is the problem. My gripe is quite simply that supermarkets don't carry sufficient stock of chocolate milk in containers the same size as those containing a wide variety of coffee; strawberry or malted flavours.

I am not anti Jew. I am anti an allegedly civilised government that engages in the tactics that the government of Israel is employing. What is the difference between what the Nazi government of Germany did to its citizens it did not like, and what the Israeli government is doing to its citizens.

I doubt if requiring the payment of a fee to process an FOI application is such an onerous thing. You have to pay to access a records like birth, mariage and death certificates. Even the act of registering a motor motor vehicle requires the payment of an administration fee. Are you happy to pay the wages of the public servant who does the work answering my FOI request which has no relevance to you? It is true that very many FOI requests are fishing expeditions which fail to land anything worthwhile. Those are the ones which tie up staff and delay the provision of worthwhile information to the public. The question is - who are teh people/organisation who are making all these FOI requests. How many are made in an attempt to gain political ammunition?

It's not the holding of the liquid that is the problem. It's the obtaining of it in a desireable volume, in a suitable container.

Why can't the political party of Netinyahu be declared a terrorist organisation?

Haven't heard much of him for a few months. A flash in the pan???

My gripe is that supermarkets don't stock bottles of chocolate milk in drink-sized containers. You can get any quantity of varieties of coffee or strawberry flavours, but the chocolate milk is always sold out. It's no use my buying a carton because I like to drink the milk on my one-hour drive home from a shopping trip into my nearest big town. You can't drink out of a carton while driving.

Gotta love Melbourne! Machette-armed gangs and driverless cars. And that's just the government.

As a former Sydney-sider, I can't recognise the backgrounds in most of the images in this AI-created video. Also, the AI-generated voice-over mispronounces 'barramundi' and the suburb name, 'Cabramatta'.

1984 is a reference to Orwell's novel and follows on from nomadpete's it needs denial of reality.

Going back to 1984 ?

So much for the much vaunted "separation of Church and State". That's something that has never really happened in the USA. Just look at the way Facebook and Youtube censor the use of basic words such as those or faeces and copulation. That's done to appease the sensibilities of the God-botherers.

I'd say that the repression of women in Western Christian countries has only been addresses since the late 1960s, and near fifty years hasn't been enough to overcome millenia of repression.

Trump's latest Executive Order: renaming the Department of Defence. Now it's the Department of War. The reason? "Defence" is woke.

It's a conversation opener. It's an opinion and somewhat of a lamentation. Perhaps one could say that the bombastic promotion of US-style democaracy has, in reality, been "fake news".

Out of suits???

Most countries which claim to be democracies seem to have a separation between their method of giving their citizens a voice and the personage who fulfils the role of Head of State. In those countries, the Head of State has a very limited role in the enactment of laws. Also, those countries have a robust means of voicing varience of view to that of the governing group. Just look at Australia as a familiar example. We have a Head of State with limited powers. We have political parties in our parliaments who are able to challenge when necessary porposals of the governing Party. Most importantly, both the governing Party and the opposition Parties have identifyable leaders who announce their Party's views. That doesn't appear to be happening at present in the United States. The current head of State (President) appears to be calling the shots, and the parliamentary leaders from the President's Party are simply going through the motions to enact the pronoucements of the Head of State. There does not appear to be any vigorous opposition to these action within the two houses of government. Nor does there appear to be any leader forceful enough to stand up to either the heads of the houses of government, nor the Head of State as is as the moment. We are witnessing the destruction of an economic and military power which has held sway over the World for eighty years. The Make America Great Again concept is provoing itself to be an abject failure, with global economic and politcal implications. What is tragic is that there is nothing to suggest the creation of a concept to Restore America amongst those who sit in Opposition to the current Party in power. No one is standing up to take the roles of Leader to reconstruct the United States. Many in the United States and other countries are hoping that the World can hold on for the next three-and-a-bit years of MAGA-madness. However unless a strong leader arises soon to counter the present incumbent, and his cohort, democracy will collapse in the United States.

Those abilities are what "management" is all about. "Admin and yappin'" does nothing for the productivity of those one is supposed to be managing. The Manager, alone, can't achieve the goals of a plan. That's why a Manager has people to manage. The skill of management hasn't eluded you. Knowing what teh skills of management are seems to have eluded your managing director.

We eagerly await the announcement on CNN that Trump has died.

Just don't lay down in the middle of the road and lick your b@lls.