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Spacey, if you are a pensioner you don't need a fishing licence. You just have to be able to produce your Centrelink pension card to a fisheries inspector.

The Opposition is crying out for Albo to go to the USA to meet with Trump. I say that Albo should not go. Trump believes that he is the most important person in the World. He assumes the title of Leader of the Free World and that the title demands every country pays homage to him. That payment of homage to Trump, not to the USA, reeks of the appeasement tried on with Hitler, and we know how effective that was. Hitler sought to make the Germans the Master Race through military means. Trump is trying it on by economic means. Trump has been proven to be the most vile of persons. I doubt if even Putin could be said to be in the same class of vileness. So why should we demand that Albo go kowtowing to Trump? There is a high chance that Trump would deliver the same humiliating performance that he has done so with allies and friends alike. Nothing positive can come from such a meeting. Have you ever noticed that in joint press conferences, the guest is ignored by the Press so that Trump can waffle on? The guest is never a party to the press's questions. Australia doesn't need its political leader to be treated in such a way. Like the Scottish people, Australia should stand up to Trump and let him know full well that he, himself, is unacceptable to our people. That is not to say that we should sever our relationships with the USA, but it is probably worth looking into how much we put into that relationship. And don't forget that billions of Australian superannuation savings are invested in the USA. If Trump destroys the US economy and causes a depression, it's good-bye to thousands of Austalians' comfortable retirement.

Trump cheating at golf caught on camera. This happened in Scotland over teh weekend. Trump's hit ball landed in the rough. His caddy drops a new ball on an open piece of ground..

The Minns Labor Government has today announced more than $930,000 of funding to improve and promote recreational fishing across the North Coast region ensuring money from the Recreational Fishing Trusts is spent on the ground supporting local anglers. https://www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-releases/north-coast-communities-to-benefit-from-930000-recreational-fishing-grants

Unfortunately, those promises have caused great distress within the USA and throughout the rest of the world. His method of international diplomacy can best be described as gunboat diplomacy. He thrteatens military or economic intervention if other countries don't obey him.

Everytime a cull of noxious animals is called for, there is an equally strong call to prohibit the cull from "animal rights" advocates. Those advocates always seem to reside in inner city areas where the damage caused by introduced species cannot be experienced. Which has a greater right to exist - and introduced species or a unique nartive one?

On a happier note, Trump has shot himself in the foot over the Murdoch defamation case. If it goes ahead, a judge could order Trump himself to give the evidence that is relied upon to show that what was published was false, leading to the defamation case. He'd eityher perjure himself or incriminate himself.

I seem to have fallen foul of fake news.

Actually, we have exported camels to Arab countries after we trtained them to race - the camels that is.

Although it seems contradictory to say it, I pride myself on the level of my humidity.

According to a little hygrometer on my desk, the humidity has been about 30% fro a few days, but I don't think that's too accurate, or it the humidity inside teh building. Records at several surrounding airports seem to say that teh humidity has beena round 60%.

A Federal Court has just ruled that Trump's action in imposing tariffs is unconstututional and that the tariffs so imposed must be immediately removed. This is a bit of a longish video, but explains the Court's judgement pretty succinctly.

That is my current concern with my son who is developing into a successful business owner. It worries me that he puts in a lot of effort to make money, but little effort in arranging his affairs both financial and legal. How do you convince your kids that Life hides many financial and legal bogyemen that you have discovered in the years that you were dealing with your own life and raising them?

A cull is greatly difrferent to an all out slaughter. We get permits to cull kangaroos, don't we? Those permits limit the number of roos that aperson can kill. Same thikng can be done fro crocs, although Katter's idea that it will make all waterholes safe is Trumpist logic.

Ther's a saying around here that when Noah got forty days and forty nights of rain, this place got forty points.

No rain today. This is the situation at 1830 EST 25/7/25. I don't know where the rain is falling around Gilgandra, but it's not falling on my place. Wind is still North-easterly, but calm.

I hear that the postcode for Cottesloe WA has changed from 6011 to 2026.

And the rest of teh sane world does it in kilometres.

Who would trust an American corporation to say that their beef came from animals free of the very diseases that we don't have, and which our bio-security measures have kept out of Australia? Also, Americans are allowed to use antibiotics and hormones in the production of their meat animals.

If you think beef is expensive, you won't consider buying lamb. At Wagga livestock sales on 24/7/25, trade lambs weighing between 20-24 kg fetched prices ranging from $200 to $327/head. For slightly heavier lambs in the 24-26 kg range, prices ranged from $300 to $364/head.

Well, they are capable of engendering fear.

Trump's Supreme Court lackeys, at Trump's insistence, killed any chance of even opening an investigation into Obama's alleged treasonous actions when they handed down the decision that a President cannot be prosecuted for anything done in the course of carrying out the role of President. Like this presenter or not, he gives a clear explanation of what that Supreme Court decision means to this latest Trumpian distraction. To avoid the imbedded sponsor advertisement, jump ahead to time stamp 3:13 for the start of the explanation.

The frequency with which our police are currently resorting to deadly force with handguns makes me embarrassed to have it known that policing was my career. Too many people are being shot, or shot at, that it makes me think that police nowadays are not getting trained to use other non-lethal methods to effect arrests. I remember having to learn by rote the conditins underwhich a firearm could be used.

Given the reports of Trump's physical and mental decline, I can't see him being able to carry out the role of President for the full four years. He'll either die or have to be replaced according to the provisions in Amendment 25 of the Constitution. That would put Vance in the driver's seat, but it would not greatly change the agenda currently being persued. So we are going to have to weather the chaos until the next Presidential elections in 2028. The 2026 mid-terms might result in a Democrat majority in both Houses, but that would only result in the removal of Trump and his replacement by Vance. Unfortunately, the destruction of teh US eonomy that has already taken plac, and any further destruction before 2028 will not be reversed at teh ballot box in 2028. It is going to take probably a decade for things to get back to pre-Trump conditions. What concerns me is the effect of a collapse of eh US economy on teh world economy, since we have become used to aligning global trade with the US dollar. What say you, Jerry, about this concern?

Robots were supposed to be able to work 24/7 without break. Now they are required to take a break to recharge. Definitely a backward step.