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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.

We tend to forget that there was an era in both Britain and Australia when the weapon of choice for criminals was the cut-throat razor. After handguns were criminalised in New South Wales, razors became the weapon of choice amongst Sydney gangsters. Shortly after the Pistol Licensing Act 1927 was passed, a visiting sailor used a cut-throat razor to defend himself from attackers. As a result, razors became a default weapon due to its ease of purchase from barbers shops for a few pence, its ease of concealment (hidden inside a piece of cork), and its use as an instrument of intimidation. The idea also caught on in Melbourne and Brisbane about the same time. In the 1929 wars between the gangs associated with Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, mainly over the control of drug distribution, razors were often used. From 1930 laws were passed that eased the gang wars and made the carrying of a cut-throat razor, without reasonable excuse, punishable by a term of imprisonment of 6 months.

Trump has just dealt a deathblow to Musk. By Executive Order, Trump has imposed a 95% tariff on graphite coming from China. So??? We all know about the rare eath minerals needed for the production of batteries for EVs, but what do you know about the other components of an EV battery? Have you ever pulled a AA battery apart? In the middle is a rod of black material. That rod is the conduit for the electrons produced by the chemical reaction of the gooey stuff filling the battery case. The rod is made of graphite. The battery of an EV is made up of lots of single units of similar design. What Trump has done is greatly increased the cost of manufacturing EV batteries, or perhaps the cost of those batteries made in China which are fitted to EVs. As a result, the value of TESLA shares has dropped by 0.35% yesterday. Doesn't sound much, but that represents a $US5.85 per share drop in value over the day's trading. Considering that as of July 2025, Tesla has 3.22 billion shares, that's a lot of value lost.

I had to include ICEs and Hybrids so that the comment would not be diverted to a discussion of the number of fires in those typres of engines. I simply think that it is a useful tool for dealing with a vehicle fire where there is access to a reticulated water supply which can provide water at high pressure.

Don't wish for that!!!!!! If the ATO allows gambling losses to be deducted, they sure as Hell will want to tax winnings, which they don't do now.

Is a vehicle fire possible? Yes Are they frequent? Depends on the number of vehicles of any power supply sort p[resent in an area. Obviously there are more vehicles in cities than in country towns. However how many tools do you have that you only use on rare ocasions? That spray bar could sit in a truck for years withiout being uses, but it would be invaluable on the one day it was needed.

Getting back to the subject of battery fires in EVs, here is a device that seems to be an assistnt in quelling a battery fire in an EV. It would also work for ICE fires. You've got to admire the entrepreneurial spirit of Yanks. He developes a device then sets up a company to make and sell them at $US3000 per unit. Not a bad return on probably less than $50 worth of materials. l

That's one of teh features of vexatious litigation.

It is a shame that the USA, in general, does not have any laws preventing vexatious litigation. Several states have vexatious litigant laws — California, Florida, Hawaii, Ohio, and Texas If it was the same in the rest of the States Trump would be stuffed.