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Just to give you an idea of the typical lawn areas of a modern house in one of Sydney's recently developed residential areas. Go ahead to about timestamp 5:30 to see the 'back yard'.

In urban NSW, the clothes line in the form of the venerable Hills Hoist is but a tribal memory. There is barely room on a building block for a McMansion, let alone a rotary clothes line. Besides, kids nowadays remain inside to get on line.

Dumb ignorance on my part. I just expect that some semblance of adherence to the Constitution will occur.

And not a jot of gain for their cause, except the condemnation of the rest of us.

We expect thread drift, but now you've introduced Rorke's Drift.

Regarding the birthright order. The Order only affects the defined persons born after 75 days from the signing of the Order (sometime in March 2025). It is not retroactive. However the commencement of legal action will prevent its coming into force until the legal action is completed. That process will drag on for at least four years when the next President, likely to be a Democrat, would most likely can it.

A government is like a business corporation. It has a Board of Directors who make decisions based on the application of their expertise to the advice provided to them by the next level of management below them. And that level gets the material to develop that advice from those lower in the hierarchy. What Trump has done is cut the Board of Directors off from that advice. It also seems that he intends to abandon the gatherers of advice creating material. Thousands of years of human civilisation has taught us that experience can only be gained over time. It's true that a short period of concentration on 'theory' can kickstart gaining experience, but there needs to be experienced people available to direct that period of concentration. By wanting to purge the public service, Trump is ignoring those thousands of years of civilisation. In Australia, CEOs deplore the complexity of our Unfair Dismissal laws, but at least they protect businesses from arbitrary dismissal. Then again, what more can you expect from a person whose most famous catch phrase is 'you're fired'?

The poor of South America are learning that the USA is not the Home of the Free, and that the American Dream is all in the mind.

You could have been hung out and left to dry.

Donald John Trump.

Dunno about Zulu time, but I've experienced Fiji time.

I feel somewhat the same. The people whose deaths are reported are our contemporaries and the celebrities of our youth. Our memories of them have them in their prime, not victims of the ravages of time. Hearing of their passing reminds us of our own mortality.

I've got a battery-powered clock that didn't keep accurate time. So I took the battery out. Now it shows the correct time twice a day, and I don't have to mess about putting it back or forward before and after Daylight Saving Time.

Two legal challenges to Trump's actions have already been filed in the District Court of Washington DC. One relates to the legality of the body known as DOGE and the other relating to Trump not recognising birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. As the presenter of this video says, grab your choc top and popcorn and grab a seat in the courtroom. There will be plenty of entertainment there, especially since the judges there lean to the Left, having been appointed by Clinton and Obama. Trump is a persistent litigant. Now he has become a persistent respondent.

No news of the recently dead. Has Death taken a holiday?

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has just ordered the Mexican Army to deploy along the Mexico/USA border to repel the invasion of US citizens of the Republican persuasion who are fleeing persecution by people of the Democrat persuasion. On a serious note, Trump claims he has a mandate (the authority to carry out a policy, regarded as given by the electorate to a party or candidate that wins an election) to do what he is doing. However, obtaining a mandate through an election implies an overwhelming level of electoral support. Trump didn't even get 50% of the total votes cast. It was the stupid Electoral College system of determining the Presidency that put him there.

You notice that Trump never identified which public servants would get the chop.I couldn't see the customer service people going. I was thinking that it would be the upper levels of the service to go. Those are the ones who actually have the authority to institute regulations. Wouldn't it be ironic if he removed the restrictions on fully automatic weapons, and some nutter filled him full of lead with one of these

The bastard has just destroyed a 70-year-old sign of respect towards deceased Presidents by signing an Order directing that National Flags not be flown at half-mast on Inauguration Day. They weren't today, because Trump has no respect for anyone but himself, including former President Jimmy Carter. The flag should fly at half-staff for 30 days at all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and its territories and possessions after the death of the president or a former president. Joe Biden ordered the flags to be lowered for a period of 30 days, in accordance with Proclamation 3044, signed by President DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER on 1st March, 1954. This would not have been the first time that flags had flown at half-staff during a presidential inauguration. In 1973, flags were at half-staff during Richard Nixon’s inauguration because of the death of former president Harry Truman, who passed away less than a month earlier

It is usual to report on the First One Hundred Days of a new political leader. Trump has turbo-charged that and brought it down to the First One Hundred Hours.

What he has done now is take the Oath of Office. The rollercoaster ride has begun!

You have forgotten what it is like to be driving more than two hours. Even the driver starts asking, 'are we there yet?'. Why do you thing that the road safety people tell us to take a break every two hours? People looking for a a couple of days away from the turmoil of the city want to get to their destination to enjoy it. They don't enjoy driving to it. The only people I know of who will go the extra hour or so are 4WD people who have to go that far to get to a good location for that activity. But they also carry camping gear and their tucker, so they don't need what you envisage to establish.

Points for that bit of wit.

I'd be looking for a country pub within two hours' drive of Melbourne in a town that had some form of attraction or access to an outdoors activity. What you should cater for is the short-stay, get away from it all experience.

China won't pill a drop of blood in destroying the USA, China owns more than $859.4 billion in U.S. debt, representing about 2.6% of the total U.S. debt. China's navy cannot move its army anywhere near the USA, so it cannot invade. IMHO China is only sabre rattling about Taiwan to annoy the Yanks. They are like a kid running a stick along beside a picket fence to tease the dog in the yard. What I wonder is if Trump orders a military action where there is not threat to the USA, would his military commanders go, 'yeah, nah'?