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Watching the Trump saga is like standing on a hill overlooking a single track railway line and see two express trains racing towards each other. You know there's going to be one heck of a pile up, but you can't do anything from where you stand to prevent it.

Have you ever seen any business absorb an increase in cost? And then there has to be that little bit added to cover "administrative costs". It is always the end consumer who pays.

Grandma pie, or pizza, is a distinct thin, rectangular style of pizza attributed to Long Island, New York. Typically topped with cheese and tomato sauce, it is reminiscent of pizzas baked at home by Italian housewives who lacked a pizza oven. Despite having existed for generations, the term "grandma pizza" was little known outside of Long Island, New York. On the other hand, gramma pie is a regional Aussie delicacy. An article in the Sydney Mail in 1922 describes the pie as “a special Northern Rivers dish”. The Australian Town and Country Journal in Sydney, 1885, featured a recipe for gramma pie, proving its place in Australian culinary history long before mass-produced desserts took over. Gramma pumpkins (Cucurbita moschata) are vigorous, long-vining plants that thrive in warm climates and well-drained, fertile soil. More commonly grown in New South Wales and Queensland, gramma pumpkins are well-suited to Australia’s warmer, humid regions.

When you were a child, were your grandmother's cooking lessons an introduction to nanna-technology?

Except that it's your gang that pays it, not the bloke being muscled.

This is frightening for the possibility that teh republicans will be tossed out. Just watch the first two and one half minutes.

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.