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Trump must have received one of those letters from a Nigerian Prince offering a big monetary reward in exchange for military assistance to quell internal troubles. As in Vietnam, the USA is sending a small contingent of advisors. About 100 US soldiers have arrived in Nigeria to train the West African nation's armed forces and help them with intelligence in their battle against growing security threats from Islamist militants and other armed groups. But is his aim peace or petroleum? Nigeria's economy is the fourth largest in Africa. Nigeria is the 15th largest producer of petroleum in the world, the 6th largest exporter, and has the 9th largest proven reserves. Nigeria is an economic leader in Africa in several industries, including energy, financial markets, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment. Its financial services sector is well-developed, with a mix of local and international banks, asset management companies, brokerage houses, insurance companies and brokers, private equity funds, and investment banks.

Hitler was said to be a madman. However, when it came to preparing for war, at least he spent a few years making those preparations, especially in the area of war materiels. The current GOAT madman set out on a war/military intervention/egotrip without making those essential preparations. It now appears that he's chucked most of his stockpiled weapons at the Iranians and cannot replenish them. I guess he is just copying his pal, Putin.

It appears that 'prang' is a relatively new word, created by the RAF. The date might be the mid-1930s, but its first documented use was in 1940/41.

It is just price gouging by the oil companies. Just think about this: The fuel in my town is delivered from a depot in town. The depot's tanks had fuel in them earlier in the week. If they have to be filled, then the fuel comes from the coast. It got to the coast in a tanker that sailed from Singapore a couple of weeks ago. The fuel was refined from crude that was shipped to Singapore months ago. So the fuel I am buying at a price that was jacked up this week from its former price was bought an paid for at teh global price well before the current supply situation arose in the Middle East.

This morning I was listening to music on my radio. The music was mainly orchestral and the radio is mono. The thought struck me what a wonderful device the radio's speaker is. It can reproduce the wide range of pitch and tone produced by a number if instruments playing at the same time simply by an electrical current causing a fibre cone to vibrate.

I use the free version for a quick check to see what's making the noise overhead. Most of teh heavies are heading to China and Korea. It is a funny route. A straight line from Sydney to just southeast of my place, then a bit of a right hand turn to pass over the top of me at 30,000 ft. I like to use he program to see what the odd flights are. A lot of RFDS transport flights.

I suspect that hybrids will win out. Both my kids have them. My son's big ute is a hybrid with a 1.5 litre petrol generator engine. I think the claimed fuel consumption is about 2 litres/100km. The ability to recharge the battery 'on-the-go' seems to me to be the big advantage of hybrids

10/10 overcast this morning (Saturday). The cloudbase is too high to produce rain. 45% humidity at 26C. Wind calm with the occasion puff.

It lasts for a paternity.

Define "some". A few drops at teh edge of a storm cell, but nothing to even trickle from the gutters.

I'm calling BS on that, Onetrack. I know for sure and for certain that there is no such thing a rain.

I know that this quote comes from yers ago, but it is a good lead-in to my post. On Wednesday, 91 Octane petrol at my servo was $1.69 per litre. On Thursday it was $1.79 per litre. Today, Friday, it is $2.17 per litre. I don't think thesero got a delivery yesterday from the bulk depot less than a kilometre away. We all expect to be ripped off by the oil companies, but the only reason thedo it this week is because Trump started a war to soothe his ego, or was it to deflect attention from the Epstein files.

Just needed to quote my own post so that I could post his video which relates to Australian elections during WWII.

That's what's good about Australia. We managed to conduct elections in 1914, 1917, 1940 and 1943 during world-wide wars. We even held elections during the era of the Vietnam war.

Who said that it was me wearing it?

Somebody shouold tell the Yanks to keep their shovel in their own shit.

I got a black eye from trying to slide on a G-string.

The problem we have in understanding current international affairs is that we, in general, do not know the history behind these affairs. That is because we grew up not having the knowledge of events happening as we grew up. We were never taught the history of affairs in distant places. Do you know the causes of the Iran-Iraqi war? Could you discuss the Balfour agreement, that is at the heart of the Palestinian conflict?

Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney on Saturday.

He was supposed to be conveying his condolences to the families of the military just killed in the Middle East. A trending meme is taken from Shrek.

I thought Willie Nelson cut his teeth on a $5 secondhand guitar.

Iran is often grouped with Arab nations, but it is not an Arab country. Its people are largely Persian. The Persian civilization, originating in modern-day Iran, was a dominant ancient superpower (c. 550 B.C.E. – 651 C.E.) renowned for vast territorial expansion under the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian dynasties. Founded by Cyrus the Great, it was known for its bureaucratic efficiency, infrastructure like the Royal Road, religious tolerance, and cultural influence across Asia and the Middle East. The Persian Empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centered in modern-day Iran that spanned several centuries—from the sixth century B.C. to the 20th century A.D. In other words, the Iranians are not towel-heads.

A churchgoer, by definition, believes in a deity. Therefore would look for the lesson from the deity that particular story is meant to give. A non-churchgoer who, by definition, does not beleive in a deity, can look at the story as a record of some event. Let's look at two stories from the Bible - The Flood, and David -v- Goliath. The Flood story has its roots in the history of the civilistations of Mesopotamia. The story existed long before the Hebrews became a distinct group. For people of our times, the idea of a global flood, and a vessel big enough to carry pairs of each type of animal is absurd, based on our knowledge of the diversity of lifeforms, and the lack of a planetwide sediment layer that would have formed as a result of flooding. However, the story originated amongst peoples of major river systems, so it is quite possible that some time in the distant past, not more than 12,000 years ago, there was an extreme flooding event in that part of the World. The religions of that part of the world which rely on anthropomorphic deities seem to have originated in that early post-Ice Age period. So the Flood story has been absorbed by the Hebrews and then the influences of a deity have been added in. David - Goliath is probably an actual event that has had the influences of a deity added. We of the modern Western World do not have much knowledge of David's weapon, the sling. But go to the Middle East and you will find young lads who can use the sling with deadly accuracy. In fact, in the Ancient World, including the Romans, the sling was an important weapon in battles. Think of it as the machine gun of its time. Then we have Goliath. It has been suggested that Goliath suffered from Gigantism. One of the effects of it is poor peripheral vision. There is a line in the Bible which quotes Goliath saying something that suggests poor eyesight. The combination of David's skill with teh sling, and Goliath's poor vision which would lead to inaccurate movement, means that David was odds-on to win. No involvement of a deity, but we all know that teh victors get to write the history.

We don't have much in the way of records of most ancient civilisations. Time and circumstance have destroyed most of the records of the Past. Nomadpete kicked off this current discussion by asking Question - is Scripture teaching fact? What "fact" are we discussing? Is it the "fact" that the Scripture is the unadulterated word of a deity? Is it a record of the history of a specific group of people?

If one does not profess a belief in the deity described in what we call "The Bible", one can reasonably describe the Bible a compendium of the Hebrew culture. A compendium is a comprehensive collection of something. One can also use the word compendium to describe a collection of written works. If one gathers all of the anecdotes, rules for religious practice and religious songs of the Hebrew faith one will have created a compendium of the Hebrew culture. The historical anecdotes as presented most likely are embellishments of actual events, with the embellishments aimed at indicating the influence of the deity on the outcome of the event. This is commoon. Consider the acceptance of Christianity by the Roman Emperor, Constantine. This is supposed to have resulted from his seeing a cross in the sky in association with his winning a battle. The vision was interpreted as being the helping hand of teh deity.