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Old Koreelah

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  1. Little Norway can afford this amazing infrastructure because of their sensible policies; they have a trillion dollars in national savings. Australia might have been in the same position if we had enacted one of Whitlam’s policies. Instead, we are a trillion in debt, foreign corporations make huge profots from our resources and don’t pay tax.
  2. Just had a yarn with my big brother, who recently travelled to his old mate’s funeral. He reckoned the bloke lived by the motto: ”I’m gonna spend 80% of my money on wine, women and song… and waste the rest!”
  3. Politics is a cutthroat business even when no blood is spilled- misinformation, bribery and manipulation have destroyed many an MP’s career.
  4. …almost as raw as politics!
  5. We were taught that in ancient Athens, some citizens had to be publicly shamed into exercising their democratic rights. When a vote was due, slaves carrying ropes soaked in die would coralle the recalcitrants, “roping them in’ to their responsibilities.
  6. American voters should never forget the appalling performance of almost the whole Republican party in recent years.
  7. Easy to underestimate the height of your vehicle. Yesterday I did my regular run in a new bus- a small Merc. I had a shock after I drove into the parking bay. The plurry air con unit above the roof had only just cleared the ceiling.
  8. Gold!
  9. If the Dems scrape thru this with a majority, they should quickly expand the Supreme court to redress the bias wrought by treacherous Republicans. Creating a national holiday on voting day might allow a few more citizens to participate.
  10. Stop it! Nearly made me cry. Took me back to our old farm, kero lamps and meatsafe. The radio (run by expensive big batteries) was our window on the world. Blue Hills was a household friend for my hardworking, lonely parents.
  11. I suspect few of them actually believe that, but like people down thru the ages, they find it expedient to be cowardly followers. They’ve seen what happens to anyone who challenges the mob.
  12. No horse- I planted a small grove of citrus trees outside my workshop. They get watered several times per day. They especially like it when one old mate visits: he clambers out of his old truck saying “quick, I’ve been reamed out!” They produce masses of fruit.
  13. We had mosquitoes, so i saw only a few minutes of blood moon.
  14. Jack London, like Australia’s Henry Lawson and so many other great writers, only spent a season or so in the remote areas they wrote about for the rest if their lives. The Yukon makes a huge impact on an impressionable young bloke:
  15. Nev we need some; I actually lost fat off my gut while hospitalized after breaking my hip. I had to inject anti-coagulant every day for six weeks and it got noticeably harder to pinch up enough belly fat for the needle. I blame crappy hospital food, which sure killed my appetite It got so bad that, in desperation I took up drinking large quantities of beer to redress the decline. Sacrifices you make for your health!
  16. Her name rang a bell, but not loud enough for this dumb Asimov fan.
  17. Why isn’t this crook behind bars?
  18. What have you been up to, OME?
  19. The last unexplored frontier: under your car seat. Amazing what you find. Foreign coins, fishing lures, pens, bits off phones...
  20. Willy I’d like to explore whether this “spirit” is the manifestation in living things, of Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields. https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introduction
  21. Might be good if he does; more than one strongman has been deposed while out of the country.
  22. Perhaps it was American business efficiency experts who advised the military to focus more on maiming than killing; during the Vietnam war America dropped zillions of booby trap bombs. Many were shaped to resemble toys, enticing the innocent enemy to pick them up. The resulting explosion might have cost only an eye or some fingers, but diverted more personnel than a single death.
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