Grumpy Old Nasho

It's applicable, sensible, and common sense $#!t though.

Vice President Vance said in his speech to the European Security Council, and he completely shocked all and sundry, "If your political parties don't get back to accepting what your constituents are saying, Europe is doomed", and, "Why do you have security, if you don't know what you are securing" Dead right too. Same applies to Australia.

That post is music to my ears, or a very pleasant sight to my eyes, as the case may be.

Nope, I mean every word. It's what we need, consumers lose billion$ because they have no power. Time to turn that around.

I said I differ with Trump about consumer affairs. I would bring in the biggest most beautiful consumer affairs bureau Australia has ever seen. It would almost replace the Federal Govt, that's how big and beautiful it would be. No consumer would ever get ripped off. Just with a click of a mouse button, a refund would be given no matter the product, and the retailer severely warned. The consumers would have all the power, and the Bureau given the power to stop "dumping" and to thoroughly test products, sending them back to countries of origin if faulty, only high standards would suffice.

Some Palestinians would like ethnic cleanse some Jews though This will get swept under the carpet as much as it possibly can be. It's a bloody shame isn't it? https://www.9news.com.au/national/bankstown-nurses-full-footage-of-social-media-video-shared-of-sydney-nurses/0be55635-cd22-48e0-ab4d-28d22bb8dd5c

I listed three policies of Trump's I'd like to see carried out, that's it, and I don't care who carries them out as long as they get done, then other Western nations can follow suit.

Yes they would. Consumer rights are too few and been neglected for too long. More power to the consumer I say. And no more fake investors taking your money only to buy a mansion and Ferrari then sticking their finger up at the suckers.

I differ from Trump about consumer affairs. If I had my way, Australia would have a monstrous Consumer Affairs Bureau with branches in every city suburb, town, city, and everywhere else. It would be manned by thousands of employees and managers completely loyal to all consumers. Complaints would be dealt with in very timely manner with 100% satisfaction to the consumer. It would have powers to sack, ban, jail offenders, determine massive penalties and/or deportation of repeat offending foreign companies. Life would be good under my consumer affairs plan.

We need a "Donald Trump", to sack the slackers who hold their customers in contempt.

No I have no choice. Endeavour Energy is the wholesaler. When they have problems, everyone has problems.

Makes me wonder what they do have control over.

300 since 2013, many of which were longer than 6 hours. I'm all for alternative green energy, but they have make sure it will be disruption free, otherwise rural folk may as well go off grid. I would do it except the economics for me in my old age is not viable, but for younger folk, it might be.

The answer I received from the power company was obviously a standard letter listing the problems you just explained but you missed one, "wild animals". Their letter came quickly, and everyone complaining probably receives the same letter. They failed to list how many outages were caused by animals, lighting, equipment failure, car crashes, etc, etc. And failed to explain how they are grappling with these problems for future reliability. Hence, mind your own business, we know what we're doing. That's how they came across, and how I took it.

You said what you said, Hitler or no Hitler and the others. The leaders I had little sympathy for but wouldn't have killed, were: Menzies & Co, Johnson, and Nixon, all of whom knew they were killing tens of thousands of people without justification.

It was one side of lefties I didn't think existed, although I've met union delegates who probably wouldn't hesitate, some of them were pretty scary.

You proved what I was thinking, that lefties believe in violent assassinations. Would you pull the trigger?

Another two power outages here on Tuesday, one very brief, the other 1 1/2 hours. No notification, no apology, and no remorse, quite emotionless. It's hard to know what to think anymore. I once wrote a letter about power outages, and as usual got told to mind my own business. Can someone tell me what to say in a letter and how to say it? I've had to mind my own business for the last 45 years. It was extremely disheartening to say the least.

The AEC's FAQ is not a election, they are frequently asked questions ... and that's where the ALP and the Coalition are inserted and named, and they don't give a reason why they did that. That's what I aim to find out.

So the AEC is not impartial after all, that's the point I'm making. Our brainwashed minds categorize parties into "major" and "minor". Enough said.

I'd be happy with an explanation but I already know they are being partial, contrary to their stated regulatory impartiality. The mere mention of the major parties by name in their FAQs influences readers and impresses on their minds that those named parties are perhaps more important than all the other parties. When the AEC accepts the registration of a party, any party, then that party should have equal importance to all the others in terms of AEC procedures and regulations under their banner of impartiality. The AEC gives no justifiable reason why they mentioned the ALP and the Coalition in their FAQs. It's not justifiable for the purpose of voters' preferences allocation, in the FAQs. The only place where it's justifiable to mention party names is in their final results records .. then all parties, independents, etc, get a mention, obviously. They'd have to be taken to court over it, sending feedback emails won't achieve anything. If anything was done, it would be done in secret, keeping it out of the Public's eye. That's happened to me before with the ATO, I asked a question about something on a tax return form. They never replied, but I noticed the next year that the bit on the form that I was questioning about, had disappeared, never to be seen again. They failed to extend to me the courtesy of letting me know I had a good point and they were going to fix it.

All Ordinaries is up +25.00 this morning. Dow Jones is up +167.01

The AEC is supposed to be impartial and neutral. There's no valid reason why they should single out the ALP and the Coalition for special mention in the way that they have. If I was to contact the AEC to complain, I know what they'd say - "Mind your own business Champ" Impartiality and neutrality "Impartiality and neutrality are the cornerstone of the AEC, which ensures the integrity of Australia’s democratic system. Impartiality and neutrality underpins our other regulatory principles, processes and practices, including administrative and legal activities in accordance with the Electoral Act and Referendum Act." https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/our-regulatory-approach/#impartiality

https://www.aec.gov.au/faqs/counting.htm#difference https://www.aec.gov.au/faqs/counting.htm#majority Don't try and make out they are something they're not.

Here they are again, on the same webpage .. Why is the AEC placing such importance on them and mentioning their names? It doesn't seem be unbiased and impartial to me. Do they own the ALP and the Coalition? "A distribution of preferences takes place in every division and is used to calculate the two party preferred statistics for divisions that have ALP and Coalition as the final two candidates. In divisions that do not have the ALP and Coalition as the final two candidates, a Scrutiny for Information is conducted to determine the two party preferred result. A scrutiny for Information in such cases is a notional distribution of preferences to find the results of preference flows to the ALP and Coalition candidates."