Grumpy Old Nasho

"A smart investor is a wise observer and researcher, enabling quick retreat and minuscule risk when anticipating difficult times." - Me

Hope it happens to KIA too. Mine has unsafe, shockingly designed steering that the Vehicle Safety and Standards should have knocked back.

Well what facthunter said. But common motorists place great value on CTP premiums even though they're buying an intangible, and lose it all if they never make a claim.

If you apply to have that 6 months refunded, you'll get it. It's yours.

Do you pay compulsory third party insurance premiums? The intangible promise of a payout to injured victims is not physical, but has enormous value to the common person who thinks CTP insurance is the best thing since the Model T and sealed roads.

Kevin Rudd was in before Gillard. He ignored the 80% surveys.

Asking nicely has probably all been tried before and didn't work. Our Labor govt wouldn't stop the boat people in spite of continuing surveys where 80% of respondents expressed it be halted. It took a change of government to stop it.

He's got everyone jumping out of their skins. Mexico just jumped sky high and sent thousands of troops to their northern border to prevent more illegals from crossing into the US. It's a plan to avoid tariffs being imposed on Mexico for a month.

The beef industry is mostly foreign owned as well. They have beef "Feed Lots", the principle of which, compares with chicken feed lots. Aussie farmers complained, but the foreigners won. The National Farmers Association and National party politicians backed the foreigners. It's another thing I wrote letters about, but once again, got told bluntly, to mind my own business.

Wait no longer, I can tell you now. He won't do anything except encourage all our woke politicians to grow a pair. He won't threaten tariffs on our aluminium industry, because it's not ours, and it's got our government in it's pocket. He won't threaten tariffs on anything else because we don't send our illegals over there to cross their borders. And as far as I know, we don't try to smuggle illicit drugs into the US. One final thing, Australia is a rusted-on compliant ally, so there's very little chance of any "punishment" coming our way.

Buy a Mac, OME

I bought a mini SD card with an adapter for dual use. The mini SD wouldn't slip into the adapter all the way, so I pressed it harder and it split the adapter. It's a kit in the same bubble pack, popular well known brand but made in China. Going back for a refund soon. I suspect there's a lot of import dumping going on as well. Then there's imported products that are dangerous to babies and toddlers, they get through Customs somehow.

We have tariffs too https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff And what about our sneaky 10% GST, that's on second hand vintage cameras I buy, it's not only applied to the imported camera, it's also applied to the shipping cost.

What ever it takes to stop drug importation and illegals crossing borders ... oh, and cheap shoddy Asian imports with built in obsolescence.

The first media report I saw, as a layman watching TV, was that the helicopter was at 350ft when it should have been at 200ft. If that's true, then why the extra height of 150ft?

Thanks for answering that onetrack, that's all I wished to know. I'd like to discuss the subject further, not in here, in a new thread perhaps, specific to conscription only, in the past and for the future. It's still on the books.

The speech was mainly about terrorism, and he made it some years ago, 2017 I think, but the content of that speech still applies to-day IMO, how could it not? And now that Trump is President again, things are moving along with the release of Israeli hostages. One Israeli is worth 50 Palestinians up there.

What was the reason again for Hamas murdering all those Israelis and grabbing all those hostages?

Everything about conscription was under duress, that's why it's called conscription. Penalties applied right from the time we received the call-up notice, to the last day of the two years - Great wasn't it? We had a Nazi jackboot Coalition Government. I have no recollection of swearing Allegiance or signing a paper, and more than 50% of ex-conscripts surveyed two years ago don't recollect either. I put the question to Nasho Fair Go, they did the survey. None of us should have signed ANY papers. To do so meant they could come back at us and say we "volunteered". We weren't to be treated any differently to regular recruits. If I signed a paper, it would have been only because I was sh!t scared as a twenty year old, completely naive and almost non verbal, just signing away, various papers that I knew nothing about. Did you read all the papers before signing them? Were you fully aware of a paper titled "Oath of Allegiance" and consciously knew what it was before signing it? If I signed, I and many others would have been tricked into signing it - that's what Nazis do. The whole thing was criminal. They'd never want to do it again, to younger generations, they'd get stabbed with kitchen knifes and get chopped up with machetes.

This is why Trump is good for the World.

Don't need it, the election is over. I predicted twice that Trump would win, 2016, and 2024. Months before I judged the mood of the voters, and wasn't surprised on both occasions. Were you surprised?

Crime rates are overshadowed by the willingness of perps to commit heinous crimes that parole boards turn a blind eye to and forgive, giving perps a chance to commit a second heinous crime. We've seen both major parties preside over this stupidity, the radical "humanist" ALP, and the "lefty copycat" Coalition.

Did you know that us conscripts that Menzies & Co called up weren't required to swear the Oath of Allegiance, when regular recruits were required. Question Trump's swearing in?, well there you go, we were assigned to be part of Her Majesty's armed forces, but technically, we were no more than Menzie's Mercenaries, or mercenaries for the Coalition government. It's not wise or prudent to throw stones at Trump, when the first stone should be banged on our heads.

I'm getting that help from you learned gentlemen, when you think crime and chaos resulting from ignominious "progressive humanist" policies is a good thing, I will think it's a bad thing, and say so. What's worse, is the refusal by citizens to admit there is normalization of all the problems causing the decay of Western societies.

I've no doubt they will, once the extremes are put to rest, both left and right. Then things can get back to normal, no unnecessary wars, law and order in it's true sense, only one interpretation of the Constitution, and proper control of the borders and immigration.