Grumpy Old Nasho

And here I am going through my 50c coins looking to see if there's any odd stamping marks that might increase their value by $10.

I haven't yet seen or heard anything about them bringing in a Big Beautiful Consumer Affairs Bureau, the likes of which we've never seen before .... or a Beautiful Super Medical Troubleshooting Team, of highly paid and highly trained medical personnel, hand picked for their human attributes towards others. Until they show signs of coming around to these policies, and other beautiful super policies I have in mind, I'll just ignore those parties completely.

Or it could be no early election, just a fixed term, without a manipulative PM or the GG getting involved.

No Prime Minister or political party should be allowed to decide when an election is going to be held. An election and the time it is held really should be a part of the democratic system. It should be separate from the decisions of dopey prime ministers seeking an advantage. Only a fixed three year date could make it legitimate and fairer for all concerned.

Why does Albanese have the sole privilege of choosing the date for the next Fed election? Why isn't the date fixed for every election?

“The question is, why are we so reliant on the US?” .... That's right .... We need to make Australia great.

Yeah, all while veterans and conscripts were committing suicide, or firing at police, or beating their wives followed by divorce. Fraser never gave a hoot.

Yes we all have a perpetual defeatist attitude. That's what's wrong with us. We couldn't even get on top of a few flaws in a light plane. Was the guy sacked who used thinner sheet aluminium? Why was he allowed to get away with that, or was he killed in the crash? Now we're too scared to even make a toy balsa plane, we wouldn't know how.

What I find strange is that our management/business inferiority status is perpetual. It's a sector always waiting for a foreign multinational to rise out of the Geny bottle .. "Oh Master, my wish is for an overseas multinational with plenty of knowhow and a big wad of money". Once it appears, the sector then brims with confidence, smiling from ear to ear, plenty of photo ops, and happily spruiks "We need foreign investment". We fall for it, then whinge about the pittance in tax they pay. But it stays perpetual, nothing changes. Exceptions are sole traders Forrest and Rhinehart. Not multinationals, but billionaires just the same, and they now really should branch out and become Aussie money lenders to Aussie entrepreneurial innovators. Remember the Nomad that Fraser put a stop to because a rivet came loose or something. Well that wasn't a failure of the Nomad, it was a failure of no-hoper Fraser. He simply didn't believe in Australian ownership, or pride in it. The Nomad project could and should have been handed over to the private sector to improve it and market it.

It was an XR, I had to think for a minute, the first one of that new shape. Their front suspension was a bit weak and they came out of wheel alignment fairly easily and had to be checked often, even if only by eye or a piece of string, to save money at the mechanics. But once out, it was off to the mechanic.

Mine were on a 68'Falcon ute I had in my younger days. I was short of a quid but needed tyres so looked at retreads and checked how well the edges of the treads were bonded to the case. I found some with good bonding and gave them a go, half the price of new tyres, wide and sexy looking on the chrome wheels. The bonding was so good, it was hard to tell them from new tyres, and if I remember correctly, they were still on the ute when I sold it a couple of years later. I was quite impressed, and at least they didn't throw a tread like my brand new Toyo tyre did. I must have struck it lucky with a good retreader. who ever they were. Quality bonding I reckon was the secret to good retreads.

Even I'm laughing at that, (Bi-plane jet), it's quite funny. But when allies get the latest jets, they still must be able to afford to put them into the air. We can't, our budget is skint, and so is the RAAF's, I haven't seen many planes flying over my place lately, the RAAF flight path. Just a Hercules or two, nothing else. What ever the planes look like, we must still be able to afford to send then up, otherwise we may as well not have them. An economy based on mined dirt and how many Asian take-aways are sold each year is not the most reliable foundation for buying very expensive military equipment, and enough of it to protect our Southern Pacific patch. We need a lot more investment, Aussie investment, to make Australia greater than a chicken chow min take-away.

The Pilgrims and free settlers would be cheering for Trump.

The tyres I've bought over the years were pretty good. There was one new set though, Toyo, that had one faulty tyre that threw it's tread after 12 months. I never expected that to happen. I got the local newspaper to take a photo and do a write up about it. The news got around and when I went back to where I bought those tyres to get a replacement for the crook one, he said I could have a Bridgestone. He'd sent all his Toyo radials of that same type back to the wholesalers. He couldn't take chance on another one throwing a tread. Other than that, all other tyres held together, some lasting longer than others, some went hard and wouldn't wear out. The retreads I've had, not many, bought them for budget reasons, they were good too, that surprised me, they did some long trips,

How true is that "5 years"? Were there scientific tests done revealing tyres are dangerous after 5 years?. It's just that I've had tyres on my vehicles much longer than that, and they still seemed to be ok.

Off topic just for a moment. My Dad's prototype soldering iron, and put to use to do his radio repair work. It was rescued after he passed in the Ninties, along with other stuff. Not long before he died, he showed me the patent certificate. In the early fifties, Sherline in South Australia asked him, by letter, if they could manufacture it. He never replied, I'm not sure why, but knowing Dad, he just got lazy. Sherline waited the sixteen years and claimed the right to make the soldering iron. Other interesting facts about my Dad is he had one of the very rare VW Kombi Microbuses with split front seats. And he made an electronic ignition in the mid Sixties before they became common. It was a hobby project, but he fitted it to a customer's/friend's truck and that truck went many miles before Dad removed it and reinstalled the old contact distributor points. In other words, his electronic ignition worked a beauty.

Thanks

How can I put a signature below my posts? For example like facthunter's "Never stop learning"

My dad made a few quid re-grooving bald tyres. He made the stand for the wheel to revolve on by hand, and he made the electric groover which was like a large electric soldering iron but instead of having a copper tip, he made a "U" shaped steel tip for it. As kids we used watch the long strips of rubber stream down as he went around the tyre. My dad also invented the Sherline soldering iron, where the solder wire was pulled along by a trigger over the top of the tip.

That's a matter of opinion.

No, I'm not a troll. Some of us are against Trump, and some are for Trump. These things are put here to try us, we must keep ducking and weaving. These are turbulent times for Alpha males to deal with. Beta rainbow males will have to stand aside for a while.

Which questions? I'm here to help to eliminate trauma from patients and their loved ones minds caused by inconsiderate and inhuman staff, manages, doctors, and anyone else who mistreats patients. I'm proposing that the Super Medical Troubleshooting Team is necessary for swift and just redress of failed practices and failed attitudes in the medical industry. At present, we can't see those failed practices and failed attitudes because we have been blinded by political rhetoric and self brainwashing.

You can't blame him can you? Look how we treat the US. Some criticism is justified for it's actions in recent decades, but President Trump is there to help build trust in the US again. Things will look bad until they look good again. Like a smashed car being repaired - Got it?

It's for potential patients like yourself who might be inhumanly treated yet don't know they are being inhumanly treated. A Super Team member will have the power and authority to do random interviews of patients and staff and managers. Anyone who interferes with the work of a Super Team member will face prosecution. Just because we somehow think we have the "best" medical care in the World, doesn't mean we have. The term "Best Practice" will be totally banned, until it's use is fully and correctly understood, and not used to hoodwink the Public. Until then, it's only BS. I will take all the slings and arrows, to make Australia great again, if it ever was.

All very childish. But if you end up doing something that makes Australia stronger, then Trump wants that too. A strong Ally.