Excellent summation!
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Excellent summation!
Occasionally, I go into posts whining about fuel costs, just to let them know how cheap their fuel is.
My mum is nearly 91, with a severe heart condition. But not even her hands develop bruises like this, and she bruises easily.
Beach picture... my lovely retired greyhound Daisy enjoying one of her favourite places. She can spy The Noodle Brigade - our local greyhound walking group. Daisy is not up to the full walk these days, so we did the shortcut and waited for them to reach us.
Thank you for the chuckle during this grim time. 😁 I'm not even American, but the stories I read online are awful. I'm afraid for my American friends.
Same applies in Australia. And nearly all of those guns on display would be destroyed, as ownership by civilians is banned here.
This was why one of my brothers withdrew his paper from publication. He couldn't replicate his results. He realised there was something funky with his methodology, and started over again. It's what ethical researchers do.
Australia solved the issue of states gerrymandering electoral boundaries by developing the Australian Electoral Commission. The AEC manages ALL elections (and can be commissioned for non government work). No fraud. Even funding levels are now limited.
This is beyond horrific!
I saw several carefully slip in a skip step when they realised they were starting to march in time.
Sending strength and love from 🇦🇺! Based on what's on my phone and socials, I wouldn't even be allowed out of the airport terminal (if I had a brainstorm and suddenly wanted to visit 🇺🇸).
Another Gravy Seal playing at being a federal agent...🤬
Let's not even pretend we know anything about the UN Declaration of Human Rights, particularly the sections about children.
Posted after his golf round and time for inhaling junk food, so perhaps he did write it? It's ridiculous anyway!
Have you seen a cabinet meeting? Various unqualified people sitting around the table taking turns to make nauseating 'Dear leader you are the best... the country is better with you at the helm!' statements. 🙄🤢
And the next federal election will have spending caps! So Palmer and his cohort of cashed up nutters will be very restricted. Mind you, you can bet they'll use every technique imaginable to work around the new regulations.
There's already been a couple of veterans who've been deported. They're 'acceptable' enough to spend years in the forces, but not full citizens. So get booted. I've been swearing at the TV a lot!
And the rest! Flies in AF1, Secret Service are charged going rates to stay at whichever golf course resort he plays... hit golfballs for 13 days out of his first 48, at an estimated cost of $25-30 MILLION.
Extraordinary! Having taught dance, the choreography is clever in the way it features the incredibly costumes.
Faaaarkkkk! If this isn't clear evidence of senility, I don't know what is...
Fabulous! I love the colours, and you've done a great job with the pattern. Now that I'm retired, I need to get back into quilt making.
There's rain on the radar. Proper rain! Looking forward to a day of saying 'Ooh, look! It's raining!'
Between the appalling diet and 'medicinal' substances, he probably isn't capable of thinking rationally.
Is the dinner at the White House? While the president is in the building, there is no 'down time' for him.
So when do arrests of officials who fail to follow court orders begin?
A silencer is simply a piece of machined metal. Without a firearm for it to be attached to, it remains a tube of metal. #USAguns
Ethnic cleansing is a war crime.
I'm older than that! The first computer I knew of was in the office at high school. Its storage unit was the size of a very large wardrobe. It could do dot matrix word processing and was a nifty calculator.
My lovely old girl Daisy is a sad pup ... she had minor surgery yesterday, a tendon nick or 'tenotomy' to relieve tension on a toe that has been causing trouble for weeks. By releasing tension, my vet is hoping the toe will pop up, so the nail doesn't rub her next toe to the point of bleeding.
I've had minor cancer surgery work done on my forehead by a leading plastic surgeon in my part of Australia. I have VERY noticeable scarring now that the stitches are gone. It will be months before the scars fade. And I don't have to worry about cartilage.
Another advantage of the Australian voting system. Your party would roll you as leader with polling that low..
Make sure you have copies of EVERYTHING to do with your family's citizenship, and carry the documents on your person. It seems the leading factors for ICE to show interest in travellers are brown skin or unusual names. 🤞 for you and your family!
Trump's obnoxious behaviour since his first election has made it OK for similar minded sociopaths to come out of the woodwork. And to actually get paid to do so... Disgusting humans!
Dear Americans fighting hard to reclaim your country - your media might not be convering three marches, but here in my part of Australia, they were a lead story directly after news abt our upcoming election. Lots of footage! Be careful - it's clear they're being infiltrated by MAGAs.
My mum is 90. We live in Australia, but I'm getting a lot of feed about the marches. She just told me that if we lived in Murica, she'd be getting me to drive her to a march, and I'd push her in a wheelchair while she held up a sign. ✊️
Sit down with your beverage of choice, put your feet up and scroll through- these signs ROCK!
That's right, I remember now - bus loads brought in, had to photograph the stage and submit it to an app?
And if you had Emperor Penguins in the mix, their long stabby beaks are at a height to do damage to 'middle portions'...😉🐧
Brilliant! They're all amazing, but this one really gets my attention.
Here's a late correction: The President was allowed to win his round of the Championship. This advances him to the final, where it is likely he will be allowed to win again.
The MAGA extreme are shouting 'PAID ACTORS!' and I'm thinking 'All of them? You're dumb enough to think ALL these people have been paid?'
The marches are well covered in Australian media. Waiting to see what's on our evening news broadcasts.
How terrific! I've seen a few wade in a fair way, but never one swimming. This is the closest my 12 yo Daisy can manage - she loves standing on the beach staring at the sea.
Understandable...
My socials would have me detained in a trice. They're full of comments critical of the Dumpster and his fellow trash trucks.
2/ I've worn a hat for nearly 40 years, so the initial damage was done when I was a child or teenager. I've been referred to a plastic surgeon and may need radiation treatment. Please encourage/bribe your children to use sun protection. Their skin is very vulnerable.
Last week, my doctor made a wide margin when he removed a suspicious looking skin lesion the size of a small finger tip above my eyebrow. Yesterday, I was given the results of the biopsy - a 'very aggressive' cancer. /2
It will only take the Nutter in Chief to make an offhand remark from his preaching podium, and his nutter clan followers will take action. We've seen it happen. There's even the famous quote,'Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest [Beckett]!' King Henry,1170. Beckett was murdered.
There would be complete uproar of something like this had happened in other countries!
And painting over in institution grey...🙄
He thinks the Jews weren't gassed? When there's clear evidence they were? This would be my first 🚩
There's fat. And there's blubber. Blubber is what keeps seals, whales, and other sea creatures warm.
Yeah, but... *Old man *Mega wealthy mates afraid of being shot *Can't complain about the smaller size of his crowd, compared to Obama's Pick your excuse. 😉
I'm so sorry this happened. Luckily, my youngest brother was caught early, in his 40s, just before lesions would have metastasised. Over 7 hours in surgery, months of hideous chemo. We're all (reluctant) supporters of colonoscopies now.
I had sandwiches. The best I'd ever had. My insurance paid for me to have the procedure in a private hospital - good food!
My mum told her doctor after her 1st one, if he wanted her to have any more colonoscopies, he'd have to admit her to hospital so they could manage her prep. I looked after her. It was vile, and distressing for her - I had to wheel her to the car and into the hospital. The nurses were great!
If you want to have a chuckle of outrage, head over to Rep Lauren Bobo's Xitter page. Her followers are in full delusion. 😳
3/ pilots and fire crew were fed and watered for free at the hotels and cafes in the whole region. Fire crews were being dropped into remote areas with a giant flexi bucket of water and tools to dig out and drown fires that had gone underground in the peat swamps!
2/ they needed the full length to get off the ground, but were reasonably stable with a load on. Landing was another matter as they had to do all sorts of swoops to approach from the right direction (finishing going up the hill), but coping with wind off the mountain.
When we had an entire fleet of aircraft stationed nearby fighting multiple fires in the high country behind my place, the fixed wing planes had a wonderful long grass runway, with a hill on one end (!!!) and wicked down draft off the nearby sheer mountain face. /2
One time Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, was holidaying in Hawaii as mega fires devastated the country. When tackled about it, his excuse was,'I don't hold a hose.'
Has the🍊🤡 made any sort of statement about the crews from Mexico and Canada risking their lives to help fight the mega fires?
One of my uncles migrated to Murica from Australia, with the thought of living close to one of his sons, who was some sort of IT whiz. He lasted a week before coming back, horrified by open carry of military style weapons.
Fire fighters commented on the horror of it. There were crews going around dispatching fire crippled animals. It would have been dreadful for them, even though it was to prevent further suffering.
In the last round of widespread fires in Australia, in the 2019-20 season, it's estimated that as many as 3 billion animals perished or were displaced. That's birds,reptiles, frogs, mammals.It was thought a species of frog had become extinct from the fires, but a tiny pocket survived.
To be fair, Morrison was HAMMERED about that response! And when he forcefully tried to shake hands with traumatised fire victims.
There are Australian specialist crews ready to help, if needed.
He could go to live in Denmark for the duration. They have an extradition treaty with the USA, but it's up to the Senior Justice whether that happens. I'd suggest Denmark would refuse any attempts from a Trump controlled DOJ.
The fleet of helicopters w buckets was stationed at an airstrip a couple of paddocks away, while the fixed wing water bombers took off from a grass runway over 1 km long. They needed the length to get up with a full load pumped in from a fleet of water tankers. It took weeks to put out the fires.
I spent 6 weeks living in smoke here in NW Tasmania, after an 'unprecedented' dry year had left the high country tinder dry. Normally, it won't burn due to all the rain. But lightening storms started dozens of fires in areas so remote crews were dropped in by helicopter. /2
Dang! I didn't even have a chance to see what she got kicked out for...😉😂
That would have to be a record?! 😂
Ha! How long before she gets suspended for continuing to pedal her lies, conspiracy theories, and nastiness? 🤔
I'm not even American, but I'm choking up at this. 2 fine humanitarians, together again.
Ironically, I've just scoffed down a piece of freshly made carrot cake, from the Cafe/ bakery where I had lunch earlier. Carrot cake contains all the essential food groups - therefore, it is good food!
Yes! The words published today as Trump's noting the passing of President Carter are most definitely not his words. Someone in his office made sure an observation was made that could pass muster, more or less.
He definitely didn't write that, except for phrases for the intro- it's way too coherent, and there is some attempt at sympathy.
Daisy is zorsted! First, I hung out washing, which had to be supervised. Then I vacuumed the house - nasty thing it is! Next, I disappeared in the car - sneak technique to do fencing stuff with my neighbour. Highlight of the day - a trip to the rubbish transfer station with a trailer load of stuff!
There's a wild horse watch group that have permission from authorities to drag dead horses away from areas commonly crossed by humans, to serve as food for wolves etc. The wolves will happily eat days dead meat.
Genuinely looks as though she has developed alopecia.
I've just retired after over 40 years of teaching in high schools. We would have alcohol available for our once a term 'well-being staff meeting', when we'd have drinks and nibbles while creating an artwork or something. Drinking during the day ... very much not acceptable.
Genital washing?! 😳 🤯 And the amount of printing done is astronomical!
Nothing wrong with prescription medication or a social drink. But if over the limit, as it would be if driving? 🚫
No public official should be drunk or drugged at work.
Many work places have mandatory drug testing.
2/ I can remember when drug fetal syndrome chn started to turn up in my classes, alongside many, many more trauma affected chn, w fewer alcohol syndrome chn. Their behaviours are different.
You'd know that autism (spectrum) wasn't really even talked about decades ago. Nonverbal or severely stimming children didn't even go to mainstream schools. The advantage of being old is I have clear memories of chn and their behaviours....2
I'll say it again... I've seen a dramatic increase in behaviours that tick the boxes. It's not just better diagnosis. I've taught thousands of children over decades, so can track the changes.
Please pay attention. I KNOW VACCINES DON'T CAUSE AUTISM. I was suggesting reasons for the apparent rise in the diagnosis of autism. (With 44 years of teaching experience, I've seen a significant change in numbers of chn who could be autistic)
I was talking about autism. I know vaccines save lives. My mum lost a brother to measles, and I know people who survived polio, just.
I suspect modern lifestyles and environmental aspects have much to do with it. Diet - food now loaded with 'numbers', with many diets almost entirely processed food. Exercise - we walked, everywhere. Or rode our bikes. Entertainment - played outside, not glued to a screen. Parenting styles
True. But even better would be better gun control regulations. They actually work. 'Death by gun' rates in Australia plummeted after gun control regs came in. Yet you can still have guns here.
This is what a Watch Hound looks like in 'watching mode'. No barking, just very focused staring out at the drive to see if one of her favourite people might be visiting
Or to support ludicrous gun regulations, rather than the safety and well-being of school children.
Facts say you're wrong. And the focus on school shootings? Because the USA is the only country in the world that allows hundreds of chn to continue to be maimed and slaughtered so mouth breathers can buy anything at will and retain their personal arsenals. nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
He's the problem with binge drinkers... stress = need to drink. So rather than it being once in a while, it becomes very regularly vast quantities. It was the main reason why I had to end a relationship. And with the drinking comes aggression.
She's very sweet! Loves all of humanity, but has her favourites. 🥰
I raise you one #greyhound... Daisy, who'll be 12 in a couple of months, gazing with delight having just caught sight of her toyboy, 5 yo greyhound Deef. They adore each other and love regular rambles through local parks.
I've been politically minded since childhood, having been raised by parents who were union activists. Watching what's happening in Murica has been morbidly fascinating - awful, but can't turn away.
Plus, mine gets an absolute walloping from all my physio treatments.