Which is fine to a point but in this case, with the government needing to cut costs, it’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. As for the for-profit companies, in all areas, I know from my wife's experience, that some do rip off the system. These are essential services and should not be outsourced.
I had both legs and two fingers surgically shortened before I was 65 years old. No, I didn’t lose them, I know where they went. The NDIS came to my postcode after my 65th birthday making me eligible. But what annoys me is the outsourcing, charitable organisations want profit for other problems. 🧵
I don’t need brainwashing. I am at that age now, where what I do and say is dismissed with “take no notice, he’s just a dirty old man”, followed of course by laughing. And before you ask, yes I do play on it.
This poor girl has been playing on my mind. She must be terrified. If she had made it about Putin or Khamenei would the judge come to the same finding? Is Netanyahu along with the US and Trump, a country under investigation for war crimes and genocide and its enabler that sensitive. This is fucked.
How apt is the quote “the law is an ass”? The judge didn’t look as if she has cognitive impairment. Just shows you never can tell.
I don’t believe there is a sane person on the planet who would disagree.
Praise the gods, there’s someone else. This has kept me awake at night for decades.
Scousers! Be careful, I saw the TV series Bread, it was said it was a comedy but having known some scousers I think it was a documentary.
No I’m not, but I had fun looking through accounts with mealworm in their handle. I’m guessing you are referring to ‘a mealworm of sorts’. I’m just a bored old man who gets perverse pleasure from being childish and annoying occasionally, as you know.
Would this have happened if Trump and the Repulicans hadn't tried to put a fix in for the midterms?
Happy birthday for Sunday.
Sorry, I didn’t know. I’m worried about you being bored. Do you knit? Winter is coming, and hubby might get cold.
Just what you need on the front line, half a dozen mates coughing their lungs up.
Too old to mow the lawns then?
Very industrious of you. I believe you are in NSW. It’s fine there today, and after all that, you must have time to mow the lawn. Give your husband a well-earned weekend off after a hard week's work.
They are exercising their right to defend themselves. No matter that they are on someone else's land and were in no danger.
If there are no war crimes trials involving the military, governments and militias after this is over, we can close the UN, the ICJ, bin the Geneva Conventions and close all embassies and diplomatic offices. It will show that the military and governments are nothing more than large criminal gangs.
I wish I had these literary skills, loved it.
If this is true, the fact that the military carries out illegal orders from this criminal gang should be punishable by court-martial with long prison terms.
I read a bit today where Tina Fey said comedy must have some truth in it. This has and I got a chuckle out of it.
No, I was serious, things went so badly last time I thought trained, competent nego… what the fuck am I saying? It’s the Trump gang I’m talking about, competence gets you vilified and sacked.
I don’t think he knows the difference between a threat and a deal. And doubt he could spell negotiation or understand how to conduct one. Did he send any trained, experienced negotiators to Pakistan with the world's leading failure in international diplomacy?
In the land of the free and the brave. They can deny you one, but the other they can’t touch. Our freedoms are also under attack here in Australia, I hope we show the conscience and bravery of these people.
Australia's education ranking, WT20, 2026 is 17th, Norway’s is 9th. The Australian government is promoting STEM subjects in the hope of producing more graduates in those fields. When the Whitlam government made university education free, there was a 24% increase in enrollment. Just a thought.
On education, the Norwegian Independent Schools Act of 2003 made private schooling available in Norway. But, very few such schools exist in comparison to Norwegian public schools. Norway fully funds public primary, lower secondary, and upper secondary education, making it free for all residents. 🧵
An interesting concept, heaping shit on a heap of shit.
The way the world economy is set up, only people like Bezos can afford books. Was a GoFundMe started to buy him some books? As for libraries, I can’t read to a time limit because one of my many mental deficiencies is having three or four books on the go at once. I can’t binge-watch TV shows as well.
It saves time.
I don’t understand Americans' love of guns. I also can not understand how the Pro-Life lobby has not made an effort to do something about gun violence when it fought to convince your Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs Wade. Is your child's life not important after it leaves the womb?
An example of the stupidity of war's death, destruction and misery is that Japan declared war on Germany in World War I. When will we learn to say no to those (politicians and company CEO’s) who encourage our youth to go to war? And tell them to go and kill or be killed.