It’s curious about Dutton. He backed Abbott in the leadership war, and apparently offered his resignation in an sms to Turnbull in Septenber after Abbott lost, but Turnbull refused to accept. Highly unusual, unless a deal was struck.

Yes. I learned a great deal about what really happened in Cambodia, and why. Most of it we were tasked to find out. But we learned a lot about things that the USA & China didn’t want us to, especially about Vietnam. And why Aus. really became involved, and why we are the only Nation to have received FB-111’s. And why the UK stayed out of it. 🙂 Someone on high decided they needed confirmation. Hence my involvement as a civilian with GD in the USA after I took early retirement. 😉 😀

No. I don’t care.
Yes. I am annoyed.

Victory was declared this week. Punctuation was defeated and the Government’s semi-annual skirmishes against hyphens and semi-colons came to an end. After two years the Government decided to stop their so-called “red tape repeal days”. We can all congratulate the Government on successfully removing from legislation 40 hyphens, one comma and one inverted comma; changing two full stops to semi-colons, one semi-colon to a full stop; and inserting two commas, one full stop, one colon and one hyphen. They also abolished state navies, which hadn’t existed since 1913, and decided you no longer need to register your mule or bullock for military purposes.

However, a law is still on the books that requires a walker with a lantern in front of your car or carriage at night. 😆 I guess they are leaving that for when the need to look busy in the future.

Meanwhile, they are trying to increase taxes on low-middle income people, destroy all research (apparently research isn’t needed to create things), and destroy education & healthcare. Sorry if you think I am talking about the GOP. No, it’s simply “monkey see, monkey do!” 🙂

Oh, yes, Kryten, they want to know how bad things are in a target area, but really aren’t interested in having too many people learning why or who’s responsible.

Our Immigration Minister on the other hand… I’ve so far managed to get the authors of two petitions calling for his resignation to withdraw them. I explained simply that with him there, the chances of the Coalition being reelected decrease significantly. If he resigns, some people may be willing to give the Coalition another chance. Better the devil you know, especially when he screws up so often! 😀

http://www.crikey.com.au/2016/01/11/time-for-dutton-to-go/

Thanks badtux! I really needed a laugh! 😆

Oh, hey… That reminds me. Don’t know if you would be interested badtux, but Paragon are giving away their Go Virtual 2015 s/w for free (just need to give an email address for codes & details):

http://www.paragon-software.com/landing-pages/2015/virtualization-manager-win10/index.html

The problem, as I am sure you know Bryan, with unit’s like mine is that we not only discover what our orders tell us to discover, but often dicover much that *the powers that be* don’t want us to. Knowledge is often a double-edged sword. 🙂

Too many people choose to bring along the worst of their individual cultures when they emigrate. When you have genital mutilation and honor killings in North America, you know that some people have missed the entire point of coming.

Update: [We were posting at the same time] Give me a break?! Really? Are we sure this wasn’t copied from the Onion?

The jokes just write themselves, don’t they?

At least half of the documents classified are cover ups for incompetent, embarrassing, and/or criminal activities. As I have said all too often when some things have been classified: ‘They know they are doing it; we know they are doing it; about the only people who don’t know are the American public, so why are we hiding this from the public?’ The response is always: “Sources and Methods!!!” 😈

That creep is easy to understand when you read about all of the gang rapes in India.

“Yeah, I ordered some takeout, but an eagle got it!”