Back in the day when I was discovering something other than beer was quite nice I came across a sparkling from the Killawarra brand. Cheap end but after a bottle I used to have the most vivid dreams. Recently friends have been trying to educate my palate on wines, which I don’t, as a rule, like. But I bought them and so they have to be drunk. One particularly unpleasant red (my palate, everybody else likes it) has been a bit hard to get down, maybe a glass or 2 over the evening. the vivid dreams are back. Last night in my dream I rewrote the words to the Brady Bunch dream tune. Funny but I’ve never watched an episode though I know the first few lines of the tune. Sussex Ridge Hunter Valley shiraz 2016. Pen and paper on the bedside table tonight as I’ve already forgotten the most excellent new lyrics.
Also during the week I thought I’d become a Guinness world record holder. I play a bit of scrabble with a group, varying standards and when only the guns remain we get some pretty decent scores. One was 844 in total. Someone DDGed world record scrabble score – 850. This week, playing vs the droid on the tablet, thought it beat me, 854. Astonishing games when you get up there, all the triples, big tiles hitting triples across and down. Thought I’d better check, even register, the new record. Sadly, 850 was the score of just one person in that game. Board total 1320. It’s enough to drive me to drink. But not that Sussex Ridge Hunter Valley shiraz 2016 muck.
Aussie Cossack may alienate many supporters by hanging too much shit on the Ukraine. Has done great stuff, but needs to pay attention to the “aussie” bit if he want to attract wide support.
The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is like the Covid pandemic of two years ago.
Watch and wait. The facts will emerge and there will be a clearer picture.
The Aussie Cossack has been doing good work as a freedom fighter and exposing the police and government, but I think he lacks discretion, sometimes.
We need to have the same perspective toward today’s invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The invasion must be condemned, period. But we must understand what led to this horrific act by Russia, not to justify it, but with the goal of deescalating today’s conflict and preventing future ones.
As air raid sirens fill the air of Kyiv and Russian trucks head for Donbas, Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, is crying like a little girl over NATO’s refusal to protect him and his country.
The “People’s News” is an emerging print/electronic newspaper in NQ moving to take the space vacated by News Corpse when it closed its regional weeklies “because covid”.
They invited me to submit a column – below…
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Guest column: (Cardimona), United Australia Party candidate for Kennedy
Cardimona, are you on the Catallaxy premises, now?
I don’t have the adjectives to describe this man. It is not just a pleasure to listen to him speak, but his talks are excellent. And like the others, this opinion piece is a feast for the intellect in substance, as well as in the crafting of the words.
Bill Quinn
@Bill_FJ_Quinn
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Is this the same whiney journalist from this morning’s #bneflood #brisbaneflood #SEQFloods presser asking questions, sounding like a toddler who’s just had his toys taken off him?
@abcnews
Tend to agree with this.
The amount of water the Wivenhoe has held back is incredible.
Don’t think the dam operators will be able to hold on much longer though before upping the release.
The rain is returning to the catchment, adding to the heavy inflows.
It’s amazing how academics can make a great analysis – viz: “Schwab is a Central Planner, i.e. Socialist”, yet have NFI how to deal with matters “going forward”.
Presumably, Academics’ partners are left to run the household day-to-day?
Great. Just what the world needs: millions of some of the worst dressed refugees since the Irish went looking for more spuds.
Forget stingers and javelins. Send these people pants that aren’t trackies.
The amount of water the Wivenhoe has held back is incredible.
Very worrying indeed, mh.
Unfortunately, most of the news services (apart from QLD) are too busy hypothesizing on Russia/Ukraine to worry about the imminent danger to many Queenslanders.
Everything ’tis forgot: the dictatorship in Canada, the uniparty in Australia which oppresses its citizens with lockdowns, mandates and inhumane punishments for those who simply want control over their own bodies.
Then our PM proclaims to the world that he supports Ukraine because he stands for freedom!
Really, PM? You trashed your own countrymans’ freedom. You supported little-Hitler premiers when they imposed life and career destroying mandates. You saw innocent Australians smashed to the ground by vicious cops, old ladies capsicum sprayed and young, pregnant mums in their pyjamas arrested in front of their children.
And you said nothing.
But thank God for Ukraine and the Queensland floods. Now you can be nice Scomo again, worried sick about his fellow man and spouting all those platitudes you didn’t even think of during the wickedness of Covid scam.
Cutting a long and heartfelt rant shortish: I wish you all the best, Queenslanders. Stay safe. And when our PM waltzes in with his money and his poli-babble, remember that he’s been happy to condemn you – and every other Aussie – to two years of misery.
This is the stage when a good dose of skepticism regarding any “news” item on the Russia-Ukraine conflict is required. Until any story is confirmed by multiple reliable sources, it may need to be filed under fiction.
Video circulating in last hour showing shot down Russian IL-76 Aircraft is actually Ukrainian An-26/32 (see tail markings) No photo/video evidence of two claimed shot down IL-76 transport planes full of ~200 each Russian airborne each.
Much information circulating appears to be propaganda or psy-ps from either Russians or Ukrainians. For example, this video of civilians throwing molotov cocktails is from 2014. However it ties into western narrative of civilian resistance so its being promoted by one side.
What appears to be footage of the Ukrainian garrison of Snake Island surrendering to Russian troops has surfaced; earlier the Ukrainian government had claimed they they refused to surrender and had all died heroically
A mother who is dealing with her own child’s gender dysphoria posed as a 15-year-old gender dysphoric biological female to access services online with the Trevor Project on Sunday. She found that every step of the way, she was guided further and further into affirmation of being trans, with no stop gaps along the way where a kid could be told that maybe they weren’t trans, and should take a moment to think about it.
If there’s anyone from this blog in your electorate, I’m sure they’ll vote for you. As you say, it is preaching to the converted.
But, just in case there is anyone passing through the site, it could help.
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If you want to go ahead, I could use what you have posted in your comment. I need a title. Also do you want it under your Cat name? That would be a bit awkward.
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The second option is if you want to write a separate post for this blog. In that case, you’ll have to send it to Adam/Admin to get it posted.
Here’s hoping the dam engineers have read the right manual this time and not believed in the Flannery person that it would never rain again and so let the dams fill up till they explode and cause death and destruction.
Thanks, Kaysee – at the moment I’m particularly time-poor.
You know my IRL name, so, yeah, post it under that and maybe use a title such as “Truth-bombs from FNQ” – thank you!
In other news, briefly, over the past two weeks, I
– drove down to Canberra for the Freedom Rally
– got delayed/had to backtrack due to a flood on the Muttaburra Rd
– arrived as the rally was winding down (thus avoiding being nuked by FedPol’s “Active Denial System” (95 GHz microwave weapon))
– visited the protester camps, learned of the ‘Antifa’ attacks on them
– stayed with VC and BJ and the grandies
– had long chats with BJ, Matt C, George C, and Llew O’Brien
– walked through parliament house – twice – unmasked
– discovered Canberrans to be deep in the mass formation psychosis
– triggered plenty of Canberra locals
– displayed 3m x 1.5m “Vote 1 UAP” billboards on my tandem trailer for the whole 6,000km
– brought our 26yo last-born (son) home with me from Queanbeyan, where the Canberra lunacy was getting to him.
Candy, the dam operators may have done a good job this time. We shall see.
They seem to be confident of using a large percentage of the flood mitigation space while having controlled releases.
Last week Wivenhoe was at 57% I believe, which is a different scenario to 2011. Although we still have to look at what the operators have been doing with Somerset dam which feeds into Wivenhoe.
The morning of Friday, February 24th, 2022 will be one printed in History Books as the day that Russia dropped missiles and started their invasion to the capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine. Today was the day we all needed to decide if we should prepare food to shelter in place with @bald and bankrupt or to try and escape to Lviv or even the Polish border. In this video, I show you both options, neither of them good.
I hope you are right, mh. It seems a little precarious though and the rain is pelting down here again right now.
Brisbane will still be underwater tomorrow morning. But imagine what today would have been like if the water had been released at high rates on Friday and Saturday.
Large parts of Logan will be underwater tomorrow, too.
🇺🇦 A week now seems a lifetime ago in terms of the rapidly changing events in Ukraine. I arrived in the country thinking to myself ‘Putin isn’t mad enough to invade because the Ukrainian people will fight to the death for their country. It will be like Stalingrad.’ And yet I was completely wrong to underestimate his insanity. Now as I write this the people who I met in this video are living under bombs and bullets. Unbelievable how much suffering Ukrain e has gone through in its history.
People who think this war looks “weird” on the tele need to understand that in this feminised world there aren’t any real war correspondents anymore.
Instead, we have chicks interviewing other chicks and chick politician making chick announcements and channels repeating the same days old footage because no one has the balls to go to the front and film anything.
Journalism is dead.
Instead, we have chicks interviewing other chicks and chick politician making chick announcements and channels repeating the same days old footage because no one has the balls to go to the front and film anything.
Historically when there were more Queens as heads of State in Europe, there were more wars – they’d gang up on another State.
Sound familiar?
As 9/11 occurred, the sole outraged caller to Wendy Harmer and Moonie that morning baying for blood as retribution was a woman (i.e. pious outrage, but no skin in the game).
Piers Morgan@piersmorgan ·
Great to meet Australia’s Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP at his office. Had a fascinating 45-min chat about Ukraine, China, cancel culture (not a fan), @BorisJohnson (big fan), cricket (the Ashes 🙈) & my new global TV show. Thanks for your time, PM. 👍
John Maynard Keynes is often credited with saying “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” In fact, the actual source of this quote wa
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Back in the day when I was discovering something other than beer was quite nice I came across a sparkling from the Killawarra brand. Cheap end but after a bottle I used to have the most vivid dreams. Recently friends have been trying to educate my palate on wines, which I don’t, as a rule, like. But I bought them and so they have to be drunk. One particularly unpleasant red (my palate, everybody else likes it) has been a bit hard to get down, maybe a glass or 2 over the evening. the vivid dreams are back. Last night in my dream I rewrote the words to the Brady Bunch dream tune. Funny but I’ve never watched an episode though I know the first few lines of the tune. Sussex Ridge Hunter Valley shiraz 2016. Pen and paper on the bedside table tonight as I’ve already forgotten the most excellent new lyrics.
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January 10, 2016
Interview with Klaus Schwab
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Also during the week I thought I’d become a Guinness world record holder. I play a bit of scrabble with a group, varying standards and when only the guns remain we get some pretty decent scores. One was 844 in total. Someone DDGed world record scrabble score – 850. This week, playing vs the droid on the tablet, thought it beat me, 854. Astonishing games when you get up there, all the triples, big tiles hitting triples across and down. Thought I’d better check, even register, the new record. Sadly, 850 was the score of just one person in that game. Board total 1320. It’s enough to drive me to drink. But not that Sussex Ridge Hunter Valley shiraz 2016 muck.
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Hmmm… let’s revisit that tomorrow.
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The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is like the Covid pandemic of two years ago.
Watch and wait. The facts will emerge and there will be a clearer picture.
The Aussie Cossack has been doing good work as a freedom fighter and exposing the police and government, but I think he lacks discretion, sometimes.
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Crisis Magazine:
Understanding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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Don Surber:
How’d impeaching Trump work out, Zelensky?
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All good, but ….
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Can they use her as a sandbag?
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Couch-sandbags-R-Us
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Cardimona, are you on the Catallaxy premises, now?
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I don’t have the adjectives to describe this man. It is not just a pleasure to listen to him speak, but his talks are excellent. And like the others, this opinion piece is a feast for the intellect in substance, as well as in the crafting of the words.
Neil Oliver:
We watch Russia – but we must watch what our leaders are up to here in the West
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egg_, I watched that a few days ago, but halfway through, I gave up.
He says he doesn’t buy the Great Reset agenda. That may be because he doesn’t get it.
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Tend to agree with this.
The amount of water the Wivenhoe has held back is incredible.
Don’t think the dam operators will be able to hold on much longer though before upping the release.
The rain is returning to the catchment, adding to the heavy inflows.
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Mama Bear checking up on her baby son 🙂
Reporter reflects on now-viral moment with mom
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ScumMo now speaking in Brisbane.
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It’s amazing how academics can make a great analysis – viz: “Schwab is a Central Planner, i.e. Socialist”, yet have NFI how to deal with matters “going forward”.
Presumably, Academics’ partners are left to run the household day-to-day?
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Great. Just what the world needs: millions of some of the worst dressed refugees since the Irish went looking for more spuds.
Forget stingers and javelins. Send these people pants that aren’t trackies.
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Very worrying indeed, mh.
Unfortunately, most of the news services (apart from QLD) are too busy hypothesizing on Russia/Ukraine to worry about the imminent danger to many Queenslanders.
Everything ’tis forgot: the dictatorship in Canada, the uniparty in Australia which oppresses its citizens with lockdowns, mandates and inhumane punishments for those who simply want control over their own bodies.
Then our PM proclaims to the world that he supports Ukraine because he stands for freedom!
Really, PM? You trashed your own countrymans’ freedom. You supported little-Hitler premiers when they imposed life and career destroying mandates. You saw innocent Australians smashed to the ground by vicious cops, old ladies capsicum sprayed and young, pregnant mums in their pyjamas arrested in front of their children.
And you said nothing.
But thank God for Ukraine and the Queensland floods. Now you can be nice Scomo again, worried sick about his fellow man and spouting all those platitudes you didn’t even think of during the wickedness of Covid scam.
Cutting a long and heartfelt rant shortish: I wish you all the best, Queenslanders. Stay safe. And when our PM waltzes in with his money and his poli-babble, remember that he’s been happy to condemn you – and every other Aussie – to two years of misery.
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Very excitable Indian TV channel live English coverage of the war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyeyoqwXm5o
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This is the stage when a good dose of skepticism regarding any “news” item on the Russia-Ukraine conflict is required. Until any story is confirmed by multiple reliable sources, it may need to be filed under fiction.
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Snake Island
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Mother of ‘trans’ child poses as teen to find out how Trevor Project grooms kids into transitioning
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Unchained Melody
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Magician REVEALS trick and still fools Penn & Teller!!!
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Here now, Kaysee – catching up on the news after a busy day campaigning.
What’s happening?
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I read your Column that was posted in the People’s News. Are you interested in having that put up on the blog main page, as a post?
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If you reckon it meets standards, Kaysee.
Preaching to the converted here, I know, but every little bit helps.
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If there’s anyone from this blog in your electorate, I’m sure they’ll vote for you. As you say, it is preaching to the converted.
But, just in case there is anyone passing through the site, it could help.
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If you want to go ahead, I could use what you have posted in your comment. I need a title. Also do you want it under your Cat name? That would be a bit awkward.
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The second option is if you want to write a separate post for this blog. In that case, you’ll have to send it to Adam/Admin to get it posted.
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The media’s sudden love for Ukrainians is about painting Putin as a Hitler who is friends with another person they call Hitler, that is Trump.
The history and intricacies of the situation they are not interested in and we won’t hear it.
It’s about hating Trump who defeated Ms Clinton and making the pervert Biden look a bit better for the midterms. (in my opinion).
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Here’s hoping the dam engineers have read the right manual this time and not believed in the Flannery person that it would never rain again and so let the dams fill up till they explode and cause death and destruction.
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Thanks, Kaysee – at the moment I’m particularly time-poor.
You know my IRL name, so, yeah, post it under that and maybe use a title such as “Truth-bombs from FNQ” – thank you!
In other news, briefly, over the past two weeks, I
– drove down to Canberra for the Freedom Rally
– got delayed/had to backtrack due to a flood on the Muttaburra Rd
– arrived as the rally was winding down (thus avoiding being nuked by FedPol’s “Active Denial System” (95 GHz microwave weapon))
– visited the protester camps, learned of the ‘Antifa’ attacks on them
– stayed with VC and BJ and the grandies
– had long chats with BJ, Matt C, George C, and Llew O’Brien
– walked through parliament house – twice – unmasked
– discovered Canberrans to be deep in the mass formation psychosis
– triggered plenty of Canberra locals
– displayed 3m x 1.5m “Vote 1 UAP” billboards on my tandem trailer for the whole 6,000km
– brought our 26yo last-born (son) home with me from Queanbeyan, where the Canberra lunacy was getting to him.
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Anyway, here’s some memes.
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Candy, the dam operators may have done a good job this time. We shall see.
They seem to be confident of using a large percentage of the flood mitigation space while having controlled releases.
Last week Wivenhoe was at 57% I believe, which is a different scenario to 2011. Although we still have to look at what the operators have been doing with Somerset dam which feeds into Wivenhoe.
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I hope you are right, mh. It seems a little precarious though and the rain is pelting down here again right now.
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Johnny FD.
The morning of Friday, February 24th, 2022 will be one printed in History Books as the day that Russia dropped missiles and started their invasion to the capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine. Today was the day we all needed to decide if we should prepare food to shelter in place with @bald and bankrupt or to try and escape to Lviv or even the Polish border. In this video, I show you both options, neither of them good.
STAY AND SHELTER OR LEAVE: UKRAINE 🇺🇦
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Brisbane will still be underwater tomorrow morning. But imagine what today would have been like if the water had been released at high rates on Friday and Saturday.
Large parts of Logan will be underwater tomorrow, too.
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I’ve seen that much crap posted of late, that I have to say this Ghost of Kiev Pilot comes across as 100% bullsh*t. Call it a hunch.
I could be wrong though?….nah.
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Bald and Bankrupt:
🇺🇦 A week now seems a lifetime ago in terms of the rapidly changing events in Ukraine. I arrived in the country thinking to myself ‘Putin isn’t mad enough to invade because the Ukrainian people will fight to the death for their country. It will be like Stalingrad.’ And yet I was completely wrong to underestimate his insanity. Now as I write this the people who I met in this video are living under bombs and bullets. Unbelievable how much suffering Ukrain e has gone through in its history.
I could write so much but I will leave that until my next video. In the meantime I wish the people of Ukraine well and hope for their safety in this terrible war 🇺🇦Solo Along The Ukrainian-Russian Border ( One Day Before Invasion )
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People who think this war looks “weird” on the tele need to understand that in this feminised world there aren’t any real war correspondents anymore.
Instead, we have chicks interviewing other chicks and chick politician making chick announcements and channels repeating the same days old footage because no one has the balls to go to the front and film anything.
Journalism is dead.
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Arky meant to say Sheliah’s not “chicks”. He stands corrected.
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Nice camera work. It is very hard to get bored of this.
2022 Blue Angels & Thunderbirds! (February 25th)
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Have fun before bed and enjoy your breakfast in the morning.
Threads (1984) film – less in 5 minutes
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Steve Trickler: Yep 100% I reckon.
Via Paul Joseph Watson’s twiiter
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1497660762260754438
Looks like an F-16 to me, not a Mig 29
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Historically when there were more Queens as heads of State in Europe, there were more wars – they’d gang up on another State.
Sound familiar?
As 9/11 occurred, the sole outraged caller to Wendy Harmer and Moonie that morning baying for blood as retribution was a woman (i.e. pious outrage, but no skin in the game).
Journo virtue signalling doesn’t match reality.
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Ukraine & Russia to Begin Peace Talks
Brian Craig
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Kerry Chunt’s NSW Rona “Zigzag”:
25th Feb 2022:
Masks off (again)
December 2021:
Masks back on again (Moronic variant)
November 2021:
Masks off – “living with Rona”
Yawn.
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ScumMo doing the important stuff
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“When the FACTS change, I change my opinion”.
FACTS DON’T CHANGE, RETARD.
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Zaphod Bumblebot
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California Petrol prices recently broke the $6 mark.
Sydney fuel has been almost $2/litre for Regular Unleaded for over a week.
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