[talaniman]

You know Clete, as a parent of 40 tear olds', long gone from the nest kids with there own lives in different cities, there isn't a day that goes by I don't worry my a$$ off, especially with the times we live in and the sensational headlines and happenings in the news. I do have sympathy. I get it.

[paraclete]

Tal, we have a saying; no worries. I know my kids have to make their own way, I help them out now and again. The times are difficult and will be worse for our grandchildren but people are resilient. I have faith and that means I'm not in charge and so cannot change anything. You know as well as I do that all things come to an end

[talaniman]

Your right except I take it as things change and you must adapt. Let me tell you that it's not easy as I make it look, not even close!

[paraclete]

with you there

[talaniman]

Who listens to me any more? I'm just the old guy who drools in his sleep, and they are busy doing their own thing.

[paraclete]

Who listens to me any more? I'm just the old guy who drools in his sleep, and they are busy doing their own thing.

That may be true but you can be sure they remember you

[talaniman]

Well I am a lovable crazy old man, and I'm sure you are too!

[paraclete]

I'll take that under advisement Tal, although you have leftist leanings you are alright, we can agree on some things

[talaniman]

Hows that cough doing? Did you find some safe clean air?

[paraclete]

Hows that cough doing? Did you find some safe clean air?

The cough is gone but the smoke remains, the place I went didn't turn out any better and on the morning I left I found my car covered in ash. I would say we had a pyrocumulus event over night. We are now back to high temperatures and more fires in various places and the air quality hasn't improved so brer fox he lay low. In my travels, I observed that the smoke is hundreds of kilometers from the source. There are three big fires in this state and others in other states as well many low level threats.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/homes-and-lives-threatened-in-victoria-as-bushfires-claim-volunteer-nsw-firefighter/live-coverage/eccdbf36e90795da92052636148934be

Well the chickens have come home to roost, just been told the place where I was staying two days ago has been evacuated, so it becomes personal as my son and his family are directly threatened
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-...nings/11833712

[talaniman]

I just saw the latest picture and they look BAD!

[paraclete]

I just saw the latest picture and they look BAD!

It is bad, a town south of where my son lives is wiped out, also a town to the west, there is no communication so I don't know how he has faired, I saw a map and it showed the fire front had crossed his property but it is hours old. One of the towns that was wiped out overnight I used to live in when a teen. It is a nightmare people camped on beaches. It is a major holiday resort all along the coast and there is no way out

[paraclete]

Boris has finally got the dastardly deed done, the british parliament has passed the Brexit Bill

[talaniman]

Finally the crap can hit the fan. No not immediately, but inevitably.

[paraclete]

Freedom, that's what it means, freedom from socialism

[jlisenbe]

Good morning to all of you.

Freedom, that's what it means, freedom from socialism

You hit the nail on the head.

I am sitting here interested with the talk about the "difficult times" we live in. Please don't misunderstand me. It's not that I don't have sympathy for your troubles. Still, we live in the greatest age of prosperity in the history of the earth. It literally has never been this good for all of history. Certainly there are scarcely any areas of life now that are not better, and generally MUCH better, than 100 years ago.

Suggested reading: The Worst Hard Time. Read that and you will never again speak of how hard things are now. We are living, relatively speaking, in luxury.

Yes, to be sure it is very tough in parts of Australia now. Some people, without question, are enduing terrible hardship all around the world, but in terms of averages, a person would be completely deceived to want to live in a time other than the one we are in now. I often think that is a huge part of our problem in America. We are so busy complaining that we don't appreciate what we have. We have become a nation of whiners. And yes, more frequently than I would care to admit, that includes me.

https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Hard-Ti...8661481&sr=8-2

[Vacuum7]

Talaniman: How do you figure Britain has screwed up with Brexit? To be so sure that they have fouled-up would mean that you think the E.U. must be the greatest organization ever...but what proof do you have that the E.U. is so GREAT? The E.U. is a German inspired idea design whose ultimate purpose is the GERMAN domination of Europe...plain and simple....Britain saw this and told them to go to hell....EVERY NATION has a right to self-determination, don't you think?

[talaniman]

Talaniman: How do you figure Britain has screwed up with Brexit? To be so sure that they have fouled-up would mean that you think the E.U. must be the greatest organization ever...but what proof do you have that the E.U. is so GREAT? The E.U. is a German inspired idea design whose ultimate purpose is the GERMAN domination of Europe...plain and simple....Britain saw this and told them to go to hell....EVERY NATION has a right to self-determination, don't you think?

Not saying the Brits have screwed up at all, but breaking one agreement and replacing it is a very daunting task, and in regard to trade agreements even more complex. What, you think the NAFTA agreement was a simple thing? Read it again, very small changes were made for all the hubaloo.

Be it countries or businesses every side has a right to negotiate, or renegotiate in it's own interest.

[Vacuum7]

Talaniman: O.K....The Brits might know something we don't know: They may be working behind the scenes on trade deals with nations we know nothing about, in direct competition with the E.U.....I suspect, with nothing to support this other than a hunch, that Trump may offer Boris a trade deal with the U.S.: That would be something!

[paraclete]

The british want an end to european migration, to european restrictions on every aspect of life. Already the EU is saying no trade deal unless these things are left in place. This is a german plan conceived by the NAZI and executed after the war, a united Europe was the NAZI plan for after the war