Big Business Small Minds?

Telstra.   A name to make one think!

Telstra Australia.   A communications giant with a midget-sized mind.   One would think that a company claiming to supply telephone and internet to 95% of Australia would actually be in the business of making money.   Not so.

Years ago the Company had some half-witted American in charge. Apparently his only aim in life was to make as much money for  himself from Telstra and as much in kick-backs as he could from the Hughes company.  That’s a company which turns out some of the world’s worst junk and which this imbecile insisted on foisting of on Telstra’s Australian customers.   At inflated prices no doubt.   Obviously he was on a commission basis of some sort.

Since he departed, with a large, obscene, unearned and undeserved payout figure, not much has changed.   There is the same out-dated thinking rampant within the organization [I use that word very loosely, of course] which still does not work to maximize income.

As a customer of Telstra using their systems for home and mobile ‘phone plus wireless broadband internet I have first hand knowledge of their closed minds and lack of incentive.

I pay a goodly figure for the wireless connection that, considering the format, is fairly fast [generally].  However, the plans for such go up to a mere 15Gb which begs the question why so little?

If one should be so importunate as to exceed the measly download figure does one have to pay for excess downloading [read uploads/downloads]?   Oh no!   Where would the joy be in that?  In their [somewhat outdated] wisdom they slow ones’ download speed to a supposed 64kb/s which in reality is a great deal slower.  I have had downloads in the order of bits/sec and not too many of them are more than 300bits/s.  The frustration of being slower than a dial-up telephone connection has to be experienced to be believed.

As a one-time user of Telstra Satellite internet, an outrageously expensive connection [$69 per 500Mb d/l], I was charged some 15 cents per Mb, yes Mb, for excess usage.   One does not have to have a degree in maths to work out that that equates to some $150 per Gb!   Shades of usury – well actually it gives usury a bad name!

The response of Telstra to the question as to why downloads are slowed to such a miserable speed is that “….some people would tend to download more than they can afford….”   How ridiculous is that and how lame an excuse?   Actually Telstra send emails when one has used 50% of ones’ allowance and also when the figure gets close to total usage allowance.

Is it really beyond the imagination of those beings in Telstra who are supposed to be making a profit for shareholders to work out that people paying for excess downloads means more profit?   What is the puerile thinking behind the decision to have 15Gb as the maximum download on their plans, particularly when  ADSL customers have a limit of 500Gb or more!  Again any download increase for wireless users would surely make for more profit.   Or could it be that Telstra’s claim to be an up-to-date company providing the latest in technology for its’ customers is simply not true?   Publicity blurb?

Of course if they brought out a charge for excess usage it would have to be a little more realistic than that absurd 15 cents per Mb.   $1.50 per Gb or even $5 per Gb would be more realistic.   Also increasing the maximum on their plans to, perhaps, 30Gb or higher would be more realistic.

Or perhaps, being an Australian company, they are quite happy to be the usual 30 years behind the rest of the world.

Whatever the reasons I suspect there are many of us to whom ASDL will always be a hopeless dream especially with the Australian Labor Party’s broadband policy [policy, really?  not a word to put in the same sentence as "Labor"] which so far has resulted in people with good broadband connections getting  er……. good broadband connections.   Go figure.

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Driver fined $300 over fatal road crash

For years I have been commenting on the total mindless stupidity of judges and magistrates.     Now my opinion has been confirmed by the idiocy of a SA judge in his current decision to fine a lunatic a mere $300 for killing a man in  a senseless crash.

To quote:

The family of a man who was killed in a road crash at Blakeview in Adelaide has expressed shock the driver prosecuted has been given just a $300 fine.

Well, they may be shocked by this puerile decision but I am surely not.   Punishment is a dirty word among the legal profession, proven without doubt since one of their own, drunk and incapable, killed a cyclist, drove off and got away with it Scot freeWhat would the layman expect?

Michael Ian White, 25, originally was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

But he has been sentenced on a lesser charge of careless driving, after arguing the victim turned too slowly into a T-junction.   Any driver with a brain between his ears instead of solid bone, should realize that one should make allowances for other drivers.   There is no excuse for speeding in such a stupid fashion and then, as always in these cases, blaming someone else.   Was this pathetic excuse for a man  so full of himself  [and/or booze] that he didn’t appreciate the fact that a collision was imminent?  

I ponder the question as to the state of mind of this judge.   Inebriation or a day-release from Hillcrest, Glenside or somesuch spring to mind.

White has been fined in the Adelaide District Court and disqualified from driving for three weeks.   Really?   How harsh!   Perhaps he should have received a free cruise with all expenses paid as well, just to make up for the trauma he suffered by being charged.

Judge Peter Brebner outlined the reason for his sentencing to White.  A mate of a mate??

“I cannot be satisfied your carelessness was a substantial cause of the impact and thus death and you will be sentenced on the basis your driving was not a significant contributing factor to the death,” he said.   What a total moronic statement from someone posing as a guardian of the law.   More like a jackass which should be on display in a zoo.   Wonder who elected this one to the bench and how much he got for the act of imbecility?

‘Let down’

The crash in September last year killed Tony Stebbing. Outside court, his sister Dianne said she felt let down by the justice system.    My sympathies lie with Dianne and the widow of Tony.   However, unlike them, I am well aware of the fact that “justice” is something that cannot and will not be given by the courts but must be purchased, usually only by those with the necessary connections.   Political or monetary.

“Christmas is hard without him anyway, but I thought at least there would be some justice in the sentence,” she said.

“Twenty-one days and $300 – my brother is dead … there’s something not right about the whole thing.  [yes, it does make one wonder if there is not some connection, blood or money between the judge and the perpetrator] I’m disgusted with such a light sentence. [I'm] shocked, absolutely shocked.

“He was a very good man … he was just the best bloke, you know, you can imagine – the best man, you know loving, friendly, caring, would do anything for anybody, but he’s gone.”

The victim’s widow, Christine Stebbing, said she too was shocked.

“I know that my husband’s life was worth more than the fine that White got. I do forgive but I will never ever ever forget,” she said.   Forgiveness is the province of the religious fanatics on this planet.   Stupid selfishness such as displayed by White deserves no forgiveness.   Nor does the stupid mindlessness of the bench, most brainless members of which seem to think a life [well except theirs of course] is of little or no value.

“The pain doesn’t ever go away and I guess the shock too of it being just outside our house.

“We’d only just bought that house and Tony loved it there, he loved it because it was sort of semi-rural and we would go to walks to the top of the hill and look out over the gulf and he loved it – and within a short time our dream had literally gone.”

One can only feel the pain of this woman and decry the sort of punishment that our Courts and “judges”[I wouldn't let most of them judge a flower show] are handing down these days.   Perhaps I am one of those who does not have the misfortune of being “enlightened” in this wonderful age.   If that is the case I am glad – there should be more of us, with some of those “unenlightened” enough to be prepared to stop handling fools and killers with kid gloves and put them where they belong…………………….oh wait a moment I forgot, prisons are a sort of happy-go-lucky holiday camp these days, aren’t they.   Oh well just one more reason for bringing back hanging.

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Human rights? More like human blights.

Now that the mass-murderer Gaddafi is dead there is talk of burying his body in some secret location in the desert.      Why not just cremate the remains and throw them on the rubbish tip with the rest of the garbage?

Following the freeing of Libya, now done and dusted, the Human Rights Watch [self-importance always results in inflated titles doesn't it] are complaining that the murderous gang who collaborated in the prior mayhem have been put down.

To quote:

Gaddafi supporters ‘executed’

A human rights group says the discovery of 53 decaying bodies in Sirte suggests some of Gaddafi’s loyalists were executed during the final days of the struggle for control of the town.

“We found 53 decomposing bodies, apparently Gaddafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte,” said Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch (HRW), which investigated the killings.

“Some had their hands bound behind their backs when they were shot.”

HRW’s investigator found the bodies on Sunday at the Hotel Mahari in District 2 of Sirte, an “area of the city that was under the control of anti-Gaddafi fighters from Misrata before the killings took place”.

“The bodies were clustered together, apparently where they had been killed, on the grass in the sea-view garden of the hotel,” HRW said in a statement.

Human Rights Watch said the Sirte killings likely took place a week before the bodies were discovered.

About what exactly is this idiot Bouckaert complaining?    That a pack of ravaging dogs has been put down together with their leader?    Does this self-important nothing believe that only the leader of a ravening pack of wolves should be killed and that the rest should be patted on the head?    Does this pathetic do-gooder believe that if Hitler and his gang had been caught by partisans instead of a bunch of soft-headed Americans that Hitler would have been the only one who received rough justice?     Where do these people live. in cloud-cuckoo land?

It is natural progression during any struggle against dictatorship and tyranny that if the rebellious win then summary justice and execution are the order of the day………….and why not?   Oh, of course, I was forgetting the new modern idea of “justice” in that the perpetrator has more rights than the victim – supposing the victim is allowed any rights at all.

People like those in Amnesty and Human Rights groups should really stop being parasitic layabouts and go out into the world and get a real job of work.   Preferably where their obvious talents could be used fully.   There must be many vacancies for street sweepers and janitors around.

I guess if these self-styled knights in shining armour had their way even Gadaffi would have been accorded the red carpet treatment and sent on his happy way with a HRW badge to show he was one of the good guys.

 

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Perverts trying for “normal” again.

A private member’s bill will be introduced into the Queensland Parliament this week to allow civil unions.   I see nothing civil in sexual perversions, how come they apply that word to something so uncivil?

Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser will introduce the legislation, which would allow same-sex relationships to be officially registered in the state.  So is this Deputy Premier a member of the Greens?   Sexual perversions appear to be their prime occupation.

Mr Fraser says Labor MPs will be allowed a conscience vote.    What a crock.   Since when did any politician have a conscience, particularly Labor MP’s?

“For many people this is a clear human rights issue, and equally for other people from a particular moral or ethical or religious faith perspective position, it is a very different proposition,” he said.   People of the so-called “gays” groups should really not  have any rights except to be treated in accordance with the provisions of the old testament.

“So it’s something that needs to go to people’s conscience and obviously that can be provided for by going down this path.”    And this path is, of course, the slippery slope to Hell and a Labor strong-point.

He says the bill has supporters on the front and back benches.   Which merely goes to prove that the majority of our politicians are queers and perverts.

“It received very strong support in the caucus,” Mr Fraser said.

Premier Anna Bligh says she expects strong support within the state Labor Party for the proposal.   If Labor support it then it has to be wrong and immoral……….just look at the leader of the Party

“There will be some people who will have some strong views on it and everyone will be given a conscience vote, but I would expect overwhelming support for an idea that I believe is very important,” she said.   This idiot woman should change here name to Blah.

Deputy Opposition leader Tim Nicholls says he will not outline his view until seeing the legislation.

“Most people would recognise that this is more about a distraction than it is about fixing the real issues that Queenslanders are focused on,” he said.      Well, I hate to say it but he could be right.

“This seems to me to be more a case of Andrew Fraser trying to shore up a vote in his electorate than it is actually about advancing the interests of Queenslanders.”   Does he mean “whore up a vote”?

But Mr Fraser has dismissed Mr Nicholls’s claim it is a fringe issue, and called on Opposition MPs to follow their consciences.   Again with these non-existent “consciences”.

“I think there is general support out there in the community. I think that this is a mainstream issue that many people are concerned about and do want to see action taken,” he said.   I think this man is a total moron.   No right thinking person would give a sexual pervert the time of day.   I must admit though that I want to see action taken.   Preferably to eliminate the problem, as it should never have been allowed in the first place.

“And I know why the Opposition doesn’t want to talk about this issue and that’s because there’s a great split amongst them between those people who operate in the back room and those people who should exercise their conscience on the floor of Parliament.”       More likely the Labor party will be exercising their perverted sexual actions on the floor of the back room.

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The truth will out.

Recently the hack who cannot operate the simplest calculator simply because he doesn’t know to put the batteries in it, was touted as “The world’s greatest treasurer”.   Well, I can remember his predecessor [who unfortunately is not pre-deceased nor anything near it] who was also touted by the same title. [or was it only in his own mind?].

When the current idiot incumbents were “elected”, [well not really, they got into power with the support of some sexual pervert and his pathetic supporters], they wanted the right man for the job of Treasurer.   To ensure this they actually held a competition to ascertain the best one among them.

All Labor Party politicians in the government were given a simple test to perform.   All they had to do was answer the question “What is two plus two”.

Obviously a question which any sensible person would realize presented an almost insurmountable difficulty for them since it actually required thinking for themselves, something extremely alien to them.

This difficulty was displayed quite obviously since not one of them got the correct answer.   However this was overcome by the simple expedient of choosing the person whose answer came closest.

Which is why our Treasury Department is headed by the man whose answer of 150 was nearest and why the country is in such deep excreta.

 

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Membership plunge alarms ALP reformists – no surprises there!

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) won’t exist in 20 years [Oh please, we can only hope] unless a big slide in its grassroots membership is halted, one of the men trying to reform the party says.   What a drongo.

ALP membership has plunged from 50,000 to 35,000 over the past four years, Labor Renewal national convenor Darcy Byrne said.   Well, with an immoral rat-faced barge-assed leader kept in power by a sex pervert of a certain shade of Green, that is not surprising

“Our membership is declining at a devastating pace,” Mr Byrne told AAP.   Obviously the best news the electorate has had since this melange of Union has-beens were elected.

“We had 50,000 members across Australia in 2007 when we were elected to national government.    Of course this idiot has no concept of the reasons for the decline.   Just look around Byrne!

“We’ve got 35,000 today and if we don’t do something really substantial to make membership more meaningful and to recruit more members and supporters, in two decades’ time we’ll simply cease to exist as a membership-based party.”

Mr Byrne, who is a Leichhardt councillor, said the party faces the same issues right across the country.   Right around the  world would be more like it.

“We need to have a party that is growing … we need to halt the decline in our membership,” he added.    No, mate, what we need is a Party that has at least one member that knows what they are doing and for Labor with the Hicks, Hoboes , and Union hacks that they have as MP’s that’s about as likely as their leader winning a beauty contest.

“The only way we can do that is by making membership more meaningful.”   To make membership of the Labor Party “meaningful” would require mass suicide on the part of the members.

Mr Byrne said grassroots members must be given a greater say in how their party is run.   The only way to run the Labor Party is…….out of town.

The ALP aims to add about 8000 members before its December national conference.    Well I suppose they could find that number of idiots who would accept a free membership card if it were stuffed in the Christmas stocking.   After all those with a tendency to vote Labor must still believe in Santa Claus.

The party launched a national renewal movement on Saturday during meetings in capital cities across the country.    Hope lives eternal in the brainless head.

Perhaps there may really be a God after all and the Labor Party will disappear completely in a flash of flame and fire on its’ way to Hell – although I doubt Satan would want people there who would give the place a bad name.

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Gullibility or just plain stupidity?

I watched an article on tv this evening concerning a great revelation.   Jesus lives!    Well another nutter by name A J Miller claims to be this character.

Apparently there are numerous “followers” of this self-centred hypermaniac who have fallen for the hogwash and are prepared not only to contribute cash to this mountebank but to ruin their lives and in some cases, their marriages and families to be able to tag along on his coat-tails.

Now this charlatan, using other people’s money has bought up large properties in Queensland.     Jesus!   Really?

Followers of a man who says he’s Jesus are buying up land around Kingaroy, about 220km north west of Brisbane.

“Jesus”, whose real name is Alan John Miller, [ an offspring of William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement by any chance?] and his partner “Mary” are operating a property in rural Wilkesdale, near Kingaroy for the group they lead known as Divine Truth.     Well, divine? I doubt that very much and truth? hah nothing further from!   So zero out of 2 for that claim.

Together with the finances of their group, Alan and Mary purchased a $400,000, 240-hectare property.     What need would a real messiah have for such a large estate.    In his original form he decried any greed for possessions – why the change?

So far, the property is home to the group’s weekly meetings and there are plans to build a centre for international visitors.    Until such time as this psycho emulates the examples of his predecessors David Koresh and Jim Jones, when it will become the graveyard for all of those pathetic mindless zombies who have thrown in their lot with these two liars.   Jesus and Mary indeed!

From the air, the group’s site appears to have been cleared in the shape of an enormous cruicifix.   Nah, more like Big Bird of another kids show.

Who are the “Divine Truth”?

Alan John Miller claims he is Jesus re-incarnated and his wife, Mary Suzanne Luck, is in fact ‘Mary’ Magdalene.      Re-incarnated?   This jackass should be re-incarcerated or just re-incinerated.

QUOTE:“Jesus” addressing his followers: “I certainly don’t want to be Jesus, at the moment I certainly don’t want to be… It’s just who I am. Like one of the very first emotions I’ve had to deal with is ‘oh, oh’ I’m going to have to say that I’m Jesus. And that took me eight months of emotional processing to actually come to terms with being able to do that.”    Eight months of what?   Emotional processing?   From what tree did this monkey fall?   

If this clown IS Jesus where are the miracles?    Where are the wonderful cures made by the laying on of hands?   Where is the walking on water and the loaves and fishes?   What was that?…….fat chance?    Got that right.

From what I see of the gullibility and stupidity of this cult leader’s followers it is obvious that mindlessness is contagious and that these people are to be pitied – then they should be committed, yes I know they are but I meant to an institution.

As for Miller, Koresh, Jones or whatever his real name perhaps someone will dispose of that cretin before he disposes of his followers, who knows?

 

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First Bloke? First class idiot would be nearer the mark.

Julia Gillard’s obviously desperate, hard up bedmate says the Prime Minister is being targeted by political “bullies” who should back off and give her a break.  Oh my, I would love to give her a break – preferably just above the shoulders!

The “man”? dubbed Australia’s ‘First Bloke’ [what sort of total dickhead conjured up this pseudo-American title - implying that the Rat-face is the first lady? - NEVER!]  says he cannot understand why women seem to be the biggest critics of Australia’s first female prime minister.     Any moron who would shack up with a rat-faced hooker surely cannot be expected to be taken seriously?   Obviously there is one idiot who spends too much time around women and doesn’t listen to what men think.

He told News Limited she also gets targeted by people he calls “the big boys in town”.    That remark coming from one of the “little boys” in town is somewhat risible.

“Bullying women for me just doesn’t work,” he said.    No.   Obviously il préfère baiser un crétin!

“I just think that, you know, they should think would they like that to happen to them?   Oh come on – it is only the Rat-face who has earned that attention.

“Would they like to be called some nasty names? And why, because it doesn’t get them anywhere, it just makes them look quite silly, I think”    Think?? somehow I cannot believe this.   If he really did any thinking he would be married to a decent woman

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told Channel Nine he does not think Ms Gillard receives any tougher treatment because she is a woman.    Woman?   Is she?   Hmmm never got that stupid that I would think that.

“I don’t think anyone watching the Prime Minister in the Parliament would think that she’s a shrinking violet or a blushing wallflower,” he said.

“She’s a very tough politician and in the Parliament it’s a take-no-prisoners, give-no-quarter business.”

But Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young agrees Ms Gillard is being unfairly criticised.   Well, anyone who is in a party led by a sexual degenerate really should learn to keep her mouth  shut.   She would then only be thought a fool – not confirming it.

She says the focus should be on Ms Gillard’s policies, not what she is wearing.   Policies?   The leading Rat has never heard of the word, let alone have even one policy………….unless it is taxing people and lying about the reason.

“I think having a female prime minister has been an adjustment for people. [yeah they are only used to having fools as Prime Minister, not immoral fools] and I think that there’s more criticism probably thrown at Julia Gillard than [there] are over things that are actually relevant,” she said.    Ah, there you have it.    A load of gobbledegook disguised as a profound statement which means even less than the orator.

 

 

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American stupidity?

I don’t usually follow US politics since it is my opinion that the American people will always elect the most unsuitable person as President.     They always elect a total idiot, albeit a very rich idiot who usually fouls up the economy, gets involved in unnecessary conflicts abroad and worse, cons other countries into following his moronic ideas.

However in my internet excursions I came across a news site called “National Journal Daily” in which there was one half-assed contributor by name, Josh Kraushaar, who seems to be in the throes of some hero-worship virus.   He thinks? that the Governor of Texas would make a good president…….

Quote:  “Last month, I laid out the reasons why I thought Texas Gov. Rick Perry was the clear Republican front-runner. I’ll take it one step further: Perry would be a very formidable nominee against President Obama, and he poses a stronger threat than most Democrats realize and many Republican strategists acknowledge.  Let’s face it this is not debatable.   Donald Duck would make a very formidable nominee against  President Obummer and I think everyone including those in the Democrat & Republican kindergartens would acknowledge it.

The hits are already out. Democrats are looking at Perry’s states’ rights, anti-Washington manifesto Fed Up! as a gold mine for opposition researchers, eager to pounce on his claim that Social Security is akin to a Ponzi scheme. Who would be more qualified to pick out a Ponzi scheme than a  person well versed in operating such flagitious thema?  They think that his skepticism on climate change makes him seem extreme, [well, I guess if he has been reading about the idiot rat-face's Carbon Tax scheme in Australia it is no surprise that he is a sceptic.]   even as Obama halted implementation of antismog regulations in a last-ditch attempt to help create jobs.The only jobs that moron created were for his muslim buddies.  Most view Perry’s aggressive defense of Second Amendment rights as a general-election loser; never mind that Democrats haven’t touched the gun-control issue since Al Gore’s failed 2000 presidential campaign, and for good reason. Probably because when their idiot Constitution was drafted the moronic politicians who did so did not have any legal training and were totally unaware of how to phrase the Second Amendment without ambiguity.   Now after all these years there is still no firm ruling on just what it is all about.   Anyone trying to work it out is designed to end up in a Psychiatric Ward along with all the US Justices.     All of the conventional wisdom couldn’t be more off base.
Perry has proven throughout his long career that he’s a canny political observer, and he picked up on the anti-Washington mood enveloping the country long before the smart set in Washington did. On the campaign trail, he may be toning down the language from his book, but if anything, his broad themes of bureaucratic incompetence and government overreach [He is well versed in all of those aspects of politics] offer a striking contrast to Obama’s agenda [Does he mean the bit about filling all the White House positions with Muslims and other weirdos] and get at many of the anxieties facing Americans today. If Obama could point to a record of job creation, Perry’s musings wouldn’t have the same resonance. To an electorate registering historic levels of pessimism about the future, Perry looks more like the candidate of change—and, perhaps, hope.”   Yes, Perry should certainly be raising the hopes of most Americans at this time.   Those with even a modicum of intelligence will surely be hoping [and probably praying] that he does NOT get elected.

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Now I have heard it all.

Latest news.

The rat-face i/c Australia hasbeen moved to tears while paying tribute to Australia’s flood victims” .   Oh how sickening can these people get.  Crocodile tears indeed.   I can remember another useless Labor PM who stood in front of parliament and shed such tears when he confessed to being adulterous.     Of course his Union mates were supportive of  him, no mention of his wife.

An ex-Union hack who spent most of her working life trying to bring Australia to its’ knees through strikes, go-slows and oftentimes violence, now has the temerity to pretend that she “feels” for those who have suffered in the latest devastation to hit the country.    She never felt for those she was harming as a Union boss.

Mind you, the devastation wreaked upon Australia by the bunch of misfits known as ‘Labor’ is of much more import in the suffering imposed on Australians.    I would prefer to be devastated by something less disastrous than Labor, even a mild earthquake of magnitude 8 isn’t so bad when compared to them.

What is more galling is the fact that many people are taken in by this display of “emotion”.   Good heavens I have seen actors with much more experience of stage sobbing which has earned them awards.   This rat-face couldn’t gull anyone with any sense who is able to see just what she is all about with acting like hers.

I wonder just how much this “wannabee a real person” has contributed to any of the disaster funds being touted around the country.    If she has as much difficulty putting her hand in her purse as she does in being a moral person, instead of an immoral/amoral one, I guess it would be non-existent.     Bit like her standards.



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