Mark Gribble

@TMFScottP The witness testimony from the defamation case provides some interesting reading of which people should avail themselves before pushing any particular bandwagon in this case.

Howard is 100% right. If there is a prima facie case, the prosecution should bring it to a court of law, which can decide on guilt or innocence. (We also should talk about the culture of an organisation that results in these outcomes, if proven in court.)

@TrumpGirlLove I appreciate what you are saying but my bigger fear is that rake.

I don’t care how cute it might look to the parents recording it, this is absolutely not worth the risk, even if there was only a one percent chance of the dog biting. There’s also a rake lying on the ground. Am I wrong? 😤

@NoraBartlett14 @Aus_Vanguard @DavidCrisafulli As well as a swag of other government enterprises.

@Aus_Vanguard @DavidCrisafulli Keating’s govt sold the Commonwealth Bank. This was the people’s bank, now private

Good morning from the Taroom Trough - the first oil field to be developed in Australia for half a century. National fuel security is about drilling, refining and storing fuel locally and we’re determined to lead the country and make it happen. We’re streamlining this project under the new Taroom Trough Development Plan - and today we’re calling on the Federal Government to do the same. We’re asking for it to be assessed under the National Interest Fast-Track Assessment Pathway to remove duplicated approvals and get fuel flowing to Australians quicker. This is a generational opportunity to ensure we’re not left at the end of a global supply chain.

@lesstenny Or did Iran blink? Too early to tell. Key events to watch are whether the Straits of Hormuz open and what happens to the nuclear material held by Iran. It does seem we have been down this path of a supposed breakthrough before though.

Trump just blinked yet again I'm sure we all knew this would happen.. How many times now? 💵😂

@PeteHaileyNBCS I know a dog who would love one of those Masters dog bowls.

@TMFScottP Saying ‘fallen’ implies that this is worse than previous wars. Have you seen what the allies did to towns like Dresden in Germany. I’m pretty sure that more civilian infrastructure was destroyed as a result of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The US has fallen a long way when it threatens to target civilian infrastructure.

Neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee dissecting a former NFL player's brain, revealing tau protein tangles from repeated concussions that cause chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition leading to severe dementia. [📹 60 Minutes Australia]

@TheCalebBond excellent introduction tonight.

Let’s just make throwing legal and be done with it. #AFLDeesSuns

@redheadranting Have you thought about getting that removed? Might need some dissection but here’s a quick guide 💡

@TMFScottP @johngar45721 And to be perfectly honest it may be too late even in this case. I still find it incomprehensible how so much power can be invested in the hands of so few people. The presidencies of the US, Russia, and China can determine the fate of the world.

@GribbM @johngar45721 Should they take out Moscow, too?

So as long as someone doesn't cause a crisis, we don't need an energy security plan?

@TMFScottP @johngar45721 Too late for obvious reasons.

My Daughter came over to tell me her daughter heard that I had brain cancer. 🙄 She took this photo and sent it to me to upload to prove I'm not ill. The people who are ill are those that are spreading these ridiculous stories. I'm fit as a fiddle. You don't have to worry.

@TMFScottP @johngar45721 We know: UN declared Iran a state sponsor of terrorism; their proxies have killed many Americans, and others; they have/had a formidable arsenal; they acknowledge having enriched uranium, which they won’t surrender presumably because they want to use it. History says don’t wait.

@GribbM @johngar45721 Dunno. We'll never know the counterfactual. But frankly, my view of his foreign policy understanding and nuance isn't particularly glowing, so I wouldn't bet he's getting many of these things right, necessarily.

@TMFScottP @johngar45721 But has he prevented a greater crisis that would have been a nuclear armed Iran?

@johngar45721 Is that what I said? Or did I say Trump caused the crisis?

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

A Democrat told me with a straight face that President Trump has yet to explain the Iranian threat… REALLY? Nuclear weapons, missiles that can reach most of Europe, the world’s largest exporter of terror. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

President Trump delivered a powerful speech tonight. He was clear about our objectives in Iran: • Destroy their weapons factories • Destroy their navy • Destroy their air force • Destroy their chances of ever having a nuclear weapon The President’s leadership sends a message to the world that the United States will defend its people and its interests, and uphold peace through strength.

Shout out to the medical student interviewee who, while answering, witnessed my gushing nose bleed 🤦‍♂️ And extra points for thinking it was just part of the interview and wanted to provide me recommendations.

@BeckyQuick Fascinating interview with Warren Buffett. Thankyou.