The phone just rang but I couldn't answer it because the battery was low. I had had it unplugged for the benefit of the rice cooker. I expect it was someone informing me that I had won another yacht. First time I have heard it ring in three years. For sure, human communication has its purposes, but that is a damn good rice cooker. It is the Samsung 7.

Betting averages...Clinton 5, Trump 1. So, the the world will be grindingly and war-fully the same/same for the next four years... more wars...more misery...more waste...more terror...more economic recession/depression...more borrowing of war money from China...more horrific destruction...more delineation between rich and poor as real classes...America diminishing on time, as it should. The Roman Empire: 2000 years. The American Empire...about 60 years. 4 years isn't such a long time. 60 years is a blip. 4 years is nothing. Whatever happens after that is yet to be invented and I doubt the way forward for all good people will be somehow invented in the Americas.

So, the US is supplying state of the art anti-aircraft missiles to Al Nusra/Al Queda/Isis to bring down Russian and Syrian jets fighting ISIS. What's wrong with that?

I'm just happy that Australia is supporting this with a billion of our dollars each year we would otherwise have wasted on Humanitarian Support, or on ourselves.

Wikileaks...yes, well, we all know the US government is actively supporting ISIS. Look at the Middle East. What's new?

I guess if you had to vote in the US Presidential Election, you'd have to either vote for one terribly flawed person in Donald Trump, or two terribly flawed people in Hillary Clinton. I must admit that I am fortunate not to be an Americano, and to not really understand the subtleties of that odd and kind of primitive foreign culture.

Wikileaks: Hillary: Praising Putin. One person in private, one person in public. No wonder she gets so fatigued and doddery every day.

Wikileaks notes that Hillary Clinton has had veto power over all news about Hillary Clinton on CNN and CBS and the New York Times. Congratulations. That's real power. Who needs elections?