Just on American Military Commanders of WW2, one General Rufus Wainwright instructed the US Army in The Philippines to surrendfer, claiming the Order came from McArthur.
It was a lie, yet instead of being hanged for Treason, Truman presented him with the Medal Of Honor in 1946.
The most hated General of WW2 was Mark Clark, a total fuckwit whose incompetence got thousands of men killed after the invasion of Italy.
Australia probably had a few of those too.

Thanks for keeping this alive, bundy baba.

Asking for complete links and all. Really great comedy value.

Just on American Military Commanders of WW2,

The vast majority of the incompetents got weeded out by a system under Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, that reset Staff Officers to a level at which their competence permitted.

And trying to compare mid-1943 US Commanders at Army Level and up to their Divisional and Corps equivalents who had started building experience in Libya and Tunisia is foolish, Gypsum-Snorter. Even more so trying to compare them to mid- and late 1944 to 45 ones.

Consider also James Gavin, who chose to listen to ‘Boy’ Browning and fail to keep foremost in mind his primary responsibility to take the bridge at Nijmegen, and allowed his subordinates to dither on securing the Grosbeek Heights. The result meant the loss of early control ofnthe bridge to II SS. Pz Corps and several days of vicious house-to-house fighting. Market Garden failed right there.

Less griefing from you, Grigory. And more proper nutrition for those cattle on whose behalf you seem so perturbed…

Temple (UK) version has just dropped into SBS on demand.
Is it worthwhile to add to the binge watch list?

Apparently Mark Clark was an attention whore and complete cock, like Shane Warne.

It is said by some that he lost his shit completely when he entered Rome on 6 June, 1944 to find the correspondents faffing about over something that happened in Normandy at the same time.

Ed. The herd is gone. As dead as Bert Ironmonger (averaged 2.62 in Tests).

Apparently Mark Clark was an attention whore and complete cock, like Shane Warne.

And weary UK veterans of Anzio, Monte Cassino and the long drive to Rome, were apparently most impolite at being told by Lady Astor that they were ‘dodging’ far more important goings-on in France.

Right up there with our Julia’s “I don’t see you lot asking for tanks” quip in 2010 after the death of CPL Jared McKinney (6RAR) in Afghanistan. An action in which Daniel Keighran was awarded the VC for repeatedly exposing himself to Taliban machine gunners to allow his mates to provide first aid to, and ultimately evacuate McKinney’s body.

Politicians- Keep them away from everything…

So the Dapto Dog Caller was blowing smoke up everyone’s arse again?

Well played Mr Dominic.
Ray Hadley would be seething.

Plenty want it,

The sales figures, butchers’ shelves and Fat Lambs vs. older animal prices demonstrate your Homer Paxton-level reality dissonance, Gypsum-snorter.

Also, ‘plenty’ is a collective term. No matter how many socks and skinsuits you possess Grigory, you are just one person…

They had their revenge

Exactly the historical riposte I was thinking of, Zulu. 🙂

Though I noted that no such response was made towards Our Julia. More’s the pity…

Dr BeauGan
True, linguistics is not engineering, and I think that was Chomsky’s position, that human language is something else again.

Plenty want it

That’s what she said.

Shudders…

Thou shalt shut thy trap about thy imagined good doings.

But…but…

How will Arky tell us about his Model A now? 🙁

Would this not qualify as a violation of his Thingo No.9? 🙁 🙁

Has anybody bothered to check on the welfare of the Magistrate in question?

My Nano-Wriggler legions report no activity of interest.

Which is just as well. After farting out infinity for so long (Thanks for nothing, Bird!), they all are desperate for a good nap…

StungRay flopping about on the deck.

Pay that one. 🙂

Hadley just made the whole thing up.

I reckon De Goey’s teammates knew this, or something like this had to be on the cards.

They came out with ‘not the first time’, ‘he’s gotta pay’ and so on.

Nobody put their hand up and said ‘Yeah, it’s a complete shock because he’s usually so quiet and professional and hates making a knob of himself in public and almost never whacks chicks on the box at pubs.’

“New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has flagged that the removal of the state’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions could be brought forward as vaccination rates continue to increase.”

So the Dapto Dog Caller was blowing smoke up everyone’s arse again?
Classic stunt from the taxi driver.
Make shit up, then insist that Dom Perrottet ’96 “get on here and explain himself”.
Hadley proved one thing through the Pell saga.
He is an unreconstructed, 1950’s era, Brylcreemed religious bigot.

Don’t get too excited. It was Hazzard, Dominic Bells Palsy Passport and their masters causing trouble. No doubt there’s a big Gladys and “kill all the unvaccinated!” Chant faction left over still with plenty of power who hate Perrotet’s guts. When Perrotet didn’t fire Hazzard it was a giveaway, bad mojo.

His strategy seems to be to try and say vaccination is going so well NSW can lift the home detention of normal people ‘early’. Instead of just, say, just ordering that they be let free because as NSW Premier he says it will be so. Which smells like he doesn’t have real control and stuff like this shows there’s a faction in the NSW Liberals who really love this covid power stuff.

Now you got me thinking…
these cold nights and with mine wifey in Perth for a few days, I could string up a hogget and have it carved and bagged up in the freezer by the time she got back. Kill at sundown, might have a few hours below 5 degrees Wednesday night. Con the kids into giving me a false food safety tick, burn the entrails and bask in the warm glow of being the provider… hmmm.

This was one they actually won. Merci beaucoup Charles Martel.

Well yes, but Tours in 732 wasn’t the one I was thinking of. The 1356 Poitiers.

M?ori climate activist India Logan-Riley gave a rousing speech at the opening of the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow earlier today – and had a stark warning for world leaders listening to them.

Logan-Riley, who introduced themselves on stage in Glasgow in te reo M?ori, has told G-20 leaders, in no uncertain terms, that it is imperative that they listen to young indigenous peoples and support their fight for a better future.

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themselves? wokefication of english is underway. fuck off you communist pooftas

Hilaria Baldwin is worried that husband, Alec Baldwin, will develop PTSD after fatal shooting
poor dear

We are supposed to take this malarkey seriously?

Only if she agrees to have a bag put over her head in ‘ritual’ apology/humiliation, Tonga-style. Like St Jacinda of The Teeth did…

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/inflation-transitory-or-permanent_4069259.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-11-01&mktids=ddc736e6695fdd3d131bd248f9e6ad5d&est=KawxMGfn7Bosc0rZF%2FzkhttjWDCTiVYYnpebljNY9murtk863WG363epC%2BS8ky2a

Comrade/Comrade/Comrade

Like Smurf, but more progressive.

And less Blue.*

*Da Ba Dee, Da Ba Di…

Hilaria Baldwin looks a hell of a lot like Stevie Ray Vaughan, during the smack years.

And the Chicks are Free
Terry McAuliffe is an awful person
By Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/terry_mcauliffe_is_an_awful_person.html

If you’ve watched Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe lately, you may be guessing that he’s a pretty mean-spirited, self-centered, short-tempered jerk, who never should be allowed anywhere near political power. Now, you don’t need to guess. In a 2007 autobiography, McAuliffe freely admitted facts showing that he is quite possibly the most selfish, self-centered, unkind man in America.

In the years leading up to 2007, McAuliffe was a massively successful real estate investor and home developer. Starting in 2009, he began to invest in “green” auto technology. He ended up being investigated for visa fraud in connection with 32 wealthy Chinese nationals for whom he obtained visas in exchange for their investing $560,000 in his company.

He’s a Clintonista who raised $275 million for various Clinton activities during Bill’s presidency. He guaranteed their Chappaqua mortgage, an ethically questionable act, and was a member of the Clinton Foundation board of directors. That’s the entity the Clinton’s claimed was a charity and that most other people said was a money laundering fund. That it pretty much faded away after Hillary’s failed presidential runs suggests that the cynics had it right. McAuliffe was also an incredibly effective Democratic National Committee chair.

Then, in 2007, McAuliffe wrote his autobiography, What a Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals. At IOTW Report, someone took the time to page through that book and discovered a couple of stories that defy belief if you’ve never spent time with someone who has a serious personality disorder.

When his wife was about to deliver one of their five children, McAuliffe was so restless his wife kicked him out of the room so that he could go to a party The Washington Post held for one of its columnists. Even other guests at the party were shocked that he was out having fun while his wife was in labor. McAuliffe, however, thinks it’s a pretty good story that deserves retelling, not embarrassment.

And then there’s the time that McAuliffe was driving home from the hospital with his wife, their newborn baby, and another sibling…and decided to stop off at a fundraiser, leaving his little family trio to sit in the car:

Dorothy was starting to well up in the backseat. She was having trouble understanding how I could be taking my wife and newborn baby to a fund-raiser on our way home from the hospital. We got to the dinner and by then Dorothy was in tears, and I left her with Justin and went inside. Little Peter was sleeping peacefully and Dorothy just sat there and poor Justin didn’t say a word. He was mortified. I was inside maybe fifteen minutes, said a few nice things about Marty, and hurried back out to the car.

McAuliffe assures readers that “I felt bad for Dorothy,” but the money was worth it, and everybody was happy later. I must admit that I don’t believe the first and third assertions. These stories show a truly unparalleled level of selfish callousness.

Those two telling anecdotes explain a lot about the man on the campaign trail. In his world, everyone is stupid, everyone is wasting his time, and everyone needs to do it his way. Because he’s a money man, he must know best. That’s why he insists that “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions. I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” And that’s why he walks out of an interview after telling the reporter, “You should’ve asked better questions.”

On Sunday, on Meet The Press, McAuliffe tried a bit of gaslighting when he praised Virginia public schools, implying that his kids attended them: “We have a great school system in Virginia. Dorothy and I have raised our five children.”

Because he’s utterly self-centered, it didn’t seem to occur to McAuliffe that his implied personal connection to public schools could easily be checked. In fact, his four oldest children all went to pricey private schools. Only his youngest is currently attending a public school—and I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t end up in private school as soon as the election ends.

In an election, if I knew someone was a jerk but would also be a splendid political leader, I’d vote for him over a nice guy who would be a disaster. Fortunately, Virginia voters won’t have to make that choice this Tuesday.

McAuliffe, by his own admission, is a jerk, and he’s vehemently opposed to parents on the single most important issue in Virginia: Whether Virginia’s children should be taught race hatred and transgender fantasies. Voting against him should be a no-brainer for everyone who wants happy, healthy, well-adjusted, and well-educated children.

Top Ender:
We are going through a period of societal madness.
Logic has no place in persuading people back onto the path of sanity because logic never put them off it.
All we can do now is wait for the crash and help to pick up the pieces from the wreckage.
We can only do that if we are not caught up in the lunacy.

John Spooner.

Warren Brown.

Christian Adams.

Steve Bright.

Patrick Blower.

A.F. Branco.

Tom Stiglich.

Lisa Benson.

Cup tips early please Tom!

Thanks, Tom, good luck.

I’m copying my comment from the Dan thread over here:

‘Calling a successful opponent ‘stupid’ may be personally gratifying, but it not only denies reality, it avoids dealing with the problem at hand.

I’m not claiming that Dickhead is a Rhodes Scholar, but he is undoubtedly a very successful politician. Cunning as a shithouse rat is the comparison that comes to mind, and shithouse rats should never be underestimated.

The problem, as others have said, is that there is no other rat from any environment who has the skills and the inclination to take him on. Victoria reminds me of the ultra-blue States in the US – no matter how awful the Democrat governments are, they keep getting elected. It takes a shatterer of icons like Trump to break through and begin the process of change. Kennett was a bit like that in his heyday.

As I have said before, Victoria has a very different political tradition to NSW, which is much more pragmatic and business oriented, and even a tad libertarian.

I can’t see a lot of change for Victorians in the forseeable, unfortunately.’

Doom Pixie is unhappy.

‘No more whatever the f*** they are doing’ Thunberg in blistering COP26 attack on leaders (1 Nov)

The 18-year-old Swedish activist spoke to fellow climate campaigners outside the venue hosting the COP26 Summit in Glasgow to deliver a brutal rant aimed at international leaders. … “No more exploitation, no more blah, blah, blah. No more whatever the f*** they’re doing in there. “We’re sick and tired and we’re going to make the change, whether they like it or not.”

Bring it on kiddo. Global warming clearly isn’t happening in real world data and the Right has all the guns, at least in the US.

This just appeared in my Inbox from Service NSW.

Getting the booster vaccination is not mandatory but it will strengthen your immune system and help maintain a high level of protection against serious illness from the COVID-19 virus.

It looks as if they’ve found a way out of the painted-in corner. Possibly over the large uptake of the initial inoculation.

Early days, but I hope so.

John Roberts could have done this next week.
But no, he had to do it the day before the elections.

NEWS ALERT
Supreme Court Questions Texas Abortion Law
Supreme Court justices asked skeptical questions about Texas’ abortion ban and the state’s efforts to shield its law from judicial scrutiny.

As usual with that family, the only one worth feeding is a woman (Anne) but the production of male losers is way off the graph.

George & Charlotte are worth feeding. If the Queen can’t stay on the throne until she’s 120, republic now, please.

We almost have the heads of state of two major nuclear powers as cornholio and a tampon.

All we need now is Hank Hill and a lesbian seagull.

Who is Cornolio a description more fitted to Boris than Brandon ?

it will be up to richer nations to marshal “a vast military-style campaign” with “trillions at its disposal” to fight climate change.

I suppose expecting both rich and poor to bend over and pick up their rubbish isn’t sexy enough.

Glasgow is the biggest distraction squirrel of all time.
Also, there’s an episode of Game of Thrones where many of the big wigs assemble in the citadel while the sexy queen stays in the keep.
Everyone is saying “where is the queen” and then she blows up the citadel with green goo.
Where’s Xi, where’s Putin?
Just sayin’.
PS, not making any Bosi style predictions.

While you’re here, Bern…

I found this.

True.

Brandon is saying he is going to weatherise American homes with solar panels and ? Another Rudd disaster perhaps with new roof insulation Do they have pink bats in the USA ?

Sounds great.

Bennett asks Australian PM to designate Hezbollah a terror group (1 Nov)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met Monday with his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, at the sidelines of the climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland. … Prime Minister Bennett urged Morrison to strongly condemn Iran at the upcoming International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors meeting, set to be held later this month. Bennett also called on Morrison to have Hezbollah and all of its affiliates designated terrorist organizations by Australian authorities.

I wonder if this will be reported in our local MSM? It’s not on the Sky News website, and they’re the least lefty of the bunch.

Prince Charles, Duke of Edinburgh, called on the governments of the world to take a “war-like footing” to solve the supposed climate crisis.

I’ll take this professional hobbyist seriously when he goes out and mows enough of other people’s lawns to pay the average British power bill. Repeatedly.

In simpler, better times the heir to the throne would have had the decency to kill off the incumbent in a ‘hunting accident’ decades ago and take the throne himself – thus allowing him to be deposed by someone better and then starved to death in the Tower.

Great post overnight TE, vis-a-vis firies.

There’s some equally disturbing equivalence in other fields of endeavour.

Sancho

So the Dapto Dog Caller was blowing smoke up everyone’s arse again?
Classic stunt from the taxi driver.

I suspect that what happened was Health Hazzard and Cherry Kant making a last bid for relevance, by trying to set a narrative against Dom Perrotet ’96. The DDC was just the tool (in more ways than one) that they used.

LOL, calli.
Glorious.

Excellent blow-up storm, just passed through. Plenty of snap and crackle. Half an inch of wet stuff in 25 minutes.

Only a little one, but very promising.

#staysafedarwin

We will rebuild.

Back better.

Apart from Great House to run a place today, I have no idea.
I just can’t see the bookies getting their pants pulled down over Incentivise.
They had a win with Zaaki getting scratched from the Cox Plate, but bookies are greedy.
They want it all.

Dragger at 7.49am, the Wet’s late if it hasn’t arrived by January, but 1.5 months before Christmas is officially early. You’re just a storm junkie.

Thanx JC. Thought as much.

Bit dusty this morning. Just comerorated a relative, apparently a plain clothes type who was pivitol in bringing down an absolute grub of a criminal. None of us could get into Queensland.

And speaking of “starting in the home”, time to wage war on weeds before the Yellow Face gets much higher and shrivels usss up, precioussss.

I must disagree with the ‘for the first time ever, we are going down the plughole’ crowd here.

Because da meedja, or plastics, or something.

FGS, has anyone here ever read any history?

Does that mean Peter Fitzsimian for President?

I’d rather a punching bag/French sex doll for President than a tampon for King.

It’s like giant douche v turd sandwich all over again…

*We want Anne…we want Louis Mount Battenberg, we want lil George…*

“Elect or a appoint a President – why you might get some self important idiot…”

Anyway, I have fairly out there ideas like ostracism (and outlawry as a corollary for breaking the first rule) for piss poor public performance; the Greek model for democracy and republicanism had hard edges, like imbibing hemlock.

I wonder too if there isn’t a physiological influence as well

Calli – I don’t think so. Rather it’s because the whole world is now so interconnected that a cult can spread everywhere so fast that there’s no chance for it to be avoided. Once it takes hold the need for humans to belong, and the fear of being excluded, means that everyone must adhere to it. There then is no escape.

Previous examples are obvious, but tended to be limited to geographical areas, like Europe in the 1930s. Other places had time to build mental defenses. Now that isn’t possible.

The COP and Covid and woke have become necessary for people to believe. That they are basically erroneous doesn’t prevent that necessity.

That the education system reinforces this so strongly, by indoctrinating every single child, makes it even harder for the newest generations to mentally escape. It’s as crazy as the Xhosa when they killed all their cattle on say so of a teenage prophetess. Whereupon they starved. We again have a teenage prophetess, and the movement she represents is also crazy and Malthusian.

It is quite biblical though: Rom 1:21-22ff, 2 Thess 2:11-12.