After about, oh 80 years of spec wearing my old man had his lenses removed for cataracts and replaced. thing…
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“Go back to where you came from” has been deemed nasty and possibly racist! But as soon as the usual…
This story is extraordinary. Lithuanian kayaker who was part of a group doing a worldwide tour of great locations. Poor…
I used to be on Russia’s side but am leaning more toward: Let the baddies eat each other up, save…
A competent medical system, which hasn’t been captured by leftist ideologues and weirdos. Unfortunately that’s what we’ve now ended up…
Moron’s last chance was:
Unfortunately he now loves the magic credit card too much.
Which means any dissembling liar with a spreadsheet full of assumptions can say anything and be just as credible.
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/male-dna-living-forever-in-women-after-sex-is-short-on-evidence/
This is why I believe it has merit. Anything that is vigorously fact checked into oblivion is probably at least partly true.
I thought if you wanted to make a car fart, you got a shouty exhaust and an RX-7…
#BRAAAAAAAARRRP
#OhNoes! 0_0
Yes. Yes, of course she is.
LOL
https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
Who am I going to believe?
Dumbarse journalists with bludge degrees or my own lying eyes when I search on NBCI or PLOS One?
Thanks, Rex. It gets confusing here sometimes when everyone uses their own personal codebook.
Sevenologists are in relatively short supply these days.
I’m not being rude, but some “normal” women literally fuck as many blokes if not more than whores do.
Was this actually normal 20, 30 or 40 years ago?
Probably. It just wasn’t as openly discussed. Or, more accurately, celebrated. For men or women.
testing Π π
Third attempt to post:
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octopii
Yes degenerate boomers.
More pi on this thread than a Zucking bakery…
AAAAAAARRRGH! Blockquote fail.
Cannot help but feel slightly guilty that I did not realise there was a wheelchair tennis scene before the AOTY thing.
I believe inco is piing
— (present participle of Pi)
Apple π
????????does this thing work?
Deep sigh
ψ
I wouldn’t mind going for something like this
Though I’d rather put the engine in a TA22 celica:)
No.
Once the electoral college has spoken it is over.
Could Biden be impeached if it was shown he was complicit in vote rigging?
Maybe.
But overturning the result and installing The Donald is not happening.
That is Hillary-talk circa 2017.
Take it to the Mathematical Character Set Discussion Forum.
It has no standing here.
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. @ChrisSalcedo: Team Biden and Democrats are using your taxpayer dollars to welcome in dangerous criminals, ironically pay China for COVID tests, and “literally kill us.”
But as the socialists screw up, will the GOP step up?
Be interesting if his election was found by Scotus legally to be illegitimate.
All Biden’s Executive Orders would therefore be illegal.
And all edicts from his czars.
That’s the whole point of AOTY now, Frank:
To keep normies feeling guilty.
It’s all our fault, whatever it is.
Uuummm, how can they not have a contingency for this, the intelligence loss would be unfathomable:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-navy-in-race-against-time-to-beat-china-to-recover-downed-f-35c-jet
Or even at least parking a couple Virginia Classes over the top of the wreck and a fleet a short way off would be a good way to say rack off we are recovering out aircraft…
Via small dead animals.
But they won’t.
The electoral college vote is done.
An electoral college member is not bound to follow the citizens votes cast, and there have been isolated instances of electoral college members doing so.
But once they cast their vote to instal a President, it is over.
And SCOTUS has already kicked several 2020 electoral challenges back to State legislatures / courts.
This is done.
Lizzie, I wouldn’t be surprised if the perpetually disaffected are, or will be, pestering Ash Barty to become an “icon” or “figurehead” for some feminist/woke cause or other.
She is of part indigenous descent. The pull will be strong on that side.
Apparently in the early phase of Polly Farmer’s career when he was the out and out superstar of the WAFL, the state government and East Perth football club used to have surreptitious “minders” around on matchdays to shield him from grievance mongers, rent seekers, freeloaders, etc.
Nowadays to give Barty similar protection, government and the tennis authorities would be high on the list of who she needed to be shielded from.
JC earlier:-
That’s a bit harsh.
It is easy for a manager or business person to make rookie errors and fall foul of employment law when they launch into employment matters without professional guidance.
It is a minefield for the unwary and inexperienced.
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Australia: Paediatrician Urges Vaccinations For Children Regardless Of Parents’ Wishes
Australia: Paediatrician Urges Vaccinations For Children Regardless Of Parents’ Wishes – GNEWS
Writer: Lois John Massie, a professor of paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, is urging doctors to vaccinate children as young as 12 with the experimental COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of parental permission. The professor also recommended chil…
https://gettr.com/post/pr1j5646c4
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Another way of looking at it is this. Scotus does overturn the 2020 election and installs Trump, on 2 Nov 2024…thereby preventing him from being elected as 47 since he already has had two terms. Then in the election the next day, since the Republicans now have no candidate, the Dem is elected unopposed.
Fair enough, Sanchez. I appreciate what you’re saying, but I’m also unsure whether the drills is able to learn from his mistakes. He’s not the sort that would fess up to a fuck up.
No, he has to be sworn in again. There is also a ten year rule, but you cannot be elected more than twice.
West Austfailure has better mongoloids in charge than you have.
Heres a Ubermong displaying its plumage.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-29/wa-22-new-local-covid-cases-library-nightclub/100790134
But Environment Minister Reece Whitby said Friday’s announcement would bring certainty for businesses.
“In the eastern states, this information had to be rolled out at the peak of Omicron rampaging through communities,” he said.
“What we’re saying is, to the business community, here is new directions or at least new information about guidelines in terms of testing protocols and other arrangements that they can look and see how it would impact on their particular business.”
He said it was impossible to give any indication of what might happen in the future with a high degree of certainty.
“I know everyone would like some black-and-white definites [sic], but unfortunately it’s not a black-and-white world with COVID,” Mr Whitby said.
“If we can save a life, if we can avoid the tragedy and the pain and the anguish of what is going on in other states through a careful approach, then I think it’s worthwhile and I think Western Australians agree that it’s worthwhile.”
This is not taken out of context or truncated, but straight from the news.
So you have certainty, but we cant be certain of anything in the future. Except we are willing to inflict anything at all as long as it might save ONE life.
Brucie:
Just stop it with these theories of yours. This last one is beyond idiotic and frankly it’s getting worse. It’s delusional and not borderline delusional. It’s full frontal retarded delusional.
What if the ”manager” keeps making the same rookie errors for 25 years?
They aren’t making any noise anywhere, they have a Facebook page which no one can open, and something called Telegram which doesn’t work on PC. This is unfortunate as there’s a lot of people who would like to support them or cheer them on their way, but they don’t know anything about the protest, it’s very poorly organised from publicity perspective.
Sancho – I’m not so sure of that. There’s been a ruction this last week about WI and AZ potentially voting in their state houses to withdraw their presidential electors due to the fraud. What that means legally I don’t know. But despite being pooh poohed by the MSM it’s clear some state legislators think they can do it.
For someone who is always banging on about Australia’s employment laws being cement-around-the-legs of employers, he is now required to explain why a problem with the FWC is purely due to ineptness of the employer.
He cannot have it both ways.
Which do you believe the employment laws are? Handbrake on productivity or simplistic guidelines?
Eggsactly Sanchez. For any hopefuls, read this very carefully and allow it to sink in. There is absolutely zero chance that in this universe the 2020 will be overturned and Trump is installed. Let this sink in.. Zero possibility. None. Zilch.
Hehe, Biden telegraphs his idea of a Scotus pick.
Anyone know any black trannies with a law degree?
Mark Steyn has suggested Tony Abbott be asked to serve as British PM.
If nothing else he’d stop the boats of illegals coming across the Channel, which is currently rated the 3rd most important issue by voters after health and the economy.
It’s a very long shot, but it’s a sign of how shallow the leadership pool is in the Conservative Party.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the bookies’ favourite, is playing his cards close to his chest and may not welcome the scrutiniy of his privileged background that being PM would bring.
Meanwhile his competition, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, recently in Australia for joint security talks, is using the Ukrainian crisis to bolster her “Iron Lady” image, although the Chinese press has labelled her a “chocolate soldier”. Well, at least she’s gotten under their skins.
The egg is now scrambled. Regardless of any legal challenge getting up, it’s done. Or, if you like, the sh*t sprayed on the wall in November 2020 has to have time to dry before it can be scraped off.
The Founding Fathers knew evil, and anticipated it. They could never have anticipated the borg that is the Dems coupled with modern technology. How could they?
1. Drills, we know you. You’ve been posting at the Cat for ages to the point where you were banned from narcissistic pubbling.
2. You once came on the old site blowharding how you fired some dude for burning your toast one morning.
3. You’ve posted comments at the old Cat that where categorically racist against racial and ethnic groups that would land you in the hothouse if employees found out.
4. You’ve often blowharded at the Cat about how frequently you’re up in front of a Fairwork tribunal.
It’s not as though we’re making shit up about your hiring “inabilities” out of thin air. You really suck as a boss by all appearances.
Again, forgive me for being so harsh, but we can’t avoid the heavy lingo when total honesty is called for. And it’s not personal ; it’s just business.
Trump’s best chance is being made speaker after the 2022 mid terms and impeaching Kamala and 25th amendmenting Biden simultaneously. He would be acting President first off, then sworn in.
Then he can be re-elected in 2024 IIRC if they don’t mis-time it.
Dude.
That’s nuts. It would also mean he was always ineligible to be an MHR, right?
No, because as a Commonwealth citizen of good repute he can sit in the British parliament. He presently serves on the UK Board of Trade, so he’s sort of got a foot in the door and he is highly regarded by the Tories.
Andrew Bonar was Canadian born.
America really does have some beautiful streets. The Boston one is my fave.
https://www.loveexploring.com/galleries/108377/americas-most-beautiful-streets?page=14
“Eggsactly Sanchez. For any hopefuls, read this very carefully and allow it to sink in. There is absolutely zero chance that in this universe the 2020 will be overturned and Trump is installed. Let this sink in.. Zero possibility. None. Zilch.”
Yep…there’s more chance of aliens arriving that this happening.
You almost sound homesick, JC.
44. Any person who –
(i.) Is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or citizen of a foreign power:
YES
JC
Have you been to West Virginia?
You miss the point, Sal.
I wasn’t defending employment laws.
They are what they are, and we have to live with that until they change.
They contain pitfalls for the unwary and poorly briefed.
That is undeniable.
Damn, man.
I just thought you didn’t like him… 🙁
Bonar Law, of course.
I’d settle for all the treasonous people in Biden’s Administration being sent to Leavenworth for the rest of their miserable lives. Give them a Bible and as much bread and water as they can eat, and nothing else. Which is pretty much what they’ve been doing to the 1/6 protestors (except for the Bible).
Dot, do I look like I have two heads and my parents were siblings? NO!
I may flown over it on the way back from Florida or the Caribbean as the plane could have taken such a route on the way back to civilization.
🙂
That means he couldn’t be a MHR.
But why would you want to if your lodgings were 10 Downing St.?
Roger
I am really. Wifey is trying to get me to go over in Feb, but it’s freezing. The kid formally graduates in May so I will be going in April and be there for the ceremony in nice weather. There’s supposed to be a freaking blizzard in NYC this weekend if I overheard wifey and the kid’s conversation correctly.
They got here ages ago.
Who do you think the Lizard People running the place are?
sheesh.
Abbott will trash his reputation forever to “save Britain” when he cucked out here (and LNP fact checkers blamed David Leyonhjelm, hilariously)?
I’d like to say I can’t see that happening but he did bring back knighthoods to ‘pwn’ the left and it totally backfired.
Why post loads of fake news?
You’re just a dickhead who is unable to control their temper on a blogsite. Posts mostly queer-eye-for-the-straight-guy type observations on other men’s clothing choices, 30% of your output is unprovoked coarse abuse of other commenters.
Roundly abusing others by holding a blog discussion comment of theirs up as a scientific statement that must not be backed off from, yet base all your own floundering into areas out of your lane as “based on probabilities, not an engineering 100 certainty” – in your lane any predictions you make that are wrong are shrugged off with fake bullshit such as; “I was really talking about the Swiss cowbell index”
Provide now, a reason why anybody should take any notice of your blowharding, or believe anything you post.
…………….GO!
Ideal!
“If nothing else he’d stop the boats of illegals coming across the Channel, which is currently rated the 3rd most important issue by voters after health and the economy.”
Whilst the illegals arrive on the beaches, want to know how many people arrived legally in the UK between 2020 and 2021….during a supposed pandemic….more than 700,000.
The thing is with the absolutely incompetent Blob Johnson and his team is that I suspect voters would be more forgiving of his lockdown parties if he and his government had attended to some of the pressing issues that concern traditional Tory voters and red wall voters….immigration, Islam, assimilation, affordable housing, power prices etc…instead Blob Johnson has just pandered to people who would never vote for him with absurd and rather extreme green and social policies.
Blob has lost the plot, there’s an argument that he’s always been a shallow opportunist however I suspect the Carrievirus has been far more lingering detrimental to him than the Covid he caught back in April 2020. Under pressure from wifey he purged men like Dominic Cummings….it’s been a disaster ever since.
BoN at 5:19.
Seriously what are you smoking?
These whacky theories make you sound a tiny bit like a pussy hat scream-at-the-sky Hillary supporter from 2017.
The 2020 Presidential election is done and dusted.
Any electoral changes to tighten up on postal vote dumps are prospective, not retrospective.
FMD.
I once put forward a similar theory on an ABC blog years ago, which goes like this:-
Bush reactivates the Florida challenge by Gore to his 2000 election just prior to the 2004 election.
With the help of Jeb they quash his 2000 election win, invalidating his 2000-2004 term and enabling him to run for effectively a third term in 2004.
A few dummies bought it, but not many.
I was being silly and trolling.
I hope you are too.
Yes. Yes they did.
New scientific paper claims octopuses are actually aliens from outer space (28 Jan)
I for one welcome our tentacled masters.
Sancho Panzer says: January 29, 2022 at 5:48 pm
So you were correcting JC’s error.
Fair call.
Correct.
Both he and Gillard never presented any Proof of Renunciation of British Citizenship.
As for Andrew Bonar, he died in 1923.
The Statute of Westminster precludes Aussies from being British P.M., but i’d say Tony is eligible.
Interestingly, Jordan Steele-John [is that a real name or an in joke?] succeeded Ludlam, who was booted under S.44 yet Steele-Dunny himself was born in England.
So he’s automatically a British subject entitled to a British Passport, but he renounced that to sit as a Senator for W.A. for a few years?
Pull the other one.
Roger, when you say ‘normies’ I take it you mean all intelligent, non-leftist thinking people. That makes me a normie… Bear, too, even though we’re both in wheelchairs. 🙂
the deadly combination of Hegel and Shame
…you’ll be a better person if you just submit
Drills
There’s no error. You know that. You also know that we know and that we know you know that we know. Go clean the bar.
Shorter JC: “I’ve dug myself in too deep & cannot dig myself and retain any dignity – so I’ll change topic”
Situation normal.
Sancho – It’s Saturday. I’m having fun. You do know what fun is don’t you? The US electoral system is such a rat’s-nest that almost anything is possible. The Dems seem to be double-daring the Right to go nuclear. I sort of hope they do, but I don’t like the blood that would be spilt (mainly from Democrats) in such a circumstance.
Otoh, he could redeem his reputation. Stop the boats, bolster the NHS (an area she has at least some expertise in) and preside over an economic recovery with reform minded Sunak as Chancellor. As an outsider Abbott might appeal to the Purple Wall constituency too, which is crucial for the Tories to hold government.
It’s an intriguing notion.
It was very dismaying seeing normally logical people mirror ‘progressive’ on the election threads.
Never go full numberwang.
Bruce of N:
Where did you say you read the Ivan Southall account of the Sunderland vs 8 x Ju88?
There’s apparently quite a good memorial at Praa Sands (where they ditched the Sunderland onto the beach).
That after action report you linked was a corker.
Not sure how you got there.
He said you had, by your own admission, got into a few employment law scrapes.
I said that is easy to do for the inexperienced and uninitiated.
No conflict there.
No Rex, I don’t dislike the Driller. I just think he’s a fucking moron of the worst type, but I don’t dislike him in the least. It’s not kosher to dislike an imbecile.
Israel is overrun with Covid. The vaccines have failed. The experiment must stop.
Delta, I’d be mortified if you took it the wrong way!
I meant the people who aren’t obsessed by prog-left politics, or politics at all really, and just want to get on with their lives, but they therefore have a certain naivety that makes them the targets of lefty agitprop. The covid theatre has revealed how open to manipulation people are these days.
Because that was what you were doing.
A misrepresentation (presumably deliberate by you) of what he wrote.
You had to do that, as he’s full of shit – as you well know.
Yes, you were correcting him.
He was making conflicting claims about the FWA. Only one of his claims can be true.
You say you believe his earlier claims, rather than his claim of today.
Ergo, you were correcting him.
Good call.
You’re too hard on WV, JC.
There are some “baller” joints near Greenbrier, Summersville and White Sulphur Springs.
As said above, you’re just a random arsehole who cannot control their temper on a blog site.
Compounded by being wrong with almost everything you post.
Situation normal.
Bawston is great and Beacon Hill in particular is a beautiful part of town.
We stayed on Charles St in 2016 and there is a street just around the corner (Louisburg Square?) which is simply magnificent.
Three story red bricks with colonial pane windows overlooking a median park with massive deciduous trees.
Spoilt it when I found that moron John Kerry owned a house there.
Wifey’s money apparently.
Haha, another one.
Joni Mitchell to follow Neil Young in removing music from Spotify over COVID-19 misinformation (29 Jan)
The problem for Mz Mitchell is (a) Rogan has an audience in the literal tens of millions and (b) what he is saying is actually correct.
“What Have You Guys Been Right About?” Adam Carolla Slams Media Over Joe Rogan Controversy (28 Jan)
Funny how the counterculture rockers who were against the Man in the day are now slavish serfs.
That Berenson piece is journalistic dynamite, as Monty Burns would say.
You are clearly confused Sal.
I genuinely think you are reading someone else’s posts and attributing them to me.
Take a deep breath and calm down, Tiger.
It must be tough running a business in these straitened times.
I understand.
No hard feelings.
I wasn’t ‘rationalising away’ I was making it clear that the 24 January changes to a ‘vaccination pass’ has significantly curtailed the freedom of unvaccinated French citizens.
And that I wasn’t trampling around mocking the extraordinary suffering of the French unvaccinated which effectively amounts to being unable to dine out or go clubbing.
I’m rather sick of other people telling me what I think or what I see or what I cause.
If anyone thinks they “know “ what the outcome will be in the USA when it’s obvious they have an illegitimate President is full of shit!
No.
You can drop the sophistry now. Kindergarten hour is over.
Drills
I don’t lose my temper, but I have a fundamental problem in my makeup that I find blowhard imbeciles like you very difficult to tolerate. Don’t give me a hard time for the times I highlighted your idiocy, blowhardeness and dishonesty. Think better of me for the numerous times I kept silent in highlighting these horrific faults about you.
Tell us more about how difficult it is charging GST on gambling bets 🙂
Panzer: You have a lot in common with Turnbull.
Reflect on that for several days, then return to Catallaxy resolving to do bettere. 😀
Entire banks of screenshots say different.
Barry Manilow was quick to deny a rumour he was getting off Spotify.
Yes, not only is he still alive but he’s still working.
His new musical Harmony – based on the true story of a vaudeville troupe composed of Gentiles & Jews who hit the big time in 1920s Germany – is playing in NYC.
His music isn’t my cup of tea but good for him!
You’re a fuckhead.
(This is not news) We all know it, & make allowances.
Sort of like having a downs syndrome cousin in the house over Christmas.
Yea, calm down Driller. Just don’t fire someone if he burnt your toast on some random morning.
The bread may be stale, but you can have all the water you can drink.
Never happened. You’re unable to post even one example of either.
Few people are dumb enough to believe your bullshit, so STFU, wanker.
Omission is also an example of dishonesty drills. You left the part out where I said I find it difficult in tolerating blowharding, dishonest imbeciles like you.
Where is this comment coming from?
Have a problem with your smashed avocado on toast at the Fern & Pot coffee bar this morning?
Now that’s uncalled for.
Calm down dickhead. It’s only a blog. Someone on another site said something very funny about you. The person reckoned that you hang around with a few beer-belly dumbfucks who live in your part of a jungle and they hang onto every word you utter. Later, you come on here and you’re treated with the utmost disrespect that’s thoroughly deserved and you end up going apeshit.
I think the person is right.
Heed thine own advice.
You make stupid comments & get called on them.
Then can’t back up your bullshit.
So start using nasty words as a substitute for evidence & reason.
Happens every time. Grow up.
Tony Abbott as British PM would be entertainment that would almost make up for these two years of hell.
And it’s just a stunning day here, again, and not a single Chinese tourist!
Poorly bred hey, says uncle Ned’s offspring. Tell us Driller, did you call him dad or uncle Ned.
so, lemme get this straight.
people that take you to task for all your mouthy bullshit are simply confused?
it’s your mouth mate.
be careful with it
Why would he want it now, anyway? If he’s going to serve his second term, he may as well have a full one. The best way to reinvigorate the increasingly disillusioned left would be to attempt to slide Trump back into the WH in some squirrely way. I think it’s better to let Biden’s people run the country into the ground a whole lot more.
Re Ash Barty. I didn’t know that and what a change it is to be able to say that about a person I admire who turns out to have aboriginal blood. Why, it could almost be like 1956 again, when some of our neighbours were ‘part aboriginal’ but you never heard about it in general conversation and their kids went to school just as we did except more regularly, joined in with community activities probably more than we did, kept a tidy house and were role models of goodness as neighbours and working folk.
Er no.
Someone on another site said something very funny about you. The person reckoned you hang around with soy-sipping betas, coz men won’t stand for your bullshit & you do not have the physical courage to sprout your online bullshit in real life, not anywhere men are. Later you come on here and you’re treated with the utmost disrespect that’s thoroughly deserved and you end up going apeshit, coz you’re too much of a coward to back your words in real life.
I think the person is right.
SATP – I have this edn of “Fly West” which is a collection he wrote for younger readers. I think The Great Combat may also be in his 461 Sqn history “They Shall Not Pass Unseen”. Southall’s obit in the SMH is here.
She is a sexologist, whatever that is.
Back in the 70s and 80s Bettina Arndt did actually write a regular column for Australian Playboy magazine. Dispensed advice which was, for the time, very open and honest – and useful to many I expect.
(I saw it when flicking past the articles to the pictures…)
Assimilation was such an evil policy.
Righto, thinking caps on.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-29/sa-flood-freight-stuart-highway-detour/100789102
I’d like to see some civvie C130s chartered, landing on the road, taking on the perishable cargo, taking off from the road and landing in the NT where more trucks can finish the ground segment.
An air bridge over the flood.
It is, agreed.
But this is the thing about it and why people shouldn’t start in on RDA, Reclaim the Line, etc for trying to make money and careers out of their activism. The political right or whatever, pro freedom people, need an established semi-professional activist network and apparatus that can be spun up to organise shit like this.
The left has it. They literally teach their people this stuff in university and we all pay for it, then they have dozens of NGO front-groups that are really actually activist cells, keeping the knowledge alive, that then mobilise for things like this when needed.
That’s why they’re so good at it. We need to get good at it too, and support people who want to do that work.
Bruce of N
Funny how the counterculture rockers who were against the Man in the day are now slavish serfs.
Funny how the lefties who once raged against “The Man”(corporates, governments, police and intelligence agencies) are now hot for all of them. Power is what they want, and now that they have it, they will never let it go.
My sister, in fact, ended up marrying a man who was part-aboriginal but I never thought of him like that. He was brought up by a non-aboriginal aunt who had great tabs on herself as a cut above a lot of the rest of us (she played the organ in the church) and although I heard his dad, her brother, was a drunk and that Sis’s boyfriend’s mum was ‘pretty dark’ in colour, the fact that his mother was also a drunk was by far the most relevant piece of information concerning him being left with his aunt. Whip smart and intelligent although no scholar, he went through high school to fifth year, was always a total Jack the Lad, handsomly swarthy in appearance hence fitting in well with the Italian boys, and if Big Sis hadn’t nabbed him first then I might have done so, although don’t ever tell her that, for she was always jealous of any attention he showed me in spite of me being a model of decorum with him. He was by far the most interesting person around at that time in that small town sphere.
Denying the “noble savage” the right to live in harmony, according to their culture, on their traditional lands…
Yes. All good, Roger.
JC! Language. It’s not even after 9pm.
Don’t forget that, as mentioned above, I can be a model of decorum. 🙂
Thanks for setting my mind at rest, Delta.
I use that for my sore muscles. Better than deep heat.
Top Ender says: January 29, 2022 at 6:40 pm
You may have flicked more pages & pictures than you first realised TE.
Bettina Arndt’s column was in Penthouse magazine. 😀
The Trump energy is gone. Hanging the Jan 6 patriots out to dry after urging them on killed his base.
He deserves Reagan like respect in the annals of history for tipping all the pre-2016 tables over, and starting the mass-brawl that followed. Particularly for breaking the spell that neocon conservacorp boomer conservatism had over the right side of politics. But I don’t think he’s got anything much left.
Also totally wrong on the vaccine stuff, Neil Young level total boomer there. Tin eared.
No-one “knows” anything for sure, right, but we can work within the realms of reasonable probability.
One thing which is at 1,000,000 to 1 is Bruce’s musings about installing Trump with a day to go in 2024 to invalidate a run by him for 2024 – 2028, one the grounds that he would have served two terms.
You want to know why it is long odds?
Well, under the Constitution, “two terms” is defined as a minimum of one full term and at least one half of another term.
Technically LBJ could have run in 1968 and served 9 years.
So that one is a bust.
As for SCOTUS overturning the Electoral College?
My estimate of the likliehood of that is at considerably shorter odds.
Say, 1,000 to 1.
The electoral college process has been run and won.
Remember. Electoral college voters are guided by popular vote, not bound by it.
Finding popular vote irregularities will not overturn the EC vote.
And Courts have already demonstrated a reluctance to interfere.
Try to think logically about probable outcomes, rather than allowing the emotional reaction to The Big Steal to take over.
She also wrote in Cleo. I only read her small column in the Women’s Weekly. Ita most probably would have been the editor at that time – late 70’s / early 80’s. Also she was seen on TV often.
Regrettably she lacked decorum.
You dunno what you got til it’s gone eh Joni?
Thank you Bruce.
From the obit in the SMH it would seem that Fly West is a childrens/young adult version of They Shall Not Pass Unseen.
I’ve covered all exits by ordering both books!
And, from a practical point of view, why would Trump want to be parachuted into that shit-show right now?
FMD.
Inflation off the leash.
Import supply chain choke points.
Petrol prices off the charts.
Ukraine about to go off like an exploding cigar.
And a strong liklihood that a new Kung Flu strain would magically pop up by lunchtime on day one.
Who wants to pick that up?
No.
Let the incontinent geriatric and his diversity hire wear it.
dopey at 7:00.
Nice.
Very nice.
(Golf clap).
And it doesn’t mean seeking the truth about the election shouldn’t continue. It’ll be a lot easer without the clown show though.
The Trump energy is gone.
Dumbest comment of the day.
Panzer: You have a lot in common with Turnbull.
Shots fired, shots fired!!!!
Just want to thank John H. for the fantastic link to the antics of Russia’s 2nd Pacific Squadron. I had some utterly mind bendingly boring sewing to get through this afternoon and that video and it’s follow up on the disastrous battle that ensued once they encountered actual Japanese made the task fly by.
I did feel a little bit uncomfortable that I was laughing out loud at the sheer insanity of it all when it is the sober topic of war but the progression of events…and then it got worse…just became more and more outrageously ridiculous. The Russian admiral and his rude names for the incompetents beneath him was particularly patient under extremely trying circumstances.
Thanks for the opportunity to learn something new about an interesting episode in the history of conflict.
Aging hippiechicks are so sad. When they were young and sexy you could at least enjoy looking at them, even if you couldn’t stand their stupidity.
Haha. Trump has a 50 point poll lead in the primaries, and is doing a rally in Texas today alongside Gov. Abbott and “a host of other Texas officials”. There sure seem to be keen to be on the bandwagon.
Meanwhile Dem pollies are avoiding Slow Joe like he’s infected with something.
Laughed out loud, Dot. You idiot.
Here’s an idea: spend less time online trying to prove you’re the smartest man in the room and more time trying to understand how politics works and how electorates change hands.
She was the after dinner speaker at an IBM mainframe users group seminar in 84 or 85. Funny and informative.
Super cereal statement of great importance by Joanee Mitchell: “I stand in solidarity with Neil Dung and the global scientistic and medico communities and hereby remove my catalogue of songs from spotify – take that you facists!” 😕
Spotify: “Go for it, you silly ol’ hippee.” 🙂
Roger, you are a true gentleman.
Not sure if Joni is your typical hippie chick.
She called out the anti-war movement as “spoiled kids” and played at army camps in the Vietnam era.
There is that to her credit, at least.
Well thay would need advice on sex.
In the soviet gulags they had a hierarchy among the inmates, the bottom of which was referred to as “the shit eaters”. Apparently food was at a premium. My money is on Pelosi.
Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc, etc.
Boomers learning what we’ve known since 1990: that their degenerate “rebellious” cult heros that like pied pipers led them and our entire society off a cliff were always faggy 100% total establishment tools.
Oops.
Yet so delicious.
Next they’ll learn that their music isn’t all that great anyway. Like, ten good songs in total from the entire period that we’re all sick from being replayed every week for nearly 50 years anyway.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news today.
I’ve been through the top part (Wheeling WV) so I haven’t seen much of the state, but it’s lovely country, same as adjoining Ohio and Pennsylvania. Lots of big rivers, interesting communities, good sized cities, but bloody cold in winter.
Rex, I just heard something on the radio about the east-west rail line is closed in SA due to flood damage. Have you heard anything about that?, it’s possible that the radio announcer was talking about something in the past.
The entire thing sounds suss.
78 year olds Peter Frampton, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young even know or care who Joe Rogan is?
Gimme a break.
Their music is still on Spotify, so it’s a NothingBurger.
Who is Joe Rogan, though?
Parents divorced when he was 5, hasn’t seen Dad for 47 years, all he remembers is the Domestic Violence [yeah, sure], grew up in Hollywood, never done a day of work in his life, total Liberal who supported Bernie Sanders [who also never did a lick of work in his entire life].
Look, I’m calling it:
Spook.
Old Bloke
I was just kidding around. I love all of the North East. I haven’t been to WV but I can imagine that it has some gorgeous natural attributes. The entire east coast appears to me to be one huge forest.
Absolutely.
But imagining that Trump will be returned to the White House in glory, with The Incontinent One dragged off in chains?
Pure fantasy.
Sex?
The correct term is “warmware interface”.
LOL
The topic was the 2020 elections being overturned.
Sorry boomers, Q was a stupid cult that was a Democrat psy op.
Go on, get angry again by being told about the real world.
Joni Mitchell to join Neil Young in departing from Spotify.
Yawn.
No self awareness of their transformation (transitioning?) into “the man” that people like them once rebelled against.
Twostix, you’ve been here every day for the past year gloatingly telling us how much you loathe anyone and everyone born more than 60 years ago because they are from the wrong era. The mad ideology you’re spouting is Critical Race Theory on steroids.
Boomer critics are splutterers.
Dot particularly. Or in their case splatterer.
Give it a rest. Boomers are people, not some construct you can vent about without any sensible basis in fact.
Easy, Tiger.
You are starting to sound a bit like Thought Leader before he went off tap at Egg_ly.
Wanna meet up for a beer to thrash it out?!?!?!
🙂
Bruce of N
I think The Great Combat may also be in his 461 Sqn history “They Shall Not Pass Unseen”.
Individual aircraft had a specific identifying letter. See Lancaster G for George in the AWM.
Aircraft U of 461 Squadron (U-461) had the undoubted pleasure of sinking German submarine U-461 in one of life’s happy occurrences.
Amazing, isn’t it? It was years before I discovered that my uncle’s wife and her mother were of Aboriginal descent – Torres Islands, as it turns out. Both women were delightful and “motherly”, particularly my Auntie Bet, who was more embracing of my childhood idiosyncrasies than most. Yes – they were of “darkish” skin, but it never occurred to me – and nothing was said at the time – that they were of indigenous background. Both lovely women, with none of the “bitchiness’ of the other side of the family’s women!
Absolutely.
But imagining that Trump will be returned to the White House in glory, with The Incontinent One dragged off in chains?
Pure fantasy.
Well I certainly haven’t said that, and you think you know what is going to happen.
You’re full of shit!
Megan
I did feel a little bit uncomfortable that I was laughing out loud at the sheer insanity of it all when it is the sober topic of war but the progression of events…and then it got worse…just became more and more outrageously ridiculous. The Russian admiral and his rude names for the incompetents beneath him was particularly patient under extremely trying circumstances.
IIRC, a very junior Yamamoto lost a finger at Tsushima.
Quite so.
I see Greta Thumbstix is beating that drum again tonight.
We all do it from time-to-time – blaming all of the ills of society on a single generation or group.
It is intellectually lazy and bigoted.
Custard.
Tell me what you think is a likely outcome of the current actions afoot in the US re election regulations and practices, and how it will impact The Incontinent One’s tenure.
If at all.
Look, I’m calling it:
Spook.
Dick Ed denounces everyone he doesn’t like as a spook.
Some here seem to think Donald Trump is the messiah….he isn’t and he never was. He’s human…very human….which is why I loved him. He made mistakes however his huge successes outweigh those mistakes. What concerns me is that the emotional reaction on the right to the “the big steal” and this is no different to the Democrat dummy spit after 2016. I find it embarrassing and I think people should focus on the future.
When I think of Donald Trump I am reminded of an anti-hero from a John Ford western. The character Trump reminds me of is the John Wayne character, Ethan, from my favourite western The Searchers (as far as I’m concerned it is one of the greatest westerns ever). Trump, like Ethan, comes home to do a job, he completes the job yet there’s a new world which has no place for him, people move on. Trump magnificently outed the swamp, the MSM scum, the GOP scum and so on but working class and middle America and the Republican party need to move on and they need to heal. Like Ethan in The Searchers, Trump needs to depart the scene with dignity, rest on his laurels, walk away and hand over to someone like Ron De Santis….who is young, attractive, clever, urbane and with a phenomenal track record governing Florida.
Anyway, that’s my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, I love Orange Man Bad and I wish for America and the world that he’d won in November 2020 but the fact is that he didn’t.
Oh my God!
Seek help, asap.
Delete your account & seek professional mental health intervention.
Turing test results: not a boomer!
Disgusting anti boomer bigotry. Give it a rest, champion.
Two fingers.
Nailed it Tom.
What about those ungrateful millennials?
Please tell us the typical “Q” theory follower’s age, etc Sancho.
Hint: Gunner isn’t the average Q-tard.
Neither are boomers, dickhead.
Who?
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 29, 2022 at 7:58 pm
IIRC, a very junior Yamamoto lost a finger at Tsushima.
Two fingers.
Like EOD technicians, could never order more than three beers at a time?
In answer to your question Sancho
I haven’t got the faintest idea, yet it is the number one subject I’m across.
If anyone thinks they know what is going to happen in the USA once they discover they have an illegitimate President is full of shit!
Firstly, Biden was born in 1942, which means he is not a Boomer.
Secondly, I was criticising an individual, not ascribing his unfortunate traits to an entire generation.
Typical sloppy Gen Y analysis.
🙂
RDA now promotes ‘meet ups’.
The decline was swift.
Huh? What did they do wrong?
Pay that one.
Cite you the factoryhand who lost the first two fingers off his right hand, and didn’t realize the loss, until the time came to say “goodnight” to the foreman..
BJ – Yes, Sunderland 461 N was in the fight with the 8 Ju-88s of which four to six were shot down. The after action report SATP mentioned is here. It is a fine read on its own, but as you would expect Southall makes the story much more storylike and polished.
Southall and his crew sank U-385 for which he was awarded the DFC.
Custard.
They won’t “discover” they have an illegitimate President.
There is so much mud in the water, and barrels of it ready to go.
Any reported irregularity will be met with “minor, no impact on the outcome”.
My prediction?
Nothing will happen outside the mid-term electoral process.
And, for me, that is the best remedy.
They already know and Trump probably also won the 2016 popular vote as well as 2020.
Hillary almost pulled off her own steal. You add up votes in some “battleground” states and she only needed hundreds of thousands more cheated ballots.
They won’t do shit, they’ll never use their guns.
So they all look and sound the same.
Isaiah 45-47
King James Version
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2045-47&version=KJV
Give up all the predictions everyone, we can’t possibly know, we can guess but in the end it will be what it will.
RDA
Nothing wrong, only very nice.
Custard, A Rassie poll shows 59% of the population believes the election was problematic… ie there was a heist. Nothing will happen.
Didn’t he warn the pollies in Tokyo his guys would run riot in the Pacific for a couple years, then the Americans would obliterate them? One should listen to an Admiral who has had fingers shot off by Russians.
What does that mean?
This is true.
It is what it is.
Shouting at the clouds doesn’t get you anywhere.
The best result will be for the GOP to take back the house and the senate this year…..and then they can rein in some of the Biden/Harris disasters…and the disasters are a plenty.
I will continue to post stuff relevant to this issue.
Yes it’s beautiful country, everything is verdant and well watered. So different to Australia, here if you go inland from the coast for 100 – 200 kms, all you see is dry, scrubby countryside, or struggling sheep and wheat properties.
…That isn’t already in play to determine the who, what, how and when of the various acts of political skulduggery and electoral manipulation in the various States and Counties identified as anomalous, the overturning of the laws that permitted said skulduggery and anomalpus behaviour, and the massive wobbly-chucking the Democrat Party and its associated coteries of activists and bugmen alike have carried out in reply.
They publicly overreached twice in Georgia with the 2 Senate seat election shenanigans at the end of 2020, then put themselves on notice with last year’s efforts to defeat Gavin Newsom’s recall election in California last year. The Virginia State Election was the warning shot to the Dems- The mid-term salvo is going below the waterline.
Cassie – There’s something very Asimov about Trump. He reminds me of Bel Riose in Foundation. Bel Riose of course is Asimov’s rendition of the Belisarius story, and psychohistory is basically the seeming inevitable inertia of the decline and fall that Gibbon described. Bel Riose/Belisarius tried with a lot of success to reverse that inertia. Trump unfortunately didn’t grasp how deep the corruption was, and how his own party were in on the corruption, so wasn’t then able to go the full Belisarius. Which raises the interesting question of what he will do if re-elected, since he now knows exactly what he’s facing.
It’ll be a wild ride however it turns out.
re Christianising France
What concerns me is that the emotional reaction on the right to the “the big steal” and this is no different to the Democrat dummy spit after 2016.
The basic difference between 2016 and 2020 is that the 2016 election was fair and caught the demorats off guard: they never expected Trump to win until belatedly they realised and then they commenced their wussia hoax machinations.
By contrast the 2020 elections were fraudulent from arsehole to breakfast and established a precedent for future demorat cheating. I still think there is a 50:50 chance biden and his fellow scumbags will find a way to call off the mid-terms.
Important news from the AO:
Although Emperor Xi hates Australia, ‘Aussie’ Guo Jiao 1573 is a major sponsor.
Tasting notes:
Dr Faustus’ Tasting Notes:
Yamamoto had studied at Harvard, served two tours as Naval Attache in Washington, and spoke fluent English. He’d traveled widely throughout the United States…
Custard, don’t get all uppity. You can post pics of yourself wearing soiled underwear for all I freaking care. It’s one thing to have a clear head about the 2020 election. It’s delusional in every way possible to think Trump is going to be president again in this current term.
And be prepared to be challenged against bullshit.
is that the 2016 election was fair and
They cheated then too.