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It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
Oh I dunno,
Seems to me it’s just a progression from the masks on everyone and lock down and Vaccine mandates and border closures and people being excluded from society and… well, you get the drift.
A lot of these arbitrary measures you’ve been right on board with.
Don’t get all hairy chested when the snowball starts rolling down the hill.
Plenty of state leadership in this country would be gagging to do what Castros child is proposing.
I’m watching one of the shows on Compound Media.
One of the chaps, Aaron Berg, a very funny Jewish chap is railing on the buyers of their merchandise.
“All the t-shirts you’re buying are XXXL or XXL, what the fuck is wrong with you people, lose some fucking weight, why do we even have Smalls in the store, don’t you know the COVID hunts down fat pigs like you”.
The quality I admire most in Jordan Peterson is his patience.
Salvadore, no to the anti-Adani show but I wish I had thought of it. What fantastic selfies for the family album.
I may have been frightened off by the lice.
And how would they have got the ME oil back to the Reich without getting past the British naval blockade? Much easier to go overland from the Caucuses.
Dover, keep in mind that’s still with COVID, not from COVID.
These Australian numbers are just so so minuscule.
It shows just how hard the US hard to go, shoving COVID patients into old folks homes to get their numbers up.
All the while screaming “AM I NOT MERCIFUL!!!!”
BoN 7:42pm
The Soviets were careful to have a different rail gauge.
Not dumb, Russians.
Same reason the Mongolians have a different rail gauge then China.
Much easier to go overland from the Caucuses.
Seriously, when it comes to Europe & WWII, this TIK chap is just so good.
References galore, 100’s sometimes 1000’s of comments on his videos where anyone taking on one of his sources gets obliterated.
Helluva community he’s built based on incredible research.
Ed Casesays:
February 15, 2022 at 7:58 pm
I realise that evidence is not your forte, bur perhaps you could favour us with some to support this statement?
On second thoughts, it’s closer to 70/30 Coalition.
Labor can’t win with 8% Green vote since only 6 or 7% will preference Labor.
Still no actual evidence, I therefore assume that it is wishful thinking from Club Photios.
Ed Casesays:
February 15, 2022 at 8:02 pm
If the AFP actually had LRAD devices at Parliament house, does that mean they were expecting the crowd to storm the building?
No, they were just trying out the technology.
A practice run with live subjects, if you like.
And now, an eyewitness report from our man embedded with the AFP.
In hindsight, he was probably doped on valium which would have a similar effect.
There’s a special place in hell for Whitmer, Cuomo & Murphy for shoving those COVID patients into old folks homes.
I don’t know how they can live with themselves.
Serious screws loose.
He’s a trained Psychologist. I don’t expect they would be impatient, especially in front of a camera debating rabid feminists.
I thought I was reasonably well read when it comes to WW2, but I am being forced to reconsider what I know. Eg until recently I believed the German preemptive strike, but now unless something comes out of the Russian archives saying that Stalin was planning an attack, I am now very skeptical.
I am about 7.5 hours through the omnibus Operation Crusader video and my opinions on Rommel and Auchinlek have changed, ie Rommel has sunk and Auchinlek has risen.
Oh shit!
This is embarrassing.
It was a tad less than that.
When I say a “tad”, I mean 93.1% lower.
I totes misread the email.
124xxx is the BSB number for the trust bank account!
I have been really busy and thought it might have been dividend + special dividend + capital return.
Plus I sold a bunch of Westpac shares into their buyback.
But even all that that doesn’t add up to $124k.
Sorry.
I jumped the gun.
I now have to get Mrs Panzer to call the Merc dealership back.
5 years? Cronkite, she’s been trolling Americans since 1991. Get real, Cronkite.
There is a chapter in Boris Sokolov’s “Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front” entitled “Stalin’s and Hitlers Plans to Attack Each Other,” yes.
until recently I believed the German preemptive strike, but now unless something comes out of the Russian archives saying that Stalin was planning an attack, I am now very skeptical.
Read “Viktor Suvorov” Icebreaker. Dude was a defector from GRU in early 1980’s. He reckons he’s seen the docs.
Here I was thinking you had 40 million shares, Sanch. How disappointing. And $124,000 in divs fits so easily into 40 million shares.
and my opinions on Rommel and Auchinlek have changed, ie Rommel has sunk and Auchinlek has risen.
Rommel was given a makeover in death that would have made Speer blush.
Perhaps they want Morrison to win?
Did big brains at The Australian think of that hot take?
Panzer, how good was the Westpac buy back.
ALL shares tendered were bought back.
Ring a ding ding.
That never happens.
Maybe, but the spell he cast over the 8th Army that the Auk had to address in an order was contemporary with his time in Africa.
Diogenes:
Again, IIRC, Hitler kept demanding the reinforcing of the Southern thrust, but Halder kept sending reinforcements to the Moscow axis.
Now, these units were in dire need of the replacement troops and equipment after the 1941 winter which had been one of the coldest on record, but it meant that the units earmarked for Fall Blau were being starved before they even started off.
The Russian counteroffensive into the German flank at the start didn’t do much for the supply and replacement rate either.
I think the diversion of resources by Halder and the rest of the OKH were the reason he was removed from his position, along with his refusal to back down on strategic matters.
Overland through Turkey, same way as they got there. Plus I suppose through the Black Sea from the northern Turkish ports.
An Australian brigade sat in Cyprus for a long time as garrison in case the Germans tried for it. The Vichy in Syria were hot and cold on German support, they let some Luftwaffe assets in but not much more than that. Very hostile to the Poms though. The British also had to contend with the idea of a major thrust from Crete to Cyprus with the Italian fleet assisting (Rhodes was an Italian base) and the idea of a German offensive from Bulgaria even before the Yugoslav/Greek campaign. Too much bread and not enough butter to smear over it. Fortunately it turned out ok.
Winston – My recall is the Germans/Rumanians had oil production in Ploesti but not so much refining capacity. If the crude had to go to Germany to be turned into gasoline it would not support a direct supply line up the Dnieper, or Volga.
I haven’t read much about the supply issues on the Eastern Front for a very long while. So I defer to other Cats. But Baku was the holy grail, and the Iran/Iraq oilfields, which were, I have to say, in the south so quite distant for the Germans. It’s one of those “what might’ve beens” if Hitler had decided to go through Turkey and leave Russia for another year. Of course Hitler was paranoid about Russia, for good reason, so it was not a simple strategic equation.
If anyone wants to read the Australian official history re the Turkish question it’s in Long V2 “Greece, Crete and Syria”. Late in the volume there’s mention (on p530) of the German Staff developing a plan for a strike into Iran through Turkey and the Caucasus in late 1941 if the Russians fell over. It was a real concern.
Man, oh man!
Now I did read that one three fucking times.
Couldn’t believe it.
So, they put it out there at a discount range of 6-14% in November.
Price drops (plus the capital component is too high meaning the franked dividend component is too low) so they pull it and re-schedule it for February.
Then they offer it up at max discount 10%, but the final discount is 6% (six pussent), with no scaleback. The last few buybacks have been scaled back by around 80%.
Monday Westpac goes off like a firecracker with everyone trying to get back in (they offered up their entire holding thinking maybe 25% would be bought back).
Me?
Waiting.
There will be another spike at the end of the week when proceeds hit the bank accounts.
But it was very, very sweet.
ZK2A:
I’d like to see BHP get back into steel mills in Australia.
This time using current technology instead of the one that nearly cost them the entire kitty.
The issue, of course, is the Unions. Until they are brought to heel there’s little chance of that happening.
Ease up JC.
I don’t think I ever said that.
Yeah, we still hold BHP, but way less than we used to.
It is currently 2.5% of the whole portfolio.
Shit, I’d be embarrassed if I had to admit that I had weighting of more than 5% BHP.
Watching the women’s ice skating I regret not taking up ice skating just for the chicks.
Getting to the Olympics would’ve just been a narrative.
Biggest problem for Auchinleck is the British combined arms methodology was very poorly developed. The tankers did their own thing and barely coordinated with the infantry. They also had a tendency to sally out during the day then piss off at dusk to lager up in some safe place.
Interestingly that is what the Americans were doing in PNG in the volume I am reading now, but that changed fairly rapidly. That’s the best thing about the Americans: they may start with egos the size of a planet and decades old tactics but they learn quick.
With you on that one.
It would be embarrassing tho. The boner would just be on display.
Give us a heads up if you get a sniff of this.
I will put my sell order in straight away.
this country should be sinking under the weight of steel mills and aluminium smelters powered by nuclear energy.
Imagine the wealth that would generate for the country.
Now I did read that one three fucking times.
Until the funds hit the account on Friday I won’t believe it.
‘bern.
I predict that buybacks with a high franked dividend component will be dead under Albo.
Duncan
I’m not a steel miller, but don’t you need to heat up iron with coal in order to create steel. There would be no use for nukes in steel making, no?
Don’t have a reference, but one account of World War Two, in the Pacific, cites the Yanks as taking the first year of the war to weed out any officers still with a peacetime mentality…
Mustapha Kemal was a British Intelligence asset, so, no, Germany wasn’t invading Turkey.
Prime Minister Albo.
Will he go slow & look for a 3 term government.
Or will he go big bang (regardless of what he’s saying pre-election) and roll the dice on a close run 2 terms.
I really don’t know.
Yes, and what will the figures look like in a month or two, when the booster wears off? You only have to look at Israel to know. You can bet your bottom dollar that they do know, and will neatly trot out booster 2 in due course. How stupid do they think we are?
I predict that buybacks with a high franked dividend component will be dead under Albo.
Yeah Albo seems to have a bee in his bonnet about franking.
Does not understand it at all.
The real dangers are if he brings in taxation of unrealized capital gains and removal of CGT discounts*. ASX will make like a hole in the ground if that happens.
Plus removal of negative gearing, of course.
* Which were suppose to simplify inflation adjustment of CGT gains. Of course now they don’t do that any more. Typical.
JC – yes, I understand that coking coal is the most efficient way to make steel. Not sure if it helps to inject some more heat with cheap electricity, I suspect not.
Aluminium on the other hand..
Thing is we have all the resources – coal, iron ore, bauxite, uranium. We do relatively nothing with them.
Ha, ha.
That’s when I reckon WBC will have another price spike!
Everyone who unexpectedly got 100% bought out looking to get back in.
I am looking at tomorrow or Thursday to re-position.
With settlement at T+2 I should be covered if they pay Friday.
But they did say “payments start” Friday.
WTF does “payments start” mean.
Oops, first sentence should be blockquoted since it’s from Sancho. Bugger.
Australian Technical Advisory Group
They don’t seem very technical.
And I wouldn’t call what they give “advice”.
I suppose they are a group.
Has anyone checked to make sure they are Australian.
Back to a bright sunshiny day here.
Coldish in the shade, of which there is lots in the old town, lots of snow caps to the north of the city too.
In the highest part of the city many of the buildings look like castles, high stone walls seemingly without openings, here and there are renaissance features.
The former bishop’s palace behind the cathedral to the right is now an art gallery, much renovated over its 1000 year existence.
Lots of tunnels and covered walkways to explore. The narrow streets meander and turn but all roads lead to Rome, eventually, I got a coffee in one of ancient buildings closer to the river, walls too thick for internet, so pretended to read the local paper instead. Naturally it’s in Catalan but you can sorta kinda get the gist, jutjats for example is judge, which I figured out from my one stop bus ride, which took me to the ‘Palace of Justice’.
Goes to show though, it’s worth exploring past Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Granada and San Sebastian.
BoN. A good point.
One of the frustrations for the British officers post Normandy was that a number of the inadequate generals captured by Rommel were freed after the Italian surrender and reintergrated into 21 Army Group. They imposed the old and discredited 8th Army tactics and orthodoxy upon their far more experienced and flexible subordinates.
‘Tanks on the right, infantry on the left’, was writ in stone in some Brigades.
Attempts by subordinates to implement true all arms tactics risked their being sacked.
WTF!
My broker just sent me notification of my
Company just sent me a letter advising that my reserved incentive shares had been nuked due to my termination.
$0.00
Rommel.
Company commander in a machine gun battalion in WW1. Paulus, of Stalingrad notoriety was in the same division.
Went to Africa. Almost got to lick the brass ring. Didn’t. Allowed the Poms and Australians an opportunity to regain initiative and learn lessons. Also allowed the Yanks (as described above) an opportunity to regain initiative and learn lessons under Patton in Tunisia. Lost the Mediterranean. Lost.
Given command of the Atlantic defences in Fwance. Seriously injured in a prang after his staff car was shot up. Lost. Killed himself.
The end.
Um, Ed, that’s why Germany might invade.
There were some quiet negotiations between the Poms and the Turks. The Turks refused the Poms request for Pommy divisions and RAF sqns being placed in Turkey in 1940/41 for the reasonable reason that the Germans would be incited to invade. But the Turks were generally well inclined towards the British. That was new to me, since I’d previously thought they were generally aligned with the Germans due to WW1 and ideology. Not so.
Albo isn’t winning anything, as a matter of fact, i’d be surprised if he makes it to the Election, especially if the Libs replace Scotty.
Is it possible that Biden’s sabre rattling with regards to Russia over the Ukraine influenced by his obligations to Burisma Holdings Limited? Burisma has been very generous towards the Biden family, and the “big fellow” has received his tithe from Hunter.
Russia says that it won’t invade Ukraine, but it wants some assurances from its neighbour to establish peaceful relations. Russia wants the Ukraine to remain a neutral buffer state and not be part of NATO, and it wants Ukraine to acknowledge Russia’s sovereignty over the Crimea.
In exchange, Russia has offered full recognition of Ukraine’s sovereignty over the Donbas region and the withdrawal of support for the separatist movement there, and, here’s the important bit, Russia will supply all of Ukraine’s natural gas requirements for five years for free.
If Kiev accepts this offer then Burisma will go broke and the Biden family will have to forgo their extra pay cheques. Will Biden go to war to keep his retainer fees coming in?
Today, one of the team said they were going to Macca’s, did anyone want anything.
One of the team jumped at the offer (not me).
Both now got food poisoning.
Ah, no.
It will play out like this.
The Wednesday after the election, that humourless undertaker Chalmers will be doing the media rounds:-
“We have examined the books.
It is shocking.
Devastating.
We have been left a financial disaster by ScoMo’s Liberals. The only responsible course is to tax da rich. We are still working on the details of these necessary taxes.”
Coincidentally, so was Churchill.
I know right?
Wut?
Turkey was neutral during tje 1940s but had long-standing good relations with Germany. And until very recently under Erdogan’s
Strongmanship‘revivalism,’ they were still quite close.I’d like to see BHP get back into steel mills in Australia.
Apparently they’re making a killing at the moment due to the supply chain issues plus some anti dumping cases landing.
Very. And they are right. Dumb sheeple will just line up every 3 months.
Dick Ed
Mustapha Kemal was a British Intelligence asset, so, no, Germany wasn’t invading Turkey.
Kemal died in 1938.
Albo’s Boomer tax.
Lol.
Boomers “but you said you wouldn’t”
And the reason they will never lift the mandates is because it will be politically impossible.
Rosie earlier …
Gasp!
Tunnels!
@ JC-
Steelmaking requires the correctly-timed and applied quantities of iron, cokE (for the carbon), lime, other alloying metals as required and so forth.
Traditionally you had coal coming into the steelworks for reduction into coke before it went into the blast furnaces, so using surplus to power the place just made economic sense.
There’d be absolutely nothing to stop a new steelworks getting all its lighting and ancillary power from a nearby nuke station, but I suspect there are processes that would still need steam generation onsite.
But practically all other smelting and refining processes demand huge quantities of cheap electricity, a situation in which atomic energy would be ideal.
And to really upset the greenies, I’d be looking at Australia’s coalfields as feedstock providers into the Fischer-Tropf process. And mandating this for all domestic liquid fuel production. Maybe even export. 🙂
I blame Grigs…
Yes one really must wonder why some are so angrily committed to discouraging people from tuning in to the facts being revealed, that Govts are still forcing doctors to lie about.
Lycra is the devil’s fabric.
If sighting someone in such..er.. priapetic circumstance, one must remember the wearer of said Lycra has made a free agent personal conscious choice to wear it.
Speaking of special and wonderful places to visit in Europe-
Has anyone else ever been taken with the idea of visiting the Whispering Gallery at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and accidentally farting just as a tour group wanders into earshot at the opposite end?
EDIT: I have found one closer to home, in the Barossa…
I’m not discouraging anyone from ‘tuning in’.
Everybody look at the shitshow, where whatever data produced (from the writers of ‘may articles’) is liberally covered in Year 9 Legal Studies showmanship, with added drama that replicates every Law and Order repeat ever written.
Look at it. Garn.
*many articles*
Because nuffies like to nuff, Mrs Faulty.
And in the process of nuffing themselves into a stupor, the critical truths tend to get lost.
The average observer gets disgusted by this and switches off. Or worse, the lies we want to be exposed and shattered get psychologically reinforced by folks’ fundamental aversion to nuff porn…
‘Nuff said.
The problems with WWII Axis wooden aircraft stemmed from a bombing raid that destroyed the only factory making the required glue:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tego_film
Correct.
What’s that got to do with his being a British Intelligence asset?
And to really upset the greenies, I’d be looking at Australia’s coalfields as feedstock providers into the Fischer-Tropf process.
We don’t really need FT fuel. Australia also has abundant untapped crude oil reserves!
Okay, this is funny (Se7en website):
Support from celebrity stoner freaks, sure. Par for the course.
That’s not the funny bit. This is:
You had me at farting.
You’re an alcoholic if you can’t get out of bed without alcohol, but stoners are up to the eyeballs before breakfast. And after a year of two of whacky weed. Calls about the dangers of alcohol must be balanced by the fact that pretty much everyone drinks.
This is true as well.
In all honesty, you need both for the various extras for all chemical processes that both materials provide. But the insanity of the era forces us to have to make choices. Oil is equally as ‘dirty’ as coal, but the Left would not have their expensive cars, provate jets, plastics to arbitrarily ban nor generator sets for their rent-a-crowd ferals to use to keep their camps lit and warm while blockading mine- and export sites without it, would they?
Nor the natural gas turbines that allow them to persist in their delusions that all the world’s woes can be solved with enough taxpayers’ money spent on wind turbines and solar panels…
I dunno, Grigsy.
It’s your bullshit, not ours…
Everything needed to go in to the capture of Moscow. The majority of the mobile units should have gone into Army Group Centre. Army Group’s North and South should have had sufficent capacity to breakthrough the respective Soviet lines to support the breakthroughs in the Centre’s theatre. Mopping up operations should have been enough to contain enemy pockets ut not slow the advance to Moscow. The South was a distraction. The distances involved there were too vast. And the attack on Moscow should have been from the rear, pincer from north and south capturing eastern approaches to Moscow, namely Gorki. All the defences of Moscow face West, reinforcements are from the East. Moscow would be in serious trouble as would everything to the south, west, and north as Moscow is the hub of their transport network. Stalin likely done.
Why would Labor raise taxes? They can print money till the cows come home now and blame inflation on Morrison and covid forever.
There’s been an occurrence of the Halley’s Comet-like Flounce Return, followed by Flounce on DashCat.
Eight final posts so far.
No dickless upticks.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1493546336079257601?s=21
Durham
@ KD-
Any tearful reports to the Furniture about the Blue Meanies on both sites?
Dunno. Yet.
I am.
It’s clickbait bullshit.
Steelmaking requires the correctly-timed and applied quantities of iron, cokE (for the carbon), lime, other alloying metals as required and so forth.
Traditionally you had coal coming into the steelworks for reduction into coke before it went into the blast furnaces, so using surplus to power the place just made economic sense.
We cracked the code to electrifying steel manufacturing
Boston Metal has developed a game-changing electrolysis process for making steel. Electrolysis is an electro-chemical process that uses direct electric current to separate chemical compounds into their constituent parts.
Our Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) technology is simpler, smarter, and greener than conventional steelmaking.
In our MOE cell, an inert metallic anode is immersed in an electrolyte containing iron ore.
The result is a clean, high purity liquid metal that can be sent directly to ladle metallurgy — no reheating required.
*Furniture Store*
The Shop is currently encumbered with Bird on various threads, extolling the virtues of West Indian girls and trying to drum up support for exterminating the you-know-who.
The usual.
The Furniture Store may not have Mrs Faulty crying about Blue Meanies,
But my god! The Birdstrike…
Anti-vaxx, carrying map and packin’ heat.
But no name… the “mentioned in the senate” link goes to something unrelated and offshore.
…stoolpigeon, anyone?
Late to the party…
1979 Dragon put on a show in my home town. Post show Marc Hunter turned up at a party I was at and aggressively starts hitting on a girl.
Girls boyfriend Mick takes offence and walks over to Hunter, grabs him by his “top knot” hair, lifts him from his seat and lands a right fair on his chin.
Hunter was helped out of there in 30 seconds by his seconds.
How we laughed.
Because they want to.
That’s a heartwarming, feel-good story the whole family can enjoy.
Why would Labor raise taxes?
“It’s what I do.” – greasy Albo
Because “they” can’t without the markets turning everything here into Sth American economics, that’s way. The reason long term bond rates are at the floor instead of the ceiling in western countries is despite large quantitative easing during covid, markets believe western central banks won’t allow this operation to turn into a hyper inflationary event. There is a finality to it.
Most meaningfully, and you’ve heard it here first ; the huge difference between QE and hyperinflation is that the finance ministries don’t post an asset on the central bank’s balance sheet in the form of public debt , ie bonds without one hugely important element occurring. Our central banks allow the markets to price the QE by buying outstanding debt at auction, which means prices determined by the market.
And Stix
Remain silent about this stuff please.
So, if I have read you correctly JC:
The money printing exercise the West’s various governments have engaged in since circa 2008-9, is a move to buy up their own debt? Thus attempting to avoid a repeat of the bad debt circulating about that provoked the collapse in the first place?
And that the latter splurge from late 2019 to today can be interpreted as an attempt to avoid the usual sort of bankruptcy that would ensue from such profligacy?
(While the usual suspects all still get filthy rich as a result? 🙂 )
Can the freezing of bank accounts that are currently occurring in Canada, occur also in Australia?
Canada seems to be the epicentre of the freedom movement just now.
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Emergency Acts do permit carte blanche, but I suspect it depends on whom is picked as a target, and what methods of ‘legal’ redress are employed in return…
Can a co-ordinated “run” on banks be an effective part of the resistance?
You’ve read what I said, but you haven’t understood , Rex.
Firstly QE or” money printing” as you refer to it, has NOT been going on since 2008/09. There was a period during the GFC and immediately later, but then QE ended. It began again in 2020 with the pandemic induced supply shock.
Secondly, the objective is not to “buy up their own debt”. The objective is to signal provision of adequate liquidity during a demand or supply shock to the economic system. Buying the debt is the preferred way to move money into the system.
Just stop.
A supply shock caused by a major pandemic is now defined as profligacy? Wow, who needs the left when there are purported members of the Right to create their very own universe?
As time passes, people do get wealthy or wealthier in semi capitalist system. That’s a feature and not a bug, Rex.
Anything could be deemed as resistance. Naked opposition to Trump’s presidency was called ” the resistance”. What would be the purpose of attempting to bankrupt the banking system?
calli says:
February 15, 2022 at 4:00 pm
So, so-so?
I have just been set up, bamboozled and humiliated by my 4 year old.
Playing and I’m blowing raspberries on his belly to happy noises and squeals of delight.
He gets me to blow on his neck belly and back.
He then points to his butt which I blow a raspberry on.
To be met by him blowing one back… from the rear…
My child is Satan.
That’s just an evil thing to do to your dad.
Easy, tiger…
I am trying determine that you are saying the monetary policy is being conducted in a controlled manner, rather than just inserting a huge amount of money into the system in a panic.
I was quite sure that it had been going on quietly in the background (particularly in the US) up to around 2016 and a little afterwards. I seem to remember Janet Yellen and the US Federal Reserve periodically popping up in Breitbart News over the matter.
Thank you. Now, if debt is something that affects your ability to borrow in future, is it not better to retire it?
I was not talking about supply shocks- they are quite capable of sorting themselves out, if one’s fiscal authorities can keep their hands to themselves- but rather the massive public spending that was engaged in.
No, I meant particular folks close to the uniparty. Wealth is not a sin, nor its development, trading or acquisition.
KD, I had thought you may have been better than that, but you are not.
Johanna took her craziness and bitterness to the Dash Cat and I exercised a right of reply.
I don’t want to be here or there in any future. That much should be clear.
My husband has Covid and I am struggling to avoid it while I care for him.
I have far more self-respect than to come here again, or to Dash-Cat (which is actually a nicer place than here now), but I did have a right to state my case there as well.
I wish everyone on both Cats the best, but these are not blogs for me.
Let it be now, please.
Also caught a bit of some hysterical bint on the ABCcess saying how Castros bastard wasn’t cracking down hard enough on the insurgents blockading the leaf capital.
Turned out it was that lover of freedom and ABC speed dial spokesthing Van Fatham
https://mobile.twitter.com/vanbadham/status/1493534084705832962?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
But don’t forget, if you tell her to ram her head up a dead bears bum it’s hate speech.
https://mobile.twitter.com/vanbadham/status/1493551943079247872?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Damn “the system”.
A traditional “run on the bank” was when a bank was percieved as being in trouble- ie approaching insolvency- and the move to close accounts and withdraw cash would cascade to it being fatally crippled. It was- as I understand- a simple state of being unable to fulfil its primary service, to receive and dispense cash for customers.
If a bank is doing the bidding of the fascist state- I don’t actually care at all about electronic transactions or obligations under martial law, these are all actions taken or not taken by humans, not uncontrollable Skynet bots- then it’s it is technically insolvent. It cannot, or will not, do what its customers expect of it, which is to receive and relinquish cash.
If I had any positive balance in any bank which did the bidding of a petit-tyrant like this, I would have no hesitation in going straight to the branch and withdrawing all funds, and the manager would have to fight tooth and nail if xe thought xe’d be able to retain a commission.
Times that by 13 million Canadians, which the polling suggests is the number who are rooting for the Bay of Rigs, and there’d be some lovely chaos.
You need to bear with me, JC.
I don’t have a lot to do with macroeconomic policy, and my understanding of debt at something to be avoided at all costs and paid down when it appears, before it becomes too big to manage comes from living.
I’m very relaxed. Legs up on the desk.
It’s controlled in the sense that central banks attempt to estimate just as much QE needed in order to maintain nominal GDP at the target ( real GDP plus the deflator)
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I forget when it ended, but end it did and then when the supply shock from the pandemic began in 2020, we saw QE commence again for another reason.
You’re actually not retiring debt. The debt has moved from private hands onto to the central bank’s balance sheet. That’s not retiring debt. It’s a swap between debt with a maturity date vs money which is perpetual.
Remain focused. We’re talking about monetary policy – not fiscal policy.
Chatting to an old character on the weekend, lovely chick, school chum long ago. Talked for a while, busy party, got the impression that she wasn’t telling me everything I needed to know.
Now mine wife tells me, via another friend, that she had a crippling reaction to pfizer 1, and then horrific crash after #2. Pericarditis. Nausea, fatigue, panic attacks. She’s 47, two kids, one of nature’s treasures with everything to live for and a family depending on her. She’s embarrased and depressed, blames herself for not doing her due diligence, can’t get any contrition from her GP, and most of her once-friends are vaxx shills, and brittle and nasty with it.
It’s actually the first person I know and can name, who has been sentenced to life with mandated misery.
BeachMilk @BeachMilk
13h ·
The UK ditched mask mandates late last month, and since then infections, hospitalisations, and deaths have steadily declined.
Looks like long-term mask-wearing is MUCH more deadly than we thought, it’s right up here with taking the death shot.
https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/107798828083891549
feelthebern says: February 15, 2022 at 8:08 am
A bloke known to me (nb: this is not the same meaning as “person I like”) has been arrested for rape.
He is awaiting trial.
It is now Five years since his arrest.
Jesus wept.
Jesus is up to his sagging bottom lip in salty tears.
So, the idea is to have money circulating in market, in preference to debt?
No Lizzie, you responded to Tim Neilson who posted a montage of your works pre-the last flounce.
I am a long way from your fiercest critic, but geez.
I particularly admired Delta’s commentary about four posts into the eight-post-final-yet-again-goodbye. If a dickless uptick were available for it, I would provide it.
Indeed.
Every time the issue of franking credits comes up, in the comments pages of various newspapers, I’m always amazed at the depths of ignorance revealed.
Sure.
Rex, I think you’re confusing monetary and fiscal policy. Deficit spending is initiated by the government. The government votes on spending bills , which passes the parliament and then the spending demand goes to the finance ministry. The ministry determines if the taxes raised are enough to support the spending and if it isn’t it requests the central bank to issue debt securities into the market in order to obtain money to finance the spending bills. The central banks auctions the debt and then passes the money to treasury. That’s the basic way fiscal policy works.
QE.
If a central bank decides that it needs to quantitatively ease monetary policy it doesn’t have to purchase government debt. It can buy privately issued bonds and it can even buy stocks like the bank of Japan has done. Government debt is the preferred vehicle because we live in a fiat based currency and therefore government debt is considered risk free.
Again, the objective of QE is to raise nominal GDP. It is not to buy government debt on the sly.
Dammit, KD.
I thought you’d meant srr was carrying on. 🙁
Golly KD.
Golly gee.
Some people put ULP in a diesel tank.
Others put pepper in the salt shaker.
And then there are those who put pepper in their petrol tank.
You know it makes sense.
I’m not sure it should be seen as a preference to debt. QE is the action by the central bank to increase the money supply in order to avoid a drop in nominal GDP.
Government debt isn’t money, Rex.
Okay.
So you can still have a country up to its eyeballs in debt, yet able to manage its affairs so its economy has the purchasing power and general wealth to continue to service it, correct?
During his regime as President of Turkey, Kemal was visited by a delegation of Muslim clerics, who demanded that Turkish women would be compelled to wear a veil.
Kemal replied that Turkish women would be free to dress as they pleased, but the only women compelled to wear the veil would be those, registered with the police as prostitutes.
Or is viewing GDP as ‘purchasing power’ incorrect?
Define eyeballs. Look, if you’re asking me about government debt, I think there ought to be zero government debt except in the case of all out war. Government debt is terrible. You never can predict debt repudiation by markets. Japan has outstanding government debt of around 250% of GDP and the 10 year bond rate is fucking .21% . Look, if people have confidence in the debt interest being paid then they’re off the hook. If they don’t then the country is fucked. You can’t predict when the turn comes.
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Rex
You have a ton of flexibility when you have a fiat currency under your wing.
Have walked through several tunnels.
Seen no pizza or red shoes thus far.
Yep, it is incorrect because we need to have clearly defined terms of speech.
GDP is gross domestic product. Good enough definition is this.
Purchasing power:
They don’t mean the same thing.
Phhht.
None so blind as those who will not see.
I don’t know if it’s a chain here, but there is a speciality waffle place down the hill, that is named, in the English venacular, after its speciality, which is male genitalia shaped waffles, I just glanced at the window and thought what? the only customers I saw coming out with waffles were teenager boys, all eating waffles in the other shape.
What is wrong with people?
Exactly what I was thinking of.
A private debt is a matter between the parties themselves, and they are the only parties at risk.
As you say, Look, if people have confidence in the debt interest being paid then they’re off the hook. If they don’t then the country is fucked.
I am not comfortable with a nation’s government putting itself and all its people at risk in this way.
Thankyou, JC. I consider myself having learned something helpful and useful tonight.
mh says:
February 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm
The Age
Novak Djokovic says he’s willing to sacrifice more Opens over jab
Latika Bourke
London: Novak Djokovic says he is willing to sacrifice more trophies, even at Wimbledon and the French Open, if tournament organisers insist he be vaccinated against COVID-19 to compete.
The Serbian gave his first interview on Tuesday since being deported from Australia and banned from defending his Open title and said he was not an anti-vaxxer but that he believed that it should be about choice.
He said he was still not vaccinated.
Speaking to the BBC’s Amol Rajan, Djokovic said had already accepted that his decision to not be jabbed meant he might have to forgo competing at Melbourne Park.
“I understand the consequences of my decision, and one of the consequences of my decision was not going to Australia, and I was prepared not to go, and I understand that not being vaccinated today, I am unable to travel to most of the tournaments at the moment,” he said.
When asked if he was willing to forgo taking part in Wimbledon and the French Open, he said: “Yes, that is the price that I’m willing to pay,” he said.
“Because the principles of decision-making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.
“I was never against vaccination,” he said, adding that he did not want the jab because of his careful management of everything that goes into his body as an elite athlete.
“I keep my mind open,” he added.
Britain allows unvaccinated people to enter, although they are subjected to isolation and testing restrictions that do not apply to vaccinated travellers. It does not have vaccine mandates.
But French President Emmanuel Macron, who has made it his mission to “piss off the unvaccinated” has imposed vaccine passports and his government has signalled it could copy Australia’s lead and impose a “no jab, no play,” requirement at Roland Garros.
Djokovic said he never thought himself above the rules.
“I agree that there shouldn’t be any special rules, I never used my privileged status to get into Australia by force, so I was treated like anyone else,” he said.
When asked what his message to ordinary Australians who had endured lockdowns would be, he said he understood the nation’s frustration.
“Australia has been through one of the most severe lockdowns that we had since the beginning of the pandemic,” he said. “So I can only imagine how hard it was for Australians and I sympathise, empathise with all the people. And I can understand that there has been a lot of frustrations from the Australian people towards me and towards the entire situation and the way it was dealt with, and I understand that.”
He rejected accusations he had faked a PCR test showing that he tested positive for the virus in mid-December in order to claim a medical exemption to enter Australia on the basis that the timing of his second infection precluded him from taking the jab.
“I take COVID very, very seriously, I assure you I was taking PCR tests as anyone else, I never used my privileged status in this country or any other country,” he said.
He said he had never said he was part of the anti-vaxxer movement and claimed that no-one during the whole Australian saga asked him his opinion on vaccination.
“So I could not really express what I feel and what my stance is neither in the legal process, neither outside.”
Djokovic submitted his application anonymously to two medical boards to enter the tournament but ran into hurdles when he arrived in Melbourne and was stopped by Border Force who tried to deport him.
He successfully overturned the deportation in court but was unsuccessful a second time when the Australian government said he should be deported because he could inspire anti-vaxxers in Australia. The Federal court agreed.
Australia has a vaccination rate of 95 per cent which is one of the highest in the world.
Meanwhile, relations between the Australian government and the tennis star may be thawing with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke suggesting Djokovic might not be required to pay the legal costs as per the January 10 court order.
“We’re happy that the full federal court gave the Commonwealth a costs order in this case and yes, that’ll have to be negotiated and worked out between parties,” Hawke told ABC Melbourne.
“But we obviously lost a costs order in the initial case, so there’s a bit of work to do but we think that we might be able to have no costs for either party.“
Asked whether an agreement needed to be reached before the tennis pro sought to play at next year’s Australian Open, the minister said unpaid costs could pose an issue.
“It can be a factor in people’s entry to Australia if they owe the Commonwealth money. That can be a consideration in visa applications,” he said.
“But, you know, obviously there’s a long way to go before that’s an issue.”
So in relation to monetary policy, is it correct to say that the value of a fiat currency is proportional to GDP?
Tom says:
February 15, 2022 at 5:15 pm
So what you’re saying is, the word ‘so’ should be banned.
No, Beaugy. It’s enough to point out that people who habitually begin sentences with a preposition like “so” are illiterate bogans.
To be, or not to be…
Steve trickler says:
February 15, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Via Joel Jammal:
? The police union in South Australia has called for the end of jab mandates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShFXlozYc4
No, no, no, Fat Tony!
That should have been:
So, To be or not to be… 😛
mh says:
February 16, 2022 at 12:22 am
The interviewer is a predictable BBC dickwad, but here is the GOAT
#NovakDjokovic #Djokovic #BBCNews
Novak Djokovic breaks silence over Covid vaccine refusal – BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNaIMC4XMhc
Thefrollickingmole:
February 15, 2022 at 11:38 pm
Getting the kids to pull the finger and then let rip a good fart never gets old.
Much to Mrs Beertruk’s anoyance.
I am now waiting to do that one on the two grandkids when they get a bit older to appreciate toilet humour. 😉
Mensch.
Croatian MEP calls Murder, Murder –
https://gettr.com/post/puordg1505
TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
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Half a million unjabbed Italians over 50 will be suspended from work and left without salary today.
Mario Draghi: “The unvaccinated are not part of our society.”
The woman who stands for nothing is now exposed as the worst kind of hypocrite.
(Richo in The Oz)
So, Zali, when you’ve lost Richo……….
Gonna Be Biblical ?????????
@JediQ
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15m
WHAT THA.
German TV presenter pushes for further enforcements of the general vax mandate, then collapses live on air due to climate change.
https://gettr.com/post/puopd4630c
https://t.me/goddek
Posted on 1:34 AM · Feb 16th, 2022
putting aside the rest, where is the evidence that novavax used foetal cell lines in either development or testing of their vaccine, the only cells I see referrenced are moth cells
The Silent Coup
By Andrew W. Coy
Ever since President Trump came down the golden escalators to announce his candidacy for president of the United States, many professional and even casual observers of politics and history have wondered just what was going on in the events that followed.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/the_silent_coup.html
Attorney Thomas Renz describes the coming PROSECUTIONS of those who carried out COVID crimes against humanity
https://www.brighteon.com/f596cc8b-4b52-4152-92cb-39dadc552833
Jack Posobiec ??
@JackPosobiec
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They debanked Lindell
They’re debanking the truckers
They’re coming for you next
The COVID-19 Fraud & War On Humanity (Part 1)
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/covid19-fraud-and-war-on-humanity-part-one:e
Dr Mark Bailey and Dr John Bevan-Smith have just published a bombshell paper “The COVID-19 Fraud & War on Humanity”.
They cover everything behind the fraud – including the players, the PCR, the virology, the modelling and more.
Here is my video presenting Part One of their paper and a link to the full paper can be found here:
French convoy heads for Brussels
““I say to those who come from abroad: look at the rules in Belgium. We never had rules that were too hard and we don’t have so many anymore. So complain at home,” he said Friday”
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Brian Adcock.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Ben Garrison.
Worse than Watergate
https://rumble.com/embed/vseew8/?pub=5f67r
Dinesh D’Souza – February 15, 2022
Rumble — Hillary Clinton’s talent has been staying one step ahead of the posse. But now Durham’s posse is closing in. Bring out the handcuffs already!
Prince Andy’s off the hook…
Blot on the landscape,
Tom Sharpe. 1975
Read by David Suchet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRze0FWVYY
How come I can’t see any details of a court appearance by the chap the AFP arrested with a gun & a map of parliament?
Is this another case of the AFP over egging it?
How come lying to these Senate committees attract zero penalties?
Ottawa Police Chief resigns (via Gateway Pundit).
Danny C
@DannyC1111
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Heavily redacted bodycam videos on J6 shows conditions at the time Rosanne Boyland lay unconscious including the sound of her being beaten to death with a large wooden stick by Pelosi’s Capitol police. At the end a protester can be heard screaming: “Guys, stop! We don’t need to do this! Rosanne Boyland did not die of a drug overdose she was beaten to death!
https://gettr.com/post/pupue3f474
KSDawsons ?? ?
@KSDawsons
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Feb 15
It makes sense! ?
EarthPatriots
@EarthPatriots
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Feb 14
THIS IS BRILLIANT. Just Turn Off Your TRUCKS.
video – https://gettr.com/post/pugfi88b4e
@JasonMillerinDC @JackPosobiec
@warroom @ROHLL5
@SteveBannon @lara8 @RealGenFlynn
Tudge, not a bad minister, was a fool and is paying the price for his foolishness. I can’t read the whole thing because it’s behind a paywall.
Tudge ‘sought promotion for lover’
Stood-down education minister Alan Tudge allegedly sought to promote his former adviser with whom he was having an undisclosed affair.
Silly silly man.
gavinmcinnes
@gavinmcinnes
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1h
Ah, so now everyone admits Hillary spied. If you can concede that, you can concede there were likely other crimes.
(note: “next page” is very small at the bottom)
https://www.takimag.com/article/a_hot_m…
One of my law lecturers many years ago (and I was in the end not cut out to be a lawyer) put it bluntly thus:
The standing prick has no conscience.
Males have to control the remnant of the crocodile brain which drives the dick. They have to be aware of it and allow the logical brain to exert the sensible control. Workplace romances might spring from what Lucy of Peanuts fame termed propinquity, but the crocodile is also implicated.
Beertruk, I’m reminded of some words of wisdom from my Grandad:
Pure evil.
A friend ,a retired pharmacist, did some research after I told him my pharmacist had a number of her customers who had suffered severe abdominal pain after booster ( 6 weeks for me) Diagnosed as a Gall stone . His research discovered vaccines causing inflammation around pancreas so he thinks a causal connection. I see specialist today so will ask him.
In other “same old, same old” news, the ABC during another Senate grilling washes its hands when confronted with blatantly political tweets by persons “not directly employed by them” but whose products are bought and paid for by the ABC on a regular basis.
The big lie persists that the ABC tries to be impartial and that their employees aren’t in the vast majority likely to be Labor or Green voters.
The times we live in…
Marxist BLM protests = good.
Marxist anarchist Antifa protests = good.
Free Palestine, kill the Jews protests = good.
Nurses protests = good.
When each of the above “good” protests occur and there was a big “good” protest by public hospital nurses here in Sydney’s CBD yesterday, there is suddenly this cold hard silence. Those nurses aren’t being described as selfish…..yet I remember the screeches and howls back in July when there was a big anti-lockdown protest here in Sydney by people who were not allowed to go out and earn a crust to feed their families. They were smeared as SELFISH. I can’t find any elites, MSM or politicians parroting their favourite smears. You know what smears I mean…..selfish, violent, sinister, fringe, extreme left, far-left, dangerous, pandemic deniers etc. etc. etc. No, I just see tacit endorsement, even by conservative politicians who are too spineless and craven to speak up about the hypocrisy and never ending double standards. I see nothing and I only hear silence.
Meanwhile…anything to do with freedom and liberty….
Canadian trucker’s protests = bad.
Anti-lockdown protests = bad.
Anti-mandate protests = bad.
Freedom protests = bad.
I could go, I’m sure you get the drift. In each of the above “bad” protests, participants, even the many who are jabbed but who reject vaccine mandates or who want freedom from living with compulsory Covid porn, are smeared by elites, by a lazy MSM and by lazy parasitical politicians as anti-vaxxers, far-right lunatics, white supremacists, fringe dwellers, neo-Nazi, racists, dangerous, sinister, misogynists and all the rest of the fashionable smears designed to shut down, delegitimise and stigmatise any cause that they, the elites, the MSM and our political classes, don’t approve of.
Meanwhile, across the west, the tail wags the dog. We have the MSM, elites and governments shilling for war…..painting Putin as some kind of evil monster because he doesn’t want NATO on Russia’s doorstep and when much of the current Ukrainian impasse has been caused by a sick and moribund EU and just remember how we in the west are being ruled over by mediocre scum such as Biden (a walking corpse), Trudeau (a boy who likes to put on blackface), Johnson (a hypocritical lazy slob who parties at the same time as making everyone else lockdown), Macron (married to a walking corpse), Ardern (a grotesque cartoon figure) and Morrison (an imbecile who’s destroyed a party). And given that the boy PM of Canada who likes to put on blackface has just declared a state of emergency, please don’t lecture me with sanctimonious bullshit about Putin being a tyrant because there’s a tyrant in Canada who I think is much more dishonest than Putin*.
* Before anyone accuses me of trying to paint Putin as benign….he isn’t and I’ve never said so but at least Vladimir Putin knows what a biological male is and he knows what a biological female is and he isn’t afraid to say so.
My daily rant.
Bruce O’Newk:
OK, handy to know.
However I was thinking of using the sea route more of a way to take some of the pressure off the railways which were under a lot of stress.
The World According to Cassie is one of the most accurate pictures you will see anywhere. Not a rant, never was and never will be. You are princpled, long may it last.
LATEST: Police Move on Camp Cotter, Canberra
Wealth is not a sin, nor its development, trading or acquisition.
Damn right. If I’m a sinner its not because of my money. Not that I’m a sinner of course.
They most certainly do not.
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of crocodile dick, then you can do what you like.
Tudge is not (or does not appear to be, at least) stupid. He would have had to have known that Crumpet Whatsername may have been angling to go up the ladder and stay there on his coattails. That brings with it a risk of screechy ‘but weeeeemen’ public wailing when it goes bad.
In Tudge’s case, it went bad when a shitfaced Crumpet arrived in his motel room at 0400, woke him up and pestered him to the point where Tudge told her to GTFO. Sookage and complaints ensued.
The only thing that’s changed is that now Crumpet is hanging onto the faltering Tame/Higgins stagecoach, in what will be a vain attempt to get her picture in the paper.
Brilliant, and on the subject of crocodile dick:
Prince Andy has reached an undisclosed yet believed to be substantial settlement with the tart who skilfully got her hooks into him when she was 17.
Sounds like Madge and Charlie finally bounced Andy off a wall or two.
Well played, madam.
Dover Beach:
The thinking among the OKH/OKW strategists was the enemy capital must be taken to force a surrender.
Paris taken and France fell.
Holland surrendered when Amsterdam’s defences became untenable. The same with Poland and Warsaw.
But this didn’t apply to Russia. Moscow had fallen before but it didn’t cause the collapse of the defence effort.
Unfortunately General Halder and his staff believed this ‘take the Capital’ strategy and refused to budge – deliberately flouting Hitlers orders.
Hitler knew the issue was fuel for his tanks, and Germany could not sustain a long war without the fuel from the Soviet Union.
This was the reason for the push to the Caucuses and Stalingrad.
Hitler: “My Generals do not understand the economic realities of war.” *
He was right.
*IIRC.
I have a work colleague in Germany. He is v concerned about Putin turning off the gas. Estimates 40% will go cold. He is also adamant that renewable energy is the way to go…..believes it to be cheaper than nuclear…will create heaps of jobs…. He is in his 30s and has swallowed the green pill like a good state resource.
I suggested to him should all that fail, to keep warm he could burn all the reports he has developed. That should see him through several winters.
It was always going to end this way.
All that was negotiable was the price.
I have been thinking that there is one point I do wish to make before I move into everyone’s forgettery, because it was raised by Delta on Dash Cat. It was about my financial position.
I had a long and in the eyes of many a very successful albeit varied career, covering copywriting, film, academia and publishing, from which I gained an excellent superannuation. You do not hear about this aspect of my life from me here. I prefer to avoid leftist pushback for it as it would be identifying for me, and thus also for my husband. That, plus my own financial acumen, especially with housing investments and also my capitalising on experience gained during the dot-com boom, advanced my career and made me quite well off entirely in my own right.
Johanna’s envious slating of me as being financially well off only due to marriage is ridiculous, although marriage did bring many financial benefits and a husband who wanted to indulge me and to provide well for all four of our children (two from my first marriage) and now our grandchildren. Johanna and Delta may wish to consider that in my early years here I wished to emphasise the marital aspect of my life and financial situation as part of a general ruse to maintain our joint privacy. Also, because it was all true, and enjoyable. I do like diamonds and nice clothes. Why should I not?
Johanna makes much of her current poverty, but also big-times her work life (running Jervis Bay, ‘saving’ the bacon in huge IT deals as a public servant due not to IT experience -lol – but due to her incisive wonderfulness). If she was like me, and had worked in a genuinely senior reporting position, she should have much accumulated super, plus investments, and be living a life better than in a motel in Queanbeyan unless she has had some other major financial stressor. I don’t discount that and I don’t diss her for her situation; you go where life takes you. But Johanna’s vicious envy of me, and constant bullying of whatever I say as well as dissing my writing and intellect in general (which I wouldn’t have put up with for a minute in my career), and creating ‘memes’ here about me for newcomers and people like Delta who recall only what they chose to remember and who on Dash-Cat has wagged a schoolmarmly finger at me disregarding my thousands of other comments: well, with regard to Johanna this constant dissing all suggests a very unhappy person. She does not have to be. I have been very poor at times in my life (I’m not ‘victimising’ myself here, Delta, not at all, just stating a lived experience) and I am quite sure that it is love that buys happiness, not money.
My throat is very scratchy today. And I have a headache.
Welcome to ‘living with Covid’ I suspect. 🙂
And welcome to the forgettery. The one thing Kevin Rudd ever did for us was to introduce that term. 🙂
Custard:
Would you put it past the bastards?
If I get a little windfall in the future, it will go straight to the ABC gold account.