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On the subject of “research” grants, is part of the solution to give prizes, not grants? Government or industry states…
The philanthropists will very likely step in and resuscitate the projects of enemies…It’s their money…if they want to waste it,…
Guarantee they all have fruit loops for breakfast.
the only news channel that caters for everyone by airing both sides to every issue in the news. But Tarlov…
Yes, and Winnie from Barcy, Bushkid, Diogenes and I’m sure there are more who haven’t mentioned their whereabouts.
But generally, yes, Qlders are a bit odd.
What a clown.
A definite flounce.
Heh! You should meet some South Australians sometime!
Quite frankly Bird would be a breath of fresh air today. Nano wrigglers and all.
Dot is under intense pressure from the Bahnisch BBQ Brigade.
I mentioned that back on the old cat, many moons ago, and got hit by the stunning claim that we couldn’t because, ‘we have to get our tractor parts from Europe.’
That was when I knew not to try to talk really big picture stuff on a blog full of characters committed to the smotheringly narrow globalist agenda.
Ah me!
My first time at Cat and now New Cat I marvelled at man’s just inhumanity to leftist. But over time I have changed; lo these many years I marvel at some Cats’ inhumanity to each other.
Some posters are on permanent scroll for me; sometimes I read a bit by mistake but I stop as soon as I realise its a ‘scroll-on-byyyye’ poster. But the ones who transition from wise, experienced commentator to contempt-dealing fucknuckle at sherry o’clock, its a bit harder to switch before they nauseate me.
KRuddy, Wayne Goosesteen and The Mad Katter don’t help their case. I’ll raise it at the next Woomba Miata Helldrivers meeting for discussion.
Can he go 3 for 3???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili;[d] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878[1] – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
Born to an upper middle-class family in Simbirsk,…
Ulyanovsk[a] is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River 705 kilometers (438 mi) east of Moscow. 613,786?(2010 Census);[3] 635,947?(2002 Census);[10] 625,155?(1989 Census).[11]
The city, founded as Simbirsk (????????), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born Ulyanov), for whom it was renamed after his death in 1924
Oh hes failed, failed at the last fence!!! What an upset!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
Felix Dzerzhinsky was born on 11 September 1877 to ethnically Polish parents of noble descent, at the Dzerzhinovo family estate, about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the small town of Ivyanets in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Belarus).[7]
Ed-Mong even fails at being a complete failure.
Thats how fail-full it is.
I find the sherry helps. Not the sweet stuff though.
Two shandies down, hand me that bullhorn my good man and let me regale you with tales of how it is.
Also, Bundy rum might go some way to explaining QLD.
I reckon the Ruskies will hit electronic banking in the antipodes. Putin probably doesn’t know Scomo from a jellyfish but his cyber shocktroops must be compiling a list for future retaliation.
Where there are cats there are catfights. Goes with the species.
Keep your powder dry and your Whiskers in the can.
And never take prisoners.
Better start retrieving my coins living down various couches around my house
If Vlad wanted to do a poke in the eye that might not involve an exchange of high intensity radiation could he just dump an EMP blast up in the atmosphere somewhere to turn the lights out in most of the EU?
That would get hunger games really, really quick.
It’s for their benefit.
Difficult distinction to make. Probably have to refer that one to a taxonomist.
The BRS case is getting very interesting, indeed..
Person 4 should thank his lucky stars he’s alive rather than being jealous about a fellow soldier’s award.
My uncle’s body has never been recovered. He probably deserved a VC to.
FOR VALOUR
too
Anger causes typos.
Not Rex Anger.
The really angry anger. Plus disgust.
Read the text, dumbo.
Person 4 was told he was getting a VC, then politics intervened and Roberts-Smith got it instead.
2 years later Person 4 got a Cross Of Gallantry as a consolation prize for being fucked over.
Well said and on point!
…. by other soldiers, who’d “heard” this…
.. the reality was not the same as the enlisted-ranks rumour mill…. (unprecedented)
Instead😉
Medal of Gallantry. (details, pfft! what do they matter? VC, MC, CG, it’s all “army stuff” innit?)
An award for bravery under fire is never a consolation prize.
For courage under fire, dickhead.
Nobody except Brittany Higgins receives a medal for being fucked.
Or you could use a sharp stick.
Daisy Cousens on fire on bolta about the comparison between the covid measures, none, at CPAC in Florida and in Australia. Apparently when she was in Florida she got a lot of sympathy for being an Australian.
When a buy a media outlet Daisy and Liz Storer will have their own shows.
FTFU donut.
Calli
My uncle’s body has never been recovered. He probably deserved a VC to.
In very round figures, around 50,000 Australians died on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918. About 10,000 with no known grave are commemorated at the Villers Bretonneux Memorial in France, and another 5,000 or so at the Menin Gate Memorial in Flanders (Fields).
If he died in France, there is a (very small) chance that he is at the AWM in Canberra.
Have you checked the Red Cross records for any eye witness accounts of his death? Be cautious, some of the descriptions are pretty stark.
Old bloke.
You seen to have missed the background to my comment, as per the link posted by Squawkbox? with the text of the reply posted by Duncanm.
The government (Andrew Taylor?) has formally responded to Craig Kelly’s enquiry and confirmed that the LRAD system was used at the Canberra protest solely as a public address system.
That’s all there is, there isn’t any more.
Kamala Harris
Blanche d’Alpuget
Sylvia Jeffrey
Mrs Paxton of the Paxton Family
rrsrsrsr (self-awarded)
Also – Magda Szubanski is fucked, but shouldn’t get a medal for that.
You contradict Field Marshall Grogarly, VD and scar, Dick Shot Off, Don’t Come Monday?
Just wow. What did I suggest about inbreeding?
Calli
A few years ago someone pointed me to unit diaries to get more details regarding the deaths of two great uncles who were killed three weeks apart in ww1, while neither was mentioned by name, the circumstances of their deaths were clear enough from the daily entry.
One was buried in a cemetery annexe, later obliterated by further fighting, the other, not so much.
Worth a look, if you haven’t already.
Oh, I dunno Calli.
You might want to compare notes with Struth after some of his efforts today. 🙂
He will be back tomorrow- After a days’s effort of word-walling, he only barely cracked 80 or so upticks.
And he needs at least 90 to feel suitably validated.
Rather than read today’s Open Forum I chose to talk about paint colours with the missus
I’m now beginning to appreciate the subtle differences between Whisper White and Antique White
I was pondering a few weeks ago about which of those nations, i.e., Canada, New Zealand or Australia, would be the first to abandon the mandates. It turns out New Zealand won the prize, their High Court ruled the mandates were unjustifiable, hence abolished.
New Zealand fortunately has a Bill of Rights, as do our cousins in the USA, so their courts rein in their government’s actions. We do need a similar document here in Australia, common law and the constitution have shown themselves to be useless; we need a Bill of Rights which nails down and severely limits the role of government, drafted in such a way that even our High Court judges can understand it.
The loosening of shackles can be attributed to many causes. England, for example, regained some sensible directions and has abandoned all mandates as a result of back-bench pressure on their P.M. Our current government parties lack a majority of honourable and sensible men and women, so I don’t hold out hope for any changes here post-election, and under Labor it will be worse, so I don’t share your optimistic view on our future.
If the various Australian governments thought that there was no future need for these camps then they would stop further expenditure and save millions. They haven’t. If nothing else Rex, its a colossal waste of tax payer’s money, that could have been better spent bringing the standard gauge railway into Perth station.
AOY winners seem to thrive on it.
All volunteers.
It seems the old bully from Queanbeyan remains obsessed with Lizzie. Perhaps the old bully could get some medical help. What a sad sack.
he just dump an EMP blast up in the atmosphere somewhere to turn the lights out in most of the EU?
Vlad doesn’t want to accidentally become the ultimate eco-warrior.
Drills
I posted the Higgins comment at your un-read blog. Comments are moderated, so you do mind (please) letting the comment through? You know, if it’s okay to post the comment here, it’s fine posting it at your old blog (which is unread). Who knows, one of your female employees (if you have any) would get a kick out of reading it.
JC,
Re the “wheat” price you quoted earlier.
That sounds like the canola price, if it was a per tonne basis.
As you know grain is quoted per bushel, which is an old school volumetric measurement.
To convert, it’s 3 bushels to a bag, 12 bags to the ton of wheat. So multiply the bushel price by 36 to get a per ton value.
Either way you cut it, this shitshow in Ukraine is unbelievably good for Australian grain growers.
Since when has an Australian Government not had a taste for spending money like it was water? Regardless of their projects’ utility? 🙂
Pay that. 🙂 Northbridge in its current iteration has caused more death and misery than it did as a rail yard and station precinct before it was built over.
Whacky world of islam:
Uganda: Muslims try to burn convert to Christianity alive, say Allah will reward them in paradise if they kill him
Somaliland: FGM ‘cutters’ go door-to-door to perform the procedure on young girls
Muslim Air France pilot suspected of ‘radicalization’ gets permit allowing him access to secure areas
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
Whoever does Madga deserves a medal.
drafted in such a way that even our High Court judges can understand it.
That’s the challenge, recommend throwing in 2A incase of reading and comprehension problems.
Tonight I attended a combined IPA/Quadrant/Menzies Research Centre talk in Sydney’s CBD given by Margaret Cameron-Ash on her new book….”Beating France to Botany Bay, The Race to Found Australia“.
It was a fantastic talk by Margaret. The interviewers were Bella d’Abrera and Nick Cater. You know what’s tragic? It’s tragic that our young aren’t taught this history in schools because our history is riveting and they would be spellbound. It involves the English, the French, the Russians and the Americans.
It was nice to catch up with fellow Cat Rafe Champion.
So long as you can get it out. Is it OK on the East Coast? CBH is having all manner of trouble because of the record volume of grain accepted, and new transporter Aurizon (the biggest rail freight company in Australia, no less) is still trying to get its act together and deliver on the extra wagon capacity it promised.
Good dollars available in contracting your truck for out/back-loading grain for them at the moment, it seems.
Thanks Bush. I think the last time I looked at agri commodity prices was 40 years ago. 🙂
I think the first price I quoted was actually a misprint on a chart from that wesbite I linked to, which suggested a 30% plus drop in one day. But yes, it’s not a ton, it’s a bushel.
Jeez Louise, commodity prices are up… so, so much in lots of cases.
Italians invented sex but the Greeks invented sex with women.
Either way you cut it, this shitshow in Ukraine is unbelievably good for Australian grain growers.
Four weeks ago I said to my sister to buy diesel, fertiliser and put everything in crop. She was well ahead on fertiliser but got a F on Diesel, main tank almost empty.
Amendment? Bugger it as an amendment.
Item #2 on this putative Charter of Rights. Clear, unambiguous and legappy unimpeachable.
LegaLLy
Dammit…
That Market Watch article I posted suggested that China is scrambling around to buy wheat now around international markets. Why wouldn’t they buy it from their buddies – Russia?
“Stalin wasn’t a Georgian, Lenin wasn’t a Russian, and I doubt the other 3 were either, and Dzerzhinsky wasn’t a Pole.”
Ed, are you being deliberately stupid?
Amendment? Bugger it as an amendment.
I think we should. Make some USA synchronicity!
Go back and read the comment I referred to. Actually read it and what was referenced and stop being the cleverest guy in the room.
Regarding the nefarious criminal activities of the founder of the organisation referenced, it is beyond a joke that “certain people” continue to engage in ludicrous fantasies about their political enemies.
Somehow, this nonsense proves them right about their projected fantasies regarding Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama being at the core of the Ukraine conflict.
I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.
I’m not exactly being optimistic, either. More pragmatic, as you can’t enjoy the fruits of power if you don’t have it any longer because your lot is electoral poison… 🙂
What’s the big deal about whether or not Stalin was a Georgian?
I mean, who cares?
Right?
I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.
I think you are right
Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:23 pm
“Stalin wasn’t a Georgian, Lenin wasn’t a Russian, and I doubt the other 3 were either, and Dzerzhinsky wasn’t a Pole.”
Ed, are you being deliberately stupid?
No. Dick Ed is just being himself.
Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.
My uncle was lost in East Irian. Politics prevented the recovery of his body too.
The Moderna fingerprint found in Wuhan bat flu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHzzlwna3s
Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:26 pm
What’s the big deal about whether or not Stalin was a Georgian?
I mean, who cares?
Right?
You raised the point, don’t you care?
Shooting Stuff Australia hitting on the latest Australian Government hypocrisy:
Disarm Australian’s / Arm Ukrainian’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrOcVZWED24
VCs seem to be a hit and miss affair, and also DCMs. But generally MMs and MCs appear to’ve been given where deserved from what I read in the AWM history. Last night I read the account of Pvt. Richard Kelliher who was court martialed for cowardice six months before being awarded the Victoria Cross for valour.
Well done, private.
Okay, let’s say you were cheated out of First Prize in a Lottery, but to keep you onside the chiselers offered you second prize as a consolation?
Would you knock it back on principle?
callisays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.
My uncle was lost in East Irian. Politics prevented the recovery of his body too.
Sorry Calli, I assumed WW I. Was this during WW II? There were some Australian Army units in the then Dutch New Guinea, generally along the southern part (Merauke and places inland). Also, some RAAF were lost there.
Not trying to dox, just curious.
I’d say that Russian overflow grain that would otherwise be available for export sale has been held onto. I vaguely seem to recall that the last Euro crop (our winter) was a bit umderwhelming. So local supply comes first.
As such, the Chicoms will continue to buy our grain and others’ through intermediaries at inflated rates because they are currently at economic contretemps with most of the present suppliers and can never be seen to deal directly with them.
Happy times indeed for Death Gluteneers… 🙂
Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Then why allow yourself to be used? He could have refused.
Okay, let’s say you were cheated out of First Prize in a Lottery, but to keep you onside the chiselers offered you second prize as a consolation?
Would you knock it back on principle?
Do you have any actual evidence that he was “cheated”? Or are you just, as usual, being an @rseh0le?
Hear! Hear!
Deserving of more acknowledgment than an uptick.
Write to your local member on this, fwiw.
The Bolsheviks represented the diversity of the Russian empire at the time….they comprised ethnic Russians, Armenians, Georgians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Ukrainians, Jews, Muslim Azerbaijanis and Tartars.
Most, regardless of their ethnicity, had been born into abject poverty, some like Lenin had been born into relative middle class comfort and a few had been born into aristocratic families. Certainly the early Bolsheviks, who predated Lenin, came came from the wealthy merchant class and aristocracy.
You were.
Some clown raised the point, SpongeBob.
I merely corrected him.
He hasn’t taken that correction well and so far, neither has Knuckle Dragger, Rex Anger, FrollinkingHole, Cassie, and yourself.
So, I repeat myself:
What’s the big deal, duderinos?
Unflounce #1
Diversity was their strength, eh?
“I was right all along when I called out “Razey” as a glowie.”
Oh yes, his prejudices glow very brightly.
What’s a glowie?
He said it in the Witness Box under Oath.
Grigory, obtaining a lottery win by fraudulent means is a criminal act.
Being awarded a medal in recognition of conspicious, battle-changing actions that displayed valour above and beyond the call of duty has nothing to do with ‘prizes,’ ‘chiseling’ or consolation.
This is what Glowie means.
And this is why he graduated to a full spack-out for a full day and a half when he was pinged.
Putin is on the ropes! Bad news for Cats.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1499293237944758274?s=20&t=9VeuA803HLbNbTgS77bL3A
It’s a variation on Red Hot.
Dot and other Larpers use it a lot.
For instance:
Bosi was an Army Officer from 1979 to 1999, yet he still prances around in public in his Army uniform.
So, he’s almost certainly a Glowie.
Razey is just an idiot, similar to Rex Franger & SpongeBob.
Fuck off Grigory.
Your gypsumposting has gone full retard.
You never go full retard.
Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:40 pm
You raised the point, don’t you care?
Some clown raised the point, SpongeBob.
I merely corrected him.
No, SpongeBrain, you raised the claim that Stalin was not a Georgian. You offered no evidence for this contradiction of recorded history. Ditto for the other two.
On the money.
Grigory seems upset that even the obvious plant can upend his stupidity.
Poor Grigory.
Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Do you have any actual evidence that he was “cheated”
He said it in the Witness Box under Oath.
Of course, a totally unbiased witness. How about some written records?
That was actually amusing.
Retarded, but amusing.
Winston, do you still have that Don’t Tard On Me! flag linked somewhere? It needs more use whenever Grigs gets animated…
dot, what comment was referenced? You quoted nothing.
Recommended reading.
“Knuckle Dragger, Rex Anger, FrollinkingHole, Cassie, and yourself.”
I’m in good company.
BJ, shot down. All lost.
BJ Barnaby Joyce?
callisays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:01 pm
BJ, shot down. All lost.
Thanks Calli, sad to hear. You would need some reasonable evidence of the location to even think of trying to find the site. Is there a squadron history? Sometimes they have a bit of detail.
oh ok Boambee John
It has to be true:
Nothing false is ever said under oath. Ever.
Beria wasn’t a Georgian either.
Russian Blues to be deported? Say it ain’t so!
Waa this the organisation being quoted dot?
Talking from experience, Sal?
Or just LARPing again?
He said it in response to Cross Examination from Roberts-Smith’s Counsel and it wasn’t challenged.
So, I’d say it stands up well.
sorry Calli
Rex,
Re logistics.
Everything and everyone is flat out. The whole system is groaning with the volume grown over the last two seasons and I might add things are looking good for the coming one.
I’m told we can’t move any more out of the country than we are now, whether it’s bulk or boxed.
Do you have the CCTV footage to back either the original action in Tizak in 2010, or your assertion about what happened in Court, Grigory?
BJ, we have all the information we will ever get. There was a move by the pilot’s family to have a search conducted after the war, but the politics of the region meant that it never went ahead.
There was great suspicion that the “searchers” would also be doing a spot of prospecting and other nefarious activities.
SAS light colonels can prance around in their undies as far as I’m concerned.
They’ve earned the right.
That seemed to be what CBH were saying too.
Shipping is the bottleneck now.
@ Dover-
This is what Razey posted, and what Dot was reacting to:
If you consider this sort of link inappropriate, please delete this comment as well as the original.
Pay that one!
Thanks Rosie, I was unaware of the preceding conversation.
I have also flagged the original post from 5.39pm
Yep, although he does seem to do rather too much swearing in public for my taste … not a good look in front of the women and children.
He said it in response to Cross Examination from Roberts-Smith’s Counsel and it wasn’t challenged.
So, I’d say it stands up well.
Ed.
There’s an old saying, never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.
No judge or jury is going to believe that the witness deserved a VC just because he says he deserved a VC. And even if they did, the only importance of the witness believing that (and whether it’s true or not) is that BRS’s Counsel will have a field day in summing up why the witness’ testimony shouldn’t be believed because it was motivated by envy of BRS.
So BRS’s Counsel was never going to “challenge” that statement. The only possible consequence of BRS’s Counsel “challenging” that statement would have been that the witness might have backtracked on it and made himself look like less of a goose. Once the witness had made that statement no halfway competent cross-examiner would go anywhere near it again until the witness was safely out of the box. And not because the statement might be true, but because that simply doesn’t matter.
Also, dont think I have ever seen a medal bar on Bosi – perusal of which would tell us much!
I think the Australian Army’s Custom’s and Traditions permit retired officers over the rank of Major, who were deemed to have served in good standing to retain their rank (using the suffix Ret’d) and wear the uniform.
Otherwise there are a great many Regimental and Corps Honorary Colonels in a heap of trouble… 🙂
“If you consider this sort of link inappropriate, please delete this comment as well as the original.”
Thanks RA……faaaarrrrrrrrrkkkkk. I didn’t press on the link. Yuk, could you please delete DB? I did wonder where his comment about Jews and Bolsheviks came from, I didn’t read his comment in full but I posted my comment above about how the Bolsheviks were a mixed bag, representing the whole Russian empire. It’s an anti-Semitic trope to blame the revolution on Jews and to say that most of the Bolsheviks were Jews (the weren’t).
As for Razey…he can fuck off.
“I have also flagged the original post from 5.39pm”
Thanks RA.
miltonfsays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:06 pm
oh ok Boambee John
Definitely not that other disreputable character!
lol@BJ
Ed Casesays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:09 pm
Beria wasn’t a Georgian either.
I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.
Razey probably thinks Dan Andrew is a scheming Jew.
Whoever does Madga deserves a medal.
Doesn’t she bat for the other side?
Not quite yet. I am in regular contact with one of the cops involved in the case. Although the cops and NZ Defence guys won the High Court case last Friday the Government has not worked out what to do about it yet.
For example there is the problem that the Police Commissioner has a ruling that unvaccinated can’t enter police stations. Despite the decision on Friday he has had no contact from the police about what is happening. They were due to be struck off finally on Monday.
In other good news it seems the NZ Teachers and Health workers are now taking their case to High Court.
Meanwhile the Unions here, except for Qld Fire Services, do nothing.
“It turns out New Zealand won the prize, their High Court ruled the mandates were unjustifiable, hence abolished”.
Always been a standover man, Franger?
Ed- Mong tries the classic defence.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-was-only-pretending-to-be-retarded
callisays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:15 pm
BJ, we have all the information we will ever get. There was a move by the pilot’s family to have a search conducted after the war, but the politics of the region meant that it never went ahead.
Times have moved on, Dutch New Guinea is no more, and relations with the Indonesians are better that they were in the 1950s to the 1970s. Vietnam allowed teams to search for missing Australians there, they might still be hope.
There is a major US search operation based in Hawaii, which has good access to many regions in the Pacific. Should they come across any wreckage that is not theirs, they contact the relevant government.
His conduct and posting was particularly belt-fed today. But that was over the line. Even deliberately provocative. That most people scroll him for his stereotypical carry-on after the ‘I hate this place and Imma emigrate to Japan!’ debacle and his opening ‘Everybody who calls me and my glowie-level amateur Nuffiness out is a Labor operative!’ act when he first appeared on the Cat several months ago, is the only reason he has got this far.
Timothy Neilsonsays:
March 3, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Correct.
Thanks.
“His conduct and posting was particularly belt-fed today. But that was over the line. Even deliberately provocative. That most people scroll him for his stereotypical carry-on after the ‘I hate this place and Imma emigrate to Japan!’ debacle and his opening ‘Everybody who calls me and my glowie-level amateur Nuffiness out is a Labor operative!’ act when he first appeared on the Cat several months ago, is the only reason he has got this far.”
Yes. I generally scroll him and I never press on his links or many others for that matter. I did find it his comment unsavoury about Jews and Bolsheviks which is why I posted my comment above, because I was trying to respond rationally.
Today he’s outed himself and it’s not a pretty picture.
“I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.”
That’ll be a hoot.
Yeah, checked out National Vanguard.
It’s a Spook site.
Razey is a Glowie after all, but, so what?
Signed copies available on request.
“I’m so looking forward to Dick Ed’s revisionist history, “The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Soviet Communist Empire”.”
Foreword by Van Fatbags.
Gee why would a persecuted minority be over represented in an organisation against the majority group oppressing them?
That’s even if you are silly enough to call a bunch of murderous shits religious people anyway.
Glad I skipped the link, I might have got Mong on my phone
I have listened to a bloke who read through some Marx’s works either side of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, looked at the philosophy and theology he invented that fed into it and declared the result that we popularly call Marxism a religion of ‘Scientific Gnosticism.’
So calling them religious is quite accurate. They (down to every wild descendant and spinoff, like modern Critical Race and Queer Theories) felt they had the secret to perfecting Man. And damned if they weren’t going to achieve it, dead and broken body by dead and broken body.
The Parallel Society vs Totalitarianism | How to Create a Free World
I saw a partial screenshot of an article that claims the Chinese payments system alternative to SWIFT has gone roaring into action amongst emerging economies after Russia was given the boot from SWIFT.
I have not been able to find the original though. Anyone seen anything about it?
Yeah, it’s a puzzler?
Razey posts some SpookShit, 2 minutes later, Dot flounces, 2 minutes after
that Rex Franger presses Report Comment, then larps as a statesman.
I’m sure it’s all totally legit …
Well he definitely wasn’t an engineer.
Cassie, and apropos of Razey – aka The Last Samurai:
Is there anything the Choos haven’t done?
Tell you what – if I find out they were responsible for Wayne Harmes stealing the 1979 VFL Premiership from the rightful, non-cheating winners (Collingwood), I’m on board.
Ed.
You are a gentle, delicate retard. Like Warren in There’s Something About Mary.
I stuck up for you last night when the nasty old lurker wanted you banned. Now, stop banging your pots or you won’t get your baseball back.
you lot … appear to have lost the fucking plot
Rex Anger:
IIRC, there are only 50/60 in service and they have a role in the US nuclear triad, so we’d be lucky to get a dozen or so. But a couple of squadrons would be on the ‘nice to have’ list. Leasing/buying.
My preference is for leasing with a maintenance contract – trying to equipment for the least cost. But whatever the accountants want.
That would be an excellent idea until we get the politicians and the Defence Establishment involved.
I have absolutely no confidence the bureaucrats could manage a program without it being a budgetry or technical disaster. In fact I would take a damned sharp axe to the entire defence support department. There should be a price to pay for the disasters they’ve presided over for the last 40 years, and so far they don’t seem to have paid it.
Yep. Once upon a time, each Service had a small Department that did every aspect of personnel and equipment administration and procurement. And that seemed to work just fine until Gough and Malcolm Fraser’s time.
Then the ADF ended up with 2 quite Large Departments. Neither of which have done the Services any favours beyond chewing up their budget and misdirecting their focus.
3 Small sub-Departments is plenty enough. 🙂
Thank you.
See you you for your next drive-by tomorrow night. I think Rabz has something planned for late-night listening. 🙂
You know Grigs is suffering from something when he’s replying to himself as if it’s a different poster.
I suspect somebody’s doped his Gypsum with Derpamine Mong-o-hydrate again…
I don’t see why you’re so mad at crazy razey. As far as I can see, and I don’t read him carefully, all he was saying is that there were lots of Jews in the higher ranks of the communists. I wouldn’t find this surprising. Jews are smarter than the average so I’d expect them to rise in any organisation. The really smart ones would stay out of it, being able to see what the others were like, and not so likely to be caught up in the narrative. And Marx himself was ethnically Jewish. So what? I don’t see anything antisemitic about the observation that some Jews were prominent commies. Plenty in the USA are prominent lefties. And others are prominent standup comedians. And Nobel prize winning scientists.
It’s because, on average, Jews are smart. Smarter than most of the competition. And certainly heaps smarter than crazey razey.
More to do with the who and the what he linked, Dr BG.
There’s mongery. And then in this day and age, there’s actionable mongery that can be used as an excuse to get someone shut down.
Razey decided, for whatever reason, he wanted to do the latter.
Calli
I recently had a request for a DNA sample in relation to my father who is “missing presumed dead” somewhere in New Guinea.WW2
From Qld Uni I think. I’d have to look it up.
Weren’t Jews largely excluded from any prominent positions in society under the Tsars?
If so, then their presence amongst the early bolshies would have been disproportionately noticeable. From outsiders to suddenly part of the state apparatus.
Any position of importance whatsoever would be part of the State in a one party totalitarian state.
I’ve always thought that their share of the blame for the horrors of the socialist regime had been overstated.
Interesting piece in the Jerusalem Post on the Jewish Bolsheviks. The takeaway was that they were just as merciless with Jews who opposed them.
https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323
I didn’t watch but it seems as though the Q+A producer got to Stan Grant tonight.
And Stan reveals that Q+A questions are routinely vetted. Who could have guessed?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-03/stan-grant-tells-audience-member-to-leave-qanda/100880520
Ahh, that makes sense. I wouldn’t follow any link he posted.
Who is they though? Why collective guilt when there really is no guilt to spread around except within the clique.
oh, so it was link-crime
… Alinsky would be proud
Matrix, you are welcome to find any Cat or other space you wish.
That you think it is a great idea to drop in and anklebite at us because we might like to keep ours is a pretty piss-poor reflection on you alone.
SloJoe blows.
fuck off Rex … that the most pithy ankle-biting gibber I’ve read all day
… and that’s saying something
Matrix Transform:
Matrix, men only see in the three primary colours and B/W.
We haven’t a clue what chartreuse is, but it has a terrible aftertaste.
Are you transitioning?
…and to what?
a whiter shade of pale
Next thing we know, you’ll be telling the Open Thread you were only pretending to be an anklebiting retardate…
to be honest youse all sound like a tram-load of school-girls today
…Or you were just looking for an easy rise.
Either or.
Still unwelcome and a poor reflection on you. 🙂
It’s not that I’m getting older, but the world is truly getting really fucking weirder by the year.
Really this carefully and it’s a GOP Rep.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/03/02/last-minute-infidelity-allegation-helped-force-two-term-plano-rep-van-taylor-into-runoff/
He bonking her.
Get a freaking load of this;
He was…
Why? Jealous?
Sure beats boasting at us that you spent the day trying to argue with someone (who may well be an invented construct) about what shades of your personal beigeness actually constitute ‘off-white…’
So far Paris, this quarter, is pretty much the same as it was last time, and the time before that, etc.
If anything it seems to be gentrifying, more international restaurants, including one that specialises in the cuisines of Cap Vert and Portugal, in shopfronts I recall being empty, a couple of extra book shops, new and second hand. Shops with signs in windows offering employment opportunities.
Perhaps less beggars, I’ll wander down Rue de Rivoli and test that theory shortly.
Having the formule at my favourite restaurant. Boudin noir.
Wot JC said…
Rex, when do you become a shame-based organism?
what, exactly is a poor reflection on me?
can you put words to it?
Just so the story is clear.
1. A Republican congressman was found out to be bonking a female jihadi, who at one time had aspirations of becoming a suicide bomber.
2. The other story I linked to in the Atlantic was about the jihadi and the Texan she married.
FMD.
This is why, despite being illiterate Stone Age goat rooters, they have had the success they have.
Normal people do not have these thought processes. Perhaps we should start.
Actually, that’s a reportable comment.
Calling someone ‘beige’ is nigh-on unforgivable.
I am sorry, Matrix. I am sure that you are a very interesting person in the meatspace, with your own unique experiences and perspectives.
To refer to you as dull, unremarkable, bland and thoroughly ignorable because you were being a contrarian shit for your own personal amusement was very unkind.
I will try very hard not to do it again.
You mean, young men should try to marry females who aspire to become suicide bombers? Really?
And I just got a pop up headline, France to drop vaccine passports from 14 March. Might explain why I haven’t been asked today.
An article about the Pfizer adverse events document linked yesterday –
BOMBSHELL: Pfizer Doc Analyzes Numerous Severe Adverse Reactions Following Inoculation
dunno … maybe the joke was a little esoteric for you, mate.
I’d say that today on The Cat was pretty beige but, I’m no expert
Rex Anger
permit retired officers over the rank of Major, who were deemed to have served in good standing to retain their rank (using the suffix Ret’d) and wear the uniform.
Almost…..
Officers of field rank and higher can retain their rank – includes Majors
Welp, you have fun pretending yiu’re the smartest poster in the room, because only you seem to understand whatever joke you thought you were making at my expense.
It’s kinda up there with being ‘destroyed’ by Struth on a daily basis…
masks and passes still required to visit hospitals and care homes in France
I made a little joke about tunnels and the Seine this morning.
No-one noticed. 🙁
Not entirely true.
But the story clearly ended well, as you came out alive, and not as pizza topping… 🙂
sorry for being mean … that really is a pretty dress
did you make that youself?
I wonder if the French will ban Russian salad, I always see it in the supermarket.
Sorry Rosie, I did notice but didn’t remark it.
I am enjoying your travelogue. It’s much the most interesting stuff on the Çat these days. Beats speculation on the Ukraine war, which in turn beats ppl bitching at each other, which is distressingly common.
So Matrix,
You have an opportunity to de-beige the Open Thread.
Why are you wasting it on anklebiting at me?
What do you want to talk about?
your frock
like … will you wear flats or kitten-heels with it
Rex Anger:
I’ve just changed my avatar to it.
Are there other ways of adding pictures to my posts? BoN seems to be able to do it but I cannot remember which site he uses…
My favourite restaurant has a preserved rhino head and an eclectic mix of modern art on the walls as well as a bunch of other interesting bits and pieces including vintage hand tools and ski equipment.
I like it very much. After wondering why I came back to Paris, I’m happy to be here.
FMD. Is there nothing this regime will not lie about?
Welp, have fun gurning at the pigeons in my absence then, anklebiter…
You’re not a conservative, James.
Knuckle Dragger:
On the evidence displayed, I have strong suspicions he may have been a Queenslander.
the dovecote
all the shit and feathers
and not a pigeon to be found
Good point. I’ve inadvertently fallen into the trap of using the near universal tendency of trying to pin blame on specific groups – races, religions, nationalities for whatever horror is being discussed.
i.e. “the worst nazis were Ukranians”, or “the worst commies weren’t Russian they were Jews or Georgians”, etc. I guess this is usually done to “exonerate” some other group
It’s hard not to write and even think, in the same patterns that others have used so often for so long. As you say, the only guilty ones are whichever individuals chose to commit such crimes. Their race or nationality are irrelevant.
JC.
Let me help you out regards your curiosity about the world outside Lygon street.
It’s scary for you out there.
You have often told us this.
You scratch your head about “Queenslanders”
We only too well remember your trip to SA and how it taxed you in so many ways.
Stressed you.
Sometimes, god forbid, you couldn’t even get yourself the right latte with a lemon twist.
I am an Australian.
I have lived in Victoria, so at one stage a Victorian.
I have lived in WA and also the NT and QLD and SA.
I have travelled this country extensively.
I know. I know, hard to fathom but there is life outside of the CBD’s of Melbourne and New York.
Trying to understand the outside world, and especially country folk will now not be possible at this late stage in life for you.
So, like the others here who make fools of themselves, just stay on the cat 24/7 so when those that have your number make you look like the goose you are, you can start telling lies about them and trying to character assassinate them while they are gone.
And keep getting yourself jabbed.
You don’t need any help assassinating yourself, Struth darling. Not after your performance today.
But do keep pretending you are the Hero of the Hour, dear manlet. And everyone who questioned you or laughed at your frantic deflection Nuffing was a ‘denier.’
And remember for tomorrow, a government announcing an intent to build something that you decided was a DeAtH CaMp in the apparent absence of any postable information to confirm it, does not mean they were already building it on day one of ‘two weeks to flatten the curve…’