The millennium drought and Howard kicked off much of the renewable nonsense. Aided by the groovy new thing, KRuddy.
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He also used to get ask if it was a Mike or a Mal when extolling its virtues.
I think that Tim Blair was a bit hard on the P76 – it was a much better proposition than…
You’re confused again, or led astray by the bots. It’s the French and British missiles that require assistance.Firstly, it depends…
People often incorrectly think of prayer as a kind of wish or confuse it as a time to ask for…
I dunno Struth.
But wouldn’t be asking advice from you.
You’re too busy shitting in your hands and clapping, and that’s pretty awful employment advice
Even if you’ve cut a hole in your cab floor, down by the engine…
I reckon you wear glasses as well choo choo.
Here’s some reality for you, St. Ruth. You’re said to be a real man, so – y’know, you can take it.
The truth is that you are failing at life, and looking for people to blame. You know this, and I know this because it is blindingly apparent. At this stage, to use the term magistrates apply to scrotes caught for the umpteenth time, you are ‘lashing out’.
A series of middling jobs and travelling troubadoury on the side, so far. Which is fine, but I believe you think you were destined for greatness at some point. You could have rested on your convoy laurels from years ago, but not only did you turn away at the critical point, you fabricated stories about being held at gunpoint by the AFP. Consequently, your credibility is shot and shot forever.
Every cause and/or movement and/or person you’ve since attached yourself to has either been a demonstrated collection of mental cases – Faulty, NFA, Bosi, plus the others you haven’t disclosed – or a genuine one – the UAP – who not only wouldn’t have you, but put a mere woman up instead.
You’ve tried the ‘only whites can save us’ and ‘women in the kitchen’ lines, and backed right down when the response was not what you anticipated – and the same thing happened when you tried to co-opt Anzac Day for your cause two years ago. Nothing has worked for you.
The vaccinated are not dropping dead all over the world. To believe so, you would have to subscribe to the theory that everyone who died with covid died of covid, because it’s the same mentality but pushing a different agenda.
The WEF is not taking over. The death camps are not firing up. There are no miniature robots, no nano-wrigglers, and there is no instant AIDS. There is no coup, let alone a coup d’etat. There is merely more of the same that has gone on for centuries.
Your identity is being lost. No trucks because of the ponzi schemes finally making their way into your preferred line of work, no troubadoring. I understand why you’re furious, but this is neither my fault nor that of the other people here. It just is.
You are failing at life, and looking for people to blame.
Before you go completely blind….get yourself a woman.
There’s a place called the starting stalls in WA.
You could try one out there.
And if you do it right your arse won’t even be sore.
Plenty of work in the offing, if he dares to swallow his pride…
How dare you… 😉
Thank you Fried Freud.
I am not failing at life.
I don’t live in Darwin for a start.
And what is happening to me and mine is an attack.
And I very much know who tofuckwit.
I’m not looking at all.
Honesty is not something I expect a vicplod reject to comprehend.
But a low life like you…..would you go up to a nurse that refused the jab…lost her career because of it and call her a loser in life and tell her she’s looking for someonevto blame?
I only have to poke you morons a little bit and you show the world what scum you are.
And it’s my pleasure.
Lolwut?
Nope. Just you.
So, we circle all the way back to our first interaction earlier this afternoon. Stop being a disappointing waste of my welfare dollars, and everyone else’s time and goodwill on this blog.
I know who to blame.
Shit like KD who thinks anyone attempting to fight this is a grifter.
He has to lie and dribble shit.
For example.
Apparently I’m all in with Bosi.
Another KD fantasy based on nothing.
He’s sad with his own life probably got booted from the force and spends his toothless life being totally useless and sneering at anyone who has a go at things.
Once a public servant……..
Sad.
Get yourself a root young fella you’re wanking all over the place.
But in doing so you really are exposing yourself!
You wouldn’t say it to the nurses just me.
Keep going…
some good news in the budget
Both of you are losers with women and single and it’s made you bitter.
I’m going to turn over ….as while amusing myself with retards is better than watching the tv…..I have a beautiful wife who has been with me for 22 years and who I love dearly and who loves me dearly. ..to cuddle up to.
I’ll leave you losers with your hands on your cocks.
See….projecting yourself onto others KD is not cool.
I’m a very successful man.
In what really matters.
About what?
You’ve spent several hours anklebiting and trying to get the last word in.
And you can’t even succeed in that…
have or has?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Bob Moran.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Bob Gorrell.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Robert Ariail.
Henry Payne.
Thanks, Tom
Why is the Rafale outselling even the F-35? (since 2021)
It is mentioned in this video that some countries which purchase Russian aircraft are threatened with sanctions by the USA, the result being cancelled orders(Egypt, Indonesia). It’s blackmail and very damaging for Russia because countries need overseas sales to continue development and offset production costs.
There probably are related issues in relation to the purchase of Russian military hardware. For example Turkey not being allowed to purchase the F 35 because it bought the S 400 air defense system from Russia. The poor sods are being punished for no reason other than the USA can do it. Uncle Sam can be a real bastard.
Nothing new, always was, always will be.
Only good news about them is that they are in a self destroy mode, bad news is we are going down with them.
Yet many people have long supported the USA. What is new is that while for decades the Left pointed out the foreign policy evils of the USA, now it is the Right also pushing that argument.
Bruce Willis diagnosed with aphasia, stepping away from acting
Aphasia is a polite way of saying he has brain damage or dementia of some type.
Ands it’s one of the many reasons why the Russian alternative, the Lavrov Doctrine, to the western rules based system is very popular in the third world.
Late to the party, but Sancho’s “shit cassette”, reminded me of this delightful scene.
Dilbert
That’s the idiotic thing about the current incarnation of the US- their establishment is trying to destroy the place but they still want to be world policeman/bully.
Poor example.
I can’t remember the exact details but they seemed reasonable. Concerns about Turkey having the ability to developed counter F35 Tech and the leadership of Turkey itself.
No need for a “shit cassette ” when you have more convenient alternatives.
Today in Voter Fraud:
Evidence continues to accrue about dodgy votes in 2020. The unmonitored drop boxes in Arizona (and elsewhere) are said to have delivered hundreds of thousands of votes with no “chain of custody” which means they are invalid.
Alaska is already gearing up to do more of the same, and Fauci has popped out to say there’s another round of covid restrictions coming!
Given the shellacking the Dems would receive if the 2022 half terms are run correctly, I’d say there’s no chance of it being untainted.
There must be no one at the furniture shop even browsing, relevance deprivation is a thing.
Macca’s are hiring?
She should write a piece on the furniture shop blog. Worldwide exposure, amongst friends and a guaranteed response of “you don’t know how hard it it being stuck in the couch all day and another thing your arse wouldn’t look so fat if you wore King Gees.
I think they have time and topic restrictions at Macca’s.
Now imagine them at a swingers party trying to establish a pecking order.
You call that a p-value? Cor blimey, now this is a p-value!
Turkey shot up the Syrian Kurds who were under US protection. Because Congress chose not to conclude and ratify a treaty with the Kurds they only had an agreement, so the NATO treaty had primacy and Trump as supreme commander was forced to withdraw US forces from that area rather than risk the troops on the ground firing on US allies.
That was a dirty trick by Erdogan and a nasty betrayal of the US who are supposed to be Turkey’s allies. So not getting F-35s is a prudent decision and totally justified. Trust is earned. Erdogan is an untrustworthy slimeball.
Bolt has a piece today saying China is surrounding Australia.
Slowly, slowly catchee dumb Aussie monkeys.
Cheers BoN.
Justifiable criticism of the US while being vigilant that those criticisms will be exploited by people who never will be allies.
Soon to come to a country near you.
EU must be joking! Price of goods set to soar up to 75% as bloc unleashes new green tax (30 Mar)
Presumably that means an economy going in a circular motion down a plughole.
Concerns about Turkey having the ability to developed counter F35 Tech and the leadership of Turkey itself.
I’m old enough to remember when Turkey was bad & Erdogan was the devil.
Following on from the NYT reporting on the laptop from hell, the Washington Post has devoted a lot of time to it overnight.
Miranda Devine must be spot on regarding her comments that there are more bomb shells coming.
Won’t stop 60 minutes doing another show on Trump, bern.
If you translate “WHO” into Chinese does it become “Stazi”?
W.H.O. Warns Social Surveillance Must Remain Even as Global Coronavirus Cases Plunge (30 Mar)
There you go, WHO really is a bunch of health nazis.
Won’t stop 60 minutes doing another show on Trump, bern.
Hopefully they include his magnificent hole in one story.
Epic.
More leavers please
“The departure of thousands of international students during COVID-19 pandemic and a steady stream of city dwellers relocating to regional and country towns were the major factors for the reduced population in the capital.
The city centre, Carlton and Clayton were among the locations where population was most affected.”
the 60,5000 the age paywalled
Ignore the extra zero!
Grabbing the first of my coffees this morning I notice the Snidely Moaning Haemorrhoid dismiss the budget with “Put it on the tab”.
While I agree with the characterisation it is a bit rich for the ideological governor of the left to use that as an accusation considering the hopeless drunken binging started with their chosen, KRudd, whom and whose successor they cheered on all the while.
They have never had trouble with spending – just when it is spent in areas other than their pet projects.
In fact they decry any attempt to at least taper off excess with the scare word ‘austerity’, a word so unknown to either party or journalists that it serves to scare the population.
It is a comforting thought that while they believe the economy is a political tool rather than a dynamic of its own that rules impartially and without appeal, their jobs are subject to it, and they all look around stupefied as one by one their colleagues are picked off.
Dickheads, one and all.
Too early for horror stories, rosie.
I declare war on you.
“Chemical engineers have figured out a way to more than double the lifespan of high-voltage lithium-ion batteries.
The international team of researchers, based at the University of Queensland, has developed a lithium-ion battery which has a higher energy density than conventional batteries, uses less precious metal, and can stay stable for over 1000 cycles.”
long life lithium batteries?
“However, the number of people being treated for Covid in intensive care is down 6% – to 1,533 patients – in comparison to last week.”
While I was there this figure was always hovering around 3,600.
Just about all restrictions were lifted in France on 14 March
covid rebound in France how soon are people being reinfected
The extra zero represents those who want to leave but can’t for whatever reason.
Years ago when in Singapore was waiting for a bus at a tourist venue. The visiting Chinese from the mainland pushing and shoving to get on the bus, they stood out by their dowdy clothing and being similarly dressed, unbelievable. The local Chinese looked on with total distain.
“Trust is earned. Erdogan is an untrustworthy slimeball.”
And the current slimy Sniffer in Chief and his equally slimy administration? Look at what the US did in Afghanistan? And now the US is about to dump on Israel with its Iranian nuclear deal.
Of course Erdogan is an untrustworthy slimeball….but at least he’s honest about it.
re: W.H.O
at least they’re not pretending any more.
If Carlton and Clayton were worst hit that’s students.
In a population of over 5 million, 60,000 leaving is a good news story.
It probably means only waiting for 77 cars to pass before I can enter the main road, instead of 78.
So was Stalin and Hitler.
the good news is, Russia has been very successful in strategic shelling of clearly defined military targets in Mariupol
Yeah, all we need is an other warmonger.
“I always thought the SUV with a retractable Dillon M-134 minigun turret was quite nice.”
No long finished re-watching all 14 seasons of Mythbusters, they had one with a machine gun attached to a car, both fixed and with a tilt/pan control. Obviously they used a paintball gun in testing.
Surprising how many “hits” they got on the “target” car with a fixed aim, even when the target was dodging/weaving. But in the end, the one that could be aimed was better.
Just in case you actually do it (slim chance, sure), make sure you can have tilt/pan control – saves on ammo.
Here endeth the trivia.
If you want to be on the list just say so, Gabor.
Turkey is not “being punished” for buying the S400.
Nobody in their right mind would allow the maniac Erdogan anywhere near the US most advanced technology.
Far from the US being bastards, they are protecting western capability from an unstable lunatic who would permit China, Russia or Iran access to the technology the moment he developes yet another paranoid baseless grudge.
The best buffet spectacle I ever witnessed was on the Yangtse. Another cruise.
Fortunately the buffet was centrally located. Anything else would have been a serious safety hazard during the surge of humanity as the food stations opened. I had never seen such a tsunami of FOMO and gluttony in my life. The amply proportioned orientals appeared to be re-living the privations of the Mao regime.
It was worth hanging back (with the possibility of the entire thing being picked clean) just to watch. They were like the marabunta in the Naked Jungle.
Sounds very good, although growing a precise crystalline layer on the cathode surface might be expensive for mass produced batteries, and could have potential for defects caused by the rolling-up design used in them. Tesla batteries are like a rolled-up newspaper, which is why they are cylindrical not rectangular. That design is cheaper since you just produce one long sheet of layered battery sandwich, cut off the right length and roll it up. Conventional lead-acid batteries by contrast have flat plates, which have to be stacked together, which is a chore.
The advance certainly would be good for things like phones, which do have plate-style batteries. Longer phone and laptop battery life would be an excellent thing.
Prius batteries use nickel and lanthanum too btw. Lanthanum is pretty cheap.
Kneel says:
March 31, 2022 at 8:20 am
Proof positive you are not a sock for Lizzie.
Far too short. /sorry Elizabeth.
Oh, I can do prolonged and colourful trivia with the best of them. There is a time and a place for such things. A thousand stories, all of them true, but the older ones possibly colourised with the passage of time.
In other news, something completely different. It’s raining again.
feelthebernsays:
March 31, 2022 at 7:30 am
Following on from the NYT reporting on the laptop from hell, the Washington Post has devoted a lot of time to it overnight.
Miranda Devine must be spot on regarding her comments that there are more bomb shells coming.
U.S. Intel and National Security Apparatus Make Moves to Protect Joe Biden From Hunter Biden Laptop Fallout
March 30, 2022 | Sundance | 171 Comments
Two extremely devastating accounts from the CIA and U.S. Intelligence Community’s public relations firm, The Washington Post, surface today highlighting and confirming the authenticity of the material contained in the Hunter Biden laptop.
The first defensive narrative is titled “Here’s how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop” and was published at 11:00am ET today. The second effort, intended to defend the administration from the fallout is titled, “Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company,” and was published four minutes later at 11:04am.
Both WaPo reports, facilitated by, approved by, and coordinated within the United States intelligence community, reveal that Hunter Biden used his position to leverage money from foreign governments in order to build the bank accounts and financial interests of the Biden family. However, it is critical to review these releases knowing the baseline is *NOT* to remove Joe Biden, but to protect him.
The New York Times and Washington Post are not in business to impede the DC agenda, they are in business to protect the DC agenda.
These releases today are about *PROTECTING* the current unique ability that retaining Biden represents. Joe Biden will never be discarded, ever. He will never not be useful. The installation of Joe Biden was/is the ultimate tool. Their once in a lifetime opportunity to advance the goals of the globalist deep state without concern for political fallout.
The first WaPo report is an effort to protect their own integrity and make claims about why they could not, until now, verify the authenticity of the Hunter Biden emails and electronic communication. Their goal, in this article, is to make people believe it was impossible to accurately authenticate the content until now.
The second report, published four minutes after the purposeful obfuscation effort to detract from the authenticity, goes into details surrounding how the Biden family gained financial wealth from selling influence.
Not the marabunta one though. That was quite recent. The horror was real.
I rated the claim ‘Kneel as a Lizzie’ highly unlikely too.
Disney Is Interested in Your Kids
The entertainment company pledges to embed radical sexual politics in its children’s programming.
But executives did not abandon identity politics. In fact, they added another component—gender ideology—and ramped it up. Executives have empowered activists within the company and now seem unable to resist their demands. Observers should watch Disney closely in the coming years. However the story ends, the company looks like a case study in ideological capture.
From that Age story Rosie linked to.
“However, economist Saul Eslake believed Australia and Victoria’s hardline response to COVID-19 had damaged its reputation and could deter people from moving to Melbourne, which was previously more reliant on local and international migration and was the worst-affected city during the pandemic.
Mr Eslake said the intense population growth Victoria had experienced was also disguising a poor economic performance.
“It’s become so dependent on population growth, when you take that out, Victoria actually has a problem.””
Both labor and the Libs know that unless immigration is ramped up to max then the ponzi scheme will collapse on their watch, so get ready for as many diversity enhancers as they can possibly get to come. The pie will be bigger but you will get a smaller share and your culture and way of life will be almost completely extinguished.
We had a short outburst of sky water, other than that it’s been very dry for many weeks so send it our way please.
I read about the dumbest battery idea this week.
Development of stretchable and printable free-form lithium-ion batteries (25 Mar)
One really good way of causing a battery to short is to continually bend and stretch it. Then when it shorts the fuel (lithium ions) and the oxidant (CoO2) come into direct contact with a spark and whooshka, your FitBit catches fire and burns your arm off…
Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company
For reasons of never going to buffet style food establishments I’ve never had that particular type of entertainment though I did stay in a Los Angeles hotel once where there were Japanese tourists who had unique and colourful ideas about the consumption of breakfast cereals.
Joe Rogan: ‘I will quit’ Spotify if I have to ‘walk on eggshells’
How does the FBI ‘lose’ a laptop like Hunter Biden’s?
Some things don’t make sense.
That brings us to some testimony from the FBI’s assistant director for cyber-security, who told Congress’s Rep. Matt Gaetz that he had no idea where Hunter Biden’s laptop, entrusted to FBI custody, actually is.
The exchange continues:
VORNDRAN: “Sir, as a representative of the FBI cyber program, it is not in the realm of my responsibilities to deal with the questions that you’re asking me.”
All of these anomalies point to why the Hunter Biden laptop actually is important to U.S. cyber-security and does affect the job of protecting the U.S. from foreign cyber-attacks.
Yet Vorndran is amazingly incurious.
Why does the FBI always “lose”, delete or ignore evidence of criminal activity committed by the Democrats [or UniParty], and then make up crimes when none exist to frame their enemies [ie. Russian Collusion Hoax, Gen Flynn, Kavanaugh, etc.].
Is that their true purpose?
Et tu wapo?
What services, exactly, where son and brother providing that were worth 4.8 million?
Can we clone him?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accuses Disney of double standards for sailing cruises to Dominican Republic where gay marriage is illegal while slamming his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and insisting on half of all new Disney characters be LGBTQ
What he didn’t say is that it’s absolutely deliberate.
“Put On Your Seatbelts”: BlackRock CEO Warns Over ‘Scarcity Inflation’
The Most Visited Website and Biggest App in the World Is the Ultimate Grooming Tool and Nobody’s Noticing
If you go back to the Founding Fathers you’ll find a reticence about getting involved in “foreign entanglements.” So a conservative critique of US foreign policy adventurism has a firm basis in history.
Pretty much.
Aphasia is the term for loss of speech and language caused by any one of a number of brain injuries.
It’s a cruel and often protracted condition. My bil suffered from a version for nearly 10 years.
Interestingly, when he was at the stage of being completely unable to recognise, or use speech (but still able to write) he could enjoy music.
Would all you bastard Victorians who voted for it please stay there and enjoy the hell you are responsible for. Thank you.
“Russia on Wednesday said it will allow imports of goods without trademark owners’ permission following the imposition of punishing economic sanctions on the country – and the withdrawal of many multinational companies from the Russian market – over its invasion of Ukraine.”
Just a ticket clip for the country/local distributor inbetween?
Obviously won’t help consumers of McDonald’s products.
Gray goods for Russia
Breaking news overnight.
At 12:53 AEST.
Regarding Stalag Luft Toowoomba.
Apparently “We’ve already put that little death camp thing in its rightful spot and you going on about it reeks of desperation.”
I must have missed the “putting it in it’s rightful spot”.
Can anyone who saw that “spot putting” please essplain.
Remind me.
Which states have had elections since the beginning of Kung Flu?
And what were the results?
Apparently you can contract this from crawling in airconditioning ducts.
Hans Gruber finally has his revenge.
Roger
Many lefty’s’ condemned the US for it’s ‘adventurism’ at the same time condemn the US for its reluctance entering WW2.
Dover is having a fire sale this afternoon.
His inventory of CAPITAL LETTERS has built up alarmingly this week and they will have to go at bargain basement prices.
No reasonable offer refused.
Drive away. No more to pay.
Bulk discounts available on R, E, D, S, H and O.
Why do I get the impression that this forum is being Talked About? Elsewhere.
Oscar Wilde comes to mind.
And then condemn them for decisively finishing WWII (Pacific theatre) in the way they did.*
The Left doesn’t navigate the world with a moral compass, but a political compass.
* That’s not to say there’s not a discussion to be had about Hiroshima & Nagasaki, but it needs to be set in the historical context. A full scale invasion of Japan would likely have resulted in many more civilian deaths, not to mention an estimated 1 million allied servicemen.
It was put in its rightful spot. It just wasn’t done by St. Ruth, who is very quickly running out of sermon topics.
Check your email.
Are you telling me it was all just an invention of a fevered mind?
Something to get people to sit up and take notice?
On Russian gas in roubles.
It seems that neither Putin or his advisers had any real understanding of how gas contracts work when he exposed this cunning plan.
Gas pricing is based on a bundle of commercial terms, settlement currency is only one – and normally not the most critical one.
However, if you concede that the Seller can unilaterally change one of them, you actually accept the principle that any can be changed and you don’t really have a contract at all.
Which is why the EU gas buyers are standing firm on nyet rouble, despite the dire economic consequences of the Poot turning the gas off.
Meanwhile it looks like someone from Gazprom has got word to the Kremlin that permanently fucking Russia’s international counterparty status is not a great long-term strategy for a commodity-based economy.
Politicians around the world have very similar passion-fingers.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
I’m not important enough to be emailed. *sniff*
Iirc, the Japanese military estimated there would be 20 million casualties from an allied invasion, and it was a price they were prepared to pay.
Tucker and Bongino noting the new generation of teachers: emotionally marginal young women with nose rings who teach their classes of young lids about gender and other freak shit: at 10 minutes.
A mate’s partner whose father hailed from Italy said that one of the things that astonished him when he moved to Australia was the way people lined up at the bus stop – no fuss. He very much liked it.
And this was (is) not Aussies being slave to authority. There were no rules or laws. Just people who had been brought up thinking waiting your turn was the right thing to do and choosing to do the right thing.
There was a line in the first LOTR movie that I was surprised was not in the book – it seemed so true to the sentiments therein.
Giving your seat to the elderly or infirm, letting someone in at the cashier, listening to your grandmother tell you the same story again without letting her know that you have heard it a thousand times, a smile, a nod etc.
It probably is not a coincidence that as our world becomes more impersonal it becomes more cruel and heartless.
Just wait until the rebated 22 cents per litre is reinstated, on petrol prices that are even higher than they are now.
The screeching will be audible in space.
Posing as a somdomite?
Anyway, it will be labore and the greenfilth’s problem by then.
BTW, had nothing to say about Tuesday night’s squandermonkey porkfest as about the only reaction I could muster was to shake my head.
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene
Early April 1? What do you think BoN?
It’s just manners Lode. In some parts, however, this sort of thing is referred to as being ‘good little Germans’.
it’s not good for your mental health to be on a blog 24/7 obsessing about one commenter who has called your bullshit out.
Get a life.
Hiding away from the real world and sitting in some swamp box of musty smells in the aboriginal community of Darwin wondering why your missus left you and Vicplod told you to get out of town, toothless and smoking darts…….. while deciding who’s been successful in life …..is pathetic.
….and branding those who have lost their careers standing up to tyranny as losers in life is something we’ve come to expect from low lifes here.
And you wonder why people like me come here to have a bit of fun against the sick minds of the denialists.
A nice little problem for PM Albo.
If only we could all drive tax payer funded EVs.
From what is, possibly, Saint Paul’s first letter to the church:
I’m not saying that these attributes are only found in Christians…no way. They are found everywhere, and in all people and at all times.
However, they don’t characterise all societies and civilisations. For many, it is just the opposite.
The West has had a mighty foundation upon which to build its laws, it’s institutions and its social mores, with varying degrees of success. As that foundation is derided and eroded by the ever present white ants, behaviour and attitudes must change. For the worse.
I love the idea of “the West”, for what it believed and aspired to, and in some measure achieved. I do not love what it is becoming, if left unchecked.
I’m not sure why he is either.
On the dumbocrats’ and that foul syphilitic geriatric’s latest theft brainfart (“unrealised capital gains” tax) how long until labore and the greenfilth impose something similar here?
Although I’ve long argued that stamp duty on residential property here is basically an upfront CGT.
Some years back, the ABC ran one of the D-Gen’s projects – The Late Show – at about 10.00 p.m. on Saturday nights. It was brilliant, for the most part, and my associates at the time and I would fill up on various form of piss watching it before heading out to the pubs and clubs etc in Townsville.
There was a skit on one episode in the form of a quiz show, and it was run not long after Brett Whiteley died. It was called Who Knew Brett Best?, and consisted of a variety of (impersonated) celebrities gobbing off about their tremendous bonding experiences with Whiteley, who they met at a party or walked past in a corridor once or something.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of celebrity tributes to Shane Warne could have seamlessly blended into that show.
I’ve seen estimates by Japanese historians that, had World War Two lasted halfway through 1946, that would have been the death toll from famine and disease.
So kindly stop doing, it, please.
Faustus.
😀
Italian queues.
I once drove from Amalfi to Sorrento to return a hire car, planning to get the bus back.
I waited by the bus stop sign, with no-one else around.
The bus comes around the corner, drives straight past the bus stop and pulls up 200 metres down the road.
Locals pile out of cafes and shops and, in a flurry of shouting and sharp elbows, squeeze onto the bus.
No seat for Sancho.
So I walk over to a taxi and ask him about driving me back. At the same time three poms turn up who had also missed the bus. I ask if they want to share the fare. They wanted the ride but were tightarses so were hanging around mumbling among themselves waiting for me to shout them the lift.
“What the hell, I’m having a good time and I’m on holidays” I thought, so I did the only thing I could do.
Wound up the window and said “Let’s go!” to the driver.
Turns out the driver had rellos on Australia, had lived there for a couple of years and had good English.
As cab rides go, it was expensive.
But for a guided tour of one of the world’s most magnificent coastal drives, it was cheap.
Glad I didn’t go on the bus.
I hear the Ities cut holes in the floor and, you know …
LOL – I used to regularly serve him back when I was an ‘umble bank clerk working in Milsons Point. Totally fine to deal with although you couldn’t help but get the impression that he may have been under the influence of certain substances.
bespokesays:
March 31, 2022 at 9:25 am
Roger
Many lefty’s’ condemned the US for it’s ‘adventurism’ at the same time condemn the US for its reluctance entering WW2.
In “A Man Called Intrepid”, describing UK secret activity in the USA from shortly before WWII till Pearl Harbour, the author narrates how in 1941 people arriving at a public meeting somewhere in the US to rally support for Britain’s war effort against the Nazis were picketed by communists, but when they got out the communists had all gone. Apparently while the meeting was on the commos had got word of Operation Barbarossa.
Also, strong candidate for worst sentient being of all time Pete Seeger had an album out in 1941 full of songs urging the US to stay out of the war against Hitler, but once Operation Barbarossa was in full swing the album was withdrawn and Pete hurriedly put out a new one full of songs urging the US to get in there.
Physician*, heal thyself.
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* Partially qualified couch consultant.
Check, It’s a personal choice that only effects the people involved.
Not so easy. Delaying others who may have their own burdens to deal with and the added cost involved to accommodate plus the ever present minority who get off in inconveniencing others.
Australia’s leading centre-left conspiracy prepper blog still going, is it?
TikTok is Chinese, with close links to the CCP.
What was it that Lenin said about “give me a child”?
Undermining the West is a very Sun Tzuish thing.
Dr Faustussays:
March 31, 2022 at 9:41 am
On Russian gas in roubles.
Ive seen a few speculations its “The end of the petrodollar” and other wild allegations.
But it seems to me that if an economic minnow like Russia can tip over the financial system then its not very robust at all.
JC might know more.
Seems like wishcasting for those who would welcome the new Chinese century.
* That’s not to say there’s not a discussion to be had about Hiroshima & Nagasaki, but it needs to be set in the historical context. A full scale invasion of Japan would likely have resulted in many more civilian deaths, not to mention an estimated 1 million allied servicemen.
I saw an interview conducted about 10 years ago with one of the crew of the Enola Gay, and he said that from the time he arrived home from WWII right up until the day of the interview hardly a day went by without someone thanking him for saving a relative or friend from the hell of taking part in a land invasion of Japan.
Putin chats about Scomo along with other western leaders https://youtu.be/LnUIvJP8_Oo
A chap I know was connected with the legal eagles who represented him in his divorce from the Luverlee Wendy.
When it came time for Brett to take the stand none of the eagles dared fetch him from the toilets because they didn’t want to knowingly put an impaired witness before the court.
Another witness in an unrelated case was tasked with locating him, bringing him back and parking him in the chair, whilst the silks averted their eyes.
“Ask them what being a man is.”
Pertinent question.
“Fear of death comes from fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – C S Lewis, IIRC.
What a real man does when faced with irresistible government force, like so many conscripts into the army for wars not in our land and not of our making did, is to take the severe risk to life and limb in order that those they love and care for do not have to face the shame, social outcasting, depredations and lack of future prosperity that would result from refusing. We protect and defend – even at risk to our very lives.
So hide away and cower under your bed in fear little “man”, and continue to yap at your betters like the annoying dog you are. By all means continue to project your own fears and weakness onto others, calling their honour and integrity into doubt instead of addressing their arguments – it shows your true nature so much better than anyone else could hope to achieve.
The 20m figure apparently pops up repeatedly in Japanese military files, which may be why the historians latched onto it as a sort of grim benchmark to go by.
And, just to be clear, that was Japanese civilian casualties only.
Of course, surveying the horror the Japanese military inflicted on Asia going back to 1931 one shouldn’t be surprised. But it is a disregard for human life that makes Hitler look almost civilised by comparison.
It’s mostly Bird and ussr swapping tales about who Sinc was the most horrid to.
Actually, why did ussr get banned from Sinc-Cat?
And the overseas version of Tik Tok is banned in China.
They can’t even access it with a VPN.
Only the Mandarin version allowed, and strictly monitored too.
Albo is not stupid enough to force MPs to drive EVs. He’d need to set up an emergency towing service between Canberra, Sydney and Bega. The MSM would have great fun running photos of stranded pollies by the side of the road. There’d be a back bench revolt.
Remember the US has many nuclear weapons stored in Turkey. Seem to recall they were put there before Erdogan came to power. Funny how the allseeing strategists never saw this coming.
Good on Malcolm Roberts for using the space provided to him in Parliament to call out the failure of our medical bureaucrats (and the government they inform) to accurately report the adverse effects of the COVID vaccines that Australians have been coerced into accepting:
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/malcolm-roberts-drops-bombshells-in-senate-after-covid-under-question-inquiry/
Just remember Struth, that in the space of several hours last night you went from “You are all denialist scum and I’m better than yooz!” to “Well, I gotz a woman and yooz don’t! So ner!” All by yourself, with no help from me or KD
An allegedly superior being would never argue itself into such a petty corner.
Now stop wasting my welfare and get on with whatever your Thursday involves that takes you away from anklebiting on this forum- You’ve said you don’t like the way it’s run, so you don’t have to be here…
Can’t remember for sure, but her pro-communist rhetoric was starting to get on the nose.
Using the “Just War” theory to condemn the nuke bombing has always been perplexing to me.
I was thinking of Shorten’s comment on petrol prices.
Disclosure: I am a big fan of that word, and constantly question why it’s not in everyday use.
As in – ‘I can’t stand DoverCat – what with all the horrid pettifogging popery.’
I’m sorry to hear about Bruce Willis, one of the very few in his profession I still have some regard for. It’s ironic that his illness affects speech, an actor’s stock in trade. It reminds me of Jack Hawkins, who had throat cancer and towards the end of his life lost the ability to speak. His voice was so distinctive that in his last few films he was dubbed by an imitator and you really couldn’t tell the difference.
The principle of not targeting civilians is right.
The difficulty is applying it in a “total war” conflict.
In that context, was the use of the bomb proportionate? I think we’ve said yes, it was.
Surely, surely NT top plod knob Chalker is now gonski.
Detectives are trained to be copious note takers. The good ones do it all the time, to contemporaneously record who said what and in what context. Knowing this, the top bosses routinely (as evidenced by the Gobbo shitfest in Vic) deliberately don’t take them, or do take them and hide them when it goes bad.
Chalker’s been caught telling porkies to the public, yet again (the NT Independent):
“In that context, was the use of the bomb proportionate? I think we’ve said yes, it was.”
While the bombs themselves killed many, how many more would have died had it not been used, and the home islands had needed to be invaded? I shudder to think of the cost in lives that would have resulted. So perhaps, in that case, the bombs actually reduced loss of life.
And:
I’ve met Mark Grieve a couple of times. Solid bloke.
And, quite correctly sorting the job of the jacks from the job of politicians:
Hahahahaha!
CNN’s New Streaming Service Already Headed For Layoffs Amid Dismal Sales (31 Mar)
CNN’s ill-fated attempt to launch its own ‘Fox Nation’-style streaming service (which it christened – rather unoriginally – CNN+) is already hitting the skids.
Answer: no one. And no one is watching either.
Supports my personal hypothesis that the only people who watch CNN are lefties who do so for the same reason that all CCP members read Xi’s book. They dare not be caught not watching it. But they won’t pay for it.
Yes, it’s a hell of a calculation, but that is the reasoning.
And, furthering the God complex that Chalker seems to be afflicted with, and with which whatever he says must be believed to be true by the public:
“There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid”
Didn’t know this was Longfellow.
Feeling horridly literary right now.
And finally, in an ill-thought-out backup plan by Chalker in case the moida beef went wrong (as I suspect he thought it might, because it was a box of shit from the outset):
My God. Indescribable incompetence AND malice on the part of the brass, which is unsurprising, and equally tremendous hubris on Chalker’s part.
This is unsurvivable.
Thing is Roger. Invading would have screwed with a lot soldiers heads when they became civilians after.
I don’t recall Sinc being very unpleasant or disagreeable to anyone.
Unless you count him posting the word ‘smite’ from time to time.
You were a man willing to risk your life for your loved ones, by getting the jab, you superior creature.
FMD.
People can justify anything.
I am not saying you weren’t under pressure, but here is what I am saying to you Kneel.
You didn’t achieve that by taking the jab and allowing your children to do the same.
You did not achieve that.
Twist it as you may…….and this is why with people like you I am being serious.
Bullshit, because although you might have staved off immediate hurt you have done the very worst thing in the long run.
And now you are realising it.
What is done is done Kneel, and I don’t doubt your intentions and your call you a bad person.
I say your decision was wrong.
I say that it caused more harm and will cause much more harm in the long run.
Why if what is done is done, do I keep talking about it?
Because unlike the denialist minds here, who think it’s all over, I know it isn’t.
It’s only just starting.
They’re backing off because there is an election…and that’s just pure theatre…but no one is rescinding state of emergency and anyone not in denial can see a mile away what is going on.
Now for fuck sake Kneel, whatever you thought you did was right, you are now discovering, because you’re not stupid that it wasn’t the right thing at all.
But it’s done right…what’s done is done.
WELL IT FUCKING ISN’T DONE AND THERE WILL BE BOOSTERS.
Are you really going to get boosters?
Call me a c..t if you like, but there will be boosters Kneel.
And your family and your life is in your hands.
Or it should be.
Same as the right.
And in saying that, my offer still stands if you wish to get out of Victoria, although the same is coming here, like accepting the jab, it would be only temporary relief.
“Yes, it’s a hell of a calculation, but that is the reasoning.”
Indeed. I certainly do not envy those required to decide the balance of such numbers, but they have and do exist. I cannot imagine being in such a position, and have no idea what I would do were I to face such a choice – the pangs of conscience for either yea or nay are mind-numbingly large.
Eric Topol.
Yowling can be heard from outer space.
Ivermectin: the largest randomized, double-blind trial yet conducted, with early treatment, indicates there is no difference compared with placebo. It doesn’t work. Period.
What am I saying.
The same is here already.
To some the very existence of an economist nerd is unpleasant.
Not me though I always thought Sinc had potential.
No WolfmanOz at the Movies post this week . . . Hectic week and time just ran out.
It’ll be back next week !
Ad I’ve pointed out in Atomic Salvation, the Japanese commanders didn’t just want to fight it out to the last man.
They actually had a plan. It was that if they forced the Allies to invade, the invaders would be forced to fight through the hills and valleys of Japan. 75% of the country is not level, negating most of the Allies’ armour advantages, and severely lessening their artillery and airpower ground attack capabilities.
The Japanese figured this would impose massive casualties for the Allies, and given enough of this, the invaders would lose heart, and settle a surrender on Japanese terms, rather than unconditionally.
Having travelled through Japan extensively, I reckon they were right.
Yes.
Yes, they certainly can.
An absolute must watch. It brightened my whole day.
Just one comment among many in a similar vein.
There are no easy choices in war, especially in a monstrous all encompassing conflict such as WW2.
Although as far as I’m concerned, the choice to drop the nukes should have been an easy one. The Allies’ sole priority by mid 1945 was to go to any lengths necessary to prevent further allied civilian and military casualties. There were at least a million allied civilians held prisoner by the Japanese in 1945, a significant proportion of which were women. Most if not all of them would have been killed had the war dragged on into 1946 and beyond.
Given their actions across the “greater east asian co-prosperity sphere” from 1931 to 1945 the Japanese had forfeited any right to moral considerations from the allies. The Germans had been vanquished and it made no earthly sense to allow the war in the east to drag on, resulting in many millions more casualties – as for an invasion of the Japanese mainland, it was as preposterous a proposition as could have been imagined. Utterly pointless.
Mole
The negative we witnessed is how quickly the US and Europe turned around and began to freeze the assets of people who haven’t done anything illegal. Because they’re Russian they’ve had their assets basically confiscated. I find that pretty evil.
The other pointer in favour of the Dollar maintaining its reserve status are that the yuan and the “Rubble” are shit currencies and no one in their right mind would invest in shit shows like that.
It’s still a dollar world and will be for some time I think. Having said that I don’t think the US considers just how lucky they are to have reserve status.
I don’t have a reference, but Japanese surrender terms were – they were to retain their Empire, they were to retain the Emperor, there would be no occupation of the Home Islands, Japanese war criminals would be tried in Japanese courts, and the military would supervise their own disarmament.
GreyRanga
Remember the US has many nuclear weapons stored in Turkey. Seem to recall they were put there before Erdogan came to power. Funny how the allseeing strategists never saw this coming.
To the extent that they still be there, they have probably been “maintained” into unservicability. The US services take nuclear weapons security seriously, and would ensure that Erdogan couldn’t become an instant nuclear power.
getting in early with ‘The Wheel of Ivermectin’
rosiesays:
March 31, 2022 at 10:53 am
Eric Topol.
Yowling can be heard from outer space.
Ivermectin: the largest randomized, double-blind trial yet conducted, with early treatment, indicates there is no difference compared with placebo. It doesn’t work. Period.
Another “designed to fail” load of shit.
Proponents of Ivermectin as a treatment for covid have unanimously said that it works when given with zinc (or some other specified adjuvants).
Guess what was done in this so-called “trial”?
[Spoiler alert: If you guessed no zinc and no other adjuvant you win the prize.]
This excellent point seems to be consistently forgotten by the hand-patters whenever this subject is brought up.
Whoever gave Biden his injection would fail the practical on multiple counts as noted in the comments.
Nice to see no one turned up to hear Malcolm Roberts. Pan shot at 3.10 and 7.40 shows empty chamber.
Grrr.
Kneelsays:
March 31, 2022 at 10:38 am
“In that context, was the use of the bomb proportionate? I think we’ve said yes, it was.”
While the bombs themselves killed many, how many more would have died had it not been used, and the home islands had needed to be invaded? I shudder to think of the cost in lives that would have resulted. So perhaps, in that case, the bombs actually reduced loss of life.
And don’t forget that the war would have continued outside the home islands. The British and Indian Armies were to land in Malaya in September, the Australian I Corps was preparing to land in Java, and thousands would have continued to die every day in China. PoWs would also have continued to die.
Tim just spun/spinned ‘The Wheel of Ivermectin’ and is the winner of today’s booster prize.
🙂
Yes JC, it sets any ugly precedent, but I’m not going waste any sympathy on dirtbags like Abramovich.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/morality-through-the-lens-of-hate/
+1
“You were a man willing to risk your life for your loved ones…”
Yes, unlike you – you might want to think about what that says about you and your manhood.
I did not want it, I thought it was risky, but I did it anyway – because it was my duty, as a man, to do so.
Duties are never pleasant, but the failure do perform them often weighs more heavily on the conscience than the act of performing them weighs on your freedoms. Perhaps that is why you say what you do – you know you have neglected your duties as a man, and you do not like what your conscience has to say about that.
Go back to cowering under your bed in fear instead of facing the shit life throws at you head on – most of us pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, say “Shit! Didn’t see that coming”, then do what we can to mitigate future similar risks. That is life. You don’t have to participate of it should you choose otherwise, as you apparently have. However, should you so choose, you have no right to denigrate those who stand up and face life head on – they are living, while you are simply surviving at any cost.
Yes, COVID and the vaxes have killed many people.
Yes, they will kill many more.
Yes, I may be one of them.
But if, for fear of these things, I cower under my bed, going nowhere, seeing no-one and unable to live my life, I may as well be dead anyway.
I choose to live – and I’m not looking back.
Survive if that is what matter most to you – I prefer to live, risks and all.
Um, Rosie, on the graph 10 categories ivermectin was better than placebo, 3 were no different and 2 placebo was better than ivermectin.
So it seems to be another case of the actual data supporting ivermectin, but the conclusions being written to suggest the reverse. I’ve seen a few of those in politicized science areas like this and the climate field.
I have not delved into the details of the paper, however the therapy is IV/AZ/Zn, so if it is ivermectin alone you’d expect less of an effect.
It’s funny that Struth boasts on his own personal echo chamber (egged on by Bird and SRR), that he sends people hysterical here.
Yet Kneel’s single post at 10.15AM provokes 2 wordwalls and a snark.
I dips me lid, Kneel. You trigger the man worse than I do… 🙂
KD at 10:41.
That cart was a loooong way in front of the horse.
How twitter is supposed to used.
+ Eleventy.
“I dips me lid, Kneel. You trigger the man worse than I do… “
Oh, I think not – I just pick a different course to you. Both reach the same destination, but the journey is very different.
Even FLCCC doesn’t claim anything more that a nebulous ‘synergistic’ benefit to taking zinc and a bunch of other stuff with ivermectin.
flcccs ivermectin faqs
*thunderous applause*
Especially so, seeing as how there is no risk of being shipped off to death camps.
Bon
You think the ‘protocol’ is ivermectin astrazeneca and zinc?
What happened to poor old hydroxychloroquine?
It matters not to a Commissioner with a God complex who is reportedly hated by all of his own people, and certainly distrusted by the population.
After all – if he can fit up one of his own cops for moida, and for political (his own) benefit, he could do it to anyone.
The trigger words, in order of appearance, seem to be “real” and “man”.
As for bragging about “mah woman” I only have one question.
What is the manufacturer’s recommended psi for optimum inflation?
They were probably better men then I, but one group of newly liberated POW’s had their liberators indicating the Japanese guards, now prisoners, and asking “Any of this lot you want us to put a bullet through?”
Head-shakes all round, “No there’s been enough killing already.”
Rosie – One thing I would like to see is an azithromycin vs placebo study. It’s quite possible the biggest problem with covid isn’t covid itself but that it acts as a gateway to bacterial infection.
GPs are so totally paranoid about “overprescribing” antibiotics these days that I suspect many people dying “of” flu and covid are actually doing so because of the synergistic bacterial infections which don’t get early enough treatment. There’s a sort of religious doctrine that is chanted: antibiotics-don’t-work-on-viruses. Which is narrowly correct but is misinformation since the synergistic bacterial infection probably is the real problem in many cases.
This is a good argument for the use of the A-Bombs – military forces were dying every day, just in training and accidents rather than in action:
The continuation of the war, even in a state of maintaining a holding pattern while waiting for the Japanese to come to a realization of their position, would have meant the maintenance, on station, of tens of thousands of aircraft and thousands of vessels big and small. One of the overlooked factors of keeping such a force active in the Pacific would have been the steady deaths by accident of many personnel.
In fact, this is an overlooked factor of this military campaign: more deaths were encountered by accident than from combat. To look at United States Army Air Force losses is instructive. For every one plane lost to enemy action, six more were lost to misadventure. These accidents were inevitable given the intensity of operations and the equipment of the time. Aircraft of the 1940s were simply not as safe as those of the time this book was written more than 70 years later. They did not have Global Positioning System navigation, for example, and getting lost was always a possibility. Bomber navigators worked their position through dead reckoning; star plotting through astrodomes when flying at night, and some crude electronics. Mechanical and electronic systems did not have triple redundancies as they do today. Crew training was measured in weeks rather than years.
Aircrews were also pushing their airframes and engines to the limits in order to maximize effect. Charles Sweeney described one typical accident which took place in front of him:
A steady flow of B-29s from the 313th were taking off in the darkness on the strips below. I saw an airplane struggling to lift off with its full load of fuel and bombs. It didn’t make it. The burning aviation fuel and exploding napalm-filled bombs sent plumes of flame and smoke billowing up into the sky.
The scale of the forces involved also meant huge casualty figures. In the USAAF, 35,946 personnel died in WWII in non-battle accidents. Given military propensity for an assault force to grow to the maximum allowable by time before it is committed, and the enormous scale therefore of Coronet and Olympic, how many thousand more would have died simply from accident alone? There was no lessening of the tempo – until Japan surrendered.
Proponents of Ivermectin as a treatment for covid have unanimously said that it works when given with zinc (or some other specified adjuvants).
Guess what was done in this so-called “trial”?
Amazing how some “scientists” will do anything for money.
Just for you Rosie:
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245526
Check out the referenced Obit pages:https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/ocean/obituaries/
“What is the manufacturer’s recommended psi for optimum inflation?”
Surely there is also: does it have real hair?