A first time for everything. I’ve never heard this before. Deeply moving, to say the least. Opinions will vary. Ennio…
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Was that Orange Revolution an Obama Initiative? I thought it was more indigenous. The article references various things, not just…
Rogue Heroes now on the SBS.
First graders or Second graders?
Have previously had a j’ismist comment get through. Still no luck with “Mavis”.
The one about Openwrt?
“The bloke I might add is a turd, but jail??
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/01/salford-alan-moher-jailed-refusing-wife-caroline-get-jewish-religious-divorce”
As someone who knows Jewish law, I find that rather interesting that a secular court is doing what a Jewish religious court would do. In Jewish law there are provisions for a man who refuses to give his wife a divorce to be beaten or jailed. There are quite a few men in Israel who are in prison for refusing to give their wives a divorce. Most of these men are Sephardic or Mizrachim, that is descendants of Jews who came from Middle Eastern countries, they’d rather die in prison than give their wives freedom.
A recent case was a man who had returned to Kabul to live rather than give his wife in Israel a divorce. He’s on record saying that he’d prefer to live and die under the Taliban than give his wife a divorce. Last I heard about him was that last August, when Kabul fell, a Jewish relief organisation had got him out of Kabul, I don’t know where he is now but one thing is for sure, he’ll never give his wife a divorce.
rosiesays:
April 2, 2022 at 10:22 am
Question.
In assessing real or nominal value of your used car, why isn’t a value ascribed to the value you derived from the two years of use?
Perhaps using the costs of alternative transport?
Rabid lefties (BIRM) have for yonks wanted to do that to the family home, to enable income taxing the “imputed rent” value. Don’t encourage the pricks.
The great vaccine tribulation?
I’m not John, I’m just wondering why you would ignore the benefit derived from the use of the care in assessing value on disposal.
There are quite a few men in Israel who are in prison for refusing to give their wives a divorce.
Thanks Cassie, i was vaguely aware it was frowned on by Religious authorities, but didnt know there were penalties that could be imposed.
And yes, the main weirdness seems to be a secular court involving itself in a religious matter.
The civil divorce has been and done.
Its the religious side they are saying they can involve themselves in because its causing distress to the lady.
It’s interesting, Cassie.
Refusal to grant freedom to another results in prison for the refuser.
Shame it can’t be applied elsewhere.
Question.
In assessing real or nominal value of your used car, why isn’t a value ascribed to the value you derived from the two years of use?
Perhaps using the costs of alternative transport?
rosie, that is a very good question on cars used for transport (vs those used for prestige,show or fun/sport). Cars are incredibly valuable despite their costs which is why they became so popular.
Up getting my coffee, there is a Chinese dad here with four well behaved under fives. Unusual.
To my horror though the Chinese mum who lets, effectively encourages her one year old to scream constantly has just arrived.
Bother.
It’s already started.
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More rude crap.
Shut your fucking pie hole.
Mr “I don’t need to know naffing”.
They want your table, rosie.
Last week I posted a report about NYC authorities imposing ever greater regulatory and financial measures on landlords in the poorer parts of the city. When one landlord protested to his Democrat state rep – a rabid lefty – saying they’d make keeping his building impossible, she implied that was the goal. These aren’t white landlords, by and large, but aspirational blacks and Asians.
For all those blindly following the evidence…
The illusion of evidence based medicine.
Follow the money. You get the evidence that is required.
Just follow the money.
I’ve moved outside.
Was the same last week. I know the staff are not impressed.
Ear piercing.
They Will Force You to Own an Electric Car | @Pat Gray Unleashed
Washington State has set a new target to end all gas car sales by 2030.
That was an interesting article, Roger.
It actually discourages building maintenance.
And of course public housing in the US has always been a roaring success.
Queer Theory is Gender Marxism, Et Cetera
Interesting that Teachers are the top of Kerryn’s list of precious, endangered people being threatened by evil children.
Not about saving granny now, we gotta save the comrades first!
I told you the other night I’d give you $20k for the 530. I may go up to $21 if we have lunch with Monty, I’ll pay, just to see the two of you together. I’m a sucker for punishment.
So then they fine the landlord for not maintaining the building.
As one said, it’s cheaper for him not to let out some of his apartments that need renos.
And they wonder that they’ve got a housing shortage.
I thought it very interesting that as well as from Murray, Phelps got a serve from Tim Soutphommasane.
No we don’t get medical treatments to solely benefit others.
If that doesn’t happen quickly enough they’ll simply legislate them out of existence.
Just not for themselves, of course.
I have a secret weapon that works every time in such situations, rosie.
I call it the Winston.
New York rent capping is a fine source of murder motives for police dramas like Law and Order.
Thanks KD, for the inspiration – run and gardening done.
No rain either yet, fingers crossed.
“And yes, the main weirdness seems to be a secular court involving itself in a religious matter.
The civil divorce has been and done.
Its the religious side they are saying they can involve themselves in because its causing distress to the lady.”
It sets a bad precedent. Religious law and civil law must be kept separate. I know that here Oz, in order to get a Get from a Rabbinical court, you must first have finalised your civil divorce. The various Beth Dins here in Oz won’t even entertain getting involved until that’s done. I only know of one Australian man who refused to give his wife a divorce……..he racked off to NZ and some Rabbis followed him there. I don’t know what ensued.
“Refusal to grant freedom to another results in prison for the refuser.
Shame it can’t be applied elsewhere.”
Quite so Calli.
I haven’t the foggiest bespoke.
All I know is outside in light drizzle is the better option.
Next week I’ll be bringing my granddaughter up here for a coffee. She better not have discovered screaming or we’ll be going home faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
Which would be infinitely faster than she can say Jack Robinson 🙂
Soooo, eventually stopped raining, out here in Fairfield, and down to the shed to do some cleanup .. bloody thing locked and can’t find or recall where I put the key .. 30 minutes searching and gave up .. out with the drill and drilled the rivets around the clasp/lock thru .. soon as I opened the door remembered when I was last in & where the key must be! …….
Yep! .. bottom of the washing machine .. left it in the pocket when I threw the garden shorts in with the rest of the wash earlier in the week .. senior’s moment’s coming faster these days .. LOL!
Good little article on Jimmy Saville by the chap who was apparently (according to the investigations) the only man who reported Savile assaulting someone..
Despite everyone knowing he was a kiddy molesting neophiliac pervert.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/01/the-day-i-thwarted-jimmy-savile-mark-lawson-on-trying-to-stop-britains-worst-sex-offender
I struggle to write the next paragraph but Smith, in her section 5: 262, records what happened with the pellucid neutrality of legal prose:
He said “hello” to everyone except C23. Then he stood beside her, grabbed her round the waist with his right hand, put his legs round her left thigh (so that her leg was between his two legs) and rubbed his crotch up and down. So far as C23 can remember, he did not say anything. She felt that he was giving a performance. Fortunately Mr Lawson saw what was happening, came over and distracted Savile, then positioned himself between Savile and C23. The interview took place.
There is one detail Smith omits for the proper reason that it is experienced by a witness not a victim. When I block Savile, he is furious, thwarted. His strength is extraordinary for a man four months away from 80 but I have enough height and heft to hold him off, though not without briefly feeling his erection against my leg. (Many have suggested that his favoured baggy leisure wear was doubly calculated for easy removal and to advertise his arousal to his prey without doubt.) Let me be clear that this experience is nothing at all compared to the impacts on his victims, but it is a weird memory to have and gives me some tiny insight into the suffering he inflicted.
On our home front, extreme nuisance. A little travelogue.
After $5k worth of turbo-charger repairs on the Q5 we were taking it up to Brisbane for a week and all the way up towards Newcastle the driving was horrendous, with He Who Drives being impatient and me being a flinching passenger as he ferociously overtook a double tanker in the rain, ‘easily’ (he claims defensively) beating an upcoming car to the job. Another flinch from me followed, and then another, which makes him cross. At least we agree he needs a break. Will Hungry Jack’s at Hexham do? he asks and so in we go. As we drive in, he says in that serious quiet tone of voice, I have something to tell you. I think I am in for a lecture, but he simply says that light’s on again and the turbo is failing. So?
We call our car man back home and he says nurse it back here carefully and he’ll see what computer says, so we drive all the way homewards in pelting rain, making plans to get an evening flight, cancel the hotel booking at Coffs, hire a car in Brissie, or alternatively, restart our journey tomorrow if car man finds it’s all a loose wire or we opt to drive up tomorrow using another vehicle that also may be unfit for the drive. As well as seeing our grandies, I had a meeting on Sunday in Brisbane with a family lineage elder I’ve discovered who has amazing details on family history and our little church; so I really wanted to keep our meet-up date.
It wasn’t a loose wire, computer said no to any driving, and in the event we decided to cancel the trip entirely. Some days are like that, where cancellation, the fourth option of those discussed in the turbo-challenged car coming home, suddenly seems the best option. A trip to Newc for an indigestible burger lunch at HJ’s seemed poor reward for all that marital disharmony on the way. Our car man has always advised a Mercedes when we turn this Audi over and we are beginning to agree with him.
I sent home cat-minding son with thanx, and awoke this morning to find the NBN has crashed; currently I’m on my phone hotspot. Sometimes the gods are not necessarily angry, just mildly annoyed, for no rhyme or reason, as is their wont.
Just about everything that’s wrong with this country crystallised in one sentence.
You’d think the authors of this article could have done a little web search.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/tesla-and-the-science-of-low-cost-next-gen-ev-million-mile-battery.html
LiFePo4 cells are hardly new. Lots safer than Li-ion but only HALF the energy density although power density can be be greater (suitable for high discharge rates) and better calendar and cycle life. Lower cost materials than Li-ion but how far do you want to drive your electric car?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery
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More gratuitous advice: Try a Lexus before doing so.
You’ve never done a Winston after eating bake beans or Mexican?
No, they will make it impossible for you to own any car at all. Public transport or bicycles are good enough for the plebes.
More gratuitous advice: Try a Lexus before doing so.
Probably half the price, better built.
Buy Jap when it comes to cars.
Toyota…anything.
You can get them fixed anywhere.
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Much lighter per amp hour, though, aren’t they?
Government to impose capital gains tax on used car sales
The exemption from CGT has resulted in the wealthy investing large sums in vintage and veteran cars, and multi-car garages to store them in.
It was one of the few assets, other than primary residence, to enjoy tax free status.
It will affect only the wealthy few, so the average mong doesn’t care, but I can see lots of cash sales in the future.
I trust it’s an E39, not one of the later Chris Bangle abominations.
Seriously ugly cars. I owned a pre bangle Alpina back in the nineties and its lines were magnificent.
It was an April Fools Gag.
If no one fights this, and hardly anyone on this blog will even admit anything is happening, there won’t be any cash.
Indolent says:
April 2, 2022 at 11:05 am
They Will Force You to Own an Electric Car | @Pat Gray Unleashed
No, they will make it impossible for you to own any car at all. Public transport or bicycles are good enough for the plebes.
Wrong! “you will own nothing and be happy about it”
No, fuck off you worthless slob. You Thought leader.
How long before you pull another sickie and pretend you’re gone forever? Lol.
Lol at your tale of woe too, Shatterzzz.
This weather is beginning to get to us all. As I recall it did in 1956 and again in the 1980’s.
I don’t recall much about the weather in the 60’s and 70’s, but I doubt if La Nina was asleep.
East coast lows probably happened then too but I was busy enjoying myself not noticing.
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Man, he copped a lot of shit and I think he was forced to resign.
There’s something wrong with BMW at the moment. I haven’t looked at their financials but their lineup looks and feels like crap.
Nothing besmirches a person more than being glorified by Sean Penn.
One of the most repulsive, evil imbeciles to have existed in human history.
The BBC of course, ran cover for the monster for decades.
“Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
April 2, 2022 at 11:01 am”
Lovely piece Lizzie.
Gee, so many here who can afford new cars, one who has never had a car with over a 100,000km on it. I guess you all move in different wealthier circles than I do. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a car that hasn’t had at least a 150,000 on it when I bought it. My current Ford Ranger 2011 model has 430,000 on it. It cost me $10k six years ago with 260,000km on it. Since purchase I’ve spent $5k on repairs and do all my own maintenance. It should be good to get to 600,000km. The depreciation on a new ranger alone after six years would be more than I’ve spent all up on this old girl.
Wise old saying “Drive the cheapest car your ego can afford”.
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Tiny mother, stop pretending you are some big talking manly bloke.
Many on here have actually met you.
We know you.
Just stop pretending to be what you are not.
Stop with the foul mouthed taking your shit out on those who won’t give you back your shit.
Fool.
My flat was flooded in a two week rain storm in Sydney around the mid 80s. I’ve never experienced such sustained full on tropical rain like that time. And I’m not kidding when I say it didn’t stop raining for two weeks solid.
A friend lives at Springbrook, a mountain just behind the Gold Coast. A few weeks ago she told me that it has rained nearly every day since October!
Forver is a long time in a human life. Never say forever.
Just to let you know, the Cat’s oldest contributor Macbeth appeared briefly on Quadrant comments recently, speaking confidently of his approaching centenary.
Most Cats still have a long way to that sort of forever. Even me.
Yep, remember it well. I think some of the recent rain we’ve had here has been worse.
Johnny Rotten tried to out him and was promptly blocked by the BBC, i think he is still quite angry about that, justifiably so.
Much lighter per amp hour, though, aren’t they?
No, that is what energy density means. You get about half of that of a high performance li -ion in kW-hr/kg. So to drive your car the same distance you need a battery pack twice as heavy, except if the battery pack is twice as heavy, if all else is equal the car won’t go twice as far.
The place seems to be getting worse and worse.
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The last one is no wonder since the restaurants have gone and crime is so terrible. The big financials are having to put monitors on their employees to make them to come into the office, since they all want to keep working from home. That’s not very surprising either.
But of course, it will never fill our dams, according to some braindead hippie twat.
Fair dinkim thought leader, you’re like a dumped crazed girlfriend who won’t let go. One minute you’re begging me to call, another time you’re full of abuse when I tell you to bugger off. Will you just fuck 0ff and go pester Egg.
Got a 15yo Toyota that has given us very little grief, a friend has an even older Camry ditto. Both only have 150K to 200K km on clock. Jap bike we have, a Honda is only just starting to give grief, over 15yo though.
As for appreciation had that with the HZ even with it’s old age problems.
The Sporting Man in our family noted the other day, apropos the weather, that our son at one time in the 90’s missed all school Saturday sports from February to the end of June as every single Saturday was rained out. Big Wets are not so unusual in Sydney’s basically monsoonal climate.
who keeps a car for 15 yrs?
Me! There’s now nothing that can go wrong that will cost more that $1k!
bespokesays:
April 2, 2022 at 10:32 am
yes.
Listen you denialist fucks.
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Lol.
Piss off you muppet-armed tiny little wimp.
Just pointing out to the bystanders that the loud mouthed rhetoric doesn’t match the physical person.
That’s excellent, Struth!
But why then, do you keep carrying on like everything is so hard and impossible and tyrannical and so bad when Socialism has only partially sat you on your arse?
It’s also a little bit disappointing you felt a need to defend your little crowd on the Furniture Store, when I was actually complimenting them. In your mutual hatred and rage towards me, all of you were actually getting along. That’s a remarkable occurrence that nobody has ever seen here or on any other Cat.
It is a terrible shame you chose to ignore that to scream at me about EmOtIoN and then cry about mean names.
You are now so far up your own backside that every interaction with everyone is a fight, and anyone who does not bow to you is an enemy that must be destroyed at all costs.
That’s a pretty awful way to live, Struth…
Is THIS the Real Reason Psychedelics Are Illegal?
Brand argues that the drugs are illegal because they can alter the way people perceive the world. The research backs him up on that, many people report profound changes in their perceptions and understanding. Whether or not others perceive that as a good thing often comes down to moral issues. A striking change that can occur is freedom from typical belief systems, both religious and cultural, which might explain why religions and government are often very opposed to mind altering substances. I never experienced anything so profound and when friends starting talking about spiritual like effects on their perceptions I would respond, “It’s just a drug, don’t get carried away.”
Yes, there were big East Coast Lows in the 70s
My contribution to energy security.
I’ve bought a new 40 kva diesel generator on a flat top trailer.
I could set up on the road for EVs that didn’t quite make it to the next recharge point. Everyone’s welcome except Merc drivers.
I guess we got accustomed to new cars when we both used to get company vehicles as part of a package. The Lord and Master of course always got something quite special. Mine stayed at a Commodore.
The advantage was supposed to be that they never break down and save you grief – lol to that. In past times I’ve owned various sorts of older cars, often rust buckets with many mechanical problems, always purchased at ‘low mileage’, and lol to that little dealer’s fib too. Caveat emptor.
A friend of mine has an old style Holden Rodeo ute with a four passenger cab and an enclosed tail. It has taken her around Australia and was high mileage when she bought it twelve years ago. It is still going strong and the advantage it has is that no computer is needed to fix it. Any mechanic with a bit of know how and a wrench can fix most things, getting spare parts from a wrecking yard.
Some good memes here. I almost cacked my pants at some of them; almost but not quite.
Crying much? 🙂
It’s a great way to live.
Free of the jab and nobody’s bitch.
https://citizensunitedmovies.com/pages/rigged
2001 ford wagon on gas, a bit rusty with bits falling of but still going strong.
Tom and areff earlier.
It would be great to assemble a list of all the defamation fails of Nein/Fewfacts over the last twenty years.
I used to have a couple ready to roll whenever lefties started banging on about the Mudrock press.
A complete list would be just the ticket for returning fire.
Wise old saying now? – turn over to a petrol-engine car before they become unavailable. As long as petrol remains readily available, although I can’t see that becoming an issue for the next ten years or so, which is longer than we’d like to keep any car these days. Five years has to be turnover time, imho, and that Audi is due soon to be loved by someone who is not me. Would offer it to our daughter and her hubby, but they want something with seven seats, like a Q7. Sensible, with their three kids.
I’d suggest a Tarrago van to include their friends, but she would be mightily offended if I did that. 🙂
We drove a hybrid Jaguar in Norway as a hire car and it was very acceptable in performance. I guess a hybrid would be having a bob each way in terms of possible future directions for fill up vs reacharge.
But there is always the lurking worry of the fire-prone explosive battery with a hybrid.
Just for the lurkers to recognise a troll.
A troll being one just attempting to stir shit, to the point of making themselves look like a goose, but just keep going.
is giving a compliment when choo choo is trolling.
And still here 24/7.
You don’t do much, do you comrade?
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I’ve choked up.
Only a tiny, tiny feminine dickhead like you thinks that counts against a man.
Not just the BBC.
Management at Stoke Mandeville hospital allowed the monster free access (and accomodation, FFS) to select and rape patients.
For 25 years.
Despite complaints from staff.
And the media; which spent years batting away whistleblower and anonymous tip-offs.
And the security services who vetted him for his eventual knighthood missed the signals.
The bastard was untouchable because of the Brit deference to celebrity operating at Establishment level.
A 360° fuckup.
This is all coming out from an inquiry.
If you think this is over dead shits, think again.
How many boosters are you going to have?
When as men, are you going to stop hurting others?
Big Crybaby.
Its 108 pages, but the first 8-10 pages give a very good overview of Trumps RICO law suit against Hillary and others…
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.1.0_2.pdf
That’s nice.
2 years of shrieking wordwalls and wishes for all your class enemies to die of bloodclots and somesuch suggests otherwise.
Which reminds me- IOU a Still Alive! next April. I might even think about testing your proclaimed and famous tolerance by posting it on the Furniture Store… 🙂
Try not to link the same Malcolm Roberts 4 times in less than an hour with increasingly provocative hyperlinks if you plan to make a statement like that. It makes you look like you’re projecting…
It is open source software. And shows how to use none commercial methods to bloc ads, secure your home network etc.
Plus it’s a demonstration of nerds actually crating alternative not just sitting around bitching and making list.
Not quite.
I have really only owned two cars this century.
Not really a car person and inertia usually results in me keeping the car forever.
Just had mine serviced this week.
Last time I was told that it would cost $900 to fix the squeak and stiffness in driver’s side door.
Another $900-ish to tighten up the seat belt retractor.
Yeah.
Nah.
This time I drive the car home from the garage, open the door and it swings freely into the fence. Obviously one of the mechanics noticed the problem and gave it a tap and a spray in just the right spot.
Fixed.
For no extra charge.
The Sporting Man in our family noted the other day, apropos the weather, that our son at one time in the 90’s missed all school Saturday sports from February to the end of June as every single Saturday was rained out. Big Wets are not so unusual in Sydney’s basically monsoonal climate.
our sons are the sam age and Ivemember that very well -the cross ventilation in our house was so poor the walls were blackb with mould we vowed to fix that – and did
Anyway, why does this offend you so much, Struth?
Faulty, SRR and Bird alike have all been either been banned or self-selected to leave various past iterations of the Cat, you’ve flounced on multiple occasions after having your obnoxious behaviour towards others checked. And you are constantly butting heads with Faulty over on your own site. And you even delete Bird’s posts and upset him.
Why are you so offended by this?
Alan Moher, 57, from Salford, separated from his wife, Caroline, in 2016 after 21 years, with the pair later being granted a divorce in a family court in 2019. But she is unable to remarry in a synagogue without a “get” – a document that formally recognises the end of marriage in the Orthodox Jewish faith.
Southwark crown court heard Moher withheld the document in order to prevent Caroline from remarrying. The prosecutor Anthony Metzer QC told how the defendant offered his then wife £700,000 in the civil divorce with the get or £780,000 without it.
The article doesn’t say whether she took the 780,000. If she did and is now whinging this is a travesty.
That’s what I kept telling myself on the two occasions when I took LSD in the 60’s. The first lot, called ‘Animal’, and with good reason, turned my visual perception into cubism, which was terrifying, and there was a constand fear that this would never end, along with a huge sense of dread and impending doom. If that’s spiritual, they can keep it. Coming down was ok, just lots of wood knots in a wardrobe fascinating by sliding slowly down with starbursts, and beautiful colours and a sense of compassion for the world at large. Second time was in a field and my biggest memory of it is conversing with a friendly horse. He didn’t say much. Gave it away after that.
I own you choo choo.
I’m in your head.
Now fuck off.
Between the both of us we have shown the world what sort of a low life creep you are.
Job’s done.
When you’re in building you always remember rain. Endless site closures. No turnover. The overdraft getting stratospheric.
The worst – Feb 2002. No work for a month.
The mid-80’s was a nightmare too. I watched suburban water courses aka drains surcharge and do untold damage. From memory, Toongabbie Creek flooded massively, prompting a huge engineering project to both contain and slow down the flows.
Two years.
Surely all those “imminent” civil cases must be due to kick off soon?
Dover, please check your email.
From cohenit’s link:
Melons are bastards
Cut a hole in the floor just in case.
Nope. Your posting history clearly indicates that I am in yours. Look at you, darling. You don’t respond or try to DeStRoY anyone else in the same way you to do me. Look out Mrs Struth, you have a competitor for his affections! 😀
Funny that. It was only a weekend ago when you were howling and raging across 2 forum sites, that you have never, ever told anyone to go away from a site you were ‘visiting’ and didn’t ‘own…’
Been really dry this year even the caltrop isn’t doing so good.
From Rugbyskier’s link on East Coast Lows in the 70’s. I remember this ship beaching but in those days no-one complained about the weather as something that was signalling a coming doom for the planet. Floods and droughts were just Dorothea Mackellar stuff back then. Everone had learned to recite that at school (and so they should today as well). Global cooling and the population bomb was the trendies’ worry du jour in those decades. Imagine if a coal-loader had such an accident today. The greenies would be wailing climatic doom all over it.
Gasp!
The trigger phrase.
Great news from KD at 9:03.
Apparently we have a one year extension on our timeline to death.
Good to know.
Really pleasing to see no-one has posted Gonzalo Lira links here for a couple of days now.
It looks like others are smelling the same fraudulent rat that KD and I did.
JCsays:
April 2, 2022 at 11:25 am
I recall it did in 1956 and again in the 1980’s.
I don’t recall much about the weather in the 60’s and 70’s, but I doubt if La Nina was asleep.
My flat was flooded in a two week rain storm in Sydney around the mid 80s. I’ve never experienced such sustained full on tropical rain like that time. And I’m not kidding when I say it didn’t stop raining for two weeks solid.
Living on a hillside. we had 2x 1 in 100 year floods in 80s – with front wall as dam blocked gate on eastern side and stopped run off down eastern side – 1st one in 80s – ankle deep down drive on western boundary – 2nd in 80s thigh level down drive – both bypassed house, but houses below cliff at back boundary got a pasting
Our 3rd 1 in 100 year flood in March this year – ankle level again down drive
From the photos at the memorial service, people notice that Xi’s gray hair has increased significantly. Compared to his previous public appearance, it feels as if he turned gray overnight. It has made people wonder if Xi Jinping has been under too much pressure lately. Our observation shows that the recent war in Ukraine and the plane crash of China Eastern Airlines are both related to the intense struggle inside the CCP.
Unprecedented!
More from Mr Dragger at 9:03.
I see some characterise those little reminders of the hyper-bowl delivered by Kenn Worth – Road Ranger as “repetitively raking over past” and “scab picking”.
Some even want to ban repetitive criticism of St Ruth but turn a blind eye to repetitive criticism from St Ruth.
Sorry, but if you want to make ridiculous “Toowoomba Death Camps” assertions, brand yourself as a martyr (the “new Jews”), predict that all vaxed will die within 18-48 months and the vax causes AIDS, with a sprinkling of gratuitous racism thrown in, you better put your flak jacket on.
Because you will draw some fire.
And deservedly so.
“Has anyone here ever sold a car for more than they paid for it? “
No, but I am reliably informed that just the running gear from my daily driver is worth about triple what I paid for the entire car 2 years ago.
St Ruth Arky and Tailgunner are great reasons never to go to cat meat ups.
rickwsays:
April 2, 2022 at 11:30 am
who keeps a car for 15 yrs?
Me! There’s now nothing that can go wrong that will cost more that $1k!
1994 Toyota Series 80 4.5l EFI – Landcruiser – Dress up Barbie Doll – 120,000Km – all fluids changed every 2 years, Mobil 1 Fully Synthetic Motor Oil since new and U98 always – since pinging on U91
Run every 2 weeks up to temperature – always have A/C on as lubricates seals and A/C still like new
Wife’s 2006 Honda Jazz – 1.3L Gli 104,000 Kms – Mobil 1 since 1,000Km service -only service every 10,000 km and have changed CVT Transmission Fluid every 10,000 Km as low city run around, A/C always run and U98 full since new
Have been trying to upgrade Wife to new vehicle but as Jazz still runs as if new, and easy to park and turning circle 9.4m – great car – had sister car 2004 Honda Jazz 1.3L Gli till 2018 when sold to help daughter get 7 seater Kia Rondo $29,999 drive away
Doorman.
PM declares Australia is opening ‘one of the biggest economic doors’ in the world (2 Apr)
That’s the headline on Sky News main page. The trouble with the open door is people look in, see the mess and smell the rotting green sludge, then wander off to somewhere less insane.
John Connor II
April 2, 2022 at 10:30 am · Reply
Why they call BMW’s “Beamers”:
It’ll buff out ?
“Struth says:
April 2, 2022 at 9:08 am”
@Rex: based on that rant, I’d suggest you have taken back the “trigger struth” crown you said I took from you.
Well played, Sir! 🙂
Israel is cucked.
India is pretty cucked too.
Forced marriages for men.
In good news, last week we finally found a dry morning to bring in the waiting installer for two new wooden sash windows he’d had ready and waiting after two months when that was impossible due to constant rain. We’d watched in despair as the old ones disintegrated further into a stuck unopenable soggy mess. Run off his feet, said the installer when we asked if other owners of stuck wooden windows were keeping him busy. We have two roof leaks but no hope of getting our roofing guy in for weeks.
not funny
problem is, it’s giving them ideas
Local lib pollie has volunteers out at supermarket.
Asked them to pass on one message to him, no military aid for the Ukraine.
The longer it goes the more innocents die.
“All the vaxxed and the unvaxxed will die.”
Yes Calli – and be taxed. Of those two we may be sure. As for everything else….
Albo, whose party locked elderly in nursing homes like prisoners for 2 years, now says standards in nursing homes need to be lifted.
We need to ‘lift the standards’ in aged care: Albanese (2 Apr)
Maybe he means installing thicker bars on the windows to stop them escaping.
Must be good to be a lefty, you can say any hypocritical thing you like with consequences.
a song for absinthe friends
Struth at 9.08am
I live by my values, a concept for another day…..
You know that old maxim…..I don’t agree with what you are saying but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it?
Agree with that Struth. But if you could say it in 30 words or less we would all be wiser.
The soul of wit is brevity, they say.
Zipster @12.29PM-
That was an interesting link you put up.
It seems then, that the Party is facing a dilemma caused internal ructions and power-plays- Do they risk provoking a coup or popular revolt? Or do they focus everyone’s attention outwards by striking at the Philippines, Taiwan or Vietnam? Which will forestall the immediate risk, but all but guarantee it should they lose?
We do indeed live in interesting times, Cats.
And storm clouds do indeed seem to be gathering over Beijing.
Hello, I’m Mr. Ed
A horse is a horse of course of course
and no one can talk to a horse of course
JC, have you seen Jo Novas post on inflation and the US $ v Rouble? I know you’re an inflation sceptic, what’s your take on her post?
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/money-world-splits-into-two-is-this-the-end-of-an-era-of-us-dollar-as-reserve-currency/
CL had that story up as you know BoN
Aged care fees are so high yet only $6 a day for meals. That can’t be uniform.
The sector already claims 30 billion per annum in public funding and private operators seem to be doing very nicely.
I’d say what needs to happen is for it to be more competitive, not more regulated/funded.
And it might need families to pay more attention to their frail aged.
I watched Dr something the covid guy once and he seemed to think poor nutrition was a common problem for older people, he called it ‘tea and toast’.
Talking to horses isn’t as crazy as talking to the trees.
I think you missed a couple, including the incoherent late night Bundy philosopher, but yes.
That was my question yesterday.
Why do some people absolutely have to meet others from a blogue in person?
One particular individual got quite insistent on meeting up with me.
Why would I drive an eight hour round trip to watch someone alternate between fits of rage and floods of tears?
We’ve got plenty of belligerent drunks at our local.
I don’t need to leave town to witness that unedifying spectacle.
rosiesays:
April 2, 2022 at 1:02 pm
a song for absinthe friends
Followed by
absinthe kylie the green fairy – the sound of music
The enviroloons are unsurprisingly quiet about the characteristics of La Nina, being warm ocean temperatures resulting in excessive rain and resultant cooling.
Note that they rebranded runaway global warming as “positive forcing” because the former was roundly discredited. It was based on Venus which turned out to be the victim of increased solar output. Without positive forcing, their models end up showing temperature increases so benign that their entire narrative collapses.
Yes. A little anecdote – mum used to cook for a nursing home, a small local one, around twenty or so beds.
She was completely unqualified, but a marvellous cook. She could make a small budget go a long way and still provide excellent nutrition and solid old fashioned home cooking. It was what the ladies wanted. Baked dinners, pudding, fresh biscuits, casseroles, simple salads, yummy gravies and sauces. They used to look forward to “roast day”. Mum loved them all, and would bake at home for them – I suppose growing up without a mum herself (she was 10 when gran died), she looked on all of them as substitutes.
Every so often a bed would become vacant…a sad day for everyone, even us at home.
The home has now been swept up in the vast, impersonal behemoth known as “Health”. The personal touch is now subcontracted out, with unions and other parasites clipping the ticket on every function from emptying bedpans to peeling a spud.
And the elderly who can’t afford 5Star care homes are the ones who are left to like it or lump it.
Fortunately Russia’s failure has given China good reason to pause on militaristic billgerence. And all Russia had to do was drive over the border. China has to do an amphibious assault.
I reckon we spend more than $6 a day to feed my dog Spot (not his real name).
John H:
I will be the Captain of the Generation ship “Winston Smith The Magnificent, Ruler of the Earth, Lord of All The Fishes of The Seas, Animals of the Lands, and Birds of the Air.”
But just to keep it short we’ll call it “The A Ark.”.
There will be no mental or genetic defectives aboard.
Those who fail the reproductive exam will be used for fuel in my new matter conversion engines.
The exam will consist of one question:
“Tab A goes into slot B”. True or false?
Interesting study results.
First human challenge trial shows how COVID-19 strikes (Phys.org, 1 Apr)
All 36 were unvaxxed. So even trying to infect unvaccinated people on purpose only half were able to be infected, and those who didn’t get infected showed no antibodies. I think that neatly fits with the negative effectiveness of the vaccines after 6-8 months, since they appear to strip out the T-cells that do the first line defense. Those particular T-cells are probably the reason the uninfected weren’t infected.
A friend of mine who watches ADV China has suggested that the real risk might be a military coup. That will make for very interesting times.
What a dud. 🙁
From the comments from the video;
“Note that when “communist” Authocracies talk about Atheism, what they actually mean is starting a cult of personality for the current leader.
Stalin was “Atheist”, starting a cult of personality. My mother lived in “Stalin City” in east germany. Which was later renamed “Eisenhüttenstadt”, when de-stalinisaiton became a thing.
AFAIK, Xi did something similar. Putting his portrait in every classroom, removing crosses and similar symbols.”
What I have said many times. Atheism is not the absence of belief in God, but the elevation of man into God’s place.
Were any of those unvaccinated volunteers frail aged or immunocompromised?
Did you mean Mao?
He who owns the Enforcement Arm of the Party, owns the Party.
And that in itself might well kick off a popular revolt. With a minimum of several decades of warlordism as a potential consequence, I suspect.
“would put ICE cars outta production.”
Not convinced of that, at least not any time in the next 100 years or so.
Look, let’s assume that that works, or even that we have some sort of modular fission/LENR generators that let you plonk a container sized 100MW generator or 3 (main, hot spare, cold spare) at every 33/11kV substation in the country and do it within 10 years, world wide.
You still need to roughly triple that to provide enough energy to run motorised transport as well as supply current electricity demand.
Then you need the recharging infrastructure to replace the existing liquid fuels infrastructure, and the grid upgrades to support the extra load.
The recharging times are frankly untenable for freight transport, even if EVs were practical for such a job, which they are not.
And even then, ICE and hydrocarbon fuels are not replaceable with batteries for applications like aviation, so hydrocarbon fuels would need to remain until that is solved.
If we had cheap, clean and abundant electricity – whatever the source – it would make much more sense to create synthetic hydrocarbon fuels as a direct replacement for “mined” hydrocarbons. Not only does that remove the need for all the rare earths, copper, etc etc that EV’s require compared to ICEs, but it means existing infrastructure can remain in place, existing ICE’s become “clean and green” overnight, and we get to leverage over a century of ICE tech refinements.
It is sheer madness to think that we can do all the required work as above in 10 years, or even 30 years without going broke, ruining the environment mining the required materials, or both.
Not. Possible.
The scale is too large. Period.
“She was completely unqualified, but a marvellous cook. She could make a small budget go a long way and still provide excellent nutrition and solid old fashioned home cooking. It was what the ladies wanted. Baked dinners, pudding, fresh biscuits, casseroles, simple salads, yummy gravies and sauces. They used to look forward to “roast day”. Mum loved them all, and would bake at home for them “
I bet it was all delicious. Good nutritious food, doesn’t have to be fancy, it’s not hard to cook good food. Now your mum probably wouldn’t be employed because she doesn’t have a “degree” or “diploma” in cooking. You need to have a certificate just to be a barrister. It’s just ridiculous
I was thinking calli of extended family.
Barely a day goes by when the only one who is very frail doesn’t get a visitor including help eating dinner.
Seems to me that makes a huge difference.
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The Courier-Mail today features a neat take down of Albo on climate change and the Pacific island nations being wooed by China on its front page, pointing out China’s forecast growth in emissions* compared to us.
* The argument works politically, even if you don’t believe significant climate change is occurring or that carbon emissions are a factor in that, because it exposes both Albo’s obtuseness and the Pacific nations’ hypocrisy.
Yes, rosie. And when there’s no extended family, someone steps into the gap. Well, they used to. It was a duty.
The homes I remember were all in the community, mostly old, enormous Federation or late Victorian piles converted into tiny hospitals.
We’d do the rounds at Christmas, singing carols to the patients. The younger choristers used to go too, all with beautiful voices. I’d tag along because the more the merrier and I could hum a few bars.
I remember living in Brisbane in the 1970’s and being annoyed a lot at not being allowed to play outside. Too wet. Afternoon storms were legendary during the warmer months. When we moved back to Sydney remember similar including some flood events.
Sydney by the way is on the edge of the Sub-tropical zone on the Koppen-Geiger classification system.
St Ruth Arky and Tailgunner are great reasons never to go to cat meat ups.
Are we back on the topic of caravan park keys in bowls and pensioner perversions?
also: GAAAAAAYYYYY!
Rosie – All 18-27. There was a lot of screening to make sure no one with comorbidities would be in the group. Started with about 27000 volunteers and winnowed down to the brave 36. Entirely sensible when you are intentionally infecting volunteers – you really don’t want them to die, or become disabled. One volunteer may have permanently lost his sense of smell though.
The results are pretty consistent with the Diamond Princess passengers and staff, who only about 20% of became sick. As you know such tour ships have lots of elderly and frail passengers. Of course they were trying to avoid being infected rather than submitting to having Covid squirted up their noses.
Anchor What:
We are looking at the same problem that Chile had pre-Pinochet.
The cure for this situation is the same now as it was then.
We can have the purge before or after the Revolution. Either side can do it, but it will happen.
Quite noticeable, I’ve always thought, when you drive through Sydney north to south or vice versa and take note of the vegetation once you’re out of the metropolitan area.
There is a great little joke I once found in a sci-fi mockumentary* about officer academies in a far-future totalitarian state modelled on Soviet and Chicom governance.
In the Capellan Confederation, the entry exam reputedly involves one of these block toys. Knock the shapes into the holes , and you’re in.
As such, the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces** are led by two types of people- The reasonably Smart, and the very Strong (also sometimes referred to as Persistent)…
* The whole thing explains the background of Battletech very well, but skip ahead to 14:32 to 15:43. 🙂
** Basically the sneaky, dickish, penny-pinching, hyper-intriguist Chaotic Evil faction of the Battletech Universe. And joked about as such.
Huge.
My wife’s aunt visited her husband in a dementia unit every day to feed and tend to him.
Then she got sick and couldn’t go for a couple of weeks, which coincided with his final downturn.
Kneel, would synthetic hydrocarbons be “carbon neutral”? Not that I care, but the EV loons do. It’s a deal-breaker for them. Just let the virtue signallers pay for the infrastructure costs for their localities, and see who coughs up.
Many churches have been forced to replace crucifixes with portraits of Xi.
If they refuse the church gets knocked down or the minister arrested.
My experience with recent hospital stays, both of which were at private hospitals, was that at the first hospital the food was mediocre. This was why, by the second last day, I stopped ordering food and the nurse came to my room to ask why? I suppose it was good that they monitor if people aren’t eating however there’s nothing worse than unpalatable food. I can’t eat it. I doubt many can. I had ordered kosher food before going into the first hospital however the hospital stuffed up the order. So the day after my operation, when I was really hungry, the nurse came in with ham and cheese sandwiches…which naturally I refused to eat. I was quite distressed.
At the second hospital the food was excellent, nutritious and kosher, to the point where I looked forward to brekky, lunch and dinner.
Providing good food isn’t hard.
Bespoke:
We are witnessing a final stage in avaricious government where the parasite has consumed all the fat of the citizenry and are now going for the muscle, sinew, and organs.
I see on the horizon a rule that makes bullion holding by anyone outside the Feds as illegal. If you have some gold being held in a bullion dealers safe or a bank safety deposit box being compulsorily acquired – after, of course, the appropriate legislation under State of Emergency laws is passed.
“You need to have a certificate just to be a barrister.”
LOL…apologies. I meant to write “barista”!
Sydney gets rain all year round because it is subject to sub-tropical systems from the north AND winter systems from the south west. Interestingly, the biggest rainfall isn’t the Myall Lakes as many are led to believe but around Ballina – due east of Lismore.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
April 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm
My experience with recent hospital stays, both of which were at private hospitals, was that at the first hospital the food was mediocre.
My experience at RNSH was the opposite – excellent choice for all 3 meals – could get really fat
The exam will consist of one question:
“Tab A goes into slot B”. True or false?
How many incorrect guesses trigger becoming reactor food?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqODtJrRu0
WA Today
No true I was told by a respected and sane cat that bespoke barista’s are the way of the future.
True on both counts.
“An entire nation devoted to the philosophy “hippety hoppety get off my property“…
Love it.
Oh yes the female tradie push.
If only who does what on site would be shared out equally.
Somehow I doubt it.
So, the politicians , who actually make policies and direct your money in subsidy AND who want above all else to remain elected, will continue to throw LARGE money (OPM) at the issue – to ensure they remain elected.
The transition may take as long as 50 years, but there is no doubt that our parasitic reps are determined to remain elected and therefore will move heaven and earth (with OPM) to keep the transition to EV’s progressing. In fact, as we no longer make cars here you will be at the mercy of the greenfilth political parasites in other manufacturing countries who will mandate EV manufacture at the expense of diminishing ICE manufacture.
Those who believe common sense will prevail will be disappointed- badly. Self interest and self preservation are far far stronger motivations.
Note: This is an observation, not an endorsement.
Today is a good example why they shifted from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’. It’s like a mid-winter day here in southern NSW and I’ve just been listening online to a radio station in Munich and the newsreader, with a note of derision in her voice, was doing the weather report – (translated) “winter is back, snow and sleet with overnight lows of -5 and high temperatures of -2 in the Alps to +2 in Lower Franconia.”
It made perfect sense to me! No mistake. 😀
Cassie, had I known your troubles I would have had a certain young lady of my acquaintance get some food to you pronto.
What’s really hurting you is not that I’ve been right about the vaxx, and the passport that went with it, of which I was so roundly condemned and mocked for even suggesting it would or could possibly happen, but now it’s all coming out even in main stream media regards the WEF, and they’re pushing for digital social credit scheme every minute.
It’s all as you were told and all you scoffed at.
That we told you well over a year and a half ago about the agenda for inflation and you owning nothing and being happy.
The fact that this new budget is a just the WEF budget to get everyone into a housing loan in debt up to their ears, and as every day, people are doing a Warnie and a Kitchens everywhere as reported by the Inquiry by Malcolm Roberts above, that I just might be right about you being gone in under four years.
Many have gone in under one.
Many have gone within months, and some have fallen immediately from taking the jab.
That’s what is driving you all insane and why you spit your bile at the mere suggestion.
Some here, after taking it and lining up, insanely, for boosters, consider that they’ve survived the first year as some sort of vindication.
Insanity.
Self delusion.
From all the reports I’ve read, you know, the ones you refuse to, and the ones you mock, you’d be wanting to make sure your will is in place.
Especially if going for a booster.
If you are thick enough to take an untested concoction, fair enough, suffer the consequences.
Where you are a man, and can see that it’s killing people, and it comes with a passport which submission means you hurt others, yet just because you are jabbed, and reality is too much to contemplate, you fall to such low moral character due to denialism, that you allow them to jab children without a concern on your part, is frankly, sickening.
And that is what is going on in Australia at the moment.
You can’t save every child, my son is a grown man and submitted…..but he knows I was dead against it, and like many of you here, thought he knew better.
I get the inner turmoil you are going through.
Having to have the fact that you allowed yourself and your family to be jabbed without protest, with what may very well kill you all, and you’ll never know if it will or won’t, while submitting to tyranny ……….all that in the back of your mind.
AND THEN STRUTH KEEPS ON ABOUT IT!!
What an arse hole he is.
I do so because this is going to be a once or twice or even more yearly event until you comply yourself to death.
Or no green tick.
For the love of god, no longer submit.
Every booster is more than just another nail in the coffin, and the results are coming in fast.
Look at the nut jobs here who think that because they are still breathing a year later as proof all is safe.
How many boosters are you going to take?
Go to the websites for once , it’s all hiding in plain sight.
Mock all you want, but never say you weren’t told, and never as men use the excuse that it’s a personal decision that affects no one else, when submitting to tyranny.
Providing good food isn’t hard.
Heres a dirty secret of nursing homes.
Minimal food and liquids means minimal processed food and liquids coming out the other end.
Why would I be concerned Mrs Fawlty isnt eating and drinking a lot, shes old, goig to die soon and I only have to wipe her bum/change the sheets once a day instead of 3….
Oldies homes need a lot of management oversight or dedicated carers.
As we are talking cars and mileage, my everyday car, which I affectionately call “the U-Boat”, is an ’81 Valiant Station Wagon with 471 thousand k’s on the clock.
Still going strong, reliable, easy to work on and everywhere I go, people come up and start reminiscing about Valiants and Chryslers. I have made good friends over the years just from people coming up to have a chat about the car.
WOG CHARIOTS RULE!!!
What hellhole do you live in?
Here in Australia, Unemployment is at a 50 year low, and the biggest worry anyone has is how to pay for all the shit that they don’t need, bought on credit.
No. You always get the fellas to lift the heavy stuff. You might hurt yourself.
Unless they identify as female. Then you have a problem.
Even as far south as the Otford end of the Royal National Park, you will still find red cedar trees.
Some Catholics believe the church should look to collaborate with the Black Lives Matter movement
In 2016, Bishop Edward K. Braxton, now the retired bishop of Belleville, Illinois, wrote a pastoral letter “The Catholic Church and the Black Lives Matter Movement: The Racial Divide in the United States Revisited,” where he acknowledges the conflict between the church and the Black Lives Matter movement in terms of church teaching on abortion, sexuality, gender identity and more.
He stressed in an interview with Catholic News Service that the Second Vatican Council urges dialogue with people and organizations of divergent views.
When it comes to Catholic engagement with Black Lives Matter, there’s a consensus among some leaders that distinguishing between the broader movement and problematic organizations that bear the name is a key place to start.
Many Catholics who have taken part in Black Lives Matter-affiliated events have said their focus was simple: protesting the perceived unjustified use of lethal force by police against Black people and calling for reform. They said topics that concern other Catholics about Black Lives Matter — Marxism, transgender ideology and even support for keeping abortion legal — don’t really come up.
“We are witnessing a final stage in avaricious government”
Interesting article today.
Origins of the Avars elucidated with ancient DNA (1 Apr)
There you go the bling-loving avaricious Avars were actually a first wave of Mongols half a millennium before Genghis got his riding boots on.
and the biggest worry anyone has is how to pay for all the shit that they don’t need, bought on credit.
Ed-Mong comes close to seeing a problem, then shies away like a politician from accountability..
Things are awesome.
People are indebting themselves too much.
There is no problem.
From the collected thoughts of well-man Ed
This did, of course happen in the 30s, in both the US and Australia, but I am not so sure they would do it again now. The principle reason for doing it then was because the government NEEDED that gold because the currency was gold backed and they couldnt print more currency without it. Now of course, its not – hasnt been since the 70s, which by the way is when the prohibition on private gold was lifted.
Today, I think a much bigger risk is the seizure of Superannuation – thats where the ‘gold’ is now! Of course, they wont call it that, more likely:
‘ ..in response to overwhelming public desire for safety and stability in these difficult times, the government has heard your calls and is now responding by moving all superannuation funds into one single, centrally managed and guaranteed government scheme …..
Cedar-getting was done on the Illawarra escarpment until they were just about wiped out. They persist in a few untouched areas. Rainfall and soil quality are the limiting factors, and the temps are ameliorated by the ocean.
Other excellent semi-rainforest plants there include Polyscias murrayii, the Pencil Cedar, which isn’t a cedar at all but an aralia. You can grow it in gardens too for a tropical look.
Kenn Worth – Road Rager.
Is the timeline for the death of all vaxxed people still 18 months – four months from October 2021?
That is, 12 -42 months from now?
If not, what is the revised schedule and why did it change?
Kritachy defined
Saying that “Florida has a grotesque history of racial discrimination,” a federal district judge struck down most of a controversial election law passed in the state last year, and said the state can’t make any major changes to election regulations for the next 10 years unless a judge clears them first.
Abortion has ended more black lives than police many, many times over.
Which suggests the movement isn’t really about black lives at all.
There are no industries that do things the same way they did things hundreds of years ago. This is how you discredit yourself in a single sentence. I would throw her resume in the bin without a second thought if I saw that in there. Ignorance on stilts.
The scale is too large. Period.
For your Strawman argument.
What I said was that GeoThermal is an alternative to Coal use in power stations that would spell the end of ICE cars if successfully implemented.
You screamed off on a wild rant, but never addressed the central issue, which remains:
If GeoThermal power can be implemented then there’s no reason to demolish the Coal Fired Power Stations.
‘ ..in response to overwhelming public desire for safety and stability in these difficult times, the government has heard your calls and is now responding by moving all superannuation funds into one single, centrally managed and guaranteed government scheme …..
From which benefits will be provided on the basis of da equalidee.
Da equalidee being suitably calculated to compensate for white privilege, misogyny, oppression of indigenous Pascoes, etc.
All under the supervision of a Board with appropriate managerial experience gained in trade unions and politics (AKA “maaaates”) who will of course be suitably remunerated from the assets in the scheme.
I see the concern for personal liberty and autonomy is only one deep.
Me, myself and I.
Never happen outside a dictatorship.
The reason being that whoever controlled those Trillion$$$ would have too much power.