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I see the leading Presidential candidate in Romania is ‘pro-Russian’, according to the FT, because he believes Ukraine is none…
I find it amusing that someone took the trouble to downtick my response to Zippy’s link to Dore and the…
Note how God spoke the world into being at creation in Genesis 1. God continues to speak through creation (Psalm…
doverObeach Maybe the genesis is a little bit earlier – February 9 1990 https://x.com/dmills3710/status/1861086202310336688
And worse, there is no Democrat saviour waiting in the wings.
When Sniffy Joe is no longer capable of being propped up, be it by the midterms or even in the leadup to November 3, 2024, she’s it. POTUS #47.
Good point Roger- I just can’t say how much America disgusts me now
You mean like a certain Australian airline which lectured us about gay marriage but happily code-share with Middle-Eastern airlines?
Or the Sydney Swans who similarly hectored the Little People about rainbow issues, whilst trousering sponsorship cash from Qatar Airways?
In the other half’s line of work there are few females who ever make the grade because it’s physically and mentally demanding. Mostly he has seen them as quickly as possible want to get away from the hands-on stuff and into a comfortable chair in a comfortable office.
BBS +1000
Very common in earth sciences professions as well. Physically less demanding but usually because it involves remote work in uncomfortable environments sees girls generally scrambling for office jobs.
Dickless
There’s no emergency, Scotty has played the dopey Premiers like a Stradivarius.
Anyone can play a Stradivarius. The more important point is whether they play it well.
Tooze is harmless.
He’s a quality aggregator of others work.
A good launch pad into other writers.
Not sure what to make of this yet.
Is that the same Kamala who got spun off early in the Dem primaries in 2020 with 2% of the Dem vote?
Disney seems so keen to progress the trans/pan whatever agenda in the US.
Given the number of employees they’ve had arrested for pedo activities you would think they’d back off a bit.
More like a banjo.
Hey, Grogs, learned the difference between the United States Marine Corps and the Army, yet?
Morriswine, Stadivariusing, 2022 colourised for you pleasure.
Hey, Grogs, learned
Ima gunna stop you there.
There are single celled organisms buried under Martian permafrost more capable of a taught response to painful stimuli that doofus boy.
Hey Zulu,
Figured out the difference between your arse and a hole in the ground yet?
Perhaps Franger can help you?
It’s marketing. I know someone who compiled a lot of research on Millennials and Gen Z, for them tolerance of sexual diversity is a high priority. It has even been argued that one reason they are leaving US churches in droves is because so many Christians over there continually demonise the LGBTQi community. That’s probably true. Government and corporations are responding to marketing data. Another issue is that Millennials are more morally demanding of employers and corporations which increases their marketing clout. My generation didn’t give a hoot about such issues, we just bought and worked. Millennials now constitute nearly 40+% of the working population, ignoring that base is marketing madness.
I’m off to the gym on an empty stomach. It is going to be unpleasant.
I’m not the one beclowning himself on this blog, not knowing the difference between the American Army, and the Marine Corps..
In 2024, Richard Grenell will be the VP nomination for the GOP.
There’s a hint there in the name.
Amazing information and summary of what is wrong with these vaccines that don’t actually prevent you from getting the virus nor does it prevent you from passing it on.
https://rumble.com/vyzkau-malcolm-roberts-drops-bombshells-in-senate-after-covid-under-question-inqui.html
That zinger should be followed with a mic drop, Zulu!
“Given the number of employees they’ve had arrested for pedo activities you would think they’d back off a bit.”
Why would they back off? What they want is for “pedo activities” to be normalised. They’re not even trying to hide that anymore.
@ John H. regarding Millennials.
Not all of us, mate.
Not all of us…
As long as the mid-terms don’t blow up in Arizona, Pennsylvania (the two most tenuous states) the GOP will run with a younger TBD candidate in 2024 & a Trump surrogate as VP (Grenell).
John H- seeing Disney is aimed at little kids I very much doubt that parents would appreciate having their kids deprived of innocence.
Disney has also gained a reputation for firing Americans and replacing them with cheaper imported labor or off shoring altogether.
Trump didn’t go down the escalator until mid 2015.
18 months before the big show.
So I’m not going to even think about the GOP candidate for 2024 until mid 2023.
But I’m happy to lock in Grenell for VP now.
Get ready to be bankrupted then. That is the only thing that will stop it. Like Thatcher said, they’ll only stop when other people’s money runs out.
When they’re not demanding the right to abort children, the prog-left is demanding the right to pervert them for their own sexual gratification.
“But I’m happy to lock in Grenell for VP now.”
I’d like to see that…with Ron DeSantis running for POTUS.
Daily Mail.
Hey, Grogs, learned the difference between the United States Marine Corps and the Army, yet?
He would and remember it forever if he told a Marine that he was in the US Army.
If DeSantis runs it will be a test of Trumps true motivations.
And I wouldn’t rule out Trump jr having a go.
Big call, ftb.
Oh dear! Ferrari 488 owner crashes his brand new £250,000 supercar on the same day he bought it – after driving it for just TWO miles
A driver crashed their brand new £250,000 Ferrari 448 in Derby after two miles
Photos shared by Derbyshire Police show front bonnet crumpled and scratched
The driver, who was uninjured in the crash, was left counting the cost afterwards
Police said no one was arrested or charged with any offence over the incident
I was at the Indianapolis speedway in 2016 during an open Ford USA day for any Ford owner to try out the track.
While it wasn’t in the league of a Ferrari 448, a guy picked up his new Ford Mustang GT from the dealer downtown and drove it straight to the track where he managed to blow up the engine on his second lap.
Cite you the young bloke, in the Wheatbelt, way back when – collected his brand new Sandman panel van from the dealers, drove through the only stop sign in town, and collided with the local cops….
Thanks for the helpful hint re the satin pillow slip for my parents swivelation. I will purchase one forthwith.
While it wasn’t in the league of a Ferrari 448, a guy picked up his new Ford Mustang GT from the dealer downtown
17 year old secretary at work. Parents bought her a car in anticipation of her 18th. A few too many vodka cruisers – gets behind the wheel (still under 18, no licence), and crashes it into a Ferrari.
No. Stop being foolish.
The best car crash was Mr Bean sticking a McLaren F1 into a hedge. Generated so much press they probably did the repairs for free.
Aiming for bigger and better things? 😉
Ed Casesays:
April 2, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Hey Zulu,
Figured out the difference between your arse and a hole in the ground yet?
Oh, dear. Dickless does seem to be somewhat upset.
Perhaps he needs to revive his Google-Fu?
And being pissed and unlicensed, insurance is null and void.
As long as the mid-terms don’t blow up in Arizona, Pennsylvania (the two most tenuous states)
Too late:
After repeated warnings from Attorney General Mark Brnovich and a failed lawsuit to prevent her own indictment, corrupt Katie Hobbs defied election law and shut down the online candidate petition form but only for certain candidates on March 17th. This shutdown did not affect her failing campaign for Arizona Governor or other statewide races.
Doesn’t matter. They respond to the data. Disney is aimed at much more than little kids. You might be surprised at the number of people into all that superhero crap. I hate that and I hate Disney.
From a Courier Mail article that does not allow comments:
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Covid drug eliminates virus in 3 days; Spain’s new travel rules
A new anti-Covid-19 drug trial has shown it can eliminate the virus in three days. It comes as Spain has changed travel rules for travellers. See how it affects Aussies.
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A health worker shows a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. Picture: Javier Torres / AFP.
A health worker shows a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. Picture: Javier Torres / AFP.
A new anti-Covid-19 drug trial has shown it can eliminate the virus in three days, a study has revealed.
The US manufactured drug Molnupiravir has been shown to “eliminate” a mild to moderate Covid-19 infection by the third day of infection but the person diagnosed with Covid-19 must start the drug within five days of developing any symptoms.
Molnupiravir is an “oral antiviral prodrug” which has been provisionally approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia
The study, conducted by Merck & Co, the manufacturer of the drug, found none of the 92 participants with Covid-19 still had the virus by day three of taking Molnupiravir.
But 21 per cent of participants who had a placebo still had the virus at that time.
Dr Julie Strizki, the scientist spearheading the study, found a five-day course of Molnupiravir is effective.
“This study provides additional evidence that molnupiravir helps those infected clear SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-1) faster than placebo,” she said.
“Molnupiravir can lower the risk of progression to serious illness in this high-risk cohort.”
The study and its results will be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.
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SPAIN’S NEW COVID TRAVEL RULES
Spain has extended Covid entry requirements until the end of the month, impacting Easter holidaymakers.
Until April 30, only fully vaccinated people or those who can show proof of recovery from Covid can enter the country.
The Spanish Ministry of Health also required all travellers from an EU/EEA risk country need to fill out the Health Control Form.
“If you come from a country at risk in relation to Covid-19, you must present a certificate or document proving vaccination, diagnostic test for active infection or recovery from Covid-19”, a statement of the ministry read.
Teens do not need to be vaccinated to enter Spain.
To enter, you must prove you have been fully vaccinated within the last 270 days.
If you received your second dose more than nine months ago, you must have a booster vaccine.
People sunbathing and enjoying the beach on May 24, 2021 in Fuengirola, Spain. Picture: Getty
People sunbathing and enjoying the beach on May 24, 2021 in Fuengirola, Spain. Picture: Getty
CHINA NOT PREPARED FOR COVID OUTBREAK
A top Shanghai official has revealed the Chinese financial hub had been “insufficiently prepared” for its latest Covid outbreak, as criticism mounts over lockdowns that have caught residents off guard.
The eastern megacity of 25 million has been split in two as part of a rolling lockdown plan to battle China’s worst outbreak in two years.
The spread of the Omicron variant is testing the country’s zero-Covid strategy, which aims to crush virus clusters as soon as they emerge.
Residents in the eastern half of Shanghai have been confined to their homes since Monday and subjected to testing, before the restrictions are switched to the more populated western half on Friday.
The curbs, which kicked in hours after being announced on Sunday evening, spurred panic-buying at supermarkets and sent vegetable prices surging.
And some residents in western Puxi said they were already being ordered to stay at home days before the official lockdown.
Workers, wearing protective gear, stand next to the access of a Hotel on the Bund, in the Puxi area that will be in lockdown from April 1, in Shanghai. Picture: Hector Retamal / AFP.
Workers, wearing protective gear, stand next to the access of a Hotel on the Bund, in the Puxi area that will be in lockdown from April 1, in Shanghai. Picture: Hector Retamal / AFP.
One of Shanghai’s top officials, Ma Chunlei, made a rare admission of failure Thursday, saying in a statement that authorities had been “insufficiently prepared for the substantial increase in infected people”.
“We sincerely accept everyone’s criticism, and are working hard to improve,” Ma said in a briefing.
He added that the city was beefing up its resources for Covid testing and patient isolation.
Puxi resident Dong Jun said his district was unexpectedly placed under lockdown Wednesday, two days ahead of the official start date.
“I’ve been keeping my fridge full because of my previous experience of lockdown, but it still caught me off guard when I woke up and heard a lockdown was announced,” he told AFP.
“It’s quite a hassle to maintain a certain amount of life necessities.” Hours before it was Puxi’s turn to lock down, the streets were subdued with few cars on the road and many restaurants and shops already closed.
Meanwhile, as residents on the eastern side of the city prepared to finish their four-day closure, authorities said that buildings where positive cases had been found would be subjected to a further ten days of lockdown.
Starting from 5am Friday, authorities would “judge the results” of the first lockdown and decide the management of each area, they said in a statement late Thursday.
US AUTHORISES FOURTH COVID SHOT
The United States has authorised a fourth dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna Covid-19 vaccines for people aged 50 and older, as authorities warn of a possible new wave driven by the BA. 2 variant.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a statement it had based its decision on emerging evidence that an additional booster, given four months after the last, improved protection against severe Covid and wasn’t associated with new safety concerns.
Additionally, people with immune compromising conditions who have already received four shots, with their latest at least four months ago, are now eligible for a fifth dose.
That includes people living with certain organ transplants.
The Pfizer vaccine will be available to immune compromised people aged 12 and over, while the Moderna vaccine will be available to those 18 and up.
“Current evidence suggests some waning of protection over time against serious outcomes from Covid-19 in older and immunocompromised individuals,” senior FDA scientist Peter Marks said, explaining the decision.
A health worker shows a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. Picture: Javier Torres / AFP.
A health worker shows a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine. Picture: Javier Torres / AFP.
The FDA said data from Israel, which had studied the effects of a fourth dose given four months after the third on 700,000 people, found the extra shot was safe.
It also cited data from a study of 154 health workers whose antibody levels, including against the Delta and Omicron variants, were restored to high levels two weeks after their fourth doses.
“A study published by Israeli researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine this month indicated that three doses of current generation mRNA vaccines have hit a ceiling in terms of the immune response generated.
In other words, while three doses brings immunity levels to new heights, the fourth dose restores antibody levels to where they previously were shortly after the third.
Experts have said the benefits to younger, healthy people aren’t yet clear, and say new vaccines will likely need to be developed as the virus continues to mutate”.
So basically you have to take the 4th because 3rd does not do much.
We have not even got to the Omicron variant vaccine yet.
Forty years since the Falklands war……
Oops, apologies as only meant to post last few paras.
Note how the Merck drug works just like their old drug Ivermectin.
Rex I raised that issue with my friend and stated a gaping hole in the analyses is this tendency to create generational parameters when time and again socioeconomic status is such a critical variable in how people behave and live. Whether or not corporations are taking that on board I do not know but it doesn’t seem to be the case. Just like peer reviewed research in general when something is called research, is presented with a Powerpoint presentation with lots of pie charts and statistics, the majority of people are inclined not to interrogate the data. If a board has paid out 5 figure sums for the data the directors are not inclined to state: what a steaming pile of shit. Public servants are even worse in the regard.
Forty years since the Falklands war……
Wow, I remember being a child worried my dad would go. He was more realistic and said no but children will be children, it worried my young mind for a bit.
Third generation effect?
Spoiled Girl Gets Car – Wrong Color
Looks like the overnight weather forecast for Munich was spot on. Here’s a live webcam from above the central railway station and the temperature has just gone above zero at 1pm local time.
left on the old fred again.
We are here, because grog
As a gambling man I’d be shorting DeSantis.
When was the last time a front runner pre mid terms was the nominee at the election.
??Mariupol cauldron??Situation on 02.04.22??
war gonzo
You don’t like the colour? Oh well, hand the keys back, and when you can afford to buy your own car, you can have whatever colour you like.
Winston – I’ve been off doing Disco! Thanks Rabz!
Making steel the classic way probably doesn’t make sense in space since you need an air blast. But the other way is the direct reduced iron process, for which several plants operate around the world today.
First you get hydrogen from water ice, contact that with heat to some iron oxide (moon dirt has a lot of iron in it). Then you separate out the crude iron magnetically and stick it in an electric arc furnace with sufficient carbon to make steel.
It’s a closed loop process since the hydrogen has bound itself with the oxygen in the iron oxide, so you can condense the steam to regenerate your water. You get lots of oxygen as a byproduct, which is a nice fringe benefit.
As to welding, electric arcs should work. All this electricity comes from oodles of solar panels of course. Or a nuke plant maybe.
The other possibility is nickel-iron asteroids, which are like readymade stainless steel. I don’t know what the physical properties are like but if you section the natural alloy and take a pic it looks pretty!
There’s some hope for the US:
Appeals Court Upholds Gibson’s Bakery Massive Verdict Against Oberlin College
American elites selling out to China: Report | China in Focus
“The CCP [Chinese Communist Party] government has a strategy when confronting the United States,” said Peter Schweizer, author of “Red-Handed” and president of the Government Accountability Institute.
The United States loses $200 billion to $600 billion each year to China through intellectual property theft.
But how is it happening? With a little help from friends on the inside.
“Made in China” labels flood the market, from everyday items to toys, to industrial tools. And now, even some policies here in America are being shaped by the communist regime.
In this special report, we peel back the layers on how the complicit actions of American elites have helped China gain an edge.
Sri Lanka saw clashes with police as angry protesters gathered outside President’s house. People are demanding removal of the current President in Sri Lanka amid economic crisis. Protesters were seen outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house on Thursday evening. A bus was reportedly set on fire by the protesters. Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis in years.
No.
You people are fucked in the head.
I’m using harsh and straight forward language lately because this is serious and you drop kicks are wilfully ignoring the truth.
You are sad and sickening.
what can you expect from the fag
Globalisation ‘Over’ Thanks to Ukraine War, Declares Top Economist
I do so hope he’s right, but I doubt it.
The Democrats have a pedo problem
Leftist Infiltration of the Police Will Lead To Tyranny
Leftist infiltration of everything has led to tyranny.
He’s wrong and don’t sweat it.
Yep. We are ruled by a relatively tiny clique of Blue Check-Marks, Tiktok neurotics, Facebook Freaks and leftwing Redditors.
Because they are the ones who know how to manipulate the levers of corporate and increasingly political power as they start getting active in leftwit Parties and activist organisations.
Because they drive the marketing decisions and programming, so we see what they want. Not what the average Millennial or Zoomer out in flyover country ir even just outside a big city’s goat-cheese belt might want, like a good-paying, stable job to raise a family on, or a nation to serve and protect like however many generations before them. Or even just be able to do the things they love unmolested.
I’m just glad you care enough to say so
not even taking the p155
I mean it
That’s the problem and Martin Luther King recognised the problem:
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
My perennial complaint is that too many people don’t recognise it isn’t reason that rules it is persuasion. While so many lambasted Chomsky the title of a key work, Manufacturing Consent, highlights so much about modern life and that goes all the way back to Bernays, a relative of Freud, who used his ideas of unconscious desire to establish public relations.
Indeed. No mention of other Wentworth dwelling ladies, or one at least, busy saving a church.
We don’t just sit on our hands around here doing nothing, no indeedy.
Just watched Escape to the Country, wot I do when the footie is on Foxtel. They showed a previously Methodist chapel converted into a trendy dwelling in Wiltshire, now for sale at 600K quid. This should shame the Church of England into taking action over its own little heritage churches and saving them not selling them. Just wait till I tell them about that. They will hang their heads in shared shame and say sorry. I predict that much.
And then they will simply say go away or put your money up. Such is The Faith these days.
The Money Man in this household says firmly we are not buying a decaying church in East Anglia.
Although we will contribute well to a charitable trust formed to assist such churches.
But I am not giving up yet. We Huguenots are made of sterner stuff, as my ancestors showed.
You must learn about who Bernays was and what he did to understand our predicament of being ruled by an unpopular establishment whilst living in a democracy.
Please explain.
Bernays is so important to completing an explanation of politics from modern microeconomics.
He invented PR as we know it, basically.
Median voter theory and Bernays’ methods being competently executed perhaps explains how we have consistently elected apparently unpopular governments for years if not decades on end.
That or the voters are liars and know their demands are unreasonable – some of them know they are voting for incompatible policies – or they don’t care, they simply want such policies, despite how obviously incompatible they are.
Anyway, Slainte to all you horrible mob. Last weeks payday for self funded retirees was a ripper, and I’ve invested part of it in good single malt.
Yes Dot, that much is obvious. If we polled the population with the following question what would the result be?
Do you vote for politicians by analyzing their their policies or do you trust your intuition?
There is only a small percentage of the voting public that makes a serious effort to examine policies. Many would admit they trust their intuition. I hate intuition, I only trust it in very specific circumstances and where I have learned a good deal about a subject. Even then wherever possible intuition is not a decision, it is a starting point for analysis; but sometimes we must decide on the fly so intuition is our only guide. That is why Kahneman’s concept of fast and slow thinking is so important.
Geez.
Pedro was at the WACA for the Shield final.
Bastard.
Cat time check (on account of the annual clock fiddling now underway).
Cessation of clockbothering confirmed.
Very modern, Dover. The Cat, which for years under Sinclair Davidson, defied daylight saving, now sets its clock by it.
Eyrie:
Hollowing out a very large nickel iron asteroid is going to take a space based industry to achieve, so going straight to a 50km long asteroid is putting the cart before the horse.
*I hope that’s a nickel iron asteroid, Eyrie. Because I doubt a stony/conglomerite asteroid will put up with the strain of rotation.
rickw:
Casting is easy. It’s the production of plate steel that is the problem. Rolling plate in zero g is going to take some pretty damn good hydraulics.
sbs goes hard in it’s election campaign against the incumbents
“After another round of talks in Istanbul, Ukrainian officials said their country was ready to declare itself permanently neutral and discuss Russian territorial claims in exchange for ‘security guarantees’ from a group of other nations.”
Europe’s week: Ukraine peace talks offer some hope, but EU-China summit dampens mood
“”Selected as the independent candidate by a number of community and climate based groups..”
You’re no independent, Dr Ryan. Independents are by definition not selected.
Only parties select candidates.
But thanks for unintentionally confirming what we all know.”
Gemma Tognini
Week In Pictures.
Thanks Tom.
From Law of Markets:
Old biddy harasses a young bloke for wearing a Trump T shirt then gets chucked off the plane.
Cranks always some up with some gilt trips as an excuse, Winston.
Cranks always have some gilt trips as an excuse, Winston.
Fixed!
Bespoke:
She picked a fight with a young bloke for no logical reason, then played the sympathy card.
Obviously she’s used to bullying people to get her way, but this time it backfired.
Good.
Speaking of foul old wimmin
Maxine Waters gets confronted by group of homeless, tells them to go home
Saturday, 02 April 2022
.@RepMaxineWaters to a group of homeless people in Los Angeles on March 25 who thought they were eligible to get emergency housing vouchers: “I want everybody to go home.”
One responded: “We ain’t got no home.” pic.twitter.com/vnyxo3a09f
— Andy Ngô ???? (@MrAndyNgo) April 1, 2022
It’s not democracy any more
“He’s in my space”
I would have been kicked of responding the that.
Winston Smith says:
April 3, 2022 at 5:28 am
I’m peaceful type, never understood why complete strangers would get into an argument and criticise someone about one thing or other that is basically none of their business.
But look at her husband! There is one of your stereotypical henpecked one.
What a wimp!
Looks like an old skool ma’am
or a uni lechura
That incidence happened pre covid.
I’ve seen the footage before, though not from the second photo on the other side.
If she were on a plane recently she’d have been double masked with a face shield.
Phone not photo.
My current views on 2024.
Trump isn’t running 2024.
But the candidate needs his strong endorsement.
In return, Trump will want a surrogate in the VP role.
There are only two people from his administration that didn’t burn him.
Richard Grenell & Kellyanne Conway.
Conway needs to divorce her husband & disowns her daughter (which isn’t going to happen).
When you go through his administration, so many let him down, blabbed to the media or went on to write books full of lies.
Conway’s book comes out in a couple of months so will be interesting to see is she joins that last group.
We won’t know until the book is released.
That is why I don’t fly commercial.
This one never gets old.
No, I can’t either.
Thanks Tom.
Plane incidents like that are most likely vanishingly rare.
I’ve never seen an argument on a plane, ever. I have, however, wanted very much to whack someone with something heavy and unconsciousness inducing.
Self control is a wonderful thing.
And thanks God for that.
Imagine if they were frequent?
Just don’t like being a captive audience, rosie.
Yes calli,
Getting repeatedly kicked in the back by someone’s kid is fun.
Still the appropriate response is to ask the airperson to get them to stop.
True bespoke.
I rarely speak to my neighbours on a flight, short or long.
Rare to get a botherer too.
Time for Israel to turn the Al-Aqsa Mosque into a synagogue.
Islamised Hagia Sophia Holds First Ramadan Prayers for 88 Years (2 Apr)
The weather has turned along with the time. Today is truly Autumnal – a washed early morning blue sky, a mist of condensation on the windows, the fragrance of the first camellias.
The roos are leaving their prints on the dew soaked fairways, two for the feet and one between where the tail thumps the ground. You can always see where they’ve been, moving from place to place, topping the new growth on the closely mown grass.
Two swans just floated by, looking majestic and serene. They come in every year for a brief visit. I believe there is a flock of them on the seagrass beds over in the bay. But these two like it here, it might be like a holiday for them.
Lol
From that video
That’s exactly the way turtlehead acts and behaves by passive aggressively talking about me to the thought leader and other detractors when he has an opportunity. He tries to create little pile ons.. just like a neurotic woman … see his vid.
I have. I was involved in one on a NY to London flight. A couple of Indian dudes were sticking a lot of luggage/packages in the overheads and this Kraut (accent) was totally humiliating them with abuse. It was beyond reasonable.
So I intervened. I asked him if he was going to put on his SS uniform on before we took off even though they lost the war in 45? That stopped the humiliation. Obviously before 911.
Little sis offered to pay for her dad to visit her and the grandchildren. Her Dad freaks out because she and the kids aren’t vaxed and don’t use musk’s.
All I can advise is “cut ties you have enough on your plate to deal with.” She is a single mum working full time and struggles with depression.
Movie recommendation – The Dig. Netflix.
It’s quiet and slow, but that’s fine as the pace goes with the subject matter. Set against the very start of WWII. At first I wondered what they would find, and just before the great reveal, I knew. I said to the Beloved, “we’ve seen it! We’ve seen what they found!”.
Worth a look. And no, I’m not giving it away. 😀
The Dig is rubbish. The end.
Mark Ruffalo says the Parental Rights in Education law is ‘cruel and traumatizing for children’
Shhhhh…if we’re vewwy vewwy quiet he won’t know we’re here.
bespoke says:
April 3, 2022 at 7:13 am
Wouldn’t have clue what the “Dig” is but knowing you, I’d say you are being contrarian.
No?
Bespoke
Mark R is a B grade actor. Ignore him even if he says anything you agree with.
More on the Russia/Uke War from Andrei Martyanov:
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/geopolitis-in-nutshell.html#disqus_thread
Also a good pic of Franger, SpongeBob & CornHolio.
I didn’t want to mention this yesterday, but spent all afternoon on SCRAPER operations, about to get back into! Drainage upgrades following on from the great flood! CCP pump is still going strong emptying the dam!
Did the Kraut say anything about holes cut into the floor?
Just on Richard Grenell for VP/2024.
The guy is a Flamer and a Spook.
Don’t the War Party have any normal people?
Totally gobsmacked at this morning’s revelation.
JC flies commercial!
No Gabor . I do not recommend.
1) It’s a love story.
2) It’s love story for those that batt for the other side.
I think calli is being cheeky trying to entrap.
First sunny day in Sydney , just on the same day we’re leaving.
JC, leave me out of it.
What am I including you in, Bespoke?
bespoke says:
April 3, 2022 at 7:36 am
Thanks for the warning but not having had a TV for the last 15 odd years we are in no danger.
My mistake JC I had thought you were referring to Winston, Sorry.
Gabor
But you have a computer – at least I assume it’s yours,
The doco Centrury of Self explains Bernays , his work and it’s manipulation of our opinions. Why we are in the shit we are. In simple terms, too many people have become drones. Reacting mindlessly to the biased MSM flooding their senses 24/7. No questioning, no investigating just “oh yeah, right.”
Plane incidents like that are most likely vanishingly rare.
They have increased in the US and are of concern to the FAA. You can check the Avweb archive. It wasn’t that long ago they ran an article about the FAA concern.
Ed Casesays:
April 3, 2022 at 7:28 am
More on the Russia/Uke War from Andrei Martyanov:
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/geopolitis-in-nutshell.html#disqus_thread
Also a good pic of Franger, SpongeBob & CornHolio.
Still in that rent free vacant space between your ears?
Really? I only noticed one alphabet intrusion, and it only dawned on me at the end when the card was pushed. Seems necessary these days, but I just ignore it.
Babies and bathwater.
Seen, or rather been in, two arguments on a commercial flight.
1. With a hostie over my carry-on luggage (carton of beer) which she refused to let me bring, as I was in a window seat & the under-seat space in front of me was curved with the hull & wouldn’t fit the beer carton.
2. Singapore to Kuala Lumpur early morning flight – some delay & an expat white-collar pom behind me (aged mid to late 20’s) went ballistic at the crew over the delay & how he’d miss his connecting flight to dirty weekend with his slim young singaporean dolly.
Got sick of him coz he wasn’t letting up on the hapless crew, so turned around & read him his horoscope. The flight was full of deferential-to-authority non-confrontational asians, who couldn’t believe someone had told the noisy finance/legal expat to stfu + some other advice.
If I was trying to “entrap” anyone into watching gays, I’d recommend Priscilla.
Such is my subtlety.
Ed Casesays:
April 3, 2022 at 7:32 am
Just on Richard Grenell for VP/2024.
The guy is a Flamer and a Spook.
Don’t the War Party have any normal people?
Depends on the definition of “normal”.
If you look in your mirror, Dickless, and decide that you represent normal, then the answer, is no, there are no other “normal” people in the world. You are, fortunately, one of a (very abnormal) kind.
The Dig? They found the red sandcastle mould my kids buried at Bronte Beach in 1982?
They haven’t “increased”, dumbot. The airlines have become much stricter over time since 911 and consequently more skirmishes are reported and dealt with.
It’s surprising just how “lightheaded” you are.
Also, we realise it’s in your national character to whine, but boy you take it up a notch or two. You’re now whining on the lollipop blog about wanting people here to be banned. FMD .
Here’s what you need to do , you whiny little squealer. Go setup the Hallward’s Catallaxy blog and ban anyone you want there. Whiny limey.
Grennell and Conway are not the only ones who stayed true to Trump, Pompeo did right by him. There are even rumours that he may run. If that’s true he may be very good. As a former Secretary of State he already has relationships with foreign leaders and knows who’s who.
Huh? Why would ever think I’d be trying to include you. Then I’d be like her.
Crossie
I think Trump and the Pumpernickel had a big falling out.
The ‘discovery’ was so far in the background story The title should have been “Frolicking the field”.
Pro’s
The chick with an almost transparent skirt trying to taken serious. Lol!
The witchdoctor is IN.
In Australia, doctors are now being warned they “are obliged to” follow public health messages (3 Apr, via Climate Depot)
So if you say something which is medically accurate that the authorities don’t like you can now be denied indemnity insurance as well as losing your medicare number. We truly now live in an age of unscience.
On coal power closures, ABC journo accidentally says the quiet part out loud:
Interesting choice of words there: steal and forced.
Just saw that.
But very coy about naming names and, more importantly, why they should be banned.
Except, “they are horrid to me and ridicule my brilliant ideas”.
And I see Eggly is also solemnly complaining about “the standard of debate” and Fat Tony bemoaning that “there is too much abuse”.
Yes, really.
In other blog news, the Furniture Store is now Open All Hours.
Gonzalo Lira is doing midnight to dawn.
He comes dead last in the primary polls.
Poll: Majority Support Trump in Republican Primary (25 Mar)
I’m surprised how high Pence rates after his knifing of Trump.
We lurkers see it all. And sometimes the concern trolling gets a bit rich. Even the artwork got a serve.
I like those guys (well, most of them) over there at The Dash and enjoy their comments and input. It does amuse me about The Great Reversal – the salon becomes a bear pit, and the front bar is now flossie teacakes.
It will all change again – depending upon migrations. That’s the vibrant nature of blogging.
Re Bob Katter calling for all high school kids should be taught to shoot & allowed to have a rifle:
Heard discussion of this on Their ABC radio. Lots of strong feeling. Texts were canvassed from listeners.
Radio announcer said there were some pro texts, but “of course” the nay case was the moral one. There were “of course” lotsa nasty texts about Katter, but he’d read out some of the sensible texts.
First “sensible” text read out was from Karen of Karenville, saying that China does not invade it’s neighbours, they’re just wanting to trade & build a strong economy, so there is nothing to fear & blah blah blah.
The really smart guy announcing on Their ABC radio added some editorial comment about how this pretty much summed up the matter.
Vietnam, Tibet & Korea would, if asked, have presented facts not consistent with Karen & Their ABC’s assertation.
Classic dog-whistle.
He knows it will be picked up by the ABC who will run the contrary case and thus shore up the low-info hayseed vote in his electorate.
BTW, a noisy minority politician insisting on all kids being taught what they believe is how Safe Schools got started.
Hallward hasn’t mentioned bans here since the time several people ridiculed him . There were good suggestions that the next time someone promotes bannings , they themselves ought to get roasted.
Later today, when I get back home . I’ll set up the Hallward Hughes’ Catallaxy blog for him. I’m eager to see how it goes.
SATP – That’s a great example of the cluelessness of lefties. Not only has China been trying to invade bits of India in the last several years but they actually annexed part of Nepal in 2020.
Before we hand out rifles perhaps we should teach kids some history?
Sancho Panzer at 8:29 – “Hey Ma. Come listen to what they gonna do now. I’m gonna vote for this here Bob Katter agin.”
Snapshot of life in rural Queensland. *reaches for a Bundy*
Ol’ Hallward likes a Pile-On, except when he’s gettin’ Piled On.
Then he doesn’t like it.
Not a chance. The last thing our leftist Govts want is to teach our kids about the abject and lethal failures of Marxism. Inquiring minds are definitely not in the Plan.
Eggsactly, all three are like us – massive islands 13 hours travel time on a modern jetliner to the nearest population centre.
Morrison has parachuted a registered Zali Steggall supporter in to contest Warringah ahead of a defence and national security expert. She had to have a special exemption because until recently she wasn’t even a member of the Liberal Party. Branch members are saying they won’t turn out to support her.
Why is it that the only people they can be find with a consistent view on global politics also have a complete misunderstanding of the facts?
True Katter story [allegedly]:
When he was in the Queensland Parliament he arrived on Mornington Island to do some “electioneering”.
Boss Abo meets Katter, says
“Sorry Bob, we’re voting Labor this time.”
Katter responds: “That’s okay, when you fill out the Ballot, give me 1 Vote and give the Labor Bloke 2 Votes.”
The deal was struck and Katter was returned.
Distance Sydney to Perth: 3,900km – flight time five hours.
Distance Australia to China: 4,200km
Thirteen hours…. Lol.
I have just watched just a snippet of Twiggy Forrest interview on Sky, I couldn’t stand more than half a minute. There he was, emoting how “poor people” are losing their jobs by the hundreds from the coal fired power stations and he believes his hydrogen works will provide more jobs.
If he and his fellow green-baggers didn’t advocate for the end of coal fired power there wouldn’t be loss of jobs.
So what?
Branch Members turned out to support Tony Abbott last time, it didn’t do him any good.
I’m starting to have a firm conviction that the Libs are shooting Labor a hospital pass.
There can be no other reasonable explanation for the foolishness.
Oh yea it’s “only” 10 hours , driller. I misread the one stop thing. Huge difference.
Yea, “lol”.
The airline staff were excellent: firm and calm and get off now.
You can’t imagine that happening here. They’d change the seating and coddle the ‘victim’ as their training tells them.
Hahaha. Googleory reckons Rick Grenell is a “spook”. Thanks for that — laughed out loud.
Here’s a hint, you idiot. Rick Grenell is a pouve and pouves can’t be spooks because of the blackmail problem — even in this day and age and even though the global pouve industrial complex has diverted its gay marriage campaign to try to turn the whole world into pouves via the ladyboy movement.
If the polls were wrong last time, what possibly makes you think they’re right now – after lockdowns and still huge numbers of people not returning to the office?
How are they obtaining the poll data post covid? Who are they talking to and what changes have they made to data collection?
Way to miss the point, Ed.
In a time when membership of the Liberal Party is in decline they can’t afford to alienate what grassroots support they still have.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
April 3, 2022 at 8:10 am
Obviously bottom of the class in Journo school.
Imagine writing something completely factual and against the current thing.
I predict a bright future covering stock sales in Alice Springs awaits this intrepid reporter.
Another Australian traitor, should be shot then tried for sedition.
That is the key flaw in the US system. They are authorised, even encouraged, to throw “troublemakers” off. This leads to high noon in the aisle and a fight to the death.
As you say, here we might get a seat shuffle (which, incidentally gets gamed too, by those hopeful of an upgrade).
Another Australian traitor, should be shot then tried for sedition.
Twiggy is worse than that.
He’s a Dic-traitor, very keen on using his wealth to control you.
Distance Sydney to Perth: 3,900km – flight time five hours.
Distance Australia to China: 4,200km
Ten hours…. Lol.
NT chief copper still there, but:
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker and other executives gave instructions for Constable Zach Rolfe to be charged in Darwin if any charges were to proceed, police notes show, marking the fifth instance of documented evidence showing the top cop’s involvement across all four days following the Yuendumu shooting and further contradicting Mr Chalker’s claim he was not involved in the process to charge.
NT Independent
Gonzalo Lira
Propaganda Deconstructed
Absolutely fascinating. This is what I call investigative journalism. There’s a bit of genuine horror in there too with the vivid description of the filmed torture of the Russian prisoners of war, which is being ignored by the West but is having a huge effect in Russia.
It’s a shame if it’s true about Pompeo. What was the reason for the falling out?
I haven’t bothered kicking up a stink on an aeroplane since a bloke I went to school with loaded up on Bundy (and possibly other stuff) before boarding and went off his nut.
Ended up being charged with a stack of things, including, I think “attempted air piracy” or somesuch.
This was back last century.
Narrowly avoided jail.
With a record like that, post 9/11, I reckon he travels by bus a lot these days.
The Week In Pictures was great, I stole quite a few of the jokes and memes to send to family and friends.
Thank you Tom and for the toons every morning.
From the power station closing story.
Gee, if only there was a group, say involved in politics, or representing a sector of the workforce, or business that relies on cheap power, which would articulate the Mongstrosity of dynamiting a working power plant and replacing it with essentially public service jobs to the ex-workers.
They are angry at state and federal governments, though they struggle to nail down the reason.
Katherine Deves is quite presentable, Zali Steggall is a frump, by comparison.
https://www.northernbeachesreview.com.au/story/7683922/lawyers-to-fight-it-out-for-seat-of-warringah/
Roger:
Tony Abbott had been in Warringah far too long and he was on the nose with voters there.
That’s why he lost.
Hey Indolent.
Is that Gonzalo’s vid on “How to Pick Up Hot (but Submissive) Ukrainian Chicks”?
Seems the friendly shit stirring banter is being confused with ‘stoushing’.
What to do?. Stop something that is and has been used to prevent others from taking themselves too seriously.
Or give in and brooding petals.
Disney Executives Admit: Of Course We’re Grooming Your Children
Driller
Flight time to Shanghai is 10 hours. I don’t suppose you’ve ever been to Hong Kong even though you’ve often claimed to have been out of that malaria ravaged hell hole where you live. Hong Kong is about 9 hours I think. Do you know where the bulk of China’s naval assets are stationed? I doubt it Hong Kong yet.
Also, where are the island continents of Tibet, Vietnam and Korea on the map as I can’t find them lazing away in the pacific. Lastly when you’re done, go dust the bar.
Pompeo is a DeepStater.
Selecting him as SoS was just one more stupid decision in Trump’s long list of stupid decisions.
Indolent.
Is that Disney story about Daisy Duck taking out an AVO against Donald, and Huey, Dewey and Louie being put into foster care?
I found the Donald Duck one gratuitous and offensive to the non pants wearing community.
Was Katter proposing to train school kids to shoot to fight off the Chinese?
If so, I am OK with Queenssslanders being used to deplete Chinese ammo stores.
Well, Bear, the is more to the Donald Duck story than meets the eye.
A lot more.
Crossie – Pence shafted Trump over the election certification. He hasn’t been at all supportive since either. Has been acting very GOP insiderish.
Pompeo has always been supportive of Trump. His problem I think is he was head of the CIA and the State Department and failed to do anything about those lefty swamps. Republican voters notice such things. A CIA guy was even bragging last week about stealing the election for Biden.
I suggest Mike Pompeo gets himself on a ballot for governor in a winnable state. That should be feasible. If he wins the Republican voters will have four years to see what he actually does.
From where?
& so what?
It is 24,000 miles to the house next door to you, if you’re dumb enough to turn the wrong way & keep going until you get there.
Distance Australia to China = 4,200km
If this takes you ten hours then you really need to brush up on your navigation skills.
Lizzie about the disappearing churches: the dioceses selling the churches are selling what does not belong to them. The churches were and are built mostly by the hard-earned contributions of parishioners, and often not for their own benefit but for those who follow. It is therefore a betrayal of the people of the past when the church buildings are sold. To boost coffers by selling churches is to ensure non-existing congregations.
Mmm…yes, that worked out well, didn’t it?
Gruinaid, the Maocolm one, still has a factually incorrect story on its front page.
What is Trump hiding? The Capitol riot-sized hole in White House call log
Even Chicken Noodle News has walked it back.
Official review of Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete
“Morrison has parachuted a registered Zali Steggall supporter in to contest Warringah ahead of a defence and national security expert. She had to have a special exemption because until recently she wasn’t even a member of the Liberal Party. Branch members are saying they won’t turn out to support her.”
Katherine Deves, the woman parachuted in by Morrison to contest Warringah, does great work on the whole transgender stuff. I like her. However I doubt she’ll beat Zali. I think she might have had a chance if her preselection had happened a year ago. It’s probably too late.
The thing is that Warringah, like Wentworth, Kooyong and Curtin, are “shallow” electorates full of very “shallow” and hypocritical people. A “defence and national security expert” isn’t going to beat Zali. The Liberal party needs to say adios to electorates like Warringah and Wentworth. They should be concentrating on winning electorates like Parramatta…..very winnable and particularly with the candidate that Labor has parachuted into the seat.
“In a time when membership of the Liberal Party is in decline they can’t afford to alienate what grassroots support they still have.”
I’ve received texts asking to help Sharma here in Wentworth. Not interested.
Did someone say movie recommendation?
It’s the fortieth anniversary of An Ungentlemanly Act.
Ummm
They’re not flying from possession island I think. Maybe they don’t want to do a lot of flying over open ocean as well?
Are the planes any slower, bigger, different fuel economy?
Do you have to wait in a holding pattern often?
Let’s check the tapes. Jimmy Barnes reckons the last plane out of Sydney takes “seven quiet hours” to the Chinese Princess Mattress Landing Strip.
Maybe that’s after they gain cruising altitude.