Thanks jr for thanking Tom. I had a difficult theological problem day before yesterday. I lost a silver cufflink which…
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Thanks Tom.
Thanks Tom.
Ben Garrison.
Michael Ramirez. Oh dear.
How many different mission objectives are we up to now with this utterly moronic clusterf— of a war? It was supposed to be regime-changing Kiev, “demilitarisation” and “stopping NATO” in the beginning. Now that every one of those has failed horribly, Russia, with less than 75% of its force remaining, wants to expand the war to Moldova!!
This is much, much worse (and a lot stupider) than the Iraq war.
..
It’s the Covid vaccine of war objectives.
The goal posts are infinitely moveable when you just wanna do something regardless of logic, reason or the actual ability to accomplish anything.
Of course. The entire Chinese labour force is treated as slave labour. Who doesn’t know that?
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2011/sep/pdf/bu-0911-4.pdf
Week In Pictures.
Thanks Tom!
Just look at Government Pages in the Phone Directory.
Talking to people and understanding how many work directly or indirectly for government is truly scary. Of course a government job is now the job of choice for stability, seeing as they shielded every Mong working for them from their legislated COVID destruction.
GWGB applies to bishops as well.
Your time is up, Justin! Welby told Britons want ‘woke’ Bishops out of Parliament – POLL (23 Apr)
This stuff is funny. No bishop is going to get much support from the woke, who are generally pretty hostile towards Christianity. And by alienating Christians who believe the Bible they aren’t going to get any support from them either. It would be good if they are booted. Afterwards, since they’d no longer be so busy parking their fundaments on the cushy seats in the Lords, they might like to preach the Gospel instead.
wharfies refused to load live sheep
Wharfies and sheep, that’s a winning combination!
Finally, after all these years of plans wrecked by weather, or screwed-up arrangements, I caught a salmon.
Ugly brute.
My landlady and self appointed guide suggested dinner, but I decided you can buy salmon anywhere and this girl had work to do in the river, so back she went, to the disgust of the landlady’s son.
She will probably be caught around the bend and soon be in the oven of some chinless clowns from the ‘City ‘ up for the weekend. But it made me feel good.
If anyone is looking for a BnB in Aberdeenshire; have I got a deal for you? Talk about lucked in.
Happy Sunday, Cats!
The stars are still out over Boyanup, WA at present, and the (slightly) crooked Planetary Parade Zipster mentioned earlier in the week looks gorgeous beneath the moon!
I have also just discovered that WA’s Brushtail and Ringtail possums are capable of sharing the same tree- 2 of each either on the trunk or the fence next to it.
And I am off to fire up a Luuuuuverly Laaaaaaydee and make her look her best for the day.
Happy Steaming. 🙂
Wellcamp quarantine camp could be used for returning cruise ship passengers who have tested positive to COVID-19
Good for the wharfies. Sorry to the graziers on the blog who sell to live trade – but I think it is an abomination. The conditions those animals endure on their way to the Middle East diminishes us as. Yes I know that they have vets on board – but I have also seen viable reports – including footage – of the actual conditions. It is absolutely appalling.
Incidentally I have also personally seen how those in the Middle East treat animals – eg saw a man at a market in Egypt break the legs of a live sheep in order to get it into the boot of his car – not to want to see animals we have raised suffer in the way they do there.
Sancho, pretty sure you own one of these? What’s it like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpCEUSWt7Q
Egypt break the legs of a live sheep in order to get it into the boot of his car – not to want to see animals we have raised suffer in the way they do there.
Definitely in efficient and definitely not humane at the receiving end. But if you want to sell to desert hillbillies, what are the options?
Interesting comment about the putrid woke Anglican Bishops pontentialy getting booted from the Lords.
Before coming up here to Scotland, I slipped down to Whitstable to eat oysters and drink beer.
Canterbury is next door and I had never seen the cathedral so I ducked over.
I didn’t realise that you can’t see it due to the surrounding wall of originally medieval shops. What lit my fuse was that the woke creeps were charging 14 quid to enter.
There were no dogs to kick so I tageted the gatekeeper and ranted about being denied the right to worship at the shrine. His “please move along Sir” was delivered with “fuck you” agression.
Hope that the Vatican doesn’t catch on to the scam.
Big tech seems increasingly insecure and defensive.
Wikipedia Removes Hunter Biden’s Investment Firm Entry: ‘Not Notable’ (23 Apr)
Twitter Bans Ads That Contradict Climate Change (23 Apr)
Data Shows Big Tech Censored Biden Criticism 600+ Times Over 2-Year Cycle (22 Apr)
Haha, the more you do this guys the more that people think you are hiding something. I believe there’s a name for this phenomenon, something to do with Streisand…
The live sheep trade is past its time in eastern states thanks to thriving domestic demand and a very robust and expanding export market for chilled product.
What was an abomination Vicki, was the cabal of meatworks and unions who used to throttle the life out of the sheep meat industry until the live boats offered an alternative market and underpinned prices.
I remember standing in our yards while a meat buyer offered $20 a head for prime lambs and thought he was doing you a favour.
Fuck that Vickie!
I was with other farmers when we went to Portland and loaded boats. The big tough wharfies threw a few insults our way but backed off pretty quick when we made a move towards them.
Cowards and thieves Vickie.
Livestock sometimes have a tough time due to unforeseen circumstances due to weather, be it on a boat or floods on land.
The intention is never cruelty.
There might be a joke about the French selling weapons to any invading army
east of the Seine somewhere in here.
‘Twould be tres drole if one of those totes peaceful use only drones dropped
the thermite grenade which starred in this blast from the past.
There are some Catholic churches that charge an entry fee for tourists but if you just want to attend mass it’s as much as you want to put on the collection plate.
Given the need for upkeep and the volume of visitors I don’t have a huge problem with fee for entry though 14 quid is pretty steep.
The intention is never cruelty.
but it’s often the outcome- all slaughtering should be done here. The live sheep trade is vile because of the way they are treated in shithole countries.
vile because of the way they are treated in shithole countries.
You state this as if you know it’s a fundamental truth.
There are decent people and processors working in those countries. You are fed the horror stories by activists and never shown the modern facilities used by many wealthy middle eastern nations.
PS
If you have the means to AirPlay that big badda boom, give it a go.
Canterbury Cathedral gains massive tax payer support for upkeep.
According to those who know, much of the funding is diverted to their creepy causes.
absolute clowns
Any of you ever shot sheep because they have no value?
You would actually lose money on the transport to send them to a meatworks for $1 a head.
That’s what I call cruel. No fun at all.
Sancho
You say that I have Abbott DS, some truth there, however the reason I think he was an abject failure as PM is that he threw his base under the bus, after the election. We voted for those policies that he and the Libs crafted to sell to us, then he shat on us and sided with those who despised him. Nothing at all to do with his pre election policies.
There are decent people and processors working in those countries.
that’s good to know- the whole halal process sounds unspeakable cruel.
How come we managed without live export before 1974?
Sfw – Abbott and Howard had a really strong fetish about governing from the centre. What they couldn’t understand is there is no centre now, it vanished in about the early 2000’s as leftist insanity metastasized. They still don’t understand, Howard especially. Even worse now with wokery added to the mix. Consequently picking and choosing policies to please the centre left voters and the centre right voters is impossible since they are incompatible with each other. You can only govern from the right and then deprogram the soft lefties one by one. The left is a cult, like Jim Jones’ bunch.
Unfortunately ScoMo and his wet colleagues suffer from the same fantasy that Abbott did.
BTW
TaliDan is using covid mandates to recreate the total union control and big business clique that used to run the Victoria.
Mandates are now a tool to force self employed independents and subbies out of all work areas by claiming health guidelines.
We know it’s a lie because even Sutton can’t justify the ban. The Age cluelessly editorialises the wrongness of the prolonged mandates without ever looking for the political advantage the ALP gain from the extension.
They’re starving the competition out.
. You are fed the horror stories by activists and never shown the modern facilities used by many wealthy middle eastern nations.
The Activists are a separate issue.
The modern-ness or otherwise of a ‘facility’ is irrelevant.
The issues are:
1. the inhumanity of the shipboard trip to the Middle East
2. the likelihood of the sheep being tortured by sadists at the destination.
There’s a potentially large retail market for sheepmeat in Australia,
but the Supermarkets prefer to push fake meat while the real meat gets given away to Countries that hate our guts.
How come we managed without live export before 1974?
Wool.
I think you’re right there BoN.
I do go on about Abbott a bit too much, after all he’s only a man, but like a bride left at the altar his failures left me very pissed off, especially as after abandoning me he spends his time swanning around the world at my expense. However I don’t want to end up like Miss Haversham so I’ll just push him out of my mind and get on with life.
WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID
It’s not just a phase.
The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.
It’s been clear for quite a while now that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the same territory, with two different versions of the Constitution, economics, and American history. But Babel is not a story about tribalism; it’s a story about the fragmentation of everything. It’s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. It’s a metaphor for what is happening not only between red and blue, but within the left and within the right, as well as within universities, companies, professional associations, museums, and even families.
Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people. How did this happen? And what does it portend for American life?
– The Rise of the Modern Tower
– Things Fall Apart
– Politics After Babel
– Structural Stupidity
– It’s Going to Get Much Worse
– Democracy After Babel
– Reform Social Media
– Prepare the Next Generation
– Hope After Babel
the story i have told is bleak, and there is little evidence to suggest that America will return to some semblance of normalcy and stability in the next five or 10 years. Which side is going to become conciliatory? What is the likelihood that Congress will enact major reforms that strengthen democratic institutions or detoxify social media?
Yet when we look away from our dysfunctional federal government, disconnect from social media, and talk with our neighbors directly, things seem more hopeful. Most Americans in the More in Common report are members of the “exhausted majority,” which is tired of the fighting and is willing to listen to the other side and compromise. Most Americans now see that social media is having a negative impact on the country, and are becoming more aware of its damaging effects on children.
Will we do anything about it?
When Tocqueville toured the United States in the 1830s, he was impressed by the American habit of forming voluntary associations to fix local problems, rather than waiting for kings or nobles to act, as Europeans would do. That habit is still with us today. In recent years, Americans have started hundreds of groups and organizations dedicated to building trust and friendship across the political divide, including BridgeUSA, Braver Angels (on whose board I serve), and many others listed at BridgeAlliance.us. We cannot expect Congress and the tech companies to save us. We must change ourselves and our communities.
What would it be like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? We know. It is a time of confusion and loss. But it is also a time to reflect, listen, and build.
Abbott delivered on his key promise.
Stopping illegals in boats.
And he withstood some withering attacks in doing so (burnt hands on exhaust pipes etc etc).
Can anyone name a politician since 2007 with their hands on the levers who wouldn’t have folded on immigration in the face of that?
Big uptick for that.
The domestic meat market is well satisfied and limiting exports only causes gluts which then directly leads to production cuts as farmers look to other profitable pursuits.
Farmers like Bush don’t have livestock at all. We could all do the sand and you’d be eating your pets or vegan sausages.
Careful what you wish for.
Sand – same.
Mutton [sheepmeat] was common in retail butcheries up until 1974, after that it disappeared.
Why, I can’t tell you, though it’s much more tasty than Lamb.
I’m somewhat sympathetic to the idea of a charge to enter the very famous cathedrals, with free passes for those wishing to enter for services, and with all Parish churches free to enter. Also, fourteen pounds is too much. That’s greedy. But the upkeep on ancient church buildings can be horrendous and if people are entering for tourist rather than religious reasons there’s a case for some contribution to costs.
Ed.
Nonsense.
The push away from mutton was based on demand as the buyers were able to afford better cuts.
You could also buy two tooth lamb in those days, which was older lamb with very good flavour and size.
The sizing down of domestic ovens in houses also played a part. The trend has reversed now but that’s being lead by migrants who love a big piece of meat.
A lot of Sheep Abattoirs closed around that time, Jacksons at Geelong, Greenham’s Champion Works, Borthwicks at Oakleigh closed a few years later, big Sheep meatworks at Bourke, closed, Longreach Meatworks, closed,
all those were booming during the years that Wool was King.
danish study shows no benefit to overall mortality from mRNA vaccines
Steak is a shocking price these days, in fact, all meats are. He who does The Shopping never looks at prices, but I do on the parcels he brings in, and I am horrified for families where food costs really do matter, as they did for me when I was a struggling divorced parent of two kids. Saying the domestic market is ‘satisfied’ with this is not looking at it from the consumers’ point of view at all. Meat eating is declining, because of the cost more than anything else. All part of the great reset?
ps older Lamb used to be called Hoggart, and very old sheep was Mutton – back in my day.
My first husband’s grandma made a very good dish of Neck-of-Mutton Chops with peas and carrots.
In recent years, Americans have started hundreds of groups and organizations dedicated to building trust and friendship across the political divide
It simply isn’t possible to negotiate or trust commies.
Top o’ the mornin’ Cats!
Thought for the day.
Looks like Rex has adopted it. Happy Casey Jones-ing!
You don’t get anything accurate from The Atlantic. As lefty a rag as they come. No one who isn’t a paid up member of the collective is allowed to write for them.
If you realise this, then read that text again, it means something quite different than it appears to on the surface. It’s actually a Lefty trying and failing to understand why leftism is being rejected.
At least he recognizes the split even if he doesn’t understand that it is his and his fellow travellers who did it.
Poland declines to take or pay for more COVID-19 vaccines for now
WARSAW, April 19 (Reuters) – Poland will not take or pay for more doses of COVID-19 vaccine under the European Union’s supply contract, its health minister said on Tuesday, setting the stage for a legal battle with manufacturers.
Poland, along with other EU members, has been receiving COVID-19 vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic under supply contracts agreed between the European Commission and vaccine makers such as BioNTech SE (22UAy.DE) and Pfizer (PFE.N) or Moderna (MRNA.O).
Poland’s biggest supplier is Pfizer. However, the country has seen lower vaccine uptake than most of the European Union and has surplus vaccine stock, part of which it has sold or donated to other countries. read more
“At the end of last week, we used the force majeure clause and informed both the European Commission and the main vaccine producer that we are refusing to take these vaccines at the moment and we are also refusing to pay,” health minister Adam Niedzielski told private broadcaster TVN24.
Poland reneges on coronavirus vaccine contracts
The move was prompted by the improving pandemic situation, as well as the costs linked to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, says health minister.
Wicked, Mad, Stupid? Or All Three?
So Lizzie.
Farmers should be compelled to provide cheap meat for the masses?
There’s a lot of cost inputs after the farm gate and that drives your purchase price.
We received $8 a kilo live weight for our lambs this year.
This is why it is so important to 1. privatise space, 2. progress with propellantless thrust & exotic propulsion and 3. progress with small scale nuke.
The environmentalists will consign us to be earthbound with their stupid ideas like solar sails.
After that point, with the next pandemic excuse and ever encroaching surveillance state, where can you go?
Underground with the CHUDS?
Poor people suddenly vanished in the mid seventies and everyone started eating Eye Fillet?
Gimme a break.
Beef prices crashed in 1973 and beef was cheap in shops for the next 3 or 4 years, sure.
Mutton shoulda made a comeback by 1978 since it’s cheaper and tasier than Lamb, but it completely disappeared.
You gave up two years of your life because Midazolam was used to prematurely end the lives of thousands who you were told had died of Covid-19; and we can prove it…
Lambs dress out at about 46% for those interested in calculating out shop vs saleyard.
Lizzie, you need to stop shopping here.
watched this Netflix 6 part series last night .. period drama set around the Lancashire cotton mills of the 1880s and the beginnings of soccer as a popular sport .. well worth a look …….
THE ENGLISH GAME ..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8403664/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Mutton shoulda made a comeback by 1978 since it’s cheaper and tasier than Lamb, but it completely disappeared.
It was on boats and feeding cats & dogs.
If you really wanted mutton then your local butcher would have been happy to meet your needs.
The True Origins of‘America First’
John Quincy Adams is the font of American geopolitical thought. Today, lesser men fail to grasp his teaching that alignment of interests among nations can only be creatures of time and circumstance.
What were America’s founders and their followers trying to foster and preserve by their conduct among nations? What were they trying to put first? Why did the Progressives turn away from these concerns? What did they put first? How dismissive were they of reality? What have been Progressivism’s effects on how America has fared among nations? How have changes in the world and in America itself made it impossible to continue on the Progressive’s course? How would John Quincy Adams and those following his principles manage America’s present international situation?
By what principles might today’s statesmen put America First?
In America, as everywhere else, a people’s choices and priorities reflect who they are. From the earliest settlements, Americans have thought themselves fortunate that they or their ancestors had distanced themselves from the rest of European civilization—and not just geographically. America was their final destination. They had not come on the way to anywhere else. Few went back. They left old quarrels and did not come to start new ones. They came because they expected America to be different, a nearly empty land where they would have peace, freedom, and the bread that their hands earned. And that is why Americans’ relations with foreigners were always premised on appreciation for what made America different. Putting America First meant more than natural self-interest. It meant putting a better, demonstrably different way of life first.
– The Americans
– The Founders
– The Legacy
– Temptations
– Imperialism
– Power, Peace, and Policy
– From Hope to Pretense
– Cold War Eclipse
– International Leadership and War
– America’s Real Circumstances
– Old Wine in New Bottles
As the Heading says “Weekend Long Read”
For those in NSW who want to check prices in their area over last 5 years to keep yourselves entertained on a Sunday – just substitute your suburb for MANLY
http://globe.six.nsw.gov.au/PropertySales/PropertySales.html?type=suburb&postcode=2095&suburb=MANLY
If I remember rightly in 18 months Abbott:
– stopped the boats
– cancelled the mining tax
– cancelled the carbon tax
Not bad.
You don’t eat the head?
Yes. “Flock reduction” it was called.
Not good enough for some apparently.
And all this after going within a whisker of turning the Rudd-Gillard thousand year reich into a one term government in 2010 and smashing them in 2013.
And one of the biggest problems he had thereafter on matters like 18c was Fat Cloive sucking Snowcone’s dick every second Monday night.
I haven’t forgotten that.
Lambs dress out at about 46% for those interested in calculating out shop vs saleyard.
Supermarkets take a loss on Lamb, which they can afford to do since they’re gouging us on most of their other stuff.
Dispelling The Doomsday Propaganda In DisneyNature’s New Polar Bear ‘Documentary’
Strangely enough this year they arrived off the ice in late July and then seemed to disappear leaving us with almost no bear sightings especially at our Nanuk Lodge location. An aerial recon quickly located large groups (as many as 20 in a “gang”) of bears lounging on the beaches in a high state of lethargic non activity because they were simply TOO FAT to move!! That’s correct, too fat to bother wandering about looking for snacks (berries, grasses, birds, carrion) as the summer wore on. These bears went beyond healthy to being downright obese. In all our seasons here we’ve not seen bears in October/November in such extreme cases of healthful chubbiness. The bears were very happy our guests not so much, lol.
Further to this the moms and cubs observed this spring are in excellent shape even producing a set of triplets which we have not had for a while [apparently Wat’chee Lodge also observed a set of triplets near the Owl River…].
To summarize: no marked change in breakup and freeze-up dates over the last 40 years, dozens of bears too fat to move in the fall of 2021 and two triplet litters of cubs in March 2022.
Lambs brains Sancho.
All that creamy goodness.
Not for me.
You forget that he lost all momentum because of the rerun of the WA senate election
If he had gone hard and started all he promised, the WA senate result would be a WA only referendum on his policies. Also he was was whiteanted by 75% of his cabinet,eg that fuckwit Brandis’ comment on bigots killed any chance of 18c reform.
I don’t want to do in farmers, Gez, but something is adding to costs somewhere and it’s not just inflation although that’s also at work. I don’t know where, but I’ll take a rough guess that it is something to do with regulations at all levels of meat production, including farming, transport and slaughtering costs, and excessive profits somewhere along the chain from the farm to sale in the supermarkets.
Sure Griggles, these oversized lamb joints sold in the last few years aren’t hogget or mutton, they’re from Super Dorpas.
I honestly don’t object to the price we pay for meat.
Lamb racks are expensive, it is true.
But, if we buy a leg or a good lump of shoulder we get dinner, plus sandwiches plus shepherd’s pie a few nights later.
Sure, it’s not $2.99 Happy Meal prices but, per serving, it isn’t that exhorbitant either.
Trump speaking now in Delaware Ohio
Won’t let me post link…
Abandoning coal, nuclear “a big mistake”
The “big mistake” of the Merkel governments, however, was to abandon nuclear and coal and replace the lost capacity with natural gas. The consequences of this can now be seen in the Ukraine war and Germany’s immense dependence on Russia. Therefore, he said, the German government urgently needs to “tell the truth” to the population that green energies alone announced in the coalition agreement can no longer function, at the latest due to the elimination of Nordstream 2.
It is obviously too early for that, but we will “get the truth about the security of the energy supply on the table, because this system is now becoming more unstable,” said Vahrenholt, who fears that we have “reached the end of the line” in terms of the push to green energies.
rsbn rumble gets you there
OldOzzie says:
April 24, 2022 at 8:52 am
Bears are one of the lucky ones who can store fat and use it up.
And Boris delivered Brexit. Unfortunately with both the harm of kowtowing to leftist stuff far outweighs the benefits of what they achieved. I admit Abbott did try to go hard on red tape. unfortunately he did not get rid of the leftists in his party who were undermining his every move, one in particular.
Boris Condemns ‘Prejudice’ Against ‘Green Agenda’, Won’t Scrap Energy Taxes (23 Apr)
And on top of this completely puerile rubbish he hasn’t even properly delivered Brexit.
Donald Trump MAGA Rally in Delaware, Ohio – 7:00pm Livestream Links
Mutton has never been in Pet Food.
People buy what’s on display in the window.
You’re avoiding the issue by saying
If you really wanted mutton then your local butcher would have been happy to meet your needs
No one’s going to ask the butcher to buy a whole sheep for them when they only want a shoulder and a coupla chops.
White wine, butter and garlic sauce. Best thing to have with crumbed and fried lambs brains. Unbelievable how good it is.
My British parents used to get them because they were cheap and because they liked them.
I used to love crumbed lambs brains from the butchers till I found out what they were.
Turned me right off them. And other offal, although I went through a trendy phase of cooking up kidneys during the 70’s as I had a foodie boyfriend (one of several) during the interregnum of husbands and some chef was giving kidneys a comeback at that time.
In England for a six month stay during the 90’s I bought things called ‘chitterlings’ from the supermarket meat freezer, like small hamburgers. They cooked up well and we all loved them. Until I found out they were minced pig intestines. Didn’t buy them after that. The UK is full of funny surprises in food. Like pork pies, which are mainly pure lard in flour with a kernel of minced piggy.
I’ll leave that one up to our connessieur.
Cruel
Just checked on a ewe that was down last night. I sat her up to balance her insides.
When they’re on one side too long they lean one way and fall over if they try to stand or run.
She had moved but ended up on the same side. Two eagles and a mob of crows were near her as I approached, waiting until she lost energy to kick them away.
She’s up again and walking. The warm sun and feed will help. I’ll have to check the dam later as she could go for a drink and end up in the water.
It’s a shame La Rousse in Brighton le Sands closed down.
The old decor was horrific, but the food was reasonably priced and excellent.
No. I can do that too. I keep three to five kilos there for use in emergencies. 🙂
these oversized lamb joints sold in the last few years aren’t hogget or mutton, they’re from Super Dorpas.
Grain Fed Lamb from feedlots.
Bitter taste, poor quality.
Pasture raised Lamb will be only half that size.
I don’t mind the price of meat either.
I prompts me to find recipes to cook it properly and not be lazy.
It was once a living thing.
Show me all of the sheep feedlots we have in Australia.
Even beef feedlots are uncommon, typically attached to an abbitoir (JBS Caroona and Tabbita).
Special Prosecutor Filing Outlines Clearest, Most Detailed, Construct of Hillary Clinton Joint Venture Conspiracy to Fabricate Trump-Russia Narrative
In a very late-night filing by Special Counsel John Durham {pdf HERE}, in the case against former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann, the special counsel gives the most detailed construct of the “joint venture” between the Clinton team and allies to fabricate a Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory against Donald Trump in 2016.
As we have noted, Durham is focused on the people outside government who fabricated information and triggered years of false accusations against Donald Trump, which ultimately included the creation of a special counsel, Robert Mueller.
John Durham has not touched any of the players inside government within any of his filings, with the exception of former FBI legal counsel James “Jim” Baker, who is a witness and gave testimony for three days to a grand jury. Durham will not touch anyone inside government [fn¹].
Durham is focused on who, how and why they originated the Trump-Russia lies, and whether any laws were broken as they pushed those lies into government institutions which created four years of crisis for the government and former President Trump. Within this filing, Durham focuses on the “joint venture”, or what can be described as a conspiracy to manufacture and/or defraud the government.
I have tried to put clarity on the filing by outlining who/what the terms are. DETAILS:
The big junior crow from this year’s nest landed with a thump and a caw on our verandah roof looking for food. He moved to the close-byJacaranda and all of the other birds started dive bombing him away till he sat in the furthese reaches of the tree looking miserably hungry.
I don’t feed crows, but I did feel sorry for him. No-one feeds them so they have to fend on alone.
‘Companies are beginning to panic’: Experts say China’s lockdowns will make inflation and the supply chain nightmare even worse
No one’s going to ask the butcher to buy a whole sheep for them when they only want a shoulder and a coupla chops.
But, but, but, surely a mutton enthusiast like you would be happy to do so? Or do you just want your favoured cuts at a cheap price, with the butcher bearing the cost of the unsellable remainder?
How very Dickless!
2 + 2 = jeez, we can’t figure it out
From AAP, just moved:
The World Health Organisation says at least one child death had been reported following an increase of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in children and that at least 169 cases had been reported in children in 12 countries.
The WHO issued the figures as health authorities around the world investigate a mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis – inflammation of the liver – in young children.
The WHO said that as of April 21 acute cases of hepatitis of unknown origin had been reported in the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, France, Romania and Belgium.
It said 114 of the 169 cases were in the UK alone.
The cases reported were in children aged from one month to 16 years, and 17 had required liver transplantation, it said.
It gave no details of the death that it said had been reported and did not say where it occurred.
The WHO said a common cold virus known as an adenovirus had been detected in at least 74 cases.
COVID-19 infection was identified in 20 of those tested and 19 cases were detected with a COVID-19 and adenovirus co-infection, it said.
The WHO said it was closely monitoring the situation and working with UK health authorities, other member states and partners.
US health officials have sent out a country-wide alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for symptoms of pediatric hepatitis, possibly linked with a cold virus, as part of a wider probe into unexplained cases of severe liver inflammation in young children.
Thanks for triggering a gagging attack.
Having never imagined such an abomination could exist,
disgust closely followed surprise when served crumbed lambs brains
for my first ever breakfast in the Grey Funnel Line, January 17 19-oh-so-long-ago.
Dot says:
April 24, 2022 at 9:11 am
Show me all of the sheep feedlots we have in Australia.
Lots of them Dot but nearly all on farm.
Most farmers will feedlot lambs for a while to get the finishing bloom.
Great seasons with abundant quality feed will reduce this number of course.
And on top of this completely puerile rubbish he hasn’t even properly delivered Brexit.
which I suspect was always the big fat waste of space’s brief and intention. What despicable ignorant mediocrities these trashy ‘leaders’ are
The Fraser Government closed a lot of meatworks:
Andersons Maryborough, Wallangarra and Roma, Borthwicks Moreton & Bowen, Walkers Byron Bay, Angliss Tenterfield,, Tancreds Charters Towers, Cairns Meatworks, Queerah.
9 Export meatworks in Qld and Northern NSW in the space of 7 years.
Did Fraser have an Agenda, by any chance or was it just random.
Still, it’s more civilised than just burning the place down, which is happening in America right now.
It can play havoc when bikini shopping in autumn.
Choo choo… 😉
Ed Case says:
April 24, 2022 at 9:22 am
The Fraser Government closed a lot of meatworks:
Of course he did.
The unions had no part in it.
I suspect he edits them at least half a dozen times.
Thou shalt not honour false gods.
There are only two of us, but we can’t stretch it as far as the shepherd’s pie. We both tend to load up on the meat, leaving only enough for sandwiches later, although I can remember that a ‘joint’ lasted for three meals, as above, in my parents’ day, and with more mouths to feed than just the two of us. It was a rare treat then too. So was chicken.
You got one or two thin slices of meat back then and filled up on bread and butter, or after this meal, on bread and jam. For a Sunday roast, and not every Sunday, you got yorkshire pudding, which with gravy extended the flavours and filled you up.
A British invention that was in every kitchen was the ‘dripping pot’, into which all the fat was poured and when times were hard-up you had bread and this dripping as a spread to help it go down. The bottom of the pot was like marmite – thick and tasty. The pot was the original ‘endless cauldron’. lol.
Rex Angersays:
April 24, 2022 at 7:19 am
Happy Sunday, Cats!….
And I am off to fire up a Luuuuuverly Laaaaaaydee and make her look her best for the day.
Happy Steaming. ?
Rex, headed down that way in a couple of weeks and want to take the little bloke to see the choo choos.
Is there a website which shows opening or steaming times??
The supply chain made me buy a new ute.
That’s my excuse.
Walked into the dealer and they had a FX 4 3.2 Ranger on the floor.
I pick it up Tuesday.
Lizzie: Your refusal to feed crows is misplaced, as they are fascinating to watch when presented with a problem.
For example, put a tasty sausage in a wide-necked bottle — Cottee’s cordial bottles are perfect — and watch as Mr Crow nuts out how to extract it.
It took him about two minutes and involved much nudging, pushing and, finally, the bottle was inverted and out came the snag.
Wish I’d thought to film it.
Mine Own Man doth love his meat. I do inform him that he eats far too many slices (verily, often chunks) of ye roast, but he listeneth not to his wyfe and he also liketh his bread to be covered plentiful upon it with the said viands when he partaketh of it at the noontide.
Blair has an amazing photo on his blog.
Apparently Marles collects snowglobes.
That’s as cheesy as you can possibly get.
Roast chicken was for special days and even the parson’s nose got eaten!
I remember being told to have bread and jam if I was still hungry afterwards too.
New car must mean the drought’s over.
Oh joy! .. been awhile since I had a really, really cheerful Sunday morning but on checking the “fitba” results discovering my $ 10 bet on Central Coast Mariners & Toon double has turned into $375 has fattened this OAP’s wallet .. might be able to afford “meat” this week .. LOL!
Of course he did.
The unions had no part in it.
Fraser changed construction standards for Export Meatworks.
That alone closed the older sheds down.
Did Fraser also raise other compliance costs?
I think he may have done that as well.
Unions?
It depended on Management.
Poor management = plenty of Homers.
Sensible managers meant everybody made a Quid.
It was standard for them to foment a Strike when flooding prevented mustering.
Sure, they coulda enforced stand down provisions, which would’ve been used by the Union at the next IR negotiation to claim a Casual Loading due to the nature of the Industry or the workforce coulda copped it up the arse and lost conditions, which eventually happened.
Walked into the dealer and they had a FX 4 3.2 Ranger on the floor.
I pick it up Tuesday.
You jammy git!
Im finally taking delivery of my new motor on Tuesday, 8 months into “it wont be here for 6 months”…
Hold onto your hats, folks – the ABC has published another of Kamahl Grant’s undergraduate essays from his PPE course:
Katherine Deves’s trans women comments ignited another round of culture wars – and added another nail in the coffin of democracy
John Adams BTFO’d by sTan! His groundbreaking research has demonstrated that Adams was totally the odd man out on the whole democracy thing amongst the FFs; they were all dead keen on democracy, they weren’t suspicious of it at all – ‘50% plus one to get what you need done’ was their famous demand of the Crown, after all.
There should be books not snowglobes on those shelves.
No wonder he gets other people to write his speeches.
A change from unread Hansards lining the bookshelves.
Only slightly less disturbing than that photo of Albo the teenage Trot.
Winston – who ultimately bears the cost of dumping?
Hello, taxpayers.
When the prog left push their agenda down everyone’s throats its democracy.
But when someone pushes back (and Deves isn’t even on the right) it’s igniting a culture war.
Pathetic puff piece on Outsiders with the loathsome piers morgan.
Is this some desperate attempt to make him seem even remotely interesting?
Crows are smart, that is true. They are like ravens in that regard.
Scavengers of the dead on battlefields.
But I don’t want to encourage them onto our verandah. I feed the other birds on a four inch ledge where the new stone tiles extend beyond the frameless glass. I think a crow on there would be perilous and also frighten off all of the other birds. Occasionally I drop food over the glass and down onto a rock about twenty feet below in the lower garden. That is the platform where birds can freely fight; mostly it is the kookaburras who take over down there. Possibly the odd crow drops in, but I want to keep them away from where we sit.
Sorry to miss out on Animal Behaviour 101 though. 🙂
Pathetic puff piece on Outsiders with the loathsome piers morgan.
Yup turned it off as soon as it came on…
A British invention that was in every kitchen was the ‘dripping pot’
Yep, we had one .. meat/chicken was a, once a week, Sunday dinner luxury with roast spuds, Yorkshire pud, turnip, Brussell sprouts in abundance (used to filch ’em from the local farm fields regular) .. the rest of the week any sort of food was the, actual, luxury ..!
I might be one of the few folk around who luvs Brussell sprouts .. LOL!
H B Bear says:
April 24, 2022 at 9:45 am
New car must mean the drought’s over.
The drought’s been over for three years in our parts and a super start to this year.
The world’s going to shit but people have to eat.
Good times and I’m not complaining.
On live sheep.
Q: Why dont we bucher/ freeze and send?
A: It is orders of magnitude more expensive per Kg of meat delivered to the destination.
A2: In quite a few cases the destination countries still have poor access to refrigeration in the home. Wet markets are the go.
Q: Its cruel and lots die on the ships
A: No industry makes money by failing to deliver its product.
Heres one of the worst shipments.
The ship left Fremantle on 1 August carrying 63,804 sheep bound for Qatar
Number dead: 2,400
About 4%.
Your feelings of “its icky” over footage of dead animals being disposed of arent suitable grounds to shut down farmers income.
A little more from the gruinaid, that reactionary pro-farmer mouthpiece… In the same period Australia exported 1.7m sheep, with a mortality rate of 0.9%, or 12,377 recorded deaths. The industry has improved over the years, with the general trend for the mortality rate heading downwards.
Real estate porn
I69 million? I wouldn’t pay 169k. The building is an eyesore shithole.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/432-Park-Ave-PENTHOUSE-New-York-NY-10022/2069500049_zpid/
Gee you go a long way back Ed.
I said before the meat companies were as dodgy as the unions and the whole sector needed a big shake up.
A little fella called Wally Curran did quite a bit of damage to abattoir viability in Victoria.
The live sheep industry straightened them all out.
Nobody’s putting two and two together here.
Mutton disappeared. What else disappeared at about the same time?
Mutton chop sideburns, that’s what.
I suspect the general dislike of Brussels sprouts springs from the tendency to overcook them.
Par boiled and then roasted is the way to go.
unlimited warfare
Gruinaid has a radical new idea for long established couples.
Nifty ways to leave a lover (temporarily) – how a gap year could save your marriage
Is life with your spouse stale and limiting? Maybe, instead of a divorce, all you need is a few months apart
They call it a “gap year”, it appears the only “gap” in the year may be the wifes.
Better labeled a cuck year.
My friend’s sister and her husband agreed they would be free to date and have intimate relationships with other people. “I had only really slept with my husband,” the sister told me. “I didn’t want to get older and to never have had physical experiences with other men. It seemed like a waste of my life as if there was this whole other exciting world out there that I was never going to experience.”
For her, this was part of the deal and she had been very clear with her husband about it. “He wasn’t that happy about it,” she said, “but he did understand.” She had a fabulous two years travelling the world and taking lovers, then came home and the marriage continued. “It’s better than ever now,” she said. “I feel settled. I’ve done my thing and now I am home and I’m happy to be here.” Her husband hadn’t been sure she would return. He is thankful that the marriage survived, she said, but it came at a cost for him.
Guardian- justifying being a cuck since inception…
No way is that apartment worth more than a few mill.
Then again, I’m a hick who wants a house that looks like a house (however large), near woods and freshwater.
Now that’s a happy child.
https://patriotpost.us/memes/87860-trigger-happy-2022-04-22
Charred brussel sprouts are almost de rigour nowadays. Flame grilled preferably.
Rockdoctorsays:
April 24, 2022 at 9:55 am
As did I. Re. the Trump thing, I’d believe Farrage over that disgusting Morgan thing any day. We’ve heard the audio, Piers – you dropkick.
Vicki, 7.22:
A phrase I didn’t think I would encounter in any of the circles I move in.
If this was taken as an absolute, this country wouldn’t take anything at all from anywhere in the ME because ‘they’re cruel to animals’. The other thing that ‘diminishes us’ is starvation and living under bridges.
I was a small-town townie in farming country. I spent quite a bit of time on them and still have plenty of lifelong mates in the game, but am not a farmer. However – farming anything to with livestock revolves around death. Some of it’s controlled, some isn’t, but it sure as hell isn’t the idyllic meadows and field and sparkling brooks and choirs of lambs singing Cold Chisel songs while you wave at them from your passing helicopter.
It’s what the luvvies don’t understand. Farming is Mother Nature with a couple of (attempted) control mechanisms thrown in. For Shaun the Sheep, it’s a choice of having your intestines chewed out of you and dragged across the paddock by foxes, having said intestines eaten out from the arse end by parasites, starving to death or dying of thirst in drought, drowning or burning in bushfires or being thrown overboard by Manuel the Philipino freight ship deckie as part of the 4% that didn’t make it.
Choose your poison.
Adopt a Live Export Lamb today.
If you’re fanging for mutton or hogget, get yourself to Ismails’ Discount Halal Meats at McWhirters, in the Valley. Or any of the similar butchers at Moorooka, Browns Plains etc.
No, don’t thank me.
He was the fiercely militant Secretary of the Meat Workers Union, and he did a fair amount of damage in Western Australia as well. Every regional town of any size had it’s own meatworks – most of them closed down and have never re – opened, with the consequent loss of local jobs.
And she’ll howl like a furious cougar when, after the year is up, she finds he shacked up with a younger wymminse and isn’t come back.
Real estate porn
I69 million? I wouldn’t pay 169k. The building is an eyesore shithole.
To buy shit like that you have to be completely confident in the social resources. All your amenities flow up the building, your egress is dependent on energy and if all that stops due to demorat green policies you’re stuck a mile above the ground starving and freezing with a great view.
Yes, you can put them on a shish and use the BBQ for that.
Looks like you’ve missed the boat.
The water turbine might be out of warranty.
It’s not unknown for the crews of those ships to accept an honorarium from the animal liberationalists for turning off the ventilation fans, and passing on the resulting footage of thirsty and distressed sheep. It’s also not unknown for there to be fake footage of young lambs, when any sheep farmer knows that you don’t supply ewes for the live trade, let alone ewes in lamb, or with lambs at foot.
Wow…
Words fail.
Exclusive: France and Germany evaded arms embargo to sell weapons to Russia
Paris and Berlin sent Moscow £230m of military hardware, including bombs, rockets and missiles, that is likely being used in Ukraine
France and Germany armed Russia with €273 million (£230 million) of military hardware now likely being used in Ukraine, an EU analysis shared with The Telegraph has revealed.
They sent equipment, which included bombs, rockets, missiles and guns, to Moscow despite an EU-wide embargo on arms shipments to Russia, introduced in the wake of its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The European Commission was this month forced to close a loophole in its blockade after it was found that at least 10 member states exported almost €350 million (£294 million) in hardware to Vladimir Putin’s regime. Some 78 per cent of that total was supplied by German and French firms.
But why, why why? What could explain such double dealing??
Both Paris and Berlin have resisted an EU ban on buying gas from Russia, with the bloc currently paying Moscow €1 billion (£840 million) per day for energy supplies.
…
Criticism increased when it emerged that German firms had used a loophole in an EU embargo on arms exports to Russia, making sales worth €121 million (£107 million) of “dual-use” equipment, including rifles and special protection vehicles, to Moscow.
Berlin defended its use of an ambiguity within the EU’s 2014 arms blockade, insisting that the goods were sold only after the Kremlin guaranteed they were for civilian use, rather than military application.
“If there were indications of any kind of military use, the export licenses were not granted,” a spokesman for the country’s economy ministry added.
France was also found to have been responsible for sending shipments worth €152 million (£128 million) to Russia, as part of 76 export licences. Paris allowed exporters to fulfil contracts agreed before 2014, using a backdoor technicality in the EU embargo.
Alongside bombs, rockets and torpedoes, French firms sent thermal imaging cameras for more than 1,000 Russian tanks as well as navigation systems for fighter jets and attack helicopters.
Boom.
Transported back in time.
We’d fight for the meat jelly under the dripping. And chitterlings. Delicious.
And lights, and sweetbreads, and stuffed ox heart, and black pudding, and haggis.
I still make the occasional trip to Willes caff at Bulimba for liver and bacon with brown gravy.
That’s a good thing.
Refer to divorce data for various “body counts” for more.
Love me Brussel Sprouts, but I have noticed over the last couple of years that they have become more bitter and not as buttery as they used to be.
If you’re fanging for mutton or hogget, get yourself to Ismails’ Discount Halal Meats at McWhirters, in the Valley. Or any of the similar butchers at Moorooka, Browns Plains etc.
No, don’t thank me.
Okay.
They sell Goat and Lamb.
No mutton.
Ditto.
Dad used to put trays under ham and bacon going into smokehouse and catch the dripping in them, made the floor easier to clean, and he would transfer the dripping into those round waxed containers that had the fold down lids and sell all he could get to the local deli.
Nothing better on heavy German black bread with a tiny bit of salt. Hmmmm.
and choirs of lambs singing Cold Chisel songs
We had a childhood bully who delighted in teaching us the words to cold Chisel songs.
Such tunes as
Sheep flying and a 3 legged goat.
And mercilessly beating us if we dared to sing “Cheap wine and a 3 day growth”.
The advantages of being the 13 year old with a beard vs 4 10 year olds in an isolated town…
I like the Elon musk in this timeline…
Ask.
I think you’ll find that was an indigenous invention.
But seriously…mum kept an enamelled dripping pot in the fridge up until something called Supafry came long in the late 1970s. If ever I complained about food I’d be told to count myself lucky because in ye olden days kids had to eat bread and dripping wor want of devon sandwiches.
The Parrot-ette has certainly proved to be a true photios wet. Also where was the devout Catholic when the Gladishocklian abortion abomination was implemented?
Wet markets are the go.
Spent a bit of time in villages in Indonesia and Timor. No electrical power in many of them. Sometimes a jennie but maintaining it seemed beyond most.
They slaughtered around midnight on a Thursday – coolest part of the day. Friday morning people came and bought the products. Big meat dishes Friday and Saturday.
A white one, with black trim.
Luncheon sausage and tomato sauce sammiches wrapped in waxed paper.
You too!?
Sorry Roger, just clicked on “Report comment” for you without meaning to.
Yep, when I was growing up the jam tin full of dripping was very common in working class homes in suburban Sydney.
We rarely ate fatty meat at home so we didn’t have one. But, the dripping from frying speck was carefully collected and eaten the next day on bread, with a sprinkle of salt. Delicious!
Latho this morning
Chris Bowen has just confirmed that coal mines are included in Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism climate change policy, levying a new $35 million pa impost on 18 of them in the Hunter Valley – a massive job destroyer.
The only way to save jobs in Hunter is to vote One Nation.
Canceling women (or when men make better women than women)
One of the progressive-liberal mantras is “down with the patriarchy,” but the reality is that the new “woke” ideology wants to shape a world with no women
Tell then Habib from Fat Pizza sent you.
One of the progressive-liberal mantras is “down with the patriarchy,” but the reality is that the new “woke” ideology wants to shape a world with no women
I think this is the left’s latest attempt to destroy and disrupt society- cultural marxism. I suspect it’s also a means to ensure young people they succeed in targeting will never have children. Their evil is beyond comprehension.
Occasionally tasted a little dodgy on really hot days.
I remember c. 1968 some kids at school began bringing their sandwiches along wrapped in rainbow coloured waxxed paper.
Three years later Klaus Schwab founded the WEF.
Coincidence? I think not.
I never really understood that idea. Close to the sun and earthbound lasers the push from photons seems superficially plausible but once outside the solar system the inverse square law kicks in bigly. Also the photons from everywhere else coming in every other direction would seem to suggest you would wind up coming to a halt eventually. Rather than being earthbound you would be consigned to deep space with no hope of propulsion.
Then again, I’m not a physicist so maybe it makes sense somehow.
OMG. OMFG. FGOM.
All the pieces. They’re fitting together.
You’d go to the bubblers for a drink and inevitably find a discarded soggy sandwich in the trough.
Can you buy decent smoked cod those days?
We’ve always been disappointed lately.
I love cod, white sauce, mash and peas.
Top Endersays:
April 24, 2022 at 10:57 am
TE rinse and repeat across Thailand, Cambodia and a few other lesser developed Asian nations. So long as the meat is prepped for cooking on the day of slaughter and cooked properly there usually isn’t a problem. I have eaten plenty of dishes where meat has been sourced in a wet market with little problem.
Incidentally my worst case of food poisoning came from a Woolworths rotisserie chicken in Melbourne. The next day is something I never wish to repeat, 12 hours of flying and 2 set of customs all taking extra attention to you because you are white in pallor. Was around the time of MERS.
Close to the sun and earthbound lasers the push from photons seems superficially plausible but once outside the solar system the inverse square law kicks in bigly.
Why you have focused lasers. besides they may be useful when the Kzin come calling. (see “Madness Has Its place” Larry Niven)
Stan Grant tells it:
Katherine Deves’s trans women comments ignited another round of culture wars – and added another nail in the coffin of democracy
Being part of the ‘helpful exception’, Stan then goes on to explain Shut Up, because:
A wobbly line drawn through the Collapse of Amurkan Democracy, John Stuart Mill, Trans rights to play women’s sport, Israel Folau, Martin Luther King, the China Threat – leading inexorably to the Uluru Declaration.
A tour de force.
Were they listening to Jessica Mauboy?
Banderites in NYC. The information about UCCA is very interesting, including its links to national security state.
You’re such a cosmologist, Hallward.
sTan is such a lightweight. A tinted Annabel Crabb.
Shorter Stan: we must all agree with the liberal agenda or you are a ‘threat to democracy’.
Abbey Road. Played backwards.
Excellent reading on The Cat today. Tripping down memory lane, too.
Thanks, all.
Can anyone explain why under compulsory preferential voting it is the preferences of the least successful primary candidate that are distributed first? Surely these votes are,by definition, the least reflective of the electorate as a whole?
That skanky little untalented tweaker is obviously part of the problem. Part of the reset. Only the sick and deluded would believe otherwise.
Also part of the problem:
The hotel industry
Pallets
Driver assist technology
Bubble wrap
Sheep
Awards nights
Boom gates
Coffee shops
Pies in this day and age
Thanks, rosie.
Actually, I wasn’t terribly sick at any stage. But I’m still not game to crow about beating the dreaded covid in case I suddenly peg it and then all the alarmists could laugh and say I told you so!
That would be sooo mortifying. 🙂
H B Bearsays:
April 24, 2022 at 11:27 am
sTan is such a lightweight. A tinted Annabel Crabb.
You spelled Annabel Crapp’s name incorrectly.
dover0beachsays:
April 24, 2022 at 11:27 am
Shorter Stan: we must all agree with the liberal agenda or you are a ‘threat to democracy’.
Much the same as the shorter Ed Case?
“The culture wars have also stopped us reaching a settlement on the greatest issue of Australian virtue: a just reconciliation with First Nations people.”
Oz just hasn’t been the same since sTan started drinking his elixer as well as rubbing it on .. LOL!
Beauty contest – US – circa 1919, a new one for Calli. Phwoar!
H B Bear says: April 24, 2022 at 11:37 am
Er… whose preferences should be distributed first?
i.e. whose First preference should be discarded & we move onto that voter’s Second choice?
H B Bearsays:
April 24, 2022 at 11:37 am
Can anyone explain why under compulsory preferential voting it is the preferences of the least successful primary candidate that are distributed first? Surely these votes are,by definition, the least reflective of the electorate as a whole?
Good point. Perhaps change it to the votes of any candidate who receives under 5% of the total in an electorate are discarded as not worthy of distribution?
Sorry, Stan, all reconciliation means to me is an endless exercise in “white guilt” and shifting goalposts.
The Parrot-ette has certainly proved to be a true photios wet. Also where was the devout Catholic when the Gladishocklian abortion abomination was implemented?
A born follower & ideal patsy when Photios needed someone palatable to replace GLADYS ..
progressive agenda
Western Australian Cats, what have we done wrong?
Oh shit.
Jessica Mauboy is a two Beyonces denier!
(Actually, there is sort of a prima facie argument Beyonce is older than she says – but it is probably not hard to disprove).
H B Bearsays:
April 24, 2022 at 11:37 am
Can anyone explain why under compulsory preferential voting it is the preferences of the least successful primary candidate that are distributed first? Surely these votes are,by definition, the least reflective of the electorate as a whole?
Get rid of CPV all together. It’s the reason I dabble from time to time in informal voting. OPV is much better if they are going to make us vote.
Farmed Murray Cod these days is brilliant. We should be pumping out as much as possible and exporting, even Heston and Gordon are pro Murray Cod.
We’re saved: the liar/filth run Bayside council in victoristan is finally confronting the big issues:
Reusable menstrual products workshop: Eco-friendly periods
Optional preferencing.
Voluntary voting.
Everything else is bullshit and not government by consensus – as well as a protection racket for the major parties.
Dot
Dude, fresh water fish taste like mud. You basically eating mud.
No. You pleb.
Even Tuna can taste grassy or earthy (depends on their forage fish diet), I have had bonito taste better than yellowfin.
Don’t eat enough of either to make a valid comparison – but:
Barra caught in the Finniss, Mary, Elizabeth, Vic et al rivers are a duller browny colour, although they still fight like fury.
Harbour barra are a sparkly silver colour. Like salmon, which you can catch off the beach anywhere up here.
From the best, most reliable and truthful news source in Australia.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/heston-blumenthal-buys-into-murray-cod/vqebcyhc4
Heston might be bit of an oddball but he knows what is good and what isn’t.
Interesting…
Once settled in their seats and cleared for takeoff, passengers were treated to the full force of the four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines as the aircraft made its way down the runway, reaching a takeoff speed of 250mph. “[Concorde] always used full power with reheat for takeoff,” explained former British Airways Concorde captain John Tye in an interview with CNN.
“Each takeoff was a phenomenal experience, the performance was such that we had to warn the passengers in advance of what to expect. The roar of the Rolls-Royce Olympus engines, combined with being pushed back into your seat, was like no other civilian aeroplane,” he added. Once in the air, Concorde would reach its top speed of twice the speed of sound – Mach 2 (1,350 mph) – usually somewhere over the Atlantic, to prevent its controversial sonic boom from disrupting life on earth 11 miles below. At full speed, the supersonic craft would fly five miles higher and 800 mph faster than the standard, subsonic Boeing 747s that steadily made their way across the Atlantic.
Link