Beautiful. A very bright piece of Starlight in these troubling times.
Open Thread – Weekend 23 April 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
“Honeycomb” Jimmie Rodgers No 1 in 1957
Dingo lives matter. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-04/wild-dogs-killing-sheep-govt-unprotection-order-lifted-vic/103789146
Hecs story at the abc. 3 billion to be wiped off. “For almost 35 years indexation has been calculated based…
Steve trickler May 5, 2024 7:15 am Best laugh I’ve had in ages. Comedy gold right here.—–Cleetus:We Opened a Tow…
Those would be grain-fed wagyu tuna from the western Hunter.
I always thought those were the words.
Now the song makes sense.
KD
Barra was always a big marketing/ sales pitch. It’s an awful eating fish. Everything about it is awful – from taste to texture. It ought to be used as pet food.
Ender
I’ve been in a Concorde. It’s unforgettable. The takeoff sounded effortless with the engines sounding like they’re at 10% effort.
The secondary acceleration is once you hit the European shoreline and or the US. That was a great feeling. At cruising altitude you can see the curvature of the earth and the window facing the sun is hot.
Well, it doesn’t deserve the hype everyone gives it. Up here* the barra’s used for tourists.
Salmon’s better. Spanish macks and cobia are better. Red emperor’s better.
The king of them all, however, and the greatest eating fish in this or any other country is the black jewfish. It is glorious, in all aspects.
*Resisted all temptation to say The Last Holdout.
Everything felt different in the Concorde. Even the turbulence was difference. It was a quick shake almost like a tremor instead of the slower bopping up and down experience in a regular plane.
I always wondered if these critical takes depended upon ignoring the overall situation/ objectives.
Excellent thread from the beginning.
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?
That would kill Labor in many Inner City Seats
since <5% Parties such as Sustainable Australia, Very Fast Trains,
Australian Peoples Party, Animal Rights Party
preference Labor above Liberal 100% of the time.
What a bunch of losers.
“My reaction? Good riddance!” said Allan Greene, president of Sane Aviation For Everyone (SAFE), a coalition of concerned groups and individuals in the New York metropolitan area. “The Concorde was like a daily insult to anybody living near the airport.
https://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_832052.htm
A born follower & ideal patsy when Photios needed someone palatable to replace GLADYS ..
Exactly shaterzzz. Latho took it up to him last week on parental rights and he wouldn’t support it! I’ve been wary that his so called religious man schtick has been overhyped.
Libs are supposed to have a 1 seat majority to govern outright so how does an extremist in inner Sydney who should be treated like a nobody wag the dog? Abortion, euthanasia all been pushed by Clover’s protégé.
Great. Now I have to ask for gluten free sushi.
LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe#Influence_in_pseudo-archaeology
I added:
This is unacceptable and wrongly slurs Graham Hancock. The correct, catastrophist ice sheet theory was proposed as far back as the early 1920s.
J Harlen Bretz was awarded the Penrose Medal 56 years after he first published his ideas (1979).
Why continue to spread misinformation and “alternative facts”?
Who is “Pringle”, and why do we care?
The list of esteemed scientists agreeing with Graham Hancock regarding the Younger Dryas theory is distinguished.
Richard Firestone Jim Kennett Wendy Wollbach Albert Goodyear Allen West Malcolm Le Compte James Teller Ted Bunch
That makes me as qualified as Putin, or some of the Russian “generals”.
That expression on the leader’s face reminds me of Fred Kite.
Fish is pretty subjective (except for mullet. Everyone agrees they’re rubbish). Baldachin groper might be the best you can get off Perth. I got a great fillet of something at a pub in Port Lincoln on my way back to Perf.
in case I suddenly peg it and then all the alarmists could laugh and say I told you so!
We’d never let you live it down….
….
“The Concorde was like a daily insult to anybody living near the airport.
Im getting a clue…
A clue a cat couldnt scratch.
An enormous blue veined custard chucking clue which looks like a babys arm holding an apple.
Perhaps because people are underwhelmed by the Russian military might and find that shifting objectives around every few days suggests they’re incompetent thugs.
so many fallacies wrapped up in this one liner, it take an essay to disentangle it
Them who’re agin live export would help more were they to outline alternatives;
At every step of the process, outline what cancelling livex will mean for; te producer and the consumer.
(This means what will actually happen, rather than an ideal.)
It’d be helpful if the anti-livex could list the provenance of any ‘footage of the conditions’ – The only cruelty I’ve seen was deliberate, paid for by Australian charities in the “cash for cruelty” scandal (that got memory-holed instead of publicised)
‘If we lose those satellites, there’s no putting Humpty Dumpty back together’: Brandon Weichert
China in Focus – NTD
From memory, didn’t a Senate inquiry find that the footage shot in an Indonesian abattoir, that caused the Gilliard traveling circus to ban the live trade with that country, was paid for?
except for mullet. Everyone agrees they’re rubbish
I like mullet… (ocean not river)
Best is little chinaman cod made into a spag bog dish. Old skippers signature dish, just perfect.
God, talk about living in heads.
Anyway..
Dot.
Who should pay down Australia’s debt, us or the Chinese?
There you go.
We can pay it off over a couple of electoral cycles with substantial tax cuts by merely cutting government spending; we are so wasteful that outcomes need not change.
If China has a revolution, what do we do then? What if they start a trade war with us?
Your average Chinese citizen has neither the moral duty or capacity to pay our debts we have chosen by repeatedly electing socialist governments (regardless of their brand name).
😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Elliott_(politician)#Early_years_and_background
People are talking about sheep and mullet.
‘Living in heads’?
‘straya.
@ Mole
Mole, the Rail Heritage WA siteand Facebook site is your friend! 😀
https://m.facebook.com/SouthWestRailandHeritageCentre/
Boyanup is normally opened to the public on the 4th Sunday of each month. Steamings of G233 are a little bit rarer- the next one I think is planned for late August and then at the end of October as well. They alternate between Boyanup and Bassendean, where the big S549 Greenmount will be steamed on the June Long Weekend and again at Railfest in September/October.
Bennett Brook in Whiteman Park will be running steam more or less every weekend from mid-or late May, rain and Park Management permitting. And I will be using the odd mid-week RDO where possible during the July and Spetember school holiday breaks to run steam at the Park as well. So long as I can get a fireman rostered for the same day…
Hotham Valley is not kicking off until June 8th or so.
Another 580 million down the tubes in Victoria. What will they do with the quarantine hub white elephant?
Budget motel?
And Andrews is demanding more money from the federal government when, quite frankly, he built this facility out of spite.
How Mickleham’s quarantine hub went from essential to mothballed in less than a year
Our new PM?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-09/sheep-with-mullet-gippsland-fuzzy-haircut/12743516
Great hairstyles.
Returning to current events though – Jessica Mauboy’s itinerary for today:
0930-0945
Throw up.
0945 – 1600
Wig out on a combo of Xanaz, No-Doz and ice.
1600 – 1605
Nap.
1605 – 2000
Cabaret performance at the Woolongong RSL.
2000 – 0930
As per 0945 – 1600.
And here is the Boyanup website, too. Cos I forgot.
http://www.railheritagewa.org.au/museum/pages/swrhc/index.php
(Be nice- It’s just got 11am in WA, and I was up 0430 and brasso-ing, waving oilcans round and wrangling tyro firemen from 0530 onwards. I only managed to get off the footplate at 1030 or so…)
However will she find time to run Struth’s DeAtH CaMp?
He might have to settle for Grace Tame as his Commandant and Executrix…
#CruelAndUnusualPunishment
As I said.
Living in heads.
I didn’t even have to say which ones.
The rest of you all knew, didn’t you, you jolly little tinkers!
Well, if you didn’t, you do now.
So just to clear that up, Dot thinks we should leave the Chinese alone and pay off our own debt, caused by Chinese interference in Australia either directly or through the UN WEF anyway.
Dr. Peter McCullough: Pilot’s heart attack after COVID shot fits ‘pattern’
They have already started a trade war with us, 6 billion in trade war.
It’s just that it pales into insignificance with what they MUST buy from us.
In other words, we have the upper hand.
Quantity and quality of Iron ore used in their manufacturing industry to bring the world to kneel before communism.
There isn’t another supplier that can take up the slack at anywhere near the price.
No wukkas, Cletus:
It’s cruel to our Sheep.
Indonesia [or any other Country] wants our SheepMeat, we’ll slaughter it according to our protocols.
In Australia.
Using Australian labour.
Scientific proof that Maximum Leader is three times as useless as the Blessed Palacechook.
Wellcamp quarantine facility cost $200m for just 65 days of use
Luckily, being a Queensland politician means never having to say sorry:
Wellcamp quarantine hub: Acting Premier Steven Miles has ‘no regrets over now-unneeded facility
As dot says above; not only do we spend too much, we spend too much hopelessly badly.
Thanks for the links rex, saved..
Looks like im carefully and cunningly timing the visit to miss every opportunity… next time I suppose…
What’s worse is the certainty that Matthew Guy will squander another opportunity to belt Labor around the head.
Oh and someone told me waiting list for MRI at local public hospital is 700, or maybe 7000.
Still, that quarantine hub accommodation looks really cosy.
Costing four to six times the cost of slaughter overseas, whereupon, the Indons will buy live sheep from anyone of the several nations prepared to supply those sheep.
If ‘we’ sell ‘our’ sheep, they are no longer our sheep. I suggest you buy up all the sheep, so then they can be your sheep to sell to whoever you like.
This was dealt with earlier this morning by people who know about this sort of thing.
Nice try, Ms Gillard.
Who was taking drugs & wrote this piece of dickheadsmanship?
I was thinking re the preference comments upthread that all ballot papers should have one animal, bird, fish or insect on them. I’m sure Animals Australia like that. Would work especially well with FPP.
Then we’d see just how popular human pollies are.
Several cats and dogs have been elected to various offices, particularly in the US where they are somewhat less respectful of pollies that we are.
Faustus’s link, from Quenthland’s very own Courier-Mail:
Unneeded? What?
WHAT?
See, its gerbil worming, not high power prices peasant.
Get back in your lane.
‘Hard to escape’: Unbearable heat forces Sydney families out of their homes
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fnsw%2Fhard-to-escape-unbearable-heat-forces-sydney-families-out-of-their-homes-20220421-p5af61.html
As energy prices rise due to the war in Ukraine, a survey of how people cope with hot weather by the community-based Sweltering Cities found a majority (61.8 per cent) said concerns about cost stop them turning on their airconditioner.
Be sure to see the couple they use to illustrate the story with…
Anthony Matthews with partner Natalie and two-year-old daughter Kayla at their Glendenning home in western Sydney.
I suppose Wellcamp will become, oh I don’t know, a mining camp of some kind.
Left-field, right?
Gideon Rozner.
Yes Gideon.
I know these scoffing fuckwits who’ve been wrong about everything who continue to make dicks of themselves.
We’ll not have long to wait.
Returning to the Army in 2000, Elliott served in peace-keeping forces in Bouganville, Papua New Guinea and was awarded the Australian Service Medal, as well as the Victoria Cross for Uganda.
Victoria Cross for Uganda, eh?
Are we talkin’ Jubilation T Cornpone here?
People are ‘underwhelmed’ because they are misled by tendentious reports. And the ‘shifting objectives’ claim is conjecture. Beyond the effort in the Donbass, and the ‘demilitarisation’ and ‘denazification’ objectives, people are just guessing. Lastly, that objectives are narrowed, broadened, augmented, or revised in war is perfectly normal; circumstances may present opportunities.
It’s cruel to our Sheep.
Indonesia [or any other Country] wants our SheepMeat, we’ll slaughter it according to our protocols.
In Australia.
Using Australian labour.
I’m of the opinion that being slaughtered by Australian’s on Union forced high wages makes the meat too expensive for poorer countries.
Would that be right Zulu Kilo Two Alpha and other sheep breeders?
Rex – I had a look at the wiki for your lovely lady friend this morning, the page could do with a photo of her in her fully coiffured glory! It has a before pic but not one from after restoration.
I remember uoting notafan and saying “always remember this” when she blurted out, they’ll never bring in a vaccine passport, and scoffed her way into the history book of wrongology once more.
Remember this.
More:
An absolutely appalling waste. Of gas infrastructure. Apparently. And:
Does this piece mean to infer that a) the Quenthland Government, enthusiastically voted in by Quenthlanders, wanted stuff for free – and b) when they had to fund it themselves still managed to cock it up spectacularly?
That’s not in the WEF manifesto. Surely it couldn’t be yet another monumental cornucopia of incompetence and stupidity on the part of unaccountable governments? Has anyone even considered this? Anyone?
Because it was obviously part of a UN plan to decimate our population of white Anglo-Saxon Christians. Look at the multitude of other camps being built RIGHT NOW across the country! For the same purpose you fools!
What? Oh. Oh, right. All right then.
You got it.
Far too cynical.
Supply-chain opportunities.
The new Jobson Grothe.
The new Monty. Aaaaaaany day now.
Costing four to six times the cost of slaughter overseas, whereupon, the Indons will buy live sheep from anyone of the several nations prepared to supply those sheep.
You can’t get cheaper than an Egyptian breaking a sheep’s legs to get it in the car boot, driving it back to his hovel, clubbing it’s brains out and dressing it on the Hills Hoist.
Our Sheep, our Rules, and I couldn’t care less about the Indons.
I suppose Wellcamp will become, oh I don’t know, a mining camp of some kind.
I shouldnt joke because they will probably do it.
All they need to do is import the oil/ore/gold into the area that they need to mine now.
Or – or, hear me out here:
They could transport the camp buildings – on trucks – to the oil and the ore.
Don’t think the cost-recovery people haven’t thought of it.
Dotsays:
April 24, 2022 at 12:29 pm
You forgot to list world class polymath Graeme Bird who was on here a few days ago explaining that Homer was nordic and the Trojan War happened in Finland.
Basically yes – from memory the cost of slaughter in Australia was four to six times what it was overseas. Religious reasons and the lack of refrigeration overseas were also cited, but the high cost of slaughter and processing made the chilled meat trade noncompetitive.
You can’t get cheaper than an Ed-Mong breaking a backpackers’s legs to get it in the car boot, driving it back to mummies hovel, clubbing it’s brains out and tanning its skin on the Hills Hoist.
Our backpackers, our Rules, and I couldn’t care less about the Germans.
Grigglebot has its mutton up this morning, and apparently is a little shaky on the whole transfer of ownership/ sales/purchase thing.
I’m of the opinion that being slaughtered by Australian’s on Union forced high wages makes the meat too expensive for poorer countries.
Union membership in Meatworks is now voluntary.
Thanks to John Howard, the Union is mandated as a Party to all EBA negotiations even when there’s no members on site and the days of big money ended 50 years ago.
What’s your view of Australia, Kev?
Giant charity for giving stuff away?
Bruce O’Newk:
Huh?
And they still hang people in South Africa, eh, Grogarly?
Basically yes – from memory the cost of slaughter in Australia was four to six times what it was overseas.
From memory all right.
You’re talking about 1975 again.
Here’s a fact for you:
Australian meatworkers are the most productive in the World.
You’re entitled to be paid for productivity.
Right?
Many destination countries do their own value-adding (i.e. fattening).
There is entire transport, saleyard, feedlot, farming, and eventually abattoir industries, involved after the live exported animals are unloaded.
Ethiopia was for donkey’s years the country that kept winning live sheep export deals that Australia was bidding for (including all through the “famine” that was so agonised over by the western left).
Knuckle Dragger at 1:13 – that doesn’t leave much time for undermining the West’s economic system.
Winston – Streisand Effect.
There’s always next times… 😉
A nice tune.
Gentle, restrained and in good taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc
aka this word salad keeps repeating on me
The Sudan was the largest live sheep exporter in the world around 2018.
That’s usually slotted in between mowing the roof at 0330 and destabilising sub-Saharan Africa at 0415.
If ‘we’ sell ‘our’ sheep, they are no longer our sheep. I suggest you buy up all the sheep, so then they can be your sheep to sell to whoever you like.
Except it doesn’t work that way.
The Sheep are still Our Sheep until the buyers take delivery.
John Howard found that out the hard way when Pakistan refused entry to Our Sheep over some non existent disease and the fucking HellShip kept on sailing around trying to give them away.
While tossing a few hundred dead ‘uns over the side every day.
I remain interested to see how all of Ukraine will somehow be ‘de-Nasti’d’ and ‘demilitarised’ by taking only its Eastern and Crimean borders off it…
This is a new 3 minute trailer. The 2020 election is not going away anytime soon…
https://rumble.com/v1238uc-2000-mules-trailer.html
For those who believe we hold some sort of upper hand:
Australia’s skinny tail sheep are pretty much the least desirable choice of tucker for the destination countries.
Old and Busted:
Tyrannical death camps
New Hotness:
Indian defecation
So we’re competing for Live Export “deals” with 2 Countries where Slavery is still Legal and flourishing?
And we ended up undercutting them?
FMD.
Fokking zefs, man …
Piers Morgan was interviewed by Rowan Dean on Outsiders this morning.
piers said he stopped supporting Trump because:
1. mishandling of COVID
2. not accepting the election result*
3. his actions on Jan 6th
If Morgan is still saying (and he was) that he’s seen “no evidence” of electoral fraud, he’s not worthy of being a journalist.
If Morgan had a better idea of how to manage COVID back when it was in its first year, he should point us to “evidence” that he had a better plan back then.
If Morgan has “evidence” that Trump egged on the crowd to break into the Capitol, he should present it.
I haven’t watched the full interview yet, but in the bit I heard he didn’t have any condemnatory statements about the present administration’s handling of COVID. Or any other aspects of administration, such as appointing incompetent leftists to almost every department, and appointing a very leftist judge to the Supreme Court for no good reason.
Gideon Rozner…on twitter……..makes the cino sneerers on this so called right wing blog look like idiot leftists.
To the cowardly silenced irrelevences.
Be honest.
If, before you lost your ability to think clearly….around 2020…..you were asked what you think a South American tyrannical government that took over by force of arms, a coup… told the people it was only temporary….14 days…..and immediately declared they were building quarantine camps that wouldn’t be ready for two years……because of a virus they knew nothing about, what would have you concluded?
Well now, it’s happening to you.
And you refuse to believe it.
You scoff, or are too timid to speak the truth to the dumb bastards scoffing.
Either way, to claim to be the same person you were, drawing the same conclusions you would have in 2019 is a laugh.
clubbing it’s brains out and dressing it on the Hills Hoist.
Ed Halali
No virgins for you, defiler of the meats.
For those who believe we hold some sort of upper hand:
I didn’t say we hold the upper hand.
Exporters are always beggars, it goes with the territory.
Australia’s skinny tail sheep are pretty much the least desirable choice of tucker for the destination countries.
They don’t want them [except for nothing] and we don’t want to give them away for nothing either.
I can see prospects for an Accommodation of interests here.
The pommy prick Morgan is just a shrill for the western establishment- part of the imperial meja. Fuck! People pay good money to be lectured by the fuckwit?
Fuck off, Struth.
People out there are having a nice and even lovely Sunday.
You clearly are not.
Stop trying to make everyone like you.
What happened to your knowledge of history?
Groogs and Mother know home slaughter.
St. Ruth, translated: I was wrong.
Nobody is the same person they were two years ago. Nobody. But it does not follow that all must dive guts-first into the ninth-level internet conspiracy theory morass* that links every adverse event to any person on the globe to thousand-year old conspiracies finally bearing fruit, and to tell anyone who disagrees that they are blind shallow cock smokers who can get fucked.
Also, plenty of people did not conclude what you concluded.
*Using ‘experts’ as cover, when they’re actually using confirmation bias as cover.
Speaking of lovely Sundays, it is time for outdoor pursuits.
Not a tunnel, nor a Klaus to be seen.
The IPA just took a dump in the car park.
Amazing what little gems one comes across while surfing the net on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Something for youse to peruse and add to your cultural ragbag 🙂
https://urinal.net/
I never said never.
I just said it wasn’t a certainty and if they did it would be short lived.
The UK was getting rid of them as Australia was introducing them.
No surprises there.
Lizzie:
Buy your meat in bulk.
I just bought half a beef, half a pig, and half a lamb at an average price of $16.40 a kilo. The meat came as snags, joints, roasts, steaks etc. I priced a kilo of silverside at the local Colesworth at $27.00
There is gouging going on, but I suspect there is a huge regulatory component as well.
Buy in bulk and make sure you have a genset or fusion coverage in your insurance.
Your local butcher needs support.
I’m not delusional. I can only have a good time in a free country.
If the jabbed want to stick their head in the sand and try to kid themselves everything is A-OK,……. fuck you.
Submissive arseholes that want to pretend nothing is wrong, are suffering a sickness.
Brought about by lack of character.
While in the land of the heavily deluded, Choo Choo’s WA, the S West of WA as a tourist destination has seen thousands and thousands of West Aussie lunatics wonder what to do now they’ve been to every Lavender farm and climbed the Karri tree and sat in a steam train.
They used to go overseas.
When your delusion is confronted and shattered as it will be, you’ll go down even harder.
So we’re competing for Live Export “deals” with 2 Countries where Slavery is still Legal and flourishing?
And we ended up undercutting them?
FMD.
FMD – Uighur style.
FMD.
Dot.
Project Orion.
Build it outside Canberra.
Win+win+win!
You’re an uneducated fuckwit.
What year did Hitler takeover and what year did he start building camps?
What year did he start killing people in those camps?
How many years later?
Now, just because Sco Mo and the globalists didn’t immediately start putting millions in ovens, doesn’t mean there is nothing to be concerned about.
These are the people committing genocide by jab, who imprisoned us, who destroyed our careers and businesses, etc etc etc……..that KD trusts implicitly
Only a moron, or a traitor would respond as he has.
custardsays:
April 24, 2022 at 2:17 pm
This is a new 3 minute trailer.
It would be fun to sit down a bunch of died in the wool lefties and get them to watch it.
Film the before and after reactions.
Its pretty well a fact the election has mass fraud thanks to the intersection of Zuckerbucks and remote voting.
Not really. We’re heading into the 7th week of the war and all Russia has done was secure those parts it already had influence over. It took off and ran when attempting to invade the capital.
There’s no conjecture as it’s plane fact. The second or third supposedly most lethal military in the world is unable to secure a farming country in 7 weeks. Pathetic.
What’s there to guess. They took off from surrounding Kiev. There’s nothing to guess about the retreat as they were being handed their arses.
Yep sure. Perfectly normal to swap and change objectives every week. Aren’t you confusing objectives with strategy?
Russia is likely to still win this, but boy , what an embarrassment. No fucking wonder they’re always threatening nuclear weapons against their neighbors as they’re just useless otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF1lwZ24RYI
tell me more about the US in VietNam, especially the media assesement after 1968 Tet
Lizzie:
Start munching, girlie. I’m 15 kilo ahead of you.
I reckon that’s nearly a month of tucker I’ve stacked away.
Scotty Kilmer on the Saturn, GM and electric cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePYtORWZ8c
Will
The US won every single major conflagration in Vietnam.
Not the Russians. And ffs make a valid fucking comparison. Vietnam was half a world away. Last time I looked, Uke is next door.
As a high functioning mammal, which do you think would be easier to conduct?
3-month old baby in Odessa blown to smithereens by Putin’s anti-nazi cruise missiles.
Project Orion.
Build it outside Canberra.
Win+win+win!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
The grounded launched version. For those who don’t know, Project Orion was a scheme to use small nuclear charges to propel a spaceship. Completely cool. High Isp and high thrust. Freeman Dyson worked on it.
Rightly so, Fisk. The 3 month old kid was a high level nazi.
That kid could have been a Ukro-Nazi abortion doctor, so countless lives have been saved.
Imagine the lives saved if Russia tried to regain all of her lost territory.
Eyrie
You’re such a rocket scientist.
Snap, Dot.
Eyrie
When were you last up in the space station?
There’s nothing to guess about the retreat as they were being handed their arses.
Im inclined to put their retreat down to logistics (including getting supplied blown up).
If they had been well supplied I dont think they would have needed to pull back.
Russia is likely to still win this, but boy , what an embarrassment.
Shades of the original winter war.
Awful at every level, supply, equipment, tactics etc.
But out of that debacle came the realization they were screwed if they tried on a fight with germany, or germany tried it on with them.
Without the winter war (and Spain) Germany would have been facing an absolute shambles including much of the armor/artillery and aviation introduced in ’41 not even being designed yet.
Hopefully Vlads lads wont feel the same urgency to retool as Stalins chaps did.
Worst scenario is Russia goes away for 3 years and returns with shit that works, and works well.
Actually, as Bruce Pascoe explains in his upcoming book, Homer was actually a First Nations man of the Nullanullawurridgee tribe, who wrote about sacred Aboriginal traditions such as blindin’ a fella with a hot stick coz he drunk me goonbag.
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
April 24, 2022 at 1:37 pm
Who was taking drugs & wrote this piece of dickheadsmanship?
Indonesia [or any other Country] wants our SheepMeat, we’ll slaughter it according to our protocols.
In Australia.
Using Australian labour.
Who else but Dick Ed, master of dicklessheadsmanship.
Mole
I read the recently that the Russians are threatening neighboring countries every other day and the Kremlin scum are threatening the West with nukes every day they aren’t threatening neighbors. Fuck them. Next time the 5′.7″ little cunt does that, someone ought to lob a fucking nuke right on Red Square. The radiation may cure his cancer or Parkinson’s.
custardsays:
April 24, 2022 at 2:17 pm
This is a new 3 minute trailer. The 2020 election is not going away anytime soon…
https://rumble.com/v1238uc-2000-mules-trailer.html
It’s gone because no one is going to do anything about it. The conservatives are now out of power like the left were up until the 2000s; now the left control the legal structure and the media and without them Jesus H. Christ himself could come down and pronounce the election was fraudulent and sweet FA would happen.
Wow, JC! That is an incredibly special experience that only a very few will ever have. My husband is very envious. Me? I’m not a great aircraft passenger….but I understand the magic of the Concorde.
Dr Faustussays:
April 24, 2022 at 1:29 pm
Doc, rumour abounds around the north that Chrisifulli is very interested in the particulars of said agreement with Government & the Wagners. Apparently he sniffs a rat. Wagners however are very powerful and ruthless, be interesting whether the LNP actually want to take them on or limit it to the ALP.
As a side note, apparently Townsville & Rocky Councils are in the firing line too with shady deals. Adani airport comes to mind as one, one guess as to who was to build that?
The screeching intensifies as The Cause falls to bits around him:
This true. I don’t have that fancy book-larnin’ oooniversity stuff. But I do know a little history.
Take over what? The Nazi Party, or the Reichstag majority or the Chancellorship? (Hint: It was after that when he banned opposition parties. Another factor for you to think about.)
1936. The amount of years is dependent on what you mean.
Your constant references to anyone and anything that deviates from what you’ve built up as Hitleresque and Nazis and Nazism is historically illiterate and off the mark. It’s your only remaining talking point though, so fill your boots.
Your ranting manifestoes have gone from ‘six weeks’ to ‘three months’ to ‘two years’ to ‘at some undefined future point’. Exhibit A: 12 to 42 months before you spelled out some very specific events, which you recently pushed back another entire year.
All that yelling does not take away from the absolute fact that you were wrong, and you are wrong.
Ed Casesays:
April 24, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Costing four to six times the cost of slaughter overseas, whereupon, the Indons will buy live sheep from anyone of the several nations prepared to supply those sheep.
You can’t get cheaper than an Egyptian breaking a sheep’s legs to get it in the car boot, driving it back to his hovel, clubbing it’s brains out and dressing it on the Hills Hoist.
Our Sheep, our Rules, and I couldn’t care less about the Indons.
Don’t just sit there typing random words.
Buy your sheep station, stock it (at least 500,000 head), set up your Australian abattoir, operated by Australian union workers, set up your refrigerated supply chain, and bring the money rolling in.
Within 12 months, you will be able to buy out this blog., and convert it to skiting about your brilliance.
It’s gone because no one is going to do anything about it.
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
Fucking hilarious.
Maybe every one of Our Lambykins could be issued with an End User Certificate at birth.
Ed Casesays:
April 24, 2022 at 3:17 pm
Scotty Kilmer on the Saturn, GM and electric cars.
Has Scott Ritter changed his name? Spook(y)!
I read the recently that the Russians are threatening neighboring countries every other day and the Kremlin scum are threatening the West with nukes every day they aren’t threatening neighbors.
Vlad doesnt seem to know the old saying “catch more flies with honey than vinegar”.
Poor buggers in Russia (and their neighbors). 100 years + of shit government.
I blame the Kadets faction myself.
They were too busy kicking the last props of legitimacy away from the Tsarist regime to notice they were leaving a huge vacuum they had no ability to fill. If they had instead co-opted as much of the old Tsarist structures as they could and been a little more gradual the 20th century might have missed out on the charnel house of WW1 & WW2.
Hilariously stupid
What do you think is going to happen Custard?
Knuckledragger – just got back from a market day in a local town – so late to reply.
I was raised on a farm – albeit croppers – and I now reside a fair part of my days on a small holding with cattle. So, I am not without experience with livestock and the realities of raising and selling livestock.
However, the live sheep trade is a specialised market. Obviously, most graziers do not sell their sheep and/or cattle to this market – especially in the southern and south eastern areas of Australia. It is therefore inappropriate to suggest that anyone – particularly a farmer – who objects to the live overseas transportation of livestock is without knowledge or understanding of the issue.
Lizzie:
You’d be surprised how many kitchens still have them. I have one, but more because one of the weekend jobs at the Home was emptying the grease trap.
Not a problem in winter but jeez didn’t it stink in summer!
Dave Chappelle in his Deep in the Heart of Texas: Get a Dog gig, and on transgender dickheadery:
Perfect.
Victoria Cross for Uganda????
Shades of Idi Amin, who once:
…declared himself King of Scotland, having already promoted himself to field marshal and awarded himself the VC.
See it this way Cohenite anyone who thinks they actually know what’s going to happen is full of shit and I have repeatedly said on these pages that the only thing I’m reasonably certain of is that America will find itself in a constitutional crisis.
But only just today the most powerful and influential political figure on the planet devoted about 2 thirds of his speech to the fraud of 2020. He’s obviously got a different view about what is going to happen to your own.
I’ve been in a Concorde. It’s unforgettable.
I hope someone else paid for the ticket, JC
Pay that one, Boambee John.
From my own experience, watch the falling price of cattle after the Indonesian fiasco, flow on into the sheep industry, watch the price of “shipping wethers” fall from $135 a head – very nice thank you, to just over $55 a head “Why does a man even bother?”, and listen to the Greenies telling you that that’s the price you pay for animal welfare.
Doesn’t the last bit invalidate the first bit?
Why would you care JC? You were adamant on these pages that nothing was going to happen. Have you changed your mind?
Greetings from Port Augusta.
Travelling north from Angaston, once through the Clare and onto to coastal strip…the entire landscape changed. The tail end of the Flinders Ranges to the right, a silver shimmer on the horizon to the left that spoke of the sea. The ranges come down almost to the road and the view north is long and beautiful, with the mountains curving off into the hazy distance.
Marred by a blight of wind turbines loitering menacingly in the foothills. I say loitering because only one in twenty was actually turning. These foul and useless shrines to climate catastrophism disgust me, particularly as I imagine the damage to wildlife they inflict.
Treated to some cultural enrichment outside Woolies. I did wonder about the compound-like fortifications around our accommodation. Question answered. 😀
There are a number of people on this blog suffering Canberra Syndrome.
They think that if we here in Australia issue a decree the rest of the world will just instantly obey.
They won’t.
China will not pay our trillion dollar debt for us. One major reason they’re taking over by stealth in places in Africa and elsewhere is precisely so they can refuse to buy our iron ore at all. They certainly aren’t going to pay us a 15% on gross revenue levy to fund our incompetence and profligacy.
Likewise other countries aren’t going to change from live Australian sheep to neatly butchered Australian lamb cutlets – they’ll change to non-Australian live sheep. The religious, logistical and economic issues have already been outlined above.
Stop deluding yourselves. We’re a medium size nation in a competitive world.
I’d forgotten about Chrisafulli – he’s in parliament, I think.
Yup. The Wagners outrank him.
Let’s see for how long the last King of Scotland retains his VC for. 🙂
If you really want to indulge yourself throwing a tantrum at China and don’t care about the damage you cause to the Australian economy, why not put a tariff on exports of coal? At least China owns a lot of Australian coal mines so they’d suffer along with the rest of the industry.
The bank did, Areff. During that late 80s early 90s recession, airlines were bursting with capacity I guess.
Every couple of months I had to go to either Paris or London for trader meetups and the bank paid for a business class ticket. Air France and BA had a deal going that if you redeemed your points, you could fly the Concorde on one leg of the trip. I think, usually , they gave you the off leg. The one you really didn’t want because of the time difference and that would have been the NY to Europe leg for me.
I avoided taking it (with a couple of exceptions) because I wanted to accumulate the miles so I could take the family on a relatively free vacation.
Vaguely, I recall that a ticket during the recession years wasn’t that much more than a first class ride. The deals stopped as soon as the recession ended.
Rabz:
Yes – that’s precisely what I was getting at with the question. The dumper eventually cops the cost of dumping, so why do it beyond the productivity/yield curve?
Isn’t this what is happening in China?
All those factories producing goods that are suddenly unsaleable because the supply chain they deliberately broke has left them with Bazillions of invested capital that are now worthless.
But only just today the most powerful and influential political figure on the planet devoted about 2 thirds of his speech to the fraud of 2020. He’s obviously got a different view about what is going to happen to your own.
Yeah, I’m a cynic. And I guest you mean Trump who was beat by maxine waters, pelosi, aoc and biden. Get back to me after the midterms; if they’re held and if won by the GOP and the GOP start doing the rectification beginning with impeaching biden and arresting major swampies. Good luck with that.
Like I said what do you think is going to happen; and I mean in practical terms, not moral high ground bullshit.
Farmer Gez:
Onya, FG.
Shades of Idi Amin, who once:
…declared himself King of Scotland, having already promoted himself to field marshal and awarded himself the VC.
That’s true.
I was thinking that someone has edited that in, in the Private Eye sense of Uganda being a small country in Darkest Africa
where Conservative politicians took an interest in “Ugandan Affairs”.
Why would I care that you invalidated your first assertion with the second assertion in the very same sentence? I don’t care, but I found it funny so I highlighted it.
Adamant about what wasn’t going to happen?
Funny…. that is exactly the argument used by the pro China lobby in ” The Land” last year when feature writers were basically advocating “kow-towing” to China in order for them to lift the embargoes of wine, lobsters etc.
Let’s see for how long the last King of Scotland retains his VC for. ?
Gone by tomorrow!
Just quietly, I reckon there mighta been quite a few Ugandan VCs won by our Diggers in the Solomon Islands.
This is all true.
Looking at it from a Chinese perspective, Australia supplies 60%+ of its iron ore imports – and far more than that at the margin.
That’s a big strategic dependency, which a half smart economy would try to diversify as a matter of prudence. (Germany: exemplar of a half smart economy which didn’t diversify its source of a strategic supply – despite 30 years of being warned of the consequences.)
As long as the maaaates get their cut , this is no biggie for Vic commie party aka Vic Labor. The more white elephants the better in fact.
Heston Russell, retired Special Forces major, has formed the Australian Values Party which is putting forward candidates for the Senate in each of the states.
https://australianvalues.org.au/
The dumper eventually cops the cost of dumping, so why do it beyond the productivity/yield curve?
First the disclaimer: not an expert…
But, if you can dump product for long enough to ruin your offshore competition and then raise your prices afterwards to extract profits in a much less competitive market wouldnt that work?
Or outside a few niche areas where costs/tech investment is too steep does the business just find a newer/cheaper producer starting up elsewhere?
(Im particularly thinking of shit furniture, for a long time a China staple, but migrated to Vietnam pretty quickly as wages in China rose)
There are a number of people on this blog suffering Canberra Syndrome.
They think that if we here in Australia issue a decree the rest of the world will just instantly obey.
Look out! Strawman incoming, repeat, Strawman incoming!
Likewise other countries aren’t going to change from live Australian sheep to neatly butchered Australian lamb cutlets – they’ll change to non-Australian live sheep.
You’re the only one to have made that assertion.
Here’s the reality:
Accepting cruel transport of Sheep to Countries with no concept of humane behaviour is a pretty low Standard on our part..
Makkasays:
April 24, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Another 580 million down the tubes in Victoria.
As long as the maaaates get their cut , this is no biggie for Vic commie party aka Vic Labor. The more white elephants the better in fact.
De-sal plants anyone?
If a certain trucking family is involved it may be worth taking a close look see at the flow of funds.
Coenhite
A constitutional crisis.
I’d say that would be pretty big.
And I have no intention of finding, copying and pasting what jC said last weekend but it was words to the effect that nothing was going to happen.
Heston Russell, retired Special Forces major
Spook.
It’s very difficult to say exactly what a “win” looks like now because Putin has barely 100,000 deployable troops left and he’s not going to control a country of 40 million with that kind of force. If his objective had always been to secure the Donbass and the Black Sea coast, it makes absolutely no sense to have committed to a major operation against Kyiv, which failed miserably and burned decades of Russian military prestige with it.
Putin STILL has not been able to neutralise Mariupol after 8 weeks, which is deep behind his front line! That’s perhaps an even greater failure than the inability to take out Kyiv. So he’ll probably lose another couple brigades just to take a single steelworks or whatever, while failing to make any inroads elsewhere. I’m guessing we’ve got months of popcorn supplies to get through before this war comes to anything remotely conclusive. (No, I’m not going to do what Putinist propagandists have been doing by putting on the fake “Oh pity the poor Ukrainian PEOPLE” crocodile tears routine – I’m loving this as much as Ukrainians will in hindsight when this Putinist clusterfuck finally runs out of gas – it’s a good thing Putin can’t hit the nuclear button anymore because he has severe Parkinson’s disease).
There are at least a dozen other would – be suppliers of live sheep.
multiplex appears to have won the contract to build Mickleham
they’ll change to non-Australian live sheep.
You’re the only one to have made that assertion.
That’s because it’s a known known.
They have been taking over Africa for near 20 years and still Africa isn’t paying them nearly the dividends they want or need to support their massive economy. I think people here who claim to know something about commodities haven’t a fkg clue about volume, supply or quality.
Simandu is a perfect case in point. It’s been the next big thing since 2008. They still don’t have rail to the coast and the port is in need of serious upgrade. Last I checked it was still 4-5 years from first production shipment (if nothing goes wrong- in Africa?) , dealing with a brand new regime that has just taken over in the latest coup . Africa has a way of fkg everyone over, and over again.
Wow Canavan has put up a feed of Bowen pretty well much admitting coal mines have to be net zero by 2050. Measuring emissions was a rabbit hole we went down from natural CH4, CO & CO2 and machinery after the Carbon Tax was introduced. The machinery was easy, the natural degasification of coal however was very problematic and not helped by the ambiguous wording of the regulations. We had a guy who was ex-Government who looked at it and said it was near impossible. Pretty well we could pretty well tell them any figure as the regulations didn’t quantify how to measure natural emissions just we had to do it.
Can’t believe these idiots are going back down this road. One thing you bet the house on is that 2050 will be affected by bracket creep and be something like 2035…
One other, as soon as the MRRT was introduced that with the carbon tax decimated exploration. Project we were on was wound up very soon after and put on a compliance arrangement to keep the lease.
Gruinaid with a new hot take..
Not only is chicks with dicks smashing feeble bio-fems ok, its actually a good thing you bigot!!!
Trans participation in sport is happening now – not only is it a non-issue, it makes clubs better
Stephanie Convery
The feeling from community sports clubs in the midst of the political debate about trans athletes competing in women’s sport over the last week is not relief. It’s anxiety: how can we protect our trans players from this completely unwarranted attack on their right to play?
The prime minister has been attempting to characterise this as an issue of concern for ordinary mums and dads “who just want common sense to apply”. But in my experience, grassroots sport and the community more generally are way ahead of this political debate, just as they were on the issue of marriage equality.
Here’s what I know as the vice-president of Elsternwick, one of Victoria’s oldest amateur football clubs.
Our trajectory at Elsternwick is a really common one: a club that for more than a century was only for cis men has performed an incredible gear-shift in just the last few years. From the moment it started a women’s team in 2019, it committed to being inclusive; to welcoming people of all backgrounds and identities – those with excellent skills honed over a lifetime and those who’ve never picked up a ball in their life.
Active steps towards trans inclusion are a necessary part of that process. When I went looking for guidance on the best ways for the club to do that, I found a wealth of resources. The idea that sports are in uncharted waters on this is simply untrue.
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“To see politicians evoke archaic ideas about gender and women’s sport – it really sets us back in terms of participation in sport when we’ve made such great progress. It’s really out of step,” says Henne.
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Most mums and dads these days have a trans person in their lives, whether through their kids, their work, their family, their community, or their sport.
This disingenuous spastic wrote a book on a chap who died boxing.
At the same time shes now shilling for women to compete against bio-males in contact sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUIu86y68kA
Little chap, second from the left. Oh my goodness, first impression was of something huge.
But I think it was just a gathering in his nifty pants from the waistline down to the business end.
Pardon me for mentioning it, I’m sure.
Dot, his profile also neglects to mention the Military Medal he won at the Baulkham Hills Incident.
And I have no intention of finding, copying and pasting what jC said last weekend but it was words to the effect that nothing was going to happen.
Good, because head prefect is an expert in shorting and nothing else. Again I’m interested in what you think is going to happen. Just saying a constitutional crisis is meaningless. How will this crisis be defined and by who. Don’t get me wrong I agree Trump was defrauded massively and every shit event which has happened in the world since is directly based on that fraud. But WTF is going to happen. SCOTUS has already declined a majority state based suite about the electoral fraud. So, who or what is going to do anything?
No. Most don’t. But we know you are working on it for the next generation.
Yep. People have been breaking their pick in Africa for a while. No doubt the Chinese approach will be a bit different to the Euros. Who knows whether it will work. History suggests not.
Define “most”.
50.00000001%? Not even that.
It’s a lie. Like all the other lies, we are expected to believe. And if we don’t believe, just shut up and submit.
Yes – that, of course, will happen. But it is such a specious reason for not taking a position on something that matters to you.
It’s a different kind of “most”.
The non-mathematical, “feels” kind.
Designed by the French, all style over engineering substance. They were essentially a flying bomb.
Plenty of people out and about visibly enjoying their long weekend today.
I wish I had Discount Knock-off Bird’s Road Range clairvoyance…
You know you’re scraping the dregs of the rhetorical barrel when you’re spruiking the tourist traps of Bali to try to make a Class Enemy look bad…
#WhatABitch
A friend of mine in LA (Belair, Ozzie girl married to a very wealthy man) used to go in them.
They are the only plane in which I feel totally safe, she Belair’d at me.
I don’t think she mentions them any more.
Most mums and dads these days have a trans person in their lives, whether through their kids, their work, their family, their community, or their sport.
Complete and utter bullshit. Trans are 0.6% of the population. Fuck off.
Sorry, forgot to put in the quote first.
Most mums and dads these days have a trans person in their lives, whether through their kids, their work, their family, their community, or their sport.
Maybe at about ten degrees of separation, maybe not.
Cohenite:
Just the place for a yuuuge freezer and hydroponic garden. And an SMR.
You can check out that line up of historical male display via Frank’s link at 11.44.
Don’t all race off back thread at once!
But on first impressions, am I wrong? Or do I just have something on my mind?
Thanks for the entertainment, Googleory. You idiot.
PS: Calli, I had a very entertaining evening at the Port Augusta trots as a youth in the 1970s. It’s an important Australian town because of where it is. I love that red-dirt country. Enjoy!
Just an example. In a certain African country, the Chinese took over a decent size inland oil field . They pulled all manor of shonkies to get hold of it, bribing the incumbent regime with millions, overseas jaunts, flash houses and cars, no doubt Swiss bank account deposits etc. Although Malaysia was the preferred bank bolt hole. at the time. Anyways come the winter months, the crude was so thick it was like tar so it overloaded and blew up a number of pipeline pumping stations. The Chinese imported a shitload of heaters just to improve flow. Most of the heaters failed within months from dust ingress. Production collapsed. The Chinese were sucked right in, prior production figures were a fallacy. Just one small anecdote of how Africa Wins Again.
Anyway, we’re off to a pool to do our laps.
Nothing to see there in today’s budgie smugglers.
The water is cold enough to ensure that.
And who’s looking anyway? 🙂
I don’t pretend to know Cohenite but almost everywhere I look the political activism occurring on the right in America is all about November 3. The overwhelming view is that unless they fix and reveal the fraud of 2020 the xunts are just going to keep cheating and Republicans won’t turn up to vote if they think their vote won’t count.
Nowadays people are lazy and they don’t read as much. This 2000mules documentary could really shift things along. Hillary is being sued and now lawyers for Podesta and Elias and others are now participating in Durhams legal action.
More popcorn I’d say.
Most mums and dads these days have a trans person in their lives, whether through their kids, their work, their family, their community, or their sport.
Complete and utter bullshit. Trans are 0.6% of the population. Fuck off.
the command to promote this shit must come out from some central point- it all seems so coordinated. Columbia skool of germalism maybe?
I will thanks Tom.
We’ll pop into the dryland botanic garden tomorrow morning – looking forward to seeing the types of plants that do well here. Also the discovery centre in the afternoon.
We were greeted with a big thunderstorm coming in – everyone was smiling as rain is precious here. I was going to suggest a look at the red cliffs but it’s a dirt road in and likely impassable. The Beloved is game but I don’t fancy digging the 4wd out of mud.
the howling can be heard all the way from beijing
Concorde’s, Chief engineer Sir James Hamilton, was a frog? Who knew!
This policy could be successful if we could persuade Brazil to follow suit. That would be three quarters of all internationally traded iron ore, so customers couldn’t shop elsewhere.
Don’t get me wrong I agree Trump was defrauded massively and every shit event which has happened in the world since is directly based on that fraud. But WTF is going to happen. SCOTUS has already declined a majority state based suite about the electoral fraud. So, who or what is going to do anything?
I wonder the same thing. It’s almost like they have got away with it. The betrayal by SCOTUS was unforgivable and a repudiation of the rule of law. If they are allowed to get away with it, they will be emboldened to double down even more. Disgusting.
The claim:
The response:
Bang on. Look at the club. Elsternwick. For those aiming to step up to South Yarra, and who have the cash but not the clout. All this is is trying to advance their social cred in the right circles.
St.Kevins-level would-bes.