I love the way governments love new laws. How about, you useless POS’s get the equally useless POS’s judicial system…
Open Thread – Tues 3 May 2022
There is a very good piece in Quadrant by Mark Durie. It was only uploaded yesterday or today. Sydney Sermons,…
Mutley inquiring minds would like to know if you have to pay for your milk being delivered.
I’m settling down with a post postprandial dram, and my new copy of “Spitfire” when Mme Zulu pounces. “That’s a…
You have the “something” that cartoonists if they’re any good see slightly different but relevant to a situation. Keep it…
Exactly!
I’m thinking Mr de Grouchy is not a smashed avo kind of guy (although socks and sandals is pretty hipster).
Oh Thanks Bern. So there is a fingerprint thingi. Okay.
Sotomayor is too fucking stupid to write an opinion.
Hillary Clinton and the Durham Inquiry
The trial that begins in 12 days won’t tell us why she launched the Russia collusion hoax.
One question that won’t come up in a trial that starts later this month of a Democratic Party lawyer is the same question that arose in the wake of Nixon’s Watergate crimes, committed on his way to a landslide victory. Why, when Hillary Clinton was expected to trounce Donald Trump in 2016, did she devote campaign resources, always in short supply, to a risky, unnecessary and possibly illegal effort to smear Mr. Trump with the Russia-collusion slur?
Of course, the story ends in a five-star irony: The email case did resurface in a way even a paranoid Mrs. Clinton could never have anticipated, thanks to FBI chief James Comey and the underage sexting adventures of disgraced ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner. Like the rest of us, Mrs. Clinton also only learned much later that Mr. Comey’s many strange actions in her case had been influenced by fake Russian intelligence that (in the untold story of 2016) he kept secret from his own bosses at the Justice Department.
Then again, these actions could have cost her the race only in conjunction with her own errors, like spending last-minute money running up her vote in states that weren’t in play, or tying up many of her key aides during the final months of the race on the Trump hoax project.
One defense Mr. Sussmann won’t be offering in his approaching trial is that the proffered evidence was accurate, perhaps to preclude CIA testimony that the info not only was false but doctored.
A judge has also ruled as inadmissible a Hillary Clinton tweet touting the Alfa bank allegation on grounds that her tweet amounts to “hearsay.” This is like saying a bag of money is “hearsay” in a bank robbery, when obtaining the bag of money was the whole purpose of the robbery.
*chuckles
JC, I do a bit of work for a couple of organisations which are very sensitive about security.
The document control system has protections against printing, copying or on-forwarding.
Documents are numbered and mine have a yuuuge “SANCHO PANZER” watermark on every page.
I guess any security measure can be defeated, but it doesn’t look like SCOTUS has even rudimentary protections in place.
Not on everything yet, JC.
It’s proposed that all communication now has to have that.
It’s software that’s used in a lot of corporate advisory firms.
but it doesn’t look like SCOTUS has even rudimentary protections in place.
In some cases it’s still hand written notes between justices.
100% agree. They used to release it as an aged semillion, which was lovely. Then in, I think, the early 20-teens, they changed to an ‘early release’ current vintage version. It has been very vin ordinaire ever since.
In good news, we did a clean out of the wine fridges last week and found a 2010 Paulette’s Polish Hill Riesling and a 2007 Penfolds St Henri that we forgot we had. Yummy!
Tongue-in-cheek yumour isn’t your strong suit, is it sfw?
Interesting policy.
EU pulling the trigger on banning Russian oil.
Gas is still ok for now.
From the WSJ.
snap DB.
You know, if it is a leak, Im wouldn’t put it past Roberts. He’s a Bush appointment RINO and I’ve never trusted him.
Im wouldn’t put it past Roberts.
Biggest disappointment in the last 100 years.
The NSW Government Railways and Victorian Railways have historically begged to differ. Both have historically run significant tonnages of non-passenger trains under wires from Sydney to Gosford and over the Blue Mountains and from Melbourne to Bairnsdale, respectively. And much of Queensland’s coal haulage in the Galilee Basin and Blackwater systems is electrified to this day.
Economics and locomotive age and wear (NSWGR) and decrepit infrastructure (VR) were the sole reasons electric traction were abandoned.
Much of Europe runs almost exclusively electric traction for freight haulage.
Speaking of abortion – one of Russia’s big challenges after it loses the war against Ukraine will be stabilising its population, and its very high rate of abortion is one of the main obstacles to this. Perhaps Putin, if he’s still alive after the war, can ask someone how Ukraine’s abortion rate got to be less than half of Russia’s, and what more can be done to support women in childbirth (I imagine bombing maternity hospitals is probably off the table).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233967823_Divergent_Trends_in_Abortion_and_Birth_Control_Practices_in_Belarus_Russia_and_Ukraine/download
Yep and that 24 ton is just the trailer weights, a 37 ton prime mover would break every weight rule in the country
Nah, if it’s electric it will get an exemption. Got to save Gaia.
Also, regarding Yorkshiremen-
If you haven’t lived for 3 months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank, then you haven’t loved.
#Loogshureh!
Zyconoclast:
They’ve self selected as “Next to Go” in the latest restructuring.
What is it about them that they assume because they are employees of a company, that they make policy?
Thanks for the heads up, GreyRanga.
Speaking of ruthlessly evil henchpersons.
Klaus Schwab’s daughter wants governments to use COVID policies for climate change (29 Apr, via Climate Depot)
This kunt looks like more of a NAZI then her triple chinned dad
Investors in the commodity space are going to see a lot of reports soon regarding how even though xyz has been sold forward over the next 3/6/9/12 months at great prices, their diesel bill (amongst other inputs) are now being bought at almost spot prices.
This Payback Scammer dude is awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvNo33j5Lw
Scammed the scammers out of 46k.
Oh dear, Mr O’Keefe keeps on digging…..
“TV host Andrew O’Keefe warned by magistrate after explosion in court
One-time Australian TV game show king Andrew O’Keefe screamed at a magistrate, claiming he had “no interest in justice” and was threatened with contempt of court after he was again denied bail.
The 50-year-old appeared visibly distressed and frustrated as he faced Sydney’s Central Local Court on Wednesday afternoon via AVL from Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre.
Mr O’Keefe was hit with six charges in January after police alleged that he grabbed a woman by the throat, punched her and pushed her to the ground.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges, including intentionally choking a person without consent, three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
In the weeks after the arrest, police laid a further charge after they found Mr O’Keefe with 1.5g of marijuana. He has pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing a prohibited drug and is yet to be sentenced.
Through his lawyers, Mr O’Keefe has previously claimed that he was acting in self-defence and the victim of an assault himself. The complainant has not been charged with any offence.
Mr O’Keefe has been remanded in custody since his arrest and lost a bid for bail in the NSW Supreme Court in March.
Defence lawyer Sharon Ramsden presented a fresh application for bail on Wednesday, claiming there is a special circumstance of a bed being available at a long-term rehabilitation centre in Port Stephens.
She also argued that more evidence had been served on Mr O’Keefe that outlined the “lack of injury” on the complainant.
“It is not my intention to rehash everything and waste your time,” Ms Ramsden told the court.
“There were further brief service items which support my client.”
Over the almost two-hour bail hearing, Mr O’Keefe was audibly frustrated over what was being said in court and said he could not see the court on his AVL screen.
A police prosecutor opposed the bail application and said there was “no new information” other than some photographs of the complainant.
“There’s not fresh circumstances in what has been put before the court … he has been in rehab nine times,” he said.
Mr O’Keefe spoke over the prosecutor to deny the allegations as magistrate Daniel Reiss warned him he would be “going backwards by speaking up”.
“That’s simply not true Your Honour,” Mr O’Keefe said, raising his voice.
“I’m just getting the truth out there.”
Mr Reiss said the significant difference between the previous bail applications was that there was now the chance to go to a long-term rehabilitation centre.
He told the court it was “troubling” that Mr O’Keefe’s alleged offending went on while already on bail.
The 50-year-old erupted in anger: “Alleged behaviour, Your Honour, nothing is confirmed.”
“Are you trying to sabotage your own application,” the magistrate replied.
Mr O’Keefe continued to interrupt and shake his head in frustration as Mr Reiss told the court of the 50-year-old’s mental health and drug issues.
Despite multiple pleas from Ms Ramsden to be quiet and only say something when spoken to, Mr O’Keefe continued.
Mr Reiss told the court that Mr O’Keefe had “significant attitudinal problems”.
“It’s not an attitudinal problem, it’s a technical problem,” Mr O’Keefe replied.
The magistrate warned that Mr O’Keefe was bordering on being in contempt of court.
“I’ve dealt with many defendants, some are psychotic and are not as hard to deal with as you. Someone with legal qualifications and 10 warnings should know how to deal with it,” Mr Reiss said.
“You’re a lawyer, there’s two sides to every story, you should know that.”
Mr Reiss said he was going to grant Mr O’Keefe bail to go to the rehabilitation centre until he witnessed his attitude in court.
That caused Mr O’Keefe to become enraged.
“I would have been inclined to grant bail if not for the ongoing behaviour of Mr O’Keefe in the court,” Mr Reiss said.
“Someone who is qualified as a lawyer and has been in court on several occasions, there have been several warnings.
“I am presented with a man who cannot be trusted with complying with directions.”
Mr Reiss denied bail, saying he was not willing to allow the “unacceptable risk” of letting Mr O’Keefe leave custody.
Mr O’Keefe gathered his papers and stood up before saying: “The transcript will say I was not arguing, I was trying to help you Your Honour.”
“You have no interest in justice,” Mr O’Keefe continued before storming out of the AVL suite.
Mr Reiss told Ms Ramsden that Mr O’Keefe would need to apologise to the court otherwise he would be found in contempt.
“There will be a contempt citation unless he retracts and apologises for his behaviour,” he said.
“He will need to retract that otherwise there will be contempt proceedings.”
Mr O’Keefe will return to court for a hearing in June.
After a successful 17-year partnership, Channel 7 dumped Mr O’Keefe following a series of public scandals and personal struggles that reportedly impacted production of hit game show The Chase Australia.
Before launching The Chase, Mr O’Keefe fronted Weekend Sunrise, Deal or No Deal, The Rich List and other prime-time specials, including the Logie Awards.
He was awarded an Order of Australia for his work on television and in the charity space, including as a former ambassador for anti-domestic violence organisation White Ribbon.”
Cassie Jaye could not be contacted for comment however I’m sure Mark Latham is enjoying the schadenfreude.
From “The Age.”
Is WA this bad?
Qantas has announced it will commence direct non-stop flights from Sydney to London and New York from 2025, with a landmark order for Airbus A350-1000 jets capable of the monumental task.
But West Australian veteran journalist Ben Harvey argues that the decision by Qantas to establish flights from London to Sydney makes flights to Perth virtually pointless.
‘There’s gonna be f**k all Londoners who want to come to Perth instead of Sydney… because Perth is to Sydney what Birmingham is to London,’ Harvey said.
‘The Poms have two choices, fly to Perth and then go four or five hours on a flight to the east coast because that’s where the cool stuff is, or fly direct to the cool stuff without being attacked by a meth zombie at an empty shop outside of the Hay Street Mall.’
One user said in response to Harvey’s statement: ‘Yep go to Sydney, Perth is horrendous at the moment.’
‘Nothing to see in Perth,’ wrote another. ‘This place is 20yrs behind. Best coastline with little accommodation.’
Nah, if it’s electric it will get an exemption. Got to save Gaia.
Axle weights are supposedly set by simulated road wear tests, then the shit roads factor is put on top. That’s why Euro weights are all higher.
We’re all waiting on Makka’s solid state lithium batteries to change the game.
Most of the batteries are in proof of concept phase. Panasonic say it’s ten years away, so by then we’ll all be dead from climate change and warm beer.
Cronkite
WTF is Klaus Schwarz?
They’ve made a gay Superman come alive. FMD
Superman is set to get a new cape from his boyfriend in the upcoming DC Pride special that is the perfect modern upgrade for Jon Kent. https://buff.ly/3LtHaNj
Cultivating the institutions of a civil society rather than cracking down on them might help.
Gosh, such carelessness….deliberate or accidental? My money is on the former.
“Independent Despi O’Connor suspends campaign
Rebecca Borg
‘Teal’ Independent candidate for Flinders Despi O’Connor has suspended her campaign after she was made aware of a provision that could prevent her from being selected as a member of the House of Representatives.
Section 44 of the Australian Constitution states “any person who holds any office of profit under the Crown … shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a member of the House of Representatives”. It impacts Ms O’Connor due to her employment in the Victorian public school system.
“I acknowledge that this is something I should have considered,” Ms O’Connor said in a statement.
“Notwithstanding declaring my role as a teacher on all Australian Electoral Commission forms, this is one that still slipped through the gaps. I take full responsibility for filling in the form incorrectly.”
Ms O’Connor said while she loves teaching, she would give the role up in a “heartbeat” to represent Flinders.”
For someone who is (allegedly) a lawyer, he doesn’t understand the construction of his own application.
His lawyer is largely not disputing the facts, but is trying to run a “mental elf” defence.
His very unhelpful client keeps throwing his dollies out of the pram by screaming “alleged” about stuff his mouthpiece is already conceding to try to spring him.
There is a saying about people who represent themselves.
A truly marvellous day out and about in the West MacDonnell ranges.
A quick search (Alice Springs Orogeny) will yield information on how ancient they are, the uplift and buckling occurring in the Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian. A seabed lifted high, folded and sheared and tipped on its side. And now eroded back to its roots, with a seamed and crumbling red rampart topping grass clad slopes.
In between are the gorges and waterholes, full of birds and glorious old ghost gums. The sandy shoals tell the story of recent rain – trees swept against the banks, dead vegetation resting many feet up in the branches. The entire journey is traversed by ephemeral streams, now dry and serene.
Off to Tennant Creek tomorrow, with a quick visit to the wildlife park and the telegraph station first.
This is the best time of year to visit. I wouldn’t want to be doing it in summer.
Hunter semillon famously starts out as a light, even grassy, white and about 5 years turns nasty, only to emerge a couple of years later with richer honeyed flavours.
Sounds like they are giving you the earlier stage.
Oldizzie:
So.
Having taken 20 years to work out the Left has taken him for granted and repeatedly lied to him about their aims, Colin has finally woken up.
Will it take another twenty years to apologise and make some degree of restoration to the damage caused to society?
46 y o boy dies of COVID on an e-scooter in Perth.
Oh come onsays:
May 4, 2022 at 4:37 pm
Good post, Oco. You’ve nailed it.
Those poor kids have taken on their weird personae to please their weird, attention-seeking mother*. They’ve been conditioned to dance to her depraved tune.
I’ve seen similar, in different manifestations, even with mature victims who, after a lifetime of submission – including abandoning marriages and even children – still yearn hopelessly for Mother’s affection and approval. In one instance, ‘Mother’ was an excellent Christian, attending church every Sunday and spouting Christian dogma ad infinitum. And she, alone, was responsible for the breakup of her daughter’s marriage and the alienation of her children and grandchildren.
I’m sure Mandy is no Christian, but her desperate attention seeking is no different to the case above.
*UnChristian thought, I know, but I wonder if Mandy has collected NDIS packages for her special children.
only in the Byzantine corridors of your mind.
for the most part, nobody really comments much either way … but you four just can’t seem to shut up
today was un-readable infantile repetitive gibber
and … here you are still at it
when will you retarded white-hats realise that you’re the problem ?
ps. it’s only a bon mot the first time you say it. ya bunch of drones
Perth is fine. Given the choice to spend the best part of a day to fly direct LHR-PER or go straight to Sydney I’m not sure I would bother either. Will be interesting how the fares compare.
The salary is better by about double, for a start.
Why? Delta.
WTF is Klaus Schwarz?
Klaus Schwab. This prick.
Good to see a cyclist coming off best in a crash for once. They are due a few wins.
Cassie earlier …
He is not getting the message.
He still wants to be released to the custody of his shrink who will dutifully give him a tick after two weeks and spring him.
The beak is not buying it.
It is either secure re-hab or remand.
There is no Option C involving backdoor bail.
Ahem.
xxxx
On a brighter note, as duncanm tells us, Abbey beers are tops for a cold evening.
that is a seriously good drop !!
Spotted at the Flynn memorial – a discarded blue mask.
And what solution do you propose to resolve this imaginary problem?
Of course, I guess it is a real problem if your objective is to run interference for your increasingly unhinged sponsor child.
Calli, if you have an hour or so to while away in Alice, I suggest the Alice Springs Telegraph Station. A great reminder of those early days, with excellent interactive displays.
For a Pom just wanting to thaw out for 2 weeks in Dec-Jan I would take Perth over Sydney every time. Horses for courses.
I know, I was just kidding around. How about a pic of his nazi-looking daughter?
A clean out of the wine fridges sounds like a very good idea. I shall have to have a word to my man.
Oliver Stone posted this to Facebook 20 minutes ago.
The dating scene disagrees with him, hopefully.
Hissy fit and major flounce:
One-time Australian TV game show king Andrew O’Keefe screamed at a magistrate, claiming he had “no interest in justice” and was threatened with contempt of court after he was again denied bail.
The 50-year-old appeared visibly distressed and frustrated as he faced Sydney’s Central Local Court on Wednesday afternoon via AVL from Dawn de Loas Correctional Centre.
Mr O’Keefe was hit with six charges in January after police alleged that he grabbed a woman by the throat, punched her and pushed her to the ground.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges, including intentionally choking a person without consent, three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
In the weeks after the arrest, police laid a further charge after they found Mr O’Keefe with 1.5g of marijuana. He has pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing a prohibited drug and is yet to be sentenced.
Through his lawyers, Mr O’Keefe has previously claimed that he was acting in self-defence and the victim of an assault himself. The complainant has not been charged with any offence.
Mr O’Keefe has been remanded in custody since his arrest and lost a bid for bail in the NSW Supreme Court in March.
Defence lawyer Sharon Ramsden presented a fresh application for bail on Wednesday, claiming there is a special circumstance of a bed being available at a long-term rehabilitation centre in Port Stephens.
She also argued that more evidence had been served on Mr O’Keefe that outlined the “lack of injury” on the complainant.
“It is not my intention to rehash everything and waste your time,” Ms Ramsden told the court. “There were further brief service items which support my client.”
Over the almost two-hour bail hearing, Mr O’Keefe was audibly frustrated over what was being said in court and said he could not see the court on his AVL screen.
A police prosecutor opposed the bail application and said there was “no new information” other than some photographs of the complainant.
“There’s not fresh circumstances in what has been put before the court … he has been in rehab nine times,” he said.
Mr O’Keefe spoke over the prosecutor to deny the allegations as magistrate Daniel Reiss warned him he would be “going backwards by speaking up”.
“That’s simply not true Your Honour,” Mr O’Keefe said, raising his voice. “I’m just getting the truth out there.”
Mr Reiss said the significant difference between the previous bail applications was that there was now the chance to go to a long-term rehabilitation centre.
He told the court it was “troubling” that Mr O’Keefe’s alleged offending went on while already on bail.
The 50-year-old erupted in anger: “Alleged behaviour, Your Honour, nothing is confirmed.”
“Are you trying to sabotage your own application,” the magistrate replied.
Mr O’Keefe continued to interrupt and shake his head in frustration as Mr Reiss told the court of the 50-year-old’s mental health and drug issues.
Despite multiple pleas from Ms Ramsden to be quiet and only say something when spoken to, Mr O’Keefe continued.
Mr Reiss told the court that Mr O’Keefe had “significant attitudinal problems”.
“It’s not an attitudinal problem, it’s a technical problem,” Mr O’Keefe replied.
The magistrate warned that Mr O’Keefe was bordering on being in contempt of court.
“I’ve dealt with many defendants, some are psychotic and are not as hard to deal with as you. Someone with legal qualifications and 10 warnings should know how to deal with it,” Mr Reiss said.
“You’re a lawyer, there’s two sides to every story, you should know that.”
Mr Reiss said he was going to grant Mr O’Keefe bail to go to the rehabilitation centre until he witnessed his attitude in court.
That caused Mr O’Keefe to become enraged.
“I would have been inclined to grant bail if not for the ongoing behaviour of Mr O’Keefe in the court,” Mr Reiss said.
“Someone who is qualified as a lawyer and has been in court on several occasions, there have been several warnings.
“I am presented with a man who cannot be trusted with complying with directions.”
Mr Reiss denied bail, saying he was not willing to allow the “unacceptable risk” of letting Mr O’Keefe leave custody.
Mr O’Keefe gathered his papers and stood up before saying: “The transcript will say I was not arguing, I was trying to help you Your Honour.”
“You have no interest in justice,” Mr O’Keefe continued before storming out of the AVL suite.
Mr Reiss told Ms Ramsden that Mr O’Keefe would need to apologise to the court otherwise he would be found in contempt.
“There will be a contempt citation unless he retracts and apologises for his behaviour,” he said.
“He will need to retract that otherwise there will be contempt proceedings.”
Mr O’Keefe will return to court for a hearing in June.
After a successful 17-year partnership, Channel 7 dumped Mr O’Keefe following a series of public scandals and personal struggles that reportedly impacted production of hit game show The Chase Australia.
Before launching The Chase, Mr O’Keefe fronted Weekend Sunrise, Deal or No Deal, The Rich List and other prime-time specials, including the Logie Awards.
He was awarded an Order of Australia for his work on television and in the charity space, including as a former ambassador for anti-domestic violence organisation White Ribbon.
Struth, you come here every day and abuse us for our apathy, but you never tell us what we should be doing. Tell us:
WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?
This leak in the SC is another reason why the GOP will not win the mid terms. If it doesn’t generate enough social unrest to allow suspension of the mid terms then expect another manufactured crisis.
Eggsactly what does. Zero!
retard
Look Cronkite, I’m not going to counter you because only you and Artie predicted the 20 election. However, the cannot suspend the mid-terms – at least I don’t think they can.
China’s Social Credit System
How about a pic of his nazi-looking daughter?
Sure.
Not my place to judge, bespoke. But it’s sure darn hard not to.
I used to be in the trade and that semillon was one of those consistent overachievers/undersellers – not so much a well-kept secret as I always tried to sell it, but it had a somewhat dowdy image. But people in the know knew it was a bargain and was great in the cellar, too. Pity to hear McWilliams has demoted it to just another meh white. Unsurprising, I guess, but still a pity. I bet an old hand died or retired at the winery.
Perth is , and will always be the ‘engine room’ and culture capital of Aust. We dont need direct flights to London .
Sorry Cassie – didn’t scroll back.
But, according to you we are already all retards, Matrix.
Stop being such a sheila and maybe tell us what you really think would solve the problem?
You know, in a manly way. Like you think Struth does…
Seriously, what’s an IPA?
Do they make booze?
I know they make Jamesons – I bought a couple of their bottles a fortnight ago.
Perth as the culture capital of Australia? Interesting take. It’s a tough place to be a mould in February.
calli says: Off to Tennant Creek tomorrow
If you’re after a drop, then get in before 4pm. From memory the bottleshop(s?) close then.
The Borella VC display at the Mining Museum is worth a look.
Given that she’s a teacher in the Victorian public school system, my money is on ignorance.
[No offence, Arky, but you’re an exception to the rule, as you know.]
I disagree Delta. You have the skills to articulate concerns. If not it’s left upto those like myself that don’t.
If you want genuinely unloved and underrated wines develop a taste for fortifieds. Just right for fighting off winter chills.
You’re so childish at times, Cronkite.
“Perth is , and will always be the ‘engine room’ and culture capital of Aust.”
Pig’s arse, it’s all new money over there.
Nice trolling though.
I wouldn’t drink wine if ya payed me.
Gross stuff.
Frank….thats not trolling. Its a truth from us ‘cave dwellers’.
I’ll go along with Perth as an “engine room”, lotsa money changes hands along the Terrace but “culture capital”?
Spare me.
Although, Hank Marvin lives in Perth and has occasionally appeared unannounced at a pub gig.
That’s pretty high end culture.
Now chaps, as the Romans used to say, de gustibus non est disputandum.
Or in modern parlance, each to his own poison.
Wow! To experience that what would be seriously cool.
I think it is summarised here.
Drbeen Medical Lectures
Increased Cardiac Arrest Emergency Events in Israel During Vaccination Period (Age 16-39)
25% Increase in Cardiac Arrests in 16-39 Years Old During the Pfizer Vaccination Period. Let’s review the strengths, weaknesses, and curiosities of this study/research.
Yes, and I’m an expat currently domiciled in Tasmania so I don’t come at it from a position of superiority, but Perth has no culture worth speaking of.
Pedro….SBY, the ex president of Indonesia has a small abode on the river his kids lived in while at uni. here. SBY loved karioke , and his voice used to ‘ring’ out over the foreshore. ….great times.
Virtually every British guitarist of the note in the ’60’s & ’70s cites Hank Marvin as an inspiration.
Pfffft….cultures over rated anyhow.
Any thoughts on the standard of debate here?
What’s the point then? Pure theatre.
This bastard should have been dealt with:
The Solomon Islands Prime Minister has launched a tirade in parliament, suggesting Australia and its allies are deliberately trying to undermine his government, criticising the Western response to Russia’s invasion and praising China’s treatment of Christians.
Manasseh Sogavare has also ratcheted up his criticism of civil society groups in Solomon Islands, suggesting that they are being manipulated by foreign countries and declaring they have “fallen prey to the Western world”.
What’s a Hank Marvin?
JC:
I’ve never liked him – he has all the marks of a sly, shifty, ‘I’ve just pissed in your pool’ spiv.
I’d really like to know what the shouting was about when he was hectoring the two Conservatives during some deliberations after the elections.
Anyone remember this?
Some barbarian female currently lurking at Casa Pedro and looking over my shoulder wanted to know “Who’s Hank Marvin?”
THIS! (Hank plays ‘Apache”)
A tip for the Solomon Islands PM. The trick is to time your flight into exile to rendezvous with the proceeds of Chinese graft before the locals storm the presidential palace. A rookie mistake that so many make and and it never ends when you get it wrong.
Perth has a few celebrities in it’s midst. Hipster muso Bon Iver even wrote a song about it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3GN9CqxKAY
He’s a mong and a retard.
Just about finished preping sixteen acres for grafting. Not hard work but boring.
Think one of the guys from The Clash also ended up in Perth. Don’t quote me on that.
Rex Anger:
When I am imposed on this nation as it’s Rightful King, I shall make every train electrical with a Small Modular Reactor.
Ben Elton’s wife came from Perth too.
The folks at Masters’ Dariries’ Yohghourt and Cheese Departments would respectfully beg to differ… 😉
#OhGod
BoN @12:30ish re the electric truck.
I’ve always said this AGW fraud has led to an incalculable misdirection of capital and raw materials.
This virtue signalling/subsidy harvesting joke is but another example.
Perth does serial killers pretty well, I’ll give it that.
Don’t Ceau?escu it?
Maybe.
But not in the same league as Adelaide.
Super Train! 😀
Malcolm Roberts:
The RSPCA was set up with a worthy purpose, but it’s been rocked by scandals and allegations of corruption. There’s a real question over whether it deserves it’s tax-friendly not-for-profit status.
YouTube
Adelaide first. Daylight second. At least you don’t have to pay tolls to dump the bodies in State Forests.
LOL!
No your place peasant!
Fine Australian brandies traditionally punched above their weight and were not especially sought-after. A rare Australian brandy used to cost the same as a luxury brand VS cognac but be a far more complex and palatable beast. Not sure if that’s still the case.
Snap Bear.
Adelaide is the serial killer capital.
Daylight second.
This is a Hank Marvin!!
Murdering someone for their Centrelink benefits would be looked upon very dimly in Perth. Not giving them an inside trading tip on the other hand …
I think Adelaide is mainly housos and gays. Nothing much for most people to worry about.
Adelaide does two pass times well – serial killing and interbreeding.
Getting millilitres and fluid ounces mixed up when administering the elephant juice to Laurie’s pony is also something of a faux pas.
go on … make another stupid bing-bong noise to raise the standard
The standard of debate, wit and rat infestation in here is world standard ,…none better.
Let me assert something once more, as to raise the standard of debate here:
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/03/open-thread-tues-3-may-2022/comment-page-2/#comment-230055
Anyone who wants to debate this, you’re my huckleberry.
okay
Here’s a thought.
If a blog is improved by the absence of me, KD, Rex and Rosie, how about this?
We agree not to go near the Furniture Store and people could go over there and watch their sponsor-child roam around unfettered by real world criticism.
Sound like a plan?
Adelaide/SA is pretty decent on the serial killer population ratio, but honestly, I think Ohio has a far better class of serial killer hands down. They just do it better there. Damher partially ate his victims. He was from Akron OH.
Rose Hancock.
Perth royalty.
How many blogs have you actually been to?
Is this it?
Yeah.
Putting your neighbour into the chow mein is next level.
(Norm sweating intensifies)
Very hard not to make a joke about Dahmer. I feel quite tense, like Albert Fish in a petting zoo.
I do just on this point.
Dot, we’ve been through this before under early Volker. The fed targeted M3 and it just didn’t work. As you know, you set a target to nominal GDP and run with that. Run with that would be the Scott Sumner idea, which is to set up a functional futures market for nominal GDP and the Fed applies their rule against that.
You know this!
Netflix is the serial killer Streaming par excellence. Every week they have a new series about one. I think the most recent was Gacey.
Sancho….my blog life before here was hollow and a dismal failure . I at times found myself in unrewarding situations in smokey , dimly lit chat rooms ….hang on. I’m sayin’ to much.
Serial killer
Male employees of Amazon should sue for equity and psychological damage for being denied time off and $4000 to go out of state to get an abortion
Men can have abortions, dontcha know.
Bespoke
That sounds eerily like our old USSR.
The chutzpah of these people.
I travelled home from my workplace through the backstreets of Newtown and Stanmore this afternoon.
Glancing up at telegraph poles I saw quite a few political party corflutes. I was distressed to see what appeared to be a number of Reason Party corflutes horribly vandalised. Purple paint, thick black texta on eyebrows and crudely drawn moustaches.
I was horrified and was going to report this travesty to the AEC.
However, when I looked closer I could see that it was just a normal untouched photograph of Jane Caro.
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of bloggink.
So was Eileen Bond…
Which people.
Gacey doesn’t get the recognition he deserves.
Could it be that he was a gay serial killer preying on teenage boys and young men?
No kidding, I can’t understand how people take Europeans seriously. They’re just fucking lunatics. All of them. Anything to do with international relations etc and it’s a total fuck-up when they’re involved. I mean, in the space of 1914 to 1945, the fuckers killed 70 plus million. Add in the starvation episode in Russia and you heading to 100 million plus. Of course, that’s not counting the shit that went on before in the 19th century. They just fucking maniacs.
It’s too wishy washy. If it works (Sumner is short on detail) it is practically the same thing. I’m not really keen on introducing an artificial market mechanism beyond what is necessary. A central bank should really just mimic a free market clearinghouse bank issuing more currency as the marginal revenue on arbitrage equals the marginal cost of deprecating their own lending base – as a long term trend, would equal real GDP growth.
M1 as a target would work because it intrinsically includes bank leverage moving up or down and having a strict long term target with a short term tolerance for volatility factors in commodity movements and feedback error.
Recently read that is the serial killer strain which is actually way off the planet in terms of proportion.
Except for the Italians, right?
Dot
Tell me what you do here.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
TBH I like using futures markets as a way to figure out the “Taylor Rule” more than I like NGDP targeting.
Dahmer was too, but he was into making compliant sex zombies by drilling holes in their foreheads and pouring acid in. Didn’t work. The point is it is a packed field and you have to work hard to stand out these days, Gacy just frocked up like a clown.
Indeed JC . Frightbats regardless of politics sound the same.
WWNGDPTD?
It is the stupidity of Adelaide serial killers which I find astounding.
Murdering someone to tap into Centrelink benefits.
Really?
There are easier ways.
Have these people not heard of the NDIS or Early Childhood Education?
So was Janet Holmes a’Court.
Victoria has recorded its first “flurona” death after a woman in her 90s died due to contracting Covid-19 and Influenza simultaneously.
The unvaccinated elderly woman died in mid-January with the state recording five more cases of coinfections between January and March this year.
All additional “flurona” cases were vaccinated against Covid-19 but not the flu due to the vaccine being unavailable between the summer months.
Idiots!
Tard ranching you reckon?
Absolutely not. They’re scumbags. It wasn’t even a given they were even going to enter the war on the side of the Allies in 1914. They waited a year to see which way the wind was heading and went with the allies.
Dude, the entire region is a late term abortion.
As for the Brits, it was basically one man who steered them in the right direction. If Churchill wasn’t there, the Brits would have sort an accommodation with the nazis. War would likely have come later I think, but the first thing would have been accommodation.
Hang on.
What’s the Furniture Store?
Gacey and Dahmer make Ted Bundy look like a Chartered Accountant who is President of the local Rotary Club.
Or a failed banana-fama.
Caro really is a standout. A true horror. Physically and spiritually ugly. A dead soul. Even worse than Wilkinson and that’s saying something.
Anyway the real point is there only way to get low interest rates is to kill inflation; balanced budgets, low government spending, competition and no easy money.
Robert Rubin was the best thing to come out of the Clintons.
No it’s not. It’s real. We don’t transact in “M1”. We receive income and spend in nominal dollars and GDP is another way of describing nominal income. Recessions are caused by sudden drops in nominal (and not real) income.
interesting stuff.
Speaking of nukes, I presume that the origin/design of a nuke can be determined post-explosion from the distribution of various isotopes in the fallout.
I would think it’d be pretty straightforward to identify the source and type of any (nu/un)clear weapon use.
That doesn’t mean, of course, that any such investigation would be allowed or published, if Oliver’s theory were to pan out.
Quick! Bring back a police state!
Don’t drink the water.
Don’t stay at the motels on either side of town.
Don’t go out after dark.
Bottle shops close at 2.00 p.m.
Don’t swim in the Mary Ann Dam (or Lake, depending on who you talk to).
Keep a three-foot star picket handy.
Get a breakfast bacon and egg muffin from the Mobil servo on the way out.
Under no circumstances attempt a Golden Heart burger from the servo at the intersection of Paterson Street (the highway) and Peko Road.
Keep going until you get to Threeways and stay there.
One of my old mates from work died of cancer yesterday. Roughly 2 months from diagnosis to lights out. Bugger!
We did so much good work together. Fuel hydrant extension work in Cairns sticks in my memory. We’d start work at 2pm, getting ready for drain down. System would be emptied by 8pm, ready for the welders. The welders would have it cut in and welded up by midnight, absolute guns. We’d do the flood up and flushing and be standing out the front of Troppo’s night club by 2am, scoff down a B747 hot dog each and then go have some beers. I have a photo of him neck deep in the water in a valve pit on the international finger there, we lifted the lid of to the valve pit to find it full of water, while we’re working out how long it will take to pump out he hops in and swims to the valve and closes it, with a big silly grin on his face!
Last big job we did together was the 3 month long commissioning on the Adelaide Airport hydrant. We stuck in 6 months worth of hours in 3 months. The bar bill was horrendous! We got as sunburned as hell no matter what we did, until we found a sunscreen that resembled Wattyl Solarguard, we were all crook for weeks from the Adelaide water, until someone fessed up and we all said “same”, came right within a day switching to bottled water.
He started back in the day’s of RDO’s and never took them. So when he retired he had about 2 years of RDO’s to work through. This meant a big and long trip up north in his “company vehicle”, one of the pipeline patrol Nissan 4WD’s, fuck knows how he ever planned to explain damage to a Melbourne pipeline patrol vehicle…. In Cape York. He dropped in and saw me in Cairns on his way through, I was managing Cairns at the time.
He got some good overseas trips as well. Got to do some fuel hydrant work in Tahiti. He would crack me up because he would make a point of calling the depot manager (chef du depot) The Chef of The Depot, Chef being pronounced per cook in his best Aussie accent.
He managed the Jet supply into Melbourne airport for a long time, then managed the whole operation for a while. Nightmare job, much less storage than now, he maintained a hand drawn chart that showed inputs and outputs and projected exactly how many hours we were away from stock out. Did that for years.
His best mate worked for Vicrail Northern area, most of the pipelines ran in the railway easements. There wasn’t many problems he couldn’t get sorted with a quick call this his mate.
A bloody good bloke.
I had a chat with him at a Starbucks on Lex. I worked with a couple of dudes who worked for him at Goldsack, which is how I started the conversation. He was a short dude, really short.
They do hens night tours of Dahmers hunting grounds.
love the construction you just built
did you have a designer or did you thunk it up yourself?
here’s a plan.
you cartel members stop trying to pre-think everything
try to be circumspect
or thoughtful
maybe try to even be reasonable
maybe, I dunno, stop making repetitive gibbering noises
… you know … to improve the standard
Nah, they’re just refreshingly honest about it.
Some of the sexiest fast cars in the world are made by the offspring of an Italian tractor company.
And a young racing car engineer working for Alfa Romeo by the name of Enzio Ferrari said to his erstwhile employers “Fuck you! I can do better!”
And ended up being owned by Fiat. An utterly unremarkable purveyor of motorised biscuit tins now owned by Chrysler.
All very
maniacalItalian. 🙂Rick
That’s pretty unusual these days dying from cancer two months after a diagnosis.
I think they merged with the frogs.
If only you could explain what that even means…
h y b r i s t o p h i l i a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia
Hybristophilia is a sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes,[1] a paraphilia in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed a crime. The term is derived from the Greek word hubrizein (????????), meaning “to commit an outrage against someone” (ultimately derived from hubris ?????, “hubris”), and philo, meaning “having a strong affinity/preference for”.[2] In popular culture, this phenomenon is also known as “Bonnie and Clyde syndrome”.[3]
A damn shame he’s gone, by the sound.
Mong.
Tard.
Late diagnosis, or just an aggressive form?
I mean, in the space of 1914 to 1945, the fuckers killed 70 plus million. Add in the starvation episode in Russia and you heading to 100 million plus. Of course, that’s not counting the shit that went on before in the 19th century. They just fucking maniacs.
Indeed, they shouldn’t get a free pass just because they can build a decent cathedral over a couple of centuries, and then bomb the shit out of it during the next scheduled war.
The worst of these depraved evil scum apparently receive sacks of correspondence from sheilas wanting to marry them. How fucked is that. It’s not unusual either.
Late diagnosis, or just an aggressive form?
Aggressive liver.
Repetitive?
Like daily unsolicited wordwalls either cut and pasted from bonzo sites without understanding what he’s writing (REPORT THIS AD), or telling everyone they’re doing to die (11-41 months), or calling them shallow cock smokers and to get fucked, or really bad Alinskying (again, after reading the dodgy corner of teh webs) or the current self-reflective stage where it’s ‘you’ll all be sorry’?
Every single day, for months?
Is that the repetitive gibber you’re referring to?
That’s rough. 🙁
No, it’s not.
Probably not.
Lotta sadness.
The sponsor child is falling apart after the 15,000 litres fell on the campfire and he needs shoring up.
What is unreasonable is the daily unasked-for talking points from the aspiring yet failed Leader of The People that millions upon millions of Australians are fuckwits, and that those millions should have all done certain things to make his world a better place, and to hell with the circumstances of everyone else.
I will not speak for others – but I am nice. I am nice all the time. Until it is time to not be nice*. And that time is after months upon months of the same repetitive gibber from someone who demands others do what he will not.
If and when that happens, I’ll take the piss out of the Man With Potential Greatness allllllll fucking day.
*ROADHOUSE.
If I transact in cash, it’s still part of M1 and GDP itself can be a nebulous concept.
The problem is endogeneity. Who decides what the NGDP target is? I’m not convinced it can’t be gamed.
Matrix.
Just a gues. Is your attempt to reason with the ‘cartel’ because you no struth is beyond reasoning?
Sucking up to the fvcking Greenies…
Speaking of comedy value:
Cop that, you whiny little flog.
Dot , get a load of this.
https://www.salon.com/2010/06/23/van_der_sloot_proposals/
The consequences of the stolen 2020 election are increasingly catastrophic
Global Supply Chain Woes Worsen, With Major Ports Facing Long Delays: Report
Schiff: GDP Spin Is Orwellian Doublespeak
Normalizing perversion
Anyway I do think like all frightbats Struth gets off when people fight over him, Matrix.
So that’s all from me
Good night. Fresh start tomorrow.
rickwsays:
May 4, 2022 at 8:52 pm
A very fine tribute to your friend, rickw.
Thanks for posting.
Deal Then No Deal?
Today, entitled ABC and ALP flunkey, luvvie and all round mediocrity Rhys Muldoon, called Dave Sharma on Twitter a “fake Jew”. Hmm, that’s what I call some chutzpah from a real fake, a fake who’s had to rely on a taxpayer funded corporation to produce his sludge that no one watches. Whatever I think of the member for Wentworth, he was an accomplished diplomat and I rather sit opposite Dave Sharma at a function than a progressive ALPBC fart.
Anyway, some wag has already updated Muldoon’s Wikipedia page…
“Rhys Muldoon (born 17 October 1965) is an Australian actor, labor party member, anti-Semite, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, music, theatre and radio. Since 2012 he has starred as Mark Oliver in House Husbands.”
I love it, wonder who long it will last on Wikipedia? In the meantime, a very accurate description.
Fully concur with Delta A above, rickw.
There are a lot worse epitaphs than being remembered by your mates as a hard working bloke who didn’t mind a coldie after knockoff time and as a bit of a ratbag..
Condolences.
I’m not trying to reason with anybody
what I’m doing is pointing out what hypocritical tossers they’re being
This is a question I’ve been asking for years. When we were borrowing customs from other cultures, to make up the multicultural society, where’s the fool who passed up on the siesta?
Lolwut?
“Delta Asays:
May 4, 2022 at 9:25 pm
rickwsays:
May 4, 2022 at 8:52 pm
A very fine tribute to your friend, rickw.”
+ 1
Thanks for posting.