Anyway…

Oh, I forgot to say…

Spotted Darwin Man yesterday…wearing a blue surgical mask.

Riding a motorbike.

I watched The Constant Gardener again last night. Very much a movie for our times.

I remember watching it when it was first released back in 2006 or so – then, I dismissed it as leftist propaganda. Mind you, back then I also believed the claim that Big Pharma was a danger to humanity to be a nutty conspiracy theory. How wrong I was.

The Germans undoubtedly have a word for this: the state of mind when you despise the ruling party but still want them to get up because you despise their opposition and its media hack publicists even more

and why is that our problem?

Destroying Ukraine as a people and a nation won’t bring Donald Trump back.

to quote lavrov, if ukraine bothers you, just close your eyes and pretend it’s africa or the middle east.

pelosi et al are pissed because putin cut off their flow of corrupt dollars, that’s about as strategic ukraine is to the west

never fear another huge injection of money is up for grabs courtesy of the old witch and the sniffer

RUS are already on the northern outskirts of Severodonstsk.

And have been for some time.

The same Lavrov who just said Ukraine is being used to constrain Russia from developing…

#Lebensraum2.0

This should be taken on principle.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/first-home-buyers-could-use-superannuation-under-coalition-government-20220515-p5alh3.html

Reason being, as long as it is in the fund, it is the government’s, held in trust for you. Remember the leading case on the matter from a few years ago.

The Super Home Buyer Scheme will start by July next year and allow first home buyers to invest up to 40 per cent of their superannuation, up to a maximum of $50,000 to help with the purchase of their first home.

I reckon this might get Slow Mo over the line.

South Africa is witnessing a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by BA.4 & BA.5 variants. The sudden surge has triggered fears of a fifth COVID wave.

good luck to all the vexed vaxed

Feeding a baby Infant Formula has been normalised.
How fucked is that?

obviously the plan was to get euorpe to enroll finland and sweden into nato so pootes could get a date with miss helsinki

could not give a stuff about ukraine, it has no nukes, it caused its own demise. well played

Now you’re just glowing, Zipster…

Ed to be fair sometimes babies decide enough with the breast milk. Happened with one of ours and even expressing into bottles didn’t help. Absolute bugger and stressful when they aren’t to the 4 months yet were you can introduce start to solids.

I noticed above that some mention was made of SBS cooking shows. I stopped watching theses after seeing me then boss demonstrate his Basque masterpiece of something or other.

https://spectator.org/whats-roberts-waiting-on/

That decision needs to be published. Now. That Roberts hasn’t made it happen, more than a week after the leak, is just plain irresponsible.

Let me make a suggestion.
The screaming at the other USSC judges after the last election tells me that the Left have something on Roberts and this is being strung out to maintain the string of crises that are enveloping the US.
The end result is that people throw their hands in the air in bafflement as the crises continue, one after the other before people can adjust to the last one.
I have no idea what the next crisis will be – probably food.
One thing you can be sure of is that there will be one.

I bought my ticket to UK in October. Emirates was the only airline with a schedule.
Return was $8,600. In the post covid ripoff the average price is now $13,400.
My pal was going to come over to join me but she decided that the price was nonsense regardless of Emirates luxury business class.
QANTAS is more expensive but WTF would fly wokeair and be treated with contempt.

HONG KONG, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — An infant formula product produced by Abbott Laboratories (ABT.NYSE), failed to reach China national safety standards and tested worst among a selection of six infant formula powders sold on the Chinese market, according to a research report released by Hong Kong-based research house CER Research on Thursda

biden’s paymasters smoke signals

Or is it really Val?

Farmer Gez:

And for very fine measure a “Poofteenth”
Or “Two fifths of bugger all”

Or in the Hallowed Hall of Poetry:
There was a young man from Bengal,
Who had a hexagonal ball.
The cube of his date plus his penis times eight,
was 2/5 of 5/8 of damn all.

It’s Official: Living in America Makes You DUMB
Black Pigeon Speaks

Blockbuster Clinton case on Trump-Russia to start Monday

Confucius say blue surgical mask wearing motorcyclist not silly.
Keeps bugs from getting in mouth.

Ed to be fair sometimes babies decide enough with the breast milk.
I’ll take your word for that, but it’s nowhere near common enough to base a gigantic industry on.
There used to be a lot of health issues with Infant Formula, no doubt they paid the FDA off to look the other way, now it’s come back to bite them.

Does he mention that the one in the USA had 3 concussions? That alone disqualifies drawing any conclusion. When I read about this earlier this week I stopped after reading about the 3 concussions.

Is there any proof or even likelihood that 3 concussions over a lifetime reduces IQ at all, let alone by more than a SD?
I don’t think so.

Good little bit on the scrap iron flotilla in ww2.
Didn’t realize it was Goebbels himself who christened them that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04jjgbfMb1k

JC: He tweeted a dad joke about that hopeless debate moderator’s surname:

Nine to report Mark Latham to authorities over ‘racist’ tweet slamming leaders’ debate host Sarah Abo.

Bolt did a solemn segment the next evening saying he would no longer have him as a guest.

OFFICIAL TRAILER: “WHAT IS A WOMAN?”
Matt Walsh

Cassie, that was a great rant earlier today listing all of the failures of Liberals, not just specifically Scott Morrison, although he was the frontrunner in them. We voted for Daniel in Wentworth on Saturday here, and I wished all Cats well with their electoral choices, neglecting to see another week had yet to go with it. I’m so upside down and all over the place with times with so much travel and busyness while here. We are meeting with ‘Friends of Friendless Churches’ soon, and one of Hairy’s mates from Jesus College, a retired barrister, has said he would speak to his brother who is a big-time QC on planning matters in Britain to provide pro bono advice if we need it.

Vicki, you are right that there are so many ways of treating Covid that health authorities neglect, some of them simple items from pharmacies. Now, and in the past few years.

C.L.says:
May 15, 2022 at 5:11 pm

Latho has been banned by Bolt…

What else would you expect from s wind vane. Just an observation – the last few episodes of Bolt that I’ve bothered to watch, it struck me that he may well have been on the whiskey.

The Germans undoubtedly have a word for this: the state of mind when you despise the ruling party but still want them to get up because you despise their opposition and its media hack publicists even more

That’s the thing, which ones are more deserving of my scorn. To my mind, I despise the current mob more than their main opponents simply because they are solely responsible for the mess we are in. Life under Labor won’t be nice but I can’t reward the present government with a vote as I view them as traitors, followers of an agenda foreign to most Australian’s wishes and values.

Sack them all.

Bolt did a solemn segment the next evening saying he would no longer have him as a guest.
Bolt does a Gotcha! on Latho.
He didn’t like it either.
Latho’s greatest moment was when he did that crusher handshake on Howard, it’s just too bad the cameras caught it.
Perhaps for the best though, Kevin Rudd woulda destroyed Latho’s P.M./ship in under 12 months.

The Russians don’t seem to have much in the way of battlefield recovery either. A lot of those carcasses seem to be repairable – at least not total losses. Must be a few turrets sitting on the bottom of the crik too.

Indeed.

Then again, you can’t recover anything you can’t secure on land you can’t control… 😉

Hop over to Keens Steakhouse and try their Mutton Chop.
Babe Ruth and Einstein reckoned it was the Duck’s Nuts.

Surely contradictory of the constitution, but immaterial of course until successfully challenged in the High Court. Who has any confidence Labor or Liberal won’t sign and follow with enthusiasm?

WHO Pandemic Treaty: What It Is, Why It Matters and How to Stop It

About the only acceptable result next week will be neither party able to form any kind of “workable” majority in either house.

If only so that we can enjoy the spectacle as they all line up at fat Clive’s place to kiss the ring.

Ender:
Here’s a guy eating a 2lb Chop at Keens.

@RockDoctor-

Apparently he reckons a T90 fully closed down and prepared can be fully submerged 6m.

Ditto every tank variant from T-64 onwards. And snorkelling prep is quicker than breaking out a pontoon bridge- Maybe an hour or so at most, conducted on dry land and under far easier cover/concealment conditions.

All BMP (tracked IFVs) and BTR (Wheeled APC) variants swim- Heck, take a close look at the rear of any BTR-60 variant and onwards- Nice big armoured propeller fairings to protect them when out of the water. That’s why they don’t have any rear doors or ramps.

Ha!
Just found Idi’s full title:
“HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT FOR LIFE, FIELD MARSHAL AL HADJI DOCTOR IDI AMIN DADA, VC, DSO, MC, LORD OF ALL THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH AND FISHES OF THE SEAS AND CONQUEROR OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AFRICA IN GENERAL AND UGANDA IN PARTICULAR”

Diary hears Wong was so devastated she swore off appearing on the ABC’s election night panel again.

dat wong chap, wot a pussy

We can thank the Americans, who believed Japan had to be occupied and subjugated, for modern Japan.

one could say the same about modern day china

Yesterday we drove up from Suffolk to Norfolk, from the South Folk to the North Folk, to spend three days touring around the Norfolk broads. It was fine, so we tossed off our jackets and joined the near-shirtless Brits in the sunny beer garden of a pub, Hairy with beer and me with cider, looking over a part of the Broads where more than eighty swans were gathering for food. Quite a sight. You can purchase the food from a charity stall. A shame today is overcast, as it won’t be great weather for the boat tour we have organised for 2pm. I place my hope now in some arvo sun, as often happens when mists clear.

One interesting thing I never knew about the famed Norfolk Broads: they are entirely man-made. In medieval times, in this rich land of Norfolk where the Duke had control of the trees, a large peasant population had to use river peat for cooking and heating, so they mined peat, creating football field sized flat-bottomed pits with steep sides, that soon became engulfed by the river tides and by rising sea levels, creating these miles of ‘broads’, which are really constructed lakes of various sizes and configurations along major rivers.

Taking hints from Rosie, we have been using Airbnb places, as we have a lot of luggage and like to spread out for a five-day stretch. The cost is similar here to a reasonable three or four star hotel, although if they sleep more than two the cost can rise. The first we took was in Colchester, which was a pleasant unit up two flights of stairs in a block, a luggage workout for Hairy. It was kitted out well from IKEA, with parking and was very convenient to the station and castle. Now we are here in Wroxham on the Norfolk Broads. Our spacious accommodation, recently refreshed and extremely comfortable, albeit with a few ‘quality’ plastic flowers and chintz lamps, is in an area of housing developed in the 50’s, so the trees are grown and superb, some already in situ even before this on the quietly located development at the back of some Broads (water lakes) only a few minutes walk away. We have the back part of an extended house and full use of the garden, which we see through a picture window and glass sliding door which gives us access to a private terrace.

The block is large, as these early modern blocks were, and has a subtly bumpy area of lawn (moles?) with a great oak tree to the left side. A squirrel goes up and down the oak like some Scandinavian legends of the World Tree (though an Ash not an Oak). Beyond the surrounding fence is an amphitheatre of huge cypress and other pine fronted by a few orchard trees and the garden shrubs at the end of the wooden fencing. A climbing rose archway and a trellis screen the small greenhouse. I sit at the outdoor table sipping my duty-free Tanquary G & T with thoughtfully provided ice cubes in the late descending evening, my eyes alert to a general flutter and whisk in the greenery as many different birds, large and small, start to hit the feeders and then settle themselves in for the night.

A Goldfinch swoops across in the flash of the last rays of the sun.

A fat mallard duck appears from under a shrub, a male with that iridescent neck, followed by a dutiful female in her drab brown. In a determined fashion he waddles the way towards me, so I quickly collect some of my left-over swan and duck food, and throw them a handful. They dine well, with the male giving way politely at times to the female, for spring is the courting season when males must show their true mettle.

Hairy’s view is that they are an old married couple. Mr. and Mrs. Duck, as he calls them. They have already arrived for breakfast and I greet them like old friends.

Now a blackbird and a wood pigeon enliven my morning with their sounds. An unchanging life for some in this part of Britain. I browse through three books on the Royal Family, left out for guests to peruse at their leisure. They end with one on ‘Diana, Princess of Wales’. Nothing more recent.

interesting comment by Latho on the LNPs failing vote in the rich bimbo wyoms demographic:

Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
·

May 12
Albanese campaigned yesterday in the seat of North Sydney, an amazing reflection of what ALP polling must be saying.
Labor would normally be running dead in that seat to help Teal beat Zimmerthing, but Labor must have numbers showing it can win the seat with Teal preferences!!

Vicki:

I cannot but think that the debacle of the last two years will lead to a crucial decline in confidence in all levels of decision making in Health issues. But maybe not.

It has in this household.

When representatives of the Australian cattle industry warned that an outbreak of this disease, in Indonesia, spread by cattle brought in from Brazil and India, was a likely consequence of the Gilliard Governments ban on the live cattle trade with Indonesia, they were scoffed at..It’s only taken a few more years..
Any reference for that Assertion?

Top Ender,

What are your views on the French amphibious helicopter carriers?

Should we have ordered them instead of the French submarines?

Thunder Boat: Inside the French Navy’s amphibious helicopter carrier “Tonnerre”

Rabzsays:
May 15, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Meh, she’s a blonde, who cares?

Sheesh. All this ‘orrible petty sniping at my beloved Miss Ellie. Enough, I tells ya! ?

Tell her to stick with the natural colour, though it is still a bit pale.

Bugger! Forgot the 🙂

Federal election results

Super Voter – 2022 Election – 2019 Election – Polling
63 Coalition 80 Labor

Based on those figures for Warringah, Liberals Dead as a DoDo to Useless Zali Steggall

Should we have ordered them instead of the French submarines?

the only thing we need is a nuclear deterrent

Interesting comment from Tan Grant being henpecked by the Deep State.

this week when Paul Symon, the director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, spoke at the Lowy Institute. He was outlining his vision for the future of foreign espionage when he stopped mid-sentence and asked whether Stan Grant was in the room. Now, I was meant to be there but got caught up in work at the ABC. Lucky. I may well have ducked my head and crept for the exit, pleading “It wasn’t me, I wasn’t there!”
Symon wanted to comment on something I had written, that democracy bends toward tyranny. He said he found the idea troubling, yet he could see how it was playing out in our world.

To make a long rant short, Tan Grant is right.