Excellent commentary on the May 21 federal election by Rebecca Weisser at adh.tv:

… what we have just gone through is a Potemkin election campaign, like the fake villages that Grigori Potemkin constructed to persuade his beloved empress, Catherine the Great of Russia, of the prosperity of her subjects.

Our election was real in the sense that Australians were casting valid votes, but the outcome cannot change policies on vital issues because of a consensus of silence on all aspects of the pandemic. The only hope of progress on these areas is if Republicans win control of the Congress and Senate in the US. It is a very sorry comment on the state of politics in Australia.

RTWT.

PS, Dover: I just hate the compulsory italics in the “quote” format.

Jason Wilson

runner up 7 times running in the smuggle/most punchable face portrait competition base on his gruinaid pic alone.
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/writer/jason-wilson/#:~:text=Jason%20Wilson%20is%20a%20Guardian,Journalism%2C%20Convergence%2C%20and%20Continuum.

A “facsism” expert who defines it much like Munter, if its not explicitly of the left then its far right.

eg…

Figures within ultra-conservative Christian church are behind popular books, cartoon and nature doc
This article is more than 6 months old
Observers raise questions over whether the media ventures advance Idaho’s Christ Church’s agenda
…
Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals
…
Australia’s absurd moral panic around critical race theory aims to silence demands for justice
…
Threats by menacing clowns led DC police to surveil online accounts

Everything is hitler.

Claude Monet & one of my favorite paintings!
Thanks DB!

The italics within a quote looks good on my Android phone. It’s still an extra step and an extra opportunity to corrupt a post with mismatched tags.

Not a very flattering picture of our noble “fist nations” culture.

Billions of dollars and squillions of manhour resources lavished on them hasn’t worked. Maybe by guaranteeing these savages a voice in Parliament will fix it?

Justice Kelly argued that Aboriginal women were being made to bear the “absolutely dreadful” brunt of society’s failure to fix problems such as unemployment, passive welfare dependency, ­substance abuse and inter­generational trauma. Those women were confronted in their communities by culture not just of silence but of actively silencing victims and were usually powerless to help themselves.

Just finished reading the hard copy Saturday Australian which we have delivered. Haven’t really read the Oz much at all while we were away, just glanced occasionally at the headlines sent to my phone.

There is a remarkable change in this paper since I last read it, before the election. At that time it has some sensible comments about coal, climate, gender dysphoria, and there was commentary to read about ‘woke’ matters in general.

Today I couldn’t find anything I could be bothered reading. Especially crap was the wrap-around about electric cars and the puff piece in it from some management consultancy about the huge opportunities Australia had in the manufacture and marketing of ‘green’ stuff to sell in the big coming green boom. Is it really worth keeping up our subscription? I ask Hairy, who has just surfaced. We can keep the subs to Quadrant and the Spectator and the IPA, I suggest, the mail piled-up back copies of which still hold some reading promise.

I don’t much like being back here under the new umbrella of The Oz cosying up to Labor.
Seems everyone’s suddenly all for the new broom.

Tool Report:

The old bloke was complaining about trying to clean some weld out of a corner so I brought an 18V Makita cordless die grinder and some Sutton carbide burrs.

Unbelievable, it’s like a little 18V hand held milling machine, took off a huge amount of weld with a minimum of fuss. The only criticism is that the collet is a bit inclined to let the cutter walk out.

Those women were confronted in their communities by culture not just of silence but of actively silencing victims and were usually powerless to help themselves.

What’s the ethnic makeup of Women’s Prisons?
90% Indigenous.
What are they locked up for?
Well, let’s put it this way:
They didn’t pinch a grape from the GreenGrocer.

Minister for the Republic. We had a Minister for the Olympics, but not before being awarded the Games.

Thanks, Cassie. I need an injection of some Catallaxy political energy, that’s for sure. Will email soon.

I have a lot to do and no back burners allowed. I’ve made promises to certain people in Britain to finish work on my Arthurian material. I’ve also got work to do on the internecine complexities of the Parish, Diocese, National Trust, and various heritage-at-risk registers concerning my ancestral church, where my visit has started some sparks flying; and my eldest grandson, just returned from the US, is turning nineteen next week, therefore celebrations are due.

Much to tell you about in all of that lot too.
As well as our trip in general. We had, as you would say, a fabbo time.

Agree SP, he does lose the plot on some things however he’s right on most things.

And if we keep fragging everyone with whom we disagree on one or two issues we’re just clearing the way for the “progressives”.

I, too, am home. I can’t believe how fast the weeds have grown. Laundry, unpacking, house airing all done.

Megan mentioned the cotton bales up thread, and some lefty random suggesting they go into cotton buds. I presume cotton buds are the latest useful thing to be demonised?

Cotton requires a stack of irrigation and pest control, but is environmentally friendly in the disposal stage, an area that most so-called environmentalists rarely consider.

Any recommendations for a cordless hammer drill?

Any recommendations for a cordless hammer drill?

If you want to go cordless in a hammer drill then I think you need to go branded, like a makita or a dewalt. If it’s a one off job then the answer might be a corded cheapie. I reckon even in corded if you’re going over 1/4” then you probably need to buy brand name. I had about 20 1/2” holes to do in a slab and none of the cheapies survived (the hammer disc flattened out meaning no hammer!)

Just looked at the AEC site, which has the turnout at 87.29%. Not sure of the finer points of what that actually means but at face value one in eight not turning up still looks pretty bad.

More evidence that the USA is turning into a 21st century version of the USSR. Fucking disgusting too.

McCarthy was right.

And if we keep fragging everyone with whom we disagree on one or two issues we’re just clearing the way for the “progressives”.

Just look at how the alternative right was split between One Nation, UAP and the Liberal Democrats. They need a uniting voice and Pauline Hanson ain’t it.

I fucking hate corded tools with a passion

Cordless tools are awesome. Tradies use them because they don’t need testing and tagging, and I love them because I get to select “not applicable” in my WHS reports for power tools.

Why abandon the mid terms? Isn’t it easier just to rig them?

Tasmania had the highest turnout with 91%. An island of ruggedly compliant types it seems.

Hooray! Willie Pike, exiled from WA by its power-drunk premier Mark McClown because he refused to take a Kung Flu jab that doesn’t work, gets his first Queensland group 1 at Eagle Farm aboard Gypsy Goddess ($4.40), trained by ex-smack junkie David Van Dyke, also winning his first Queensland group 1. Great story.

Tradies use them because they don’t need testing and tagging,

Unless they bring the charger to work..
Had a bloody reportable incident when a power board shat itself because of being full of dust and much where it was set up to recharge a fleet of differing battery powered tools.

Oooh! I’m still shaking after last night’s terrifying ordeal involving a box of tissues and…

Ah, perhaps not. I don’t want to trigger any arachnophobes among us.

Grinder apps?
Is monkeypox nourishing?

I think it’s hilarious how the health nazis are trying to gin up the pox…while carefully stepping around the cultural practices causing its spread amongst the certain demographic.

More Than 700 Monkeypox Cases Globally, 21 in US: CDC (3 Jun)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday it was aware of more than 700 global cases of monkeypox, including 21 in the United States, with investigations now suggesting spread inside the country.

Sixteen of the first 17 cases were among people who identify as men who have sex with men, according to a new CDC report, and 14 were thought to be travel associated.

All patients are in recovery or have recovered, and no cases have been fatal.

Terrifying! Ok a bit tough to spin it too far, so I detect a bit of disappointment among the pandemic caped crusaders. But there’s always another bus coming along in a minute.

Newly discovered coronavirus common in bank voles (Phys.org, 3 Jun)

Researchers from the Zoonosis Science Center at Uppsala University have identified a new coronavirus. Their study of approximately 260 bank voles caught around Grimsö, Örebro County, shows that the virus is well established in Sweden’s red-backed voles.
…
Unlike the SARS-CoV and MERS coronaviruses that originate in bats, seasonal coronaviruses, such as HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-HKU1, appear to have spread to humans from rodents like rats, mice and voles. The objective is to increase knowledge and develop methods that can effectively limit major virus outbreaks and avoid infection spreading from animals to humans.

Let me be the first to say we don’t know yet how deadly it is, but one can never be too careful. As a precaution, whatever you might wish, do not have sex with voles.

Delta A

*Renewables without reliable baseload, Granny deaths from botched pandemic policy, psychological damage to schoolchildren due to perverse and inaccurate information, (promotion of 57 genders, Pascoe history, etc,) manipulating supply chain to cause food and other essentials shortages… I could go on.

**Pollies and families investing in and supporting renewables. Pollies and families investing in and supporting Big Pharma. I could go on

Worthy of investigation by m0nty-fa’s desired federal ICAC, but unlikely to attract its attention, if the commissioners wish to keep their jobs.

Today I stood and watched 36 teenage boys being groomed to become homosexuals while their parents stood and looked on approvingly.

Melbourne Grammar vs Brighton Grammar Firsts schoolboy AFL match.
Boys were arranged arm in arm alternating MGS/BGS/MGS… to be lectured at length by some “educator” about how wonderful homosexuality is and that it must be embraced.
They all wore special rainbow guernseys, and the ground was decorated with painted rainbows.

It was deeply disturbing that there wasn’t even one dissenter from this propaganda.
It was a very strange feeling, not least that these were supposed to be the highest exponents of physical manliness at two of Melbournes finest schools reduced to faggotry and ponce.

Three questions:
How many of the boys were deeply uncomfortable, but did not want to be the bad guy for declining?
How many of the parents (fathers or mothers) disapproved, but said nothing?
What did the schoolgirls in the crowd think of their potential future partners?

“do not have sex with voles”.

I think I am in the clear as have no idea what they look like. Do they have blonde and brunette options and if I was to encounter one and required pillow talk would it be talking English or some Scandinavian dialect?

OK, I’ll grant you “in general”, but where I work we design and manufacture stuff (from locally sourced materials, where available) and we not only supply to Australians, but also to Un Zud, the US, Asia (inc. China!), the Middle East, Africa, South America and the EU. We are a preferred supply for industry leaders here and overseas, and are consistently recognised as best in the world at what we do

Yes, Kneel, my disclaimer was for people such as yourself and your organisation, which should be given due credit for not being the Labor preferred industries of old tech and highly unionised workforces.

Labor shouldn’t be anywhere near innovation, quality or dynamic manufacturers.

Terrific result for the LNP if Stoker gets up.
They lost 2 Liberal Seats to The Greens in a Swing, kept 3 Senators and have both Leaders of the Coalition.

Predator sounds much too energetic. I recommend parasitic class

Lamprey?
Leech?
Tax ticks?
Threadworm?

America seems to have a bad case of Guinea worm elites. (Carter doing good work here)

rickw says:
June 4, 2022 at 2:29 pm

If you want to go cordless in a hammer drill then I think you need to go branded, like a makita or a dewalt. If it’s a one off job then the answer might be a corded cheapie. I reckon even in corded if you’re going over 1/4” then you probably need to buy brand name. I had about 20 1/2” holes to do in a slab and none of the cheapies survived (the hammer disc flattened out meaning no hammer!

)

There is a hammer drill with a piston action and there is a ‘hammer drill’ with the rotating disk action.
The former is a tool the latter is a toy.

The O’biden/Harris Administration is doing this because he called the Republican lobby’s bluff. Despite the overwhelming evidence of gross electoral fraud, the Right did nothing. Not one Courthouse was burned, not one corrupt politician was tarred and feathered, not one shot fired in defence of the Constitution.
As for January 6th, you were played for fools – some of your people are still in jail despite the Constitutional guarantees of their Habeas Corpus rights and still nothing is done.
All over the world, people saw the gun totin’, God fearin’ Republicans sit on their arses and do nothing except fold.
Your Constitution is dead. The Democrats killed it. Your 1st and 2nd Amendments are not worth the paper they are written on. Unless the will to defend your Rights is there, you don’t have any.

Delta, you need a cat. Mine will spy a huntsman on the ceiling and follow it around for days until it ventures low enough for a jump and a swipe and a snack. She eats the tasty centre bit and leaves the legs and head. Alas, she often leaves the remains on my bed.

even Molly Meldrum can’t muster enough enthusiasm for your latest “experimental epic”.

There’s your problem: Molly. I’ve always liked that track but nothing by Stevie Nicks. Much preferred Christine McVie at the microphone.

Mode of transmission is swapping bodily fluids in a sweaty transaction

Your fantasy doesn’t explain how travelers to Africa got MonkeyPox.

Technically it just missed the cutoff for the seventies, but this is the open thread so here goes. Just caught this on the wireless half an hour ago, featuring one of my favourite female voices in top form:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkHf069fvA

Perhaps Doverlord’s assembling bricks.

https://youtu.be/r48BLz42NuI

Oh, if it’s cut down, then that excludes 12″ singles, let alone concept albums

Apologies. 🙁

btw – Ed seems not to realise that Female* sex tourism in Africa is a thing.

* – and probably male/homosexual, too.

Better in ‘Sandy’ mode than ‘aerobics’ mode? Still love her voice.

Alternate seventies vibe (when I was safely tucked in bed), recreated in the eighties.

https://youtu.be/UYSUYR8gqiU

Found Suzi’s autobiography in an op- shop or Lion’s den sale once. A good fun read. Still on my bookshelf alongside tomes yet to be read. One anecdote was how she was embarrassed about dropping the ‘f’ bomb in a concert once she remembered her parents were in the crowd.