The seventies thread is up. No one arrives at a party at the specified time…

Concrete and clay belongs in the ’60s thread…

Concrete and clay belongs in the ’60s thread…

More cowbell.

I brought a mill drill for tractor club, the story behind it is a good one:

The machine belonged to a Vietnamese bloke, arrived here when he was 38 (boat to Malaysia, Vietnam war refugee), got a job with Ford as a machinist, never managed to learn to speak English. Had 6 kids but the house got selected on the basis of having a workshop so his kids didn’t have much room. In his spare time he started fixing bakery machinery, this is the mill drill he used for that endeavour. When he retired he continued to do the bakery machine repairs and did a lot of work on the local Vietnamese Bhuddist temple. Eventually he got to old and sick to use his machinery but he wouldn’t let his kids sell them (my kind of guy!).

When I picked up the mill I mentioned to his son what I intended to do with it. He was happy that it was going to be used in the tractor version of a mens shed. He made a request that I send him a photo of it when it was set up, just sent him some photos of it installed. Got a very nice message back in return.

WWII bomber gunner deflection shooting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdJOlD4hXs4

Week In Pictures.

The last photo in the WIP reminded me of this one of maj’s great grandfather.

Some things never change.

Regarding Zulu post last night Dutton will have upset the woke military who thought that was a good idea. However not to worry you can guarantee Labour will now implement it with the appropriate local ceremonies and PR. I mean First Nations now means First Priority (I jest as we know that it climate change).

“Over on Michael Smith – apparently one action Peter Dutton took, as Minister for Defence, was to cancel the plan to give defence force establishments indigenous names”.

Tell me what crime has been committed? Was it actually in private? The details are hazy.

Also tell me how hard it would be to prove, how often women would be charged for the same (look at modern clothing)?

If it’s true I’m not saying that guy is perfect. I have trouble believing her because if her physical prowess she decides she has later in life.

You need to list the things this women is blaming men for and what would be a solution other than radical Islam.

Then I want to know under what circumstances she says men can initiate physical contact with a would be girlfriend.

https://medium.com/age-of-empathy/twenty-year-old-girl-alone-with-two-men-on-a-boat-975882071ba6

Note she says a 20 year old woman is a girl.

If you can’t consent, why should you be able to vote?

There are a couple of comments along the lines of “nothing actually happened” and “yea don’t go alone in a boat with two guys you don’t know next time”.

Old Ozzie beat me to it on the Paddington Bear story. Good fun and you get to see The Queen playing Queen. YouTube only seems to have shorter versions of the clip but Daily Mail article has full clip.

Bowen tells SKY we’re in the energy crisis because we relied too much on coal & gas.
If we could burn stupidity then there’d be no shortage.

Biden Implies Ukraine May Need to Cede Territory to Russia During Negotiated Settlement

June 4, 2022 | sundance

Farmer Gezsays:
June 5, 2022 at 8:31 am
Bowen tells SKY we’re in the energy crisis because we relied too much on coal & gas.
If we could burn stupidity then there’d be no shortage.

Problem being Gez is the Left is low energy.

Jonathan Turley: Dems May Be Ensuring Their Own Destruction With Latest Moves by Jan. 6 Cmte

This has not been the way the DOJ has handled such things in the past, and that’s a problem. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley points out in a new op-ed how, normally, contempt charges like this are not pursued by the DOJ–even when you had flagrant contempt from Eric Holder. But he was a Democrat, so he wasn’t pursued. Navarro, on the other hand, was just charged with contempt in April, and they are going after him with speed; although, even though they’re trying to pistol-whip it through, they may not have a prosecution before November.

But Turley notes that Democrats’ actions could ensure their destruction in the process.

The US has criminalized political dissent. No better than the USSR. There’s no doubt in my mind that the establishment is looking to imprison Trump. His supporters have been so it’s the next step. Tragic that a great country has been completely fucked over by criminals. Marx and the mafia.

Bowen tells SKY we’re in the energy crisis because we relied too much on coal & gas.

3 weeks ago everything was fine apart from moaning about Scotty.
It seems like a Lost Golden Age now.

Sancho Panzersays:
June 5, 2022 at 8:02 am
Wake up everyone! I’ve just had a recce of the golf course and you’re still in bed.

Not everyone does that.

I noticed the facial ( that should be faecal) expression or the lack of it is the same as Hillary Clinton, a practiced liar.

A shame Singo sold it.

Always going to happen

Nope. Not soon anyway. The polling says the Ukrainian people are very angry and refuse to contemplate ceding territory, not even Crimea. Big numbers.

Ukrainian pollies are driven by a touching desire not to be assassinated, arrested or tortured. All of which are quite likely to happen to any of them who suggest ceding territory to Russia.

This will probably change slowly with time as war exhaustion sets in. But it’ll take years.

Deep Thoughts with Kamala Harris, at the 90th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors
June 4, 2022 | Sundance

The polling says the Ukrainian people are very angry and refuse to contemplate ceding territory, not even Crimea. Big numbers.

Russia has established facts on the ground in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea,
the only thing left for the angry people is to either head to the Front and be blown to pieces or hotfoot it to the EU as refugees, which is what the smarter ones did in the weeks before February 22.

Farmer Gezsays:
June 5, 2022 at 8:31 am
Bowen tells SKY we’re in the energy crisis because we relied too much on coal & gas.
If we could burn stupidity then there’d be no shortage.

This is the new talking point being promoted by the polies and the media. The Weekend Oz in its analysis of the fuel crisis only made passing reference to there being a shortage of renewables. It was supposedly all due to shortage /cost of gas and faulty coal plants. Yet on June 1st for example, as I posted on Catallaxy at the time, at 7.15pm EST South Australia was producing no wind and no solar energy at all and right across the other states renewables were below 10% of total supply. They can duck and shove all they like to cover up for the unreliability of wind and solar but both are unreliable products and the more we rely on them the more we risk total grid failure.

How did Heels Up ever get a law degree?

She’s pretty smart, just not smart enough to know she’s being used.
Her mother was a Tamil Brahmin, very smart people, and her father
is an Affirmative Action hire Jamaican at one of the Universities.
Since intelligence is heritable, yeah, she’s smart enough to finish Law School on her merits.

And if the Crimea is going to be given back to anyone, it should be returned to the Tartars.

The Genovese, I’m sure you meant. 😉

As for the Ukrainians getting back Crimea that’s between Russia and Ukraine. None of my business. The Ukrainian people are furious, and fury is not conducive to logical thinking. How long they stay furious is up to them, but Slavs hold grudges for a very long time and they’re the ones who feel wronged. The Russian people think Donbas and Crimea theirs by right (again in big polling numbers) but they’re less likely to be in die-in-a-ditch mode.

She can’t string a coherent sentence together.

I’m starting to think it is a deliberate ploy so that she can’t be pinned down on anything. That way she keeps her copy book “clean” for when and if she takes over from Jo.

Bowen is one of the stinkier stinkers out there. What worthless people they are. We are governed by dilletants and parasites. What bludge course did he do at the Uni?

A fifth of the population, mainly in the East, are ethnic Russians; a tenth, mainly in the West, are Uniate Catholics, who have a special place in Catholic policy since the papacy of John Paul II. Ukrainian nationality is as dubious as Byelorussian nationality: neither of them had a dictionary of their language until 1918.

Okay Vlad.

Russia has only existed since 1991.

Actually no I didn’t. I think the Tartars have more of a claim to the Crimea than the Genoese. But anyway BoN, since you like to be pernickety, let’s return it to the Scythians

Greeks… 😀

Ukrainian pollies are captive to the will of their population, so they’ll not do anything which will turn that fury towards themselves.

Bruce: I’m not that’s quite accurate, but the general principle of politicians bending to the will of the punters is certainly not a bad, bad thing.

Looks like the Queen is a good shot.

She is, she would have learnt in the WRAAF (?) and she used to hunt deer on her estates on Scotland.

I like Betty. I am certainly no monarchist but the Queen seems level headed, pretty sharp and can mix with all types. I have very little faith in her kids or grandkids. I say most of them are not worthy of their
birthright.

Hopefully she gets to stick around for a couple of more decades and the throne can pass straight to little Geo. VII.

That’s very unlikely though.

I am pro Greater Liguria. 🙂

If the Aust. govt spent $311 billion fighting covid and the pop. is 25750198 then $12077.50 was spent per person in 2 years. How much did you receive?

Byzantium for the Byzantines!!
That will clean up most of the Middle East and Balkans in one hit.

Zelensky is stuck with the Palestinian leaders dilemma, if he declares any sort of compromise his assassination/ overthrow is likely.
What a mess.

This weekend, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church.
…
Pentecost always occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and ten days after his ascension into heaven. Because Easter is a moveable feast without a fixed date, and Pentecost depends on the timing of Easter, Pentecost can fall anywhere between May 10 and June 13.
…
The name of the day itself is derived from the Greek word “pentecoste,” meaning 50th.

In the Christian tradition, Pentecost is the celebration of the person of the Holy Spirit coming upon the Apostles, Mary, and the first followers of Jesus, who were gathered together in the Upper Room.

CNA

Dot, earlier and apropos of ’20 year girl alone with two men on a boat’:

Titillating indeed. At first, it sounded like the two evil men (of around the same age) enticed this waif onto their rape ship, using their previous mutual bonhomie as cover, for a secretive journey to Smuggler’s Cove for dastardly deeds.

Except it wasn’t. After an extended previous period of mutual friendly interaction*, it turned out to be one bloke who put the hard word (and only ‘word’) on her while the other wasn’t looking: he was flatly refused and the chick then put a denim dress on, jumped overboard, maxed out the drama to a bloke on another boat and inspired a punch on when the other bloke in the first boat found out about the second bloke in the first boat’s advance.

A complete fizzer.

*I will assert here that blokes to do not randomly get the chop out in front of ladeees, enquiring about potential mutual cardio work as they do so without a significant amount of lead-up from both sides – which generally involve (at the very least) a banquet of double-entendres that make Viz magazine look like amateur hour.

The war can end conclusively when Zelensky or Putin is gone.

That was the general view around Hitler.

The problems were a) the Soviets were too committed and too enraged to stop, and b) the bloke who thought he could open a successful dialogue with the Western Allies was Himmler.

Slow news day. The Hun:

The playing contracts for Australian cricket superstars Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy are worth just 10 per cent of their male counterparts in a sobering reminder of how far there is to go for equity in sport.

News Corp can reveal the stunning pay disparity where Pat Cummins takes home $1.8 million as the top ranked men’s cricketer, compared to the biggest names of Australia’s all-conquering women’s team who are paid under $150,000 to play for their country.

The ‘pay disparity’ is zero.

When Meg Lanning can accumulate a similar number of runs as Labuschagne while facing Broad, Anderson, Wood, Boult, Holder and Khan using boundaries the same size (and a ball the same size) she can get $1 mill plus. No problem.

When Ellyse Perry can do the same things as Stoinis, Green and Head against people like Ben Stokes (using a ball the same size), she can get $1 mill plus. No problem.

When Alyssa Healy, as a keeper/bat can wicketkeep to the same standard as her uncle Ian, and make runs against bowlers of the same standard as her husband Mitchell Starc, and using a ball the same size – she too can have $1 mill plus. No problem.

Until then, they can stop a) their bitching, and b) believing their own press put out by Cricket Australia.

Thanks Cassie, that Quadrant Morrison post is spot on.

For me the most important issue at the moment of is the Vax mandates. Whilst it does not currently affect me I can see every Government and medical expert are itching to mandate the next jab they think we should get. This despite the fact the jabs are outdated and proven to wane. Yet people’s jobs are threatened for non compliance.

All with not any serious comments from MSM with the exception of Ben Fordham on Monday last week. As a long time news consumer I have never seen such a lack of coverage of such an important issue. The Oz MSM won’t publish anything that goes against the Vax is good narrative. You never see articles mentioning : Vax injury or even death ; how difficult to get an exemption; Dr’s with opposing views, especially ones who lost financially; the poor and contradictory modelling; etc.

Double jabbed but no more.

Naplam pineapple thanks spellwrecker

Note she says a 20 year old woman is a girl.

Funny isn’t it? young and naïve at 35, a girl at 20 but at 13 a woman because Mo Rope

Narrative is the prerogative of the story teller, indeed.

GB article by Peter Hitchens, nonetheless we should consider it a warning here in Oz esp when we see some of these signs appearing.

“A short time later, the man lost consciousness and NSW Ambulance paramedics were called; they took him to Liverpool Hospital, however, he was unable to be revived.”

My money is on ‘off his head on drugs’ and would have probably OD’d anyway. That or roadkill. In other words, too stupid to be wasting good oxygen!

Ironic how progressivism grew out of US based 19th century evangelical protestantism – now it ends in child drag shows.

Forget the UK bunting. A whole month set aside by governments to worship perversion. It even has a kiddies section like Sunday School.

Bowen tells SKY we’re in the energy crisis because we relied too much on coal & gas.

I very much doubt that any LNP supporters and fair chunk of the rest believe this. Bowen has never come cross as much more than a spin doctor. The majority believed that Govt change was desirable so the last thing they want to hear about now is Bowen spending time cowering behind the previous Govt. What voters want to know is what the filth were elected for ie what are you, Bowen, doing about putting it right and bringing down our energy bills?

Hopefully then the moment of realization will dawn when people twig that they are getting exactly what they allowed to grow. A horrendously expensive renewable infested but unreliable grid.

Ironic how progressivism grew out of US based 19th century evangelical protestantism – now it ends in child drag shows.

Do you have any articles, books, links to that assertion, Dot?

I’m curious because to my knowledge “evangelical” means teaching of and reliance on the Gospel and “protestantism” is the break from the Church of Rome over a number of issues.

It would be interesting to track how either of these things could be the source of the scourge that now besets us.

calli, I think Dot had the likes of William Jennings Bryant in mind, a lefty ‘reformer’ but a literalist rather than an evangelical.

India’s top diplomat reminded the West that the world doesn’t revolve around it

By calling a spade a spade and publicly discussing the open secret that all countries are primarily driven by the pursuit of what their leaderships sincerely regard as their objective national interests, MEA Jaishankar is doing a global service by removing the taboo that’s informally surrounded any talk about this fact.

Minister of External Affairs (MEA) Jaishankar reaffirmed his credentials as one of the world’s top multipolar conservative-sovereigntists (MCS) after reminding the West during an event on Friday that the world doesn’t revolve around it. He was speaking at the Slovakian GLOBSEC think tank and responding to questions about his civilization-state’s foreign policy in the New Cold War when he said that “Europe has to get out of the mindset that Europe’s problem is the world’s problem but the world’s problem is not Europe’s problem.” For as simple as that statement might be, it was extremely powerful coming from a rising Global South Great Power like India, which has proudly refused to submit to US-led Western pressure to publicly condemn Russia for its ongoing special military operation in Ukraine and subsequently sanction it.

As MEA Jaishankar explained it:

“I am one-fifth of the world’s population. I am what today is the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world. Forget the history and civilisation bit; everybody knows that. I feel I am entitled to have my own side. I am entitled to weigh my own interests, and make my own choices. My choices will not be cynical and transactional. They will be a balance of my values and my interests. There is no country in the world which disregards its interests.”

He couldn’t have put it more clearly since it should be obvious to all that India is too large, influential, and powerful of a country to allow itself to be pushed around by others. Its Neo-Realist foreign policy is aligned with the global zeitgeist, but unlike the US-led West, India isn’t going to gaslight by pretending that it’s solely driven by so-called “values” and doesn’t put its own interests first.

One of the only reasons why the US-led West has such negative views about Russia is because its people are the captive audience of elite-controlled media after their governments either censored publicly financed Russian media or made it impossible for them to operate in those countries. If average folks there had equal access to information like the vast majority of the people in the Global South do, then it’s probable that they’d have better perceptions about Russia, but that’s precisely why their authorities have censored those platforms in order to cultivate groupthink among their citizens with the expectation that they’ll unquestionably support whatever their governments do to “contain” Russia.

You don’t have to be stupid to be a conspiracy theorist. Many people who buy into paranoid fantasies about stolen Presidential elections and sinister global Jewish cabals are perfectly sane, well-educated individuals. So why do they fall for these myths? This week we consider the possibility that the attraction is primarily aesthetic, and that the experience is fun – because the world of a conspiracy theory is very like the world of a game, and the rage, fear and conviction that conspiracy theorists display are aestheticized versions of the real thing. But why the perennial focus on Jews? The answer can be found in a peculiar tension between philosophical monism and the worldview of the TV series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Oops, link to The Philosopher’s Zone not working, ABC Radio National.

Dismantle the D.C. Company Town

It’s time that Americans faced up to the reality that their governing apparat is a corrupt, self-engorging Leviathan.

It pains me to admit that Democrats seem to have a far better sense of all that than do Republicans. Perhaps it’s because Democrats have a visceral appreciation of William Hazlitt’s observation that “those who lack delicacy hold us in their power.” The Democrats, that is to say, long ago became expert at the game of holding their opponents to standards that they themselves violate not just with impunity but with ostentatious glee.

Navarro is not so lucky. He lives next to the FBI building. They could have simply asked him to drop by. He would have showed up. But that would not have been sufficiently dramatic. Instead, our geheime Staatspolizei apprehended him while he was boarding a plane. They slapped the 72-year-old man in handcuffs and leg irons and threw him into a cell once occupied, they were careful to tell him, by John Hinckley, the lunatic who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981. The timeline here deserves our attention. On May 31, Navarro sued the January 6 committee and the DOJ. On June 3, he was arrested and arraigned. Unlike Eric Holder, who merely scoffed at the contempt judgment, Navarro faces up to two years in prison and a $200,000 fine.

Donald Trump made a few half-hearted stabs at dismantling the lumbering machine that is the Washington establishment, but that seems like a long time ago and, besides, the swamp closed almost instantly to reassert its prerogatives. In his next term, however, he should make the destruction of the Washington machine one of his highest priorities. It won’t be easy. To be frank, I am not sure, absent some world-shaking calamity, it is even possible. But it is nevertheless necessary if anything resembling the republic as envisioned by the founders is to be salvaged.

Doctors file lawsuit claiming FDA unlawfully blocking use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19

A group of doctors filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is unlawfully prohibiting them from using ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

The case names the FDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and FDA Commissioner Robert Califf as defendants.

The plaintiffs, Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Robert L. Apter and Paul E. Marik, argued in the 37-page filing that the FDA acted beyond its authority by prohibiting the use of ivermectin to treat COVID and the agency also

“did not engage in reasoned decision making when it acted in a formal, conclusory, and unequivocal manner to prevent or otherwise interfere with the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.”

The doctors also accused the FDA of violating the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by “deliberately” interfering with the practice of medicine.

Bowden commented on the filing in a press release from Boyden Gray & Associates, the law firm representing her and the other doctors.

“Sadly, fighting the system has been a much bigger challenge than fighting the disease. Despite my excellent track record treating COVID patients, the FDA’s smear campaign against ivermectin continues to be a daily hurdle to overcome.”

Plaintiff Apter noted:

“Pronouncements from the FDA against the use of ivermectin have been the basis for disciplinary actions against doctors, interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, and have had a severe chilling effect on the use of life-saving medication for a deadly disease.”

Marik called the FDA’s comments on ivermectin “misleading” and said the agency has “raised unwarranted concern over a critical drug in preventing and treating COVID-19.”

While the FDA has dedicated a whole page on its website to “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19,” some states are taking measures to counter the agency. Last month, the Missouri Legislature passed a bill to protect doctors who prescribe ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID.