Open Thread – Weekend 4 Jun 2022


Claude Monet, The Road in front of Saint-Simeon Farm in Winter, 1867

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Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 4:23 pm

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

Progressivism arose from liberal northern Protestantism in the post-Civil War period, not what would later come to be known as evangelicalism.

Franx
Franx
June 5, 2022 4:27 pm

The queen referred to her life at the start of her reign in the unusual terms of ‘whether it be short or long’.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 4:34 pm

JCsays:

June 5, 2022 at 1:29 pm

In 2024, if Trump is the nominee on the GOP side and Gavin Newsom on the Demonrat side, Don Jr’s girlfriend is Newsom’s ex-wife. Think about that one.

Look, I’ll be happy if we get through it all without someone shitting in someone else’s bed.

Jorge
Jorge
June 5, 2022 4:35 pm

Good speech by Charles as ever. He’ll be a good king, more fun than mummy. More like grandmama.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 4:42 pm

156g for the mens’ pill.

To be fair indoor we all had the same: a tennis ball with a leather cover. I never liked them, too light. You could get them to swing like bananas though, which was fun.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 5, 2022 4:45 pm

Regale us with the width of your flares in ’77.

You know you want to. ?

I was just a wee lad in ’77. My only fashion crime from that time was a hot pink shirt.

Tom
Tom
June 5, 2022 4:48 pm

Western Australia MP Andrew Hastie will join cabinet as the shadow minister for defence

One of the few things Dutton has got right so far.

Until he accepts that most of the electorate understands that being hated by the Australian media is a badge of honour that he should wear proudly which most people share, he is simply adding to the terms of government it will take for the LNP to regain power.

My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade. The 2022 election was a disaster for the LNP, which lost 19 seats. There is also now a buffer of 19 seats between the LNP’s 58 and the ALP 77 seats — and most of that buffer is loony left teals and Filth in rich inner suburban doctor’s wives seats that I reckon will never come back to the LNP.

The ALP will be kept in power for the foreseeable future by Green-leaning inner suburban rich people — the athiest Simon Holmes a Court demographic that believes in scientific fairy tales like global warmening.

The LNP needs to start building a coalition of the outer suburban, aspirational middle class or it will be in the wilderness for a lot longer than a decade — an ambition that Dutton has thankfully enunciated.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 4:52 pm

Regale us with the width of your flares in ’77.

The width of the flare was proportionate to the height of the platform shoe. And the tightness of the pants.

Everyone who was there knows this. 🙂

Tom
Tom
June 5, 2022 4:53 pm

Addendum: 2022 AEC state of the parties: ALP 77, LNP 58.

rickw
rickw
June 5, 2022 4:55 pm

The last two years have destroyed the public image of Australia.

Yep, a country with politicians as venomous as the fauna.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 4:55 pm

Credlin’s column today roasted the Government’s inaction over providing cheap, reliable electricity over the past decade.

Remind me again who Ms Credlin and hubby work/ed for?

They seem to think we don’t notice.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 5, 2022 4:55 pm

My only fashion crime from that time was a hot pink shirt.

I was able to get away with a body shirt.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 4:56 pm

Yep, a country with politicians as venomous as the fauna.

With neither its charm nor its intelligence.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 4:58 pm

How many buttons did you leave undone, Zulu? 🙂

The Beloved favoured Levis western cut shirts, the ol’ cowboy wannabe.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 5, 2022 5:01 pm

The ALP will be kept in power for the foreseeable future by Green-leaning inner suburban rich people — the athiest Simon Holmes a Court demographic that believes in scientific fairy tales like global warmening.

Ha ha.
They’ll be lucky to see the Term out.
Labor is a dying Party of Oldsters stuck in the Whitlam Era.
There ain’t enough Doctors Wives, the Chinese, Vietnamese and Africans all live in a handful of electorates, so they’re no help, women voters don’t like standing in breadlines, write them off, and The Greens have pinched the Youth Vote.
All Peter Dutton has to do is avoid a discussion on Nuclear Power, sack any idiot that talks about that, Economic Rationalism or restarting the Climate Wars and he’s home and hosed for twenty years.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 5, 2022 5:06 pm

Addendum: 2022 AEC state of the parties: ALP 77, LNP 58.

They’ve given Gilmore to Labor on those figures, but it’s still in play for the Liberal Party.
Albanese has only 76, so he’s on wood before he ever starts.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 5, 2022 5:13 pm

The width of the flare was proportionate to the height of the platform shoe. And the tightness of the pants.

Everyone who was there knows this. ?

Yep. I wuz there. O happy days of yore. The idiotic fashions matched the politics.
By 1980 though I had met the Hairy One and we both set out turning conservative.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 5, 2022 5:14 pm

My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade

The Liars will self destruct in that time.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 5, 2022 5:15 pm

Albanese has only 76, so he’s on wood before he ever starts.

Sad as it may be for m0nty-fa, AnAl can’t afford to institute a federal ICAC. It only takes one Craig Thomson, and how many potential Craig’s are there among the Liars?

Frank
Frank
June 5, 2022 5:17 pm

The Beloved favoured Levis western cut shirts, the ol’ cowboy wannabe.

With the pearloid press stud buttons? I miss them.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 5, 2022 5:22 pm

My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade.

Looking at reportage so far, all is sweetness and light for Labor on Sky News.

Turn it off, says Hairy as Albanese’s and Wong’s adventures in Asian climes comes on.
I want to see what they are saying about it, say I.
What they are saying is that relatonships are being ‘re-established’.
I didn’t know they were dis-established.
They are all falling into line over the narrative.
Viz – The good guys are back in charge and all is well with the world.
Ambulances – fixed; gas shortages – fixed; wages – fixed; hospitals – fixed.

So I did turn it off. What’s the point in seeing more of this?

I’m with Tom. It could take ten more years for the true electoral rot to set in.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 5:29 pm

Looking at reportage so far, all is sweetness and light for Labor on Sky News.

So I did turn it off. What’s the point in seeing more of this?

The MSM have abandoned half their prospective customers.
I don’t ever see reason for getting another TV.
Weird how they’ve all gone lefty.

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 5:30 pm

The Liars will self destruct in that time.

I concur.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 5, 2022 5:31 pm

I read Nikki Gemmel’s piece in the Australian Magazine and nearly threw up.
It was a total panegyric unworthy of the name of anything like fair or informed ocomment.
O brave new world that hast Labor in it, escaped from the foul hell we suffered before it.

Don’t deliberately make yourself sick, says Hairy. She’s poison.
Much worse than Philip Adams.

And we pay for this?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 5, 2022 5:44 pm

Do you know last night we nostalgically watched BBC news. Once you accept that the climate narrative is absolutely part of everything you might as well watch it for some of their better shows. Hairy agrees with someone in Australia who said the ABC makes the BBC look fair and balanced, and it is true that at least the BBC try to have occasional alternative viewpoints represented. Not sticking up for them too much, because they too can be sickening, but there is that. Also, the UK is much further down the damage track than we are here, with Labor taking it up with a crusading vengeance, so even the BBC has to recognise the underlying swells of discontent.

Bluey
Bluey
June 5, 2022 5:44 pm

I’ve managed to avoid most of the coverage of the albo government, but the little I have seen has been fawning with SFA substance on how he will address real problems for the productive classes.

You know the ones, food, fuel, power inflation. The things that will bite the working class hard.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 5:46 pm

After Coles brought in two weeks leave for trannies, Woolworths had to respond.
Now they’ve done so.

First look: Flagship Woolies “health and wellness” revamp (Daily Terror, 5 June, paywalled)

Woolworths flagship store has reopened, revealing a sustainability-focused offering including a live mussel tank, zero-waste bakery and phone recycling drop-off.

IGA is looking better and better, although I wish they’d be more reliable in providing currawong mince. On the other hand my local IGA supplies yummy Habanero and Carolina Reaper hot sauces not available elsewhere.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 5, 2022 5:47 pm

And we pay for this?

If you pay for the Weekend Australian, that’s your business, but it doesn’t make any sense.

cohenite
June 5, 2022 5:47 pm

My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade. The 2022 election was a disaster for the LNP, which lost 19 seats. There is also now a buffer of 19 seats between the LNP’s 58 and the ALP 77 seats — and most of that buffer is loony left teals and Filth in rich inner suburban doctor’s wives seats that I reckon will never come back to the LNP.

1 week of power outages in Newtown and Clovelly will have the teals and sundry greens being tarred and feathered. The psychology is a smug, comfortable utterly divorced from reality one which is as sustainable as an array of solar panels in Perisher in mid winter. Whether the LNP has the wit and courage to capitalise on the imminent shit-show is another question as is whether the average punter has the balls to act like the left do and start acting violent towards the filth and liars.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 5, 2022 5:47 pm

With the pearloid press stud buttons?

My press stud buttons were all actual pearl.

So I was told.

cohenite
June 5, 2022 5:50 pm

Looking at reportage so far, all is sweetness and light for Labor on Sky News.

Outsiders is holding the line.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 5, 2022 5:52 pm

Albanerse can’t outflank The Greens to the Right, so he’ll go Left, into Liberal Party territory.
Once he goes there, he’s fucked.
It won’t take long either, unless Liberal ginger Groups start spruiking Nuclear Power, Economic Rationalisation, restarting the Climate Wars or going within a million miles of IR.

Dot
Dot
June 5, 2022 5:52 pm

LOL. You’re now not only accusing me, in typical liberal fashion of being an ‘authoritarian’,

Oh no the concoctions are thick and fast but not from me.

1. I’m not a “liberal”, because you conflate the term with progressivism.
2. “Typical fashion…” purely rhetorical.
3. You have been on a Vlad Bae love fest for quite a while. It doesn’t *own libs* to side with Putin.
4. I am not basing my arguments on what Catholics and protestants believed in the 1960s. I quoted a Baptist source from the 1979s, post Row v Wade.
5. The philosophical underpinning of progressivism was middle class evangelical protestantism. The “inner light” of people turned into a utopian ideal.
6. I have been otherwise told: it’s not the mainline protestants OR it is the mainline. Which one is correct?

There is nothing within liberalism that can plausibly object to drag queen story hour.

That’s absurd because (true) liberalism has always had notions of minors, capacity to consent and eschewing public education and parental choice.

If the state is to be politically neutral, if no one is being ‘harmed’ (understood narrowly, of course), and parents consent to their children dropping 20 dollar bills in a drag queens ‘panties’, sane people can only look on in horror.

It’s not about harm, it is about consent and protection of minors. Harm as an issue is relevant but not a first principle.

To the extent that Catholics and Protestants tolerate this state of affairs is testament only to the grip with which liberalism holds them, ideologically.

No. It came from somewhere.

Progressivism did not come from classical liberalism.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 5, 2022 5:52 pm

Anthony Albanese flies into Perth and promises to fix ‘bin fire of problems’ left by Scott Morrison
Peter Law
The West Australian
Sun, 5 June 2022 3:19PM
Comments

Anthony Albanese has told Labor Party “true believers” in WA — who helped get him into the nation’s top job — that there is no overnight fix to the “bin fire of problems” he inherited from Scott Morrison.

But he was confident his Government could undo a “decade of damage”, singling out the east coast energy crisis, a nationwide skilled worker shortage, debt tracking towards $1 trillion and restoring Australia’s reputation in the Pacific.

The Prime Minister reiterated his pledge to “change the way politics is conducted” by ending the “24-hour media cycle obsession” and instead governing “in the national interest, not short-term political interest”.

“We don’t have the amount of backing from powerful interests that our opponent’s had during the campaign, but what we had is men and women of different backgrounds, different views, different beliefs who went there and advocated for us, advocated for change, advocated for a better future,” he said in a 14-minute speech to Labor supporters at Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth.

“The power of our campaign was that it was one that said we need to, if the country’s going to advance, bring people together.

Dot
Dot
June 5, 2022 5:53 pm

Good lord.

1970s
Roe
….

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 5, 2022 5:57 pm

For Cats with an interest in history – I’m finding this book fascinating reading.

RESISTANCE
THE UNDERGROUND WAR AGAINST HITLER, 1939-1945

by Halik Kochanski ? RELEASE DATE: May 24, 2022

A magisterial doorstop of a history that is well worth the effort.

Readers whose knowledge of the resistance against Hitler comes from movies must unlearn a lot of misinformation about its contribution to victory (modest), organization (sloppy), security (inept), and level of participation (low). Impressively debunking myths and deconstructing faulty history, Kochanski adds that a resistance movement was active in every conquered nation, and heroism was widespread. However, resistance seemed futile from 1939 until Hitler’s June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. The Axis had conquered most of Europe. Responding to vicious Nazi treatment, Poles resisted from the beginning, but occupiers in Western Europe exerted a lighter hand, so there was a great deal of collaboration. The earliest organized opposition assisted refugees and then airmen to escape occupied Europe. This was as dangerous as sabotage, with “approximately one person being arrested for each airman who was helped.” Matters improved as Wehrmacht defeats in the Soviet Union made Allied victory a possibility, energizing resistance organizations, which learned from their mistakes, although not before a brutally efficient Gestapo devastated them with mass arrests during the summer of 1943. The resistance fighters also benefited when the Nazis vastly expanded forced labor and began their extermination programs. Various movements worked to integrate masses of young people, who suddenly had a motive to resist. Sadly, despite scattered exceptions, the resistance neglected many Jewish populations. Matters improved by 1944, with the Red Army advancing and the Allies landing in Italy and France. Legendary warfare agencies in the U.S. and Britain were dropping a steady stream of supplies and agents into occupied Europe, and most agents survived. Although sabotage dominates many popular accounts, intelligence gathering may have contributed more to victory. Kochanski continues her masterful chronicle beyond Germany’s surrender. She capably shows that while resistance organizations dissolved or entered politics in Western Europe, they continued to fight Soviet occupation or civil wars for years in Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, and Greece.
A definitive history and a great read.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 5:58 pm

With the pearloid press stud buttons?

Sacré bleu – this is why I love my Levi’s jackets with the “industrial buttons”, press stamped as they are.

The copper ones are (very) boring, but the industrials are a perfect match for the Soviet Grey and Olive Drab corduroy jackets.

These li’l details matter, Cats. 🙂

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:00 pm

No. It came from somewhere.

Progressivism did not come from classical liberalism.

Historical context is your friend.

Northern Protestantism fresh from moral ictory in the Civil War.

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:01 pm

ictory?

victory!

Rabz
June 5, 2022 6:02 pm

Beery – the width of the flare, is like the elusive quality of mercy.

Best forgotten at the nearest available opportunity, along with the stacked heels and all the rest of that monstrous decade, which I’m totally not into.

Tom
Tom
June 5, 2022 6:03 pm

Anthony Albanese has told Labor Party “true believers” in WA — who helped get him into the nation’s top job — that there is no overnight fix to the “bin fire of problems” he inherited from Scott Morrison.

Hahaha. After a week in power, Elbow is already telling Australians to lower their expectations, like the Democrats in the US, because he can’t fix their problems.

I think Head Case is right — the Australian electorate is already regretting its decision to change brands.

However, after the past decade’s Turnbullian sabotage, I have total faith in the LNP’s ability to fuck up its path back to power.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 5, 2022 6:07 pm

Albanerse?
How about Albanarse?

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 6:07 pm

corduroy jackets

and side-burns

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 5, 2022 6:08 pm

Snickers & Albanarse, the Dynamic Duo.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 6:08 pm

Tom – best not to dwell on it.

I’m still trying not to break out the flamethrower every time I hear that dreaded phrase “Prime Minister Albansleazey”.

Bizarre parallel universe time. With no end in sight.

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:09 pm

Elbow is already telling Australians to lower their expectations, like the Democrats in the US, because he can’t fix their problems.

Meanwhile, Charming Jim has turned into Grim Jim. Just like that, after a Treasury briefing.

2dogs
June 5, 2022 6:10 pm

My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade.

Do you expect Albo to serve a full term as PM?

ScoMo did so, but he was the first since the iPhone came out.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 5, 2022 6:12 pm

Do you expect Albo to serve a full term as PM?

I’m betting Tanya Plibersek will be sharpening the big knife within eighteen months.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 6:13 pm

side-burns

Mutton chops are the preferred “pretending we are not sporting a weird*” when we might just be.

*Weird – a contraction of “weirdo with a beard”.

Delta A
Delta A
June 5, 2022 6:18 pm

I was able to get away with a body shirt.

Please!

Not while I’m cooking dinner.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 5, 2022 6:19 pm

I’m betting Tanya Plibersek will be sharpening the big knife within eighteen months

KRuddy’s amendments make both UniParty leaders immune from challenge during the term of government.

Indolent
Indolent
June 5, 2022 6:20 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
June 5, 2022 6:20 pm

… virtually immune …

Rabz
June 5, 2022 6:22 pm

Charming Jim has turned into Grim Jim

But he’ll still have his very prominent jug ears and stupid ugly mug.

The whiny voice of course, being an added bonus. Always helps when attempting to apportion the blame for your irredeemable idiocy elsewhere.

#timetoresurrectandyleigh

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 6:22 pm

1 week of power outages in Newtown and Clovelly will have the teals and sundry greens being tarred and feathered.

You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:23 pm

I’m betting Tanya Plibersek will be sharpening the big knife within eighteen months.

Fresh from saving the environment.

Dot
Dot
June 5, 2022 6:25 pm

eschewing public education, supporting parental choice

Indolent
Indolent
June 5, 2022 6:26 pm
Rabz
June 5, 2022 6:26 pm

Pilberserk will be sharpening the big knife within eighteen months

She’s doing it now, for goodness’ sake. Albansleazey has unrepentantly humiliated her over the last six (?) months.

Hell hath no fury like a labore wymminzes scorned.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 6:26 pm

KRuddy’s amendments make both UniParty leaders immune from challenge during the term of government.

Bear, I think the Liars leader is immune from challenge in government and opposition.
Effectively Il Duce for life.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 6:30 pm

Pancho – they can only be overthrown during a labore conference?

Kruddles was very specific about the circumstances where a “koo day tah” might be allowed to take place.

Speaking of, whatever happened to poor ol’ Piggy Howes?

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:31 pm

KRuddy’s amendments make both UniParty leaders immune from challenge during the term of government.

It’s the Labor Party…where there’s a will there’s a factional power broker who’ll prevail upon Elbow to resign, should it be deemed necessary, for the party’s sake, with a suitable inducement.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 6:36 pm

Say what you like about the 70’s.

At least we could afford backsides for our swimsuits.

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:43 pm

The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.

Let’s hope so.

An inequitable distribution of the pain is the surest way to awaken righteous anger.

Indolent
Indolent
June 5, 2022 6:44 pm

I think this might have been mentioned before, but it does rather speak for itself.

CEO of large Spanish pharma company bought a fake vaccine card

I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg. How many of those make decisions about our lives at Davos do you think have actually taken the poison being pushed on us?

Delta A
Delta A
June 5, 2022 6:48 pm

Say what you like about the 70’s.

At least we could afford backsides for our swimsuits.

And to think we were embarrassed about a wedgie!

Roger
Roger
June 5, 2022 6:56 pm

Bear, I think the Liars leader is immune from challenge in government and opposition.
Effectively Il Duce for life.

PM Albanese could be ejected if 75% of ALP parliamentarians vote to do so.

60% when in Opposition.

cohenite
June 5, 2022 6:56 pm

You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.

Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy control the Sydney grid with Endeavour concentrated in Sydney’s West and Ausgrid looking after the luvvies. Each has the capacity to shut down sections of its grid and/or demand high consumers like Tomago shut down in shortages. No doubt there will be politics in it but why should the LNP give a rats if the Teal electorates are hit as frequently as the outer West or Newcastle or Wollongong?

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 6:59 pm

sunday special … countdown

30 minutes until beef bourguignon

https://www.lecreuset.co.za/recipes/beef-bourguignon/

adjustments:

dont use the roast rub. you wont need it if you brown the meat properly.
add 1 bouquet garni (made of a handful of fresh parsley, thyme, 4 fresh bay leaves)
not a few sprigs … a hand full !!
tie it up with twine

take all the celery tops and lay them on top of the stew under the lid for the duration then remove them at the 3 hr mark along with the bouquet .
cook another 30 minutes with the lid off for colour and flavour

use cast iron !!!

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 6:59 pm

how 70’s is that?

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 7:01 pm

how 70’s is that?

Excellent!

Hope you have a Brandy Alexander cheesecake for dessert.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 5, 2022 7:03 pm

Progressivism did not come from classical liberalism.

It came from Marxism. The Frankfurt School was disappointed that Marx’s purely economic analysis had been refuted by history’s failure to produce widespread revolutions of the proletariat. The Frankfurt School wanted to smash the West so it set about smashing the cultural bases of the West with a view to enabling a Marxist revolution to succeed.

Oh and btw, “Protestantism” and “evangelical Protestantism” aren’t synonyms.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 7:09 pm

Our electricity provider has just sent us an email advising that our rate will double. The suggestion – we find another supplier.

Have other Cats had this?

Delta A
Delta A
June 5, 2022 7:09 pm

beef-bourguignon/

Love BB – had it for dinner last night, in fact. Daughter likes it with fettuccine noodles, but I prefer it with a baked potato smothered in sour cream, pepper and chives.

I still use the Womens’ Weekly recipe cards from the ’70s. A few tweaks here and there – brown sugar instead of white – but the family love it as it’s been served for almost 40 years. And, as they say, when you’re on a good thing…

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 5, 2022 7:09 pm

PM Albanese could be ejected if 75% of ALP parliamentarians vote to do so.

There will be rolling street battles before that happens.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 7:10 pm

I’m now going alien and volcanic.

The War of the Worlds (1978)

Journey to The Centre of The Earth (1974)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 7:11 pm

Oops, I’ll just go put that on Rabz radio thread where it was supposed to be…

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 7:15 pm

Womens’ Weekly

the only thing better than Gourmet Traveller …

Nanna Tech

first class, all the WW recipes are tried and tested by nannas or they don’t get published

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 5, 2022 7:17 pm

Jorgesays:
June 5, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Oops, link to The Philosopher’s Zone not working, ABC Radio National.

And thats a good thing.

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 7:17 pm

Brandy Alexander cheesecake

like I needed an excuse to buy more brandy

Tom
Tom
June 5, 2022 7:19 pm

Elbow is the left’s Australian puppet in exactly the same mould as the puppet president of the US: deliver the left’s wishlist or be arseholed without ceremony. The Slovenian Slag is this year’s Julia Gillard: the designated hired assassin if the left doesn’t get what it wants.

Delta A
Delta A
June 5, 2022 7:24 pm

the only thing better than Gourmet Traveller …

Ooh! I have the most fabulous GT Christmas Pud recipe.

Use it every year.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 5, 2022 7:26 pm

Tom, after the 2007 election a mate and I thought that the next Coalition PM hadn’t been born yet. In 2010 the Liars nearly lost power except for the machinations of a couple of dick independents.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 7:26 pm

Rabzsays:

June 5, 2022 at 6:30 pm

Pancho – they can only be overthrown during a labore conference?

Not even, Rabz.
I think it is a vote of the “members”.
Or BSU’s* as they are known.
….
Branch Stacking Units.

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 7:26 pm

the most fabulous GT Christmas Pud recipe

Hmm … I’ll swap you for Father Geoff Riley’s recipe

Dot
Dot
June 5, 2022 7:28 pm

Oh and btw, “Protestantism” and “evangelical Protestantism” aren’t synonyms.

I don’t think I ever made that equivocation.

Dot
Dot
June 5, 2022 7:30 pm

John Quiggin reckoned the Liberal party would cease to exist shortly after 2007 and Labor & the Greens would rule triumphantly for 1000 years.

Haha

No.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 7:33 pm

Any suggestions for the next radio show theme, cats?

And no, Christian Rock 1981 – 1997 is not an option.

Nor is Country and/or Western.

Or any other bollocky crap that might result in me invoking (cue spooky muzak …) the spirit of “Arks the Terrible”. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 7:38 pm

Roger at 6:56.
Thanks for the detail.

Tom
Tom
June 5, 2022 7:39 pm

I got my terminology wrong. Tania Plibersek is the Slovenian Hag. My apologies.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 7:40 pm

“The gliberal pardee will never win government again”

Who has previously stated this, Cats? Some candidates:

.1 Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly
.2Perfesser von Wrongsolen
.3 The Murpharoo
.4 Pedro FitzSimians
.5 Denny Shanahan
.6 The Clennell
.7 mUttley

Hint – the answer, such as it is, lurks beneath your nose – and as we all know, the nose knows … 😕

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 7:41 pm

Rabzsays:

June 5, 2022 at 7:33 pm

Any suggestions for the next radio show theme, cats?

Jug and washboard bluegrass 1930 – 1950 hasn’t had a run yet.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 5, 2022 7:42 pm

Sancho

You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.

Correct. It will happen in the suburban and regional city electorates. You know, the ones that m0nty-fa swears can never be won by the Coalition. The Liars might well hand them over on a silver platter, with rotating blackouts.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 7:43 pm

The joys of youtube – an ad for less than gruntled train drivers, FFS.

Like anyone with a functioning brain would give a rodents’.

Tell your stories walking, you fat communist bastards.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 5, 2022 7:44 pm

callisays:
June 5, 2022 at 6:36 pm
Say what you like about the 70’s.

At least we could afford backsides for our swimsuits.

But quite often no tops?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 7:46 pm

Any suggestions for the next radio show theme, cats?

New Wave and Electronica.

Dunni why but both popped into my head immediately I saw your request Rabz. Must be something unfulfilled in my animal parts.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 7:51 pm

Dunno not dunni. Maybe dunni is a psychological thing but.

132andBush
132andBush
June 5, 2022 7:54 pm

You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.

Which is why I’m buying a 7kva+ generator (preferably diesel) and getting the sparky son to wire up a 32amp connection to the house.
It’s not a matter of “if” we get blackouts, it’s a matter of “when” and I have to say the generator purchase was happening regardless of election outcome.

BTW, has Turnbull been arseholed yet?
If not, why not?

Agree with Cohenite upthread.
If the LNP start talking sensible energy policy while labor deals with what’s coming they could be back in sooner than later.

Cassie of Sydney
June 5, 2022 7:57 pm

“My current best estimate is that the LNP will be in the wilderness for at least a decade. The 2022 election was a disaster for the LNP, which lost 19 seats. There is also now a buffer of 19 seats between the LNP’s 58 and the ALP 77 seats — and most of that buffer is loony left teals and Filth in rich inner suburban doctor’s wives seats that I reckon will never come back to the LNP.”

Depressing scenario Tom. If we omit the Teal electorates (like the one I live in), I suspect many seats won by Labor two weeks ago, such as Bennelong and Reid, will be won again by the Liberals in three or six years time. I’m comforted by the fact that Tony Abbott, when he became leader in 2009 went on to take the fight to Labor in 2010, resulting in a hung parliament and then onto his massive victory in September 2013.

The Teals? I don’t know, but here’s an insight into the electorate of Wentworth (and other Teal electorates). This afternoon I attended a function here in Wentworth with a friend. I had a long conversation with a well known Liberal who said that she had done a lot of pre-poll campaigning in Wentworth and in North Sydney. She was confronted every day with people babbling on about climate change but also…..wait for this….they didn’t like the fact that the Liberal Party is also beholden to the right, to Barnaby Joyce and to other National and conservative Liberals. So she would say to them “that’s parliamentary democracy, it’s a team, a broad church” and “what do you want? “Do you want to disenfranchise half of Australia?” And the response she invariably got to that last question was silence. It’s clear we now have a situation where progressive elite scum, like those who reside in Wentworth, Kooyong, Goldstein and North Sydney, want to silence and disenfranchise ordinary Australians.

Frank
Frank
June 5, 2022 7:58 pm

how 70’s is that?

Nothing is as seventies in the culinary sense as putting on a spread to impress that includes a display of Samboy chips somewhere in it. I have seen the cookery books, it existed once.

Frank
Frank
June 5, 2022 8:02 pm

It’s clear we now have a situation where progressive elite scum, like those who reside in Wentworth, Kooyong, Goldstein and North Sydney, want to silence and disenfranchise ordinary Australians.

Has it ever been otherwise? All that hissing about the Murdochracy has been going on for as long as I can remember.

Cassie of Sydney
June 5, 2022 8:04 pm

“BTW, has Turnbull been arseholed yet?
If not, why not?”

Because the Liberal Party is the Coward’s Party.

Bruce in WA
June 5, 2022 8:13 pm

Rabz said:

Best forgotten at the nearest available opportunity, along with the stacked heels and all the rest of that monstrous decade, which I’m totally not into.

Ah yes, stacked heels. I have one totally destroyed ACL thanks to a short trip down a stair one evening — before the drinkies even started! Bastard things.

chrisl
chrisl
June 5, 2022 8:16 pm

Ok Cats a new drinking game
Woo Hoo!
Watch the ABC for the evening and every time they mention climate change you have to drink a glass of red
( Or scotch and water for the weirdos)
So far I’ve gotta admit I’ve had a few …
And it’s only news and grand designs

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 5, 2022 8:20 pm

Dotsays:
June 5, 2022 at 7:28 pm
Oh and btw, “Protestantism” and “evangelical Protestantism” aren’t synonyms.

I don’t think I ever made that equivocation.

Dotsays:
June 5, 2022 at 3:09 pm
I don’t know about the provenance or legitimacy of The Baptist Press, but, a mere none days after Roe v Wade:
….
If that is from a legitimate source and not some fraudulent shop, then I am going to associate evangelicals with abortion.

rickw
rickw
June 5, 2022 8:21 pm

Embalmers and vaxed clients blood clots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvtGSt6fRk&t=0s

Beertruk
June 5, 2022 8:22 pm

Meanwhile Yassminn Abdel-Magied who dumped on Australia and went to the UK to live is now dumping on the UK:
‘There are union jacks every where it’s like a waking nightmare’ Yassminn Abdel-Magied, a Londoner

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 5, 2022 8:23 pm

the only thing better than Gourmet Traveller …
Are you effing kidding? Gourmet T is- and was- “buy trendy stuff and perch it on a plate”.
Delicious was a bit better, ie more dedicated to fabrication, but last it after the third album. Then it became “buy packaged stuff and mix it in a pot” commercial.
Now it’s been eclipsed by Coles’ own “buy our product, and here’s why it’s not a naff/unhealthy/fattening as you think”, free at the checkout.

Disclaimer, a good friend has gone from GT/Delicious to Taste to a trvael mag, as photo designer and layout. She got lotsa stories about the chef set.

rickw
rickw
June 5, 2022 8:27 pm

Which is why I’m buying a 7kva+ generator (preferably diesel) and getting the sparky son to wire up a 32amp connection to the house.
It’s not a matter of “if” we get blackouts, it’s a matter of “when” and I have to say the generator purchase was happening regardless of election outcome.

Have a look at generators that run on gas. No long term storage problems. All liquid fuels can oxidise over time. If you go diesel, make sure you fill it over winter so you get winter spec diesel. If you fill in summer and it gets cold enough in winter you can have problems.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 5, 2022 8:29 pm

Watch the ABC for the evening and every time they mention climate change you have to drink a glass of red

Listen to News Radio in the morning and you’ll be too pissed to get the bread in the toaster.

rickw
rickw
June 5, 2022 8:31 pm

I imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg. How many of those make decisions about our lives at Davos do you think have actually taken the poison being pushed on us?

Vaccination is only for the peasants. Only the incredibly dumb of the Parasite Class took it.

Cassie of Sydney
June 5, 2022 8:36 pm

Apparently, we are going to have a referendum on the “voice” and on the “republic”.

Back in the late 1990s Tony Abbott and others fearlessly fought the 1999 Turnbull republic. They won.
Will we see Liberals step up and fight the absurdity and racism that is the “voice” in the proposed referendum and will we see the Liberals fight the idea of being a republic or, will they cower and capitulate like they did on SSM, on euthanasia and on every other culture issue?

I think I know the answer to that question. Don’t know why I asked.

rickw
rickw
June 5, 2022 8:36 pm

The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.

I hope they pull the plug on Melbourne’s West. Contaminated soil, no jobs and no electricity could prove to be a potent combination with respect to finally getting some long overdue lamp post action.

132andBush
132andBush
June 5, 2022 8:37 pm

It’s clear we now have a situation where progressive elite scum, like those who reside in Wentworth, Kooyong, Goldstein and North Sydney, want to silence and disenfranchise ordinary Australians.

Cassie,
As a simple country lad I have seen this first hand but would date it back to roughly 2009/10, the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd v Abbott time frame with the media going batshit over Abbott.
Even with family members which is sad. Covid has driven the wedge in further.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 8:37 pm

It’s clear we now have a situation where progressive elite scum, like those who reside in Wentworth, Kooyong, Goldstein and North Sydney, want to silence and disenfranchise ordinary Australians.

Exactly my comment the day after the election.

They despise people they deem “ordinary”. The glow from their backsides eclipses them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 5, 2022 8:37 pm

Beertruksays:
June 5, 2022 at 8:22 pm
Meanwhile Yassminn Abdel-Magied who dumped on Australia and went to the UK to live is now dumping on the UK:
‘There are union jacks every where it’s like a waking nightmare’ Yassminn Abdel-Magied, a Londoner

Able Magpie won’t go back to Sudan, because she knows it is a shithole. So why does she want everywhere she lives to become a carbon copy of her original shithole?

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 5, 2022 8:38 pm

Contaminated soil, no jobs and no electricity could prove to be a potent combination with respect to finally getting some long overdue lamp post action.
No food will do it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 5, 2022 8:45 pm

‘There are union jacks every where it’s like a waking nightmare’

Haha, the flags they’re a triggering!

Woman claims Union Jack leaves her feeling “very unsafe” as Jubilee row continues (4 Jun)

One woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, shared her views on the Union Jack. … She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”, adding: “I know that these flags are being put around for the Platinum Jubilee, but the reality is their presence taps into deep fears for POC (people of colour).

POC, like this unnamed lady, are scared by flags because reasons. There you go.

132andBush
132andBush
June 5, 2022 8:46 pm

rickw says:
June 5, 2022 at 8:27 pm

Even with my small farming operation I churn through ~10,000lt/year so there’s always fresh stuff but I know what you mean.

Years ago a mate and I went to pick up our headers from the last contracting job we’d done near Ballarat. There was summer fuel in the tanks of course but it was July and a frosty morning. Diesel like jelly till about mid morning!

Rabz
June 5, 2022 8:48 pm

Posted without comment:

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse.

It cannot be overstated.

Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time.

The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

Harlequin Decline
June 5, 2022 8:48 pm

Saw a quote today-

‘Sounds like Johnny Depp has acquired Heard immunity’

Rabz
June 5, 2022 8:56 pm

ordinary Australians

Are One Nation voters and proud of it.

P
P
June 5, 2022 8:57 pm

Back in the late 1990s Tony Abbott and others fearlessly fought the 1999 Turnbull republic. They won.

I was glad they won. I had voted for a republic but nearing the end of the campaign I became fearful of how the process would work and who would be elected for the role.

I always followed the british royal family members and events in their lives but from a young age I was mindful that this was not our future. Still am of this mind but if I had to vote again today, in light of what I’ve seen and experienced in the last two and a half years, I would vote NO.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 5, 2022 8:57 pm

I know that these flags are being put around for the Platinum Jubilee, but the reality is their presence taps into deep fears for POC (people of colour)

This is akin to someone terrified of sharks volunteering to go into a shark cage, being dropped over the side and then complaining that there are sharks while not asking to be let out of the cage, let alone be taken from the water.

‘No worries. I’ll go in the shark cage and into the ocean within that cage where there are millions of sharks which I am horrified by. In fact, I’ll live in the cage amongst all those sharks. However, if someone could do something about the sharks that would be spiffing.’

Cassie of Sydney
June 5, 2022 9:00 pm

A friend rang me to tell me that Princess Allegra went to synagogue today. Today and tomorrow is an important Jewish holiday…Shavuot so, Princess Allegra has made an appearance at a synagogue, fair enough, that’s what a local member should do. Anyway, apparently Princess Allegra has pledged her support for the Jewish community. That’s great Allegra, very nice however I do hope you take more care with who you employ in your electoral office. Remember your campaign worker Blair Palese? Ms Palese, smearer of Israel and spruiker of the BDS. But at least Princess Allegra doesn’t think that Trump’s decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem back in 2017 was to “satisfy his wealthy Jewish ­donors”…..they were the words of a another far more sinister Teal.

I may have said this before but my intention over the next three years is to hold Princess Allegra to account. The next time some far-left progressive hacks try a BDS campaign against anything Israeli, I’ll eagerly await Princess Allegra’s vocal condemnation, on the ABC, on SBS, in the Nine Newspapers and in The Malcolm Guardian. The next time Israel has to go into Gaza and the Jewish community here in Oz is subjected to ramped up lies, slander and physical threats (we get them all the time but it’s always worse when Israel has to take military action), I’ll eagerly await Princess Allegra’s vocal condemnation, on the ABC, on SBS, in the Nine Newspapers and in the Malcolm Guardian. I will expect Princess Allegra to not just talk the talk, which she’s pretty good at but more importantly I will expect Princess Allegra to walk the walk. We will see.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 5, 2022 9:09 pm

The Poms just won their first Test with Stokes as skipper and that fairy boy (yet establishment favourite) Silverwood gone as coach.

Against NZ, so a proper team as well. Much more impressive.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 9:14 pm

Doves – it was indeed.

Thought it was very timeless, nonetheless.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 5, 2022 9:18 pm

She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”, adding: “I know that these flags are being put around for the Platinum Jubilee, but the reality is their presence taps into deep fears for POC (people of colour).

Have you considered fucking off permanently to some place they don’t display Union Jacks?

Indolent
Indolent
June 5, 2022 9:18 pm

Naomi Wolf interview

NEW: Pfizer Releases More Documents

The Pfizer documents should see any number of heads roll but it’s hard to be optimistic when, after all this, they have just approved injecting babies with, to put it in the mildest terms, ineffective and dangerous concoctions, which are KNOWN to be such.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 5, 2022 9:19 pm

Indigienous affairs: Violence against women rising as expertise ignored.

Prominent Indigenous women who believe the Albanese government needs a permanent working group to advise on how to reduce violence and increase safety for victims.

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Marcia Langton says violence against ­Indigenous women and children is escalating as those who understand the issue best are ignored and talked over.

Professor Langton – who has documented the extent and ­causes of family violence in Indigenous communities and written extensively on victims’ safety – is among prominent Indigenous women who believe the Albanese government needs a permanent working group to advise Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and Women’s Minister Katy Gallagher specifically on how to reduce violence and increase safety for victims.

“Lives are being lost while people in the women’s safety sector dither about irrelevant issues,” she said.

Professor Langton said there was an urgent need for the government to take advice based on evidence, data, rigorous policy and legal reform after Northern Territory Supreme Court judge Judith Kelly spoke publicly about an epidemic of extreme violence trapping women in the nation’s far north.

Judge Kelly told The Weekend Australian the violence was brought about by inter­generational abuse and disadvantage and a culture that protected perpetrators before victims.

She said she wanted Australians to know what was happening to Aboriginal women and directly addressed The Australian’s three-part ­series on Ruby, an Indigenous woman who was sexually abused and beaten by her father in the ­remote community of Yuendumu and then forced to flee the town after he was jailed.

“When I read that, I was shocked by how shocked I wasn’t,” she said.

“It’s a horrendous story, but we see that every day.”

Professor Langdon said: “The safety of women and children must be the overriding and first concern; not fear of increasing incarceration rates for Aboriginal men.

“There are many interventions that are required to prevent violence – for example, adequate emergency accommodation and frontline Indigenous family violence workers.”

Ms Burney plans to listen to Indigenous women on the topic of family violence at a summit to be chaired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar.

Dr Oscar is a Bunuba woman from the Fitzroy Valley who published the views of Indigenous women on a range of issues important to them in her 2020 Women’s Voices report, called Wiyi Yani Thangani.

“I know, and the government knows, that we need to do more as a country to combat the unconscionable level of violence against First Nations women,” Ms Burney told The Australian on Sunday. “We recognise the issues affecting First Nations women are multilayered. That’s why we’ll deliver a separate national plan for First Nations people to end ­violence against women and family violence.

“We will also conduct a National First Nations Women’s Summit, chaired by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, as the first step in responding to the landmark Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) report.

“The key to success in this challenge, as it is across so many areas, is making sure we hear the voices of First Nations Australians, and empowering us to self-determination.

Words fail me, they honestly do.

calli
calli
June 5, 2022 9:28 pm

She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”.

Saints Andrew, George and Patrick? Plausible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 9:36 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:

June 5, 2022 at 8:04 pm

“BTW, has Turnbull been arseholed yet?
If not, why not?”

Because the Liberal Party is the Coward’s Party.

I have a theory.
Trumble allegedly kicked in a bundle of cash to the 2016 campaign.
I wonder if it was not so much a donation as a loan, to be called in anytime he felt like it.
A poison pill sword of Damocles donation.

Cassie of Sydney
June 5, 2022 9:38 pm

“I have a theory.
Trumble allegedly kicked in a bundle of cash to the 2016 campaign.
I wonder if it was not so much a donation as a loan, to be called in anytime he felt like it.
A poison pill sword of Damocles donation.”

I think your theory is correct.

Frank
Frank
June 5, 2022 9:39 pm

Yassmin appears not to have learned much. In short order she can get herself hated out the UK if she keeps going. After her screw up with the US visas she wont be welcome there and Australia is probably out of the question. It would be awful to see her without the hope a state to call home.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 9:41 pm

I know that these flags are being put around for the Platinum Jubilee, but the reality is their presence taps into deep fears for POC (people of colour)

Not everyone was so fearful.
93.1% of the backing sing-persons and dance-persons at the Pladinum concert were persons of colour.
Which I just ditched because David Attenborough and Prince Willhelm started climate sermonising.

Digger
Digger
June 5, 2022 9:43 pm

Meanwhile Yassminn Abdel-Magied who dumped on Australia and went to the UK to live is now dumping on the UK:

That horrible thing is only matched by Omar and Markel…..

Delta A
Delta A
June 5, 2022 9:44 pm

Matrix (at 7.26 pm) this is the basic recipe. Must-have ingredients include dates, prunes and cranberries. If the link doesn’t work, google “How to make a boiled Christmas Pudding” by Emma Knowles.

Christmas Pud.

Digger
Digger
June 5, 2022 9:46 pm

Saw yesterday one of the Navy’s supply ships now has a passageway – the longest on the vessel – named after some aboriginal “street”. It was the land route used to travel somewhere for a festival etc etc.

If I remember correctly the main passageway on Stalwart was George Street…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 9:49 pm

Watch the ABC for the evening and every time they mention climate change you have to drink a glass of red

A couple of years ago I made a deal with Mrs P.
She liked to watch ABC News and we had Skah at that point.
The deal was this.
We start on their ABC at 7:00 but I get to flick to Skah as soon as they run a climate change story.
I think in three weeks we only got through to ABC sport and weather once.

mem
mem
June 5, 2022 9:54 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 5, 2022 at 9:38 pm
“I have a theory.
Trumble allegedly kicked in a bundle of cash to the 2016 campaign.
I wonder if it was not so much a donation as a loan, to be called in anytime he felt like it.
A poison pill sword of Damocles donation.”

I think your theory is correct.

Don’t forget the big donation by Turnbull to the barrier reef foundation that disappeared pronto O/S without batting an eyelid.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 9:57 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

June 5, 2022 at 9:09 pm

The Poms just won their first Test with Stokes as skipper and that fairy boy (yet establishment favourite) Silverwood gone as coach

You know, if a Pom batterer chases a wide outswinger and slices it to gully and gets out, I wonder if Brendan McCullum will be hand-patting with a “better luck next time, old chum”.
Or, if they head oop North and get a greentop at Headingly or Old Trafford, will he “rest” the best swing bowler of the last generation?

Rabz
June 5, 2022 9:59 pm

Turnbuckle allegedly kicked in a bundle of cash to the 2016 campaign.
I wonder if it was not so much a donation as a loan, to be called in anytime he felt like it.
A poison pill sword of Damocles donation

Almost two Million (chump change apparently) and yes, this is why he has not been punted.

Expecting the gliberals to exhibit some semblance of a spine is like waiting for catastrophic human induced climate change to enter our lives.

That is, never.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 5, 2022 10:04 pm

She liked to watch ABC News and we had Skah at that point.

Couldn’t you get Telemundo?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 5, 2022 10:09 pm

You know, if a Pom batterer chases a wide outswinger and slices it to gully and gets out, I wonder if Brendan McCullum will be hand-patting with a “better luck next time, old chum”.

No; and

Or, if they head oop North and get a greentop at Headingly or Old Trafford, will he “rest” the best swing bowler of the last generation?

No. Because an actual cricketer’s in charge. Would still have like to see Langer get the gig though, if only as a giant ‘Fuck You’ to the Cricket Australia halfwits.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 5, 2022 10:13 pm

empowering us to self-determination.
You know what every victim wants?
To be free and fully functioning individuals in the protections and values of Western society.
You know what they wish for their assaulters?
To fairly, and fully, feel the consequences of injuring the life and liberty of an individual.
So what are we talking about?
We’re talking about a constitutional democracy, with concise proscriptions upon infringing on an individual’s natural rights, written in common law.
How is the state going to act upon an individual?
Police first, court if necessary, detain and punish if warranted.
And what is the born-to-rule Left talking about?
Creating an unwieldy, opaque and inassailable Leviathan for an appointed ruling class to play checquers with the lives of men.

cohenite
June 5, 2022 10:17 pm

Some adverse comments recently about Yellowstone which I think is the best thing since Deadwood. Here’s some highlights; they begin with Dutton kicking some commie chunks off his property:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1165770937554048

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:19 pm

I think my winter heating woes might be alleviated somewhat.
The people over the back have had a yuuuge tree come down. They are glad to get rid of as much of it as I can take.
A new chain for the Stihl and a bit of fuel and I will be set.
“But it will have to dry out for a season” I hear you say.
Nup.
Dead as a Dodo and ready to go.
Not red gum.
But not $150 a metre either.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 5, 2022 10:21 pm

The Liars will self destruct in that time.

Rembert it took economic rationalism to get Labor past a decade in power. Far leftist Rub ‘n Tug ain’t no economic rationalist.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:23 pm

Would still have like to see Langer get the gig though, if only as a giant ‘Fuck You’ to the Cricket Australia halfwits.

I think McCullum and Langer would be out of the same mould.
That is, if you are paid $800k to do a job, but you can’t retain a simple instruction in your head between leaving the pavilion and taking guard, and you get out as a result of forgetting that instruction, I will get up you.

MatrixTransform
June 5, 2022 10:24 pm

How to make a boiled Christmas Pudding

thanks but damn, now I have to go and find Riley’s and transcribe it

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 5, 2022 10:26 pm

She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”

I feel unsafe in the presence, online or otherwise, of communists. They are cool with killing as many as it takes to achieve their utopia, so their very existence means that I or my family could be murdered merely for insufficient exuberance.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:31 pm

Football jerseys with black and white vertical stripes make me feel “very unsafe” and cause me to clutch my wallet and car keys tightly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:37 pm

She went on to claim that the flag leaves her feeling “very unsafe”

Maybe buy her this for her birthday.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 5, 2022 10:37 pm

Football jerseys with black and white vertical stripes make me feel “very unsafe” and cause me to clutch my wallet and car keys tightly.

And yet those same jerseys make we want to take other people’s wallets* and car keys^.

*Hoping there’ll be dentists’ business cards in them.
^Commodores (manual) only.

Bruce in WA
June 5, 2022 10:38 pm

Just overhearing some show my wife is watching upstairs, which has just claimed that Queensland settlers murdered an estimated 65 000 Aborigines during settlement.

I’m biting my tongue.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 10:39 pm

Pancho – think of this jersey instead.

A figurative ol’ lady. 🙂

Rabz
June 5, 2022 10:44 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:44 pm

^Commodores (manual) only.

There is a Facebook page “Low income, single dad cars” or somesuch.
It might be worth a look.
“Wow! I did not know Holden made panels in so many different colours!”

Rabz
June 5, 2022 10:44 pm
Rabz
June 5, 2022 10:45 pm

The Springsteen is strong in him.

Dot
Dot
June 5, 2022 10:46 pm

Um

My mate who has become an anti Semites loon has now sent me links from *blue moon of Shanghai*.

Think Graeme Bird being pro China (and pro Russian) and not lazy.

*Both world wars were because of the shoes trying to destroy Chermany.
*Tianemen Square was America’s fault.
*The American Sniper guy was ordered to assassinate a baby and did so willingly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:48 pm

Are Newcarstle fans any less thievey than Carringbush fans?
Although Newcarstle’s cheersquad leader probably isn’t a [Let’s just let the Courts decide that one shall we Sancho? … Dover].

Rabz
June 5, 2022 10:50 pm

Think Graeme Bird being pro China (and pro Russian) and not lazy

Pol, I’d need to drop some serious LSD before contemplating such a monstrous concept.

Bruce in WA
June 5, 2022 10:51 pm

Jeezus, Dot. Some of that shit turned my stomach!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:52 pm

Rabz at 10:44.
I just had cause to reflect on football jerseys last evening, whilst watching the AFL.
Inside the fence the jerseys were all M or L.
Outside the boundary the average seemed to be XXXL (48 Stout in Saville Row speak).

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 5, 2022 10:53 pm

Dot.

You may want to consider finding a new mate.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 5, 2022 10:57 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

June 5, 2022 at 10:53 pm

Dot.

You may want to consider finding a new mate

Also … changing your address, phone number, TFN, fingerprints, ABN and Adairs Soft Furnishings loyalty card number.

Rabz
June 5, 2022 10:57 pm

48 Stout in Saville Row speak

The watchers and the doers.

A fundamental disconnect, to go all collectivist terminology.

Indolent
Indolent
June 5, 2022 11:11 pm
Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 12:04 am

“Wow! I did not know Holden made panels in so many different colours!”

Any colour you like champ, just don’t spill your choccy milk on the seat covers!

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 12:30 am

Eyrie says:
June 5, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Why does anyone still believe anything the government or medical profession tells them?

He’s like a one trick pony. 95% repeat in the past two years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 6, 2022 12:56 am

Dotsays:

June 6, 2022 at 12:04 am

“Wow! I did not know Holden made panels in so many different colours!”

Any colour you like champ, just don’t spill your choccy milk on the seat covers!

Yeah, get a few things in a bag mate. We’re stayin’ at your uncle’s tonight.

Winston Smith
June 6, 2022 1:13 am

You’re kidding right?
The load-shedding will not happen among the inner city Twitteratis.
Which is why I’m buying a 7kva+ generator (preferably diesel) and getting the sparky son to wire up a 32amp connection to the house.
It’s not a matter of “if” we get blackouts, it’s a matter of “when” and I have to say the generator purchase was happening regardless of election outcome.

Drunk blogging is not recommended – however:</strong
Our parents saw problems and overcome them.
Our generation created a society that creates the appearance of solving problems, but these problems have been created for the sole purpose of creating problems that can be solved by the creation of more problems…
sorry.
I can't do this any more.
Why aren't we dragging the idiots from Parliament House and hanging them from nooses?
You have grandies, Callie. What have you done to protect them?
The cost will be mothers who can watch their children die from appendicitis, or men who die from septicemia from a broken bone, or women who die in childbirth because the knowledge and practice of midwifery has been lost.
FFS girls, you have a choice – you can be on the front lines resisting the society that wants you ensconced in a chadour,
I watched an Aboriginal women and her child die because she had ‘agency’ about her decision to pull cones and drink rum until RFDS were able to sedate her and evacuate her to Brukken ‘ill.
Is this what you want?
You can talk about pronouns or you can talk about survival.
You have a choice – fight or fucking die.
I’m over you simplistic idiots – educated beyond your intellectual capacity – you are the enemy, and that’s what you always wanted, isn’t it?
Don’t any of you understand the reality of the society that is being created for you?
I can’t do this any more.
How do you deal a 10 year old Aboriginal girl knocking on your door, at midnight, offering to sleep with you and ” whatever you want” just so she doesn’t have to put up with multiple ‘uncles’ having their way with her? How the hell can you look into a child ‘s eyes and tell her that she is safe?
What the Hell is wrong with you people that you aren’t enraged by this?
Fuck you Christians and your supercilious “I am morally superior to you”.
I’m not sorry. I’m prepared to do my bit.
I can rescue multiple kids from this but it will mean I’m in the sights of the Industry.
I don’t really give a fuck about about the sociological aspects of the problem, but until you’ve held a ten year old child in your arms, protecting her from predatory “uncles” then you don’t know Jack shit about the Communities
Jesus. (and I’m not a Christian,) how badly badly have you stuffed up that we have ended up at
this place?

Winston Smith
June 6, 2022 1:15 am

Format fuck.
f>= ).

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 1:47 am

There’s a white middle-class looking white dude living on the street in our neighborhood. He doesn’t fit the typical profile of a vagrant in his physical appearance and I’ve been really curious about the guy. I went out to get a coffee this morning and came across him at the corner of Lexington and 72nd street. He was busily writing on a yellow pad while sitting down on some sort of stool. Curious, I asked him what he was writing and he began yelling that it was none of my goddamn fucking business. I told him I agreed but was still curious- but because I was smiling and non-threatening he simmered down. He then asked me where from and when I told him, he went on a tirade against Rupert Murdoch telling me how evil he was. I asked what he did and was told he was a professional writer and taught journalism at a university. He said he wrote for ABC (American obviously) CBS and CNN.

He gave me his name suggesting I google him and here he is pissing against a doorway.

Here : https://nypost.com/2015/08/27/homeless-man-back-to-ranting-and-peeing-on-giulianis-block/

Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
June 6, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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JC
JC
June 6, 2022 4:37 am

This is the sort of dangerous thinking that ends up in recession and perhaps depression.

Gas price spike to fire up inflation, interest rates

The unprecedented spike in gas prices could push headline ­inflation beyond 6 per cent, requiring a swifter and larger interest-rate response.

Energy is a basic necessity. If the price spikes, it will invariably mean people reduce consumption elsewhere in order to satisfy this specific basic demand. In other words, the impact of a price spike is dis-inflationary as it lowers demand elsewhere. Tightening monetary policy because of a government induced energy shortage is exactly the wrong thing to do. Increasing energy supply, thereby stabilizing prices is. A price spike is the market signal to produce more.

Let the market signal work.

Gabor
Gabor
June 6, 2022 4:48 am

Increasing energy supply, thereby stabilizing prices is. A price spike is the market signal to produce more.

The problem is as is well known, ideology gets in the way.

bespoke
bespoke
June 6, 2022 4:55 am

1st

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 5:00 am

I’m not sure it is ideological, Gabor. I think it’s a lack of understanding -particularly in the economics profession and economics writers. A disturbing number view price movements – especially price hikes as inflation when it may not be. They view price stability as heavenly, when it may not be if the expected response will be a monetary tightening or loosening. In fact you want price signalling in the economy and you need to differentiate between inflation and changes in relative prices.

In fact, inflation is not rising prices but the diminution of the value of the currency.

JC
JC
June 6, 2022 5:03 am

This is what the Libs saddled us with.

Manufacturers in peril as energy crisis deepens

Big electricity generators have warned manufacturers will struggle to stay afloat as the energy crisis escalates and gas producers move to boost supply.

will
will
June 6, 2022 5:16 am
will
will
June 6, 2022 5:17 am
bespoke
bespoke
June 6, 2022 5:33 am

Looks likely evan more grapes will be left to rot next harvest due to shrinking market.

Diogenes
Diogenes
June 6, 2022 5:44 am

Are you effing kidding? Gourmet T is- and was- “buy trendy stuff and perch it on a plate”.

Mrs D purchased the Women’s Weekly 5 ingredient cookbook.
Every single recipe had some trendy and hard to find ingredient like *Pzofjfurka (a yoghurt like product made from the milk of Ugandan Yaks, can be be purchased from any good African Grocer). While the prep and cooking took no time, the hunt for ingredients would have taken all day.

* Obviously not real but the sort of thing that was everywhere.

bespoke
bespoke
June 6, 2022 5:49 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday her connection to her “indigenous heritage” was awakened while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline with Native American tribes at Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

rosie
rosie
June 6, 2022 5:55 am

I’m staying in an old dilapidated country hotel, only place we could book because of a local event.
Heating is via radiators on the wall. Must be costing a fortune to run.
My tiny single room must not have been let for a long time, it comes with a hand basin and the cold tap has been running for so long there is a large dark brown stain on that side of the basin.
The gnarled old maintenance man fiddled with it and turned it off, took him a couple of minutes and I wondered why he hadn’t done it before.
The hotel has two ‘gents’ bathrooms and, finally, a ‘ladies’ right around the other side of the hotel so a long traipse down a cold corridor. Last night as I wandered out to sit on the chilly verandah to watch the world go by, a lady dressed only in a towel came out of her next but one room and slipped into the nearest gents. Don’t tell anyone she begged, I won’t I promised back.
I’m not complaining, in fact, I like it very much, it’s like stepping back several decades.

Dot
Dot
June 6, 2022 6:30 am

Rosie

Sounds like the pub at Lakes Entrance.

Don’t ask me how I know. 🙂

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