Open Thread – Weekend 11 Jun 2022
1,650 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 11 Jun 2022”
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This journo is feeling bad because her natural disposition is to hate Morrison and presumably others like him.
I read it another way.
Her natural disposition is to take people as she finds them (as most people do).
But she’s been indoctrinated to hate anyone on “the right”.
Hence her cognitive dissonance.
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The challenge was “you can’t predict when a coal-fired power station is going to go out”, reinforcing the need to make the transition to “new forms of energy” that the previous government had failed to do.
Oddly enough, for the 50-odd years up until the 1990’s, you could pretty much predict to the day when a coal-fired unit was “going to go out”. It was called ‘scheduled outage’.
Unscheduled outages were managed by spinning reserve on other units, and at other stations. From memory this achieved 98%/99%+ system availability.
A lost skill: like driving a manual car, or changing a TV channel without a remote.
Gobble it up, punters.
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The contortions of da meeja to explain recent cold weather are a sight to behold.
One, at TheirABC, told us that unprecedented ‘blocking highs’ are at fault. Apparently nobody there has ever heard of them before – they are some sort of abberration previously unknown to meteorology. The fact they are well known, common, and can also be a factor in droughts has apparently passed by the work experience kids.
And then there was the regional politician who said that ‘droughts, floods and bushfires’ are all becoming more common because ‘climate change.’ Not a skerrick of evidence. Needless to say, TheirABC parroted that as fact.
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“The last sentence is verbatim. This journo is feeling bad because her natural disposition is to hate Morrison and presumably others like him. What hope do anyone on the centre right have in dealing with the ABC.”
Well, so long as governments of the centre right refuse to rein in their ABC…..no hope. Don’t forget, Scumbag Morrison and his motley government gave more money to their ABC earlier this year. In effect, they rewarded the ABC for its smearing, its libelling, its fabrications, its lies, and its endless anti-Coalition bias.
Oh and speaking of the most recent and most unlamented Coalition Minister for Communications, one Paul Fletcher, who was and is the most insipid, the most supine, the most useless and the most dismal of all of Morrison’s ministers, Fletcher, despite an independent threat, narrowly (and I mean narrowly) retained his seat of Bradfield in Sydney’s north (once the Coalition’s safest seat). Pity, because that’s one loss I would have celebrated.
I’m glad Andrew Laming has methodically gone after everyone who’s defamed him. The most recent to issue a grovelling apology was one Mrs Cane Toad, wife of Pirate Man. That’s what you do……you don’t turn the other cheek to this.
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01:00 Patients: Chinese vaccines cause cancer, diabetes
04:29 U.S., China spar over Taiwan at #DefenseMeeting
06:15 China responds to Austin’s speech over Taiwan
07:06 Japan calls on China to use ‘self-restraint’
08:20 Japan could defend Taiwan in case of attack: Expert
09:28 China, Australia hold 1st defense talks in years
11:50 Pacific islands can make own decisions: New Zealand
12:46 China will keep trying in #IndoPacific: Expert
14:01 Allegedly staged video shows happy Xinjiang family -
Is Bowen that thick or is he in on it?
Embrace the power of ‘and’ as a conjunction Roger.
The ALP Net Zero strategy is wholly dependent on having the same thieves – now feasting and chortling at their cleverness in increasing power prices 5x in the space of months – invest huge money in the game.
And they’re going to need huge profits to do that.
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BTW, it’s 4.3C here, after a low of -3.7. It’s misty and damp. No chance the maximum will get into double figures.
Fortunately, Queanbeyan is part of the over-engineered everything that protects our most precious resource – politicians. The rest of the country could go dark tomorrow – but not Canberra (and hence Queanbeyan.)
Meanwhile:
The Chermans, immensely rich, are nevertheless being forced to face the reality of energy policy after many years of denial. This is big news in Europe. What with wind and solar being a bust, and Putin supplying their gas, and welcoming ‘refugees’ from anywhere without identification, there’s a lot of trouble being stored up.
The thing that really annoys them is that Trump warned them about it.
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I’m glad Andrew Laming has methodically gone after everyone who’s defamed him. The most recent to issue a grovelling apology was one Mrs Cane Toad, wife of Pirate Man.
Yes.
And you know why she went down on bended knee?
Because, unlike Seven-Nilligan, her legal advice was that she was done cold and, more importantly, her employer wasn’t going to pick up the tab. -
I expect this to be expunged from youtube soon – so Cats/Kittehs who know how, please save it.
Tom Lehrer – National Brotherhood Week;
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A simple video seems to have become of interest.Too late, it’s been copied.
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An their ABCcess this morning the Emannuel Goldstein is Gas, we hates it my precioussssss, gollm…gollum…
Full ballenced ABC chunderism on display with 3 guests all agreeing it was awful wicked stuff we were tricked into using by the evviiil companies followed by a balanced selection of ABC facebook responses and callers in.
One stood out for me as a guest with a definite bit of skin in the game.
Some property development council who was stating gas is ba/ electricity is best/ fossil fuels etc. Unmentioned: The money saved by developers in not putting gas onto new developments.A curious oversight by the usually laser like hate the ABC brings onto anything to do with property developers.
Also a council spokes-mongette saying how they would love to ban gas to help them achieve zero emissions in their LGA.
I hope all these people die cold, alone and in the dark after the power goes out.
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FiL died at home this morning. Last thing he said was MiL’s name. His body gave up but not his mind. He always wanted to live as long as his Father, who was gassed in WWI and heart attack at 40. Missed by 4 days. Only in recent years did he suffer health wise. On an amusing note, he was an international conference in Canberra. He was introduced to PM Hawke and Howard. His observations of both men enlightening. Hawke calls Howard little Johnnie Howard when he’s shorter and wears platform shoes. Insecure. John Howard tried to talk about things he knew nothing about. A try hard. He did admit later Howard did grow into the job but thought the talent pool was shallow if he got up. Never liked many politicians in the 50 years I knew him. He could be a bit overbearing at times, I dropped him when I was 20, never picked me again. Could have been a test, he was like that. I will miss him.
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feelthebernsays:
June 14, 2022 at 11:30 am
Don’t forget, less than a month after the election the ABC had a round of redundancies & other restructuring.How many of Their ABC’s “Stars” on their individual contracts were made redundant or “restructured”? What odds that the answer is a number lower than one?
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Headlining channel 9 news (last night -i thought I’d sent this already) is power calamity, with users in QLD asked to turn off appliances.
While I’m happy for Labor to dump ruinables in such a crisis, one must be suspicious that the whole ruinables election promises were knowingly false. Labor was always going to dump it like last week’s sushi.
I just hope the Teals are in tears.
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Ruinables currently supplying 4% of NSW’s power. Outfuckingstanding:
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