If Morrison had invited Abbott into the government and not amped up the economy wrecking, I might have thought about voting LNP. The ‘you don’t matter’ message didn’t go away so I voted UAP. Reading this morning about Kean and Bragg along with the expulsion of Bernie Finn, I am convinced this was the correct decision. I haven’t voted LNP since 2014 now.

Allergy Spender:

“Exactly what the government should be doing is working with the gas companies and saying ‘guys, you know people – Australians, families and businesses expect to be able to access affordable energy, you’re making great profits, you’re not paying a lot of corporate tax on the east coast and you’re making great profits because of this spike in prices, you need to come to the party and make sure that Australian consumers and businesses are protected,” she said.

The east coast Australian domestic gas market is about 500 PJ annum – which averages out at about 1.4 million GJ/day (1 million GJ in a PJ). Most of this gas is sold on term contracts at between $6-$8/GJ – about a 10% – 15% margin on Queensland CSG wellhead cost.

The Australian gas spot market is running at close to European distress pricing (currently around $36/GJ) because of the physical link with Queensland LNG exports. It’s a market thing.

However the spot market volume is tiny: the AEMO dashboard tells us that yesterday 36,000 GJ traded at the Wallumbilla hub – less than 3% of the total traded volume.

Not exactly “making great profits because of this spike in prices”.

Exactly what Allegra Spender should be doing is shutting the fuck up.

Well played Wentworth.

Suspender belt is a vacuous daughter of privilege who has never wanted for anything. Just grotesque.

This vile eastern suburbs wimmin make Marie Antoinette look street smart.

Struth you certainly are not alone, 900,000 Queenslanders are unvaxxed. And more importantly I am unvaxxed and on day 8 of a severe covid infection. I have recovered (it was a close thing) and still will NEVER get the jab.

Not in the world of Dover’s denialists.
The five old farts that post here are reflective of the entire country, they tell us.
Those 900 ooo, are a figment of your imagination.
There’s the whole world who are loving, righteous people who “HAD” to take the jab and just one arsehole truck driver from Queensland searching for greatness.

Everyone’s back to normal….ask the pathetic JC.

It’s all over, they tell us.
No destroying the place with inflation or food shortages, unaffordable power, all because Russia is having a play in the Ukraine…….that’s right.
A flood in fucking Northern NSW has wiped out the entire Australian food producing capacity even though it was producing enough to feed itself three times over before that.
And all the other WEF member nations are experiencing the same issues.
Funny about that.
Here, the WEF is to be laughed at……….two years down the track they still refuse to see truth smacking them in the face, such is their distain for being TOTALLY FUCKING WRONG about everything so far
The WEF was and always has been a conspiracy theory of the tin hat brigade and the fact that they’ve invented a new Sudden Adult Death Syndrome to relieve the vacuous of mind from wondering why jabbed people are dropping dead all around them…in their 30’s and 40’s doesn’t warrant a glance.

There’s some fucking sick cookies here these days.
They hypocrites of the right, who would have once quoted such words as……”A sane person to an insane society must appear insane”. are now part of the latter.

KD and Spoofo of the slip lane, demolishing my points with pin point accuracy, or teenage like spoilt brats who can’t handle the truth?

Yeeessss!
I win!!
He’s gone the full Colonel Jessup!
“You can’t handle the truth!”
JC, you owe me a steak.

Hypocricy is born from a lack of self examination.
He doesn’t even know he’s doing it.

Suspender belt is a vacuous daughter of privilege who has never wanted for anything. Just grotesque.

Good, they are the public face and they own the consequences of all the measures relating to climate change that follow. Almost as if they are performing a self Alinsky manoeuvre on themselves by freezing the issue and personalising it with a deeply unsympathetic caste of characters.

Shitweasel Bowen is also frantically demonising the gas producers of Australia:

The minister also said the gas industry needed to understand the incoming government was serious about fixing problems in the energy market, including a lack of domestic supply. He said the Morrison government’s gas trigger needed to be overhauled.

He said that could involve “tough conversations with people”. Bowen said he had respect for Australian gas producers “but respectfully, Australians, I think, are entitled to say, well, that gas comes from under Australian ground”.

NFI.
Similar to Spender.

Interestingly, Bowen doesn’t think there’s an issue with AGL buying gas $8/GJ and running it through gas turbines to sell electricity at distress prices – equivalent to gas at $36/GJ.

Or chortling as its super cheap, $zero marginal cost, renewable electricity goes into the distress market at $300/MWh.

But Bowen has a plan:

In the May election Labor took to voters a policy that includes a commitment to deliver a 43% cut in emissions by 2030. But Bowen, borrowing language from the Morrison government, said his objective was to “meet and beat” that target.

“Frankly, it’s important if we’re going to bring Australia with us, we have to hold true,” Bowen said. “In 2010 there was a close election and then … government policy changed just after election and … we lost the Australian people. They were no longer part of the project of what we’re trying to achieve because we lost confidence.

“I won’t let that happen.”

Be of good cheer.

It has always been a scary prospect for KD that someone may step out of the baton charge toward the unarmed protestors

I was one of those unarmed protestors. Went to them. As opposed to:

Socialism has sat me on my arse. Fatso. And as for:

such is their distain for being TOTALLY FUCKING WRONG about everything so far

I give you: ‘Well what else would you have concluded.’ Further:

The WEF was and always has been a conspiracy theory of the tin hat brigade

Yes. Yes it has been. Koo dettats everywhere. ‘They will kill us all, and those who survive will wish they were dead.’ 10 to 40 months.

The internet is forever. Funny little fat fellow. Yap yap yap.

Franksays:
June 11, 2022 at 12:21 pm
Spender

‘guys, you know …

Did someone just commit the cardinal sin of assuming a gender role there?

Oh no, it could have been worse……….You lot!

And numberwang.

For that reason alone, we have felt it imperative to take every step in the last two years to establish maximum fitness and good health for our age.

We should anyway Vicki. I had surgery at the beginning of the year, I asked the surgeon why he chose me for this particular surgery? He said even though I was in great pain I had forced myself to keep fit and use the damaged bits. Not many do, so the damage gets worse from neglect. I’ll see if I can get an X-ray to put up.

Shitweasel Bowen is also frantically demonising the gas producers of Australia

Dr F – I’m almost sure that isn’t the headline the Guardian used.

I may have added some interpretive dance of my own.

I am strong, I am woman. Hear me roar.,

Especially after lunch.

Anyone wondering about the LNP and the nuke stuff, it’s been on Sky News yesterday and today:

We ‘need nuclear power’: Barnaby Joyce (9 Jun)

Nationals leader David Littleproud slams Chris Bowen’s comments on nuclear energy and calls for a ‘mature conversation’ (10 Jun)

Dutton’s plan to fast-track nuclear submarines (9 Jun)

The Lib’s Ted O’Brien (don’t ask “who?”, he’s Shadow Minister for Climate & Energy!) also has been pushing nuclear power this week, which is a fine backflip since Dutton said that nuclear wasn’t in their policy platform less than a fortnight ago.

I’ll take the truth twisting and up you an untwisting.

It has always been a scary prospect for KD that someone may step out of the baton charge toward the unarmed protestors

I was one of those unarmed protestors. Went to them. As opposed to:

Socialism has sat me on my arse. Fatso. And as for:

A most obvious attempt at conflating being put out of work to not protesting.

Do you really think people are as stupid as you KD?

such is their distain for being TOTALLY FUCKING WRONG about everything so far

I give you: ‘Well what else would you have concluded.’ Further:

The WEF was and always has been a conspiracy theory of the tin hat brigade

Yes. Yes it has been. Koo dettats everywhere. ‘They will kill us all, and those who survive will wish they were dead.’ 10 to 40 months.

The internet is forever. Funny little fat fellow. Yap yap yap.

It certainly is sunshine, and not only do you admit to stubborn ignorance here regarding the WEF which everyone these days is up to speed with except for this little corner of factophobes, but you are dumb enough to conclude it’s all over. Obviously.
If it hasn’t happened it isn’t going to, according to this genious.
You’re not a bright boy…perfect candidate for the plod.
The internet is most certainly for ever.

Taking the twisting and upping you an untwisting.

A flood in fucking Northern NSW has wiped out the entire Australian food producing capacity even though it was producing enough to feed itself three times over before that.
And all the other WEF member nations are experiencing the same issues.
Funny about that.

Uh huh. The flood was the WEF’s fault.

Please let this be about chemtrails.

Here KD attempts to make you believe I stated the WEF caused the floods.
Yes he does think you’re that stupid.
Even when the word issues is a plural.
Food shortages, sky high inflation, food shortages….plural.
Floods are a singular issue.
It’s hard to fill in the tab form, chat up the barmaid and go outside for a smoke, while trying to be a smartarse.

Shitweasel Bowen. Rump swab has a nice ring to it too.
Quite what constitutes a shitweasel requires some deeper thought though, the pelts don’t sound like they would be in much demand.

I suspect we will need them long before then

I suspect they will be of no use whatsoever, what with robot subs and undersea drones the coming thing.

Battleships trumped by carriers trumped by subs …. trumped by robots. That seems to be the way it’s going.

Australian government agrees to pay $835 million to French submarine contractor Naval Group over cancelled contract

The Lib’s Ted O’Brien (don’t ask “who?”, he’s Shadow Minister for Climate & Energy!) also has been pushing nuclear power this week, which is a fine backflip since Dutton said that nuclear wasn’t in their policy platform less than a fortnight ago.

Yeah, David Rowe is onto this Littleproud character.
Basically, these arseholes aren’t going to let Dutton get set, they’re going to bring him down as fast as they can.

Zipster says:
June 11, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Australian government agrees to pay $835 million to French submarine contractor Naval Group over cancelled contract

Ha!
Dan Andrews pisses that much up against the wall before lunch on Monday.

Please Dr F.
No embellishments or interpretations.
It’s not that sort of blog.

I only come here for the embellished interpretive dance.
And, obviously, the bonhomie.

28 degrees. 24% humidity. brilliant.

Outdoor stuff, followed (probably) by a trip to a local establishment on the way home into the evening.

Obviously, I will be watching for troofer cloud-seeding WEF drones all the while. Cheeky little buggers hide behind the koop dettats before leaping out at you, y’know.

Nelson_Kidd-Playerssays:
June 11, 2022 at 1:51 pm
Has any country ever enforced a zero debt policy on its government? I could see only one exception: the cost to run an election. Apart from that, if there’s insufficient funds, the politicians’ pay is the first thing to get cut. Maybe allow debt by plebiscite for exceptional and limited circumstances such as war.

Biggest problem is how? Just look at how our supposed rights were ignored the last couple of years, with no consequences to the pollies except maybe, maybe, being kicked out of office.

If you believe there’s any chance of enforcing zero debt I have a couple of bridges I can sell you, going cheap.

Scotty selecting Deves was a disaster for the guys that lost, but better times are ahead for the Party now that Josh, Dave, Trent, Tim, Celia, Trevor and Jason are spending more time with their nearest and dearest.
Scotty needs to retire as well.
Basically, the lesson from the defeat is that PrePoll is now where Elections are won and lost, gimmick candidates like Deves are a turnoff for women voters, Nuclear Power is a losing issue, State politicians who raise the Abortion Issue in the middle of a Federal Campaign ought to be expelled, and Barnaby Joyce, Matt Canavan and David Littleproud are fuckwits.

Continued manipulation of temperature records by BoM to enhance the global warming myth (from Jo Nova).

Think tank IPA’s senior fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy said it had been a cold start to winter but because the Bureau of Meteorology had closed down weather stations and set limits on stations recording cold temperatures, it made comparisons difficult.

As Jennifer Marohasy says, they’ve closed long standing stations, and set limits of minus 10.4 C so if Australia were to break our long time cold records we’ll never even know it. Charlottes Pass in Australia reached minus 23 in 1994. How can we even measure that with thermometers that “stop” at minus ten?

Roger:

Finland to build a wall on its 1300km border with Russia.
The border was in recent times policed cooperatively by the two neighbours and delineated only by markers & signs.

Finland needs to go back to the lines it owned before the Winter War. At least they were defensible, unlike the current ones.

Sancho has made no such undertaking and will not be jitter-bugging for your amusement.

I see, ok then $20 it is.

take it away Sancho!

will not be jitter-bugging for your amusement

How about a brisk foxtrot while wearing a sombrero and with occasional pauses to twirl the moustache?

THis one is definitely bi….

My ex broke my heart — so I sliced off my arm tattoo and mailed it to him

polar that is

New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function

Another article about the woman with the tattoo removal fetish. This time with more pictures. Turns out the part about her boyfriend’s name was not quite correct, it actually said Chopper’s Bitch.

PD-1 blockade counteracts post-COVID-19 immune abnormalities and stimulates the anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response
A substantial proportion of patients who have recovered from coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) experience COVID-19-related symptoms even months after hospital discharge. We extensively immunologically characterized patients who recovered from COVID-19. In these patients, T cells were exhausted, with increased PD-1+ T cells, as compared with healthy controls. Plasma levels of IL-1?, IL-1RA, and IL-8, among others, were also increased in patients who recovered from COVID-19. This altered immunophenotype was mirrored by a reduced ex vivo T cell response to both nonspecific and specific stimulation, revealing a dysfunctional status of T cells, including a poor response to SARS-CoV-2 antigens. Altered levels of plasma soluble PD-L1, as well as of PD1 promoter methylation and PD1-targeting miR-15-5p, in CD8+ T cells were also observed, suggesting abnormal function of the PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint axis. Notably, ex vivo blockade of PD-1 nearly normalized the aforementioned immunophenotype and restored T cell function, reverting the observed post-COVID-19 immune abnormalities; indeed, we also noted an increased T cell-mediated response to SARS-CoV-2 peptides. Finally, in a neutralization assay, PD-1 blockade did not alter the ability of T cells to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyped lentivirus infection. Immune checkpoint blockade ameliorates post-COVID-19 immune abnormalities and stimulates an anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response.

It might have been the Lockyer Valley for the “lettuce floods” and “broccoli inundations” rather than northern NSW. Quick seasonal crop, easily covered by hydroponics sourced locally.

If you need Iceberg, pay for it. I bought a couple of small Cos for caesar salad, a good substitute.

“Even though it was a ratings bomb that few Americans watched”
The whole country knew it was a witch hunt, with a pre-determined outcome.

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 11, 2022 at 2:02 pm
28 degrees. 24% humidity. brilliant.

Damn your eyes sir.
12 and feels like 8 with a cold SW, and I’m out in it.

The whole country knew it was a witch hunt, with a pre-determined outcome.

It wasn’t a Witch Hunt, it was a conspiracy of the Intelligence Agencies.
There were Ukrainians specially flown over to take part.
Since we know that to be true, it follows that Trump was in on the conspiracy too.

Iceberg is a good carrier for spicy pork mince. You can also slice it into a wedge and grill it on a plate and top with other veggies and dressing. Mmmmm.

I made lettuce soup with it once when there was a glut and I was poor. Add parmesan for punch.

You haven’t tried my caesar salad, Tom! I use the baby Cos and disregard their squeals as I pull them apart.

Anchovies, flaked parmesan, bacon, grilled tenders, quartered eggs, simple dressing. Instead of croutons, I put in roasted, salted chick peas for crunch. There is never any left.

Always ready to try new things, Calli — even rabbit food. What time is lunch tomorrow?

Time to start on the merits of Romaine and endive.

My Training Wife made a mean prawn and ham salad.

Had bean sprouts in it and some sort of dressing.

Yes, Vicki. The chickpeas are great. Drain a can well, run a bit of water over them, drain again. Put them in a container with a slurp of olive oil. Shake to coat.

Oven tray, parchment, salt on top and maybe some chilli flakes or cayenne. Oven 180C. Cook until the outside is crunchy.

A great low carb snack and full of goodness and fibre. Better than crisps.

Iceberg is a good carrier for spicy pork mince. You can also slice it into a wedge and grill it on a plate and top with other veggies and dressing. Mmmmm.

Actually, charred lettuce is a Good Thing. Tahini dressing + roast root veggies.

For San Choy Bow cups try radicchio or endive/witlof. The bitter taste works a treat with sweet pork.

Going to try roasted chick pea croutons.

Sweet, fresh iceberg is to die for if you’re a real Strayan.

Lord.
Look, without being at all racist, my money is on you demanding pineapple on well-done roast lamb and beetroot on your pizza.

You’re a racist, Roger.

There. I said it.

Ed Casesays:
June 11, 2022 at 4:06 pm
The whole country knew it was a witch hunt, with a pre-determined outcome.

It wasn’t a Witch Hunt, it was a conspiracy of the Intelligence Agencies.
There were Ukrainians specially flown over to take part.
Since we know that to be true, it follows that Trump was in on the conspiracy too.

Dickless

Your logic train is …. deficient. Like you.

Apple sauce is simple too. Grannys, sliced. Half a lemon, juiced plus the zest. A soupspoon of sugar. As the boys are here, I left out the apple brandy. Slurp of water to stop it catching. Boil until tender. Mash.

The pork is way too rich to add anything else to the sauce, you want something sweet and acidic to cut the fat.

Just checked the crackling. Boom, crash…done.

Roger, you’re one of my favourite commenters here. Humourless dullards reading the Cat, who have no concept of tongues in cheeks, may need the obvious explained to them.

Carraway seeds — great flavour (and cooking subject). But not as subtle as linseed straight from the paddock, nor as pretty as blue linseed waves shimmering on the horizon.

Some good news at least: Laurel and Hardy’s Way Out West is on You Tube:

when I was a wee young sprite, we would go on school excursions to see laurel & hardy and charlie chaplin movies.

‘Stupid’ gas policies led to energy crisis in eastern states, say former premiers
Amid warnings that spiralling gas prices on Australia’s east coast could send some manufacturers broke and spur an outbreak of food price inflation, Mr Carpenter and Mr Barnett decried what they labelled the “stupid” decisions of successive governments.

Consumers paying the price
In a rare interview since leaving politics in 2008, Mr Carpenter said it defied belief that Australia had allowed itself to run short of gas supplies when it was the world’s equal-largest producer.

He said a succession of political leaders had been persuaded by false arguments against domestic obligations, lamenting that it was ordinary consumers who were paying the price.