You can’t upgrade the holiday house with an apology.

fact check: TRUE

@ Crossie
I forget the exact quote but it basically goes along the lines that it is impossible to convince a man of the truth of a proposition if his livelihood depends on his not believing it.

@cohenite
So here we are. Punitive excise rates on tobacco which force people to buy contraband cigarettes have now enabled criminal crime gangs to take over the vegetable supply chain. Government intervention on display.

Crossie,

Did some personal research on climate last year and found a lot of records from areas I have lived were no longer available or in italics meaning they were “Not quality controlled” whatever that means. From what I have seen by others like Jennifer they are cooking the books and it is hard not to disagree. Something I am much more familiar with and qualified to comment on is the geological record, that tends to muddy the waters even more when CO2 levels are blamed for temperature increases.

With $10 lettuce you can’t afford to let them go black in the crisper like usual.

At least you got lettuce, the local woolies had none of any variety today.

venezuela here we come!

Half the crap they stock chemists with is new age twaddle, unless the science on ear candles is very convincing.

Sky News does their weekly tithe to the Murdoch Jr deities.

‘Future of transport has arrived’: Car Next Door CEO discusses platform (12 Jun)

Car Next Door allows people to rent out their vehicle, or hire one themselves from others on the service, by the hour, or by the day around Australia.

Mr Davies discussed the company and the benefits car sharing can have for people and the planet.

“I think the future of transport in Australia has already arrived,” Mr Davies told Sky News Australia.

“For most people in Australian cities you can catch public transport, ride, hire an e-scooter or an e-bike, catch an Uber when you need to, catch a Car Next Door when you want to take a longer trip.

“Already we are making transport a lot more efficient for people, but if we can electrify that, and further remove the carbon emissions from transport, that’s a really positive step.”

My climate bingo card went ping half way through. Car sharing is a holy doctrine to Gaia second only to very fast trains. Does Sky want no customers? Their self-harm reflex is very strange.

Speaking of self harm.

Matt Kean questioned about state’s response to energy crisis (Sky News, 12 Jun)

NSW Treasurer and Energy Minister Matt Kean has been questioned about the state’s response to the energy crisis by Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.

When asked what the state government is doing about power prices, Mr Kean said, “we are speaking to the energy companies to turn the coal-fired power stations back on”.

“If we’re putting more coal into the system at the moment and relying less on gas, that will bring downward pressure on prices,” Mr Kean told Sky News Australia.

Reading this one my hypocrisy bingo card melted. Amazing.

On climate scams.

Climate hysteria isn’t just anti-scientific bullshit. It’s about self-hatred.

Not just species self-hatred, but personal self-hatred.

Everyone who rejects the actual climate science is (usually a wealthy) self-hater ashamed of his/her good fortune in a wealthy Western society.

Such self-hatred doesn’t occur in Third World societies still primarily preoccupied with providing for its families.

It’s what happens after you stop believing in God and imagine that you yourself are a god. It’s ugly self-worship, better known as narcissism.

Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview

Ah, right.
No Sermon on the Mount today.

“Blessed are the cocksmokers”.

Panzer, please explain who these ‘cocksmokers’ are. I must have missed the relevant posts. I need to know if I should pray for their souls or not.

Where’s the money to build a Nuclear P:ower Industry coming from, Cohenite?

Plenty of atheists and agnostics don’t believe in ‘climate change’.

But the primary demographic of those who don’t “believe in” climate change is rich Westerners brought up as Christians who now loathe Christianity.

Atheists, in other words.

I think Johnny Depp could do awesome Bowie.

Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp (11 Jun)

He can sing very well and play the guitar. What more is there to ask of any man?

There was minimal money supply growth in the 1970s and 1980s but with high inflation/stagflation. So how come?

being the reserve currency, inflation was caused by vast amounts of dollars returning to the US, something to do with the gold window closure from memory.

There has been a heck of a lot of money printing since the GFC in 2008 and there was NO inflation until recently. So how come?

there has been inflation, primarily in institutional assets as that is where the money was pumped.

the current batch of inflation is being primed by money printing delivered to the general population. see M2

A great album cover would be the Zepparella ladies distributed over the Giant’s Causeway sans clothing.

Owning the original album cover is the sort of thing that could put you on the nonces register these days. Mr Page not available for comment.

John Sheldrick at 7.29 pm

Ignorance meets reality and reality wins. This Kean Plonker has to go as he has NFI.

If the NSW Libs wont jettison Turnbuckle – then they won’t touch the mongrel Green (oops – I mean Kean h/t Rowen Dean)

Ed Casesays:
June 12, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Where’s the money to build a Nuclear P:ower Industry coming from, Cohenite?

ARC “grants” for Klimate Change research should be enough to cover the design phase.

Just taking a breather and starting to watch Outsiders – follically- challenged Shitlips (Matt Kean) copping shellacking, then up comes the ignoramus-in-chief Jim Chalmers – he soooo looks like Gomer Pyle but not as smart, what a surprise, surprise, surprise.

magnifique cupcakes

Kamikaze (2000).

Live wires, the both of them.

https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/109387/moogoo-natural-skin-milk-udder-cream-200g

Rabzsays:
June 12, 2022 at 7:50 pm
Wally – seriously?
Get thee behind me, disco chick-peddling temptation Satan

Havin’ it …
The disco chick du jour, Mizz Dua Lipa
Highly recommend the album, it leaves off all the cross-promotional “feats”, and is a disco banger tho it does close very badly with a “all men are rapists” brainfart.
She’s a snog… maybe a bury, there’s something unlovely with the Fran Drescher head and dead Elvis eyes. Great frame tho.

And, following one of my custom tangents-
John Squire, once of the Stone Roses. B-side, written after Hopper painting.
Ignore the croak, stay for the sublime riffy middle eight.

Tori trumps them all, Bruce.
That Toerags session was a single mic exercise for young Emily.
This is another, boozy portside murder ballad style.
If you are ever whithin cooee of seeing Emily Barker live, get there. Amazingly subtle and moving performer. If she was anything other that a folk wonk, she’d be famous.

Tori trumps them all, Bruce.

She’s hot and crazy alright. I was disappointed with the sound quality of that official track, so much so I went and found the CD and played it just now on my PC. Wasn’t age doing its thang on my ears, clearly better and crisper. YT music is awful quality, even from the artists themselves.

John Squire, once of the Stone Roses. B-side, written after Hopper painting.
Ignore the croak, stay for the sublime riffy middle eight.

This is a fun topic. The Stone Roses are awesome. The thing though is the band is better than the artists who make it up. Mr Squire is OK, but not as good as the Stone Roses together.

One of my favourite tracks is Judith by A Perfect Circle. After the success of the track the lady bass player and the lead guitarist both did their own albums. Which are very ordinary. At least though, as a result of this single they got their chances, which is no bad thing.

A Perfect Circle – Judith (2000)

The NYT article states that even some of the earliest supporters of Biden’s 2020 campaign are now questioning whether he can lead the party through another challenging election cycle against Mr. Trump.

The January 6 Circus will help fix that.

Jim Monroe, vice president for corporate affairs of Smithfield, said two main factors drove the company’s decision: high costs and overregulation.
“The cost of doing business in California is significantly higher than other states where we operate. Utilities, for example, are 3.5 times per head higher than our other location where we do the same work. Taxes and other costs are significantly higher,”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/largest-us-pork-packer-closing-california-plant-citing-high-costs-and-red-tape_4527574.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-06-12&utm_medium=email&est=BLpw1QBSAZGx0ue18QNc1hU3GcH6Y5zAPAWZLPn1sHc1oNmZgKkkQQb%2FsSBLzJ18

Same as it ever was

David Byrne is a sort of musical John Cleese.

I’ve been doing 13 minutes of a stainless steel National guitar and a mahogany Fender. The transition is magical, sibilant to honey. The guy can play.

Someone’s already played the PJ Harvey card… scrummy chick, brainy enough to get down on a knee for.
Stomper. This was the moment that she invented the “vertical cleavage” that should have you re-thinking your Wolf Alice myopia, Rabz.

Rabz – I was given an acoustic when I was about 13, by a step-mother. A princely gift. She and I fell out later unfortunately. But then that guitar didn’t gel for me, it was like a beautiful painting. To be admired but not thought of as a tool. Perhaps it was because ours was never a musical household, we never had the radio on. While it was something I had a bit of a gift in myself it didn’t go anywhere, and I had no one to explain to me or teach me what to do with this six-stringed magical creature, and I had no music surrounding me to be attracted to.

Looking back to those days it’s like describing a blind man who can now see. Today I’m too old to want to do the hard work, though I have the time. A lost chance. It’s why I like this sort of music though.

June 12th.
On this day in 2016, an FBI informant killed 49 people in a night club in Florida.
There was not a single congressional hearing into the FBI’s connection to the perpetrator.

Bill Tuckey was a great motoring writer, but was overshadowed by Romsey Quints. 🙂

Wish I still had my Dad’s copy of The Rise and Fall of Peter Brock. Would be worth rereading. Booko.com.au reports used copies starting from $30.00.

(Not talking about the Momma, got it stickin’ in the camera line…)

Peter Brock also made it into golfing lexicon.

When your pill lands right next to a tree – I mean touching it – and said tree is between you and the hole, allowing you absolutely nowhere to go, you are said to have completed a Brocky.

Brocky = dead, up against a tree.

Mark Knight on the inflation dragon.

David Rowe.

Bob Moran.

Michael Ramirez.

Tom Stiglich.

Lisa Benson.

Walmarts reporting that it has an inventory glut and will take a few quarters to clear

Depends on the goods stored, maybe nobody wants them.

That’s what I don’t understand about the Says’ (spell) law/principle some economists are pushing.
Fine, you have to have goods to sell before people can buy, but if you produce unwanted crap, what good is it?

Good market research is most important.