Open Thread – Weekend 18 June 2022


Fishing Boats at Honfleur, Claude Monet, 1868

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Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 20, 2022 9:25 pm

feelthebern says:
June 20, 2022 at 8:36 pm
Organic wines are just the thing in a winter.
Young, fresh, everything you want.

You’ll be voting Teal in no time.

Zipster
Zipster
June 20, 2022 9:25 pm
John Sheldrick
June 20, 2022 9:25 pm

Dot says:
June 20, 2022 at 9:00 pm

how is money created?

Money is the most sought after commodity and it can be created by acceptance of of even debt instruments at high enough circulation.

Here comes the Dot Bird.

Dotty, dotty. Money is not a commodity. It is only used for transactions. In years gone by money was shells, salt, lumps of rock and then bronze, silver, gold.

Do yourself a favour. Learn some history and get an education. As I indicated before in a previous post, just try and look at http://www.armstrongeconomics.com………………….You might even learn something.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 9:26 pm

Yes, we’re all Graeme Bird now

Dot Bird who knows ‘GMB’ intimately and kicked the ferk out of a woman that talked about Walgett wants to chastise me….

I presume you will be hanging on Sydney Harbour Bridge Dot Bird

Seen a bit of Thorium lately?

JC
JC
June 20, 2022 9:26 pm

I did you fag smoker.

Stuth , the other store owner , uses a similar term – cocksmoker.

I’ve never visited, but it sounds very homosexual at the store. But don’t misunderstand, I’m not being judgemental.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:27 pm

Money is the most sought after commodity.

In years gone by money was shells, salt, lumps of rock and then bronze, silver, gold.

Yes, commodities that were the most prized. Tell me why you think von Mises is wrong here?

get an education

Already have one.

look at

He’s not bad but he’s an amateur.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 9:30 pm

Iraq, Afghanistan, Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Washington DC.

Those aren’t Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.

Like I said, cute hand-wave.

JC
JC
June 20, 2022 9:30 pm

NFA

Look, you incomparable goose:

Whiskey on the table rains heavily while the other side likes to walk in the park because utter nonsense was always the second best.

johanna
johanna
June 20, 2022 9:30 pm

calli – here’s one for you. Prog rock at its very best, Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IycrLB8vww0

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:32 pm

Dot Bird who knows ‘GMB’ intimately and kicked the ferk out of a woman that talked about Walgett wants to chastise me….

Yes. I still don’t believe that person isn’t Grigory. Their answers were bizarre and suspicious.

I have never met Graeme Bird, but he has made bizarre denunciations about me.

I will chastise whomever I want. More so when you have a silly conspiracy idea about everyone being Bird.

I presume you will be hanging on Sydney Harbour Bridge Dot Bird

???

What does this mean?

Seen a bit of Thorium lately?

I did but see her passing by. And yet I love her till I die.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 20, 2022 9:32 pm

Norm Macdonald talking to Andy Dick.
NSFW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi5jtKNI6gw

rickw
rickw
June 20, 2022 9:33 pm

Anyone got any experience with Alaska Mills? Need to cut these up into slabs, in the 400-500mm diameter range, 3.5 and 3.9 length. Alternative is to get someone with a Lucas Mill. Probably cut into 45mm slabs, can then use as either table tops or cut in half and make floor boards:

https://imgur.com/gallery/emNPBXM

P
P
June 20, 2022 9:34 pm

What the fuck in Juneteenth?

or sparrow?

Eyes On The Sparrow

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 20, 2022 9:34 pm

You’ll be voting Teal in no time.

Nurgle laughs your voting, puny human.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:36 pm

rick

Heard of Titans of CNC?

https://www.youtube.com/c/TITANSofCNC/videos

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 9:37 pm

JC says:
June 20, 2022 at 9:26 pm

I did you fag smoker.

Stuth , the other store owner , uses a similar term – cocksmoker.

I’ve never visited, but it sounds very homosexual at the store. But don’t misunderstand, I’m not being judgemental.

The monkey pox has you doesn’t it JC.

But real monkeys would type more credible information than you and Dot Bird.

Enjoy your avian flu!

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:38 pm

Is this idiot drunk or a Chinese bot?

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 20, 2022 9:41 pm

dot, you adeptus mechanicus son of a bitch.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:41 pm

The LDP have had an adverse decision and need to change our name.

I am thinking, PAL.

Party of Australian Libertarians.

PAL.

Hey PAL, need a hand?

PUP, why not PAL?

johanna
johanna
June 20, 2022 9:41 pm

OK, pissing contests everywhere, armchair strategists a dime a dozen.

Reminds me of the chap in The Divine Agatha’s novel who complained that people “know nothing about India.”

I daresay he was right.

JC
JC
June 20, 2022 9:41 pm

I think he’s on Fentanyl with a dash of crack making him more aggressive.

Indolent
Indolent
June 20, 2022 9:43 pm

I guess this is what Turnbull was on about.
Why Democrats Want to Get Rid of the Suburbs

132andBush
132andBush
June 20, 2022 9:43 pm

Whiskey on the table rains heavily while the other side likes to walk in the park because utter nonsense was always the second best.

Edgar Alan Poe eat your heart out.

Indolent
Indolent
June 20, 2022 9:44 pm
John Sheldrick
June 20, 2022 9:48 pm

The LDP have had an adverse decision and need to change our name.

I am thinking, PAL.

Party of Australian Libertarians.

PAL.

Hey PAL, need a hand?

PUP, why not PAL?

LOL. There was a TV advert in England in the 1960s for PAL. It was a dog food. Prolongs Active Life…………………More LOL.

P
P
June 20, 2022 9:48 pm

Yes. I still don’t believe that person isn’t Grigory. Their answers were bizarre and suspicious.

I have never met Graeme Bird, but he has made bizarre denunciations about me.

I will chastise whomever I want. More so when you have a silly conspiracy idea about everyone being Bird.

I would like to inform you that I have nothing to say.
No point.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:49 pm

I daresay he was right.

Sacre merde, mon ami. I imagined Captain Hastings saying that.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 9:49 pm

Edgar Alan Poe eat your heart out.

Quoth the Raven:

Faaaaaaaaaaaark

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 20, 2022 9:50 pm

P is John Anderson.
He also has a podcast.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 20, 2022 9:51 pm

Night shift started early this evening. I’m not drunk enough to keep up.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 20, 2022 9:52 pm

I’m not drunk enough to keep up.

Traitor.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:54 pm

Conservative Humanist Union of Methodists.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 9:54 pm

General Order of Ordinary Democratic Operatives.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 20, 2022 10:01 pm

Update on the story of Bandt refusing to stand with the Australian flag – he does seem to have kicked rather a monumental own goal….

Greens leader Adam Bandt refuses to stand with Australian flag

Paul Garvey
Senior Reporter
@PDGarvey
Joe Kelly
Canberra Bureau Chief
@joekellyoz
28 minutes ago June 20, 2022
378 Comments

Adam Bandt’s refusal to stand in front of the Australian flag as Greens leader has been labelled divisive and “childish virtue-signalling” by Indigenous community leaders, who say it is contrary to the spirit of reconciliation.

Political opponents of Mr Bandt also questioned why Greens MPs would want to represent Australians in the federal parliament if they were ashamed of their own country.

It comes as the NSW government on Sunday announced that, by the end of the year, the Aboriginal flag would permanently fly alongside the Australian flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Mr Bandt’s practice since becoming Greens leader in 2020 has been to remove the Australian flag from behind him when conducting press conferences.

A member of his team removed the flag ahead of his press conference in Sydney on Monday, while the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags remained in view. Mr Bandt said the flag was “hurtful” to Indigenous Australians and invoked racism.

“For many people, this flag represents dispossession and the lingering pains of colonisation,” he said. “Through treaty with First Nations’ people and by moving to a republic, we can have a flag that represents all of us.”

Carol Martin, the first Indigenous woman to be elected to any Australian parliament, said Mr Bandt’s decision to remove the Australian flag could cause division at a time when unity was needed to help deliver an Indigenous voice to parliament.

“The question is, what is it going to achieve?” the former Labor member of the WA Legislative Assembly said. “We are having a discussion now about a voice and the Statement from the Heart, and if you want to bring people on board why would you kick them in the goolies?

“It doesn’t work.

“If you want to move forward, the way to do that isn’t to offend the majority.”

Ian Trust, an Indigenous elder who runs employment programs in the Kimberley town of Kununurra and is a longtime advocate for Indigenous children, said Mr Bandt’s decision went against the spirit of reconciliation that was central to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.

“Having the three flags together is all part of the reconciliation and that’s what we are trying to achieve here,” he said.

“You don’t achieve reconciliation by removing one of those flags. That goes against the grain of everything it’s about.”

He described Mr Bandt’s move as “shortsighted”. “Personally, if I was an Australian -politician, even though I recognise the Aboriginal flag, I would have the Australian flag there as well. That’s part of the country you’re in,” he said.

Hannah McGlade, a lawyer and lifelong advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal women and children and an expert adviser to the UN on the rights of Indigenous peoples, slammed the move. “I went to law school with Adam Bandt, who never showed an interest in Aboriginal issues,” she said.

“I was also a Noongar activist supporting elders protecting our heritage sites, and racism and racist violence – he never spoke once to me about our fight for justice.

“Adam Bandt doesn’t have any track record on Aboriginal rights in my state, and his comments about the flag reflect symbolism which is rejected by Aboriginal people because we know it’s actually rights we want.”

MatrixTransform
June 20, 2022 10:01 pm

I would like to inform you that I have nothing to say.
No point.

well, I’m not even listening

can’t hear nuthin’

John Sheldrick
June 20, 2022 10:02 pm

H B Bearsays:
June 20, 2022 at 9:51 pm
Night shift started early this evening. I’m not drunk enough to keep up.

Relax and just go with the flow……………………………

MatrixTransform
June 20, 2022 10:02 pm

I’m not drunk enough to keep up.

alcohol denier

rickw
rickw
June 20, 2022 10:04 pm

rick

Heard of Titans of CNC?

Yep! Ex boxer, ex-con, became a Christian, a couple of false starts in CNC machining. His oldest hand bet his life savings on his start up, his machinery dealer also personally underwrote his first machine purchases. He slept in his factory the first couple of years so he could get up and load up new parts whenever a cycle was done. He still does / supports a lot of training in prisons. Just pulled up his whole operation including all his workers and their families and moved from California to Texas.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:05 pm

I’m comparing it to other recently occupied territories or civil conflicts. That isn’t hand-waving.

And we were talking specifically about southern Ukraine, because you were dismissing a claim that the Russians are hated there by posting a pro-RU tweet from Dr. Snekotron that suggested people were happy with being occupied and clamouring for Russian passports.

So yes, hand-waving.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 10:06 pm

sfw

What creates money is humans.

The more humans on Planet Earth the more money in circulation.

The fact is to extinguish money… kill off humans,

JC can then put his head in a jar and the fact is that he and the rest of the Bird flock that hate Jews contribute nothing at all to real life humans.

They are the borg.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:06 pm

Quoth the Raven:

Faaaaaaaaaaaark

I’m so proud I found the right image of Gra-Gra to go with it. 🙂

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 20, 2022 10:14 pm

Go wok go broke. Lightyear crashes:

The disappointing start came after controversy over Disney’s decision to include a brief kiss between a lesbian couple in the movie and to replace the conservative star Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear.

Daily Mail

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 10:15 pm

HB Bear is already a bear in the jar because he fucked it

John Sheldrick
June 20, 2022 10:17 pm

Money is the most sought after commodity.

In years gone by money was shells, salt, lumps of rock and then bronze, silver, gold.

Yes, commodities that were the most prized. Tell me why you think von Mises is wrong here?

get an education

Already have one.

look at

He’s not bad but he’s an amateur.

LOL. Your first comment is so wrong as I was trying to indicate. Money is not the most sought after commodity. Not at all. And if you think that Martin Armstrong is an amateur then there is no hope for you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:24 pm

Go woke go broke. Lightyear crashes:

The disappointing start came after controversy over Disney’s decision to include a brief kiss between a lesbian couple in the movie and to replace the conservative star Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear.

Daily Mail

The preceding Toy Story 4 was bitten by that same The Message crap, too.

I saw all of the previous 3 growing up, and the characterisation and writing in 4th movie was such a jarring break from all that went before- since when does Woody just spontaneously abandon every one of his friends and fellows for just one person, and ‘pass on’ his mantle to someone else, and Tim Allen’s Buzz Lightyear reduced to a bumbling halfwit with the cognition of a 6 year old- That the entire film fell flat on its face.

I was utterly confused by what I was watching.

P
P
June 20, 2022 10:25 pm

Dot
1945 and 1946 in Walgett as elsewhere were no doubt different from the fifties, sixties, seventies or eighties.
You said you had an aunt born 1939, who attended Walgett Catholic school. She may have been in the same class in 46 as I was. I have no doubt that my family would have known yours.
I cannot reveal my maiden name because my birth and marriage are both on the internet.
I have to respect those of the same name still in Walgett to this day and others from many parts of NSW.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 10:29 pm

Writing a newsletter makes you an expert. von Mises is wrong about money. Anything but cash is a plot to kill people. Walgett Catholic schools were like a Irish hedge school before the 1950s.

Get the fuck outta here you clowns.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:31 pm

dot, you adeptus mechanicus son of a bitch.

+++Binaric Screeching Intensifies+++

(By the Omnissiah, turn your speakers right down before clicking… 🙁 )

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:33 pm

And you believe a few attacks over almost four months substantiates the claim of deep and abiding hatred, when compared to the daily attacks in Iraq?

Why is it only a few?

And did the insurgency in Iraq start immediately on Day 1?

As you said:

Please.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 20, 2022 10:36 pm

How is money created?

I thought this was the successor site to Australia’s leading centre-right etc etc economic etc.

At. The. Mint.

Morons.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 10:39 pm

Anyone else smell sunflower seeds?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:40 pm

Let’s put it this way, Dover:

You wouldn’t be whatabouting over Iraq, and southern and southeastern Ukraine would not be full of Rosgvardia, and there wouldn’t be public protests, leafleting, killings of occupation troops and collaborators alike and pre-trial detention camp governors exploding if southern Ukraine was totally welcoming of their Russian liberators.

In fact, there’d be pretty much nothing. And your pro-RU channels and Russian media would be publicly reporting on the captures, trials and executions of Ukrainian SF and saboteur squads. Since they’d be the only ones doing anything there.

But yet, no bread and salt for the Russians, and brewing trouble despite all their efforts to tighten their control…

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 10:40 pm

Dot Bird

some excrement used your ip address to talk about ball gagging for thorium and taxing the fundamentals out of people.

naturally I thought of you.

banned ip 123.51.19.178

You don’t like me doing that?

6.6.6.6

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 20, 2022 10:42 pm

Anyone else smell sunflower seeds?

I think someone might be smelling almonds, and wondering why his left arm and the side of his jaw hurts.

Total cray-cray, probably from the two remaining commenters at The Shop being bored shitless.

John Sheldrick
June 20, 2022 10:42 pm

Dotsays:
June 20, 2022 at 10:29 pm
Writing a newsletter makes you an expert. von Mises is wrong about money. Anything but cash is a plot to kill people. Walgett Catholic schools were like a Irish hedge school before the 1950s.

Get the fuck outta here you clowns.

Wow, you really do have an acid tongue. And what such a great education you must have had…….I will let the amateur Martin Armstrong know about your command of the English language and superb intellect. He will be very impressed no doubt.

Lol.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:43 pm

Get the fuck outta here you clowns.

Not before you acknowledge my riff on Gra-Gra and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 20, 2022 10:44 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 20, 2022 at 10:36 pm

Appreciated.
Bookmarked for later reference.

P
P
June 20, 2022 10:44 pm

Walgett Catholic schools were like a Irish hedge school before the 1950s.</blockquote

You wouldn't know because your were not there. I was.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 10:46 pm

Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin’. I’ll catch this bird for you, but it ain’t gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin’ bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin’, little tenderizin’, an’ down you go.

And we gotta do it quick, that’ll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin’ basis. But it’s not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I’ll find him for three, but I’ll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you’ve gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter.

I don’t want no volunteers, I don’t want no mates, there’s just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself.

For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 20, 2022 10:46 pm

Troublingly so for Kiev.

Did Zelenskyy tell you this?

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 10:49 pm

In fact, there’d be pretty much nothing. And your pro-RU channels and Russian media would be publicly reporting on the captures, trials and executions of Ukrainian SF and saboteur squads. Since they’d be the only ones doing anything there.

But the J6 Committee have Trump in the bag.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 20, 2022 10:54 pm

Indolent at 6.49, and referring to this quote from a piece linked to earlier:

Many people would most likely disregard the above claims as “tinfoil hat nonsense”.

But unfortunately, official Government data, confidential Pfizer documents, and real-world events such as the current cost of living crisis, the alleged impending climate change disaster, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ongoing development of Artificial Intelligence, strongly suggest that there exists an agenda to depopulate the world, and your Government is, in essence, attempting to kill you.

The comment:

I think people can judge for themselves, without your contortions.

Tinfoil hat nonsense from an equally tinfoil hat site* where every single thing that occurs is going to kill every human on Earth except the elites. The ‘contortion’ is winding disease, cost of living, war and the Government’s apparent ability to change the weather into a single plot to exterminate 6 billion people.

*The Daily Expose, where presumably there is an expose every day. The site where rsrsrssrs goes to regain her perspective.

P
P
June 20, 2022 10:56 pm

NoFixedAddress,

Good to see you back on newcatallaxy

You are wasted elsewhere.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 10:57 pm

Dot Bird

The GBH has you as bad as JC Bird

Dot says:
June 20, 2022 at 10:46 pm

John Sheldrick
June 20, 2022 10:57 pm

Dotsays:
June 20, 2022 at 10:46 pm
Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin’. I’ll catch this bird for you, but it ain’t gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin’ bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin’, little tenderizin’, an’ down you go.

And we gotta do it quick, that’ll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin’ basis. But it’s not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I’ll find him for three, but I’ll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you’ve gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter.

I don’t want no volunteers, I don’t want no mates, there’s just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself.

For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

Dotty. dotty. dotty. You are off your Rocker. Go to bed now and wake up with a far better attitude………………Please.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 20, 2022 10:59 pm

Thank God for Quint.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 10:59 pm

Tell me why von Mises is wrong.

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 11:08 pm

The reason why money is the most sought after commodity (forgetting barter as a route to endogenous money supply) is that it allows you to trade endowments in different markets where the effects of money are clearly not neutral.

If the money supply is increased 20 %, prices of assets in more capital intensive locales will rise more than elsewhere. Money cannot be neutral without the lack of economic geography. The possible arbitrages here is why money, in the absence of barter exchange driven monetary development, is the most sought after commodity.

On the other hand, someone can explain why von Mises and the Austrian School is wrong.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 11:13 pm

P says:
June 20, 2022 at 10:56 pm

NoFixedAddress,

Good to see you back on newcatallaxy

You are wasted elsewhere.

LOL… thanks P but I don’t normally drop in to the Open Thread but do check the other threads.

All the best… and years ago I knew folk from Walgett.

MatrixTransform
June 20, 2022 11:22 pm

someone can explain why von Mises and the Austrian School is wrong.

poppy-seed cake

I’ve heard the seeds are irradiated but if you sow ’em some are still viable

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 20, 2022 11:24 pm

Dot says:
June 20, 2022 at 10:59 pm

Tell me why von Mises is wrong

He is dead Dot.

And it is humanity that creates wealth.

Not some fucking dead person and the fact is that dumb Bird shit folk like you and JC that have limited the expansion of human kind.

But I am certain one of you bird brained authoritarians will be over at the yuk yuk furniture store to tell us how stupid we are for not listening to you.

Enjoy your typing monkey.

Jorge
Jorge
June 20, 2022 11:40 pm

Had to look it up:

How do you use Quint in a sentence?
As gritty and boisterous as Quint , the character he played, Shaw was given to fits of rage when faced with the multiple delays in the production. Lathum’s pale blue gaze lifted from the tablet and searched Quint ‘s. She glanced quickly at Quint .

Dot
Dot
June 20, 2022 11:43 pm

Not some fucking dead person and the fact is that dumb Bird shit folk like you and JC that have limited the expansion of human kind.

But I am certain one of you bird brained authoritarians will be over at the yuk yuk furniture store to tell us how stupid we are for not listening to you.

This is a confused ball of nonsense.

Wanting people to be free holds them back and it is authoritarian?

NFI (Faulty?) – I get the feeling you’re a deeply, deeply closeted La Rouchite. Socialist economics on steroids will set us free, etc.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 20, 2022 11:53 pm

OK.
All jokes aside.
I’ve put all the socks in the drawer.
What is it NFA?
Tell me.
What troubles you my son?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 12:08 am

OK.
Looks like NFA has fallen out of the hammock and can’t reach the Bombay Sapphire bottle.
Someone call the house-boy.

P
P
June 21, 2022 12:08 am

years ago I knew folk from Walgett.

The salt of the earth, mate, the salt of the earth.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 21, 2022 12:15 am

From an amusing article at American Thinker :

Tom Hanks has announced that, if the 1993 movie Philadelphia, for which he won an Oscar for playing a gay man dying of AIDS, were being made today, he would not be offered and would not accept the role, “…and rightly so,” because today such casting would be at odds with “the modern realm of authenticity” demanding that only a gay actor can play a gay character. Today’s audiences, he said, would find a straight actor in that role “unacceptable.”

On hearing this, the first thing that occurred to me was that, should similar “logic” be applied to everything coming out of Hollywood, we would be hearing that “In other news, Anthony Hopkins has declared that, under today’s sensibilities, he would not be offered nor be able to accept the role of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (for which he was awarded 1991’s Best Actor Oscar), because he is neither an actual serial killer nor an actual cannibal.”

Other examples are Jodie Foster, Steve McQueen, William Shatner not being able to play a spaceship captain or a cop, and pretty much the whole career of Rock Hudson.

Pity about Hanks going woke.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 12:19 am

Acting.
The art of convincingly portraying something you are not.
Looks like Roman gladiator films are screwed.
What about Marvel super-hero fillems?
If you are not actually Thor, God of Thunder, how can you play him in a movie?

JC
JC
June 21, 2022 12:41 am

Tom Hanks has announced that, if the 1993 movie Philadelphia, for which he won an Oscar for playing a gay man dying of AIDS, were being made today, he would not be offered and would not accept the role, “…and rightly so,” because today such casting would be at odds with “the modern realm of authenticity” demanding that only a gay actor can play a gay character. Today’s audiences, he said, would find a straight actor in that role “unacceptable.”

Except Hanks was correctly cast if authenticity is the rule these days. Hanks is gayer than a dancer in a gay parade.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 21, 2022 12:43 am

New thread time yet Dover?
As a “kiss my arse” to the outgoing thread-
You can either get tin roof that will bounce off the rain and hail and sun and keep going for a long time, and look stately to boot, or pfaff around with colorbond coulours of Australia.
You can either get a Chef CVE, two knobs and no screens, in white so’s you can wipe off the spillage, or treat the missus to a wanky pastel Smeg 900mm multifunction pyrolitic steam oven that will run at 2/3 capacity most of the time and operate via an impenetrable mini touchscreen which is unintelligible after the third nip of cooking sherry.
You could get in line for a Tesla, and be ready to pay for upgraded connections and charging and a new battery and a new smart battery for the house and a new house for when it all catches fire, or get an 80’s 300D Merc and fang around the corners safe in the knowledge that if you skittle a ‘roo it won’t come in through the lightweight windscreen via a doorwedge “bumper”.
You could get a squinty stockbroker watch with bezelled bevels, five hands, markings like scattered grains of stardust, four buttons, absolutely ludicrous “chronograph” functionality, eighteen-monthly servicing requirements and a hand-stitched bactrian camel hump leather strap… or a $20 Casio that you can read the time off of at a glance with nice big melanoma-growing glow in the dark numbers.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 21, 2022 12:48 am

P says:
June 21, 2022 at 12:08 am

years ago I knew folk from Walgett.

The salt of the earth, mate, the salt of the earth.

Totally agree.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 12:57 am

Have you ever been to Walgett, NFA you old fraud?
And if you did, what were you looking for?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 21, 2022 12:58 am

Imagine being a gay or lesbian actor and not being able to play straight roles.

I don’t think Hanks has thought it through.

Scarlett Johansen dropped out of a movie about a trans woman because of backlash over fact she was not trans. No idea if movie ever made but a lot more would have watched it if she was in it. Since it was based on a real trans you would think it might help bring more light to trans issues.

Meanwhile no problem having a black Anne Boleyn.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 21, 2022 1:00 am

or you could just get a wood fired stove, hand her the axe and say… there is the wood heap… I have to go earn some money to keep you and the kids safe.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 21, 2022 1:14 am

Sancho Panzer says:
June 21, 2022 at 12:57 am

Have you ever been to Walgett, NFA

So, now we know that Sanchi Panzi is functionally illiterate.

What I actually said you dysfunctional pile of Bird Turd is I knew folk from Walgett.

Can you understand that or are you a North Melbourne magistrate hiding bodies in your basement?

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 21, 2022 1:17 am

123.51.19.178

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 21, 2022 1:25 am

Do you know the best part…. the entire world can now see what you do.

Gabor
Gabor
June 21, 2022 2:52 am

An incredibly sobering account of the battle of Severodonetsk from an American volunteer with the Ukrainian army.

Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
June 21, 2022 4:13 am
Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 4:41 am

Feelthebern:

A mate just text me an ad for a 1970 HT Kingswood.
Asking price, $26k.
What the actual fuck.

If it was this one, buy it.
To Hell with fuel costs…

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 4:58 am

rickw:

Anyone got any experience with Alaska Mills?

Best I can do is watch videos of Woodmizer stuff.
The LT15 looks like your best bet for size.
OK, you mean the type of mill.
Novel.
The music is a bit late for the weekend, but…

Gabor
Gabor
June 21, 2022 5:16 am

Winston Smith says:
June 21, 2022 at 4:58 am

rickw:

Anyone got any experience with Alaska Mills?

Best I can do is watch videos of Woodmizer stuff.
The LT15 looks like your best bet for size.
OK, you mean the type of mill.
Novel.

Seems a bit over investing for a few logs.

bespoke
bespoke
June 21, 2022 5:30 am

Cheers Tom

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 21, 2022 5:58 am

Why Both Republicans And Democrats Are Wrong About Bill Barr

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/20/why-both-republicans-and-democrats-are-wrong-about-bill-barr/

Good, long read on Barr.
If Trump was so smart, why did he employ such swampies.
More importantly, why did he follow such terrible advice post the election.
It’s like he followed every dead end.

Dot
Dot
June 21, 2022 6:21 am

What about Marvel super-hero fillems?
If you are not actually Thor, God of Thunder, how can you play him in a movie?

Don’t worship false idols.

In the name of our Lord, Jon Caviezel.

rosie
rosie
June 21, 2022 6:23 am

All of us
greatly saddened

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 6:26 am

New TIK episode 37 on the Stalingrad encirclement mainly covering 20th – 22nd November and the initial breakout option. Also covers the Lascar Group -V Rumanian Corps /+ on the Northern flank as it is cut off.

rosie
rosie
June 21, 2022 6:30 am

Normal people barracking for lose lose
Allison bailey barrister case blah blah

rosie
rosie
June 21, 2022 6:33 am

Cassie I entirely agree, the defendant in the Higgins matter has been found guilty by so many, so publicly, he is indeed a ‘poor young man’.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 21, 2022 6:47 am

Quote of the year from Warren Mundine yesterday, apropos of scrawny Greens dilettante Adam Bandt’s ill-thought-out national flag publicity stunt, and reprised here because it’s excellent:

“The Greens are just a fringe university type group trying to run down the country.”

Wealthy faux-concern trolls, the lot of them.

sfw
sfw
June 21, 2022 6:48 am

JC, I don’t know what the furniture store is, much less looked at it. I wrote the post after watching a couple of Neil Oliver videos. He’s smarter than me and makes a good case that the reserve banks of the world essentially enrich themselves and their mates, all paid for by the suckers at the bottom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij4VZsMjvhI

bespoke
bespoke
June 21, 2022 6:49 am

the defendant in the Higgins matter has been found guilty by so many, so publicly, he is indeed a ‘poor young man’.

Doesn’t make him innocent though, rosie.

sfw
sfw
June 21, 2022 6:55 am

It’s not the creation of the money I get how they do it, it’s who gets their hands on it first, the distribution of the newly created money. Creating more money than the available goods and services is a bad idea and will always and eventually end in tears. Why do the banks have a monopoly on the distribution of the new money?

Why not send it direct to every taxpayer? They’ll be the ones paying it back, they may as well have the short term sugar buzz and quickly learn what the money leads to.

Diogenes
Diogenes
June 21, 2022 7:01 am

Doesn’t make him innocent though, rosie.

Until convicted he is.

dopey
dopey
June 21, 2022 7:08 am

Tom Hanks is not a pilot either. No wonder he crashed that plane in the Hudson.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 21, 2022 7:10 am

Have a look at this. Just look at the state of some people in this country (the Hun):

What was supposed to be a “boys night” allegedly ended with an Albury man in an induced coma after his best mate shot him in the face with a sawn-off, double-barrel shotgun, a court has heard.

Joseph Dawson appeared in Albury District Court on Monday after pleading not guilty to discharging a firearm with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Righto. We’ve all been there.

Dawson, who was 23 at the time of the offence, appeared in court wearing a white button up shirt and his hair in a bun.

Ah. Forget what I just said.

The court heard Dawson and several friends were at a private property when Dawson “accidentally” pointed a sawn-off, double-barrel shotgun to the cheek of friend Coughlan.

How could this have happened?

The court heard Dawson and his friends were drunk when Dawson decided to show his friends a gun he had in his possession. Dawson’s defence told the court his client was holding the gun, pointing down, when it came near the face of Coughlan and “involuntarily” fired at him.

Aaaand the best bit, demonstrating the idiocy of both this man-bunned muppet and people with law degrees:

The defence said it was a “natural” action for people to hold a gun by the trigger when showing it to people, and that firing the gun was a “spontaneous, unintended reflex action”.

A natural action. To hold a firearm by the trigger. When showing it to people.

Dot
Dot
June 21, 2022 7:14 am

Yes.

Central banking is bit of a scam. Especially so when rates are low. There’s simply no perfect way of increasing the money supply. Money is not neutral, nor should it necessarily always act as such.

Ideally all cash balances would expand and contract together, that’s impossible unless you have something centralised like BTC when it forks. But really, if the economy of FNQ is faring better than Melbin, does a “perfect” monetary policy even make sense? You don’t want to distort the market signals.

In a free market, banks who printed too much money would depreciate their asset base to the point where they could have an asset-liability crisis. There is obviously an incentive to engage in seignorage in good times. Depositors would also choose banks with the best rates, which would mean no BRRRRR for those who still want a deposit base. Private banks were once normal in England and Scotland, the large ones acted as quasi central banks or clearing houses.

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 7:16 am

Is it just me, or was last nights bonhomie a tad … disjointed?

Dot
Dot
June 21, 2022 7:16 am

The defence said it was a “natural” action for people to hold a gun by the trigger when showing it to people, and that firing the gun was a “spontaneous, unintended reflex action”.

Did they even read R v Ryan (1967)???!!!!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 21, 2022 7:22 am

Until convicted he is.

Damn straight.

This bloke has been publicly painted as Attila the Hun by the entire femistocracy for months upon months. He has been subject to considerable adverse comment by not only simpering fat-arsed mutton dressed as lamb TV mouthpieces, but by the Prime Minister of Australia.

The entire process has been co-opted into a political campaign running on the premise that a particular government has a ‘woman problem’, and as a direct consequence this bloke is – and has been for months – hanging upside down from a Canberra yardarm by the ankle.

He wants a fair trial. The defence wants him to get a fair trial. I want him to get a fair trial, in which a jury of his peers must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the allegations against him – made by a woman who apparently couldn’t remember the events in question, and who then went out of her way to destroy forensic evidence after being advised not to – are true.

As it stands now he can’t get a fair trial, and this entire shithouse episode is a dagger in the heart of what remains of the judicial (as opposed to justice) system in this country.

Dot
Dot
June 21, 2022 7:24 am

who then went out of her way to destroy forensic evidence after being advised not to

Uh oh.

This is one of the situations giving a reason why I think equity and administrative law should apply to criminal law generally, but they don’t.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 7:25 am

Do you think Hanks can really spear a fish from ten metres with a spear he can hand-hew from bamboo?

Why no. No he can’t.

Fraud.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 7:25 am

Or do actual self dentistry?

That’s the clincher.

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 7:27 am

How about that – I may have just resurrected an old Imgur account.

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 7:29 am

OK. Perhaps not.

Dot
Dot
June 21, 2022 7:33 am

Anyone want to explain to NFI/Faulty that he’s publishing a list of anonymous dynamic IP addresses that are best the wrong ISPs or bulk upstream suppliers of backhaul bandwidth capacity?

Thanks for doxxing Telstra’s Crows Nest exchange, NFI.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 21, 2022 7:35 am

In Everything Old Is New Again news:

New ‘capacity mechanism’ could pay coal and gas generators for reliable electricity supply

Currently, generators in the national electricity market — which serves the east coast and South Australia — are only paid for the electricity they produce.

The new system would also pay for generators to be available when needed.

I’m old enough to remember when this was the natural way of things.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 21, 2022 7:38 am

he’s publishing a list of anonymous dynamic IP addresses

It’s seriously one of the better ‘gotcha’ moments in blogging history, in this wide brown land at least. Like when the egg_roomba unmasked Delta as Grigory.

The Furniture Shop. Kicking goals since 2020. Home IP address 129.223.3.666.98.007.

Cassie of Sydney
June 21, 2022 7:40 am

“Until convicted he is.”

Quite so. Every man and woman is innocent until proved guilty, unless of course, you live in Australia in 2022, where some are now deemed, due to various trendy political and social narratives, to be “guilty until proven innocent”, a complete reversal of common law. My sympathy for the young man in question has nothing to do with whether he’s guilty or not, I have no idea what ensued that night, but there is one thing I know for certain and that is that this young man’s whole case and forthcoming trial has been prejudiced by a disgraceful MSM, elite scum such as Mrs Pirate and her feminist comrades, a nauseating political class willing to throw people on pyres to suit their political narratives and even our most recent unlamented PM who was also very willing to throw people on pyres for political gains. The whole affair, from the beginning, has been utterly disgraceful. Even if he is found innocent, his life is ruined.

One of the reasons why the Pell case distressed me so much was because of the complete trashing of the presumption of innocence. It seems that many have learnt nothing, absolutely nothing since then.

Cassie of Sydney
June 21, 2022 7:41 am

“Knuckle Draggersays:
June 21, 2022 at 7:22 am”

Well said.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 21, 2022 7:46 am

A natural action. To hold a firearm by the trigger. When showing it to people.

Yep, bullshit on stilts.
The pistol grip on a long firearm makes it natural to hold the weapon there. You have to reach with your finger past the trigger guard to get at the trigger.
The design is deliberate so you can walk and carry the gun without accidental trigger contract.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 7:46 am

It’s seriously one of the better ‘gotcha’ moments in blogging history, in this wide brown land at least. Like when the egg_roomba unmasked Delta as Grigory.

Steady on.
Apparently pointing out the idiocy of other posters is scab picking.
It is forbidden by Titus.

132andBush
132andBush
June 21, 2022 7:50 am

Doesn’t make him innocent though, rosie.

Jeez,
Until proven guilty he is.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 7:51 am

Farmer Gezsays:

June 21, 2022 at 7:46 am

A natural action. To hold a firearm by the trigger. When showing it to people.

Yep, bullshit on stilts

Did a search for this incident.
Found the original Facebook post where Plod were looking for him.
The comments are revealing.
Surprisingly, he is regarded as a scumbag and all round dickwad of the highest order.

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 7:57 am

Texas Republicans passed a resolution on June 18 stating that President Joe Biden was “not legitimately elected,” and that “substantial” election fraud in key metropolitan areas influenced the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of Biden.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-gop-passes-resolution-declaring-biden-not-legitimately-elected_4543841.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-06-20&utm_medium=email&est=z4bdb3Jy33hQbJ03YWEmVe%2B05oDikcOaOUdWPkdcUsW%2FlHU9qH1Dq%2B7zYFNM490K

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 21, 2022 8:00 am

because today such casting would be at odds with “the modern realm of authenticity” demanding that only a gay actor can play a gay character.

This sort of thinking has been working on my mind also.

When I look at all the movies where there is a death but it is not a dead actor, I can hear groans of injustice lifting up from graveyards.

And when you consider dead people are all Democrats they would be a shoo-in in Hollywood.

How about people with diseases? Only they can really know what it is to have death looking over your shoulder, and to have your physiology pulled in multiple directions at once first by medications and then my medications to counteract the medications. Every time an actor dies in a movie and then re-appears afterwards feel this jarring sensation.

Indolent
Indolent
June 21, 2022 8:00 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
June 20, 2022 at 10:54 pm

Tinfoil hat nonsense from an equally tinfoil hat site

I find it very interesting that you seem to find it necessary to constantly ridicule a site which bases the bulk of its content on official government data.

I wonder why that is.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 21, 2022 8:01 am

I have a mental picture of Ted Cruz and Alan West side by side defending the Alamo Mission from a horde of purple haired qwerties armed with feather boas.

Texas GOP Pushes for Referendum to Secede (Newsmax, 20 Jun)

The Lone Star State’s GOP members, at last week’s convention in Houston, adopted a party-platform measure demanding a vote on secession in 2023.

“Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government,” the platform states under a section titled “State Sovereignty,” Newsweek reported.

“Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.”

The platform says that state Republicans want the Texas Legislature to pass a bill in its next session “requiring a referendum in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”

Be fun if the referendum happens. Lots of popcorn will be needed.

Roger
Roger
June 21, 2022 8:02 am

Quote of the year from Warren Mundine yesterday, apropos of scrawny Greens dilettante Adam Bandt’s ill-thought-out national flag publicity stunt, and reprised here because it’s excellent:

“The Greens are just a fringe university type group trying to run down the country.”

If present trends continue the Greens will be running the country by 2025, as they’ll hold the balance of power in both houses.

That should be enough to drive an agnostic to prayer.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 21, 2022 8:04 am

Rickw I used to have an Alaska mill. With your skills you could knock one up in a few hours of less. Use an aluminium ladder as a guide, wedged and screwed down with coach bolts. I had two ladders that fitted together for long lengths up to 9 metres as I had access to a lot of long timber. I’d cut about 300 mm for the first cut. Turn the log, square the ladder and make the second cut. When I gave the mill to my mate he made a trolley that ran on the ladder to cut the sides, saved a lot of work. The other way is just cut flitches. Use wedges to keep the kerf open have 300mm ladder overhang at each end. Open the oiler for the bar up. You’ll need a ripping chain. I had a 120cc husky with a 1200 bar. Really needed an 1800 bar but then needed another bloke. Its surprising how big a log can be milled with a bit of thought. I had a small forestry business on the side. Nothing goes to waste with the scraps being cut for the fire.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 8:06 am

I find it very interesting that you seem to find it necessary to constantly ridicule a site which bases the bulk of its content on official government data.

… which it mercilessly misconstrues, selectively quotes and/or downright lies about.
Which is beside the point anyway because the piece KD quoted was not Gummint data, btw.
It was a prediction from trusted sources on the innernet that 4 billion people were going to be systematically eliminated over the next thirty years.
The guy is a loon. I put it down to injected nano-metal fragments replicating in his brain.

Roger
Roger
June 21, 2022 8:09 am

…today such casting would be at odds with “the modern realm of authenticity” demanding that only a gay actor can play a gay character.

‘Actors are generally stupid people.’

– Anthony Hopkins

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 21, 2022 8:19 am

An actor or actress being able to pretend that he or she were homosexual (Tom Hanks, Russel Crowe), or mentally cracked (Geoffrey Rush), or autistic (Russel Crowe), or a psychopath (Charlize Theron, Robert DeNiro, Russel Crowe), or a different ethnicity (Ben Kingsley, Kamahl, Russel Crowe) or actually a woman or actually a man (Dustin Hoffman, Hillary Swank, Russ… maybe not)… used to be a sure-fire route to an Oscar.
It’s actually simpler than that, it used to be the stock in trade of acting.
I’m all in favour of getting off the Hollywood starmaker bandwagon, but the push for reparations via acting equity is stock standard Leftism, taking a cherished cultural institution and gutting it.

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 8:21 am

Court Rules for the First Time That an Insured Business Can Seek Damages Over COVID-19 Shutdown Losses

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/huge-court-rules-first-time-insured-business-can-seek-damages-covid-19-shutdown-losses/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-06-20
Interesting development – but I doubt it will go much further.
Why?
The injured party is the middle class and they are the ones the O’Biden/Harris Regime want to bankrupt.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 21, 2022 8:22 am

Indolent data from official data sources has now become so manipulated and distorted to become meaningless. Recently I started collating data from the ABS on taxation about something I’d seen about the GFC. Not only could I not find the data but when trying to extrapolate the data from what was available the methodology had changed. This obfuscation at the least. Anything that makes the government look more incompetent is changed for a more favourable picture. We se this in every walk of life. Its called narrative.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 21, 2022 8:25 am

Credit where it is due: Rowe’s cartoon of Bowen, while not skewering him for being way out of his depth, at least does not make him look like Alexander about to cut the Gordian knot and have all the intractable problems (that had defied so many ministers and their attempts) fall away and usher in a new Golden Age.

There is an idiotic conviction of politicians and bureaucrats that everything is most efficient when run by a central will in a central location. It is unimaginable to them that a bit of chaos, with its experimentation, newly emerged possibilities that did not exist when the previous solution was implemented, and a spirit of daring, are the real secrets of success.

Imagine if Bowen – resisting the temptation to institute ‘Electricity-Watch’ which will update once a week with the spot price of electricity with the promise you can ‘shop around to find a bargain’ – imagine if he instead set them free and said the Feds will back out of foisting policies on energy and the States must look to their own resources and make their own agreements. Less work for him and better outcomes as the states could not escape responsibility by slipping their problems beneath a sea of acronyms.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 21, 2022 8:25 am

Chalmers, not Bowen, leaping into action like a startled slug:

ACCC to launch probe into energy companies amid high electricity and gas prices

With power prices trading five times higher than they were a year ago, the competition watchdog will probe the profits of energy companies.

Circle the wagons.

Expect nothing.
Avoid disappointment.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 21, 2022 8:26 am

ABCcess sticks a fat finger on the scales of justice again…

Äbc mong: “Hey theres a case where adverse publicity might affect the course of justice
Abc Mong enabler: “Better chuck a full page photo of the accused with a rehashing of the allegations on the news website then”…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-20/act-lawyers-for-bruce-lehrmann-attempt-to-halt-trial/101168730

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 8:27 am

According to a report by Breitbart, the Internal Revenue Service has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying ammunition, raising concern about why a government agency is buying ammunition that the administration plans to restrict further in the coming months.
According to the Government Accountability Office the ammunition breakdown at the time included:

3,151,500 Pistol and revolver rounds
1,472,050 Rifle rounds
367,750 Shotgun rounds
56,000 Fully automatic firearm rounds

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/19/rep-matt-gaetz-bidens-irs-spent-approximately-700000-on-ammo-between-march-and-june-1/
What is a “Fully automatic firearm round?”
Ammo that is linked? As in a crew served weapon?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 8:27 am

…today such casting would be at odds with “the modern realm of authenticity” demanding that only a gay actor can play a gay character.

Gives me pause for thought.
Should I, a female Turkish professional wrestler, be masquerading as a male Spanish donkey jockey on a blog?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 21, 2022 8:29 am

BoN Ted Cruz might be better off having Adam West at his side. POW! BOOF! KAPOW!

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 8:37 am

On the “actors must resemble characters” even down to sexuality…

Why then did we have a Sub Continental David Copperfield? Was there a dark secret lurking in the Copperfield family history?

Peggotty probably knew.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 21, 2022 8:37 am

The guy is a loon. I put it down to injected nano-metal fragments replicating in his brain.

A loon? Not in the least.

Whoever writes the Daily Exposé is operating a cynical, well-used business model:

1) Identify a demographic that needs to have something validated;

2) Torture official data to provide EVIDENCES that satisfy that need;

3) Beg for money – ‘Because we’re being shut down and only you can save us…

Televangelists meet Rug/Kitchenware ‘closing-down-everything-must-go’ stores.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 21, 2022 8:38 am

Sometimes people seek out the furniture store, sometimes the furniture store seeks you.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 8:39 am

On Titus and scab picking…

That’s what a bath slave is for.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 8:42 am

Only been there the once, Bear. They say eavesdroppers never hear good of themselves. It’s true.

But it gave me an insight into where some of the cruelty was picked up and then spewed out here. Thing is…we really aren’t that important.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 21, 2022 8:45 am

Yep. It’s … ummm … interesting. The nano wrigglers started playing up.

shatterzzz
June 21, 2022 8:46 am

This ‘poor young man’? You’ve decided that he’s a victim? Judge and jury?

I’m yet to see/hear one thing in the media that provides any evidence of anything of a criminal nature taking place ..
other than BRADBURY inserting his “I’m the PM” overreach I seriously doubt the charge(s) would have gained any traction ……!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 8:48 am

Dr F at 8:37.
Spot on.
There’s one born every minute, and some of them are here.
Once you find an audience which has desparation and gullibility in equal measure, the gravy just keeps on flowing.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 21, 2022 8:50 am

In my experience at the community level, most get into acting as a way to live life pretending that they’re in an open relationship.
Probably holds true for the pro’s as well.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What is a “Fully automatic firearm round?”

Winston, I’ve run into that one before.
Something about the problems that can arise from using regular .303 rounds in a Vickers gun, or vice-versa.
I’m now prompted to go & get the full story.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 8:52 am

H B Bearsays:

June 21, 2022 at 8:38 am

Sometimes people seek out the furniture store, sometimes the furniture store seeks you.

Alas, there were very few of the former last time I looked.
About five regulars (ignoring the many guises of JC Dot-Bird-Sanchez).

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 8:53 am

What a brilliant idea! Fix the “crisis” with a tax.

Never been done before. Sure to work.

rosie
rosie
June 21, 2022 8:54 am

Demanding that people not mock sites like that of the Scunthorpe mechanic on Catallaxy.
Priceless.

amortiser
amortiser
June 21, 2022 8:56 am

Every year the NSW and QLD premiers have a bet on the outcome of the State of Origin series with the wager being flying the flag on the Harbour Bridge or the Storey Bridge. This has been going on for years. So the cost of hoisting the “aboriginal” flag should be no more that this.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 21, 2022 8:57 am

All right, West Australian Cats, which of you voted for this mob?

The plan to legalise cannabis use in WA: Controversial MPs reveal details
Joe Spagnolo The West Australian
Mon, 20 June 2022 8:12AM
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West Australians would be allowed to legally possess 50 grams of cannabis, and households allowed to grow four plants, under a controversial new plan to give WA the most relaxed cannabis rules in Australia.

Dr Brian Walker and Sophia Moermond, who gained international notoriety when they were elected to the WA Parliament in 2021 representing the Legalise Cannabis WA Party, this week provided new details about key components of their Bill to legalise pot use in WA.

Dr Walker said he hoped the Bill, to be introduced into the WA Parliament next year, would ignite a public debate.

“As a starting point, we’ve asked that the bill allow for the possession of 50 grams of dried cannabis or up to 150 grams of fresh cannabis for those over the age of 18 years of age,” Dr Walker said.

“It would also allow for up to two cannabis plants per person — a maximum of four plants per household — on private property and the use of cannabis at home.

“This legislation will put WA at the forefront of cannabis developments in Australia, following on from and developing the example of the ACT — other states will surely follow.

“Legalisation over the world is gaining momentum, and we want to see Australia benefit from the proven health and financial bonanza that result.”

Currently in WA, it is illegal to possess, use, manufacture, cultivate or supply an illicit drug.

But if a person is found to possess small quantities of cannabis — 10 grams or less for personal use — they may be issued with a cannabis intervention requirement or drug diversion notice instead of being convicted of a drug offence.

The new Bill has similarities to new laws in the ACT, where if you are 18 years and over you can legally possess 50 grams of dried cannabis or up to 150 grams of fresh cannabis.

But the WA proposal goes further.

The Bill would also allow local governments to licence outlets to sell cannabis products.

“(This would allow) for dispensaries and potentially cafes to sell cannabis products further down the track,” Dr Walker said.

He said a “working draft” of the Bill would be completed soon.

rosie
rosie
June 21, 2022 8:57 am

I read the article about the unvaccinated 19 year old Downs Sydrrome girl who died of Covid.
Very sad and very predictable outcome.
And as expected the parents are blaming everyone but themselves.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 21, 2022 9:02 am

Every morning I try to guess the top headline before firing up the interwebs.
White House Spox Says Girl Guide Video Taken Out Of Context.
is a bit like starting Wordle with audio.
It probably won’t be the headline of the day, but it does cover a lot.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 21, 2022 9:02 am

callisays:
June 21, 2022 at 8:53 am
What a brilliant idea! Fix the “crisis” with a tax.

Never been done before. Sure to work.

I note every time or is that all the time, the scum suggesting a tax to fix a problem have no worry about paying the tax as they are on the public teat or have so much it doesn’t affect them.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 21, 2022 9:03 am

Whoever writes the Daily Exposé is operating a cynical, well-used business model:

The problem is in the title.
By definition, the Daily Exposé must come up with a new exposé every day.
A tall order which could lead to corner cutting.

min
min
June 21, 2022 9:06 am

Re the important rape case about to start , firstly I read that he was in the building for 22 minutes from time signed in to time signed out .
Secondly she was nude as seen by Security officer later that night .
Thirdly what rapist bothers to take off all the clothes , rip off panties maybe.
I’d be looking for alcohol and Party drugs , given the time she remained out to it not leaving until 10 next morning .
So here is a possible scenario they go off for sex she passed out after undressing and he leaves.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 21, 2022 9:08 am

Bourne1879says:
June 21, 2022 at 12:58 am

Needs more than an uptick. Absolutely correct, except that no LGBTQWERTY performer will ever be refused a straight role. Likewise performers of colour – in the book A Wrinkle in Time Mrs Murray was described as having milky white skin and flaming red hair, but in the film (a woke flop) she was played by a black actress.
And in addition to the black Ann Boleyn, there was a movie about Mary Queen of Scots where a black guy played a sixteenth century English peer of the realm. Nothing against his acting but it made the film look like an Eddie Murphy comedy rather than a serious historical drama.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 21, 2022 9:09 am

From the Oz.

If 6 million have not had their booster shot I would suggest most are not likely to by now and technically are no longer considered fully vaccinated.

In other breaking news people are actually dying in aged care. Funny how we never see stats for numbers dying in aged care compared to pre Covid.

As usual no mention of average age 84 and with comorbidities.

“Health Minister Mark Butler has called newly released Omicron figures “staggering”, warning that cases of the strain have “blown out” and that Covid will continue to be “a major health challenge for the coming couple of years at least.”

Following the release of new data this week, which has estimated that the Omicron wave was much larger than originally thought, Mr Butler called the figures “amazing.”
“We thought the case numbers were extraordinary early this year, but this new report is suggesting… that literally millions of Australians caught COVID in the early part of the year. It is just quite staggering,” he said.

The new analysis which saw researchers examine antibodies in more than 5000 blood samples has revealed an estimated 3.4 million Australians or 17 per cent of the population had contracted the virus by the end of February this year.

“We have known for some time that there are people who will catch it but have no symptoms,” Minister Butler said.

But he warned that there were still “substantial case numbers.”

“This virus is still with us,” he said. “We are seeing many thousands of people infected every day. There are still almost 3000 people in hospital today with COVID. We are seeing dozens and dozens of deaths every week.

“This is still very curious.”

Asked how we compare with other nations, following meetings with G20 Health Ministers on Monday, Mr Butler said, “we have performed extraordinarily well.”

“Australians really lined up once the vaccine finally became available,” he said. “We have one of the highest rates of double vaccination in the world.”

While Mr Butler acknowledged we should be “extraordinarily proud” of what has been achieved, he said “there is more to do.”

He noted that we could be achieving higher booster rates, with more than 6 million eligible Australians failing to book in for their third shot, and warned that there “are still dozens of people in our aged care facilities dying every week.”

“We need to get the message out that you were not fully protected, particularly against Omicron, until you have three doses,” he said.

“We need to get through winter. There is still a lot to go.”

Then there is the Susie O Brian column, no comments allowed, in Herald Sun regarding how Aboriginal stuff going to be pushed in schools. Flags, welcome to country and much more.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 21, 2022 9:14 am

All of us
greatly saddened

I looked at the first comment and was…not surprised.

The buzz words ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ are borne about as if they were delivered to us from Heaven, to treat with all reverence and devotion. We might not look at them too closely. They will shine their light like the sun, and like the sun they will burn you if you look directly at them. Anyone who would try to treat them like mortal words or ideas is already blasphemous.

Just uttering the words in any connection elevates it and sanctifies it.

Everyone has their own take on them, but so long as each person’s conception is never referred to with any more detail than ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ it sounds like it is the same thing. Like Wittgenstein’s ‘Beetle in the box’.

Without the laying of a charm of ‘inclusive diversity’ upon things like races no one would ever dream of defending biological males in women’s sporting events.

Because that is now blasphemy.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 9:17 am

Following the release of new data this week, which has estimated that the Omicron wave was much larger than originally thought, Mr Butler called the figures “amazing.”
“We thought the case numbers were extraordinary early this year, but this new report is suggesting… that literally millions of Australians caught COVID in the early part of the year. It is just quite staggering,” he said.

Yet the Beloved and I still can’t manage to catch the thing. We don’t live in isolation, we socialise both here and in Sydney, yet the dreaded coof eludes us. We’ve been in contact with those who have it, those who have had it and those who are about to get it.

It’s as if we’re armour plated. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 21, 2022 9:20 am

Secondly she was nude as seen by Security officer later that night .

Security officer’s evidence should be interesting.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 21, 2022 9:20 am

Who knew Sneakers was a Cheech and Chong fan? Maybe we’ll get funnier movies from Screen West now?

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 9:21 am

People in aged care facilities die. We once accepted this without demur.

They aren’t called “God’s Waiting Rooms” for nothing.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 21, 2022 9:22 am

Bourne1879says:
June 21, 2022 at 9:09 am

“Health Minister Mark Butler has called newly released Omicron figures “staggering”, warning that cases of the strain have “blown out” and that Covid will continue to be “a major health challenge for the coming couple of years at least.”

What a shithead.
More cases for exactly the same number of deaths, ICU admissions and hospitalisations, is meant to be a bad thing? 17% of the population with natural immunity is a bad thing?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 21, 2022 9:24 am

From Daily Mail. When the Fed and VIC Govt has opened their Moderna manufacture in 2024 will this be combined with mandates to help use up production ? They would actually be benefitting financially. Based on everything I have seen so far the odds are most likely.

“The single SUPER-SHOT Moderna vaccine protecting against Covid-19 AND the flu coming to Australia – and how you can get it
Australians will have access to a single vaccine for COVID-19 and flu
The combined shot will start trials later this year
Could mean Australians will no longer need to have two seperate vaccines.

The combined shot for flu, COVID-19 and respiratory virus RSV is in early testing stages with trials to start later this year, Moderna chief medical officer Paul Burton says.

Dr Burton expects combined vaccines will be key to fighting respiratory diseases in the aftermath of the pandemic, and to adapt to multiple strains within one season.

Mr Burton said bringing vaccines together and adapting will be the future, as we think about diseases other than COVID-19.

Meanwhile, Australia’s multi-billion dollar mRNA manufacturing hub will be bigger than initially expected.

The first of its kind in the southern hemisphere, the facility was announced in March by the Morrison government as part of an agreement with Moderna.

Finding a location has reached its final stages and a site will be announced in a few weeks, Moderna general manager Michael Azrak said.

‘It’s taken a little bit longer than we anticipated because we’re actually going to be building a larger facility than we anticipated,’ he told Sky News.

The pharmaceutical giant aims to break ground on the Victorian site before the end of the year, Mr Azrak said.

It will be operating by the end of 2024, subject to approval by the medicines regulator.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 21, 2022 9:24 am

Security officer’s evidence should be interesting.

It should have everything except Richo but I wouldn’t rule that out either.

Roger
Roger
June 21, 2022 9:25 am

Yet the Beloved and I still can’t manage to catch the thing.

Or you may have had it but not realised, as a lot of people did, evidently, else they wouldn’t have turned up to give blood.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 21, 2022 9:27 am

A natural action. To hold a firearm by the trigger. When showing it to people.

Well yes. That’s what manbun-wearing idiots from Albury do.

Think of it as evolution in action.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 9:28 am

Nothing against his acting but it made the film look like an Eddie Murphy comedy rather than a serious historical drama.

This isn’t about giving POC actors better, more interesting roles. There are plenty of excellent stories out there for non-euro actors to star in.

This is about the visual distortion of history. We are being forced to accept things that we know are not true. The more ridiculous the distortion, the more the pressure to conform.

In this way it then becomes easy to replace written history with lies, even obvious ones. They’re only messing around with the edges at the moment. The time will surely come, if we accept this nonsense, that more serious inroads will be made and there won’t be a thing we can do about it.

History will then be well and truly Bunk.

Winston Smith
June 21, 2022 9:31 am

Rosie:

I read the article about the unvaccinated 19 year old Downs Sydrrome girl who died of Covid.
Very sad and very predictable outcome.

That must be a different one to the one I posted.
Mine was about a Downs Syndrome girl who died after a cocktail of narcotics and other drugs was given against medical warning which was over ruled by medical admin.
And the Not For Resus Order which was documented 8 minutes after the final dose was given – and the NFR Order wasn’t authorised by the parent/guardian.
https://www.drugs.com/pro/precedex.html#s-34067-9
Precedex is given by slow infusion usually in her circumstances, so I’m not sure where the ‘final dose’ comes in. Does it mean the bag of narcotics etc was hung and commenced at the appropriate rate 8 minutes before the NFR was ordered? In that case the infusion bag and records + whatever cardiac rhythm strips kept need to be examined to see if the infusion/bolus actually put her into a cardiac arrest.
No. This smells like the proverbial dead wombat on the side of the road.

calli
calli
June 21, 2022 9:33 am

That’s what I’m thinking too Roger.

If we’ve had it and don’t know it, and the Beloved has a raft of co-morbidities including respiratory problems, then it’s been the Tom Thumb of all firecrackers. As I mentioned yesterday, if his immune system’s shot from enjabbenation, it must have been pretty good to start with. He hasn’t had so much as a sniffle.

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