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This sounds much more like it. My only experience with publishing was via an academic friend who wrote a series…
The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
The headline painting, The Morning, reminds me of the great scene in the 2005 adaptation of our Jane’s Pride &…
Excellent crop of toon theree today, Tom. They have such a lot to work on since the big win.
Welcome to Bosphorus country.
Lovely representation of the Moonlight Serpent. So appropriate for NAIDOC. Week.
Pondering the mischief I can get up to all alone and unsupervised in the OT after midnight.
Whilst knitting. I’m not just partying here.
Was it something I said?
The looting of Ukraine continues
Ukraine sends its gold and foreign exchange reserves to Poland
Like what you’ve done to the place, Dover.
Anyway, can’t let you have all the fun, Megan.
In the last few minutes, I’ve heard two songs on the radio referencing Saturday night. Bit early…
Knitting project finished. Scotch finished . Heating turned off and cold is creeping up from floor level. Time to retire gracefully.
Bon soir, Nelson.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Bob Moran.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Peter Brookes.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Reasonable to assume that the real reason Johnson is getting turfed has to do with Ukraine.
Speculation elsewhere is that he’s looking to sign a LendLease deal with Zelenskyy while the latter still has authority to sign such a deal.
If so, it’s pretty disgusting and Johnson’s hands are covered in blood.
Boris in cartoon.
Thanks, Tom. Interesting that some of the Americans are keeping their eyes on the well named UK.
1st
Morning inmates.
skid steer
Peak woke?
Wishful thinking.
I hear on the opinion, what used to be called the news, Benny Wrong picked up the big ALDI bag.
Dutch ships of the golden age.
Watching Once Upon A Time… We Kicked Goddam Hippy Ass last night,
it occurred to me the FBI’s mission statement is a bit different, these days.
Protect the Government of the United States and identify its enemies
seems about right.
Katie Hopkins talking about picking monsters. Like here the “conservative” pool is very shallow.
The Dutch held their charts very close. Cook was believed to have a Dutch map in his possession as when he had to replace one of his masts sailed straight from NZ to Maryborough,a place he’d never been.
stolen Dutch map
Elons bailed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bring-lawsuits-elon-musk-terminates-deal-buy-twitter
as many predicted – he’s exposed Twitter’s false user numbers and outed the bot infestation without spending much at all.
Well done, that Elon.
Confirmed: Twitter is a sewer.
Bring On The Lawsuits: Elon Musk Terminates Deal To Buy Twitter (9 Jul)
Like the ABC the place is run by slimy slithering venomous employees who should all be fired immediately.
The Legend of Joe Burgundy.
One for Cat farmers. Looks like the green wokerati have colonized John Deere.
John Deere Engineers Really Aiming To Build Battery-Powered Harvesters? (8 Jul)
As Pierre says: it’s hard to believe this is true, but then a lot of other insane stuff has been happening lately.
Just stop using Twitter, simple.
… and Facebook.
… and The Cat, if you think it is full of spastics.
Like Dennis Leary said.
I am a spastic, and I am proud of it.
I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for the first time last night.
A good movie, not a great one. And at least an hour too long.
A trip down Memory Lane as far as the fashions, music, advertising and media. What struck me was the endless noise in the background.
Elon Musk Terminates Twitter Purchase Deal, Citing Material Breach of Agreement by Company Refusing to Provide Access to Data
July 8, 2022 | sundance
An early start for Rabz’s Radio show.
For the many spazzos watching.
BoN
The “quoted conversation” reads very much as a made up scenario in order to highlight the points, although in this epoch of stupidity maybe it’s true.
My harvester is the same as the one pictured and will average 60-70lts/hr when in good crop, 50-60 in light crop and peak over 90 in tough going and unloading on the go.
Some interesting conversions back to battery size there for a Saturday morning.
Deere have been developing small battery power autonomous tractors with spraying operations in mind, which I would suggest is the limit for ag, despite what some may regard as huge advances in battery tech.
I’m surprised Dover didn’t choose this for the new OT.
Swept away too soon.
I had a post eaten by the WEF/Davos spaminator last night.
The story of the ABC “Asian expert” who was being interviewed by another ABC dweeb to push the ABC’s issue du jour (climate, Trump, whatever).
The “Asian expert” referred to Shinzo Abe but pronounced his name “Abe” … as in “Abe Lincoln”.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
July 9, 2022 at 8:15 am
One for Cat farmers. Looks like the green wokerati have colonized John Deere.
Sounds unlikely.
Headers are mostly electric over hydraulic drive systems for many shafts.
Belts and chains from the motor for the big threshing components.
Propulsion is hydrostatic.
Running all this from an electrical source would still require oil for the hydraulics motors.
Guess that line about the election claims having no legal basis is sinking right now.
132andBush.
There is also another little issue.
At a time when every minute of machine uptime counts, how long will it take to re-charge a header battery?
John Deeres owners are closet fruits, G&T snorting MAFS groupies.
Beware armed squeegee men.
Man gunned down after confronting Baltimore squeegee workers, cops say (8 Jul, via Lucianne)
I can see why squeegee pan-handlers might feel a need to carry a piece in Baltimore. Also I can’t say I’m surprised that no arrests have yet been made. The whole place is a pesthole.
Calli, it came to mind yesterday afternoon but by late evening it was gone.
Gez, 132.
Just a guess, but maybe John Deere engineers are looking at “mild hybrid” to scavenge energy from the big spinning bits when they aren’t under load to charge a battery.
We’re gonna need our nuclear flash sunglasses if Kenworth ever go all electric.
My 16 speed road-rager cashbox skills down the drain in an instant.
I wonder how the remaining shareholders, now aware of how rotten Twatter is and how they have been dudded, and how an agenda was pursued at the expense of their returns might feel.
A resuscitated Twatter would have been in competition with Truth Social. Now there is one natural home for the right, and the two must now compete.
I love it Dover, along with so many others.
The Great Wave dominates, dwarfing the mighty Fuji-san. It’s only when you look closely that you see the three tiny, fugitive boats and their crews, challenging the inevitable disaster.
It’s one of art’s masterpieces. And all done in pen and colourwash.
Kenworth make cab overs so they aren’t all that bad.
It’s also a great example of the Fibonacci sequence and art composition.
Sancho Panzer says:
July 9, 2022 at 8:49 am
Gez, 132.
Just a guess, but maybe John Deere engineers are looking at “mild hybrid” to scavenge energy from the big spinning bits when they aren’t under load to charge a battery.
Dynamos are very heavy for what they do.
Cotton pickers or other machines are easier to electrify than a grain combine.
From the Gateway Pundit
“Canada to Destroy 13.6 Million Doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Because No One Wants it Domestically or Abroad”
Article mentions Canada ordered Vax for 5 X the population and rich countries hoarding whilst few overseas people had access. It appears some of the stock never left the manufacturers warehouse. Note can’t give it away.
Note how we have never seen any detailed article in MSM analysing how many we have ordered, how much used, how many sent overseas, how much etc. Earlier in week saw that we still had about 13 million of the original jabs and need to use it up, hence the 4th jab approval.
Here’s the Los Angelos Times with an article on how the real problem is the Constitution. And, for them, it is.
Column: Hate the Supreme Court? Our problems actually start with the Constitution
Gez all the functions on a harvester can be run by electric motors at a much higher efficiency. The problem will always be battery capacity until a quantum leap is made. Now a tiny nuclear reactor is a much better idea.
I hope the warm and fuzzy feeling the Gilliard Government got, when they banned the live cattle trade to Indonesia, based on fake footage, was worth it.
I’d say they’re being driven down this path – as ridiculous as it is – by the prospect of tighter regulations on agriculture as countries attempt to meet emissions reduction targets under the Paris Agreement. That’s essentially what’s behind the Dutch situation. With ag “responsible” for c. 15% of our emissions, Australian farmers and graziers have already been warned: the Albanese government will “work with you” to reduce emissions.
No coercion here.
Army Cuts Off More Than 60K Unvaccinated Guard and Reserve Soldiers from Pay and Benefits
Domesticated Cats and Kittehs
How can peppermint tea stains be removed from carpet?
I imagine they’ll be feeling a bit like someone who has had a $54 takeover withdrawn and their stock is trading at $36.
Another big problem with big electrics on headers is the possibility of static charge build up and combustion.
We drag chains on machines to reduce the static for fire safety, though most header fires come from the exhaust systems.
Dr Teck Khong
@DrTeckKhong
Just in case you missed this: Prime Minister and Bill Gates launch £400m partnership to boost green investment
Valid questions from the corn cocky, in BoN’s link:
There was dead silence on the other end of the phone.
The piece doesn’t mention what style of ponytail the JD salesman had.
I just watched Katie Hopkins’ clip posted by a commenter where she explains that politicians don’t care about anything except themselves and that they are all monsters. That is why I thought that Trump would do the right thing by America.
Being an egotist he wanted everything he does to be a success and so he found out what the voters want. That got him elected but he actually proceeded to deliver knowing full well that is the easiest and quickest way to re-election.
This makes him the same as all the other politicians but he knew who needed to be convinced, who were his voters. Both Turnbull and ScoMo had the same egos to feed but they refused to find out who were their voters and what they wanted.
People who imagine themselves so clever are just snobs.
Early blockquote fail.
First time, every time.
I forgot to mention that the link to Katie’s clip is in in the comments to Cassie’s post from yesterday.
EXCLUSIVE – UK Gov. admits COVID Vaccine is killing Kids after publishing report proving Vaccinated Children are shocking 30,200% more likely to die than Unvaccinated Children
<a href="http://museudearteantiga.pt/collections/art-of-the-portuguese-discoveries/namban-folding-screens" my favourite Japanese art (best thing that ever happened in Japan)
Calli commented recently that her husband is looking for a battery for their home that is likely to cost $9000. That’s OK for people who can afford it but once again low income people and renters do not have that option.
It is the same with solar panels, subsidies only make it worse in the sense that, once again, low income earners and renters are locked out. Even worse, the subsidies come out of their taxes and are paid to those better off.
I have always maintained that subsidies for renewables are immoral.
Is it too early to make a meme with Abe and the caption “I have information about Hillary which will send her to jail”?
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
·
“The next crisis is just around the corner — it’s the climate crisis.”
His eyes are finally being opened to the fact that there is more than stupidity and incompetence involved here.
Reminds of one of the identities from the golden years of blogging that had the tagline “as stable as a canoe full of spastics”. It was a different time back then, the young kids wouldn’t understand.
Sorry, wrong link
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
·
“The next crisis is just around the corner — it’s the climate crisis.”
GreyRanga says:
July 9, 2022 at 9:01 am
Gez all the functions on a harvester can be run by electric motors at a much higher efficiency. The problem will always be battery capacity until a quantum leap is made. Now a tiny nuclear reactor is a much better idea.
Cheap too.
You should see the wiring harnesses on the bastards now.
We’re not spastics.
We’re “otherly abled”.
Link broken rosie.
Dr. James E. Olsson
@DrJamesOlsson
Mom-of-four Donna Taylor, 38, Dead “Suddenly” after Collapsing on School Run…
“Literally walking her daughter to school and said she got a pain in her head and ending up collapsing”…
“It was very unexpected, she was just taking her daughter to school”…
Dr. James E. Olsson
@DrJamesOlsson
·
Former NJ State Champion And Rutgers Leader Wrestler Jesse Boyden, Dead At 33…
“We didn’t get any data that Boyden was sick or had a long-term sickness”…
The cab over was designed by an anally retentive homosexual trying to impress a fleet accountant he didn’t like.
Real trucks have big snouts with growly engines under them, just as God intended.
Whinge. Whinge. Whinge. Complain.
You truck out a diesel genset and, bingo, 8 hours later you’re back doing whatever it is farmers do…
Way back when, we brought a JD harvester that gave nothing but trouble. Confronted with a list of problems, the dealer issued a blanket denial – “you are the only customers having any trouble with the machine.”
My father placed an advertisement in a well known rural newspaper “Anybody having trouble with a JD harvester, model no ###, please ring ##### at ##### .” We received so many replies that John Deere flew a design engineer from the Eastern States. At the sight of the harvester, working in a paddock, he stood open mouthed. It was the first time he had seen a harvester working, up close..
No it would not.
Kanagawa isn’t quite as exciting on the Tokaido.
Modern politics is an ethical void.
It’s also a world where lobbyists have much greater access to politicians than voters do.
Without a voice to represent them in the halls of power (a voice? what a brilliant idea!) ordinary Australians have little say over policy and the legislation which puts it into effect.
The ‘Plenary Council’ laity if their agenda was fully exposed would have priestesses, same sex marriage, abortion, ‘mercy killing’ a rewritten woke bible, and every other load of rubbish on the woke agenda foisted on faithful Catholics.
Go away, the lot of you Marxist choristers.
The Church’s form of leadership is not the product of ‘cultural bias’ … No, this structure was put in place by God, it has a Divine mandate, that is not and cannot be limited by cultural or history,” writes Sandy Wallace.
You just know that right this second, Ed October will be melting Wiki while looking for some special insight into combines nobody else apparently has.
Any flamer ‘connection’ will, of course, be the jackpot.
Boris Johnson, St. Thomas More and Heavenly Medicine
‘The King’s good servant but God’s first’ and other saintly links to the outgoing prime minister’s life.
Musk wouldn’t have been playing with Twitter all this time.
Would he? The Hun:
Jesse Boyden, no cause of death mentioned, most likely suicide or overdose
Spooner does not have it that involvement in the affairs of the Ukraine war is one of the spectres dooming Boris and the ship of state.
The cockies here can tell me if my figures are wrong. The article says that a header weighs around 25tonne, assume that the engine and fuel is around 5tonne, that leaves 20tonne for the rest of the machine. Now electric cars need batteries that weigh around half the car mass to get a reasonable range. So a 20tonne machine would need around another 20tonne of batteries? That makes all up mass around 40tonne, lots more problems there straight away, soil compaction, operating range in hours etc. I can’t see how they would be practical.
I hear on the opinion, what used to be called the news, Benny Wrong picked up the big ALDI bag.
Old Faustus’ Almanac:
Australia’s Pacific Islands engagement policy will become as nuanced as Unzud’s.
Golden Fortune lies ahead for the Shenzen Grid Storage Battery Corporation – and a Great Reset for the Huawei Renewable Grid Control and Espionage system.
A Prime Minister will claim that adults have restored Australia’s standing in Asia.
I knew I’d cop some flak about the battery.
The discussion that I tried to start was not a two legs good four legs bad one, but a discussion on the economics and cost/benefit of a domestic battery. I prefaced it by saying that it is uneconomic for a normal household to buy one without it being heavily subsidised. In addition, the other driver will be the price of electricity and whether or not it goes up to the point of making such a purchase viable.
Are gensets going to be enough? Will they change the cost of electricity for households? Are they only good for one thing and not another?
After a lifetime of watching lefties sup on my tax contributions – personal, company and payroll and a plethora of fees, charges and levies – I am not unduly concerned about clawing a tiny fraction (which as I mentioned, will be repaid interest free) back.
Join the Uniting Church.
(Which they won’t do, of course, because the goal is to subvert and occupy the institution of the Catholic Church, with the help of useful idiots in episcopal vestments. We’ve seen the same in the Anglican Church.)
Recently, a team of researchers from France’s National Health Insurance program launched a population-wide study to investigate the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis due to COVID-19 vaccination. Tapping into a suite of nationwide hospital discharge and vaccine databases, the group analyzed 1,612 cases of myocarditis and 1,613 cases of pericarditis identified in the European nation from May 12, 2021, to October 31, 2021. Conducting a retrospective matched case-control series studies, the team discovered the risk for both myocarditis and pericarditis spiked the first week after vaccination. The increase in these cardiovascular-based adverse events increased even further after the second dose. Comparing both Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2) and Moderna (mRNA-1273) mRNA vaccines, the study results, peer-reviewed and published in the journal Nature, indicate both mRNA vaccines introduce greater risk for myocarditis with the Moderna vaccine as compared to the Pfizer-BioNTech product.
here, infinitely better irl
Nick Kyrgios complaining that he isn’t being drawn into the pantheon of great Australian tennis players, who have rightly called him an arrogant disgrace (Hun, again):
Nick. This is happening because you’re a fuckwit.
Spastic and colon are two words that don’t go together very well. Nasty business that one.
I have always maintained that subsidies for renewables are immoral.
Absolutely but the bogans keep voting for that shit so fuck’em.
James Caan- one of the craziest fucks ever. What a life.
Modest is the word of the day, apparently.
Don’t have Faceplant and transcribing a bajillion alpha-numerics to verify isn’t high
on today’s to do list.
The vaxx ghouls obviously scour the msm for deaths of people aged 53 and under which they can attribute to vaccines, whether or not they have any idea if the person had ever been vaccinated, don’t bother talking to their families or any other courtesy.
Donna Taylor, 38, had been suffering from headaches and high blood pressure, but her family said her death was a complete shock
One of the “learnings” of the last election was that the more bogan you were the more likely you were to vote right of centre.
Now a tiny nuclear reactor is a much better idea.
I’m onto your game GreyRanga.
You’re proposing a steam powered harvester.
Just as long as I get a steam whistle.
Toot toot:
-Need a truck
-Paddock finished.
-Where’s my lunch woman?
calli, home generator electricity is expensive, but improves with scale, but melted down fridge and freezer food likewise. I’m looking to get over the rolling blackout scenario not the SHTF.
Your development could possibly deal with that for a few weeks while a black grid is brought back up at considerably less cost than individual home generators.
How many houses in the development? Do you have any designated open space?
It’s the…ahem, educated middle classes who vote Labor/Green/teal.
How could he not be crazy, he was born in the Bronx.
Cab over have there uses and iv no need for a phallic symbol.
RIP, Paulie.
If these folk get their idea working we will have nuclear fusion powered cars, harvesters and individual home power units.
https://www.avalanche.energy/index.html
I’m following it as I’m a fan of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion ever since seeing Doc Bussard on Youtube give a talk about it at Google in 2006. The Avalanche guys have a slightly different take.
About two hundred over five different strata plans and one community plan. Some are in condos and apartments, others are in individual, torrens title land but still controlled by the strata plan.
There is plenty of open space.
Getting an emergency power plant to cover even a tithe of it will be more difficult than achieving peace in the ME. 🙂
Getting an emergency power plant to cover even a tithe of it will be more difficult than achieving peace in the ME. ?
Wait until after an extended power outage lasting a week or more.
A couple of mafia deaths in the past few days, Dover.
Paulie and Sonny.
Get this. Paulie’s real life bro.
From your twitter link.
Paulie Walnuts:
calli, a 1.5 MW or so diesel generator will do the lot. Maybe a couple of 750KW would be better. That’s around 1000hp each which isn’t a huge unit.
Yes, Eyrie.
By that point gensets of any sort will be scarce due to high demand. And knowing the way governments behave, fuel prices will have gone to astronomic prices and will also be scarce.
Mater touched on supply last night, focusing on piped natural gas. We should also be aware of petroleum products and the ease with which they can be withdrawn as well.
I didn’t know Caan was Jewish.
Caan must be a contraction of Kahn/Cohen.
The best line of that series:
By that point gensets of any sort will be scarce due to high demand
Looking at the MaxWatt website that already seems to be the problem. Lots of models out of stock.
Dover
You lived in the Bronx, right? Near the Bronx.
You in 16 years I never went “inside” the Bronx except on the outskirts driving along the Westside highway.
Bronxville is really nice in parts, which isn’t the same thing . Just across the river.
Roger
Authorities mangled names when immigrants arrived at Ellis Island. The dude at the counter may have written down the name phonetically. There are tons on mangled up surnames.
The PP of the parish I attend in qld has already rejected the woke, I’ve heard the words re respecting elders from his own mouth.
Ditto my Melbourne parish, it won’t happen.
Only in America.
Brother 1 becomes a member of the Colombo crime family, goes to jail and ends up becoming an actor.
Brother 2 becomes a priest, ends up gay and starts a far right group.
Where else can you possibly get such a combination.
That’s why you just have to love the place.
I had no idea he was a Protestant minister in the 70s.
KD at 9:37.
Weird.
He spews abuse at people then goes with a self-pitying bleat that he is being bullied.
We see more and more of that these days.
Comment, over on the Oz, about the proposed “Voice” to Parliament.
Yes, I know, JC.
I have a Gaelic surname which has been anglicised in several different ways over the centuries.
Caan is also a Dutch & Scottish surname, so I (wrongly) figured one of those must have been Caan’s ethnic ackground. Interesting character!
Paulie’s hairstyle truly set him apart from his confreres. Here’s hoping Li’l Stevie hasn’t upset the Clintons.
Acton Institute isn’t far right.
Calli, I expressed myself poorly. I didn’t mean that getting a backup battery is the wrong thing to do but that people are forced to protect themselves from consequences of our governments’ idiotic decisions. I meant that some people are better able to do that. There used to be a time when our governments looked after the people who could not. Today, our governments are in the business of humouring domestic and international cranks, lunatics and carpetbaggers.
The Twitter comment appears to be bullshit. He’s not gay and is a catholic priest according to his wiki page.
Where did you get he’s Protestant?
Riddle me this, Cats – how is Biden’s handlers gifting of a chunk of the US SPR to the chinese commies not treason? Fatty Trump was impeached for way, way less (well, nothing in fact).
Also if you’d told me even ten years ago that we were going to be increasingly at the arbitrary whims of a bunch of globalist tyrants led by a cartoonish hitlerist determined to enslave the bulk of the citizenry in Western nations, I would have laughed in your face.
As for gerbil worming, 33 years of fact and evidence free anti-scientific horse manure. The greatest hoax in human history.
Yet here we are.
Tom at 9:20.
I think it was in response to overall length regulations.
Less cab, more trailer.
Although Conway Twitty will no doubt show up to refutate my theory.
Have there been any hypotheses posited as to why the former Japanese politician was murdered?
Hopefully not Arkancide (again).
Check out the 70s section on the Wiki page.
Absolutely but the bogans keep voting for that shit so fuck’em.
One of the “learnings” of the last election was that the more bogan you were the more likely you were to vote right of centre.
People voted against that shit in 2014, 2019 and we got it anyway
Yep. For a start, it’s not ‘bullying’.
That word has had its meaning changed over recent years. If you don’t get what you want, and immediately too, it’s ‘bullying’. Differing opinion? bullying. Wearing the same outfit to work? A microaggression, and bullying.
Fat HR chicks across the country have made careers out of this fashionable horseshit.
I’ve been interested in going off grid for many years as opposed to having your cake and eating it too. It’s things like the electric oven, the iron and the washing machine that are the challenge.
Just reading this over at Quadrant…
Roger Kimball
A billion dollars well spent.
All good, Crossie. No offence taken…at all. I like robust discussion, particularly problem solving ones. 🙂
I think it’s a discussion that’s worth having. As I see it we are faced with two inevitabilities:
– hugely increased power bills (including all forms of energy)
– inability to supply in the form of blackouts and shortages
So – what to do? Again, we have some choices:
– address the power bills by using less power, finding electricity from other sources, finding a cheaper provider, paying the bill and whinging loudly, suffering in silence
– address the short supply/blackouts by using gensets fuelled by petroleum products
It’s a Gordian knot tied tightly by stupid government policy. It won’t loosen any time soon. Even nuclear, which appears to be the best option, won’t come online for at least ten years, if ever.
Commenters here have been opining that, on energy supply, we’re up shit creek without a paddle. I agree with them. I’m just looking at plugging the holes in the canoe.
Like there are any skinny ones.
Sacré bleu! Just when I thought the world couldn’t get any more insane, adidas decide to trash the legacy of one of their most famous shoes.
The “Gucci Gazelle”.
Absolutely perfect for all the Edies and Patsies on this planet.
The Horror.
Could be anything really. Leftie annoyed by him being a bit militarist, rightie annoyed that he wasn’t militarist enough, or just a loon.
Hopefully it doesn’t become the new Archduke Franz Ferdinand event.
The deaths keep coming today.
Larry Storch, ‘F Troop’ Actor, Dies at 99
There’s a third inevitability that follows on from the above…a very angry electorate.
I’ve said it a 1000 times ‘god invented fossil fuels’ , so burning them is doing gods work. Its righteous.
He could have used that money to build no road.
‘Openly gay’ maybe but as a Catholic priest he has braced chastity.
“In the early part of the decade (70s), Sirico held Left-leaning political and economic views, even becoming involved with Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden and their Campaign for Economic Democracy.[19] However, after reading Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom, he became a libertarian”
He also went from Catholic to gay activist to protestant ministry in the MCC before returning to the church.
Robert Siroco’s life is even more interesting than his brother’s.
Roger, an angry electorate won’t supply electricity, just hot air.
If only we could tap into the house on the hill in Canberra.
Why did the people in the Hunter vote for Labor? Why did the people on the floodplains vote Green? People may be “angry” but they’re also stupid.
Vale Burglar of Banfffffff. We loved F Troop after school.
The murderer of Shinzo Abe has been identified.
Sounds like a loon with a personal, no doubt delusional, beef.
Well there is certainly too much of ‘because one side is bad, the other side must be good’
Once again munty you’re down at Bunnings looking for more rakes when you’ve already them all. I’ll type slowly so you can understand if that is possible. Musk offered $54 a share amounting to $62B conditional on them not lying about fake accounts and bots. Guess what genius they lied. Price today about $36. Company now worth $41.3B. No wonder you failed Economics. Musk just saved himself $19B.
Or he saved himself 54 billion
Hopefully followed by a fourth – HOP Time™.
Probably because the Libs abandoned them when they got gazumped by climate change.
On the contrary…politicians ignore angry electorates at their peril.
Good luck getting agreement on anything. I live in a strata quadruplex with 4 owner-occupiers and cannot even get the front gate painted.
Good lineage.
Comic genius. What a splendid innings.
Tzu! Tzu ya freakin’ idiot!
Breaking News – Ukraine surrendered unconditionally. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ramzan Kadyrov
On This Day, 1500 years ago – global warming:
America’s a nation that can be defined in a single word… Joe Biden
He has to pay a billi0n dollars to Twitter for welshing on the deal, and they are suing him for more.
His net worth has dropped US$70 billion this year.
Spinning this as a win for Musk is just silly.
1. Listen to Sunty Zoo.
2. Steal lawnmower.
3. Put maintenance man on worse contract than before.
4. Tell the King of Breadsticks to go pound sand.
5. Get your pain in the rear soldato to set him up, revoking his parole.
That is how one wins without fighting.
Mercedes From Hell – Last I’ll Ever Buy
I’ve been a happy Mercedes Benz driver for about 40 years now. A couple of the old mechanical diesels (built like a tank and many going 1/2 million to 1 million miles); a couple of gas wagons, a “baby benz”. The latest is the newest, a 2008 ML320 Diesel (CDI) bought to be a Tow Vehicle (there was a long mulling over in prior postings).
Between the turbo fix and the sporadic misfiring, there was the day the car just did NOT want to unlock or open up at all. The Battery was DEAD. How, after driving 3000 miles, did it die when parked for a couple of days? Well… At the Mercedes (st|d)ealer I was informed that if left for a single month, most new Mercedes will kill the battery (partly it depends on how many Mercedes key fobs walk by and need interrogation / partly on if ANY of a few dozen things get stuck on sucking juice). I got a nice new battery installed and that was “only” about $400. See, it is under the passenger seat. It has piping to bring it cooling air. You get to cut the carpet under the passenger seat to get to it. Oh, and you get to re-train things like windows and such after a battery swap. To jump start it, I had to discover there’s a “Special” set of connectors under the hood. But I digress.
It is POSSIBLE that the battery drained from the rear hatch closing motor / relay thing sporadically trying to latch the rear hatch. Sometime after the dealer visit (and perhaps during it…) this latch failed. The Benz Forum says they fail all the time. Getting a couple of years on one is about what to expect. Dealer wants $1000 for the part… I found one on-line for “only” $280. It’s about an hour of DIY labor or about $300 at the dealer shop to have it installed. So that might be it. Or not.
By this point I’m about $2500 of “repairs”. Call it about $1 / mile. BUT, there’s a lot more to come..
Looking into all this, it seems the car has 3 (or maybe more?) SAM Modules. Signal Acquisition Module. Near as I can tell, these are the tiny little brains that decide to allow things to work when you make requests via the nobs, switches, levers, etc. When they fail, all hell breaks loose. It seems they fail often. But don’t worry, usually it’s under $1000 for one of them. They have been using them since “the mid 90’s” so be warned..
A long Saga of woe – worth a read especially list of Here are a few problems caused by a bad SAM unit:
Links to Hattori Hanzo remain unproven.
Inspite of all the slagging off here about Victoria, it’s WA, Tas and the Territories that push pushed the senate to the far left left.
Funny how Spacey got a very ham fisted me too after his breaking the fourth wall soliloquy about Bohemian Grove.
Nixon was right. Goddamned perverted stuff.
Oh good grief M0nty, that’s so beyond dumb it makes Dumbo look like a gorilla. Hunter is part of Ncl, it has been rusted on Labor for well over a century. The most amazing thing is that the PHON tradie almost knocked off Joel in the election before last, which had a fun effect on Joel’s love of coal.
This election the Nat seemed to think he had a chance, since they spent money in the electorate for the first time in ages. But because the Nats are wet zeroes as well we didn’t vote for them.
The one thing governments fear more than external threats is internal unrest.
Once the standard of living begins to decline precipitously, the competence of the government that presides over their fall is in question, as indeed could be the legitimacy of the present assumptions that underlie teh way our government functions.
One of the great opportunities that arises from that is the questioning of the international treaty obligations that have led us down this path.
We are doing the same. Thought natural gas might be the least troublesome option if not the cheapest but Mater’s comment last night has highlighted the flaws in that approach. Deisel genset now looking the most useful, and affordable possibility. More work needed.
The ACT not the NT I should have said
It is a bit premature to suggest that Musk will have too pay twitter a billion if he abandons the deal. They are potentially on the hook for making false statements to a few agencies which could carry a penalty.
monty
Explain how Twitter will successfully sue Musk.
Fitzgibberin’ – another disgusting bought and paid for labore quisling.
Good luck with penalty clauses regarding rescission and equitable remedies like unjust enrichment.
Interesting to see how US law works. It is similar but obviously divergent.
Dot explains that arguing with a troll who’s here only to troll is the libertarian thing to do.
Tom
You never know, The Daily Kos might know more than Musk’s lawyers.
Fitzgibberin’ – another disgusting bought and paid for labore quisling.
Nothing compared to Kelly Hoare
Outdoor stuff!
Munster a court case decides whose wrong. If Musk is right he gets his money back plus costs. Musk knows how to make money, most of us don’t. How much is your net worth? Could you survive losing 10-50%?
Ardern’s fate sealed by New Zealand’s economic collapse
One of the great opportunities that arises from that is the questioning of the international treaty obligations that have led us down this path.
yes going right back to Whitlam and the Lima Declaration- makes you think our political class want to please international organisations and not the people who elected them. Consider also the way they lecture us on ‘our’ international obligations.
Horse face’s
Barking mad collectivist bint gets installed, economy collapses.
Gee, no one could have predicted such an outcome.
Abe’s killer was a Trump supporter according to CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN.
My much wanted and long saved up for Merc A class cured me of the brand in only three years. Nothing but trouble and expensive fixes, one after another. When the transmission failed at 80K MB denied all and any responsibility for their crap machinery and I got rid of it.
The Beamer 180d that replaced it was, by far, my most very favourite car. Almost 100% reliable, fun to drive and service support was consistently fantastic. The current Beamer is ultra reliable but as boring as the ABC on a good day. Crook joints entailed a move to a vehicle I could actually get in to.
Even the sight of the Benz star gives me post traumatic shudders.
The response will be more mony for renewables.
OMG, roughing it on $US200 billion is really doing it tough.