Obviously repurposed from an American story. Last time I looked we didn’t have chiefs. Lol all the same.
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July 20, 2022 at 9:47 am
What traditional tucker they hunt for?
Deer, goat, water buffalo, pig, camel, horse, that kind of thing?
Greens Senate pig and pest report shoots and misses
BOB Katter, Member for Kennedy, and Shane Knuth, Member for Hill, have brutally savaged a Federal Senate Report[1] driven by the Greens which has deemed firearms to be ‘ineffective’ in the management of pests including feral pigs.
Mr Katter said the report, driven by Greens Senator and anti-hunting-advocate, Senator Hanson Young, was riddled with blatant lies and irrelevancies and demonstrated a complete lack of regard for the primary producers and farmers in the north that are burdened by the explosion of pigs running rampant on their farms.
“It’s just another example of blatant lies, but that is what you would expect from the Senator who is responsible for this report.
“Quite frankly, the people that actually care about the environment do not want bores.
“It is an indiscriminate attack and there is no way you’re going to convince me that you can simply bait and poison them – tell that to the marines, and endangered wildlife who will be killed off with baits – the dunnarts, the turtles and cassowaries.
“The obvious remedy is a rifle and quite frankly it is the only remedy. There is nothing I have heard that is more effective to take out pigs.
“Mark Hogno, an ex-ranger in Normanton, together with another bloke are reputed to have shot 700 pigs before 11 o’clock one morning in an aerial culling exercise. So don’t tell me it is ineffective,” Mr Katter said.
Here you go:
How much super did you say I need?
JAMES KIRBY
WEALTH EDITOR
Consumer group Choice has put a spanner in the works with a headline-grabbing report that suggests all you would require to retire is $88,000.
Earlier this year, the Australian Super Funds Association did a similar calculation and came up with $545,000.
Are both these numbers wrong?
No. But they are misleading, because there is no magic number and endless variables in calculating so-called “targets” in super make universal estimates only vaguely useful.
In fact, there is only one number useful to all Australians facing retirement, which is $25,678 a year – that’s what a single gets on the Old Age Pension.
Commonly, the OAP is the base income to which other assets such as private savings are added to create a retirement income stream. Of course, what you need to retire and what you may want are very different.
If you are used to working close to the average salary it won’t be hard to adjust to the material lifestyle of the average retiree. If you earned twice the average salary for most of your working life, you may find it hard to adjust downwards.
If we step outside the intense debate about the dollar amount required, a simple answer might be – the very best retirement income stream I can manage.
Beyond access to the OAP, how much we accumulate to finance retirement will depend on salary, strategy and luck. How we spend that money in retirement will depend on the same elements, with a heightened focus on what they used to call “home economics”, because your ability to lift your income is greatly restricted in retirement.
There is no calculation out there that can capture how much you need – not to mention want – in retirement.
But there are some fundamental truths to how people access retirement income and how they spend it. The government pension is still the bedrock of the retirement system for the nation’s 4 million retirees. Better still, it is inflation-linked, which is going to be increasingly important in the years ahead if inflation stays high.
Our retirement sector has changed dramatically compared to when it became professionalised with the introduction of compulsory super more than three decades ago.
First of all there is longevity risk – the risk that we may outlive our retirement savings.
Surveys repeatedly show the older you are, the less you may spend – and the OAP remains in place for those who actually spend their entire private savings. But the other key variable is fading home ownership – when we read of retirement calculations, the ownership of the home is crucial. The Choice survey (published by Super Consumers Australia) and its estimate that $88,000 could fund a “low-spending” retirement for the 55-59-year-old pre-retiree assumes the individual owns their home outright (or does not pay rent or mortgage costs).
This is no longer a safe assumption. As the latest numbers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show, the number of retirees with a mortgage has risen over the past two decades from about 3 per cent to nearly 10 per cent.
Moreover, the numbers holding a mortgage in the pre-retirement 55 to 64 group has blown out from 16 per cent to 36 per cent since 2001. This cohort is coming through the system and they are going to change the calculations all over again.
Show business (permit me to include opera in that) is very competitive with few jobs to go around. Performers of colour obtain a competitive advantage by restricting certain ethnic roles for themselves whilst claiming the right to play historically white characters because to prevent them from doing so would be racism.
Borrowed from another forum, where it was claimed this was posted on facebook thus maybe complete BS.
Australia’s Covid regime is still riddled with absurd rules and clauses that keep people out of work and prevent them from getting on with life.
Two and a half years after the pandemic arrived, sickness and enforced isolation is costing NSW alone $1 billion a year and stressing families and businesses.
Daily Mail
I have the ultra maga libertarianism.
You cannot respect government ever again after the CPVID fiasco.
It is simply like a working digestive waste system. You want it to work, it would be nice if it didn’t exist; just hope for minimal action.
How much are you planning to take into the afterlife Zipster? Sure there is a bit of uncertainty around it all which makes planning difficult but you can’t spend it when you’re gone. A few of my friends are coming into inheritances, millions in some cases. Most own their own homes, usually outright, and their kids could generally do with some (or any) hardship and adversity.
Thanks Top Ender
Can’t we cull Greens Senators?
Hearses don’t have tow bars.
LOL
Damn iPhone!
You could sell tickets to Katter v Hyphen-SeaPatrol in the Senate. It would be more entertaining than most AFL.
if you own your home outright in any major city then you will not be entitled to any pension. this is a farce on the idiots that trusted super and government
Wondering if those going into retirement with a mortgage are first generation immigrants.
If you bought your home, even in your early thirties, unless you did a redraw, you should be about done at 67.
When do you think home owners will be excluded from getting age pension zippy?
the idea anyone should be force to consume in retirement what they have spent a life time building up is disgusting, given gov promised in return for stupid high taxes to look after people in retirement. ha!
People spend too much on funerals.
Especially on coffins.
I’m going to be rolled up in an old carpet & taken to the crematorium.
No church, no grave yard.
Pay for a few drinks at an ideal location.
if you own your home outright in any major city then you will not be entitled to any pension.
Is this correct? I thought that the assets test excludes the family home.
most people that own an average or above house are already
That’s not correct zippy, primary residence is excluded from the assets test.
There is a lower threshold for other assets if you own your home though.
Taxing the family home or including it in the assets test is a distraction squirrel.
Taxing lazy assets is far more productive.
Ie higher land taxes on land banking would only impact the ultra wealthy.
A smarter land tax would mean income taxes could still be cut.
The smartest way to cut income taxes is by increasing the tax free threshold annually.
Incredibly productive.
I’m afraid you’ll need to fork out c. $300 for a cremation capsule to meet legal requirements.
I agree there is a degree of regulatory risk around the age pension. I was in a large bulk billing Medical centre. I would have been the youngest person in the waiting room in my mid 50s. It looked like a scene from On Golden Pond or the Coffee Club at most suburban shopping centres. The future will be old with all that that entails. A few hollow logs is definitely prudent.
300 bucks, fine with that.
10k funeral, not so much.
in fact the ‘home owner’ test in comparison to the non ‘home owner’ appears to be pretty darn generous.
Some Wise Words From An Electrical Contractor In Melbourne…
I recently did some work for the body corporate at the Dock 5 Apartment Building in Docklands in Melbourne to see if we could install a small number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles.
We had our first three applications and we discovered:
Best Comment I gave seen
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11027623/Major-gas-shortage-millions-Aussie-homes-warned-lose-power.html
Every EV on the road is the same as adding 4 large family homes to the electric grid. Madness.
It amazes me how much commercial retail property around here is empty and not available for lease, and was long before covid.
I think it’s because they are waiting for high density rezoning to happen.
its not hard to work out that a million in retirement is a recipe for retirement poverty and an enforced spend down plan.
No one is going to be retiring anymore except the elite.
The rest of us are going to be dying “in harness”.
Barilaro NY job story gets worse.
His former Chief of Staff from 2017-19 has given evidence about a meeting in April 2019 attended by Barilaro, Treasurer Perrotet, Stuart Ayres and another cant recall. Discussed trade offices.
After meeting ended Barilaro goes into chief of staff office and tells him the trade job was what he wanted to do when out of politics. Specifically said wanted it to be in NY. Might already be in papers and will be on Ch 9 tonight.
Voltaire: Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
AOC fakes being handcuffed after arrest at abortion rights protest
PS that sparkie should be promoted to Energy Minister.
Inter generational wealth and taxation is largely a taboo subject. And usually brings a few fireworks.
ABC:
‘Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has uncovered “egregious” and “extensive misconduct” by Victorian Labor MPs, but has recommended no criminal charges be laid.
Known as Operation Watts, the joint investigation between IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman was prompted by an expose by The Age and 60 Minutes in 2020, which aired allegations of industrial-scale branch stacking levelled at former state minister Adem Somyurek.
The anti-corruption watchdog said the investigation also did not uncover examples of “traditional” corruption, with decision-making said to fall within the zone of “grey” corruption that benefited MPs’ associates, but did not amount to criminal conduct.
The practice is not illegal, but is against Labor Party rules. ‘
Naked son of ex-judge jumps to his death from co-op after fatally bludgeoning mom: cops
Doug Solomon was found naked and bleeding in the courtyard of the East 79th Street building after the rage fueled-attack and was heard screaming on his way down, cops and witnesses said.
Perhaps regretted jumping?
Inter generational wealth and taxation is largely a taboo subject.
Is this the right room for an argument?
Boomers who were happy to chuck their own wrinklies into kero filled baths in death hostels have blanched at it being done to them and instead want more transfers to them to keep them from their just desserts.
/that should do it.
Daytime Sky does it again!
Switch to criticising the opposition now that Labor is back on the Federal government benches.
Laura Jayes to Angus Taylor: you left the new Labor government a huge debt!
Wait a minute! Weren’t the state Labor premiers all insisting via the “National Cabinet” that huge amounts of money be paid out during the pandemic for worker support and employer support? Did any of them say don’t waste your/our money on all those doses of so-called vaccines?
Population ponzi operators.
Exactly! KD
I can only add there are dozens of grandparents from access the social spectrum willing to step up and free up space for hard cases. All have had
background checks and references. But don’t tick the PC boxes.
Just amazing.
Josh could always have said “No. You pay for it. We already offer various welfare benefits.”
Chalmers has at least required that the states -several of which are swimming in mineral royalties – pay for half of the current tranche of payments.
Renters across the road from me, he was a mobile mechanic earning a motza according to the owner. Blended family with each one having their own kids week about. Covid coming along with not many driving his work dropped off. Straight into landscape work with a little excavator and bobcat. That dried up, then he went crop spraying. Spanner in the works when his ute broke down and no parts for at least 6 months. He had to rent a ute. Every couple of days she arrived home with bags of shopping and now the money has dried up she has done a runner. They were paying $900 a week. Skip arrived the other day, it is full of shopping bags. I’ve never seen so many. I’ve only spoken to her once about 2 months ago. I can see her sizing me up as the next cash cow. Never mind of age or looks, she is a hunter. Its a look I’ve seen on mates girlfriend’s who subsequently relieved them of substantial loot. So many blokes are oblivious to them. I suppose they’re grateful a hot arse is paying attention. Believe me they were all hot arse’s. Not that I tried them out, just what followed. I couldn’t believe how many there were.
bern
Old man’s funeral was minimal cost in 2011 (traditional Catholic) and was roughly $9k. Simple headstone.
I doubt you can go much cheaper than $10k now.
It amazes me how much commercial retail property around here is empty and not available for lease
Its a form of fraud.
Banks wont devalue property or the whole ponzi collapses.
Instead we have in some cases artificial scarcity of land/houses/properties because there is no necessity to make it productive, it can sit there and gain value doing nothing.
In Feraldton there is for example this property.
Completely unused for over 20 years yet the valuation/pricing just keeps rising year by year well above what anyone is prepared to pay for it.
Rant triggered by the article linked by rosie at 9:08 am:
The author is advocating either export controls, or some form of super profits tax on gas exporters who are importing the effects of the EU-Russia-Ukrainian debacle to Australian domestic gas prices.
Misses the point a bit.
The sole reason why gas is used so heavily in electricity generation is the build out of renewables.
Don’t worry about ageing coal plant and unscheduled outages. Once you get outside of the spinning reserve envelope of operating steam turbines, you cannot quick start coal-fired generation rapidly enough to manage the huge supply swings caused by weather randomly turning off renewables.
Period.
It’s a Laws of Thermodynamics thing, that doesn’t care about government policies, or AEMO Market Rules, or climate emergencies.
On the other hand, open cycle gas turbines can respond to renewable shortfalls fairly quickly – in minutes, not hours.
So, what we have is an eye-wateringly expensive fuel (previously used in tiny quantities to manage summer peak loads) running near constantly to support renewables. Renewables that are supposed to be baseload and are prioritised by the NEM market rules to run ahead of coal.
This is a purely artificial result of dreadful policy. A rock solid, 100% self-inflicted injury.
And, ironically, when they actually can send out power, most of the renewables are able to bid into the wholesale market at stupidly inflated prices; prices jigged up by the gas-fired ‘solution’ to their own unreliability.
If anything needs to be taxed, it’s the renewables self-created super profits.
If any externalities need to be costed, it’s the full tote price Australia is paying for gas (in terms of price and supply) to support its windmills.
Too cheap to meter…
Lol.
I’m about to go and clean my parent’s bathrooms and vacuum their house. And deliver some delicious pulled pork pies. Mmmmmmm.
No kero for those oldies. 😀
Bern how much are you putting on the bar. Can you make a weekday so there won’t be so many coz of work. Wednesday is best for me.
I bought an Aldi sous vide machine today. And some steak. Much experimentation to follow.
I’m now officially unstoppable.
Do death duties apply to ‘the traditional owners’ of the land and their ‘land rights’.
If not, why not?
My family had to sell up the family farm to pay it.
Um, actually.
What you do is keep the boilers going and vent steam when load isn’t needed.
Rather expensive waste of coal but it does give the quick on/off.
Nuke plants are better for this because the fuel is cheaper.
Need plenty clean water though, since you waste lots.
Across the world, environmentalists leave only misery in their wake
Without a doubt, the climate-obsessed green movement is the most stupidly self-destructive force in the world today, leaving a trail of irrationality, folly and misery wherever it goes.
Consider its recent record of destroying Sri Lanka, making Western Europe needlessly vulnerable to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s energy blackmail and stoking higher energy prices in the United States that have contributed to the fastest decline in real wages in 40 years.
The greens are rapidly making up ground on the socialists as the modern world’s foremost economic and social saboteurs (and, of course, the two now work hand in hand).
If a hostile actor were to consider the best way to harm a society from within, it would unquestionably be to increase the sway of climate alarmists and other environmentalists who believe it is their righteous duty to make it harder and more expensive to power a modern economy, as well as to build and grow things.
They seek to throw the gears into reverse on the millennia-long human quest for cheaper, more abundant and more reliable sources of energy while putting new obstacles in the way of other human endeavor.
Since they are fired by a quasi-religious vision of an existential climate crisis on the verge of ending Planet Earth, they reject cost-benefit analysis, not to mention basic realism. The resulting wreckage is all around us.
My preference though is to dynamite every wind turbine.
Ghastly things.
Commercial property is a mystery to me. There is vast amounts of unused CBD property vacant. A cinema complex on a major street has been vacant since the 80s. The retail strip on the suburb over routinely hits 20%+ vacancies with some places empty for year after year.
Second most, after Islam.
Almost every Islamic country is a mess.
The Green movement has a way to go to match it.
But the religious dynamics are similar, which is the scary thing.
Johanna
They don’t have a clue about ‘the environment.’
They don’t care about the environment, this is all about limiting the areas into which the serfs can drive or take a tinny.
Same goes with weddings, but there is a mean between these two extremes.
B..s..t ! I am writing my own eulogy and am selecting my own photos/videos/music!!!!
I will have it tied into the will, so that daughter can’t eliminate it all!! They are getting plenty, so they will have to endure it.
It is actually an act of gratitude for what I have received (as well as earned) by the grace of God. It will also a tribute to the enduring support and love of my other half.
It will also BE a tribute to the enduring supply and love of my other half.
Big sister’s wedding in 2007 was $30k all up, “cheap”, very nice wedding bands, cheap (!?) dress and her in laws for reception.
‘Conservative MPs have made a catastrophic mistake. Kemi Badenoch — the charming and tough former Equalities Minister, who had taken bold stances on issues like free speech, housing and migration — has just been knocked out of the Conservative Party leadership race.
With this decision, Tory MPs have said goodbye to their strongest chance of re-uniting their party, stabilising the country, and moving on from the wreckage of the last two years towards another election victory.
Kemi Badenoch was a golden ticket. Conservative members — who, according to Conservative Home, favoured her by a massive margin in any “final two” run off — could see it. The media could see it. The Labour Party most definitely could see it. Tory MPs, sadly, could not.’
It should have been Kemi
I’m going to insist on an el-cheapo funeral. It won’t be about me after all.
But I would like some rollicking hymns of excellence from the A & M. And a good feed afterwards. Can’t have mourners with empty tummies.
I’ve obseved that the larger and more lavish the wedding, the shorter the actual marriage.
The record was nine bridesmaids, nine groomsmen, and the bride “cleared out” three years later.
Nobody does this.
You can keep a boiler hot; but when you load the turbine you need to raise the mass of steam that does the work; which takes time because of the inertia of the fluid passing through the boiler/steam drum/superheater/condenser/economiser system.
Tom.
A 777 might typically have 40 Business and 300 economy seats.
At $15k for business and $3k for economy and 80% loading, a 777 would generate gross revenue of $1.2m. Fuel and crew costs would be way different, of course.
A fully laden 80 seat supersonic aircraft would generate the same gross revenue.
It might work.
But the Concorde couldn’t turn a dollar on 100 seat capacity, so maybe not.
Grey Ranga: That must the male privilege stuff I keep hearing about
There must be hundreds of hours of doomsaying David Attenborough shows available at bargain basement prices, they are all over FTV.
Mate of mine wanted to be buried on the high ground overlooking his farm – he wanted two officers from the Tax Office to dig the grave, on the basis he had worked for them most of his life, so it was time that the process was reversed.
Brisbane: the place to be disposed of 24/7.
From $1595.
Just a drink at the pub for me.
If you need any assistance in this endeavour, I am both willing and able to help.out.
Some rare honesty from the PM on why mask mandates are not being re-introduced:
Props where it’s due. Every Australian leader I’ve heard answer the question of why they aren’t bringing back the mask mandates have referred to their ‘expert medical advice’ or whatever. Albo here is conceding the mandates won’t be followed by the public and he is concerned about the political consequences of enforcing the mandates.
People are over this shit.
My first pass read of that was an el Chapo funeral. Which I imagine is quite different from what Calli has in mind.
I brayed with laughter reading this headline just now.
Liz Truss quite clearly ‘models herself on Thatcher’ (Sky News, 20 Jul)
Exactly why the base wanted Kemi, who isn’t fake.
Sancho, Australia-USA — and Australia-Asia — are aviation super-highways. Assigning a small fraction of that to the growth of business traffic will be a doddle.
Ever heard of Say’s Law (supply creates demand)? Thank God there are no Keynesians running businesses — they are incapable of understanding how a modern economy operates (not to mention any of its component business parts).
And deliver some delicious pulled pork pies. Mmmmmmm.
Kero pies I bet.
Were onto you!
Also I just had an idea to completely revolutionize air travel and make me a Musk-0-vite (Elon variety)
Have your VFP (very fast plane) direct to your destination.
The catch.
You have one hand baggage total as your luggage, maybe 5kg max.
The rest of your luggage goes camel class on a completely separate flight at basic cargo rates and is dropped off to your abode/hotel a day later.
Indeed why not go the extra step and have peoples luggage picked up 2 days before the flight and have it waiting at their hotel/house on arrival?
Dont tell anyone else though, i have to keep it a secret till Ive saved up for my first Jets.
Pour out a “40 oz” onto the pavement for me lads.
I would like some rollicking hymns of excellence
White Light/White Heat for me when the time comes. Loud enough to wake the dead. It’s worth a shot.
The practice is not illegal, but is against Labor Party rules. ‘
So Victoria is essentially not a democracy. It is controlled by a bunch of thugs.
But all we’d be hearing from the pew,
is White Noise…
#OhGod
I dunno. It sounds like a perfectly safe place to me to forget to declare a bottle of wine… 😛
Meme of the Day #51
I doubt you can go much cheaper than $10k now.
Hence the rolled up carpet.
Tucker Carlson: Nothing like this has ever happened
My funeral plans were pinched from Louis CK’s mum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH1XgIDSkH4
Shake my Hamas gets out the “pay me for existing” bowl for creatives.
Australia could unleash a cultural renaissance by paying artists a living wage
Skywhales for everyone!!!
A friend of mine recently nailed the dire reality of being an artist in Australia since the pandemic. Over tea, he said that he’d noticed something odd and pervasive: when artists get together, they don’t talk about art, they talk about money – their desperate lack of it.*
…
I’m absolutely convinced that the best way for the arts to recover from this dastardly pandemic is through a basic income scheme for artists and arts workers. I’m also convinced that this injection of resources would result in a big-time renaissance of artistic energy that the general public could appreciate.**
…
That’s all most people really want, right? A bit of dignity and security in work and life. But despite the fact that we’ve had cultural policy in different forms since the 1950s, artists remain the Uber drivers of the art sector: a precariat of gig workers. The ones who create the value and are paid last, in the form of token fees.***
*Get a job..
** Im absolutely convinced 9/10ths of you could be fed feet first into a wood chipper and the result would be more artistic than what youd produce suckling at the governments withered teats.
*** Produce shart, get paid shart amounts, produce something people like, make money.
Theres more, but its just the usual “pay me lots to do what I want to do with no thoughts as to if its wanted or not”..
Planning on telling everyone LAUDA!? 😀
#IknowNickiLauda*
*(Skip to 1:10, unless you just wanna watch all of Dickie Knee’s best bits first…)
Odd time for Joe Biden.
Overnight the congress voted to fortify gay marriage.
Joe will be signing off as president on something he voted against during the ’90s.
What can be legislated or adjudicated can be reversed.
I’d like to know where the semantic line gets drawn between ‘Nazi Memorabilia’ and Wehrmacht/Kriegsmarine/Luftwaffe/Waffen-SS militaria.
For example, every surviving German paybuch, military hymnals and manuals, belt buckle, helmet, uniform patch and more is marked with swastikas and other forbidden iconography, photo albums of German troops are full of it and the myriad surviving vehicles and weapons tend to be so marked as well.
What I’m getting at Dover is no doubt near 80 year old Biden will harp on about it being a civil right.
Where as late 50’s Biden was very against it.
The guy stands for nothing apart from lining his own pockets.
#metoo.
It seems rentals don’t drop to meet rising vacancy rates. Yeah, I get that commercial tenancies have longer terms than residential, so there are barriers to switching, but that doesn’t explain it.
Wow, clever word play on Proletariat
Must be some sort of intellectual
Wooden canoe from BCF, can of lighter fluid and a sparkler it is then.
Most land banking schemes are reliant on taxpayers funding infrastructure to it or surrounding it.
Then a cheeky re-zoning.
Sure when they sell they pay the tax.
But the value that’s been created is funded by taxpayers.
Law of economic rent.
FTB, my comment above is about the attempts by the Dems to sandbag gay ‘marriage’, not so much about Biden being an empty suit. BTW, it’s not only Biden though, the Dems voted for the DOMA in 1996 under Clinton.
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Just like renewables then.”
No, not really.
Renewables CAN’T run profitably in a free market – take away their “gifts” of “renewable energy certificates” (where their FF competitors are required by buy certificates from them for what they have already generated), “first choice” (the “market” is forced to use these generators as the first choice, when they are producing), “no FCAS” (where they do NOT provide the same products [plural] as FF generators – not just “energy” but also “frequency support”, “spinning reserve” etc) and “no penalty” (where they can bid for supply, then not have to deliver what they bid on) and no-one would want them.
It is already the case that because of the lack of FCAS, the price for solar in the middle of the day (on sunny days at least) can go negative – you have to pay to get them to take your energy!
Beetaloo only requires “subsidies” in order to overcome the extra “taxes” they need to pay – and even then, they would still be both providing product consumers want AND paying taxes. They just wouldn’t be paying the “penalties” for being a fossil fuel producer in a climate where these are not politically wanted.
Between Hyde park & Taylor square Oxford street is half empty.
Why would a landlord put a tenant in now when the City of Sydney & NSW government are going to be spending 250mill of ratepayer & taxpayer money on rejuvenating the precinct.
You wait, have the money spent & then lease the space.
the Dems voted for the DOMA in 1996 under Clinton.
Spot on.
Something Glenn Greenwald has been highlighting on twitter overnight.
Re Oxford street, the Burdekin hotel traded at a cap rate of 2.9%.
No ones buying a pub on that kind of multiple unless they think there’s a property development angle to be played.
And courtesy of the rate payer & tax payer, the new owner is going to make a fuck ton of money.
“People are over this shit.”
I am but I’m not sure about others. I just had a conversation with a work colleague who mentioned “BA.4 and BA.5” and how dangerous these Covid variants are. It was the first time I’d heard “BA.4 and BA.5” in conversation. I responded “what on earth are you talking about?”.
The shit continues. They’re ramping up the fear factor…yet again. Australia is now “Fear Island”.
She’s a black girl:
Sensational twist in case of female relief teacher, 28, accused of pursuing a teenage boy for sex.
Much consternation in the local paper because only 15% of people are masking up shops, buses etc..
They’re over it, at least in this vicinity.
Yesterday I posted that the judge in the Bannon case is a Trump appointee.
It turns out he clerked for Clarence Thomas too.
It’d be good if a teacher aspired to support kids of all varieties.
If they reintroduce mask mandates, the takeaway coffee cup with be re-welded to my hand.
calli I saw that the other day but resisted though I have seen Tom Kerridge do so really lovely things with food and sous vide – please report your results of the experimentation.
They going to block the national library online and all other sources?
mole at 12:05.
Forget the baggage.
Why not charge the passenger and baggage per kg.
Why does a 60 kg woman with a 25 kg suitcase have to pay extra when a 100 kg landwhale with a 19.9 kg suitcase goes through on the standard fare?
I would assume he/she is talking about British Airways flights – a quick Google shows BA4 is Larnaca to London Gatwick and BA5 is Heathrow to Tokyo Haneda. BTW, how can you tell when a British Airways flight has landed in Sydney? The whining continues after the engines are shut down.
Why not charge the passenger and baggage per kg.
Hear hear.
Land whales should not be subsidised by the non land whales.
Check out the pix of the “black girl” at CL’s link.
Things have become laughable in this country when you can look like that and claim you’re “aboriginal”.
You only need to look at South Australia’s use of gas since they turned off coal. It goes up to a whopping 70% when the wind doesn’t blow and there isn’t any sun. They have to import electricity from Vic to fill the gap and lately have been running something called “liquid fuel” in emergencies which I suspect is kerosene. Even today according to NEM they are using 43% gas when there is sun and some wind available.
Also it is worth noting how many of the big companies supplying the grid to consumers are heavily invested in both renewables and now gas. Having a two way bet to game the system.
Dover, do you have on the comments pending board a comment of mine that started with “I’d like to know where the semantic line is drawn between N*zi memorabilia and Wehrmacht/Kriegsmarine/Luftwaffe/Waffen-SS memorabilia?”
I’m not sure if I used some words WordPress didn’t like and it was held for review, or it just got eaten because I took too long writing the comment and WordPress refreshed itself in the meantime.
“…What you do is keep the boilers going and vent steam…”
You can’t vent steam in the turbine loop – that water is extremely pure, almost medical grade. It has to be. Can you imagine what any sort of contamination (dust, even bacteria) would do to the turbine with 800,000+ horse power behind it? It would “sand bast” it to oblivion in short order.
You could, I suppose, re-do the power house so that you could dump the entire heat load of burning coal/gas into whatever “heat sink” you have, but that would mean you’d need at least twice the heat sink capacity, which even for a power station on a lake sounds untenable – you can’t “dump” waste water more than 2C above intake temps into a lake as that’s “environmentally unfriendly”, so you’d have to pump twice as much water through the cooling system for a start. So you could safely say that you could only run the joint at half it’s rated capacity that way. At a time when we are scratching for sufficient power to keep the lights on, that’s not gonna happen.
Got any other bright ideas?
You would have to conclude that the only motivation is financial gain.
A friend of my son, who he went to (private) school with, is as white as that. We never knew he was aboriginal until he told us about all the benefits available to him and got a government job to boot. His father was a detective and his mother a nurse, so not exactly underprivileged.
As I noted about two weeks ago, the “not everyone” was about 70% of commuters. Heading into town tomorrow, so I’ll be interested to see if that ratio has increased or decreased.
*being the irredeemable imbecile that he is, Albansleazey sounded genuinely surprised when blithering out the statement above (I had the misfortune to hear him on the news).
@ Kneel-
The author’s been hanging around the wrong sort of steam engines, operated by (unfortunately) too-talented pyromaniacs like me… 🙂
#Wheesh!
#TenDollars!
Or in the “tacher’s” case, drumming up “da waycism” angle, pathetic and laughable as it is.
For shame, Top Ender, don’t you know that it’s not how you look, it’s how you “Identify?” Check out all the blonde hair and blue eyes at an “invasion” day protest some time..
Fuck off and die please.
Moderation is a joke now.
Author Douglas Murray says a UK dance school scrapping ballet over its “elitist” and “white” art form is sadly a totally normal story in today’s world.
Sure, they’re attempting to play that card, but if I were a betting man I’d wager she’s been taking advantage of her indigenous identity in other ways too. There’s a plethora of advantages to be had by doing so. Didn’t Michael Mansell (somewhat ironically) recently claim whites were identifying as aboriginal to tap into the many benefits available (you don’t have to be on welfare to qualify for many of them).
Sure but I’ll drink it first, Dot.
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Drbeen Medical Lectures
Correct.
You can be a multi-millionaire.
I’ve seen it.
Goan get me a fowdy. Pay mah r’specks.
Bottomline:
If a bloke can claim to be/identify as a women, and it’s verboten to say otherwise or deny it, how on earth can they justify denying a claim/identification as an Aboriginal? Or the rivers of gold that accompany it?
They’ve completely denied genetics and science in the trans space. They can’t credibly revert to genetics and science in the racial space.
Hoist on their on petard.
Conscience and goodwill is all that stops everyone ticking the box, and sucking the teat dry.
“When everyone is a priority, no one is a priority”
When Covid restrictions hit Australia with its attendant restrictions and police brutality, 300,000 working visa holders left Australia together with 60,000 permanent Australian citizens. This was a large slice of our work force gone, it will take years to return to pre-Covid madness levels.
There is a large segment of the population who want to work but can’t find employment due to their unvaxxed status. How many exactly is impossible to tell as they aren’t registered as unemployed, these are the people who are married to someone who is employed therefore they don’t qualify for unemployment benefits, and are therefore not registered as such.
I’m referring to working couples with children to support. Many such couples decided that, in view of the dangerous nature of the experimental drugs, that one of the partners would opt out of taking part in this mass experiment and consequently lose their employment so that at least one parent would be available to support their children. They chose this route even though it meant living in straitened circumstances, the children must be protected.
Most of these people would gladly return to the workforce but they can’t do so due to employer mandates for the vaxx. Government mandates and restrictions are being removed but not in private industry. If businesses want to fix their labour shortage problems they have to drop their mandates. This means they have to confront the Karens in their HR departments and lay down the law, most bosses are too weak to confront the Karens though.
Computational sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike further identified conserved neurotoxin-like motifs which may alter neuronal cell function and contribute to neurological symptoms in COVID-19 and MIS-C patients. Additionally, autoantibodies are detected during MIS-C, which may indicate development of post-SARS-CoV-2 autoreactive and autoimmune responses. Finally, prolonged persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the gut, increased gut permeability and elevated levels of circulating S1 have been observed in children with MIS-C. Accordingly, we hypothesize that continuous and prolonged exposure to the viral SAg-like and neurotoxin-like motifs in SARS-CoV-2 spike may promote autoimmunity leading to the development of post-acute COVID-19 syndromes, including MIS-C and long COVID, as well as the neurological complications resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Yea, but the cheap little bastard was looking in a rent controlled or rent stabilised building.
calli says:
July 20, 2022 at 11:03 am
If you like your food soaked in lukewarm water, then it’s the go.
Good luck, it never worked for me, but obviously did for others.
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OK, but why did my previous comment disappear?
had nothing in it to offend even the lily-whites.
Can you feel how bad it is, yet?
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I must say I support the swastika ban and would like it spread as widely as possible.
Reason being I have three edged weapons with swastikas on them and their value will go up.
Thank heavens the Premier is such an aloof and arrogant being he does not ride buses – the signs that say you have to wear masks have long since been taken down and while some people still smother themselves with wadding over the bottom half of their face others leave their facesau naturel.
Even bus drivers.
For whatever it’s worth, I’m finding anything through a job agency or recruitment firm is asking for jabs. All the direct employers so far have dumped covid jabs as a requirement. Everyone is struggling to get staff, let alone good staff.
I’ve only been seriously look for a week, but I’ve had several interviews, including one I walked out of with an offer at the high end of the salary I have asked for.
Same reason mine likely did earlier.
WordPress.
We clearly aren’t throwing enough virgins into enough volcanoes for the program to run correctly…
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Russia didn’t get the memo about pronouns
James Macpherson
Russian officials are openly mocking America’s embrace of transgenderism – taunting America to ‘keep going’.
The ridicule came after a photo of transgender Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine and non-binary Deputy Assistant Nuclear Energy Secretary Sam Brinton went viral last week.
The queer duo were pictured visiting the French ambassador’s home to celebrate Bastille Day. Brinton posted the picture on Instagram with the caption:
Week 4 On The Job: Champagne and Celebration with the French Ambassador in his residence for Bastille Day. (But also the amazing opportunity to connect with one of the only other transgender government officials, Admiral Levine – not gonna lie, it felt great to commiserate with a fellow trans person facing the hate.)
Brinton’s Instagram has since been set to private, but not before the photo was widely circulated.
Russia’s United Nations diplomat Dmitry Polyanskiy reposted the photo with the caption:
‘Keep going that way, our dear American ex-partners! I don’t think we even need any long-term strategies to counter your malicious role in the world – you are doing the right thing yourselves! And let the whole world see WhoYouAre!’
Russian Foreign Affairs communications official Maria Zakharova also reposted the photo, adding:
‘Answer the question honestly for yourself: Are these the values that you are ready to instill in your children? Or do we still fight for our own?’
Clearly the Russians didn’t realise the correct response was to exclaim: ‘Stunning. Brave. Inspirational.’
But I digress.
It remains a mystery why President Biden chose Levine and Brinton to represent America in France last week rather than with him in Saudi Arabia.
Sam Brinton, the son of Baptist missionaries, describes himself as a gender-fluid LGBTQ+ activist. He is also a drag queen and a ‘pup’ fetishist.
This is from a biography Brinton supplied to LGBTQ+ Religious Archives Network website:
‘Sam has worn stilettos to Congress to advise legislators about nuclear policy.’
It’s telling that Brinton is at pains to point out, not that he advised Congress on nuclear policy, but that he wore high heels while doing it.
And that goes to the key objection many people have about Brinton and Levine representing America internationally. They seem more intent on representing transgenderism than America. It is about them, not US.
And if they are representing America, what impression are they giving our allies and, more importantly, our foes?
Sam Brinton wrote of himself:
‘Brinton shows young persons that they can be who they are and gives them courage. Once, while they were walking around Disney World in 6-inch stilettos with a boyfriend, a young gay boy saw Sam with the boyfriend and started crying. He told his mother, “It’s true, Mom. we can be our own princess here.”’
The Russians drew a different message from Brinton’s 6-inch stilettos.
Instead of being inspired by Brinton to believe they too can be princesses, the Russians have decided that they are battling a nation of princesses.
‘America. Pronouns was/were’ was one of the more succinct replies to the Russian official’s mocking tweets.
It’s one thing to insist Levine and Brinton have the right to live as they please (which of course they do), but it’s another for America to prioritise activism instead of security abroad when the world titters on the edge of a third world war.
President Biden projects princesses when he needs to be projecting power.
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House Democrats Block Resolution to Condemn Violence Against Churches and Pregnancy Centers
I’ll take $10 for “things that never happened”.
Roger, at 10.18:
Brilliant.
Good Luck, Bluey, hope you get work you like and are paid well for.
Ranga, at 10.54:
A trap for young players – and as the man says, blindingly obvious to others while the target just remains blind.
Pro tip: Never be reluctant to meet the mother, because that is exactly what she’ll turn into.
House Democrats Block Resolution to Condemn Violence Against Churches and Pregnancy Centers
I would say the thugs have no especial loyalty to the Democrats, just that they are the only party giving them any measure of support. If things change they would turn on the Democrats too. The alliance relies upon the Dems paying fealty to the mob – they need the mob more than the mob needs them.
The thugs want an America turned completely on its head. They want to tear it apart and be replaced with their ridiculous kumbaya Utopias.
The Dems want order – a very severe order with them at the top, and themselves gorging themselves on its living flesh and blood.
The Dems have, I think, attached to themselves people that the thugs can identify with like AOC and that Muslim woman who married her brother or whatnot. But the real power in the party remains with the established old white kleptocrats like the Clintons, Pelosi, Schumer etc. who live very well leeching off America. They will use anarchy, but only to gain more control.
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Random spaminating.
In the midst of Fuhrer Andrews’ lockdowns frenzy, instant footpath meetings for dozens of people at a time in residential areas became A Thing in my little coastal village.
It was the only way people could have a social life.
With a state election looming in November, there’s no chance we’ll see a return of the lockdown madness. It never had anything to do with public health — Andrews correctly calculated that fear and government hysteria would be politically popular.
People are now over it so Andrews has correctly calculated that he wouldn’t get away with it a second time — pure politics.
I am astonished that anyone in Victoria still trusts that underhand prick.
And the fingerprints of various climate scientists and experts are all over Western governments coffers.
Apologies for reporting Knuckle Dragger’s comment at 7.09am. I was trying to uptick – definitely time to get the cataracts attended to.
George is the sort of guy a landlord would put in a rent controlled building to drive the others out.
It gets better. The cops in the pictures “arresting” her on the street in front of the Supreme Court apparently were not D.C. Metropolitan Police, who would have had responsibility there.
Instead, they appear to be Capital Police, i.e. Nancy Pelosi’s praetorian guard, who have absolutely no jurisdiction or authority off of the grounds of the U.S. Capital building.
Which would make them actors in a bit of political theater planned and executed by the Democrats and their propaganda arm for the gullible public.
Yes, and not just America. The aggressively managed decline seems to be unstoppable across the West.
Daughter-in-law is pregnant and due in September. Just heard from my son that the baby, as revealed by sonogram, has an aortic stenosis. It’s apparently a mild case and, if surgery is needed, it’s a tried and true procedure.
So I ask the fruit of my lines when his wife got her COVID jabs.
Pause on the line, then this:
“Yeah, I thought of that and I figure she was jabbed around conception time.”
Another pause.
“And then she got another about three months later on doctor’s advice”
Jeez.
It’s true that there are still plenty of Covid hysterics shrieking up the place. My point is that we’ve reached a point where enough of the population is sufficiently unconcerned about Covid that the government won’t reintroduce mask mandates – even though it would clearly like to – because it is worried about large scale non-compliance. Governments like ours will have no choice but to enforce compliance. This will likely cause significant political blowback. It’s a pragmatic calculation, and I don’t think the state or federal authorities will backtrack on the decision at this point. They’ve been too conclusive about it to backflip now.
The only way I can see them going back to mask mandates going forward is if some wildcard event occurred that heightened public alarm, such as the emergence of a new variant or the like.
Sorry to hear that areff. Best wishes that all turns out well.
I’m sorry to hear that. Hope the little one goes on to thrive. I’m sure it will.
As for whether the vaxx had anything to do with it – well, correlation does not equal causation, as we all know.
It’s just that there seems to be a hell of a lot of correlation going on.
Looks like a few of you got called spam by Akismet. Comments now released. However, I’ll keep my eye on this for the rest of the day. Let me know if your comments aren’t posting.
Thanks mate, work I like might be a stretch but I tell people it’s called work because it’s work, not fun. Fun is what work pays for.
Knocking at the door:
Foot and mouth disease detected in meat products in Australia
It happens, Mark.
It just happens.
Why are we importing “pork products” from China?
Don’t we have enough?
As for the Indonesian and their meat, I hope they were fined and turned around at the border. If not, why not?
I haven’t seen Australian made bacon in supermarkets for the last few years.
I expect lots of vegans/ greens/ abc types visiting Indo soon.
My point is that we’ve reached a point where enough of the population is sufficiently unconcerned about Covid that the government won’t reintroduce mask mandates – even though it would clearly like to – because it is worried about large scale non-compliance. Governments like ours will have no choice but to enforce compliance.
They’re not really enforcing the ones they still have in force. Mask mandates still apply on public transport in Victoria. I’d estimate compliance at around 50%. There’s no sign of enforcement. I suspect Maximum Leader’s calculation is that there’d be lots of bedwetters enraged by a repeal while rational adults wouldn’t give him any credit for it, so it’s best just to let it slowly wither away, but also that enforcement would annoy a lot more people than it would placate.
The only way I can see them going back to mask mandates going forward is if some wildcard event occurred that heightened public alarm, such as the emergence of a new variant or the like.
I think that the non-bedwetting demographic are over “new variant” scares, and any other government hysteria-mongering. There’d need to be increases in numbers of deaths and hospitalisations that were so massive that the public could directly observe them.
Serious question, why aren’t we seeing people hanging from the street lamps yet?
Might as well put it on the 6th at Randwick. But that goes for a lot of commercial ventures.
Short answer – because we haven’t turned into wild animals yet.
And I hope we never do.
Our venal political class along with their canbra pubic serpent pals would probably be (secretly) quite pleased if F&M gets in. Remember that since Trumble they’ve let on that they have they sights set on farm animals.
I’d like to know why the fuck we are importing food from China.
What do you mean?
#Heehee!
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Two teenagers have severe head injuries after being involved in a fight with sticks outside an East Side home in Alice Springs, NT Police said.
Media manager Rob Cross said the fight happened about 1:20am on Wednesday, leaving an 18-year-old man in a serious but stable condition, and a 17-year-old boy in a critical condition, both in Alice Springs Hospital.
The diaspora like their specific snacks?
The rest of it is utterly beyond me… 🙂
Price?
Oh come on at 3:40 – correct. We are now where an informed public with a properly functioning media would have been 12 months ago. It’s over. Covid joins AIDS, Y2K, RSI and yo yos.
You can buy Australian bacon, but at a premium. Fork out more and it’s yours to take home and enjoy.
I think I made one too many cheeky responses in too short a time this morning.
Binge-posting is clearly a sin for Akismet…
How long will the corporate media in Australia focus on the weather in the UK & ignore the social unrest that is now prevalent in a lot of emerging markets.
This is food, fuel related.
Seriously, it’s like the corporate media enjoy being spoon-fed narratives.
What have you got against yo yos?
The Beloved was up at Dracula’s Daughters this morning for his annual blood letting. Waiting room filled and Sunrise on the tv. Koch was trumpeting and cry bullying about masks and mandates and why don’t they make people wear them again.
The Beloved, fed up with the d*ckheadery opined that Koch should be the first to wear one…on tv. But then we wouldn’t hear him, an old bird piped up. What a blessing, was the response…to much amusement.
Even the old and frail are sick of it.
A few others apart from you, Rex, were also binned. Not sure why.
If ya lucky you may see me on real estate dot com.
A drone flew over when I was fertilising a row today.
its a purge
Anyone want to go to ol’ Brucie’s talk and ask him how many of his four grandparents were Aboriginal?
Parkes Shire Council is pleased to announce that they are hosting Beau Williams and Bruce Pascoe at the Parkes Library & Cultural Centre on Tuesday 26 July 2022 from 6-7.30pm, for the First Languages Australia talk.
This event is in celebration of the launch of the Wiradjuri Ngurambang Exhibition, which is located near the entry of the Parkes Library & Cultural Centre.
Go here….
preparing for the century of fascism with chinese characteristics
Maybe at a butcher shop. Once I went through every pork product in our local Woolies. Not a single one was made in Australia or from Australian pork.
I mentioned it to my daughter’s boyfriend who worked at Woolies then and he didn’t believe me. A couple of weeks after that he said to me that I was right.
I will never be in the same room with that foul, squeaky voice on. Either it goes off or I leave. It’s like Orwell’s telescreen- piping foul marxist poison at you where ever you go.
A few others apart from you, Rex, were also binned. Not sure why.
Im not saying its because you chortled at the cruel pics some monster posted of a dead mole.
But it could be.
It could be.
The Cat has a mole?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDqH7kPQpI
Smart man, Meme
All Australian pork at the local butcher , wife says.
When Akismet feels its gypsum, Dover, none are safe…
Monster
How do you think Joe Hiden is doing? Also, what are the chances he took money from the Chinese influence peddling through his drug addict son. What do you think there too?
Thanks.
Yes a malignant one.
I have a grandson who will be 16yrs in a couple of months. He wasn’t diagnosed until after he was born. He had baloon treatment at 5 months for his condition ‘Aortic Valve Stenosis, moderate aortic obstruction, mild aortic incompetence.’
He was to be considered for open heart surgery in 2021. The procedure was to be the Ross Procedure. He has regular checks but no op scheduled at this stage.
He is an exceptional young lad and takes it all in his stride and manages to live a very full life even with the restrictions that accompany his valve problem.
It is only fair that the event be held where that monument to Indigenous technical achievement – the Parkes Radio Telescope – is located. And to begin the process of disabusing Australians of the myth that it was built by European Australians.
It was there already – sending and receiving messages from the deep space Rainbow Serpent mission when Capt James T Kook and George Washington arrived on the Titanic.
Coles have their own brand Australian bacon products.
Here’s Why The Media Don’t Want You To Know About The Massive Protests Going On Around The Globe