m0nty-fa

Part of the problem was that you couldn’t trust Trump not to just leave stuff lying around.

Do you mean like Bill Clinton leaving a nuclear authorisation card in a suit being sent to the dry cleaner? That kind of problem?

You’re not very good at this, are you?

Not a Single Dem Senator Voted to Define Pregnancy as Unique to Biological Females

Again…like the pornographers, they hate and despise women.

The only question to ask is…why? What is it about women that they fear?

Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn: What Has Been Achieved So Far

Now the IDF is freer to concentrate on the primary task at hand.

In the space of just three days, the IDF has decapitated the top echelon of the PIJ. And who will now want to step forward to replace Tayseer Jabari, or Khaled Mansour, or Khattab Amassi, or Ziad Madalal, knowing the fate that almost certainly awaits him?

Second, the IDF’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system has again proven itself not in a test, but in battlefield conditions. And it has now managed to achieve an almost 100% success rate in intercepting PIJ rockets whose trajectory shows that they threaten to land in populated areas.

The IDF only uses Iron Dome when it has determined that the incoming projectile is likely to hit in populated areas; it does not waste its anti-missile missiles – each costs about $100,000 — on those it has calculated will land in open fields far from populated areas. And its “success rate” — so far an astonishing 97% — is based on how many of those projectiles headed toward populated areas were intercepted.

First, the IDF has taken out the entire leadership of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Its top commanders in northern and southern Gaza — Tayseer Jabari and Khaled Mansour — and more than a dozen of their closest aides are all dead. And no one has stepped forward to replace them.

Second, the IDF has conducted airstrikes that have so far destroyed nearly two dozen rocket-launching sites of the Palestinian Islamic Brigade.

Third, as in every Gaza war since 2012, the IDF has again employed, and thus battle-tested, its Iron Dome anti-missile system. And it has shown itself to have set up an almost impregnable shield, whereby any rockets fired at Israel that are deemed likely to hit a populated area have a 97% chance of being shot down by Iron Dome.

Fourth, the PIJ has been forced to fight alone, because Hamas, its rival, has refrained from helping it out. The leaders of Hamas value their own lives, and they don’t want to be dragged into a war not of their own making. Hamas remembers what happened to it during the 11-day war with Israeli in May 2021. The terror group wants quiet in Gaza for now, and is furious with the PIJ for threatening Israel and planning attacks on the Jewish state, that led to the preemptive strikes by the IDF on PIJ leaders and weapons. The quiet from Hamas – which has not lifted a finger to help PIJ – also makes PIJ well aware that the larger terror group is not exactly unhappy that its hotheaded rival is being devastated by the relentless hammer blows of the IDF. It has been a longstanding strategic goal of Israel to widen the gulf between Hamas and PIJ; with Operation Breaking Dawn, it has now accomplished that goal. And within a few days, Israel is likely to wrap things up. Having dismembered PIJ, the IDF wants to concentrate again on its main worry – Iran and its proxy Hezbollah.

My wife’s been watching a Netflix remake of ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’, John Wyndhams excellent SF novel. Based in a small English village, fully half (maybe more) of the villages residents are Black, Indian or other Asian. Diversity casting at its best. Like nearly everything nowdays, nobody is selected as being the best at a job or the best suited to a job, you’re selected on your colour or opinions. This is why the west is declining and all our institutions and businesses are failing. As for casting a historical period with people who are like those who would’ve lived in an area at a time, well that’s long gone.

Jesus what manipulative evil shits.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/11/meta-injecting-code-into-websites-visited-by-its-users-to-track-them-research-says

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has been rewriting websites its users visit, letting the company follow them across the web after they click links in its apps, according to new research from an ex-Google engineer.

“The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers,” says Felix Krause, a privacy researcher who founded an app development tool acquired by Google in 2017.

Are your children still being imprisoned by you Monty, you sick criminal fuck.
People used to go to jail for that shit.

Cloggies are objectively the dumbest Europeans.

Worse than the Norsemen? Never seen it in real life in person but Scandihooligans are supposed to make Collingwood supporters look urbane.

It’s a good measure of how much your job matters in the real scheme of things.

Afaik, they haven’t extended quotas or political tests to neurosurgeons or airline pilots yet.

When offered the choice between some WASP with a bowtie or some guy with a grass skirt and a bone through his nose even the wokest of woke tend towards the former when choosing a surgeon for their child. When it is your child however.

Neither did I.

4. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Monty is too fat to fit in a freezer.

thefrollickingmolesays:
August 12, 2022 at 6:23 pm
4. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Monty is too fat to fit in a freezer.

Sorry about the ignorance re Monty, why the “Fat” references?

A link to the Jimmy Dore Show about the Realtor and the Batmobile.

But I’m sure you lot (carn Roger!) will arrive shortly with the approved talking points.

I expected this. Soon m0nty will be telling us we’re npc zombies.

When you point out some obnoxious and stupid behaviour to a lefty, he doesn’t look at the behaviour. He notes that you are criticising him. So he just uses the same language to describe you, whether it makes sense or not.

It’s all about name calling. That’s how zombies work. And why calling out his idiocies is pointless; you aren’t making him look bad, you’re validating him. You’re treating him as a sane adult, and he isn’t. Treating him as a brain dead zombie would be much more appropriate, and lead to fewer and shorter posts.

Engineering too important to be left to engineers- better to have a gaggle of economists, school teachas with BAs and lawyers to make technical decisions.

OldOzzie says:
August 12, 2022 at 7:01 pm

Coal ditched from role in making energy grid reliable

We’re all going to be a hell of a lot poorer at the end of this.

It’s possible that expenditure on energy could force its way into the top 3 largest household expenditure items , displacing one or more of housing, transport or food.

The first thing you need to reach a 43% target is a nice big tax grab.
The word is out that the sticky fingers of Labor are out to cut the diesel fuel rebate in October for mining and perhaps agriculture.
Taxing to save the planet. It should come with a scam warning.

Prospects of a longer-term role for coal-fired power have been eliminated, after energy ministers vowed to redesign electricity market changes aimed at guaranteeing enough reliable power as the grid moves to renewables.

Huh? One of the most ridiculous statements in an age of utter lunacy. Imagine sitting in the room as the energy ministers came up with that drivel. None of them could possibly actually believe any of it, but none had the balls or integrity to call bullshit.

We are fucked.

Dr BG

It’s all about name calling. That’s how zombies work. And why calling out his idiocies is pointless; you aren’t making him look bad, you’re validating him. You’re treating him as a sane adult, and he isn’t. Treating him as a brain dead zombie would be much more appropriate, and lead to fewer and shorter posts.

The only rational solution to the m0nty-fa problem is to exile him back to his own blog. He should resuscitate Phat Pussy, and build up his own audience there. He could ban anyone who called him fat, or didn’t treat him with due deference, and we could get on with mostly amicable discussions.

Hold them responsible, as moral agents compos mentis, for the consequences of what they espouse.

I’d like to see you try that on a WWZ type zombie.

I’m more of a double-tap man.

All parliamentary and public service offices sunrise to sunset only, same for theatres, TV, radio. Everything operates in daylight only.

All vehicles used by government (except military) to be EVs only.

I could go on, but I think that would be enough to get the message across.

Banning ICE is not just dumb, it’s incredibly mean spirited.

Nuclear (banned) could provide power to catalytically generate liquid fuels- that isn’t even considered.

So let’s say banning ICE vehicles by 2035 happens. That’s an incredible waste of capital for effectively the same outcome, not counting the cost of retooling all motor vehicle maintenance and battery replacement.

Elon Musk has a background in economics (BA) and physics (BS) not engineering.

And your point is?

How much of their extra year at uni is woke crap instead of general sciences or their specialty? Even chemical engineers only do dumb dumb chemistry.

wow- you really have no idea what you are talking about

A two-month-long festival. Sponsored by the government.

You just know how much that is going to suck.

We had a Christian youth camp next door where they would let the kids get dressed in those white rape kit suits (why did they have white rape kit suits) and then run around with big syringes filled from buckets of coloured water playing capture the flag by squirting each other. Presumably the coverage of food dye at the end for each team determined who had won. Full marks for creativity within budgetary constraints but it was pretty naff, up there with a blue light disco. Not at all like touring with seventies era Rolling Stones when Keith Richards pulls out the violin case full of drugs to get the groupies awake.

State sponsored counter culture is an oxymoron.

lotocoti says:
August 12, 2022 at 10:12 am

Racist product product of the day:
Milk.

Yep, milk is racist in so far that most of the world’s adult population can’t consume it.

God promised the Israelites that He would give them a land “flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8), most of the world’s population would find that a most unattractive proposition. The bulk of the Israelites ended up in western Europe and Scandinavia (the House of Israel, also referred to as the House of Joseph, the largest tribe), and the others were the House of Judah (the present day Jews) in the land of Israel and scattered in the diaspora.

That is why lactose tolerant people are found mainly in Europe and the Anglosphere, and why a map of Y-DNA R1b1a2 overlaps the lactose tolerant map.

Lactose tolerant map here
R1b1a2 Y-DNA R1b1a2 map here

There was one clan of one tribe whose migration took them to central northern Africa, you can spot them on both maps, so there actually are some black Hebrews, I hope that they aren’t aligned to the antisemitic “Black Hebrews” group in the USA.

One of the tribes, the Tribe of Ephraim, the last defenders of Samaria, were taken to Persia where they founded the Parthian Empire. These people were called the Aegels (bull-calf, their tribal symbol), later known as the Angles, and they were eventually kicked out of Persia when their local subjects rebelled (the Sasanian Revolt around 220 AD). They made their way to the Atlantic coast in Jutland after a westward-ho journey which would have taken two years, before migrating further to Angle-land.

These people had been settled in Persia for around 1,000 years before they were expelled. They had to leave behind settled farming land and they had no access to crops on their two year migration and their journey took them through lands already settled by others so they couldn’t stop anywhere to raise crops.

Fortunately they were lactose tolerant so they could survive on milk and cheese during the migration rather than die of starvation.

And now that Mr. Rutte* in the Netherlands wants to get rid of the cows, he should bow down and thank them as they kept his ancestors alive.

Is Rutte pronounced Rooty or Rooter, he certainly wants to do that to his unfortunate countrymen.

Lotocoti:

Or Pierson’s Puppeteers open a General Products office here.

Yair. That’d work too.
I’d buy a SuperLuminal spaceship and toddle off to watch the Galactic Core explode. I wonder if I have enough spare change for one?

Engineering too important to be left to engineers

Especially if you notice the woke crap Engineers Australia pumps out of their bilge tanks.

https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/policy-and-advocacy/climate-change

That should be embarrassing for a priest in the church of engineer idolatry.

Next you’ll be telling me about the Walrasian equilibrium

Please read something sensible about macroeconomics, Romer or von Mises are a good start.

Engineers Australia is what the AMA is to doctors.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an engineer

only a graduate

Winston Smithsays:
August 12, 2022 at 8:21 pm
Boambee John:

Now that will upset the inner urban Greens!

That is the intention, that and forcing them to argue in front of those with no power why their preferred pastimes should not be sacrificed as part of saving the world, after the sports have all gone.

That should be embarrassing for a priest in the church of engineer idolatry.

It’s engineers and tradies that make sure your toilet flushes.

John of Mel,
Royal Melbourne Show is in September, if you can afford it!

The worst discrimination against tradespeople ALWAYS comes from sparkies.

“That shouldn’t even be a trade!”, etc.

Anyone catch the video of the kangaroo trying to defect to the Russian embassy in Canberra?

Seems the animals already see the writing on the wall.

A professional body like Engineers Australia would just love fast tracking people like Yassmin. You get the feeling that these sort of bodies have been captured by their HR departments, the role of the trade is immaterial apart from being a pretext to set up the hive of admin staff.

We had a short history of that in the US back in the 80’s ( I can’t recall if so in oz). The Fed set about targeting the money supply (M3) and it was considered a failure, firstly because the money supply target didn’t really work vis a vis the inflation target, but also, and more importantly because short-term rates were extremely unstable. I recall days when the US fed funds rate could go from 4% to 500% in the space of the few minutes. The Fed figured that this sort of instability was negative on both the banking system and Main street, so it decided to target the inflation by hoping to hit the sweet spot with short-term rates. This was fine during the 90s when there was little instability.

Which is why a flexible short term band a hard long term target of zero inflation is good.

Having an inflexible labor market and all those state based hindrances against a free market (in setting prices) causes enormous stickiness and would be a huge recipe for very high unemployment if the inflation rate went below zero.

If you had persistent and significant deflation. The fact that prices are sticky means the adjustment mechanics are slow.

Prices weren’t as sticky and there was an acceptance in experiencing the price of labor and goods&services fluctuate. Also, keep in mind that the US economy of the day was nowhere near as leveraged as it is in modern times. It was around then when the banking system slowly began to lend money for housing mortgages. Before that, lending against real estate was considered very risky. Also, banks were much more highly capitalized than they are now.

Gold standard. Internal price adjustment mechanism. Maybe we’re overleveraged, and subsidised to be so? No doubt capital ratios are also a function of technology and they can be lower now (8-12%) compared to the 1880s until the first world war (up to 40%).

A professional body like Engineers Australia would just love fast tracking people like Yassmin. You get the feeling that these sort of bodies have been captured by their HR departments, the role of the trade is immaterial apart from being a pretext to set up the hive of admin staff.

Yes it’s hard left- based in Canbra.

You’re out of here, rick? I am still looking at W. Va. or Morelia, Mexico.

Why West Virginia? Bit close to DC for comfort I would have thought. Not Texas?

West Virginia has the best balance of politics, reasonable living costs, lifestyle, nature, employment prospects and being remote to me.

A lot of Americans are actually forming libertarian communes in Mexico. Michoacan is about the same for me there.

A lot of Americans are actually forming libertarian communes in Mexico.

We’re trying to win some business in Mexico, could be interesting!

Why d’yous reckon mUnty is such a bobblehead?

All that nodding, frowning and posturing for exactly zero outcome. Why bother?

Come December bring him up to Horsham and he can come for a ride in the header.

Awesome! Thanks! I’ll get in touch through that not so shabby looking tow truck 🙂

you (plural)

How posh is that?

Lesson. Don’t try block quotes when tipsy

Cant link on the phone but instapundit has a post up about the CDC changing the covid guidance.
Interesting as now the unclean unvaxed are to be treated the same as the fully compliant

Can also drop in on Tim Pool !

“West Virginia has the best balance of politics, reasonable living costs, lifestyle, nature, employment prospects and being remote to me”.

Good to see engineers being taken out behind the bike shed for a flogging.
Some thoughts:

.1 You don’t learn to be an engineer at uni. You learn some of the basic tools of your discipline.

.2 You start to become an engineer after about five years working at it.

.3 Many engineering graduates never get there and become something else because the process of becoming an engineer is too hard, or involves working in shit conditions, or with rude rough people.

.4 Many engineers are shit humans – roughly in proportion to human shitness in the general population.

.5 Able Magpie is not an engineer.

.6 Musk is not an engineer – but he depends on them being able to realise his ideas.

.7 Engineers Australia has become absorbed by Canberra and embraced credentialism and fashionable wokeness with the furious zeal of a convert.

Arkysays:
August 12, 2022 at 10:21 pm
Brave libertarians preparing to flee the joint after decades of their laisser fairy global marketplace arseholery doesn’t bring about the result they thought it would.
Contemptible fuckwits.

Ignorant, superstitious and stupid.

I mean “Duh”! The rest of the world only believed your free trade fantasies until they had the industrial base and military assets to tell us to fuck off.
As predicted by anyone with any actual sense.
Don’t bother replying.
Deep in your bones you know I’m right, otherwise you wouldn’t be planning your Mexican bolt holes.

You are blaming losing gun rights, real jury trials, the odious Public Health Acts on the rest of the world being “smarter” than us and choosing empirically disproven, objectively bad economic policies such as protectionism.

Florid psychosis.

Shouldn’t you be moisturising your stretch marks Monty.

Frank at 5.55:

Worse than the Norsemen? Never seen it in real life in person but Scandihooligans are supposed to make Collingwood supporters look urbane.

Ohyafuckinrightareya?

Who could have predicted that setting up the West’s assembly lines, foundries and research facilities in mainland China would result in us relying on China for our resource exports? I mean, who knew that the Chinese Communist Party would deceive us?

If only we had 100,000% tariffs, that totally would have discouraged them from having their own industry too. It also would have saved civil liberties in Australia.

If we didn’t export to China, how much would GDP and the terms of trade fall? What since 2003 in public spending would have been feasible, or added to public debt?

Boambee John at 5.57:

I care because his idiocies must not go unchallenged.

And:

The blog should not become a source of lying leftist propaganda.

100%. It’s called ‘truth by assertion’ and it was also another whiny communist*’s favourite things to try on. The strident calls of ‘ignore him and he will go away’ have been proven wrong time and again.

You don’t challenge the stupid, and the stupid becomes the norm. There’s quite enough of that going on IRL than having to sit back and accept horseshit without a whimper here, or anywhere on teh webs as well.

*Miata-driving tacher of tards, and noted bloodthirsty berserker.