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So? All that’s showing is that there are some people who don’t like the government, but twits are claiming it…
egotistic gnostic spirituality of post-modernism. What does ‘gnostic’ actually mean in current usage? I only ever see it used as…
You see it around the scene of the latest travesty as people displace common areas with a sea of flowers…
Midnight – Top of the Page – Time to go to bed
Whoa! No going to bed until we learn the suggestions for dismembering the FBI.
Looks like the Oz has broken about four stories according to the front page email.
Look out tomorrow.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Patrick Cross.
Dilbert
Thanks Tom.
Moran is very dark, but accurate.
If you thought “2000 Mules” was pretty interesting but not enough to confirm that the 2020 election was gamed big time, hold onto your hats.
Next up comes “Selection Code” (due for release August 20th) which concentrates on revealing just what went on inside the voting machines … machines … machines… machines!
Gateway Pundit
Moran and the “Experts”. Perfect.
Not sure what Ramirez is on about. Does he imagine Cheney is “the one true Republican”? If so, he may as well call himself a progressive and be done with pretending.
Pat Cross – another excellent skewering.
TheirABC puts up a piece on the very important subject of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence – at promptly falls at the first hurdle:
Innumerate ignorance rools OK! That sentence tells us exactly nothing about the Indian economy, or how much it has changed in absolute or relative terms.
Needless to say, the article spends a significant amount of space on the importance of pushing for more rights and recognition for the QWERTY mob.
BTW, I have commented in the past about how Australian politicians (who moan constantly about how hard their life is) would not last five minutes in Indonesian politics.
The same applies to Indian politics. Our local snowflakes would be in tears and off on stress leave in no time.
Herald Sun …
Baldwin ‘pulled trigger’: FBI report on Rust death
A bombshell FBI report has concluded that Alec Baldwin did pull the trigger that fired a live bullet at Halyna Hutchins, killing her, despite the actor’s denial.
Guns don’t kill people, actors kill people.
Taking political trolling to a new level of excellence the campaign of Liz Cheney’s opponent for the Wyoming Senate seat creates a ‘Cheney for Virginia‘ website.
Brilliant.
Anyone who gambles at casinos expecting that they won’t shave their already generous odds is a mug:
The casino knew that the cards were not 100% kosher but kept using them anyway. Or maybe because?
Zatara’s link. Brilliant indeed:
My oh my, she is such an attention whore. From The Oz…
Media Diary: Virginia Trioli’s gold medal apology to Kyle Chalmers
Have you ever been at an airport when you’ve seen someone famous, and your internal dialogue is as follows: ‘Do I approach them and say something cringe-worthy, or do I leave them alone?’ That exact same scenario was faced by ABC Radio Melbourne presenter Virginia Trioli a week or so ago when she spotted swimmer Kyle Chalmers in the Sydney airport lounge.
Luckily for the media professionals of Australia, Trioli went with option one, and she strode over to Chalmers to deliver an apology to the Olympic champion on behalf of “my fellow journalists” whose coverage of the superstar’s out-of-pool “love triangle” dramas at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games had “made me deeply ashamed”.
Exactly how many “fellow journalists” Trioli had consulted before offering her collective apology on their behalf remains unclear. But there are many other members of the press who would argue that journalists have an obligation to report on personal dynamics within a high-profile team – be it a sports squad, or a political party – because there is a fair degree of public interest in the human element of stories, regardless of whether the details are uplifting or somewhat messy.
In her ‘analysis’ piece for ABC Online on the weekend, Trioli described her almost out-of-body experience when she sighted Chalmers in the terminal – and came dangerously close to looking like the self-appointed moral compass of Australian journalism.
“When I saw Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist and champion swimmer Kyle Chalmers last weekend in the Sydney Airport lounge I should have had the same reaction I always do when in the presence of our version of a modern god: astonishment battling goofy admiration, all the while trying not to stare,” Trioli recalled. “But not this time. This time I was battling a rising sense of outrage – and then the strangest feeling of all: a keen desire to somehow make amends.
“Before I even realised what I was doing, I was on my feet in the crowded lounge and was walking across to Chalmers and his small group. I heard my voice come out small and halting: I introduced myself and said I was from the ABC, and even from behind his mask I saw Chalmers’s jaw stiffen. He stepped back a little.
“The words tumbled out of me: ‘I just want to apologise to you on behalf of every other journalist who felt as outraged as I did at your treatment by some of the media in Birmingham: it was just awful that you couldn’t enjoy your amazing achievements and I want you to know that not all of us would have done that to you.’
“Chalmers blinked, and then managed half a rueful smile, almost managing to hide his anxiety that he was being accosted by a raving lunatic. ‘Yeah,’ he said, ‘it was pretty shitty.’
“I may have blathered on a little more, but Chalmers quietly thanked me, and I returned to my seat. A few minutes later his group gathered their things and made their way to their gate. And no, I didn’t take a selfie of the moment.”
Trioli, who hosts Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne, went on to bag those reporters who dared to pursue the “love triangle” story, deriding them for doing “the work of a gossip mag”.
Trioli also posted her column on Twitter on the weekend, with the declaration: “I apologised to Kyle Chalmers: a few other journalists should too.”
Perhaps if La Trioli ever runs into Cardinal George Pell, or Christian Porter, or Alan Tudge, or Andrew Laming, she could also apologise to each of them, just as a few other ABC journalists should too.
But I won’t hold my breath if such a situation was to ever occur.
Scientitians on this august journal of record may be able to provide input into an apparent correlation between relative warmth and Sovereign Citizen-ness.
1. Quenthland nuffy shoots four people, killing three. His property is festooned with misinterpreted ‘case law’ signs declaring ‘trespassers’ are up for $10K, thus endorsing a judicial system he says otherwise doesn’t apply to him. To pass the time he’d starting rooting his widowed stepmother;
2. The anti-vax mandate protests in Darwin were co-opted and thrown off kilter by a collective of SovCit (part) indig anti-system-except-when-it-gives-me-money-and-I-want-more-while-travelling-in-my-conveyance halfwits. The more raucous of these have formed a splinter group because the rest of them weren’t booey enough, and they believe the Lidia Thorpes of this world are too moderate; and
3. Said splinter group is now running for cover while collectively hiding a five year old girl, taken by mummy (a founder of Splitter SovCits NT) during a supervised parental visit. Naturally, they are claiming the girl’s father is an elite and a peddler in the upper echelon of the local child trafficking ring.
Nice movement you’ve got there.
V for vomitous Trioli – how very skanktimonious of her – who can ever forget the fuss on the flight where her $5,000 dress to be worn to the MidWanker Ball was peasant-handled – I’m afraid to say a female family member has picked up the Trioli fake-lisp
Cassie’s linked piece.
Imagine this sentence from the perspective of medieval peasantry, where from time to time retarded pig herders and the like had visions, and their bodies were taken over by mysterious unseen powers and/or deities. Picture the narrator describing the experience in a plague-ridden market square with adjacent shit-filled ditches:
Joan of Arc-esque. Also, she has X-ray vision:
Trust me, lady. That all that’s going to stiffen when blokes lay their eyes on your hideous visage.
Just a reminder of why I have never, never aspired to fame.
Being bailed up by Trioli is a good example.
Scenario.
Old bag sees good looking rooster in lounge.
Thinks up reason to engage.
Engages.
Then tells everyone the pretend reason she engaged with good looking rooster.
The end.
BTW, when I lived next to Kings Cross in the 80s, seeing rock stars and actors having a meal or a drink in the local hostelries was not unusual.
I never once saw any of them being approached by other diners/drinkers. People looked, sure, but privacy was respected. The burly guys at the next table wearing Cold Chisel T shirts may have contributed.
Of course, no-one had mobile phones to take ‘selfies’ to be then transmitted as a status symbol.
One for the Catictionary Tinta. Skanktimonious, 1. Media whore. Alt. spelling, Skanktamoanious, 2. Complaining about others who do what you do.
Sinatra maybe owed an apology.
“They keep chasing after us. We have to run all day long. They’re parasites who take everything and give nothing. And as for the broads who work for the press, they’re the hookers of the press. I might offer them a buck and a half, I’m not sure.”
Trioli is a Woman of a Certain Age. She has discovered that, bit by bit, she is becoming invisible.
Some of us relish our new found super power. Observing humanity unobserved is one advantage, but there are many others.
Narcissists struggle though.
I used to get taken for a famous actor when my face was a bit thinner. The resemblance was fleeting but didn’t stop Australian actors giving me the nod wanting to approach. Ignoring them made me smile inside. A couple approached my wife in Nagasaki at the Thomas Glover Gardens to inquire. Some people might find it exciting, it filled me with dread. I appeared in a TV program once. Never watched it. Literally 5 minutes of fame. Where’s my 10 minutes I’m owed?
Struth, me and some others are now going to say, TOLD YOU SO!
Sometimes the most important changes happen with most people not noticing.
That’s because the media and newsmakers choose to ignore the change because it contradicts their previous statements and makes them look foolish.
That fear of public humiliation is the only rationale for the lack of promotion of the new public health guidance issued in regard to COVID-19.
The US based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have quietly changed virtually everything they spent two years telling the world about COVID.
The real problem now is that most people will quickly forget how our society became an authoritarian ‘papers please’ state.
https://www.corybernardi.com.au/posts/they-got-it-wrong/
Trioli also posted her column on Twitter .’…and you know ..so many muscles, swoon.’
Big Nambas, with all due respect, the CDC’s soft shoe shuffle was noted here a day or two ago by commenters, including myself.
No need for an “I told you so”. 😀
Da civility.
Ex Ohio court mediator arrested, accused of sending poop in mail to Republicans!
From the Beanie.
https://youtu.be/0kFkAjzTtIU
I just now notified hundreds of people at the CDC why they aren’t able to find any vaccine-related deaths
PfizerGate: Official Government Reports prove Hundreds of Thousands of People are dying every single week due to Covid-19 Vaccination
True, well spotted.
If they grow significantly with their low income and massive population, they won’t be using renewables!
Celerity lookalikes. I had a work colleague who looked like Ian Hewistson, you know fat chef, big moustache, wore braces for his pants, made fish and chips a thing big in the 90s. Anyway said colleague was continually approached for his autograph and he politely let people know they had made a mistake. He felt sorry for these people as they were automatically embarrassed in public. After a while he gave up and started signing autographs. When pestered even provided a recipe or two.
CCP having the very best time ‘worrying’ about the parlous state of US democracy:
Trump’s legal jeopardy could ‘misguide US midterm elections’ into partisan conflict rather than solving urgent economic problems
And then happily speculating on the prospect of Civil War 2.0 – apparently to be sparked by Steven Crowder, no less.
A Golden Fortune gift for Emperor Xi’s third term.
Amurka is failing because weak partisan leadership. Don’t be like Amurka.
our interest is conflict of interest
and business is good!
Looking forward to Cats making even dumber arguments today than they did yesterday. Trump disbanded the FBI before he left office through the power of his mentation! Actually he crossed out the words TOP SECRET on all the nuclear documents with a Sharpie so barley cross fingers no backsies!!
Thanks Tom,
I like Morten Morland as I am a fan of Salvor Dali and have a similar style painting Tempus Fugit by an Australian Artist
They have 100 000 applications in their system & another 100 000 awaiting electronic registration.
From Natural News:
we have seen this movie before – statins, oral hypoglycaemics, antihypertensives….
‘Big food’ make you fat and sick, and ‘Big pharma’ sells you pills for life.
Le Carre, that brilliant observer of human nature, spotted it.
In The Honourable Schoolboy, he mentions that the widowed (and impoverished) Lady Westerby is, “snappish, like many old beauties.”
I am an old beauty, not 10/10, but a solid 8. Luckily, I never cared about it, never wore makeup, took it all for granted. I was very slow in understanding the advantages of it – very slow. Now that I am old, while I of course would like to look like that again, I am reconciled to the inevitable, and certainly don’t get snappish about it.
I do hope we don’t have to go through La Trioli’s menopause, frame by frame. At our expense.
But somehow, I sense that we will. 🙁
You were taunted yesterday that you were too low IQ to even search for the declassification of the Crossfire Hurricane documents.
Just remember every time you rant about Trump you are throwing Hillary under the bus.
Now back to the nuclear documents, which could not be specified on the warrant (and the FBI refuse to release the supporting affidavit)?
Unhinged, repetitive and obedient.
How many rakes today?
If you like Dali, perhaps you may like to read George Orwells thoughts on him.
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/benefit-of-clergy-some-notes-on-salvador-dali/
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I set up a solar panel project in Chile, working on it for two years.
Fair Shakesays:
August 15, 2022 at 6:56 am
Herald Sun …
Baldwin ‘pulled trigger’: FBI report on Rust death
A bombshell FBI report has concluded that Alec Baldwin did pull the trigger that fired a live bullet at Halyna Hutchins, killing her, despite the actor’s denial.
Guns don’t kill people, actors kill people.
What’s wrong with these people? As a primary school kid, before the very first time my mates and I were allowed to fire an air rifle, it was drummed into us NEVER to point any sort of firearm at anyone – doesn’t matter if it’s unloaded, nothing matters, just don’t, and if we ever did we’d never be allowed even to hold any sort of firearm again. As for pulling the trigger while it’s pointed at someone…
But Alec’s an expert on firearms. He said so many times.
The ABC reports that statisticians and actuaries in Australia, the UK & the US are all pondering the same phenomenon: excess deaths not attributable to covid.
Perhaps shutting down clinics & operating theatres during lockdowns wasn’t such a great idea?
Polio or Monkeypox: Which Virus Will the Left Use to Save Drop Boxes in November?
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) would love to find a new boogie man virus to keep us locked down in November, perhaps to avoid the behind-the-shed beating Democrats know is coming. The question is, which virus will it be?
We have two contenders for now, though I wouldn’t be shocked if the CDC and their comrades at the World Health Organization (WHO) can witch-brew up a few more in the next ten weeks.
Contender #1: Monkeypox
Contender #2: Polio
Contender #3: Dark-horse Viruses
Conjunctivitis: You can’t see the ballot if your eyes are covered in goop.
Prickly heat: If you have time to itch, you have time to b**** — but not to vote.
Rapunzel Syndrome: This malady causes people to eat their own hair. Ballots will be tossed out once you cough up a furball all over them.
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: This illness distorts everything you see. Objects appear to be larger or smaller than they really are. It’s hard to vote when your ballot is 10 feet tall.
We have roughly 10 weeks until the red wave comes to enema the commies out of office. Don’t be surprised if the Democrats unleash waves of killer zombie squirrels.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 8:36 am
Hi m0nty.
I’m struggling to find your comment where you accede to repeated requests to identify the regulations on which you were basing your comments of 6.09pm last night.
I’m sure you’d never spout off a whole lot of dogmatic assertions without having good grounds for them, so please tell us where we can check those regulations and confirm that you weren’t making up a whole lot of shit.
Tinta, to use millenialspeak, I am so stealing that.
PS: In a previous life, I worked with Virginia Trioli. She used to be cute, but you wouldn’t touch her with a barge pole. She was a man killer. Her body was her weapon, just like a twenty dollar hooker.
Michael Smith News.
Zulu.. this book on Bligh is worth a read:
https://www.sea.museum/2019/06/13/problematic-profanity-william-blighs-bad-language
It is funny the consider that at some point, ‘thoughts and prayers’ was new. At some point a person formulated that phrase for the first time. Entirely original. At some point it was a new sentiment, whether sincere or part of some political waffle, but people heard it for the first time.
Not boilerplate. Not bromide.
People heard it and understood it.
Wow!
LOL
Unhinged
Imagine selling your soul for Hillary Clinton’s now dead political career.
POSTEVERYTHING
(Washington Post op ed blog)
Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.
By Shalom Auslander
September 13, 2016 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
I am a fan of Salvor Dali and have a similar style painting
Do you mean Solver Dalí?
Roger, it isn’t so difficult to make the connection, but those in power will deliberately obfuscate and attempt to blind us with neatly crafted words and sexily presented figures.
It was obvious from the get-go that people were suffering and dying due to government edicts, trumpeted by “experts”.
That’s why Moran’s cartoon is so cutting.
Dot, have a think for a moment as to why the US govt might not want to publish an itemised list of nuclear secrets. You idiot.
Wally Dalísays:
August 15, 2022 at 8:59 am
I am a fan of Salvor Dali and have a similar style painting
Do you mean Solver Dalí?
Brain to Finger Slip – Salvador Dalí Spanish artist
A year after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, immigration minister Andrew Giles said the government is examining ways to accept more humanitarian migrants.
Why would the TALIBAN be allowing anyone to leave .. shirley given tghat they preach & rule on the basis that their “way” is the only righteous and correct way then allowing folk to disagree and leave is contradictory?
Calli, Bob Moran’s other cartoon was also a ripper, but, now that I’ve changed browsers for the 0400 download, I’m limited to 12 per day.
FairShake, a small correction. Iain Hewitson made Fush’n’Chups.
Miserable ghost shakes its chains and gibbers in the darkness.
Luckily the leftist newspaper it helped fund**in Australia is here to interpret its howling noises for posteriority.*
I will be voting yes to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament
Malcolm Turnbull
Despite my previous concerns, the voice as proposed by Anthony Albanese won’t be a third chamber, and it has sufficient public support
Bells one significant cat….
Langton and Calma’s recent report on voice design proposes that parliament will be obliged to refer to the voice legislation which overwhelmingly affects Indigenous Australians.
This could include amendments to the Native Title Act, for example. However, where there is legislation which has a significant or distinctive impact on Indigenous Australians, parliament would be expected to consult with the voice.
Langton and Calma recommend the voice should not be limited on the matters upon which it can offer advice.
“While government has an important role to proactively consider which issues need to be referred to the national voice, this should be informed by what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples view as significant,” they wrote in the final report.
The government would be obliged to explain with respect to every bill whether it was necessary to consult the voice and if so, whether the consultation took place and what form it took.
Any advice received would have to be tabled. The voice would have the right, on its own initiative, to provide advice on any matter which would have to be tabled in parliament.
* Like posterity but of a more feculent nature.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/16/guardian-australian-malcolm-turnbull-media-diversity
**“I was beginning to despair about the state of Australian journalism,” Turnbull writes in A Bigger Picture.
“I wasn’t especially concerned about the political slant of one outlet or another, but more about the fact that newsrooms were shrinking and editorial standards were dropping to the loopy standards of the twittersphere. Gina Rinehart was threatening to buy Fairfax – no doubt so that its newspapers could emulate her own ultra-rightwing views.
“In June 2012, I suggested to Alan Rusbridger, editor of the UK’s Guardian, that he should establish an Australian edition. For a modest cost, he could start a digital-only edition. That would provide a good base from which to build. Alan was interested. We exchanged some rough numbers and he concluded he’d need $20m of underwriting for three years – if it couldn’t get to break-even in that time, it never would.
“Given my political role, I could hardly participate myself, but I thought I knew someone who would. Graeme Wood had made hundreds of millions of dollars from an online travel booking business called Wotif. He was on the political left and had been generous in the past to the Greens. He’d also recently funded a progressive free online newspaper called the Global Mail. It wasn’t going to make it. So, I suggested to Graeme he drop the Global Mail and instead use his fortune to bankroll an Australian edition of the Guardian.
Jacinda Ardern’s approval rating as New Zealand Prime Minister has slipped to its lowest level, a new political poll shows – with experts predicting she will have a tough time remaining in power.
Daily Mail
Teh Paywallian Media Diary on a Monday is usually an enjoyable insight into the world of that poor sod, the J’ismist, their fragile egos and petty foibles. This week details the ratings for Channel 10’s morning news – 44 people in one instance and zero in Perth. As ratings are now captured by electronic box and not reliant on the old paper diaries we can be fairly sure these figures are accurate. Channel 10 – so much fail.
FBI intentionally sought documents covered by executive privilege: Sean Duffy
Sheep want voting rights now!
Cutting…heh!
“Looking forward to Cats making even dumber arguments today than they did yesterday”
Relax, m0nty-fa, your record as Rakemeister is safe.
No matter how dumb the arguments we might (but probably won’t) make, we have absolute confidence that yours will be far, far, dumber.
Misogyny!
???
I’ll guess.
Because like with the Carter Page FISA documents, they’re lying.
They just need to say what the documents (if they exist at all) relate to, e.g., “thermonuclear device design”. They don’t need to outline how they work, which the Federation of Concerned American Scientists already did in the 1980s for example because, Andropov good, Reagan bad!
Look monty there’s a few hundred good pet leftists you can execute before Trump – while his years long trial and appeals go on.
I wouldn’t mind one myself – given the refusal of both my state and federal MPs to meet with my to discuss their COVID mandates!
Humphrey, the Ten Network is CBS’s offshore tax dodge. It doesn’t even have a program director. It is not a serious network, but it’s is useful to CBS’s New York accountants.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 9:01 am
Hi m0nty, I’m sure you’re just catching up on your reading of past comments, and any second now you’ll identify the regulations on which you were basing your comments of 6.09pm last night, thus refuting the idea that those comments prove you to be a fat shiteating fuckhead.
Chuckle. I’ve saved it to Favourites, for whenever the word “Experts” appears.
Tom
“In a previous life, I worked with Virginia Trioli. She used to be cute, but you wouldn’t touch her with a barge pole. She was a man killer. Her body was her weapon, just like a twenty dollar hooker.”
Like a woman where I first started work. My boss commented that she had round heels, and was researching a book on ceilings.
I got the hint. Nice looker though (for a blond).
Thanks Top Ender – I’ll bag a copy. Blame my parents, taking me to see Trevor Howard in “Mutiny on the Bounty” all those years ago…
Much like Granville’s mother.
calli says:
August 15, 2022 at 8:25 am
Big Nambas, with all due respect, the CDC’s soft shoe shuffle was noted here a day or two ago by commenters, including myself.
No need for an “I told you so”. ?
Yes I have read the comments here, I was not saying the CDC change was ignored here. I was pointing to Bernardi’s excellent blog.
After not getting the jab and after two years of posting here and elsewhere on the evils of spike protein poison, you bet I’m going to shout “TOLD YOU SO”
It’s interesting that the commentariat is busily inventing bureaucratic processes that POTUS45 should have gone through to declassify documents in his control.
Personally I have no real idea about the business of security clearances; but I am old enough to remember the Great Treason of 2017 – where Trump revealed security details about Islamic terrorism to Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov.
In all the media hooting, the one thing that was agreed (even by harsh critics) was that POTUS Trump, as Commander in Chief, had the constitutional right to declassify pretty much anything, in whatever way he saw fit.
It was widely agreed that Trump was reckless in paperwork and security – and widely grieved that this wasn’t illegal.
(As I recall the grey area was around the 1950’s handling of nuclear technology and a missing Roosevelt document. I could be wrong, but I certainly can’t be arsed to trawl the Interwebs.)
m0nty-fa
“Dot, have a think for a moment as to why the US govt might not want to publish an itemised list of nuclear secrets. You idiot.”
You would have been astonished by the amount of nuclear and strategic missile data published in the 1970-80s. Much of it disinformation.
You idiot.
You mean to say they were having a laugh when they appointed PvO political editor?
Today is the feast of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
On August 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. Today, as we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, let’s take a closer look at this historic chapel.
One of the most popular tourist attractions in Vatican City, it is known for its magnificently frescoed ceilings, but it also serves an important function as the place where the cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Here are five things to know:
CNA Link
Ah good, I see Dot is in the bargaining phase. Progress!
Today is the 77th Anniversary of VJ Day.
Sydney – Home of the British Pacific Fleet
Ah I see, so today’s talking point is “actually it’s okay to give nuclear secrets to the Saudis or whoever, cos everyone knows them already”. Yep, another dumbarse line of bullshit.
Thats not funny….
Jerry Sadowitz had his show cancelled at the Edinburgh fringe because its content was “extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny,” promoters have said.
If hed just said “trump’ instead of tranny all would have been well.
On Sunday the Pleasance said: “Due to numerous complaints, we became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny. We will not associate with content which attacks people’s dignity, and the language used on stage was, in our view, completely unacceptable.
“A large number of people walked out of Jerry Sadowitz’s show as they felt uncomfortable and unsafe to remain in the venue. We have received an unprecedented number of complaints that could not be ignored and we had a duty to respond. The subsequent abuse directed to our teams is also equally unacceptable.”
….
In Canada, after he opened his show with the greeting “Hello moose-fuckers,” someone got on stage and knocked him unconscious. Before the punch, he told the audience: “I’ll tell you why I hate Canada – half of you speak French and the other half let them!”
Eddie Murphy smiles from the 80’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGQMpi-uOkI
No monty, it means if you are bloodthirsty, you need to buy hundreds of doses of potassium chloride, not a couple.
The affidavit won’t be willingly released, because it’s bullshit.
If Trump did anything wrong, the leakers have also breached the national security act. By the standards you demand, they need to be punished as well.
Claiming the leaks are precisely specific to what is legal is on par with CCP gaslighting.
You are a gullible stooge.
Had me pondering that one since it is followed up with a tale of someone corpulent.
Roger, Ten is chasing the milennial demographic, which is commercial suicide. To make money in TV, you have to be strong in the 25-54 demographic dominated by Seven and Nein.
The Ten Network is exactly where you’d park your tax dodge, confident it would never make money.
Off to Stitch n’ Bitch. Have fun with another day of verballing and jazz handing.
The Pat Cross cartoon explains what happened in a simple drawing. Many…many words won’t change or excuse it.
Using Familiar Leaks, the New York Times Frames the Case Against President Trump 4.0
August 14, 2022 | sundance
State Dept use CNN. CIA/IC use Washington Post. DOJ/FBI use New York Times/Politico. These are the constants in an ever evolving, ever changing, yet always consistent narrative engineering roadmap.
That’s essentially the nub of the current DOJ/FBI effort to target/remove President Trump.
According to the narrative, President Trump isn’t allowed to have any records of his administration. So goes the origin of the targeting. All other presidents are permitted to have documents, but not Trump. Trump bad. All others, good.
…”the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump’s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room.” Yeah, well, kind of hard to respond to whatever they wanted, without actually touching or moving the boxes; but ignore that… we need to make it suspicious or something.
NBC Legal Analyst Barb McQuade showcases the current DOJ plan as outlined by the Lawfare crew
Brilliant tactical move by DOJ on selecting statutes for the search. None of the crimes cited require the documents to be classified. Any claim by Trump that he declassified the documents is irrelevant. I’ll discuss at 7 am ET on
@MSNBC
To anyone concerned, I would simply say ‘relax‘. Be angry, but not despondent.
The effort is as much intended to wear YOUR psyche down as it is to attack Trump. Remember the Alinsky strategy: Ridicule, Isolate, Marginalize… This is the essential goal of political lawfare.
Yes, political lawfare is corrupt, horrible and infuriating. However, at the end of the day it is based on weak arguments and fear.
The problem they face against Trump is simple. In 2020 President Trump earned 75 million votes in the election. 75 million. How can they duplicate the election fraud to defeat 75 million voters, without the benefit of covid mail-in ballots?
That’s their problem. They cannot defeat him or us.
They must remove President Trump because he/we represent an existential threat.
Boambee
Do you think the FAS documentation on the W87 and W88 is actually disinformation?
I thought the quip was nuke bomb science wasn’t super hard, but the engineering to make it work had to be world class and extremely precise.
Don’t upset the trannies.
Timothy Neilson:
August 15, 2022 at 8:52 am
Exactly right.
Firearm safety 101.
First thing you learn.
Common fucking sense if you are not a Hollyweird douche bag with your head up your arse.
Well, it’s been about a week and Trump hasn’t been charged with anything.
This is so highly unusual you can call it as a hit job with the intent only to smear, any charges are a “bonus”.
As cohenite keeps on saying, the warrant is such a blank cheque.
Ah I see, so today’s talking point is “actually it’s okay to give nuclear secrets to the Saudis or whoever, cos everyone knows them already”. Yep, another dumbarse line of bullshit.
Said by no-one except the sugar trolls in montys bloodstream.
Gillon McPolo-Pony the latest person to be dudded by Channel 10. All those zeros were well, zero.
And PvO is a TV execs idea of a millenial’s idea of a newsman with gravitas.
Chuckle.
It is Official, Jill Biden’s Wardrobe Consultant is Kamala Harris’ Speechwriter
August 14, 2022 | sundance
There is no other reasonable explanation that makes sense. Jill Biden’s wardrobe consultant/clothier must also be Kamala Harris’ speechwriter.
I s’pose he got some FF points.
Trumble is in an elite league of people who have an absolute flawless and immaculate record when it comes to reading the public, utterly unblemished by a single moment of reading it right.
His words have made me feel a little better about the world.
Sub-Mong describes the opening salvos of WW3 while congratulating themselves on their strategic nous…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/putin-war-europe-ukraine-west
But Biden’s cautious determination to avoid head-on confrontation at all costs means that while Russia may not ultimately win, it is unlikely to definitively lose. The war resembles a simmering saucepan that never quite comes to the boil.
It might have been very different, had western politicians found the courage to actively take Ukraine’s side in February-March. The chaotic initial Russian drive for Kyiv left large troop convoys vulnerable to air attack. A convincing display of Pentagon-style “shock and awe”, just as Putin was anticipating quick, easy victory, could have stopped the entire invasion in its tracks.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 9:25 am
m0nty, you need to speak to dover about the site.
All those times you’ve tried to post info about the regulations on which you were basing your comments of 6.09pm last night, it’s been eaten by the spaminator.
That’s very unfortunate, because someone who doesn’t know that you’ve always got good grounds for all your comments might think that you’re a fat dissembling imbecile who’s nothing but a fit object for jeering hooting ridicule.
“Ah I see, so today’s talking point is “actually it’s okay to give nuclear secrets to the Saudis or whoever, cos everyone knows them already”.
Apparently it was OK to give missile re-entry vehicle technology to the Chinese in the 1990s, cos everyone knew them already.
Like the Pissarro.
If anyone has some old ones in the backroom that they don’t want, I am happy to take them off your hands.
Australian Daily Wind Power Generation Data – Wednesday 10 August 2022
I’ll explain that anomaly you plainly see a little further down.
Wind generation was higher on this day than it was on the day before, and the average for this day of 4392MW gave wind generation a daily operational Capacity Factor of 44.6%, and that was fourteen percent higher than the year round average. Wind was in a rising phase heading towards its high for the day at the usual time of the evening Peak of maximum power consumption, and at that time, wind was delivering 17.5% of all the generated power from every source. That dip meant there was a deep low for the day, and that accentuated the difference between the low for the day and the high, and on this day, that gap was a very large 4628MW.
Okay, back to that dip you see on the upper graph for wind generation, and here I have added the time indicator at 1.35PM, and going back across the page to the left side vertical axis, you can see that just as the huge power loss started, the total from wind generation was 4122MW. Over the next 15 minutes, to that first step, wind generation lost 1836MW, and to the bottom of the dip, after 45 minutes, the total power loss from wind was 2636MW.
However, that’s only part of the loss. On the image at right, I have added the solar plants, the red colour. (not rooftop solar, just the large scale solar power plants) For some reason I cannot find anywhere, these two major renewable power sources failed. It was a not a failure in just the one area as wind plants in all the States were affected, and that was the same for the solar plants as well. You can see that failure time point here as well, same time, 13.35PM, and both renewables dropped 3600MW in that first 15 minutes and then 4700MW in 50 minutes, and it took another hour for them both to recover. The total duration of that power loss was just under two hours.
So, okay then, what happened as this pretty catastrophic loss of power, and while it may not seem all that much when you look at these bland graphs, that loss was almost 17% of all power being consumed in Australia at that time.
Well, as is always the case, the ‘first responder’ was the power generating source which can deliver its power at extremely short notice, and that is hydro power, and again, that proved to be the case again. See the image at right, well this is for all hydro power plants in that same coverage area where all the wind and solar plants failed. Again I have added the time indicator at the same time, 1.35PM, and the graph is larger in depth as I have only ticked the boxes of the power plants which ‘came to the rescue’ here. There were only three hydro power plants involved in this recovery, Tumut Three, Upper Tumut, and Murray One and Two, which are always listed at just Murray. All these three plants are part of the Snowy Hydro Electric Scheme in the Snowy Mountains on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria. Tumut Three is a pumped hydro plant, Upper Tumut is two underground power stations also on the Tumut River, and the two Murray plants are further South on the Murray River. In all, there are 24 small hydro generators at these plants, and not all of them were needed at this time, just enough to cover the major loss at the time, and keep in mind here, that as the downslope of the loss was taking place, then the upslope of power delivery from these hydro Units was taking place at the same rate, wind and solar down, and hydro up.
However, look at what happened here when we had this failure of wind and solar power. Now, while that usual first responder was hydro, look at the graph at right, and this is for coal fired power in two States NSW and Queensland. Now, because The scale is different (because there is a huge amount of coal fired power compared to wind, solar and hydro) then that rise seems to look so much smaller. Also here, I have added the same time indicator at 1.35PM, and those 37 Units at all those coal fired plants in the two States, well all of them immediately ramped up just a little bit extra from each one and in the next ten minutes, they were delivering an extra 600MW into the grid to help with that recovery, as you can see from that small spike.
So, while hydro came to the immediate rescue, it seems that those ancient unreliable useless coal fired plants also assisted in the recovery of the failure of wind and solar. Sort of like the opposite to what you are being told, eh!
Booked a phone appointment with my GP today to find that all the doctors at the Grab n Go clinic now charge over the Medicare rebate.
Now, I wouldn’t mind that if it was for proper medical reasons.
But, the health dept pricks have also decreed that the arthritis medication I will need for the rest of my life can only be doled out in monthly doses, apparently because I and the rest of us old dodderers might sell our pain relief pills at the pub. So, 13 times a year we have to pay to get a script renewal, not to mention wasting the time of our GP and public money for the consultation. Times that by hundreds of thousands.
Money and common sense is no object when the health fascists are in charge.
Tim N, I am not arguing from authority. But neither are any of you. Zatara in particular comes in all hot intimating that he’s a spook from way back so shut up, but he’s just running the same bullshit that the rest of you are.
That’s the thing about bullshit: it may be true, it may not, who among us random dweebs on the Internet really knows, but you don’t care about credibility or the truth so you run with it anyway because it temporarily bolsters your argument.
The Crossfire Hurricane declassification memo is a good example from upthread. Trump hereby declared that all documents relating to the investigation were declassified with no redactions. And yet here we are, years later, and the documents remain stubbornly classified. How is that possible, if POTUS has divine magical powers to declassify through the power of his humongously smooth brain?
Trump’s lackeys can claim that actually they were declassified instantly in the very moment that the President had the thought that they should be, but that hasn’t been tested in court so anyone who claims that is just bullshitting.
And in any case the law that was cited in the warrant that Trump potentially broke does not rely on the documents being classified, so this discussion is all moot anyway.
I remember after Biden raised his hand and swore to do words he didn’t understand at his swearing in, there was a photo of Jill walking somewhere in a cocktail dress and some newspaper MSM drone gushed like a smashed sewer pipe about how glamour and sophistication had returned to the White House.
After Melania, whom we are meant to believe did not dress well.
And, presumably, the previous candidate for glamour in the white house was…Michelle Obama.
I suppose for beta males Melania probably just seemed too much. They knew they had nothing to offer, nothing that would make them needed, so they hated her.
On the other hand, the scowling behemoth and the current wrinkly senior-abuser need an army of ready scribes to direct people’s attentions away from them manifold ugliness.
There’s a hard boiled, calculated truth to what he writes.
If you’re going to war, don’t go in half-arsed, because odds are you’ll make it a long drawn out affair that increases everyone’s suffering.
Whether Ukraine is worth the risk is another question.
By that argument the converse is true.
A deep pond of bullshitting.
Twenty dollars each, so I’m told.
What does this mean?
johannasays:
August 15, 2022 at 9:53 am
Booked a phone appointment with my GP today to find that all the doctors at the Grab n Go clinic now charge over the Medicare rebate.
Now, I wouldn’t mind that if it was for proper medical reasons.
But, the health dept pricks have also decreed that the arthritis medication I will need for the rest of my life can only be doled out in monthly doses, apparently because I and the rest of us old dodderers might sell our pain relief pills at the pub. So, 13 times a year we have to pay to get a script renewal, not to mention wasting the time of our GP and public money for the consultation. Times that by hundreds of thousands.
johanna,
My Female GP clinic now charges $95 for Consult, which I am happy to pay out of pocket for an excellent GP – Script renewals I just ring reception and as reissue done over phone, cost $30 and faxed to Chemist Warehouse where I keep my scripts – same with extending existing Specialist referrals $30, all done by phone.
Chris Mitchell in the Oz has a brilliant article about Covid experts etc.
The moderators must have actually read it as comments are getting through that previously would never have.
That doesn’t cut it for an AFFIDAVIT the DOJ refuses to release, even in a redacted form.
vrsays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:08 am
My boss commented that she had round heels, and was researching a book on ceilings.
What does this mean?
Heels Up Kamala Harris
Not really, because what Trump’s lickspittles are claiming is a departure from the status quo. No US government document has ever officially been declassified just because the President thinks it. There has always been a process.
A woman of easy virtue, vr.
I took it as meaning her heels are not compressed from standing very much, and researching a book on ceilings because she spends so much of her time on her back.
I am quite confident I have the latter right*, not as sure about the former.
*Years ago I had a Jewish girlfriend who told me a whole lot of jokes about JAPs – Jewish American Princesses. The ceiling one really stuck in my mind.
Chris Mitchell in the Oz has a brilliant article about Covid experts etc.
Appreciate if someone could copy/paste.
Italic arse about tit
Oh, and she was not a JAP. She worked for a living. Robotics or Cybernetics Engineer or something.
Republicans are calling for it to be released, but they know the DOJ wouldn’t want to do so because there would likely be too much sensitive national security information in it. Republicans don’t really want it to be released either because it would embarrass Trump, so they are relying on the DOJ to slow-walk it.
They are banging the table because they have nothing else, as lawyers are wont to do.
thefrollickingmolesays:
August 15, 2022 at 9:06 am
Miserable ghost shakes its chains and gibbers in the darkness.
Luckily the leftist newspaper it helped fund**in Australia is here to interpret its howling noises for posteriority.*
I will be voting yes to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament
Malcolm Turnbull
Despite my previous concerns, the voice as proposed by Anthony Albanese won’t be a third chamber, and it has sufficient public support
Good. The voice is fucked if turdball is advocating for it.
That’s pretty retarded mUnty
There goes comedy.
Monty the other day you said the FBI couldn’t even review the seized documents themselves.
So how was the affidavit even written in the first place!?
Well, the one thing we do know from the 2017 imbroglio is that there is no settled declassification process, or rule for a POTUS – thus no ‘status quo’.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 9:57 am
Tim N, I am not arguing from authority.
Then what grounds did you have for those statements?
[Spoiler alert – zero.]
And yet you’re accusing other people of bullshit.
FMD.
And you even follow it up with…
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:13 am
[By that argument the converse is true.]
Not really, because what Trump’s lickspittles are claiming is a departure from the status quo. No US government document has ever officially been declassified just because the President thinks it. There has always been a process.
How do you know that (a) “there has always been a process” which would make Trump’s actions a “departure from the status quo”, and, in any case, (b) that Trump didn’t put something in writing?
Your whole premise is ridiculous, for all the reasons that have been explained on this thread, and more.
And for further idiocy…
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:01 am
The Crossfire Hurricane declassification memo is a good example from upthread. Trump hereby declared that all documents relating to the investigation were declassified with no redactions. And yet here we are, years later, and the documents remain stubbornly classified.
Hoe do you know? Has that been pronounced upon by a Court? The warrant was for every document from the whole of Trump’s Presidency, and it can hardly be inferred from that that any particular document was or wasn’t declassified. What are your grounds for that assertion?
m0nty, you need a very long spell at a bullshit detox/rehab clinic.
The DOJ and the FBI worked on this together, Dot. Use your brain.
How is m0nty’s schooling going? Not well I see.
Now, m0nts. Those regulations and processes regarding how documents are declassified that you mentioned yesterday. Who issues those regulations and processes?
Right, because of physical proximity (or lack thereof) of Trump or an executive branch employee/agent acting on his behalf to the documents Trump ordered declassified. Employees/agents of the executive branch with proximity to the documents simply didn’t follow their boss’s order before his time ran out and a new boss arrived who had no interest in enforcing the old boss’s declassification order. In fact, he very likely rescinded it. This information should help you answer the above question.
Thanks ZK2A
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:21 am
…
Republicans are calling for it to be released, but they know the DOJ wouldn’t want to do so because there would likely be too much sensitive national security information in it.
You’re not very good at all this evidence, fact and logic stuff are you m0nty.
No monty. Explain how. Not by waving a magic wand, as you are want to say.
Maybe he could come over here and run the Libs?
The Liberal Party must become more conservative and assertive to win the next federal election, according to Brexit mastermind Nigel Farage.
The former UK politician turned TV host, who brings his speaking tour to Australia next month, believes Scott Morrison was defeated because the Liberals became too moderate and supportive of a big state.
In an interview with Daily Mail Australia, Mr Farage railed against ‘woke’ culture and warned conservative movements in western democracies must stand firm against attempts by the hard-left to ‘destroy everything our countries have ever stood for’.
Daily Mail
Johanna I was prescribed Mobic, chest pain straight away. Back on nurophen with magnesium di hydrate for my stomach lining. Dizzy spells straight away. Take nothing at all now for arthritis and feel better for it.
Blog has montypox.
By the way, happy VJ Day everyone!
Common sense, Tim N. In short supply around here, especially on this topic. It doesn’t take top-level security clearance to figure out most of this stuff. For instance, you can’t operate a national security information classification regime based on the whimsical daydreams of a king; some level of documentation and bureaucracy is required so that the system doesn’t collapse, which would constrain even a president.
Give me evidence to the contrary, Tim N. GO!!!
Here’s a link for you. It’s from the Washington Examiner, one of your approved news outlets. Key graf:
Yeah, that hasn’t happened.
If you want to see how you are tracked try –
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108821201066287577
the Truth
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I am using VPN – quick change to Boston
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged “attorney-client” material, and also “executive” privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken. By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!
The point re tracking is fascinating the detail re IP addresses etc when using Australia – thankfully VPN was on
A good news story – a local High school banned mobile phones at the start of term 1 and much anecdotal evidence has been positive.
Improved behaviour and rising academic marks from many students.
Not a new idea I know but good to see the plan working.
Top men (who?) from the DOJ would have written the warrant and the affidavit.
Are you really this dense, Dot?
From the Oz today, it appears that Morrison was minister for nearly everything.So why were we paying the other guys who we thought were the Minister?
Worse than bloody Whitlam
The o in m0nty is a zero not a capital o. Signifies IQ. We need to have a sweep for the number of rakes m0nty collects in one day. Prize being the missing arseless chaps. On second thought I would have to read the ramblings of the fat freak. So no, I don’t have the stomach for it.
Orwell on Solver Dali (from sfw’s link):
Artists, reality TV stars and social media influencers take note.
‘ventilation revolution’.
A good percentage of these units are not turned on because they blow cold air around the classroom or at a higher setting are noisy.
Another plan that’s shovelled our money into the pockets of importers and Chinese companies.
Reliable wind and solar are not cheap
By David Wojick
You often hear that wind and solar power are cheaper than burning coal or natural gas, so we will save money by switching. But as the song says, it ain’t necessarily so. In fact it is almost never so. That wind and solar are cheaper is at best a half truth, more like an eighth truth.
Here is the reality you never hear of.
That wind and solar are cheaper is true in one way, but it is a small way. It is also a technical way, with the grand name of the “levelized cost of electricity” or LCOE. Now “levelized” is not a word you hear every day, to say the least. This might tip you off that something is going on.
In fact LCOE, as it is always called, is a simple idea. It is usually calculated (or estimated) for a single electric power generator. This might be a coal or gas fired power plant, or for a wind farm or solar array. You first take the total cost over the entire life of the generator. This includes construction, operation and retirement or disposal. You then divide this cost by all the juice it generates in that lifetime. The answer is the LCOE for that generator.
So LCOE is the cost of making the juice. What levelized means is that the ups and downs over time are not part of it. They are all mashed into a single number.
For the big, utility scale, generators the cost is usually in dollars and the juice in megawatt hours or MWh. An average house uses around one MWh a month. America as a whole uses around 4 billion MWh a year. That is a lot of juice.
Individual generator costs can vary from case to case, making LCOE something of a crude estimate. Below is a recent version of an international assessment, using the lowest numbers.
Note that there are two different kinds of gas fired generator. What is called a simple cycle is basically just a jet engine spinning a generator. These are usually pretty small. Then there is the “combined cycle” power plant where the hot jet exhaust makes steam that drives another generator. Most of our gas fired generation is combined cycle. Simple cycle is used when a boost of power is needed for a short time.
Likewise there are two types of wind generator, depending on where they are. Offshore wind towers are out in the ocean, which makes them expensive. Onshore wind is the familiar multi-tower wind complex on dry land. While Europe has a lot of offshore wind, America has almost none at this point. Several big projects are in the works. We are here just talking about onshore wind, which is relatively cheap.
Estimated average LCOE for various types of power plant in $/MWh.
Coal = $60
Simple cycle gas = $152
Combined cycle gas = $41
Solar = $36
Onshore wind = $29
You can see that solar and (onshore) wind are both cheaper than gas and coal. This is what is meant when people say wind and solar are cheaper. Their LCOE is lower.
However, when used in the grid to power America, wind and solar are far from cheaper. This is the fact that proponents of wind and solar like to ignore, or in many cases do not even know about.
In addition to the LCOE there is the high cost of making wind and solar reliable.
The basic fact is that coal and gas are reliable while wind and solar are not. What this means is that with coal and gas we can generate the electricity when we need it. We can rely on it. Wind and solar only generate when the wind blows strong and the sun shines bright. Since we cannot rely on wind and solar we have to have gas or coal generators standing by, ready to run when wind or solar don’t.
Having gas or coal fired power plants standing by is a big cost that is not included in LCOE. These generators could be supplying the power instead of the wind and solar, which would pay for them, but they are not. They are sitting there waiting to run, which still costs a lot of money. The big cost of these idle plants is part of the cost of wind and solar. It is the cost of reliability.
These idle gas and coal fired plants are not running just to make room for the power coming from the wind and solar generators. The cost of this deliberate idleness has a name in the industry. It is called the “capacity cost” because the amount of power a plant can produce is called its capacity. Since you are paying for the amount of generation needed to backup the wind and solar, that is the capacity cost of the backup.
Capacity cost is the reason that adding wind or solar generation (that must be used) drives up the price of electricity. This is why those States (and countries) with the most wind and solar tend to have very expensive electricity. The more wind and solar you have in the generation mix, the greater the capacity cost. Note that using batteries is not a realistic option, because the cost of backup batteries is far greater than the capacity cost.
In short, wind and solar are only cheaper if you ignore the cost of making them reliable. There is a lot of that going around. Don’t be fooled.
Thanks for posting the Chris Mitchell column, ZK2A at 10.24am.
It took a former editor-in-chief of The Australian to pull the mainstream media’s head out of its arse.
The MSM is still behaving as if the internet hasn’t yet been invented and its readers can be treated like mushrooms — kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.
I learn more about the world every day at the Cat than I have for the past decade in the MSM, which has become wall-to-wall disinformation.
On the devestation of covid.
Got good news today the chap with the terminal lung condition (elderly, basically working to be able to afford life prolonging medications, prognosis 2 years) who got covid a little while back has recovered.
WORST PLAGUE OF JUSTININAN EVER!
Monty you reckon the same people don’t have Q clearances to examine the seized documents for illegality on behalf of Donald Trump.
None of this makes any sense.
Farage is a little behind the times at times. I know his speaking tours of Oz are great cash cows, but a remainer who claims to have underwent a Brexiteer conversion (like Theresa May) is about to become PM of his country. She’s also a not-especially-capable political opportunist (like Theresa May) who will almost certainly be brow-beaten by Brussels into making ridiculous concessions that diametrically oppose the UK’s interests (like Theresa May) unless there is someone there to put some steel in her backbone by threatening her leadership and/or her government’s grip on power, because she wouldn’t want to end up… like Theresa May.
Farage is that someone. No one else has anything close to his track record. He needs to focus 100% on this. It’s far more important than anything else he could do. What happens to the UK matters. Whether a nation like the UK can cut the cord from a hideous globalist monstrosity like the EU is a live question. This is where Farage needs to be. This is where his presence has maximal impact.
There are plenty of prominent voices making the argument against ‘wokeness’ and the threat of leftist extremists tearing down the West who are more persuasive, articulate and knowledgeable about these subjects than Farage. He should leave these matters to them.
Who issues the proceeses and procedures for declassifying executive branch documents, m0nty?
Excess deaths.
Was at the local hardware store yesterday and was chatting with a couple of friends about a recent funeral we all attended.
The young lass serving us piped in and asked if we thought there’d been a lot of deaths recently like she did.
People are noticing.
Processes, even.
Teh webs inform me that after 45 years, Ian Chappell is retiring from crikkit commentary.
Of course, this will result in a deficit of people hearing stories about Ian Chappell.
Probably time for you to think about something else, Dot. This stuff is clearly beyond you.
‘I Have Never Seen Such Idiots!’
A Cypriot taxi driver says the West is sleepwalking into catastrophe
Good morning from the airport in Larnaca, Cyprus. I’m headed back to Vienna after a short trip here. I just had a rather vivid ride to the airport from Limassol in the care of a highly opinionated taxi driver. This man’s views are consonant with those of other Cypriots I’ve talked with this week. I know it’s a Tom Friedman cliche to quote the taxi driver, but as far as I can tell, Americans never hear from people like this — and it’s really important that we do so we are not blindsided by events.
The driver — I didn’t get his name, but for simplicity’s sake, I’ll call him “Kyriaco” — began by telling me that I don’t have to wear a mask in his taxi, but that he has to wear one, because it’s the law. “Idiots,” he said, referring to the government.
“What time is your flight?” he asked. In four hours, I said. I told him I was leaving extra-early because airports in Europe are terrible this summer. He said I wouldn’t have that kind of problem in Larnaca. In Europe, airports fired people during the pandemic, but in Cyprus, the government paid the salaries of airport staff, to keep them on.
We got to talking, as one does, about how things are going in Cyprus. He says the economy in Limassol is really suffering because of the Ukraine war. “We had a lot of Russian business here,” he said. “Now, all those five-star hotels are empty.”
Kyriaco was extremely anxious about the coming winter. He said it won’t be too bad in Cyprus, which doesn’t get very cold, but he said Europe is going to be walloped. “What do you think ordinary people are going to do?” he said. “They won’t be able to pay their power bills, and there might not be power at any price. How are they going to live? What if they lost their jobs because industries can’t get gas, and shut down? What happens to them then?!”
By now his voice was rising.
“I don’t understand the European Union idiots,” he said (if I had to drink a shot for every time he said the word “idiots,” I would be passed out drunk here in the terminal). “They are destroying our own economies to hurt Russia. Do you think they are hurting Russia? No! Only us, the common people. They don’t care. Why we do this? Why we destroy everything for ourselves?”
As we drove, he pointed to a smokestack on top of a hill. Dirty smoke rose from it. “You see that? They are burning dirty oil there for power. They are poisoning the environment. Because of the sanctions, the European Union gave us permission to burn any oil we can find to make electricity. Our government is getting the cheapest oil they can. It’s dirty. The EU gave permission not to use the scrubbers. It’s a war thing. So we are destroying our own environment to punish the Russians. Idiots! I have never seen such idiots!”
“Do you know who is benefiting most from this war?” Kyriaco asked me. “The Americans. You want to hurt Russia, and you don’t care what it does to us.”
I reminded him that European leaders are making these decisions too. Yes, he said, but they are doing what the Americans tell them to do. “You Americans are going to sell us natural gas at high prices this winter,” he grumbled.
I know, I know: he’s a taxi driver, not a credentialed Expert. But you will recall that credentialed Experts led the West into World War I. Credentialed Experts led America into the disaster of the Vietnam War. Credentialed Experts led us into the Iraq War. I have rather more confidence in the instincts of the Cypriot taxi driver than I do in Washington think tanks and the mandarins of Brussels.
“You see?” Kyriaco said. “Why do you take these risks? Why do these idiots risk world war? The US minister, why did she go to Taiwan?” He was talking about Nancy Pelosi. “Do the Americans really think that it is in their interest to provoke the Chinese?”
“I tell you something,” he said. “America used to be so powerful. But it is not so powerful today, not like it was. You have Russia, and China, and India. Not everybody does what America tells them to do. Do you ever think about that?”
Yes, I told him, I do.
“No, not you,” he said. “I mean your government. This Biden, my God. What an idiot!” He slapped the steering wheel. “Listen, my friend, the world is not what it used to be. A lot of people who used to love the Americans don’t do it anymore. People see that you start so many wars, and make life hard for a lot of people. Nobody believes you anymore.”
It’s a murky legal area, OCO, as evidenced by the events following the Crossfire Hurrricane declassification memo. It may get to court to be decided by the end of this.
But then again, as I said, this whole argument is a sideshow because the laws that Trump supposedly broke around national security secrets are not reliant on the documents being classified.
Monty
Feel free to explain how it works then.
The Benefits of Australia’s response to Covid
Chaos erupts at Sydney Airport with 150m long queues stretching out the door as travellers fume at having to wait outside in the cold
– Massive queues formed outside Sydney domestic airport on Monday morning
– The security line was 150m long and stretched outside the doors of the terminal
– Sydney Airport tweeted that many security staff had called in sick
Of course, this will result in a deficit of people hearing stories about Ian Chappell.
I forgive all that for his beautiful put down of the Bandana Man.
“Peter, where is it? I can’t see it,” Chappell said as other panellists wondered aloud what he was referring to.
“The spotlight that you’re always searching for.”
Does this count towards extracaricular activities?
A former Boston public school official who recruited at-risk students into the Latin Kings gang and had the students distribute drugs on campus pleaded guilty to racketeering charges on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said.
The former official, Shaun Harrison, 63, faces 218 months, or more than 18 years, in prison under the plea agreement, which was made in a case that targeted dozens of members of the Latin Kings. Mr. Harrison is currently serving a prison sentence for trying to kill one of the students, whom he shot in the back of the head at point-blank range.
Mr. Harrison was hired to serve as an academic dean at English High School in Boston in 2015, months before the shooting. He worked with families to help struggling students and ran an anger-management program for 10 boys at the school, using his position to recruit “a number of the at-risk students” into the gang, prosecutors said.
Mr. Harrison, known as “Rev” or “King Rev,” directed the students he recruited to sell marijuana and other drugs, which he provided, at the high school, prosecutors said.
Picasso said much the same about the 1920s, during which his own work took a surrealist turn.
m0ntysays:
August 15, 2022 at 10:38 am
Then what grounds did you have for those statements?
Common sense, Tim N. In short supply around here, especially on this topic.
Rakemeister, let’s re-roll the tape.
m0ntysays:
August 14, 2022 at 6:09 pm
…
a) you have to tell the bureaucrats that the document is declassified, there is a process, you can’t just zap the bits of paper with your mind powers (you morons);
b) the bits of paper themselves have to be amended so that they are not marked as classified or top secret any more, so that people know what the status of the documents is.
As has been pointed out, (b) is nonsense. Anyone who has been involved in any environment where secrecy/confidentiality obligations exist can understand the sheer impracticality of trying to go round altering every electronic and paper copy of a written communication when the status of the communication changes. Unless you’ve got actual evidence that the US classification system actually purports to operate like that, you’re not exercising “common sense” but mental dwarfism.
As for (a), sometimes regulatory systems operate on the basis that a decision is not effective till written, or communicated, but sometimes they don’t – sometimes a decision is valid when taken and communications/written records are just practical/evidentiary considerations. Again, unless you’ve got actual evidence about US classification systems, you’re not appltying common sense, you’re just bullshitting.
How do you know that (a) “there has always been a process” which would make Trump’s actions a “departure from the status quo”, and, in any case, (b) that Trump didn’t put something in writing?]
Give me evidence to the contrary, Tim N. GO!!!
Poor old mentally defective shiteater. You made the assertion – it’s up to you to prove it, not up to me to prove a negative.
Here’s a link for you. It’s from the Washington Examiner, one of your approved news outlets. Key graf:
Trump said at the time he would “accept the redactions proposed for continued classification by the FBI” and ordered the rest of the documents to be declassified and made available by the Justice Department. That hasn’t happened.
Poor old mentally defective shiteater. That’s talking about documents in the possession of the Justice Department, not documents at Mar a Lago. Poor old halfwit.
Yeah, that was a cracker. No comeback forthcoming from FitzSimons.
It almost made up for decades of ‘I remember when we used to….’ ‘Buckle-up pads were better’ and the relative merits of pitch doctoring during the ’73-74 subcontinent tour.
Chappell used to give incorrect coaching tips to the kids at home.
Useless prick.
He’d probably say Jonty Rhodes was a poor fielder because he didn’t catch the ball the same way Chappell was coached, along with Noah.
What a load of rubbish.
You are the one asserting that things work differently to how the government sees it. You say the bureaucrats’ process is not needed and Trump can retrospectively wave his magic wand… argue that nonsense in court. You say Trump put something in writing… well, produce it.
Trump does not own national security documents just because he nicked them. They are still the property of the government. In particular, he does not get to sell them to the highest bidder.
SFW:
I don’t trust Betfair – I now use Ladbrokes.
Politico legal expert Renato Mariotti lays it out.
Donald Trump gets a 10-point bump among Republicans after Mar-a-Lago raid to take 40-point lead over Florida Gov Ron DeSantis among GOP primary voters, poll shows
The next graf is also pertinent to today’s discussion:
Hmmm – Italian greyhound belonging to gay couple in Paris catches monkeypox after sharing bed with its infected owners, scientists reveal
America under Hiden Biden strikes Again
Babies are dying from starvation in Afghanistan a year on from Taliban takeover
Chappell retiring after 45 years, somehow it seems so much longer.
next graf
Meanwhile – The Bidens hit the beach on their bikes on one-year anniversary of Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover
JC/Monty:
The government caused this weight gain crisis with the Food Pyramid and the constant vilification of the meat/eggs/dairy diet.
Now looming on the horizon is a pharmaceutical ‘cure’ for this problem. One injection for the overweight amongst us. It will cost – as JC estimates – a Trillion dollars. Fair enough, I can see the savings that would accrue by eliminating or vastly reducing all the excess weight caused conditions that plague us since we started being inundated with government advice about what to eat.
So how long before it becomes compulsory for anyone with a BMI >35? or 30?
And what are the side effects?
And how much will it cost?
Ready to protect #Taiwan -1/5 of total B-2 in Australia !
The image from Planet Labs which was shared on social media by The War Zone indicates that 4 B-2 bombers are currently deployed in Australia.
This is unprecedented since it’s one-fifth of the USAF’s total fleet of 20 B-2s.
The four B-2s in question belong to the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, to support a Pacific Air Forces Bomber Task Force. The first two of them had arrived at Amberley on July 10, while the second batch of B-2s arrived on July 12.
While B-2s have been deployed to Australia before, this is the first deployment of the bombers as part of the Bomber Task Force (BTF). The deployment will last until the end of August.
This comes at a time when tensions have risen substantially in Indo-Pacific after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan.
In this video Defense Updates analyzes how the US military has sent a message with a B-2 bomber that China cannot ignore ?
Guess the Ethnicity Time again
Sickening moment hit-and-run driver plows through group of men fighting in Chicago road and sends their bodies FLYING into the air before racing off: Three dead, one injured after horror crash
From the Comments
– Sadly will only be added to the every weekend body count and forgotten.
– Time to make cars illegal since they kill people like guns.
Winston Smithsays:
August 15, 2022 at 11:42 am
JC/Monty:
If every hefty American got treated at these drugs’ current prices, the annual market for incretins would be a trillion dollars. Insurers can’t afford that, of course, and access to the new drugs is highly restricted. But there’s plenty of room for prices to come down and still reward Novo and Lilly shareholders. The drugs will be widely used if studies can show they prevent diabetes, heart disease, and other costly ills.
The government caused this weight gain crisis with the Food Pyramid and the constant vilification of the meat/eggs/dairy diet.
CBS says study shows that climate change is having an effect on childhood obesity
There’s nothing climate change can’t do. We’ve been warned about the waves of “climate refugees” who will surge into Europe once their own countries become too hot to grow food. Meanwhile, American kids are less fit than their parents, and what possible reason could there be other than climate change limiting their outdoor activity?
Today’s children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age, a new study found.
The study points to climate change and rising temperatures adversely affecting childhood obesity, as children spend less time exercising outdoors. pic.twitter.com/26WehoLK9I
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 13, 2022
The study was published in the esteemed journal “Temperature.”
We actually have to give the host props for noting that maybe it’s technology that’s keeping kids inside and inactive. But that wouldn’t get published in “Temperature.”
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Since when was a coronial inquest about “feelings?”
By today’ standards, Rhodes would be average or less so. The median skill level accepted for all forms of cricket above D grade park level has skyrocketed.
Without comment.
SECURITY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS
Our moral betters have instructed us that to point out double standards of liberalism when it comes to Donald Trump is “whataboutism,” and therefore somehow illegitimate. Whatever. How dare anyone suggest that anything was amiss in the government’s treatment of Hillary Clinton’s private email server and willful destruction of documents and devices.
At least we can have some fun with this. My newest hero on Twitter is someone called Socialist Mop, who offers up this genius piece of work from way back in 2016:
Socialist Mop
@socialistmop
With the FBI’s raid of Trump’s private residence, I wanted to repost a video that I did back in 2016 showing James Comey of the FBI letting Hillary off the hook for mishandling classified info. Insane hypocrisy!
Check out “What Difference Does It Make?”
I have to say, Monty is making a great argument against becoming a republic here.
The Aussie PM gets an automatic PV, but still has formal processes to go through to declassify. Not like the POTUS’s carte blanche at all.
dover0beachsays:
August 15, 2022 at 12:05 pm
Andy Ngô ????
@MrAndyNgo
· 3h
The first known case of human to dog #monkeypox transmission has been documented in medical journal, the Lancet. The dog caught it from its owners, a non-monogamous gay couple in Paris. The greyhound developed an anal ulceration & mucocutaneous lesions. https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01487-8/fulltext
Without comment.
Sunday ‘Toon: A Pox on Both Your Bathhouses! Media Denies the Obvious
The real “Don’t Say Gay” is the media bending over backward to deny the obvious. Monkeypox isn’t spreading like a prairie fire through the monogamous non-bathhouse crowd. It’s not infecting vast swaths of the population who don’t attend gay orgies. It is spreading like a San Francisco fog through the gay crowd who, apparently, think that having sex with 15 anonymous men isn’t risky. It turns out, it is. Monkeypox is principally and unrelentingly transmitted through sex and in the vast majority of the case (around 97 percent) gay men who can’t keep their penis in their pants. But just cover up with band-aids and you’ll be fine.
Cannot put up the link.
Kari Lake is now speaking live on RSBN in Arizona.
Ron DeSantis is coming on next