Don’t forget the huge handouts to the mob to keep them happy
Open Thread – Tues 13 Sept 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
Marx Still Reigns Supreme. But Why?
Since then it’s been downhill for Sleazy and his swagger has turned into a stoop. I think he has also…
I have held Claire O’Neil and Andrew Giles wholly responsible for the failures of their departments with regard to the…
I wonder if I can get mine refunded?
Okay, work that view into your positions on Rosie and Liz. Both have defended themselves with equal aplomb, yet you’ve chosen to ignore Rosie’s position vs Liz. And please don’t even pretend the attacks on Liz have been less belligerent than that Queensland redneck’s and the way he went after her. There’s no comparison. And as for disrupting a thread… Struphid isn’t?
Never forget.
Dot:
Fentanyl use is primarily because Codeine has been made to difficult to get legally.
The rules have been made by people who are not yet old enough to have a lifetime of wear and tear on their bodies, yet believe they are old enough and wise enough to make other peoples health decisions for them.
Great decision O Wise & Trusted Ones!
You can just hear the cogs clunking in the retarded retards’ heads:
‘Oh. You mean there’s a flow-on effect?’
No more smashed avo for the Eurotrash.
Zat, I can see what the finkmeister is trying to do. He won’t singularly inhibit his own firm and management team by instructing them to go all woke. Fink is attempting to make all of corp America woke so it won’t restrict his own firm in any way. There’s a putrid level of logic there.
Whoops
And please don’t even pretend the attacks on Liz have been less belligerent than that Queensland redneck’s and the way he went after her (Rosie).
Struth doesn’t disrupt any threads.
Mainly because almost nobody reads him & apart from the three stooges who come in spinner every time, few respond to him.
From “The Age” – I know, I know…
How would you know, Drills as you’re drunk in the evenings and these day being publess. You sleep in most days until the afternoon by which time Struphid has gone.
Are claiming being a neutral abserver, Salvatore?
What a stupid comment.
JC, there is certainly some agenda there and that one sounds reasonable. I just found that letter of his to be BS and hypocritical. This line for instance:
Most stakeholders? How the hell does he know? He knows what pressure groups tell him and at best is basing his shtick on that.
Two of his major holdings are Exxon and Chevron and they certainly aren’t getting out of the fossil fuel business, no matter what their PR depts might say.
Are you claiming to be a regular responder to Struth, bespoke?
Drivers warned EV charging will be 98% more difficult in 2031 than it is today
Within the next 10 years, the ratio of electric vehicles will get worse rather than better, according to a new report released by GoCompare. The study also revealed the best and the worst places to own an EV in the next 10 years.
Experts believe that the number of electric cars will almost double in the near future, but the charging network will not be able to follow suit.
The news comes despite the 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales looming ever closer.
Last year, there were 266 electric vehicles (EVs) to each public charger in the UK, but the insurance comparison site says this will rise to 527 cars per charger by 2031.
This means that charger availability will be almost half of what it was in 2021.
The main reason for this is the fact that the rate of new charger installations won’t be fast enough to keep up with the uptake of EVs over the next decade.
Despite more charger installations, the number of EVs purchased will outweigh the rate new charging units are fit.
The search for a charger could be particularly difficult in some parts of south England.
Luton, for example, will have only one charger available for every 10,956 cars – the worst projected ratio of EVs per rapid charger in the UK.
A major reason why charger availability is likely to be so low is that the uptake of EVs is set to soar over the next 10 years.
The number of registered EVs in the UK will skyrocket to 7.9 million by 2031 – a 509 percent increase from 2021.
This is almost twice as many as GoCompare’s initial prediction. Last year, the comparison site estimated that the 2031 figure would be just 3.8 million, but now that more accurate data is available, it has found that demand is rising more rapidly than first thought.
“They refuse to comply because this normally works – not many people can quickly marshal up a legal team that can go toe-to-toe with the demonic hosts that large media networks can conjure up from chthonic realms. Add to this that j’ismists are a particularly poisonous and vindictive breed of hydra with multiple heads in Twatter, fakebook, new stories where they can repeatedly bring up the old claim and phrase it as if any judgement in their favour really addresses the substance of the accusation etc.”
Quite so ML. Just look at what Nine has done with BRS. Also, this is why Craig McLachlan spectacularly dropped his defamation case against Nine earlier this year. These media outlets pull out everything to destroy a person’s character and livelihood, they have very deep pockets. I’m very glad Laming pursued this. He’s done us all a favour.
Any of the bush lawyers here help out? Wouldn’t the existence of such texts been revealed at Rolfe’s trial?
Squirrel.
Was it? Sorry as.
‘I made this decision based on the best available motor vehicle advice.’
Zat
Don’t get me wrong, Fink is a piece of shit. I have investments in a couple of Blackrock funds – mostly index crap. I first caught a hold of the turd’s behavior years ago. I’ve called his office to complain about the shithead. He uses investors assets to push ideological positions. Have you seen him? He even looks like a turd.
who was known for his work mentoring incarcerated Indigenous youth
Up the bum, while a prisoner himself?
A thieving junkie until he got too old to run away anymore and latched onto becoming a full time bullshit artist.
One of his last actions, attaching himself remora like to a compo scheme based on “stories you told us”.
Famous elder is devastated when he’s asked to PROVE that he is Indigenous to receive $80k payment – and is baffled why anyone would PRETEND to be Australian First Nations people as life ‘is too difficult’
Uncle Jack Charles was asked to prove ‘Aboriginality’ for a reparation payment
The payments are part of Victoria’s Stolen Generations Reparation scheme
The committee has received applications from people not entitled to the scheme
Don’t be sorry for just being yourself.
As if Zachary Rolfe hadn’t already endured enough, today the MSM are busy nailing the coffin shut on his life.
It was a sincere apology Drills as you know how much I respect you. Now go clean the soiled sheets as the boss is calling. Go!
This is Beaumont, TX. Apparently, the assailant has a juvi record and had recently been released. Abominable. The people filming almost as bad.
Never in person. Just on those videos to shareholder things. If I had any doubts about him they were erased when I found out he sits on the board of the WEF.
As in now I’m sure he’s a scumbag.
Ive had a win over the forces of darkness!!!
After my email back to AMSA regarding the renewal of my “in perpetuity” coxswains certificate they have seen the light.
Thank you for providing that information and attaching the Certificate for us to confirm.
In this case, there is no renewal required for your Perpetual Certificate so you can disregard this notice.
Take that evildoers!
I believe it’s a fair call to defend your comments when someone quotes them, particularly if they have been truncated or distorted.
Sometimes it’s just a matter of clarification, but many times it’s just pure trolling. When it goes ad hominem, that’s different. We’ll always have our “favourites”, the ones whose views align with our own. The more interesting ones are those who can put together an argument in the opposite direction.
Thinking sometimes hurts though. 😀
Zat, yea that’s what I mean. In pics.
My former boss reports directly to him. He was also a leftwing doofus in the 90s.
Zatara
That the WEF provides so much data on its Board and Young Leaders should be useful in the future. The WEF has effectively provided a list of those who should be among those to be prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity.
among the first to be
Zat
My former boss was a leftwing doofus. I wasn’t referring to finkface. Just to clarify.
Have no fear the librarian is here.
For worms –
From the soil in the guts of the worm.
Good luck recruiting for Northern Territory police after this!
I’m sitting in the breakfast room overlooking Split. Off in an hour to view the Roman ruins and other delights of the second largest city in Croatia.
We ate so much food, and drank so much wine at an Agritourismo yesterday that we went without dinner. Boy, can those Croatians eat!
This morning I have tried the “black pig”, a type of gamey prosciutto. Yikes, is it strong! The Beloved foolishly picked up a couple of snags – turned out to be black pudding. He manfully ate a few bites then gave up. I bet he tries the haggis when we finally get to Scotland.
I’m toying with buying him a kilt for his 70th. There is a family tartan somewhere, some laird or other. He’d cut a fine dash on the 13th back home – it’s a wind tunnel.
What a stupid comment.
Absolutely. Their Alumni list is eye opening and more than a bit scary. But maybe not so surprising when you think about it.
Thinking sometimes hurts though.
Sun Tzu
Okay, that’s been done to death. Find something else to try and be funny about because repeating variations of the same thing 300 times a day losses it appeal.
Thanks P. I knew there’s be an answer fast.
If mince is made from all the bibs and bobs, you could safely assume there’d be some bone in there too. I’ve watched my crowd go from little bits of mince and back to the garden for a forage. The improved soil means there’s a ton of juicy worms in there, nice and close to the surface after rain. Thick mulch helps too. The other thing they love are the ivory curl grubs. A delicacy.
I identify as a librarian.
I get dewey eyed just surveying my bookshelves.
how about you just stop selling to fucking communists
repeating variations of the same thing 300 times a day losses it appeal.
Sun Tzu
Stoush Wisdom
– not Sun Tsu
The shells of snails for the calcium.
Bespoke:
Drinking XXXX and collecting used panties is a serious business – not a hobby.
Hypothetical.
If someone posts something which six people independently conclude is stoopid, and say so, is that a pylon?
No. It’s an opinion. Repeated independently.
Unless it’s an opinion from a sock drawer. Then it can be safely ignored as it is not given in good faith.
Lysander:
You’ll be in Dots good books – that’s a sort of Sortition if I’m not mistaken.
he dun need prove nuttin, just idenitifiez is all
What the hell is going on in the world?
I’m not ignoring Rosie’s or anyone else’s position in comparison to Lizzie. I mentioned Lizzie in the other post as an example.
When the loons all get high
On their insult supply
That’s a pile-on
Just thinking it out loud (well, in type), these texts of Zach Rolfe.
Presumably these texts will be meant to establish that he is raaaacist and therefore his raaaacism infects how he conducted himself as a police officer.
But, in that case, just present evidence of these raaaaacist actions as a police officer.
What if he really had gripes with Aborigines, but it never affected his work and he, in his duties, conducted himself properly and professionally? How could they matter if he does not have a history of targeting Aborigines?
I am not Zach. I have no insight into his mind or heart. But I would posit the possibility he has had run ins with violent miscreants before, in the course of which he may have been injured even if not to the point of it being debilitating – but bloody hurt. Especially if he has to bottle up his anger to maintain professional composure. Well, that energy has to go somewhere, and if he fritters it away in texts rather than storing it up for a heart attack or a psychotic break, then fine.
Everyone has a store of jokes that are ‘inappropriate’, but they have a role. Some might be to add a roguish veneer when hanging out with the lads, some might be about ridiculing a particularly annoying person by playing on a stereotype (like SHY and hysterical women, or Uber drivers and the unscrupulous business ethics of Indians – or the lazy entitlement of white Australians – shit, where to start there? Postcodes that start with ‘2’?) – and maybe to vent after yet another drug-fucked hoodlum scores a (luckily) glancing blow to your skull with a crowbar while screaming that you are a ‘white cunt’.
Only a lefty, or a grub lawyer, would think every passing thought is done under oath.
Is that because in your judgement call Rosie was being treated less roughly than Liz? You’re kidding right?
Old Ursula is up on her hind legs before the EU telling us that “Russia is manipulating the energy market”.
I can’t believe the chutzpah of this b*tch!
Kamala Harris On NBC: We’re Only A Legitimate Democracy If Democrats Are In Power
There is no logical end to Kamala and every other Democrat leader’s thought process other than: Only we can run things legitimately.
Democrats and their fangirls in the national media pretend they have this thoughtful, nuanced view about where the country is right now, but it really boils down to: None of America’s institutions or political processes are lawful nor legitimate unless we’re the ones controlling them.
Elections, Supreme Court decisions, legislation signed into law, “norms,” etc. All of it holds meaning so dear to their hearts.*
Except when Republicans are in power, in which case it’s all fraudulent.
That dynamic was reinforced in virtually everything Vice President Kamala Harris said during an interview that aired Sunday with NBC’s Chuck Todd. She said the Senate filibuster rule should be discarded for Democrat priorities, but believed it should be maintained for everything else. Roll the tape…
Just put a blue check or better still a pink petal next to the untouchables names.
Guys, you have to listen to this creep to believe it! It’s pure, unadulterated socialism.
Someone here could link to the broadcast later on and fisk it. It’s a barefaced disgrace.
OldOzzie says:
September 14, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Rising yuan-ruble trade for oil a threat to dollar dominance and next step towards internationalizing China’s currency.
Earlier this year (February?) Dover kindly posted an article I wrote named ‘ The Putin Gambit – Part 2’. That post examined the financial fortifications Russia had been making since 2014. In part I wrote: “This currency shift partly stems from agreement between Russia and China where the two countries agreed an initial currency swap deal worth 150 billion yuan ($24.5 billion) back in 2014. The deal has been substantially extended and rejigged but it now allows each country’s central bank to gain access to the other’s currency (in addition to some other currencies) without trading via the US dollar.
Then in 2016 the Russian alternative to the SWIFT financial transfer scheme arrived. Named the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) it is similar to SWIFT in terms of technology and infrastructure. Undoubtedly a minnow by comparison to SWIFT but that isn’t the point. Russia’s banks are all connected and if Russia is cut off from SWIFT, they will transition to the intra- and interbank messaging which now includes the Chinese banks and those of a few other countries.
Further, Russian banks are all well advanced with introducing blockchain and using it in international payments and have been doing so since 2017.
Which brings us to international trade……..”
At first pass it may be befuddling why the western intelligence services didn’t connect the dots since 2014. Arrogance? Asleep at the wheel? Russia and China were becoming chummier and chummier and it wasn’t as if China had been a solid pro-western asset (Uyghurs, South & East China Seas, Hong Kong etc). And the blossoming Russia/China relationship and growing interdependence was on full public display. But in fact, it was deeply alarming to western intelligence.
From President Xi’s perspective, he is convinced that China’s ‘moment in time’ is fast approaching and that a resurgent east will soon dominate a declining west – and this belief is shared by Putin. The sanctions imposed on Russia have a clear sub-text to China lest it have any thoughts about Taiwan. However, if China were to invade Taiwan the sanctions imposed on China would result in the global economy screeching to a halt and how long could the west maintain the pressure?
But in any event we should recognise what is really happening: China has cemented a reliable and uninterruptable supply of energy, minerals and other resources it will use to achieve its destiny. It cannot allow itself to be reliant on the west which includes ring-fencing its financial and economic health. By happy coincidence, China’s huge neighbour has mineral resources in abundance and what’s more, is deeply offended at decades-long western efforts to suppress and isolate it with various sanctions (even before the invasion) and has repeatedly acted to cauterize or contain the Russian military via NATO. It is also longing to get into the economic bed with a large and powerful partner.
IMO, the West recognised (if belatedly) the implications of a Russian/Chinese alliance and as offensive as the Russian invasion of Ukraine may be, it serves a purpose in that there is a far bigger issue at stake. Namely, that western governments have determined that Russia must be substantially diminished so that its alliance with China is of far less value which correspondingly inhibits China’s global plans. In addition, a poor Russian outcome in the war must see Putin and his political party replaced with a leader* who are more accommodating of the western doctrine and who will choke off specific supplies to China, or at a minimum, doesn’t fully engage. China might (just might) be containable by itself but there is no chance as it feeds on inexhaustible raw material supplies from Russia, and unassailable finances.
Far fetched? Too many John le Carre books? Maybe I am way off but it is undeniable that there are always wheels within wheels when we examine geopolitics and, the biggest game in town is a China/Russia alliance.
(* remember Navalny?. There was a glimmer of hope but that was snuffed out. Welcome to the big league Alexei).
As did Obama.
Cut it with the partisan stuff monty, we’re not really interested in 95% of the GOP or stooped effen’ Gliberals.
There is absolutely no doubt that the Covid “crisis” and UKR-RUS war is being used as an accelerator for the climate war.
Every point Ursula McBlondB*tch makes supports this.
DocDuk (and others here) are right on the money.
Monty poetic?
Someone so unrefined!
I am blown away.
The death knell for Essendon (the Hun):
Has Rosie been piled-on since the last post? Did I intervene re Lizzie in the most recent pile-on? I really don’t know what you’re getting at here. Lizzie hasn’t received preferential treatment as opposed to Rosie.
Having pushed many tonnes of meat through a mincer back in the day, the only bone that goes through is a) tiny b) barely there, ie in the 1g per 200kg proportion.
As JC said, bankrupt and eliminate your opposition who are too stupid or vain to check what you are doing.
Yes, they should always be given the opportunity to back peddle or make excuses.
She’s just lucky Sinc’s blog has folded and the full context can no longer be examined.
Just read your happy news, Rosie. Congratulations!
Thank heavens for little girls. 🙂
We have decided on a caravan for the Mil.
It’s got nothing to do with me having the only vehicle able to tow to a remote and large supply of ductape.
Trust me.
According to a recent poll librarians are the most trusted profession; except for lesbian librarians.
Lesbrarians?
I think I’ve seen that video.
Hollywood Makeup Artist Dead 9 Days After Monkeypox Vaccine
As expected, SBU and Kraken are moving through recently won areas of Kharkov and murdering collaborators. Given that the government of Kiev considers people that accepted Russian food or medicinal aid or people that remained at their posts as ‘collaborators’, that is probably a wide net given the length of the occupation.
Interesting; Tucker reports in Chicago black criminal gangs are operating with impunity with police directed now to arrest several gangs of blacks driving around and committing armed robberies. The same thing is happening in other demorat cities.
I’m pretty sure the mid terms are gone. They won’t be held. The demorats are going to continue to provoke a response from the general population and will enact martial law when even the slightest fightback such as some poor bastard shooting a black assailant occurs. it’s only a small step from what they are already doing.
Here we’ll have enough to worry about with blackouts, food shortages and chunk warships in Sydney harbour. Plus pile ons.
On reflection, and having put myself through the torture of reading that thread, it probably wasn’t the best example to choose as it turned out.
The principle got buried in the personal very quickly.
NOT to arrest; fuck. Some librarian I am.
Simply, with Struth there is always an issue (one issue) at stake, even if offensively put and by way of named opponents. Not so in other instances where a named opponent may exist but no particular issue as such. Cancelling the (putatively offensive) comments would be cancelling the issue.
Dotsays:
September 14, 2022 at 5:27 pm
Dubbya’s War on Terror did evoke a lot of extra-legal killings, it’s true.
As did Obama.
Cut it with the partisan stuff monty, we’re not really interested in 95% of the GOP or stooped effen’ Gliberals.
But it was Obama who extended the “dronings” to US citizens living outside the US., with no legal due process. m0nty-fa deliberately ignores this reality, because it doesn’t suit the “narrative”.
Lord, it’s like Satan lurking in the shadows.
Something is wrong with this statement.
Again Tucker; 12 different examples of completely unhindered criminal activity in the streets of demorat cities: shootings, robberies, assaults, every one done by blacks.
Something is wrong with this statement.
I correct it, FFS:
Tucker reports in Chicago black criminal gangs are operating with impunity with police directed NOT to arrest several gangs of blacks driving around and committing armed robberies. The same thing is happening in other demorat cities.
This is how pile ons occur.
Interesting thread over at Adam’s:
https://catallaxy-files.com/monday-insanity-reality-the-only-weapon-of-the-conservative/comment-page-1/#comment-180234
Essendon reinstating Hird would be the dumbest thing they could do, which means it is very much on the cards.
Enough with all this free-and-easy identity bs. I pinkie swear that I truly rooly was a librarian for the last three years of my teaching life. And I loved it!
A teacher librarian, I took every class from kindy to year 12, keeping them up to date with current affairs (from a bipartisan perspective*,) assisting seniors with their SACE requirements and fostering a love of language and books. Such a pleasure and a privilege to be part of the education of those young lives.
*We were allowed to do that in those days: present both sides of a policy or situation. I’m just happy that I retired while teaching was still an honourable profession.
What’s that have to do with the price of cannoli?
In the recent thread you did, most certainly.
Perhaps it’s best to say Rosie was receiving zero freaking support.
PS: and I never had sex in the library.
Can’t be so sure about my young charges.
Sure.
*Shareholders* are the only ‘stakeholders’ a company answers to, they need to stamp out this ‘stakeholder’ crap.
JCsays:
September 14, 2022 at 5:10 pm
What the hell is going on in the world?
Wait till the furries start entering the old peoples homes….
Who wants the job of cleaning grannies septic vulva piercings… again.
Essendon reinstating Hird would be the dumbest thing they could do
Like keeping you on here.
Good girl.
Good try, however no true librarian would have made such an error.
Germany has ‘crossed red line’ – Russia
PS: and I never had sex in the library.
This is in fact part of the librarians’ oath of office:
I pledge to order, assist and never have sex amidst the books I am charge of and to prevent to the best of my ability any pile on.
These woke librarians would never honour such an oath.
Berlin discarded its longstanding policy of not sending weapons into zones of armed conflict to join the US and other NATO allies in providing weapons to Ukraine. The German government says it has a moral responsibility to back Kiev so it can defend itself against Russia
First – Putin is a turd etc etc.
But geez, unless the Boxheads are going to supply a war winning quantity of equipment this is a propaganda win for Putes mob.
Surely they could have funneled it via a 3rd party rather than let the goons crow “oh so we are fighting against the germans.. again”…
If someone posts something which six people independently conclude is stoopid, and say so, is that a pylon?
This was another piece of stealth from Sancho.
Tedious, but what percentage of it is troll mince remains to be decided.
P.S. Calli is in the top five people worth reading here.
Do a sneak attack – it only downgrades (and tags) the attacker.
Have just caught up with this.
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/how-podcast-led-to-teachers-conviction-for-assaulting-student/news-story/c393258ef638e0714f8e8fdd4f9d30c2
If you’re a lezzo leftist from the public-sector teachers’ union you get a suspended sentence for behaviour that would have a priest or brother in the slammer – and the ABC will never report on you.
Not really. There’s nothing illuminating about it that hasn’t been discussed here time and time again. The lollipop blogger is unoriginal and your own comment is the typical tedious, pessimistic doom and gloom crap you only peddle, with the misapprehension it’s deep and leadership like.
However, there’s more I believe . The lollipop blogger appears from comments sent to me in the past that he doesn’t really like that much . Meanwhile this is you rapt with joy because this is the first time he’s thrown you an old dry bone. You also want to show how much you respect him by linking over there. It’s grovelling.
I’m not buying your crap, leadership. You linked and indirectly asking for opinions and s0 this is mine. Hope you enjoyed it.
I don’t believe Sancho was having a go at Calli.
Because you are saying I didn’t uphold a standard before it was set.
How, by closing the thread?
Neither did Lizzie.
Is JC married to Rosie? Asking for Sun Tzu .
Err, no.
How the fuck would anyone draw that conclusion?
‘Dr’ Jill Jill Biden Thinks It’s Un-American To Oppose Porn in School Librariesdirty old woman
Dover
Have you ever been to Agapi?
cheap old slag
No, but it looks good.
Sancho! My armor!
Belay that, Sancho will need the armour himself if he’s taking on Calli.
Ten upticks to the person who gets the literary reference. There’s a clue in one of my earlier comments today.
Geebus!
Don Quixote?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1568669056869478400
‘Dr’ Jill and the old thief almost make the Clinstones look wholesome
I have to read that book one day but sorry Arky that’s a negatory.
Given how the Biden family kids turned out it’s probably best to skip their opinions on raising and educating children.
‘Dr’ Jill Biden Thinks It’s Un-American To Oppose Porn in School Libraries
These people are human garbage. To think something like the above is even being entertained.
Steady on.
That was just Anger Wut pole vaulting to an evidence free conclusion.
Tucker Carlson: This is what the collapse of civilization looks like
Jesus wept you people.
It’s from Man of La Mancha, made beloved to the populace via Python’s Doug and Dinsdale Pirhana.
You have to do everything yourself in this day and age.
Translation:-
“My fabricated gossip pipeline has dried up. We need to get Ginge and Whinge out of the freezer, and fast.”
LOL!
Oprah muscling in on Dr Phil’s turf.
Dr John Campbell at the 3min mark with such an innocent question and the deadpan reaction to its answer, lol.
Well duh.
American chat-show host Oprah Winfrey has said the Queen’s death could offer the Duke and Duchess of Sussex a chance to
be reconciled with their familycall their family racist again.Live seance with the ex-Queen coming up.
Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance? Wasn’t any Aboriginal resistance to colonization about the most futile ever mounted?
Sorry KD that’s also a no.
C’mon it’s easy!
Harry ‘Snapper’ Organs, on the trail of Doug and Dinsdale:
Today I watched the ABC Four Corners hit job on Qantas first aired a couple of weeks ago.
As someone who wrote about airlines for a living for 25 years, I found it was nothing more or less than a square-up by the left’s government propaganda unit on behalf of unions still smarting from Alan Joyce’s 2011 decision to ground the entire Qantas fleet to kneecap unions’ attempt to forestall management’s drive to turn the airline into a lean, profitable entity facing an onslaught of low-cost competition from aggressive full-service raiders like Emirates, which undercuts QF business class fares by 50% or more.
Union hacks like Steve Purvinas, federal secretary of the Australian Licensed Engineers association cut off at the knees by Alan Joyce is 2011, featured prominently in the ABC’s hit job on the national carrier, backed by anti-business academics who sounded like communist revolutionaries and health bureaucrats fretting that the airline’s management didn’t buy government Kung Flu hysteria after 2020.
That is why the Australian left regards the ABC as an irreplaceable propaganda asset.
Gutfeld has a main segment on the infiltration of woke librarians with balls and breasts into the demure, formerly sacred ground of libraries. This is an issue symbolic of and probably responsible for the decadent decline of the West. Make no mistake true librarians are on the front line. Expect blood and ink to flow.
Ok I gave a clue a previous comment I put up today was related.
Time for a second clue.
Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv (13 Sep)
Ten hot upticks are on offer here Cats.
Your average union secretary is assured a place on the speed dial.
I think this is a job for Jerry Springer.
Prince Andrew and a few of his bimbos would make a good Jerry Springer episode.
Self-proclaimed warriors protesting against violence.
Priceless.
That’s all she’s got now.
You can bet that Lizzie 2.0 was very explicit about not letting the race-baiter anywhere near her in the final days and hours.
Eliminate the opportunity for any confected death-bed confessions.
“‘Dr’ Jill Jill Biden Thinks It’s Un-American To Oppose Porn in School Libraries”
Of course she would think this, this is the woman who probably turned a blind eye to her creepy pervert of a husband showering with their daughter. Anyway, as for porn, it’s already in American schools. The always excellent Powerline had a piece a few days ago by John Hinderaker called “Corruption in Public Schools”, and how a book called “Gender Queer” is currently found in Minnesota public schools.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/corruption-in-the-public-schools.php
As you can see, if you click on the link and glimpse some of the book’s pictures, “Gender Queer” ain’t the Karma Sutra. What’s clear is that the American public school system, long fragile, has collapsed.
I try and be optimistic about the future, particularly the future of the US, and men like Ron DeSantis give me hope but if American children attending public schools in the US are reading such putrid filth, my hopes fade. Get the children, get them young and groom them. Foucault is laughing.
Oh and I reckon Putin wouldn’t allow such “instructional” books in Russian school libraries. Russian kids are probably still learning quaint things like reading, writing and maths. Golly gosh, how utterly reactionary.
Clue number three: the galaxy is on Orion’s belt.
Oh and I reckon Putin wouldn’t allow such “instructional” books in Russian school libraries. Russian kids are probably still learning quaint things like reading, writing and maths. Golly gosh, how utterly reactionary.
which is why I prefer Putin to the new American establishment.
“You can bet that Lizzie 2.0 was very explicit about not letting the race-baiter anywhere near her in the final days and hours.
Eliminate the opportunity for any confected death-bed confessions.”
Yep.
You’d almost think these fellers actually want the Voice to Parliament to fail:
Look at the US executive government- it’s obscene. End of Rome stuff.
There is a third option.
I was in Singapore the night Joyce grounded the airline. Asian press was very objective, in other words he had no choice as the unions had pushed management into a corner. Red eye run to Darwin then on to Cairns and the press here was the polar opposite.
As someone who had been inconvenienced by baggage delays, cancelled flights and just about every other Tom foolery I wasn’t too sympathetic to the unions cries…
For the record till COVID I thought the red roo was better off for the showdown, a much better product.
Marshal Tito and Colonel Gaddafi?
Sure it’s fine to sympathize with Joyce and his union problems, but the full on adoption of cultural marxism by Qantas eg piping junkee into baggage halls mean I won’t fly with them anymore.
No
I don’t normally go in for conspiracy theories, but, if the “Voice to Parliament ” referendum IS defeated, doesn’t that offer a great opportunity to play the race card loudly and often?
Bruce
shows my lack of knowledge :-
OK so we have to take another step before we can power vehicles with a suitcase!
Putin is a neo-Marxist creation of the Soviet Union. He is also corrupt and has stolen billions of dollars from the Russian people. The Marxists of the Biden regime are also repulsive but they’re ultimately just thieves like Putin.
Under pressure.
Yes Tom but I don’t believe the Russian establishment is peddling pornography to minors.
Please, can you give an English language translation of that phrase?
Sure. Junkee is a left wing news channel which Qantas was, and maybe still is, showing on screens in their terminals.
BoN,
Men in Black reference?
Helen – There’ve been some nice developments with fusion lately, but as you might expect we’re a long way from what Admiral Honor Harrington was powering her ships with.
Researchers generate fusion at 100 million Kelvin for 20 seconds (Phys.org, 8 Sep)
I think the real breakthrough will come, though, when they start to seriously look at other fusion elements. Especially lithium and boron. But who am I? I’m just a chemist who reads a lot of stuff.
I’m still hoping for an answer for my challenge: Sancho! My armor!
Fits extremely well with this topic, btw, which is another clue.
Ten upticks are on offer…
Anyone else waiting for this macabre dead queen procession to come to a screeching halt when Zombie Liz sits upright in her coffin and says PAYBACK TIME, BITCHEZZZZ ?
No?
Just me?
Ho-kayyy.
Russia for a very long time has been the source of illicit pornography.
The Russia mafia profits and the Russian deep state takes their cut.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 14, 2022 at 8:07 pm
Clue number three: the galaxy is on Orion’s belt.
Men in Black?
I saw it.
Almost laughable.
Every one interviewed was an ex shop steward.
Apparently baggage handling is some amalgam of science and the black arts.
And the ambush of Joyce – “why do cabin crews get different pay rates?”
Because their competitors with staff based in Singapore or Dubai or wherever pay those rates.
It was classic “get the band back together” stuff.
Emotive bullshit about “cutting staff cuts safety”.
You know, if a 727 had a crew of three and a 737 has a crew of two …
Or it took a ground crew of twenty to turnaround a 747, but a 787 only requires eight ground staff …
Surely you’re not suggesting Vlad the Defenestrator is a whited sepulchre?
Bushie – Close but no cigar. 😀 Yes the clue is from MiB, but the keyword in the clue is the key to my challenge.
I’m surprised this has turned out to be as hard as it appears to be. Dover’s Cat isn’t so infused by SF as Sinc’s Cat was.
Galaxy quest?
Buck Rogers.
BoN
Doesn’t Doc Brown have a gunfight with Mad Dog McGree in BTTF3? Maybe he asks some random Mexican assistant to hand him some home-made armour?
Nah, I dunno.
Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.
“Dinsdale says ‘I hear you’ve been a naughty boy Clement’ and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I tell him my name’s not Clement and then… he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor.
Interviewer: He nailed your head to the floor?
Vince: At first yeah”
Watching 13 Assassins on Stan.
No bad.
Ok here’s another clue: “old bang-bang”.
That is an essential background to “Sancho! My armor!”
Interestingly Bing gets it, but Google doesn’t.
Evil Dead?
I missed what it’s all about, but:
windmills.
Most stakeholders – from shareholders, to employees, to customers, to communities, and regulators
“Stakeholders” is straight from the WEF playbook.
It’s important to note that a regime change in Russia would achieve far less that a regime change in the US. A regime change in the US could achieve a level of freedom that isn’t forthcoming in Russia.
Wind and solar are also “free”, but it’s the capture and generation of it that costs money. Regular nuclear is also free, but isn’t. Fusion needed to be made cheaper than all alternatives to succeed.
Explicit, unapologetic racism in the California courts?
possibly beery-
There has been very little, if any, public discussion about the Russian economic talk-fest recently in eastern Russia, and the accompanying joint Russian and Chinese war games.
Of particular importance was the involvement of the Indian military in these Russian war games. India participated with China at Russia’s request; I’d think it impossible for China and India to jointly cooperate on anything at any time given their mutual hatred, but there you go, Chinese and Indian military joining together with Russia for their war games.
Who’d have thunk it?
Precisely. Well put.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Anyone who talks about climate change fits into two categories for me.
They’re either a …
1) a con-artist thief.
or a
2) a low IQ gullible sucker.
Presidential EO 13818 and 13848 confirmed that the target of these orders was Joe Biden and foreign interference in American elections.
These orders had sunset clauses and if a legitimate administration was in charge of the Whitehouse then they would have expired.
These orders have been renewed under the illegitimate Biden administration.
That doesn’t make any sense.
Wake up Cats!
I thought it would be easy!
“Sancho! My armor!”
If you search this on Bing it comes up at #3.
Other clues: Orion‘s belt. Old bang bang. UFOs. A previous comment (Niven and Pournelle).
A: Footfall
I give myself ten upticks.
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Orion. Old bang-bang.
Custard – are you starting up a new QAnon branch in Australia?
Your recent posts have me scratching my head.
Spelling alert.
It is:-
Sancho!!
My amour!!
Mwahhh!!!
…
That’s the way I hear it.
Daily Mail.
ABL reviewing pro-lifer taking a rake to pro-abortionist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIS9uR0iYA
Ahhhh. ‘Old bang-bang.’
Pepe le Pew. It was so obvious.
Who’d have thunk it?
A corrupt and morally bankrupt super power will facilitate things like that happening, and I’m not talking about Russia.
The USA has spent 30 years trashing its brand. With the lunacy now in overdrive no one wants to engage with them except the rusted on West.
What does conservative India have in common with LGBTQI American and a Regime founded on Pedo, Porn and Pay to Play?
Sadly Jerry Pournelle died in 2017 after catching flu at a SF&F fan convention. I was reading his blog at the time he went. Which I have to say is a pretty good way to go out, if you’re a science fiction author.
KD – The old Cat was a haven for SF readers, of which Sinc was the foremost. Sadly we seem to’ve lost the great tradition.
Further detail on Mr. Dorante-Day, from the abovementioned piece:
Strike one.
And:
Which is exactly what you’d say to a precocious little mong to get him off your case, and to give him something to do for the next 50 years. Strike two.
Except:
Strike three.
So several thousand of the world’s best dirt journos, right there in Fleet Street, along with their open chequebooks somehow missed that Prince Charles porked some minor royal, and which resulted in a child subject to super-secrecy provisions, and they missed it for over 50 years while not one of the hundreds of royal staffers leaked that there was a rogue baby at large in somebody’s palace.
This really is world-class grifting.
I remember, Bruce.
My next guess was going to be something about Darth Vader.
CAC Boomerang back to airworthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0IYfwZn8fE
Old bloke says:
September 14, 2022 at 9:33 pm
For me, as an energy wonk, this is the most significant missing element of public discussion on this whole horrific fuckup.
Putin’s Russia is in the process of becoming owned by China (and to a lesser extent, India). Heavily discounted energy exports is the win-win-win loss leader for Vlad the Invader.
Looking beyond the next couple of European winters, it’s also the Russian future.
Well done Kremlin chaps. Hope (for all our sakes) that most Russians are happy to see themselves as an Asian client state when prices calm down.
(And fuck you, NATO strategic geniuses, for missing this inevitability.)