The Sanctuary city gets hit with the reality club;

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) declared a state of emergency on Friday to respond to migrants arriving in the city on buses primarily from Texas.
Adams said at least 17,000 asylum seekers have been bused to New York City from other parts of the country since April and claimed that many of the people didn’t know where they were going when they boarded the buses.

Didn’t know? They were already there of course. The good ole U.S.A.!

From the radar images it look like the poor buggers in Central Western NSW are going to cop it again.

‘Nuther dose coming Thursday from the look of BoM’s model.
Might swing southish, that far out is at best an indication.

Anchor Whatsays:
October 8, 2022 at 10:39 am
Australia has almost run out of time to head off an energy transition “train wreck”
(Alinta Energy CEO)
Blind Freddy could see this coming, but politics is so stuffed that the runaway train has no intelligent or even courageous driver

I was very interested to read https://www.nuscalepower.com/ has been certified to build their SMR in the USA, and just need orders to start building. Of course, I expect we need to see a great deal more pain before our governments get on that train.

Seems the narrative needed bolstering in the midst of La Nina.

Narratives are like principles. If you don’t like the narrative they got others:

97% Of Scientists Agree (Tony Heller, 7 Oct)

Last year the burning of fossil fuels was causing a permanent El Niño, but this year the burning of fossil fuels is causing a permanent La Niña.

The two screenshots of diametrically opposite climate stories only one year apart are amusing.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Saw a great ad on ch7 this morning. Ch7 wanted a program scheduler. Must be a new position, they certainly need one. I’m sure the repeats will continue ad infinitum. When they buy new programs they are bundled with at least a hundred other programs which we are never likely to see. Might apply, obviously no experience needed.

Monty, the problem that you suffer here is ignorance of the available points on the dial between the present situation and the use of nuclear weapons.

Educate me then, db. What more could be done than Putin is doing? His “partial” mobilisation has already scared off droves of adult males who have escaped the country. An escalation to a full mobilisation will only get lower quality recruits.

A post-Putin Russia would be more chaotic, but that’s not likely to help the war effort.

US National Debt Reaches Historic High

From Armstrong Economics –

“The US national debt has reached a historic high under Biden after surpassing $31 trillion. The national debt has always been chaotic as politicians push spending agendas with no plans to pay their debts. The only time the national debt was paid in full was in January 1835 under President Andrew Jackson. The US fell into debt just one year later and the austerity contributed to the subsequent Civil War and Jackson’s war on the banks.

The last time the US experienced a surplus was in 2001, although the debt still increased. COVID spending pushed the nation’s debt to new levels, and the US government spent $3.1 trillion more than it earned. In 2021, the federal government spent $2.8 trillion more than it earned. Now in 2022, the Biden Administration is announcing a new spending plan each week.

Biden spent $1.9 trillion on the American Rescue plan last year, which many blame for fueling inflation as $400 billion was earmarked for Americans to stay home and not work. Biden attempted to pass the $5 trillion Build Back Better bill, the largest proposed bill in US history. When that bill failed, Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act for $740 billion. Numerous independent studies have stated that the act will only worsen inflation.

Biden plans to spend around $400 billion to cancel student loan debt for families earning as much as $250,000 annually. To add insult to injury, Washington has sent Ukraine nearly $17 billion this year alone. This administration is not worried about taxpaying citizens, and eventually, the citizens will be the ones footing the bill for Biden’s excessive spending.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/govt-incompetence/us-national-debt-reaches-historic-high/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

This money will never be paid back………………………….

Geez.

*As they put*

Don’t say it Rabz @ 11.04, we’re all gonna die I say, running in ever smaller circles till I disappear up my own fundament. If the climate doesn’t get me, Ken tells us we’ve got 5- ? months, Daily Expose the end of the month. Anyone offer up a shorter time frame?

A city boy, Jimmy, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for 100 pounds sterling. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the following day.

The next day the farmer drove up and said “Sorry, son, but I have some bad news – the donkey died”. Jimmy replied. “Well then, just give me my money back”. The farmer said “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already”. Jimmy said “Okay then, just unload the donkey”. The farmer asked “What you gonna do with him?” Jimmy: “I’m going to raffle him off”. Farmer: “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!” Jimmy: “Sure l can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead”.

A month later, the farmer met up with Kenny and asked “What happened with that dead donkey?” Jimmy: “I raffled him off. I sold five hundred tickets at two quid each and made a profit of £898”.
Farmer: “Didn’t anyone complain?”

Kenny: “Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two pounds back”.

I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.

– Charles M. Schulz

Tom says:
October 8, 2022 at 10:49 am
Channel 7’s Dean Lester is so highly rated as a form analyst that trainers use him to write their speed maps. When Lester backs a horse, bookies respond by changing the market.

Yesterday, in a regular segment on the racing industry’s RSN radio service, Lester nominated Nanagui (J: L. Nolen; T: Peter Moody) as an $8.50 roughie in the Thoroughbred Club Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield today. Bookies responded by making Nanagui the $4.80 favourite.

Worth a small each-way wager as Lester’s roughies have a fairly good strike rate.

If this happens without any further betting beforehand this is quite remarkable.

After a two-week criminal trial in a very high-profile bank robbery case, the judge turns to the jury foreman and asks “Has the jury reached a verdict in this case?” “Yes, we have, your honour” The foreman responded.

“Would you please pass it to me” the judge declared, as he motioned for the bailiff to retrieve the verdict slip from the foreman and deliver it to him.

After the judge reads the verdict himself, he delivers the verdict slip back to his bailiff to be returned to the foreman and instructs the foreman “Please read your verdict to the court”.

“We find the defendant Not Guilty of all four counts of bank robbery” stated the foreman.

The family and friends of the defendant jump for joy at the verdict and hug each other as they shout expressions of divine gratitude.

The man’s attorney turns to his client and asks “So, what do you think about that?”

The defendant, with a bewildered look on his face turns to his attorney and says “I’m real confused here. Does this mean I can keep the loot or do I have to give all the money back?”

The Pope is on a stage handing out miracles to sick children. Billy walks on stage and asks “Can you help with my hearing?” The pope says “Yes” and puts his hands on Billy’s ears, then prays, removes his hands and says “How is your hearing now”. Billy says “I don’t know, it’s not till next Wednesday”.

I didn’t enable their idiotic authoritarianism at all you babbling lunatic.

I’ll say it again.

Local screechers who cannot influence their own family members through cogent argument overcompensate by yelling at people on the other side of the country who don’t do exactly as they say, when they say and in the manner set out for them.

It’s frustration borne of inadequacy.

Intersectional lefty alliances are fraying. Last week it was trannies beating up TERFs, this week it’s our MENA friends:

LGBT Palestinian kidnapped, beheaded after fleeing West Bank (6 Oct, via Instapundit)

A Palestinian man who fled the West Bank into Israel after his sexual orientation was revealed was kidnapped and brutally beheaded in Hebron, according to videos circulating on social media from early Thursday morning.

Footage of the lifeless body of Ahmad Hacham Hamdi Abu Marakhia, 25 years old, being carried [ie. paraded] in the Palestinian city emerged late on Wednesday night.

Poor guy. If only he’d fled to a Christian country he could have suffered terrifyingly homophobic things like people praying for him.

For the record, it matters not (in my view) if St. Ruth made his way down from the mountaintop and got jabbed.

It’s fair to suggest, due to the repeated operattas on display here that the reason behind his employment turnover may be because he’s a crashing, full-volume bore desperate for attention in one way or another who gave the shits to management and clientele alike.

Fuck you
The worst type.
Submits and then blames others for submitting

Anything to disclose, St. Ruth?

Remember, it matters not.

The AFR View

Tax populism won’t wash away broken promise

Labor’s bigger broken promise was to boost living standards without a plan to do so. So it’s keeping a tax for the not-so-rich instead.

Five months into office, Labor faces its first great political crunch. After three years of campaigning on its own uprightness and integrity in contrast to Scott Morrison’s supposed slipperiness, Anthony Albanese is backing Jim Chalmers in softening the ground to break their election promise to keep the Coalition’s stage three tax cuts.

The stage three tax cuts due to start in mid-2024 would mostly just hand back the stealthy tax increases imposed on these wage earners through bracket creep. Reversing this now won’t even help until another two budgets have passed. But Dr Chalmers is being backed by Labor pragmatists who say just take the political pain now: regardless of the merits, voters will have forgotten by the election.

Pushed into top tax scale

Most likely, Labor will pare back the stage three tax cuts along the lines of Dr Chalmers’ insistence that cost-of-living relief should be “targeted to people on low and middle incomes”. But the legislated stage three tax cuts are not unfair. Stage three would allow all Australians on incomes between $45,000 and $200,000 a year to keep 70¢ of each extra dollar they earn, sharpening the incentives to work.

What’s happening here is that Labor is being caught out on its bigger broken promise to kickstart wages growth and higher living standards without having any plan to do so. Exposed by the global inflation breakout, it is resorting to policy populism that will dull, not sharpen, Australia’s economic growth potential and undermine the nation’s capacity to attract global talent and sustain generous social spending.

Thank you.
If I’m a crashing full volume bore according to you, I’m doing as intended
We all know the denialists don’t want to hear the truth.
And it’s so tedious and unnecessary and really, since you’ve all been so decent in word and action toward those holding the line over the last two years, totally and utterly unwarranted. ..
You angels of submission don’t deserve it, do you.
Really all I have to do is sit back and wait
Who’s next.
You know who now won the trucks versus train saga.
Oh how I laugh.
I really do
Tick tick tick…..
Who’s the next to choo choo out of here
You were told.
You knew better.
You sneered and submitted.
Nazi passed your way while the righteous suffered and still do.
We’re going to have the last laugh.
And soon it Seems.

How do you get a shit stain out of the couch? Wait till Sunday when he’s off for a gig.

https://twitter.com/AtlantaFed/status/1578467610550620160

Atlanta Fed
@AtlantaFed
Tweet: On October 7, the #GDPNow model nowcast of real GDP growth in Q32022 is 2.9%.

… UP from 2.7 last week. This Fed has an excellent record with it’s GDPNow app forecasting next qtr GDP, within 0.1 – 0.3 ish.

IR’s at or above 5% looks like. I see also oil and copper looking stronger- despite the strength in the USD. Big signal IMO. And Powell quoting/channeling Volcker.

one of your little gang already gone and berating the person who said it was going to happen

That’s the way. Double down, knowing the last time you tried this on it ended in a ‘well what else would you have concluded’* moment.

*Actual quote, when realisation finally dawned that millions of people were not actually going to be cattle-trucked into Death Camps for…. well, death.

Sancho is also gone.
Many of you are now a wake up.

I note it by how many are getting sick of this one trick, vacuous donkey.
And letting him know.

dover,
Can you please have this constant bile from struth and his protagonists sent to the stoush page- WHERE IT FKG BELONGS? All this loudmouth trolls for is a fkg fight. Ta.

So what DID happen to Rex Anger?

He remains in a corporate gig. Working for The Man.

Just like St. Ruth.

Ah….a court case about a little public servant drunken whore who got caught with her knickers orf.
Imagine that with all going on in the world right now, this is being followed and commented on.

It’s possible to look at the matter of R v Lehrmann from a number of angles:

• The Trollop, “no better than she should be…”

• The Bastard Patriarchy looking after its own…

• The New Idea – “tearful Britney forced to relive…”

Or culture wars; playing out of media and politics into the real world – and setting new performance standards in the justice system.

Not top of mind, but I’m mainly getting the latter at the the Cat.
(With some Trollop.)

There is a shyteload Trillion$ of minerals under Afghanistan too JC. That wasn’t enough to keep the US interested. I’d say the dirt on the Bidens is a mega motivator.

Rogersays:
October 8, 2022 at 11:18 am
That “militia” was the hated and feared “Native Police” – ruthless in Queensland. They were from outside that State, and did not recognize the local indigenous as fellows.

There are certainly stories to be told here…but the war memorial is not the place.

Everything prior to 1 January 1901 should be in a separate “Colonial Conflicts” museum. Including the Boxer Rebellion and the colonial government contributions to the Second Boer War (1899-1902). That is also the correct place for the so-called “indigenous Resistance”.

Little grey ranga yapping from the side lines ….nothing to say no point to make.
Sad.

Custard, did you know Konnech has an Australian branch peddling ‘election security’?

https://www.konnech.com.au/

Mobilisations always scare off some adult males, monty, but its amazing that you are so eager to believe curated reports in our MSM that purportedly demonstrate that RUS will fail to mobilize 300K from a reserve pool of 2M with military and combat exp., there is also about 70K that have volunteered since the partial mobilisation announcement, and there is also another 200K active duty military, not including the 150K already in theatre, out of a pool of about 1M. A full mobilisation would involve an available pool of men in the order of 25M, compared with UKR’s 5M which they are already dipping into aggressively.

I like to think I have a healthy skepticism about propaganda from both sides. I don’t doubt that Russia will eventually mobilise 300k or more, even though some from the West cast shadows on even that number… the quality of such troops might be less than advertised, though, especially if they rush the training and don’t have enough equipment for them.

Ukraine currently has a manpower advantage, Russia could turn that around in the medium term absent the prospect of NATO actually committing troops. Ukraine also has a materiel advantage… short of China suddenly forming an Axis with them, I seriously doubt Russia is going to be able to compete with NATO long-term.

Ukraine has been loading up for this war since 2014, they had more than enough advance warning that it was coming. Russia seems to have stuffed around in that time, they got cocky and thought every invasion would be a SMO-sized cakewalk. On paper Russia should have strolled this in, but you don’t fight wars on paper.

“COVID-19 demonstrated to us that all possible avenues in developing vaccines must be explored and we will leave no stone unturned.”

From Rosies link.

What the fuck is wrong with these people? The COVID-19 vaccines performed far below advertised. So yeah, naturally we want lots more!

Would be interesting to see how many of these arseholes purchased shares in this biotech company before “pushing on”.

I seem to remember that we landed a sweet truckin’ job through a maaate.

I loved the tour bus stories.

No way, no absolute way that gig came to an end after complaints about constant unscripted jet-engine-level lecturing from the driver about the REAL Australia, Marxism and about how he’s the real hero here.

And God help any COWS on the bus.

Sorry, quote block got shafted ?

That had two pipes, one was destroyed but the other is only slightly damaged and can still be used.

Some USAF weapons officer is having a very bad day.

They’re working under contract for the Qld Electoral Commission, so that info will be in China by now.

Just like all our Aus Gov data.

Vickisays:
October 8, 2022 at 1:25 pm
Specially for cows vaccines
NSW fast tracks mRNA FMD and Lumpy Skin Disease vaccines

No way that my breeding herd will be vaccinated with mRNA vax. I foresee that this opposition will be harder to maintain than the vax of yours truly, as the regulations relating to livestock are onerous. But I will do my best.

Labor voters and vaxtards are modern day human livestock.

BTW I have been waiting for the NLIS to ban Ivermectin for drenching livestock, given its efficacy.

I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if this happened. The “ruling class” are a bunch of dribbling mongs. To many important meetings and far to little brains.

Now in Honolulu. Unplanned. Some problem with the cabin crew coffee maker or some such.
I have just read a brilliant anecdote concerning GEN Groves the head of the MANHATTAN atomic program. He determined that copper was an inadequate conductor for the super magnets he intended to use on his cyclotrons.
He wanted silver.
Following his habit of always going to the top, he met with Treasury Secretary Morganthou. The ever gracious Secretary suggested that he may be able to help and asked Groves how much silver he required.
“14.7 tons”.
“Young man, in Treasury we account for silver in Troy ounces”.
Apparently ar war’s end the silver was returned less 1% machining loss. Some Treasury gronk attempted to charge him for the shortfall.

St Ruth wouldn’t approve of the Indian Pacific

And yet you still imagine that this partial mobilisation is summoning untrained recruits. What part of mobilizing from “a reserve pool of 2M with military and combat exp.” didn’t you understand?

The quality of reservists is wildly variable, db. This is a very different war from those like Chechnya where most of the troops could just twiddle their thumbs while the artillery men pressed the buttons. This time they actually have to fight.

UKR currently have a manpower advantage because they have been pressing about 0.5M men into service since Feb., banned the international travel of military age men, and unleashed groups like Right Sector to dragoon the less then willing into military service. RUS will have turned that manpower advantage in theatre around by Nov.

In theory yes, though I’ll believe it when I hear about it actually making a difference in the field.

We’ve had six months of Western propaganda that RUS would be out of munitions, equipment, etc. by April, then May, and so on, but we haven’t seen any reduction in their rate of fire, and the like. We have seen, however, the Western powers begin to exhaust their supply of equipment, munitions, etc. Not sure why you think that NATO can turn this around in the short term without radically redirecting whatever manufacturing centres they have left to the production of armaments, munitions, and the like without the consequent hit to their consumer industry.

We have seen the Western powers order more equipment, yes. This is not a sign of weakness, especially since the Ukrainians are currently using their existing stocks of equipment (plus a lot of newly-seized Russian stuff) to conduct a wildly successful counter-offensive.

I suspect the Western military-industrial complex is superior in capacity to that of Russia over whatever term you like, given the US on its own spends more than ten times as much per year. Their donations to Ukraine are a drop in the bucket compared to their overall budget.

mOntycase chickenhawking hard this afternoon.

Just a quick comment/data point.
Sister went to best mates funeral on Wednesday. Lots of nurses and docs there as they do.
Three people have found themselves with really aggressive cancers that came from the blue – no warning, just a vague feeling of unwellness. One girl – I trained with her in 1983, her husband got an Xray for unusual abdo pain. Laparoscopy two days later and then opened up for bowel resection etc. Immediately closed again. Secondaries all through the peritoneum, the lymphatic system and lungs. Liver secondaries.
Given three months.
Don’t know vaccination status, but as sister said, there was a real atmosphere of fear as people left the chapel. Really aggressive cancers. This is getting a bit scary.

bons’ travelogues are pretty good reading. Where’s the like and subscribe buttons?