The Dow Jones Index nearly at 40,000 Who would have thought? And look at the NASDAQ – Wow And the…
Open Thread – Weekend 15 Oct 2022
Executive privilege for me, but not for thee.
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In other news, Thomas Jefferson University uses someone who is functionally illiterate to announce graduating students Calli, part of me…
China rolling out the red carpet in this Russia visit and the latter have really brought in their A-team. The…
Town square, stocks, and rotten food. Entertainment for all the family.
Yes, pretty correct Zulu.
Darwin stats for the Japanese attacks on 19 Feb:
-236 killed on our side
– 11 ships sunk
– 30 aircraft destroyed
– 188 + 54 enemy aircraft
– four shot down
Not a good day for Oz.
The world can’t handle any more major conflicts.
They are too inflationary.
Do you have any evidence of this? The relevant screenshot doing the rounds is 18 months old.
I think that process is happening now. On-shoring chip making equipment, chip making and all manner of semi conductor tech is moving back to the US while restrictions apply now to all Euro chip making companies . And the on-shoring is not limited to just this sector.
This policy won’t ultimately stop China’s chip industry but it puts a very serious brake on their capabilities giving time for the US to re-organise this strategic industry.
Archbishop of Canterbury visits Moore College
October 13, 2022 by Moore College
This was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Moore College since George Carey visited in 1997.
Does Groogs even lift?
These US markets have been turkey slapped.
Dow off 20%.
Nasdaq off 36%.
S&P500 off 25%.
What an absolute pounding.
So, … Knuckle Dragger, … sounds like you’re going in to bat for BigPharma again.
Stripped of Cant, Verbosity and Misdirection, here’s what you’re trying to sell:
Here you go Dover, also from the UK.
‘My missus needs the hospital!’ Fed-up drivers drag Just Stop Oil protesters off the road (15 Oct)
I hope they superglued themselves to the road. That’d be fun. Pain might give them an education that has previously been sorely lacking in their short, miserable lives.
How long would it take to transfer the factories over to the US or say Mexico.
The plant that’s being built in Columbus, Ohio will be equal to 7% of current Taiwan production when what’s currently planned is fully operational in about 5 years.
If it is all completed, it will be frickin’ huge.
Random Americans.
1. The Cop. I got talking to a woman waiting in line next to me in a chemist shop in San Diego. She initiates with I like your perfume and your necklace. We chat about these and she twigs I am Australian. She works for the police service and can retire at 49 and would like to live in Aus in early retirement. She tells me lots in the police in America are very unhappy and want to get out. You could work in Australia, we are crying out for workers, I tell her. Do you work? she asks me. I’m long retired, I reply. Oh I though you were around my age, she says. I beam, and tell Hairy waiting outside with the big suitcase which he is dragging to the quay and my two smaller ones which I drag. Keep dragging them, Lizzie, he sez.
2. The Street Beggar. There’s one for you, Hairy says, as we slowly approach an old guy sitting on the pier with his sign ‘three jokes for a dollar’. So I hand the old guy a dollar and say no need for a joke but he launches into his riddles anyway and we are bound to try for an answer. Why wasn’t the hippie saved by the lifesaver? he asks with a wicked wink. Nup, I say in defeat. Because he was too far out. Three more similar dad jokes follow till I say we’re off now and thanks for the extra joke. You’re Australian? he says to Hairy, knowing we are. First girl I ever kissed came from Nowra near Sydney. We tug away waving and I say to Hairy you have to admire his enterprise – I bet he has a town name handy for any Nationality who comes by.
3. The Unionist. On the San Diego sail-away I chat to the woman next to me as we pass by a major naval helipad where I count 30 copters landed. It’s a navy seals training base I hear one man say. That display would make me feel very patriotic if I was a US citizen, I comment, deliberately seeking a reaction. She hesitates, as though I’ve confronted her with a heresy of some sort, but with a considered tone, almost to herself she says yes, I do feel very patriotic. The woman has a stern rather sour face and tells me she lives in suburban Los Angeles. We chat about getting the Amtrek Surfrider train down, which she did too, and she says she is going to stay in Florida with a terrific deal in holiday accommodation provided by the Postal Services Union for long term employees which she is. I deliberately dig a bit further and comment I hear that a lot of Californians are moving to Florida these days, which sets her right off. Florida is an awful place, it’s humid and hot and full of alligators, she rails. I expect we’ll enjoy it though, I suggest and say ta ta as Hairy pulls me away for a cocktail. She’s doesn’t mind going there for a freebie holiday though, he observes.
True, however if US assets were held against Aussie dollar exposure, it’s not so bad.
Ed.
You made much more sense when you spoke about gypsum, anthropology, piracy, submarines, mutton, corflutes, Joe Burns, ‘Paino’ (who’s playing for Tasmania today by the way), North American bison, naval history, spooks and flamers.
And CCTV in ministerial offices.
The bad reviews of some barely watched ABC talk show (its numbers have dropped by a third since its debut, which is actually pretty decent by ABC standards) is newsworthy, according to the ABC:
Criticism of Fran Kelly’s new gig Frankly drips with ageism — a stubborn form of discrimination we need to call out
Boo frickin hoo. What we need to call out is the colossal waste of taxpayer money the ABC is. Airing reruns of Dad’s Army would be far cheaper than funding Fran Kelly’s vanity project, would attract similar (or higher) ratings, and would – Frankly – be more entertaining. Not that the ABC cares about any of these things.
Too late. Southwark Cathedral is a shrine to Gaia complete with prayers and candles.
I’m surprised they kept the crosses within, but it’s early days. Perhaps they see them as cute decoration, like rappers.
Mmmyes.
And the “drug free” comps were a sham. Even when they did testing, the thresholds were an order of magnitude higher than for other sports.
The categories would have been more correctly called “fully loaded” and “partially loaded”.
Jo,
Sorry been with kids at Nippers this morning.
The tech I have seen works like this ..The app turns on a Bluetooth beacon so that your exact position in the store can be tracked and cameras around the store capture what you take off the shelf and place in your bag. It runs up the total, and as you walk out of the store the app charges the card you have associated with the app.
Kaboom! Was that a head explosion I distantly heard. Be fun if they preached the Gospel to him.
Might’ve been a lot of agreeing to disagree, I suspect. Maybe a mention of “greenwashed sepulchres”.
(I’m hoping that Moore College hasn’t fallen into the same hole that so much of the Anglican denomination has done, since it’s been decades since I have attended one of the Sydney Anglican churches.)
Tasmania beaten by an Innings in Brizzy last week.
Perhaps bringing Paino back wasn’t a brilliant idea, morale wise?
Bern
Wow, five years. That’s a long time though.
It is funny that ‘whiteness’, the font of ignorance, pettiness, arrogance, paranoia, blindness, small-mindedness and hubris – and any number of other debilitating weaknesses, produced societies that have spread across the globe, produced science, medicine, philosophies and law that rest of the world so envies they either adopt them in their own lands or leave those lands to live in ‘white’ ones.
On the other side we have sTan who still believes in the smallpox blankets because it bestows victimhood.
One question for sTan: Why did the Aborigines need retarded backward Whitey’s blankets?
Techno Fog on the Danchenko trial.
He’ll get off & Durham hasn’t really put much of a case up.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/igor-danchenko-trial-revelations?post_id=78667118
But he’s used the trial do air the FBI’s filthy, soiled laundry.
Seriously, the FBI is the establishment’s Gestapo.
JC, there will meaningful production by late 2023.
But the entire campus will keep growing.
Bruce Pascoe’s whitefella phone just went berko.
Any idea why Linda Reynolds offices were steam cleaned on Saturday 23/3/2019, with particular emphasis on a “search for condoms” a few hours after the “Security Breach”?
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
October 16, 2022 at 11:51 am
Random Americans.
Lizzie,
one thing that really gives me the shirts about America is the constant hand out for Tips
(late 70s expensive hotel Boston paid by Raytheon, left 2 rolls 35mm exposed film on desk in hotel room – end of day, films not there – spoke to Raytheon guys and they said “Had I been leaving a Tip on the bed daily for the Maid” – What!, B’Expensive day rate, one expects bed to be made as part of that cost.
Anyway has America gone cashless like OZ, and if so how is tipping handled now?
This:
PK leaps to the defence of Frank. Colour me surprised.
Mother Lodesays:
October 16, 2022 at 11:59 am
Is there anything whiteness can’t do?
One question for sTan: Why did the Aborigines need retarded backward Whitey’s blankets?
Because it’s Bloody Freezing in the Desert/Mountains, Victoria, Tasmania
It just goes to show how deeply ingrained the Swamp is in the US. Across both parties and throughout all institutions. One gets the impression that Durham is doing this under much sufferance, when he could be easily taking the FBI and DoJ to the cleaners over this outrage. Only a determined outsider like Trump could cause them serious concern. POTUS De Santis- only maybe.
makka, TSMC is building a factory in Arizona. I don’t think it is finished yet. There are two aspects to this – design of the chips and actual fabrication. Many chip vendors are in fact fabless. They do design and the chips are fabbed by someone else. There aren’t all that many silicon foundries. AFAIK there is one plant in Holland which makes the most advanced ship manufacturing equipment for actual fabrication.
I wouldn’t sell the Chinese short. Half the problem with anything is knowing it is possible and take a look at papers in applied physics/electronics (same thing really) coming out of the US and look at all the Chinese names.
Squeezing the Dragon might also not be the optimum strategy here. Do you really want to go to war over Taiwan.
My tip on Taiwan -if it all happens the West will go “tut, tut” and do nothing.
He said it himself. He probably was on steroids for years, but he died after getting the vax. Totally unexpectedly, for no known reason. Sound familiar?
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“Those of You Who Think the Vaccine Kills People Can Use Me as a Test” – Bodybuilding Icon and Author Doug Brignole Passes Away At 63
Haha, might’ve coined a term. Out of curiosity I searched “greenwashed sepulchres” via both Goolag and Bing based search engines. Zero hits on both. Seems like a very accurate term for these druids which afflict all Christian denominations. Welby is one, and Czerny is another.
(For those aren’t familiar with the reference see Mt 23:27.)
It’s their custom. In any event tipping is basically at hotels and restaurants for tourists. It’s no biggie.
Ed Casesays:
October 16, 2022 at 10:07 am
The Battle of Midway saw the end of all four carriers that had hit Darwin months before.
Huh?
4 Carriers were required to attack a town of 2,000 and a few old ships?
It doesn’t add up.
Take it up with the IJN planning staff.
Oh, sorry, they’re all now dead. Try reading some history instead.
Richard Cranium.
I’m not Eyrie. The US chip policy is proposing to achieve 2 things. Keep this technology edge firmly in favour of the west and impair China’s tech advances as it relates to weaponry, to buy time while restructuring. As I said, ultimately it won’t stop China’s advances in this tech. I see ASML were questioning if the ban applies to them in Europe but they have complied. Billions in sales gone.
Interesting rifle for Ozfailure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StIycZafB3w
Ed Casesays:
October 16, 2022 at 10:26 am
Overcast in Brissy, Jacarandas are blooming, might rain, Silky Oaks didn’t flower this year.
Are the jacarandas in New Farm Park or Pakistan?
David Maddison
October 16, 2022 at 10:13 am · Reply
I was speaking to a being that identifies as a “computer programmer” the other day and he had never heard of a mercury delay line memory unit.
I was quite surprised.
This memory was also used in Australia’s first digital computer and the fifth stored program computer in the world, CSIRAC in 1949. (Which is also the oldest surviving 1st generation computer.)
Regardless of age, doesn’t anyone anymore have any interest in the history of technology?
the best Historical Reference on Computing in Australia is
ACS – A Vision Splendid
Graeme Philipson
The History of Australian Computing
356 Pages and an excellent read
https://docslib.org/doc/11381600/a-vision-splendid-the-history-of-australian-computing
Stan also believes in the “poisoned waterholes” piece of victimhood.
Ruh roh! China, Kazakshan, Egypt and a bunch of other countries tell their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately overnight. Is Putey going to get nukey??
Nope from me. If someone wants to go down the rabbithole that’s their choice, so long as they can choose as an adult. Which means 21. Or perhaps 18.
If smoking, alcohol and serving in the army require an age limit then choosing to cut one’s dick off surely does as well. Let them have emasculation parties if they really want it, so long as they’re of age.
I don’t see how such a stance is incompatible with conservatism. Everyone should be responsible for their own mischoices, which means they have to truly understand and accept they are making the mischoice. Which is why we limit such things by age.
A man was walking in the street when he heard a voice.
“Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step, a brick will fall down on your head and kill you”. The man stopped and a big brick fell right in front of him. The man was astonished.
He went on, and after a while he was going to cross the road. Once again the voice shouted “Stop! Stand still! If you take one more step a car will run over you and you will die”.
The man did as he was instructed, just as a car came careening around the corner, barely missing him.
“Where are you?” the man asked. “Who are you?” “I am your guardian angel” the voice answered. “Oh yeah?” the man asked. “And where the hell were you when I got married?”
After watching the first 2 games of the RLWC my initial impression is this;
No matter how many high profile big name star players in the island teams (and they have some very big fast forwards), playing together their discipline sucks when they tire and then they get smashed. Quite comfortably as it turns out.
Thanks Diogenes.
It seems like overkill to me – cameras and apps and all that for when you pop into the supermarket for a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs – but what would I know?
It would be interesting to know how accurate it is as well. Your average supermarket is rife with misplaced items, frequent re-arranging, and constantly changing product lines and prices. Scanning barcodes and the provision of a paper itemised receipt keeps the error rate down and makes it easy to check that you have been correctly charged. I can imagine numerous ways that using an app plus cameras could cause errors, not to mention opportunities to game the system. And how does it cope with you changing your mind and putting something back on the shelf, not necessarily in the right place?
Time will tell, I suppose.
Boambee Johnsays:
October 16, 2022 at 12:20 pm
Ed Casesays:
October 16, 2022 at 10:26 am
Overcast in Brissy, Jacarandas are blooming, might rain, Silky Oaks didn’t flower this year.
Definitely Jacarandas are not blooming in McDougall Street Kirribilli as I drove past last night.
North Sydney Council has vowed to transform Kirribilli into the “jacaranda village of Sydney” as visitors once again flock to take photographs under the suburb’s famous purple blooms.
Even in the face of COVID-19, hundreds have descended on McDougall Street in recent days to take photos for social media, as the site becomes increasingly popular with Instagram influencers and visitors from the rest of Sydney.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy and hope.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Ozzie.
I think I had a bitch about an AirBnB host in NYC who left the key behind the counter at the bar downstairs.
Guy behind the bar denies all knowledge.
After ten minutes of fucking around, the key is located.
Only occurred to me later that they were angling for a tip.
The Plot to Seize Russia
From Armstrong Economics –
“This work has been made possible by the declassification of the documents from the Clinton Administration. This book contains even the transcripts of phone calls between Yeltsin and Bill Clinton thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. This book will change what we thought was history. NATO even invited Russia to join in 1991 which led to the coup against Gorbachev. Before you sign of to World War III, you better wait until you finish this book.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/the-plot-to-seize-russia/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The World is not what it seems to be. But then again……………………….
Daily Mail
The Graduate is now about to start on SBS World Movies.
A truly great film …………………………..
JR
the culmination of 70years of liberalism with marxist characteristics
Neighbours star Rob Mills admits to threesome with drag queen Courtney Act and drug-fuelled flings with gay men: ‘We had a bit of an orgy!’
BoN, as long as the transgender surgery and any complications is paid out of their own pocket. No government subsidy.
mental illness is not a choice
Archbishop of Canterbury highlights climate crisis in Australia with visit to Lismore
When the climate bullshit really started back in about 2007, despite the Al Gore movie Judgment and then subsequently Climategate, it was impossible to argue the science with the devotees. The reason for that is alarmism is a religion and there is no surprise that the established religions should be intent on appropriating it.
Alarmism was always a reworking of the Eden myth where the paradise of nature was despoiled by the use of fossil fuels. And just like Eden where God banished Adam and Eve to a harsh unnatural world AGW says the backlash from nature to humanity’s abuse of nature will be equally harsh.
In Christianity there has been a dispute about AGW. On one side is the more progressive forms which accept AGW and interpret the role of Christianity as assisting the people who will be affected by AGW. The 2006 Evangelical Climate Initiative for instance regarded the IPCC as foundational in developing its position on AGW; sort of like an updated version of the 10 Commandments.
On the other side has been the traditional Christian view as typified by the Cornwall Alliance. This approach took the literal Biblical view that God is sovereign over creation and therefore humans can do no permanent damage to what God has created. This view also advocates that God entrusted the earth to human dominion and we should not be afraid of economic development or other uses of human creativity.
Like everywhere else the pro alarmist version of Christianity has dominated hence the recent cabal of fucktards demanding the ending of fossils.
Italy’s new No. 3 is a Catholic politician studying philosophy at a pontifical university
The president of the Chamber of Deputies is considered the third-highest position in the Italian state after the president of the republic and the president of the senate. (The prime minister, officially president of the council of ministers, is the head of government.)
Italy’s presumptive prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has also been hailed as a Catholic by some U.S. media, though she usually refers to herself only as a “Christian.”
Rabzsays:
Spotted one today at the servo.
Her smile made my day.
Joe Biden Grabs Young Girl’s Shoulders, Tells Her ‘No Serious Guys Until You’re 30’
summed up by
Meet The Biden Boys – Sniff & Snort
In the absence of physiological disorders yes it is.
Interesting observation.
Following the coin is always a good rule.
I am OK with restaurants and maybe hotels if they do something extraordinary.
It’s when it leaks into all sorts of other areas that it shits me.
Like the old Chinese taxi driver in NYC who drove us all over town, went to drop us at the wrong place because he knew there would ve plenty of pick-ups and tried to tell me I had to pay 30% tip “because it da raw”.
Fuck off.
Anyway, he gave up after I argued with him for five minutes and his next customer (who was standing in the pissing rain) told him he was talking shit.
Sancho Panzersays:
October 16, 2022 at 1:01 pm
JCsays:
October 16, 2022 at 12:16 pm
one thing that really gives me the shirts about America is the constant hand out for Tips
It’s their custom. In any event tipping is basically at hotels and restaurants for tourists. It’s no biggie.
I am OK with restaurants and maybe hotels if they do something extraordinary.
It’s when it leaks into all sorts of other areas that it shits me.
Like the Car Rental Bus Driver when you have carried your own bag, on and off the Bus
Correction:
Silky Oaks are still in bloom around New Farm Park.
On Doug Brignole:
looks like he was shilling for TheVax, then dropped dead afterwards.
While not mocking the guy’s demise …
On Trans issue:
99.9% are girls, probably mostly with a Chromosone
abnormality.
Catherine McGregor seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth.
Any recent sightings of her?
My turn for a dad joke…
The Old F-4 Pilot
A gray-headed old man shuffled into a downtown bar with his head high but his hands shook as he took the “Piano Player Wanted” sign out of the front window and handed it to the bartender. “I’d like to apply for this job,” he said. “I was an F-4 pilot, back in ‘Nam, but when they retired the F-4, all the thrill was gone. Soon they cashed me in as well, so I learned to play the piano at the Officers’ Club during happy hours. Now, I want to play here.”
The barkeep wasn’t too sure about the doubtful-looking old guy. But it had been quite a while since the bar had a piano player and business had falling off, so he decided to give the old guy a tryout. As the old pilot shuffled over to the piano for his audition, several patrons grinned and snickered. However, by the time he was into his third bar of music, every voice in the bar was silent as he played a rhapsody of soaring music unlike anything ever heard there. When he finished there wasn’t a dry eye in the place.
The bartender rushed over to the old F-4 pilot, delivered a mug of beer and asked him the name of that song. It’s called “Drop your Skivvies, Baby, I’m Going Balls To The Wall For You,” he said. After a long pull on the beer, leaving it empty, he said “I wrote it myself.”
The bartender and the crowd were taken aback by the title, but then the old guy went into a knee-slapping, hand-clapping bit of ragtime and the joint started really jumping. Everyone loved it and the crowd broke out in wild applause when he finished. The old F-4 pilot acknowledged their applause, downed a second mug of beer, and told them he wrote that one too. It is called, “Big Boobs Make My Afterburner Light.”
He then launched into another mesmerizing tune that enthralled everyone. He announced it was the latest rendition of another song he wrote titled, “Spread ’em, Baby, It’s Foggy Out Tonight and I Need To See The Centerline”. He then excused himself for a short trip to the john.
Upon his return, the bartender ran over to the piano with another mug of beer and said, “Flyboy, the job is yours, you are hired. But before you continue playing, could you please tell me something? Do you know your fly is open and your pecker is hanging out?”
“Know it?” Wilson replied, “Hell, I wrote that one too!”
Or pointless.
Why offer discounts to 90% of the population for events which are unrelated to the vax?
If money talks, and vaxxed are dropping like flies, wouldn’t you expect the opposite?
Excess premiums for the vaxxed?
so little time, so many coincidences
Again, Tarantino nailed it.
The opening scene of Reservoir Dogs. Mr Pink hit it out of the park.
Sure, but that’s the custom here. It’s not in the US. Basically if they do their job, the deal is they get a tip, which is usually twice the sales tax. It’s just how it works there.
Don’t feel you have to pay them a thing.
Other than the tourist examples I gave, there are a couple of other examples.
1. Getting a hair cut means a tip.
2. Apartment help. You tip the superintendent on down at Xmas. I really can’t think of anyone else you’re expected to tip.
Don’t ever feel obliged.
Still is.
No Debate Allowed?! Debate opponent withdraws, ducks debate at ‘Green Davos’ conference – Morano & Monckton set to debate climate activists as UK Climate Minister cancels attendance (14 Oct)
Every time that climate realists debate Gaia devotees the realists win. Every time. Nowadays one whiff of a realist is enough for a climate bedwetter and a Minister for Climate Change to run away and hide. It’d be amusing if there wasn’t so much riding on this gigantic fraud.
Zip, this is the problem and why random events can be confused with “too many co-incidences”. You’re a numbers dude, so you’d understand it.
68.3% of the world’s population means we’re close to nudging 5 billion people. That’s a fucking huge number of folks, and in that number some are just going to fall dead on any given day without an adequate explanation, or it could be due to the vax.
That doesn’t mean, the vax isn’t problematic. It’s just that we have no idea and one of the reasons is that this event has never occurred before in human history. The vastness of the vax distribution.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
Outstanding reply by Trump, the best POTUS ever, to the Jan 6 traitor commission.
You know that as someone who lived there a long time.
But that is where they gaslight tourists into thinking everyone gets tipped for everything.
Fuck, I even had a waiter sit at our table for ten minutes in LA once complaining that tourists don’t tip, and the IRS assesses him on 10% of the take whether he gets it or not and … here comes the punchline … “if it wasn’t for genuinely worldly types who understand that, and tip me more, I would be on the streets”.
FMD.
I tipped him precisely 10%, to the cent.
The experience of the last two decades, at the very least, tells us otherwise. BTW, the consent angle here is a distraction. If sex changes are permitted for adults on ‘medical’ grounds, the rationale of excluding children from such ‘medical’ assistance are prudential or conditional at best. This is precisely Pedro’s point. Same thing happened with sexuality. Conservatives thought they could succumb to liberalisation by siloing sexuality to the ‘privacy of the bedroom’ only to find that no one apart from themselves thought that it could or should end there.
5 billion vaxes administered over a period of say 15 months spread over almost every country in the world is absolutely staggering from a logistical point of view. Like it or hate, it’s an extraordinary accomplishment by humanity.
There are around 8800 hours in a year. 15 months/12 months = 11,000 hours in 15 months. This equals 660,000 minutes x 60 = 40 million seconds over 15 months.
That works out to 125 vaxes administered every second of the day over 15 months.
That’s just mind boggling.
Ed listed normal behaviour and claimed it was a pattern of pathological.
He was trolling, Duh!
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1580354212503773184
I used to have some time for Hans von Storch as a climate scientist but this paper by him shows he’s just another climate fucktard.
The Physical Sciences and Climate Politics
His concluding sentence:
Summing up, climate science is and should be much more than just the physical analysis
Coolest nick name for a politician
SloMo
AnAl
Or
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is considering creating a sanctions regime to impose an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on anyone who threatens the peace, security or stability of Haiti, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Thursday.
The first person to be sanctioned would be Jimmy Cherizier, who goes by the nickname “Barbecue” and is described in the U.S. and Mexico-drafted resolution as one of Haiti’s most influential gang leaders.
Sounds like an excellent name for a high-ranking SS officer, Cronkite.
Philip Island is looking gorgeous for the Moto Gp.
I don’t mind tipping. It makes up for the lower pay rate and encourages better service.
An interesting perspective.
I’ve spent a fair part of my working life travelling to shitholes where the unwary can catch exciting ways to die horribly.
My life insurers have always demanded I disclose the filthy foreign places I might go to – and presumably charged accordingly. None of the bastards ever offered a discount for my being vaccinated for turd world diseases.
I suspect life insurers generally charge on an average actuarial basis rather than pricing individually for people who take precautions appropriate to their circumstances. In the case of most people in the life insurance market (ie typically under 65) there is little chance of dying of Covid, so little/no actuarial benefit from being jabbed.
But it could all be rigged by the WEF.
Dover – I had in mind Romans 1:28 and Luke 17:2.
If someone wants to condemn themselves then on their own head be it, but not the children who don’t know better.
FMD
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/maribyrnong-dam-would-have-saved-hundreds-of-homes-20221015-p5bq0v.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1665872660
One might inquire who it was, exactly, who brought cholera to Haiti…?
Banning the UN from going anywhere near Haiti would be an improvement.
My dad had a hobby farm very close to there. On the way, traveling to Phil’s Island, there’s a small airport on the right of the Hwy. They used to fly in freshly cooked Kind Island lobsters. FMD, they’re delicious.
That’s untrue, Fester. Even Cronkite once reported on a Monchton debate here in Sydney one time and said he (Monckton) didn’t perform well. I think he debated Tim Lambert.
One might inquire who it was, exactly, who brought cholera to Haiti…?
Banning the UN from going anywhere near Haiti would be an improvement.
Just let the Dominican Republic takeover and have the whole island. Boot out all of the riff raff as well as the corrupt UN and USA stooges. Problem solved.
Haiti has been independent for 400 years plus when the slaves revolted and took-over. It’s been a shithole and continues to be.
If the culture believes that sex changes are not merely normal, but to be celebrated, that will also apply to children, and the facts on the ground already indicate that.
whoops
200 plus years..
Not a bad idea. Long time have been praying and supporting some churches in Santo Domingo, who help out churches and other efforts in Haiti. Such as IBT.
The gangs seem to’ve metastasized in Haiti lately, not unlike Mexico. Seriously nasty situation. I don’t know what the answer is.
Ukraine Spends $5 Million To Shoot Down A $25,000 Drone
The Economics of Air Defense
A lot happened in the last week in the Ukraine War. In this post, we’ll look at one incident that may shed some light on the economics of the conflict. Following that, a note about avoiding head fakes in in war and markets by keeping your eye on the big picture.
After the Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge last weekend, Russia responded with massive missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian targets starting on Monday. The drones were primarily Iranian Shahed-136 Kamikazes (re-christened as Geran-2 by Russia).
Cost estimates I’ve seen for these drones vary from about $20,000 to $25,000 each. They’re literally powered by lawnmower engines (presumably, because Iran has limited access to engines due to U.S. sanctions), though in the video above, it looks like they get an initial rocket boost off their launchers.
Despite being loud and slow, they apparently have been quite effective, so the Ukrainian Air Force sent up a MiG-29 fighter to shoot one down. You can see the MiG firing at it in the short video below.
A MiG-29 apparently costs something between $5 million and $12 million, incidentally.
In this case, the MiG successfully shot down the drone, but shrapnel from the explosion of the drone hit the MiG’s cockpit, forcing the pilot to eject. You can see wreckage of the MiG below.
So the Ukrainians sacrificed a $5 million+ plane to shoot down a $25,000 drone. If this sounds like it may be an unrepresentative example, consider that we’ve already given the Ukrainians aid equal to Russia’s entire military budget for 2021.
Update: Elon Musk Flips After Getting Put on Ukraine’s Kill List
Elon Musk says SpaceX will keep funding Starlink in Ukraine despite losing money
He’s a strange guy.
Transported migrants may be on a path to citizenship because of DeSantis flights
The DeSantis flight to Martha’s Vineyard was a great stunt and great politics.
The continued moving of illegals from Texas to New York is actually helping do what Federal government wants to happen.
If DeSantis and Abbott want to be tough guys, they need to charter busses, staff it with national guard and have the illegals bussed over the Mexican border. If it means a physical confrontation with the Feds, then do be it.
DeSantis and Abbott are tough guys, right?
ABC flood coverage eulogising a non existent concept.
My wife and I have both noticed that the presenters keep putting to the volunteers on air that the cooperative spirit now is a follow on from the covid.
None of the on ground people know how to rationalise the statement and just go on to talk about the help they get.
Covid was about division, pettiness and top down enforcement, the antithesis of the willing community effort in the floods.
No crisis is wasted in the propaganda war.
Do= so
Napoleon I demanded and got payment in Gold to let the Haitians go.
That was 1804.
They didn’t repay the Debt until 2005.
So, Haitians were Debt Slaves for 200 years.
Though Haiti does have 1 Billionaire, will check on nos of Billionaires in the D.R..
Stratolaunch Prepares for Reported In-Flight Drop Test of Talon Hypersonic Testbed
World’s Largest Aircraft Seen with Engines Running and New Test Payload at Mojave.
A tip from one of the most accomplished spotters in the U.S. on Thursday, October 13, 2022, led TheAviationist to the Mojave Air & Space Port to find “Roc”, the world’s largest aircraft, the one-off Stratolaunch, outside of its massive hangar. The next day, it’s engines were seen running and the massive, twin-fuselage, six-engine aircraft had been moved well away from its hangar.
According to additional, credible sources close to the Stratolaunch project, the aircraft is being prepared for an upcoming test flight that is reported to include the separation drop-test of an unmanned Talon-A hypersonic mock-up that is being referred to as “Talon-0” for this reported upcoming test.
Black Ballsays:
October 16, 2022 at 1:50 pm
FMD
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/maribyrnong-dam-would-have-saved-hundreds-of-homes-20221015-p5bq0v.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1665872660
The plan was rejected by the Bracks Labor government in 2006 over claims it would devastate the river, flood farms and cost millions of dollars. Environment Victoria also criticised the plan over environmental concerns.
Crapper said the $80 million price tag was “chicken feed” compared to the damage bill from floods over the past two decades. He predicts that if nothing is done, low-lying towns and suburbs along the Maribyrnong River – including the suburbs of Keilor, Essendon, Footscray and Yarraville – can expect “more of the same if not worse” in the future.
The Victorian government has repeatedly ruled out building new dams over claims climate change meant not enough water would flow into them. Yesterday, Premier Daniel Andrews reiterated his government’s policy not to build any more dams saying the flood was “not about storage” but “patterns of weather that are unique”.
“I am not here to make any announcements about additional dams, our policy has been to make the best and most efficient use of the water that we have as well as to create a climate change resistant capacity to create water,” he said.
RUS spent a lot of effort in last week’s strikes degrading UKR’s AD system. Down to about 10-20%, according to Zelensky.
I too rewatched The Graduate a couple of days ago.
With some anticipation given that my memories of the movie were that it was thrilling.
That ‘thrilling’ memory must have related to ‘a bit of tit’ and sneering at adults, all of whom were hypocritical, ignorant bullies, of course.
The rewatching confirmed my emergent view that my generation in our youth were arrogant, priveledged, ungrateful, ignorant, smart asses.
There is nothing like flogging around in Alfa’s, going to million dollar colleges, and not having to take on summer jobs to demonstrate your repressed status.
Sure it was a comedy, I think, and edgy for its day, but take away S&G and there is not much left.
You know, Trump is 100% courage.
There’s a piece in the Oz talking about a couple of interviews done with Jizzlane.
Jizza reckons this famous pic is doctored bullshit.
The size and cost of the drone is irrelevant. It’s terminal effect demands that it is destroyed in whatever way is possible. That will always be an expensive proposition.
“Don’t hide folks it is only a cheap drone”.
The young kid with the homemade pistol will still kill you.
What idiot journo comes up with this rubbish.
If you invested in Plastics you’d now be hated all over the world by Gaia worshippers.
I’m amused that Britain has invented a paper bottle.
UK-made paper bottles exported around world hailed post-Brexit success story (15 Oct)
Limited shelf life before they melt like a Dali painting, I suspect.
TE, please stop using facts to debate Thick Ed.
He’s just here to disrupt, be stupid, and irritate sensible people.
The latest BS from Chairman Dan of VictoriaStan……………………………
The Victorian government has repeatedly ruled out building new dams over claims climate change meant not enough water would flow into them. Yesterday, Premier Daniel Andrews reiterated his government’s policy not to build any more dams saying the flood was “not about storage” but “patterns of weather that are unique”.
“I am not here to make any announcements about additional dams, our policy has been to make the best and most efficient use of the water that we have as well as to create a climate change resistant capacity to create water,” he said.
This bloke is such a dope and has water on the brain. That is, if he has a brain that is………………………
Yes, you Victorians, vote him back in and get more of this Madness and lunacy.
Your argument assumes we know the physiological markers. We have intuitions and intuition isn’t worth shit. Imaging, neurotransmitters, and connectome studies are conflicting. We can point to connectome changes, inflammatory markers for ASD and schizophrenia but these are variable. For depression we might find inflammation(but that is time dependent), glucocorticoid resistance(again time dependent), and frontal lobe dysregulation, but these all vary across individuals and even within individuals. We might also find a smaller hippocampus and\or enlarged amygdala but again not consistently so.
The larger problem with your position is that some types of mental illness are strongly associated with difficult pregnancies, maternal inflammation, childhood deprivation, and genetics.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
October 16, 2022 at 2:46 pm
The Graduate
If you invested in Plastics you’d now be hated all over the world by Gaia worshippers.
I’m amused that Britain has invented a paper bottle.
LOL. And who cares, as he shagged the Mum and ran off with the Daughter with great music while the film was being made. Not bad.
Bruce of Newcastle.
Epic Games offers a free game every week. This week it is Fallout 3 with all the addons. You can install their launcher to obtain the free game. Most of the free stuff is poor quality but occasionally a gem pops up.
The activists swallow it up. Questioning their dogma gets you called a “colonial”, like it’s some sort of insult. Yet a single distant Aboriginal ancestor makes you not a colonial, even though a full blood disagreeing still gets called a colonial.
These people are deranged.
John H – Been playing Fallout 3 for many years! I had a look yesterday at Steam’s offerings, it was going for about $5. Awesome value.
Immensely enjoyable game, lots of nice dry humour plus the 1950’s style atmosphere. On the other hand the nuclear fridge joke in Fallout: New Vegas is my favourite.
By contrast I’ve never been able to get into Fallout 4. Dunno why, it doesn’t capture me for some reason. It just comes across as annoying and boring. Go figure.
Evan schizophrenia can be mitigated with a change of environment, diet, exercise and some kind of active hobby, John H. Getting them or a perent to make that choice is the biggest challenge.
I don’t think we differ that much given you past comments.
Important question of the day: why do fieldsmen shout “Catch it” to their cricketing brethren when a ball is hit in the air?
A stupid, irrelevant, and distracting shout, shirley.
Shit starting to get real because of floods. BWS here in town have set a 4 slab daily limit. Stock up ladies and gentlemen!
On the way, traveling to Phil’s Island, there’s a small airport on the right of the Hwy. They used to fly in freshly cooked Kind Island lobsters.
I’ve had email and phone conversations with that guy.
I bet the paper bottles have some kind of wax coating inside. Likely made from hydrocarbons.
The best bet when you mishit a ball is to call for a run and take off.
That puts pressure on the fieldsman.
Calling out “catch it” puts pressure back on the off strike batsman, he may stand his ground so that even if the catch is dropped, the Run Out is still on.
Danger: flying feline feces?
50% increase in miscarriages; 50% decrease in fertility after COVID vax
and viz a viz –
Your Government is trying to kill you: Confidential Pfizer Documents reveal COVID Vaccination is going to lead to Mass Depopulation
This Harvard-educated MD went from blue pill to red pill on the COVID vax. Here’s the story.
Arab-Americans form alliance with GOP in bid to ban explicit LGBT books from Detroit school libraries – as hundreds of furious parents join forces to rally at board meeting
Out of all the misconceived, ill-thought-out and entirely wrong commentary you have provided on this august journal of record, this is clearly and undisputedly the most stupid.
Good luck getting that game to run on Windows 10.
Sure, follow the guides on how to tweak it, but it still may crash in the opening scene.
That’s what happened on the Steam version of the game anyhow.
The DOJ wanted to pursue criminal action against the vaccine makers, but…
the lower level guys were called off the case by their management.
TUCKER CARLSON: The Democratic Party is replacing parents with itself
Invasion: Under Biden, 2.2 Million Illegal Aliens Entered the U.S. Interior, Changing Demographics, Part of Dems’ Plan.
Within Mere Months, Moderna’s Covid “Vaccine” Efficacy Turns Into AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
They certainly don’t call ‘catch it’ when it flies to Joe Burns.
High school cancels rest of football season due to lack of healthy players
Fitton: New FOIA Requests Reveal The Gates Foundation Assisted The CCP In Its Global Quest For Power
Jacarandas. The tree of choice for LGA drones. See also: London Plane tree.
CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT
@Frankperrewar
Know whats coming
Kenan
@SonOfEnos
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Ukrainian terrorist who was trying to hit a civilian airplane over Moscow with an “Igla” anti-aircraft missile was captured by the FSB.
He recently entered Russian through Estonia.
I think this is essentially true, except “when” should be replaced by “if”. And it’s Julian Assange being kept indefinitely in prison, not the perpetrators.
Golfwrench
@Golfwrench
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If YOU are supporting anyone running for public office that isn’t screaming publicly about the stolen 2020 election, you’re part of the problem!
It Begins… Schools in The Netherlands Serve Mealworms and Insects to Children to Save Planet from Global Warming
The aerial shot of Turn 2 looking out over Bass Strait is great – unless you are there in a cold SW wind with a feels like temp in single digits. Getting out of a muddy paddock with a few hundred other bikes on road tyres is interesting. And the ride back to Melbourne with everybody who thinks they could be a GP rider. A mate did it with Spaniards at Barcelona. They’re worse.
Quebec doctor recommends infanticide under Canada’s euthanasia laws
Good day out but.
Did you all know that today is Global Cat Day?
Jury duty can really suck sometimes.
North Carolina Judge Sends Veteran to Jail for 24 Hours for Refusing to Wear Mask in Court (15 Oct)
The law is an ass, someone said once. If I get called like this I’d be tempted to hire a 19thC diving suit and sit in the jurybox in it. It’d make for a great photo.
Entitled brats across the UK are pouring out milk in protest and people hate them for it
Mentioned yesterday.
The Maribynong River has always flooded, it’s what rivers do, so yes a dam upstream was a sensible solution.
Residents should be suing the state government.
And Bandt and that green who I presume is standing for a state seat should stop demanding coal mining stop to stop flooding in Flemington.
It sounds really far-fetched because it is.
And thanks for the comment about life insurance and vaccination Dr F.
Life insurance holders tend to be of working age, covid diers tend to be around 80, the difference in risk would be about zip.
I’m a walking time bomb, cool.
Bern, whatever one thinks of the NFL or college football, Tennessee and Alabama was superb quality.
Amazing that all those stadia across that country like Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, Texas A&M, all have capacity of 100k+.
why do fieldsmen shout “Catch it”?
Co’s it’s better than saying ‘Drop It’……………
“If the culture believes that sex changes are not merely normal, but to be celebrated, that will also apply to children, and the facts on the ground already indicate that.”
Exactly, I argue the same about hand wringing over teen suicide while supporting euthanasia.
Pogriasays:
October 16, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Red hot candidate for a visit to Jenny Craig immediately! 🙂
Well yes Rosie. Now who is the federal member for Maribyrnong? His constituents aren’t of national interest at this current point in time so why would he care? No one’s life is in peril. So maybe a tweet is in order assuring his steady hand?
Colonel – Mine is the disk version, it runs very well under Win 10. I get very occasional CTDs but I think that’s an unresolved bug in the game code. Save regularly and all is fine.
I can’t comment on the Steam version, but other Steam games have been OK for me so far. I don’t have many though.
(I keep meaning on trying The Witcher, but my disk version doesn’t like my USB CD drive and I haven’t gotten around to getting it off of Steam. Not sure either whether such games work – saw Civ 4 Colonization offered on Steam yesterday cheaply, but my disk copy doesn’t like 64 bit Win 10. Compatibility issues suck.)
In a train compartment, there are 3 men and a ravishing young girl.
The four passengers join in conversation, which very soon turns to the erotic. Then, the young girl proposes “If each of you will give me $1.00, I will show you my legs”. The men, charmed by this young girl, all pull a buck out of their wallet.
And then the girl pulls us her dress a bit to show her legs.
Then she says “If each of you gentlemen will give me $10.00, I’ll show you my thighs” and men being what they are, they all pull out a ten-dollar bill.
The girl pulls up her dress all the way to her legs in full.
Conversation continues, and the men, a bit excited, have all taken off their coats. Then the young girl says “If you will give me $100, I will show you where I was operated on for appendicitis”.
All three fork over the money. The girl then turned to the window and points outside at a building they’re passing. “See there in the distance. That’s the hospital where I had it done!”
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
– Winston Churchill
Shame, shame, shame!
There’s a good chance most paper made from hydrocarbons too, right???
There’s quite a bit more like this too…
As BoN said a teen has less life experience to make such choice.
Hard to argue against as a concept.
The thing that strikes me is that this ‘cultural practice’ is getting a head of steam without being accepted, far less celebrated, by what one might perhaps term the ‘general culture’, or the ‘normal culture’.
Instead I see a tiny, perverse/damaged cultural fragment, supported for political and wokely ‘progressive’ reasons by a larger cultural fragment that considers itself to be a vanguard.
This is yet another government-created fault line in modern Australian society.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
– Winston Churchill
Should be printed in every school around the country.
I’d rather it be cat hunting season.
I’ve got that quote printed on a sweatshirt. Wore it down to cast my ballot one year, and nearly got into a fight with a Labor supporter.
This is the scariest aspect of the current fad:
Boston Children’s Hospital Claims Puberty Blockers ‘Completely Reversible’; Director Admits They Cause Infertility (15 Oct)
They are lying that puberty blockers are reversible. Claiming this stuff is reversible is a despicable lie. There’s no way back. So to claim it is is a most despicable evil, to fool parents and children like this.
The Maribynong River has always flooded, it’s what rivers do, so yes a dam upstream was a sensible solution.
The other sensible solution would have been to stop building on and filling in flood plains along the Maribyrnong.
In a different century I was taught in Geography that flood plains were caused by floods. So are flood plains now not flood plains? Are they only flooded flood plains when Gaia is unhappy with us? Were they miraculously formed during aeons of no floods, only now to flood because we’ve sinned?
The hubris of these people is amazing.
“One of the few people to have shown her any loyalty, she says, is former President Donald Trump.
“We knew each other and mingled in the same circles, in New York, Palm Beach. I was very grateful when he wished me well after (the arrest). He got bad media for it, but he dared, while others didn’t.
“I was honoured he remembered me. Well, he is known to say what he thinks. It gave me a big boost.”
Maxwell complained friends were “cancelled” just for knowing her.”
This takes courage and it shows the measure of a man or woman who does this. Trump has courage. I remember the vilification Abbott and Howard received when they gave character references for Cardinal Pell when he was sentenced. I also remember how the putrid left, Labor, Skank Steggall, GetUp et al used this in the 2019 Warringah campaign against Abbott, smearing him as a “buddy of pedophiles”.
What doe they call out when the pill flies in Black Ball‘s direction?
Four runs.
They do this if the ball is heading for Joe Burns.
He needs very explicit instructions.
Do you think Maxwell is innocent?
If not the comparisons are foolish.
Just let the Dominican Republic takeover and have the whole island.
A major advance for the poor old Haitians, who wouldn’t be much better off but could console themselves with the DR’s Presidente lager, the world’s best warm weather brew IMHO
It’s intentional.
Bring up some shitbag who belongs in Jail, then throw Pell’s name in there.
Every day.
No.
‘Worst f****ng track’ The Beatles hated recording a Paul McCartney classic (11 Oct)
Be warned: if you follow the link you will instantly catch an earworm.
Testing
Just back from helping my daughter clean up after being flooded by lovely brown Maribynong River sludge. Around 2 feet of water went through and basically wrecked her rented unit. It will be unliveable for a long time.
It’s pretty obvious the Flemington Racecourse wall created a choke point and caused the river to back up.
The poor sods have their lives on the lawn ,while the toffs will be living it up on Tuesday week.
Any good deals on laptops around atm?
I like to have a lot of tabs and programs open at once and no cloud storage on account i don’t often have internet:)
And multiple screens
RSL chief says “frontier wars” have no place in the War Memorialhttps://headtopics.com/au/war-memorial-is-a-place-to-8216-show-recognition-8217-to-those-who-died-in-uniform-30709133
My laptop wont start – not a flicker
Tried hard reset even unplugged the little battery inside nada
Just checked Sportsbet for latest US election Odds.
Betting on Kari Lake suspended.
Not sure what has happened for them to suspend betting apart from Veritas’ film last week , which was ignored anyway
Ladbrokes have her at $1.55.
Jacarandas. The tree of choice for LGA drones. See also: London Plane tree.
Brisbane Leopard Tree.
Maybe it is just resting.
A memorial to the Frontier Wars? What comes next, a memorial to the “Stolen Generation?”
Happen upon Matt Hall today, the Redbull aerobatic pilot who did the display today. He didn’t hang around to watch the race 😉
rambler – ?
try without the big battery plugged in
and with the external power plugged in
could be just the battery
sometimes the battery is so shot that the power supply wont spark up
Doug Brignole (1960 – 2022) R.I.P
Doug sacrificed his life in order to send the world an important message: DO NOT VACCINATE. It’s not worth it. It could cost you your life.
And as an
80 Canadian doctors have now “died suddenly.” An interview with Dr. Makis is taking place Monday, Oct 17 at 9:30am.
Remember when it was just 32? Seems like only yesterday (it was a month ago).
Not to mention gypsum.
What the data tells us
A 52-slide deck presented at the FLCCC conference in Florida on Oct 15, 2022 summarizing some of the most important statistics for the vaccines on safety and efficacy. It got a standing ovation.
If you are on the fence about whether the COVID vaccine is safe, this deck should help you make up your mind.
Available as:
PDF deck
Google slides deck (you can download as a powerpoint and edit to make your own derivative works)
You should be able to get a Gen 8 i5 or i7 for around $600
where it rubs the lotion on it’s skin, or it gets the hose, again …
sacré bleu Cats, that is one inexcusable typo …
Apologies all round.
Out of all the misconceived, ill-thought-out and entirely wrong commentary you have provided on this august journal of record, this is clearly and undisputedly the most stupid.
Spoken by a bloke whose Cricket Philosophy is:
Well, we lost another Match, let’s find a teammate to scapegoat.
Indeed!
That’s untrue, Fester. Even Cronkite once reported on a Monchton debate here in Sydney one time and said he (Monckton) didn’t perform well. I think he debated Tim Lambert.
No one ever beat Monckton head prefect. What I would have said is that Monckton got the gender wrong of the author of a controversial climate paper. He thought Pinker was a bloke but she wasn’t. But Monckton was right about everything else. In fact Pinker’s paper disproves alarmism. Here is an easy to understand summary of the debate from Jo:
https://joannenova.com.au/2010/02/lamberts-pinker-tape-ambush-pr-stunt/
The point about debating alarmists is that it is pointless. This is not a rational situation. Alarmism is a belief and all the evidence against alarmism under the Sun won’t dissuade an alarmist.
Loan your Strat to HB Bear at your own risk.
Talk about “scratch marks”. 😕
The ‘cultural practice’ is lubricated by standard liberal premises that have successfully eased the passage of related ‘cultural practices’ for at least five decades already. I think you are underestimating the degree to which gender ideology is celebrated. Just think of the recent reception of Laidley at the Brownlow ceremony; unthinkable 10 years earlier. And its not just the media, think of the parents that are supporting the ‘transition’ of their children, the institutional support provided by educational, medical, among other institutions. Lastly, I think beyond the cultural liberalism that this reflects, there is also an aspect of culture is downstream of politics too. The culture may indeed be conducive to something generally, but sometimes the development of this or that cultural/ social practice requires a top-down approach that isn’t just government, but broad institutional support.
Ed having a trundle
https://youtu.be/d5pjkIUQbo4
A memorial to the Frontier Wars? What comes next, a memorial to the “Stolen Generation?”
It works something like this, Fake “conservative”:
Those who refuse to acknowledge the Past will be condemned to repeat it.
At least there’d be no buckle rash on the back.
😀