Clinton Carpet muncher sounding off again I see.

. Artificial and accelerated evolution also works; the US black man was bred for size and aggression for a couple of centuries
Any credible link, otherwise that’s horseshit.

… resulting in a much higher crime rate within that population today.

Compared to what?
You’re slyly blamin’ YT for your own weird fantasies.

Lilydale ( The gateway to The Yarra Valley) got flooded last night
Drench all rain ( as somebody once said)
This year everyone gets a flood

I live 5km away from Lilydale but only received 10ml last night. It is unusually humid given low temps so more rain to come. Believe it or not we are on a par for the same rainfall as last year.

Rainfall This Month 102.9 mm
Rainfall This Year 616.8 mm

Just Stop Oil eco-zealots spray orange paint over luxury Bugatti, Ferrari and Bentley car showrooms in London’s Berkley Square on day 26 of protests

There is no such thing as “stolen generations”.

I’d love to see a study of life outcomes of those ‘stolen’ vs. not.

I know what the answer is – just the magnitude of difference is a question mark.

Does Zelensky really believe that shit or is he just saying what the Washington War Machine tell him to say? What a grotesque clown.

Just Stop Oil eco-zealots spray orange paint over luxury Bugatti, Ferrari and Bentley car showrooms in London’s Berkley Square on day 26 of protests

Annoying daddy’s car dealer is probably unwise.

Here ya go, Topster.
Why did it take RAN 70 years to decide where the Centaur was?
No walls of text, please

Photo of notable Hater of African People Mohandas Gandhi too, wot’s that about?

If I’m not mistaken, he’s quite famous for developing something else, too.

Rinso, for whiter than white bedsheets?

Biggest sea battle. Jutland?

Rinehart disavowed her old man’s remarks.
She still appears petty though.
All she hadda say on Day 1 was:

Look, Dad was as fruity as a big bag of Queensland bananas, you wouldn’t know what he’d say next, but … I disavow those remarks and if some chick doesn’t wanna be a billboard for Hancock Mining, Cool Bananas.
In the meantime, let’s all get on the piss and Brittany Higgins for Australian of the Year.

Y’know, how hard is it?

All she hadda say on Day 1 was:

she doesn’t have to do shit to please small twerps

Biggest sea battle.
Lizzie at the self serve.

FMD can the BOM do anything right? Just been watching storm 2 for the afternoon/evening bombing out by Dotswood Station and then just like that every doppler radar in QLD goes down, The Harveys Range radar goes down all the time. The one on Mt Stuart before the BOM decommissioned it was much better, same with the backup at the aerodrome but being at sea level it couldn’t see over the ranges. The present radar is unreliable and overestimates the rain intensity, it has done so since they commissioned it.

That said beautiful front came through about 4pm, stinking day that was cooled off nicely with around an inch in under an hour. Waiting for the second instalment but I think it will only be rain, lightning seems to be dying as soon as it is off the range…

Charlie Teo operated on a former colleagues wife.
That would have been a decade ago.
Everything is still fine.
Teo was the only one who would operate.
Zero idea how much it cost.

Salamis?

Then the Armada of course, quite a lot hung on that one.
The Anglican Church wouldn’t exist if they’d won.
And we’d all be speaking Spanish.

Otoh, Shelby Foote maintained that Lincoln was one of two geniuses the war produced.

I read Shelby Foote in Kandahar, I wonder if anyone else on earth has done that…

we haven’t made any progress

We definitely haven’t stayed still either. The movement has all been backwards.

Except for certain bank accounts. They’re definitely on the up and up.

And we’d all be speaking Spanish.

Que?

I read Shelby Foote in Kandahar, I wonder if anyone else on earth has done that…

Be a hard act to follow.

OTOH, I also read the Quran in Baghdad, which is probably less uncommon.

I read Shelby Foote in Kandahar

Dr Duk wins the Cat for the next century.

I hope you weren’t also reading Kipling? I’d feel very inadequate if you did.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right

– 1984

Just to let you know Dr Duk, a younger Duk helped my mum a couple years ago during the Covid mess. He was prepared to do GP house visits, she was in a difficult time. Because of da virus he decided the best thing he could do was wear his service overalls with mask. Still had his epaulettes. Sqn Ldr. I am much in appreciation of junior Sqn Ldr Duk for his help back then.

I am much in appreciation of junior Sqn Ldr Duk for his help back then.

I wonder if he was shown the door*, as I was, for refusing to stay silent whilst the ADF used its power to coerce serving members and citizens to participate in a medical experiment.

* told I couldn’t speak out and wear the uniform – offered them my resignation – they accepted via return email – they cancelled my security card immediately and my one base visit after that (to return kit) required an escort.

After 20 years service, including 7 OS deployments, tossed aside like that, I cant wait for Nuremberg 2.

Dr Duk – I won’t give his name, he’s only mid thirties. I think he did a stint then decided to go into general practice. I don’t know how he is faring, this was after Covid got going but before the vaxxes were rolled out. My mum has returned to a GP she had had before the Covid mess, an old Irishman. I’m thankful to Dr Junior Duk though.

In refusing the application, McCallum said a jury member being aware of pre-trial publicity “is not of itself problematic.”

there is no real justice in australia either

His first action. Close off the cheap energy supply.

WEF baby!

Lysander, one of my sons and two of my six grandchildren have level two autism with ADD; one is very smart indeed, just flighty and capricious, and the other at three is too young to tell, he enjoys mechanical diggers and is fixated upon buses, but his problem is he has very little speech capacity and will not make eye contact, so he particularly benefits from speech therapy. Both get interactive therapies as well, which in their cases I think are not worth the money given for them by the NDIS. My first son born fifty years ago received nothing, milder autism was never diagnosed in those days, and while his life hasn’t been economically successful and he has struggled with himself at times, he has proved to be an excellent dad to his kids. He has had two partners and produced a child with each, with only one being that smart but autistic kid. His other son is also smart, but neurologically normal. Hairy and I together have a son who is a lawyer who was a normal child (but he couldn’t tolerate loud noises until he was two), and it is his child who has the speech issues.

With kids you take what you get and humans have a great deal of variability, which starts young if it goes awry. That can include heartache for parents, but it comes with the territory. Provide them with a loving family environment like all humans need, and they can flourish still, but they won’t necessarily have a life path as easy as a parent would wish. The NDIS isn’t going to change that very much if at all. Self-respect and a job of some sort will though. Efforts should be directed to that outcome regarding ‘non-neurotypical’ kids. That is a community endeavour and doesn’t need the NDIS. Assistance could be offered in other ways, less expensive.

Lads like Tinta’s son (whom I’ve met and who is having the best life he can live assisted by his wonderful mum and dad), but who needs constant lifelong care not just some extra ‘support’, are what the NDIS should be about.

Thanks Tom. What was Margolis on about?

Aruba is eighteen miles from the coast of Venuezela and is only 20 miles long and six miles wide. It is a dry place and covered in thorny organ pipe cactus and other cactii, including prickly pear and alloe vera, as it has a very low rainfall. Aloe Vera provides some limited income still. A desalination plant supplies most water and there is a prominent oil rig not far the port. It’s primary source of wealth is tourism; on the leeward side are clustered many hotels built with American money, and they are still building – a six-star is under construction to open soon.

Aruba’s location has been its saviour. It had two oil refineries servicing Venezuelan oil, which became very important in World War 2, where one was blown up by German attacks. The current one still provides a good income, although Venezuela is a serious problem to Aruba now – the average wage per month in Aruba is around $US900, for the island is quite well off, and in Venezuela it is $US4 if you can get any work at all. Hence, as our tour guide told us, the coastal strip to Venezuela is heavily patrolled now by US and Dutch vessels, as 30,000 unwanted immigrants had fled to add to the 120,000 residents, all of whom are Dutch citizens. The population is very mixed with a lot of Spanish descendants, though our guide claimed to be a local indigenous descendant, of whom there are now very few.

The island was originally Spanish, founded by Amerigo himself, then Dutch, then British (all due to European C17 to C19th skirmishes). Peter Stuyvesant was governor here and then in New Amsterdam until in an exchange New Amsterdam went to Britain, the peninsula swamp there becoming New York’s Manhattan, and Aruba remained Dutch. In the C20 the island sought its independence, receiving firstly a system of home rule. They were supposed to eventually become completely independent but the advantages of being Dutch won out, and the independence bill was ditched never to return. Now, with Curacao and Sint Maartin they form part of the four kingdoms of the Dutch Kingdom or Commonwealth, and all external relations are handled by the Dutch (with US help). During the Covid years the Dutch provided a guaranteed level of half-income support which was greatly appreciated.

Hairy and I climbed through some sort of pathway up through broken rock stairs to the top of a big rock vantage point, noted the volcanic core rising, the only major hill on the island, were taken to see where an ocean bridge archway had recently fallen in, and saw the tall Dutch influenced lighthouse with its many ornate windows, now replaced in function by radar. We also visited a very small and beautifully designed and presented chapel, replacing the original native wooden chapel first built there by the sea in 1750 when the Catholic missionaries arrived (most of the island is still Catholic). The area was obviously a sacred place to the original inhabitants and cave and other later archaeology in that area timelines their presence. There are now Stations of the Cross lining the road in.

A local man, who looked indigenous and poor, was selling stuff apart from the usual tourist stall, and I purchased from him a redundant car number plate. These nominate Aruba as ‘One Happy Island’. Mine is number A-365. No-one else on the bus seemed interested in them. I didn’t bargain for it as he had obviously had a lean couple of years. He grabbed my two hands and bowed over them in thanks as I handed him the cash. I’ll put it on the wall next to some palms in our Terrace Conservatory. Not on the same wall as my E11R sign taken from a British parliamentary building though. I like to have odd signals of other times around me at home. I also bought a Delft Blue Handcrafted cup No. 50740, displayed in the Delft Stall under the pics of the Dutch Royal Family, of whom the island is very proud.
I gave my pottery Guatemalan bird whistle a blow, making Hairy jump, as I put my new treasure on the shelf next to it, ready to pack in three days time for Fort Lauderdale.

Little Johnnie and Susie are only 10 years old, but they just know that they are in love.

One day they decided that they want to get married, so Johnnie decided to approach Susie’s father to ask him for her hand. Johnnie bravely walked up to him and said “Mr. Smith, me and Susie are in love and I want to ask you for her hand in marriage.”

Thinking that this was the cutest thing ever, Mr. Smith replied, “Well Johnnie, you are only 10. Where will you two live?”

Without even taking a moment to think about it, Johnnie replied, “In Susie’s room, of course. It’s bigger than mine and we can both fit our stuff in there nicely.”

Still thinking this is just adorable, Mr. Smith said with a huge grin, “Okay then how will you live? You’re not old enough to get a job. You’ll need to support Susie.”

Again, Johnnie instantly replied, “Our allowance – Susie makes 5 bucks a week and I make 10 bucks a week. That’s about 60 bucks a month, and that should do us just fine.”

By this time Mr. Smith is a little shocked that Johnnie had put so much thought into his proposal. So, Mr. Smith thought for a moment, as he tried to come up with something that Johnnie wouldn’t know how to answer. After another moment, Mr. Smith said, “Well Johnnie, it seems like you have got everything all figured out. I just have one more question for you. What will you do if the two of you should have little ones of your own?”

Johnnie just shrugged his shoulders and said, “Well, gosh, Mr. Smith, I’ve been worried about that, but we’ve been lucky so far…”

Jon Stewart doesn’t know what a woman is.

Freedom tunes.

WATCH: Elon Musk arrives inside Twitter headquarters carrying a… sink? (Also: Twitter bio update!)

Duk, you are heroic. You have demonstrated yet again the danger to defence capability represented by the Defence People Group.
Senior uniformed officers are criminals for allowing that coup to be implemented by the HRC.
So you cannot express opinions in uniform. Right.
Err, well, except at the faggot festival.
Defence is stuffed.

“Tanya Plibersek said the government was investing in “evidence-based science, planning and construction projects”.”

oh dear.. that would be the “speed of science” kind.

Oh dear. I found Rowe’s cartoon quite clever and amusing.

Am I losing it ?

In the ordinary course of events, one wouldn’t really regard this as an ‘assault’ 

What’s the correct description?

You naughty people.

I got something totally wrong yesterday…I’m getting older, and people could have had a field day with it.

I got WC Gosse and Ernest Giles mixed up when it was actually Ernest Giles buried in Coolgardie.

Now I have to try to live with myself.

A great argument for energy independence

In the Daily Tele:

How likely would you be to vote Labor at the next election if they break their power bill promise?

Very unlikely 82 %
Unlikely 5 %
Likely 1 %
Very likely 5 %
This issue will not affect how I vote 7 %
3657 votes

Vote here if you can climb the paywall

In the “before times” getting your Melbourne cup lunch/event sorted was something that had to be locked in a month before the big day.
Now, I am still getting emails from top notch Sydney venues hawking “it’s not too late for a Cup booking”.
Indicative of many things I suppose.

One omission KD
‘Aspiring didgeridoo artist.’

Aspiring didgeridoo artist

Follow your dreams!

Thanks Wolfman.

So, ya Greg, some of us conservatives are fuming mad. And if you think I’m angry here’s what a decades-long conservative voter (at one point incredibly well-connected to the Libs) sent to me recently:

‘I don’t think you are angry enough Jim. Not since the worship of Baal, or whatever the alternative Aztec deity was, have we sacrificed so many children for such low returns. [These whitewash efforts are] just an attempt by courtiers to paper over the cracks and provide a defensible defeat for those whose favour they like to curry.’

The baked in disadvantage so many of these kids face will be hard to reverse.