We had a fuel stove at first but when the grate broke and things got neglected and bad at home,…
Open Thread – Tue 1 Nov 2022
- Australia ain’t what it was
- A Military Realist’s View of the Ukraine War Thread
- Open Thread – Weekend 11 May 2024
- Bumtree #10
- Bumtree #9
In Australia you could always get cheap mince, and I lived on mince stew as a child. Mince, cut up…
“Deficits Don’t Matter!” – Modern Monetary Theory Economist Stephanie Kelton
the usual elite disconnect. https://twitter.com/EurovisionNewZ/status/1789438344465658078 Israel wins televote in 15 countries. Second overall behind Croatia. Way down in the official…
I’ve updated the Military Theorist’s thread with ep. 4 and included a summary.
And #9
Things that an inner city pansy is unlikely to have seen in his worldly travels:
1. A weigh bridge.
2. A taxi depot.
3. A dry dock.
4 The inside of an army barracks.
.5 A working abattoir,
.6 A growing coffee plant,
.7 A mechanic repairing a tractor linkage.
.8 A running grassfire,
.9 *Volunteer* emergency workers and neighbours turning out to help when there is a problem.
Sancho Panzer:
You’ve obviously put this up to get a reaction, but I’m a bit puzzled as to what type of reaction you’re looking for or why.
Care to elaborate?
…and show your original references?
“There was no technicality, it didn’t happen.”
Eggsactly.
What exactly do the people opposed to the lockdowns and mandates have to apologise for?
Xi doesn’t need to trash the economy to retain absolute power, it’s all about decoupling from the west to survive the inevitable sanctions when they take taiwan.
there was a recent bipartisan bill that sanctions would placed on chinese officials in the event of an invasion. Hang on a sec, does that imply the US would not defend taiwan…
Everything the ccp is doing implies it’s only a question of when not if.
Neil Oliver on ONS figures which show an alarming rise in the rate of non-Covid excess deaths
Not sure about the coffee plant. I would’ve thought growing your own coffee in the backyard would be a very inner city prog thing.
Winston, an over-represented group in the “serial killer” cohort is the landscape labourer. Nurses, either male of female, didn’t seem to feature at all, though I know of some notorious females who did away with their patients.
I’ll leave you all with that. I need to go out and smite some weeds. Today it’s a purge of spurge.
Winston Smithsays:
November 1, 2022 at 10:33 am
Sancho Panzer:
Just to clarify.
Not all male nurses are serial killers.
Not even most of them.
But, per capita, they are over-represented in mass murdery type incidents.
Jeremy Clarkson causes more BBC fury with sick trucker jibe on Top Gear
Talking to the camera, Clarkson said: “What matters to lorry drivers? Murdering prostitutes? Fuel economy? It really is a hard job and I’m not just saying that to gain favour with truck drivers. There’s so much to do.
“You’ve got to change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror… murder a prostitute. Change gear, change gear, murder.”
Just how fscken stupid is mongy? Can he dress and feed himself?
Coffe is actually really hard to grow in urban environments. You might be lucky and get a few beans a year.
Not nearly enough for an Artisan Latte.
Pell is just an ideological enemy for liberals like monty. The facts never mattered in the slightest. It’s clear in his response above. The conviction in the second trial simply serves his ideological interests so he trumpets it, while belittling the unanimous HC decision which quashed the earlier decision as very likely convicting an innocent man. There was no ‘technicality’ involved in the slightest. But he repeats this lie, inserted into the narrative by tendentious clowns, because something had to be done to sustain the malicious calumnies they’d propagated and defended for several years.
I think you means “cereal killer”.
The rosellas like my lawn long and seedy.
Like fanatics of all types, religious, LGBT, climate, convid, vaxtards etc etc, they aren’t interested in Truth. You can’t reason with these people.
My last effort to influence the narrative and I’m out of here.
😀
I saw a clip on YouTube saying that one reason (at least) for their current travails is that their old model of charging advertisers for targeting ads at users has been compromised by iPhones now allowing people to disable facebook tracking of activity across other apps and websites.
Not such a problem for Goolag because people go to it and deliberately and consciously enter what interests them into the search box.
Which makes sense to my own poor and untutored wits.
Keep in mind it was The Intercept that broke the DHS social media intervention story.
Omidyar’s platform.
So he let this out but Greenwald wasn’t allowed to publish re Hunter Biden’s laptop (so he resigned).
Maybe this is the “soft” truth before daily posts from Elon on what they were really doing.
Watched youtube The battle of Long Tan and the Long Tan Cross – 1.19.53 last night on big screen – interesting
The battle of Long Tan: unravelling the riddles – Public talk by Ashley Ekins, Head of Military History, AWM and The Long Tan Cross story – Public talk by Craig Blanch, Curator of Military Heraldry and Technology, AWM.
Australian soldiers fought in scores of fierce actions during the Vietnam War. Few were as intense or dramatic as the action in the Long Tan rubber plantation on 18 August 1966. Join the head of our Military History team and a curator with our Military Heraldry and Technology section as they discuss the valiant stand of 108 Australian soldiers which became a defining action of the Vietnam War.
I see dickless has been waving his anti-semitism around. When you have no dick you have to wave something I guess.
dover0beachsays:
November 1, 2022 at 10:45 am”
Nice rebuttal Dover.
We’re seeing a repeat with the Lehmann trial. Just like they wanted Pell guilty, they now want Lehmann guilty. Truth be damned.
“This is manifestly not Saigon.”
Anthony Blinken, 16 August, 2021.
Tells you all you need to know about the lying incompetence of Biden’s administration.
He does like to explode heads.
Jeremy Clarkson threatens to ’empty can of sump oil on eco-herberts’ heads’ in feisty rant (30 Oct)
As I said upthread if plod did their job and cleared these stinkies away immediately rather than stand around all day protecting them from irate motorists they’d have more time to do actual police work.
Talking to the camera, Clarkson said: “What matters to lorry drivers? Murdering prostitutes? Fuel economy? It really is a hard job and I’m not just saying that to gain favour with truck drivers. There’s so much to do.
“You’ve got to change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror… murder a prostitute. Change gear, change gear, murder.”
Lorry driver Sutcliffe’s five-year reign of terror came to an end in January 1981 when he was jailed for slaughtering 13 women.
Earlier this year Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright was jailed for killing five prostitutes in Ipswich. He had also worked as a haulier.
dover0beach says:
November 1, 2022 at 10:45 am
I have to laugh about that 2019 post responding to an assertion that a conviction didn’t mean Pell was guilty. Er yes, yes it did.
And then he got off on a technicality, yay!
Scroll him, I scroll a lot here nowadays, mostly because they are try hard clowns or always right individuals no matter what the subject, but I scroll m0nty because he is a really nasty person with no redeeming features.
I’d hate associate with someone like him.
JC & The ‘umble Gang:
Skating to the edge, again?
And just waiting for someone to reply so they can retort “Take it to the Duelling Thread!”
You are very transparent, JC.
…but still no reference.
Either way, he’s breaking the unwritten compact the party has had with the people post-Tiananmen:
We’ll give you increasing properity in return for your unswerving loyalty.
Risking that for Taiwan is not a rational decision.
That’s some bucket list.
Aim high Winston.
If the door was opened for him and he was allowed in, and if he was not carrying the hammer (or any other weapon) then it would be an insurrection.
Excepting for the fact that Paul Pelosi actually was hurt. In real insurrections the unarmed visitors people get killed.
Err, Winston, there is a movie out about a nurse who is a serial killer.
People started quoting examples and observed that psychopaths are over-represented in the male nurse cohort.
Reasonable topic for discussion I would think.
No need for duelling sabres or pistols.
Quiz time: if I were to assert that the correct order was ‘Merge – Surge – Verge – Purge and Splurge’, to what would I be referring?
for Winston…
reach for the sky
DB @10:45am.
So, again, it’s confirmed that for the left it’s the side that matters rather than the truth.
They’d rather support and justify the incarceration, pillorying, abuse and dehumanisation of an innocent man because it serves their political needs than acknowledge what the evidence shows.
That reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1taruSUbUwc
It’s Machiavelli again.
After all the Covid fascism I doubt Xi expects to be loved by the Han-in-the-street. Unfortunately for him going to totalitarianism inevitably leads to senescence and decline. But not in his lifetime, as Hezekiah observed.
Bookmarked that one, OldOzzie, thank you. Visited Long Tan, in 2013 and saw the cross.
Also had the not so edifying experience of seeing the ugly Australian in action in Baria. It’s my understanding that the Vietnamese were getting fed up with said ugly Australians, and that’s why they restricted access to the battlefield in 2016.
Letting those Lockheed Martin shares run a little bit longer.
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/LMT
Or should I just keep them?
Matt Margolis, ‘Can’t We just Admit that Modern Art is Garbage?’
Funny how those kids never glue themselves to an abstract painting.
Perhaps they’ve inadvertently stumbled onto a truth: modern art is (by and large) garbage.
Exactly, and this is borne out by Xi’s recent re-shaping of the Politburo. For the very first time, the Ministry of State Security sits in the Politburo of 24. More weight has been given to military and military technology presence in the reshuffle at the expense of the economic goals of past years. Xi is embracing a more Stalinist model for exerting his control over China’s future.
“When not if”- I think too there is a how in there. I just can’t see Xi rolling the dice on a cross strait invasion. So many risks of catastrophic failure. But he’s already applied a temporary embargo of land and sea along with cyber and possibly bio type attacks. That would be my bet, something like that after a false flag catalyst of some kind. Strangle Taiwan into capitulation. Make the US think twice about opening up a hot war.
Merge – carefully join humanity in the morning
Surge – take a leak
Verge – try not to murder anybody while waiting for the coffee
Purge – number two
Splurg – second coffee
Zulu,
going to be there for a couple of weeks – we’re going south, any recommendations for places to eat?
this gold … twitter on the bloke with the Pelosi Hammer
The analyses I have seen suggest a full scale kinetic invasion of Taiwan would be very difficult if not impossible for China for the foreseeable future – the strait is quite wide, the weather often bad, suitable invasion beaches are few and their sealift capacity is insufficient. Much more likely, I think, would be an indirect assault, think blockade backed up by cyberwar, biowar, economic attack (force Taiwan to mobilise, which is very expensive) etc. The catastrophic effects of COVID and now the Ukraine on the economies of the west has already done a lot to ‘shape the battlefield’. The west is now so rotten, economically, politically and morally, that they simply don’t have the stomach for the losses it would take to defend Taiwan once China moves.
Predictions make for wrongologists but here goes…
Some nutter declaring a climate emergency will run onto Flemington course today?
Methane emissions tax will rip heart out of NZ farmers
Jacinda Ardern plans to tax the agricultural sector so heavily that by 2030 an estimated 20 per cent of sheep and beef farmers and five per cent of dairy farmers will be forced out of business.
By MURIEL NEWMAN
It seems inconceivable that at a time of hyperinflation and global unrest, any government would deliberately destabilise the agricultural sector by introducing policies that would increase costs to primary producers, reduce production, and fuel price increases. Yet that’s what Jacinda Ardern’s Labour government is planning to do.
Our Prime Minister, the poster child of modern-day socialism, wants once again to boast on the world stage that she’s taking the lead in climate policy – this time by introducing a price on agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases.
That she wants the owners of ruminant livestock to pay a penalty for a by-product of a digestive process that is older than the dinosaurs, is madness personified.
Methane, an atmospheric trace gas, is part of an ancient natural cycle. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and using the green chlorophyll in their leaves combine it with water to trap the sun’s energy as food. When plant matter is eaten by ruminants, methane is produced, which breaks down into carbon dioxide and water vapour to continue the cycle.
Over three-quarters of the planet’s methane comes from natural sources such as wetlands, with the balance produced by landfills, rice paddies, and livestock. Since New Zealand has only one per cent of the world’s farmed ruminants the actual contribution of Kiwi livestock to methane in the atmosphere is almost too small to measure.
Announcing her plan, the Prime Minister boasted: “No other country in the world has yet developed a system for pricing and reducing agricultural emissions, so our farmers are set to benefit from being first movers. Cutting emissions will help New Zealand farmers to not only be the best in the world but the best for the world; gaining a price premium for climate friendly agricultural products while also helping to boost export earnings.”
In other words, the PM plans to tax the agricultural sector so heavily that by 2030 an estimated 20 per cent of sheep and beef farmers and five per cent of dairy farmers will be forced out of business.
Agriculture is New Zealand’s biggest industry, generating more than 70 per cent of our export earnings and about 12 per cent of our gross domestic product.
The impact of Ardern’s tax on the sector will be significant. Prices of homegrown protein – including milk, cheese, and meat – will undoubtedly rise as local production falls. Our crucial export returns will decline – by up to an estimated 5.9 per cent for dairy, 21.4 per cent for lamb, 36.7 per cent for beef, and 21.1 per cent for wool.
We can see the potential fallout by reminding ourselves of the consequences of a previous reckless decision by our Prime Minister when, without warning, she banned new offshore oil and gas exploration on the eve of a meeting of world leaders – so she could boast about her decisive climate change leadership.
That decision contributed to the closure of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery – with a loss of 240 local jobs and many hundreds more indirectly – leaving New Zealand dependent on imported fuel that we used to produce ourselves – and, paradoxically, increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Like that decision, this policy will have profound and widespread consequences, far beyond the damage to those farmers who are expected to be forced out of the industry; their departure will impact heavily on farm services, meat processing plants, local schools, and the other local businesses.
What’s even more irrational is that the forced exit of the world’s most emissions-efficient farmers will increase global emissions as other less efficient nations increase production to fill the gap.
The tax is being forced onto our productive sector at a time when almost 200 coal-fired power stations are under construction in Asia. The world’s major emitters of China and India have already admitted they’re not planning to take serious action on reducing emissions for up to fifty years, as they prioritise the economic wellbeing of their nations by expanding essential electricity supplies.
Robin Grieve – the Chairman of FARM (Facts About Ruminant Methane) and Pastural Farming Climate Research points out that the move is in contravention of the Paris Agreement which ruled out emission reductions that reduce food production.
“With farmers not able to take any useful actions to reduce emissions and avoid the tax, the Government’s scheme is only going to achieve emission reductions by increasing farm costs and pushing a percentage of farmers out of business,” he says. “The UN is acutely aware that previous climate policy initiatives, such as pushing biofuel use, resulted in mass starvation as food producing land was diverted to producing fuel. This was described by one UN committee as the greatest crime against humanity ever. Pushing New Zealand farmland out of food production and into forestry is the same thing.”
Federated Farmers Chairman Andrew Hoggard believes the plan will “rip the guts out of small town New Zealand, putting trees where farms used to be.”
He says the agricultural industry worked for two and a half years on a proposal which would honour the Paris Agreement by not reducing food production, but the Government then changed the rules: “It’s gut-wrenching to think we now have this proposal from government which rips the heart out of the work we did. Out of the families who farm this land. Our plan was to keep farmers farming. Now they’ll be selling up so fast you won’t even hear the dogs barking on the back of the ute as they drive off.”
Dr Muriel Newman is the founding director of the NZ Centre for Political Research
Correction. COVID is a weak cold at best.
The Woke West’s deliberate over reaction to it is what cause the catastrophe.
I wont complain, provided history repeats ..
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/international-womens-day-suffragette-emily-davison-women-suffrage-death-epsom-derby-kings-horse-throw-herself-a8812551.html
Noice.
Correct, as with all terrorist attacks, the actual damage is minimal in the great scheme of things, its the response that does the damage. C19 was very much an auto-immune disease, not an infectious one.
Roger at 11:15.
Famous case a while back of forged Rothko paintings in New York.
During the court case where a purchaser sued an art dealer there was a debate about whether the subject forgery on display in the court room was hung up the right way or not.
Finally one of the lawyers observed, “It’s a forgery! There is no right way up.”
Trust a lawyer to cut to the chase with a witticism.
Ali Alexander, the far-right activist who organized the “Stop the Steal” rally held just before the Capitol riot, is now egging on discussion of a coup in Brazil, calling on the Brazilian military to intervene in the election defeat of Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ali-alexander-calls-for-brazilian-military-coup-bolsonaro-defeat-2022-10
In Jean Cocteau’s film Orphee the poet asks what he should do. ‘Astonish me’, he is told. Very little of modern art does that, certainly not in the sense that a great work of art can make you wonder how its creation was accomplished by a mere mortal.
Yes, it is, but it doesn’t quite capture the Hebrew. I don’t have Aquinas’s quote at hand in Latin, but ‘companion’ is a bit abstract & mushy; the Hebrew word –ezer – is quite concrete and means helper – Eve was to help Adam, who was the vice-regent of God on earth, in his work of tending to the Garden. In the story of the Fall, in Genesis 3, we see the order God created unravelling in reverse, with a creature tempting the helper and God’s representative, Adam, to whom the command under dispute was given, failing in his role of leadership.
Adern is truly evil. No coincidence that the vile grub spent a lot of time in the bLIAR circle.
Well said, Wolfman.
There’s a quote from Picasso, who could paint very well in the classical style, that seems to have been disappeared from the record, in which he says that the more experimental and abstract his painting became, the more attention and patrons he attracted. The art audience of the time was addicted to novelty.
It was.
Ominous sign China is quietly preparing to invade Taiwan (2 Oct)
Add the other weaponizations of civilian vessels – fishing vessels and container ships with containerized missile launchers, and you can see that China has developed the capability. On the other hand it’s like Seelowe: Hitler massed the Rhine barges in the Channel Ports for an invasion – which did not take place because the RAF retained control of the air. Unfortunately I can’t see Taiwan managing anything like air superiority.
Domino number 1 has fallen
Eventually, energy security an the laws f economics win out.
She’s also on the nose with NZers.
She’s even had to address rumours she’ll quit rather than face next year’s election.
Two legal academics claimed ‘lack of opportunity’ was given too much weight by the High Court. I think that was the alleged technicality. Three books have been published which demolish that claim.
m0ntysays:
November 1, 2022 at 8:55 am
Luciferase lol.
You idiots will believe anything.
If m0nty-fa were anything but an utter brain dead drongo, he might even have noticed the rude comments made about that suggestion.
I love the Hebrew names and their meanings Roger. Fascinating too how their are often Arabic forms.
there are sorry
“When not if”- I think too there is a how in there.
Whatever is going to happen, Biden’s executive order regarding chips will force the issue.
I’m old enough to remember when Trump was a luddite with the sanctions on China.
It got non stop coverage.
Wonder why the Biden order hasn’t.
m0ntysays:
November 1, 2022 at 9:16 am
It was posted for consideration
LOL no. You don’t post rubbish like that and then distance yourself from it.
Sez the fat fascist fool who has never, ever, distanced himself from the egregious comments he has made about the Pell case, and actual or attempted attempts to cause GBH to Rand Paul, Steve Scalise, Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt.
That’s what I’ve already said.
The vile creature very much an agent of the wef. How does Winston Peters feel about it all I wonder. What a phony.
As for Pell, he was a convicted rock spider at the time I said he was. Now he is not. Bully for him.
Being the true fascist leftist that he is, m0nty-fa will never, ever, apologise for his defamatory remarks about Cardinal Pell, even after the High Court confirmed that the remarks were defamatory. Gutless worm.
Ironic if this is because the Japanese are scared Albo will steal contracted Aussie LNG off them.
Which they certainly will be given various spoutings from Jimbo and Bowen about gas prices.
Peter Smith at Quadrant is worth reading.
Although my sympathies are with the farmers, if the good people of NZ don’t like this then they will have to remove their government, and replace it with a better one. Otherwise one must presume the people like this policy – and all of the economic and other flow-ons it will bring.
Yes, both Semitic languages, of course, milton, with some shared vocabulary from the distant past and similar conjugation of verbs (so I understand; I haven’t studied Arabic), but not to the extent of being mutually intelligible.
Some nutter declaring a climate emergency will run onto Flemington course today?
The only sure bet, parlay into animal welfare groups haranguing the racegoers entering Flemington
first off the lemming cliff
Someone asked upthread when will the `greenie Loonies strike at Melbourne Cup
1000 litres of ‘oily sludge’ dumped on Flemington before 2022 Melbourne Cup
An activist has been filmed unloading 1000 litres of “oily sludge” On Flemington Racecourse in the hours before the 2022 Melbourne Cup
The Victorian branch of the global activism group Extinction Rebellion posted the footage earlier today.
“This morning, XR was contacted by friends who had dumped 1000 litres of sludge onto Flemington Racecourse ahead of today’s Melbourne Cup activities,” the Group said on social media.
“We fully endorse the message of this person.
“The privileged in our society are on notice that as crises deepen and we do not see justice for communities, individuals and animals, ordinary people will be [driven] more and more to undertake these sorts of desperate actions.”
Police confirmed detectives were investigating the incident.
“Melbourne Criminal Investigation Unit detectives are investigating after unknown offenders have broken into a racing facility in Flemington and poured an unknown substance over a portion of the track about 6am this morning,” a spokesperson said.
A statement from the person filmed unloading the sludge was released online by Extinction Rebellion.
From the Domino 1 link –
Today, the Japanese government decided to officially screw the sanctions, and remain involved in the (formerly Exxon-led) Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia, as it seeks a stable supply of energy …
What happened last time sanctions were applied to Japanese oil supplies and Japan was deprived of oil?
What the heck is “A growing coffee plant” doing in there?
Has anybody ever seen one?
And #10: A bronc rider giving the nod in the chutes at a rodeo.
Who funds xr I wonder?
I think the CCP Politburo make up confirms China’s intent. And EO on chips was the final straw. All that remains to be seen is the timing.
That tends to happen with civil wars. It is not controversial to point out this historical truth.
m0nty-fa thinks that the war between the Israelis (Jews, hated by Palestinians) and the Palestinians (nominally Muslim, but more generically rabidly anti-Semitic) is a civil war.
m0nty-fa is a brainless idiot, but everyone here, except m0nty-fa, has known that for years.
And EO on chips was the final straw. All that remains to be seen is the timing.
In hindsight I think it will be seen as the equivalent to the USA squeezing Imperial Japan, a guarantee on a war that might have happened anyway.
Who funds xr I wonder?
Simon Holmes a Court?
m0ntysays:
November 1, 2022 at 10:12 am
I have to laugh about that 2019 post responding to an assertion that a conviction didn’t mean Pell was guilty. Er yes, yes it did.
And then he got off on a technicality, yay!
The “technicality” being that it was physically impossible for Pell to have committed the crime. The fat fascist fool continues to avoid taking responsibility for his many egregious failings.
Winston Peters, exactly. History will no doubt expose the circumstances behind his treason. But, given his record, it may well have just been the narcissism which is his most enduring characteristic. Dangerous creature.
What is incomprehensible to me though is the submissiveness of NZ rural folk. They were most notable for their entrepreneurial spirit and absolute independance. They were deadly competitors in primary and processed products markets. They carried NZ.
What happened?
Roger,
I don’t know how true it is but someone told me, in Hebrew belief, that when God created everything – there was a hierarchy of things so the “baseless” things were created first with the most prestigious things created last – henceforce – mankind (or more arguably, a woman?).
I think the idea is to force the issue because once the ccp ramp up mass production of these hypersonic nukes it’s game over.
Would somebody point out to the XR imbeciles that a high impact protest would be to glue themselves to a road at the bottom of a flood plain? (at 2 am, prior to a deluge)
Brainwashed by the TV. :-/
Great banner, Dover.
The lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day 1887.
1887 MELBOURNE CUP – DUNLOP
Race Info:
Placings: 1st Place Dunlop, 2nd Place Silvermine, 3rd Place The Australian Peer
Jockeys: T. Sanders, Robertson, Gorry
Trainer: J. Nicholson
Winner’s Time: 3:28.50
Weight: 52.16kg
Odds: 20/1
Prize money: £4,005
About:
Dunlop possessed great stamina on the track and won the 1887 Melbourne Cup with a new race record, easing his way across the track in the last few strides to win by a length. After the race, his jockey reportedly burst into tears with happiness. Dunlop possessed great stamina on the track.
Not really – we were part of a tour, so we ate in hotels.
One small piece of advice. Carry a few small U.S. dollar bills, the trishaw drivers prefer U.S. dollars.
Is Munted seriously still going on about Pell?
Munt – as I often say on Twitter, I’ll go with seven (unanimous) High Court Justices rather than a Records Weekly magazine writer such as yourself.
BTW – have you even read anything, beyond their ABC, on the case? I’ve read it all: Brennan, Henderson, Windschuttle, Nilligan and the HC transcript (which is actually the best read because its fucking funny how bad DPP’s case was that the judges were actually poking fun and mocking the DPP).
Yes, that’s correct, Lysander.
On the relations between the sexes Aquinas provides a good summary.
Note that in the NT (1 Peter) woman is described as “the weaker vessel”. Now, what do you do with a fragile vessel? You protect it & take good care of it, and certainly don’t abuse it.
Yee hah. Where’s ma Waylon Jennings cassette?
Oh and Munt – that’s 7 HCJ’s with over 170 years combined legal experience.
So, GGF.
Bolt had Winston Peters on last week and totally squibbed on making the old bastard accountable and uncomfortable. After he whinged about what Ardern is doing to NZ, I was waiting in vain for Bolt to ask “so, why did you install her as PM when you and your party held the balance of power after the 2017 election and the Nationals had more seats and votes than Labour and the Greens combined?”
I personally don’t trust any so called ‘Justices’. Not after they did not support any form of human rights in this country.
Mater:
the truth bombs you launch at M0nty are very entertaining and enlightening.
Unfortunately for M0nty they are mere pearls before swine.
Thanks Roger – while I think Roger Scruton is where I got the idea from, Aquinas is prolly a better source! 😛
RugbySkier:
I’m pretty sure Bolt had Peters on about 3 weeks ago and asked that difficult question to which he equivocated.
A bit radical for one as privileged as him, perhaps.
They want to replace parliaments with “Citizen’s Assemblies”.
Presumably after that come the purgings.
OSC, I was in Ireland then and missed it. Still, he should continue asking that question until he gets an answer.
boomers grew old, fat and comfortable and let the commies indoctrinate their kids
I think Aquinas still has the privileged position as the authoritative teacher in Roman Catholicism, Lysander, while RS was a mere Anglican, so you’re bound to say that. 😀
My default setting has gone pretty much to ‘don’t trust anyone/anything until they prove themselves now. The events of the last nearly 3 years have destroyed trust in everything: Experts, Drs, Police, Military, Courts, Professional bodies etc.
AKA the ‘4th turning’.
So what is he now? Now that the charges have been quashed (in such epic style)?
Remember when the Victorian DPP asked the High Court to send the case back to Victoria so they could (literally) try it again.
Remember how the High Court rebuffed them with, shall we say, extreme prejudice, and then went on to clear the Cardinal completely?
That was awesome.
Most amusing would be if they glue themselves to the horses and the horses bolt.
Bad for the horses but modern camera technology being what it is we should get some great shots of the swampies faces as they try to grapple with the idea that consequences are a thing while being kicked by shoed hooves…and Mummy and Daddy are not coming make it all go away.
This is old news but I only found out on the weekend. The Spirit of Tassie ferry no longer berths at Melbourne, they’ve moved it to scummy old Corio Bay in Geelong. Apparently it will be more efficient and lead to increased passenger and freight services. I can’t see how it could be better, Geelong’s a shithole on the windiest place in Australia, Geelong Rd is chockers with speed cameras and the traffic is shocking.
I can’t see how it will improve the service.
Another spring carnival, another delightful dose of Francesca Cumani
Bruce of N
This is right when BoM has been moaning that they aren’t allowed to worship Gaia enough. No, just no. Privatize them, or Rabz them and put the service delivery out to tender.
There are already multiple private providers.
More horseshit.
boomers grew old, fat and comfortable and let the commies indoctrinate their kids
Nope, this one ain’t on the Boomers. It is the result of pure Millenial arrogance.
Reports suggest he is Canadian, which may or may not explain some some of that stuff.
He’s apparently an illegal alien who overstayed his visa by a decade or two.
Given they exhibit the same mad fanaticism as the early suffragettes, it may only be a matter of time before we see a stunt on a race track with predictable consequences.
Conspiracy, what conspiracy?
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1587114424925442049
No conspiracy here either. None whatsoever;
FBI Asks Court for 66 Years to Release Information From Seth Rich’s Computer
Russia!Russia!Russia!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-asks-court-for-66-years-to-release-information-from-seth-richs-computer_4826785.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge
“I came out, 10pound tourist, in 1967 (19yrs old) knew no-one in Oz, $39 in the pocket .. landed, Mascot, on a Sunday morning, digging trenches for the Water Board by following Tuesday ……”
My father came as a 10pound pom, landed at Bris, went to railway station with the 5 quid he had and said “How far can I go on this?”. Got his ticket along with his cabin-mate, got off the train, saw just a pub and general store, maybe a house or two, then nothing as far the eye could see. Said: “Oh shit – what have we done?”. But found work, and eventually got back to Bris., where he met Mum.
Some nutter declaring a climate emergency will run onto Flemington course today?
Yes, Dan Andrews will be attending.
Mulling over the coming energy disaster, I can’t help thinking Andrews rebuilding the SEC is effectly what will happen across Australia.
Particularly with banks and other businesses doing the whole responsible lending/governance thing and not lending or supporting fossil fuels. About the only way any new coal fired or nuclear gets built is as a government owned project.
Yes, that does mean massively over budget etc. However government have created and environment hostile to private investment for anything like that so the taxpayer will wear it again.
Yay. Celebrate our journey toward 3rd world, it’s what everyone voted for.
It’s a worldwide trend. Ring a bell?
Govt’s are picking winners in energy then through regulation and green tape ensuring private investment is channeled into the fortunates and the expense of the steady, reliable and cheaper carbon generators. With sovereign and semi- sovereign debt being so absurdly high, no one wants to piss off their powerful debtors. So bow and scrape they will continue to do.
While not a direct service, the CCP will no longer get a cut for using their dock.
Trump what dunit
Obama blames GOP for Democrats’ economic disasters
Good luck with that one!
Argentine tax policy here we come. The old windfall profits tax makes its entrance again .
Makkasays:
November 1, 2022 at 1:35 pm
I can’t help thinking Andrews rebuilding the SEC is effectly what will happen across Australia.
It’s a worldwide trend. Ring a bell?
Govt’s are picking winners in energy then through regulation and green tape ensuring private investment is channeled into the fortunates and the expense of the steady, reliable and cheaper carbon generators.
Massachusetts offshore wind project “no longer viable”
As noted above, these wind farms aren’t being put on hold because the wind suddenly stopped blowing offshore. (Though that does happen from time to time.) Nor were the developers running into problems with their turbines, or at least no more than usual. As with so many things in American politics and the industrial sector… it’s the economy, stupid.
The problems being cited by the developers are no doubt familiar to almost all of you by now. They are describing global commodity price increases, sudden increases in interest rates, and supply chain woes that are slowing production and driving up costs. Declining labor force levels are adding additional concerns. All of these factors are combining to make the construction of the project unsustainable.
There’s an obvious bit of irony in seeing the same state and federal government actors who have pushed “green energy” down everyone’s throats sitting on this particular sideline. Those same people whose policies helped drive this collapse in the supply chain and the labor market, along with the spike in the prices of pretty much everything, are now watching as one of their signature “clean energy” achievements falls victim to the conditions they created.
In their brief, the developers suggested possible solutions to get them back on track. These included cost-saving measures and government tax incentives. But the only way these projects ever got off the ground initially was because the government was already massively subsidizing the wind energy industry in general and these proposed wind farms in particular. Wind energy is not profitable in and of itself without huge government subsidies. And now that the economy has largely collapsed over the past two years, those chickens are coming home to roost, assuming they avoid getting chopped up in the blades of a wind turbine like the eagles.
https://twitter.com/Voice4Victoria/status/1587270502438948864?cxt=HHwWgMCixZeHj4csAAAA
If only we could speed up their demise, OldOzzie.
Dan will be squandering squillions on wind power in coming years in Vic. Happy days!
14. People who have a Waylon Jennings cassette.
Top Ender;
The citizens of Australia need a bit of input into the entire immigration scam. We are being left out and demand our say.
They’re called royalties, Jim.
And thanks to our federal system they don’t disappear into the Commonwealth’s consolidated revenue.
They’re running a deficit which is out of control and I think i read there won’t be a surplus until 2032. We’re currently at about $167 billion and the meter is running hot.
Littleproud says reducing emissions requires common sense. Maybe he’ll stop exhaling.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
November 1, 2022 at 1:43 pm
Jim Chalmers left the door open on Tuesday for increased taxes on companies now making windfall profits, saying there was “a pretty strong view in the community that we need to get a return for our resources”.
Good luck with that one!
Meanwhile Jim Chalmers and the Australian Labor Party are in Good Company with “Vacant Biden”
Biden Blasts ‘Big Oil’ For “War Profiteering”, Urges Congressional ‘Windfall Tax’
Incompetent Idiots flock together!
So who are the selections for the Melbourne Cup from all and sundry here? Smokin’ Romans for no other reason that it is in the race.
A third world state;
The Hun;
IPA;
Victoria’s State Finances Worst In Nation– Every Victorian To Owe $30,000 & Interest Cost To Rise Five-fold
MSN identifies a Meme developing – Unconfirmed Conspiracy Theory Of Paul Pelosi’s Alleged ‘Gay Lover’ Runs Wild On Social Media Following Attack
#Pelosigaylover is trending. Perhaps there is some truth to it.??
and
Nancy Pelosi and her gay husband… so cute! #pelosiattack #Pelosigaylover #Pelosi
plus
It’s time to BAN all semi-automatic assault hammers… Do it for #Pelosigaylover.
I can’t believe the state is sleepwalking into the election to elect the Hunchback.
60/40 Morgan poll?
Naaa, I’m going with 70/30.
“State Labor MP for Fairfield Guy Zangari broke ranks to criticise his federal counterpart Chris Bowen and the Commonwealth for leaving his community in the dark.
“The fact that this is happening is very triggering to them … The community should be brought along for the broader discussion so they aren’t being left out,” he said.”
This is telling, parts of Fairfield are in Fowler. Labor lost Fowler to an independent. Zangari is worried, with a state election in March, and he’s right to be worried.
A man was dating three women and wanted to decide who to marry. He decided to give them a test. He gave each woman $10,000 and observed what each did with the money.
The first one went for a total make-over which included a fancy hair style, make up and several new outfits. She then dressed up for the man and said “I have done this to make myself more attractive to you because I love you so much”. The man was impressed.
The second woman went gift shopping for the man. She bought him a new smartphone, a Rolex and some very flashy clothes. As she presented these gifts to him she said “I’ve spent all the money on you because I love you so much”. The man was again impressed.
The third one invested the money in the stock market. She earned $40,000 and gave him back his $10k. She then deposited the remainder in a joint account. She told him that she wanted to secure their future because she loved him so much. Obviously, the man was very impressed.
The man thought for a very long time about how each woman had used the money. He weighed the pros and cons and considered his future with each of them. Finally, he decided to marry the one with the biggest tits………………………….
Gags die, humour doesn’t.
– Jack Benny
I bet on a grey in Race 3
Only if anyone stays here. Unless the Hunchback makes it illegal to leave the state.
It’s actually very funny when you think about it.
I cannot for the life of me think of one single recognized female poster here who would be considered a fully fledged Karen. However, I can easily catalogue 8 males who are the extreme Karens posting here.
There are quite a few of them.
In the 1980s, I worked for a company that, among other things, sold mail order musical cassettes. By far the biggest sellers were the American country music ones, by people I’d never heard of (being a fan of hard rock, punk, electronic etc) like Mickey Gilley – he was huge. The buyers were mostly resident outside the big cities, and they were serious fans who bought every new release.
How these people who lived in regional and remote areas even heard of Mickey Gilley in the pre-internet age I don’t know. But they did. Lots of them.
How about adding to the list:
– Ever attended a B&S Ball.
Now, there’s a party worth remembering (if you can). 🙂
So, if I understand correctly, c. 30km of rail line which duplicates existing lines, albeit on a more direct route, will bankrupt the state? Meaning the remaining 60km of the promised loop, joining the north and west, will likely never be built.
Wow….if the IPA is correct, just wow.
And how many “new Australians” are they going to stuff into Mogadishu on the Yarra in the meantime?
RBA lifts cash rate by 0.25pc to 2.85pc
Did anyone find out who PRGUY17 was?
Was it “Jay”?
https://twitter.com/GundamNorthrop/status/1587229201005830145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1587229201005830145%7Ctwgr%5E6e4faaac9fff79bcf79361ebb271b8a6daca4c4d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage5271350%2Fpg1
Know nothing about horse racing, except what Tom and Dillo and one or two others share.
But, I just heard (from a housemaid who is a keen punter) that Jamie Kah is on 19.
Worth getting a quick punt on?
I went into a pub in Ireland once and there was horse racing on TV
I sat next to someone and said “Did you know we have a day off for a horse race in Australia?”
Ah yes The Melbourne Cup
Did you a know a woman won it ?
Ah yes Michelle Payne
Did you know she had a bad fall ?
Ah yes in Mildura
Have a go at Lunar Flare.
Good form, light weight, centre barrier and as local as you get these days.
Geez sorry.
It’s scratched.
My hokey manhood test:
1. Meeting a childhood hero like Liza Snozza Daley and not acting a fool.
2. Seeing Jess Campbell on my train carriage and giving a respectful nod instead of acting like a Kotaku and asking her to marry me.
3. I’ve picked cotton.
4. Selling cherries on the side of the road.
5. Doing security in a hick bar with no rules. But it was a house. Road Hou…
6. Doing security in the city.
7. Having your labour market research mangled by a PM during a televised debate.
8. Realising “alpha make coaches (roaches?)” like Dan Blizerian were frauds before it was cool.
9. Turning down a beautiful drunk chick.
10. Actually admitting you were wrong and apologising.
Mater:
If they actually meant it, the legislation that allowed this shitfight to happen would be gone.
But it hasn’t has it?
So they plan to do it again when they next feel like it.
RTWT.
The Public Health Acts need to be repealed but the chances of that happening are like the LDP winning the Victorian election.
I just had a call from the office of the SA opposition leader, Davie Speirs, to answer questions I had asked last week. The conversation was most heartening.
The woman stressed that Speirs is a true conservative, as opposed to the moderate Marshall and Chapman. He believes in two genders, the value of family, a woman is an adult female, trans ‘women’ do not have a right to female only spaces, less government intervention and a responsible approach to environmental issues to achieve best outcomes for agriculture, housing and recreation.
The SA Liberals will no loger try to ‘out-Left the Left’.
Yeah, sure, thinks I. Then, when checking the spelling of his name, I spied this snippet from their ABC News in Dec 2021:
I lost half the quote:
Scandal-Ridden San Francisco FBI Field Office Involved in Pelosi Investigation
Given the highly partisan nature of the FBI, and the San Francisco field office in particular, there is no reason to believe FBI brass will do anything more than run cover for the Pelosis.
No one should accept at face value the strange account of what happened to Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), at their California home last week.
Plenty of factors—a wholly dishonest news media, unsubstantiated claims the attacker was a foiled assassin who planned to kill the speaker of the House, and Mr. Pelosi’s recent legal troubles, to name a few—feed justified skepticism surrounding the alleged break-in and hammer attack that occurred in the wee hours of October 28. Details continue to change while leading Democrats including Hillary Clinton blame the incident, without evidence, on Republicans and Donald Trump.
This situation is yet another example of how the public’s complete lack of faith in major institutions is fueling doubt and suspicion. Unfortunately, that level of distrust extends to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a once-revered agency that has blown its reputation in service to the Democratic Party. And news that the San Francisco FBI field office is taking a lead role in the Pelosi investigation offers little comfort that the American people will ever find out the truth of the matter.
The San Francisco field office, like the bureau’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and many other offices across the country, is mired in scandal. It’s particularly true as it relates to the FBI’s cozy ties to Big Tech—and the San Francisco FBI office is ground zero for that quid pro quo relationship. Rather than investigate the nearly 300 Big Tech companies within its Silicon Valley jurisdiction for various offenses such as election interference, the San Francisco FBI office appears instead to be in cahoots with these powerful corporate interests to do the Democratic Party’s dirty work.
Few people benefit more than Nancy Pelosi, who of course happens to live in San Francisco. Democratic candidates and lawmakers are flush with campaign donations from Big Tech; in 2020 alone, Facebook and Twitter—the latter located in Pelosi’s congressional district and the former located just outside its boundaries—donated at least $5.5 million to Democrats and only a paltry $435,000 to Republicans, a 12-1 ratio in favor of Pelosi’s party. Conversely, threats made by leading Democrats to break up Big Tech or hold congressional hearings into alleged malfeasance have been slow-walked since Pelosi reclaimed the speaker’s gavel.
Robert Tripp was just moved from the bureau’s inspection division (the FBI’s version of internal affairs) in Washington to take over the San Francisco operation.
Late Monday afternoon, Tripp and Justice Department officials announced federal charges against the alleged attacker, David DePape, including the attempted kidnapping of Speaker Pelosi—a confusing charge, considering Pelosi wasn’t home and DePape clearly had no physical or mental capacity to do so.
It appears more than anything to be political narrative-building by Biden’s Justice Department to bolster the idea that Trump and Republicans inspired another “kidnapping” attempt. The complaint, signed by a special agent assigned to domestic terror investigations in the San Francisco FBI office, also offers a conflicting account as to what happened when officers arrived and an incomplete timeline of events.
Given the highly partisan nature of the FBI, and the San Francisco field office in particular, there is no reason to believe FBI brass will do anything more than run cover for the Pelosis and conceal any damaging or contradictory facts about the confrontation.
This link includes a good map of the SRL;
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/cost-of-melbournes-suburban-rail-loop-project-predicted-to-double-to-73bn-22-08-2022/
everyone gets to be a target, yay!!
Indolent:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/satanic-child-sex-ring-case-in-glasgow-involving-attempted-murder-and-sexual-assaults-to-be-continued-3900212
Why am I not surprised at the crimes? But I am surprised the coppers even bothered investigating. Most of the kids who complained after years of silence about the NCCH and were just fobbed off.
Calli:
I read that as ‘bananas’ and thought they should have at least kept people quiet…
Plenty of examples in the linked video. We saw an item months ago about someone going through customs when there were vaccine mandates with a fake vaccine passport and being pulled up as unvaccinated.
Melbourne Cup day memories:
(i) in high school, we were supposedly playing sport on the back oval when our punter sportsmistress stopped play while we listened to the Cup on her radio (c 1969) Light Fingers?; and
(ii) Sweeney, our group house cat, named after the head of the ACT Drug Squad, gave birth to four kittens in my bedroom.
The rest of them are a blur or less, except for faint memories of office sweeps and the odd boozy luncheon.
It may have ‘stopped a nation’, but not in the bits I was living in.
Yeah yeah yeah, but have you watched a coffee tree growing?
Cassie/callie:
Could one of youse twins who are in contact with our esteemed rulers put a question to one of the political class next time they come within hearing distance?
“When is the Enabling Law* that allowed the Politicians to deny us so many rights going to be scrapped?” and “Do they actually intend to use it again?”
* Yes – I did that deliberately.
Where is the security?
Gold Trip (J: M. Zahra. T: Maher-Eustace. $19.40) wins the 2022 Melbourne Cup.
Not just currency markets, but 90% of all traders are losers. It’s not a bad thing as the liquidity needs to come from somewhere, driller.
I’ve met David Eustace.
He’s a very nice fella for a Pom.
““I definitely did say that,” Mr Speirs said.”
Thanks for posting that DA. And good on Speirs. That’s what you do with the left, you don’t cower, you don’t capitulate, you don’t appease, you stand your ground.
As for the “moderate” Marshall, he was a Green and to the left of Malinauskas on almost everything. He deserved to lose.
From Rita P’s twitter feed. It is funny.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1587293818411425792
I saw a comment by a long term cop who said that this was the first time he attended a break in where the glass and debris flew outwards.
They’ve got a nice operation Tom. They come through BP with beautiful large floats to the Swan Hill races and very personable staff.
Michelle Payne dropped in one night on the way home. Quiet as a mouse.
Take the money and run. A profit is always a profit. You can always buy back in anything under $420 support level with $390 being oversold.
Perversion of justice in the red shirts investigations?
https://constitutionwatch.com.au/exclusive-red-shirts-scandal-were-senior-police-corrupted/
The broadcast said it was only the third time in 20 years that Gold Trip ran the big 3 races in the same year. Or similar timeframe. That’s match fitness.
Gunna need a ‘secret handshake’ to get the higher level pollies through then.
Let’s trigger Cassie for a change.
Allegra, the economist/engineer.
That a horse did that I should say.
“Allegra, the economist/engineer.”
Allegra, the rich Eastern Suburbs hypocrite.
Suspender belt is proof that we live in an Idiocracy
Say goodbye to single use governments!
BB
It’s true about good operators in racing.
I help out with race days, jump outs and trials locally.
There’s trainers who give you no hassles. They arrive on time, plenty of staff, rotate their horses so they don’t tie up stalls and have enough floats to get the raced animals away back home.
And there are others….
LOL
I prefer this quote from eugyppius. Cuts straight to the point and saves pixels.
I’ve worked with lots of nationalities and most are great people. Its only individuals that are arseholes.
First Melbourne Cup I can remember that I didn’t have a bet.
This year I just accepted that I had no idea.
A mate walks into an Islamic bookshop. The attendant looks at him in amazement, walks over and asks “You know this is an Islamic bookshop, so how can I help you”? My mate says he’s after a book by Pauline Hanson, something about Immigration into Australia and overcrowding. The attendant see’s red and say’s “Get fucked, fuck off and don’t come back”. My mate looks at him for a bit and says, “that’s the one, do you have it in paperback?”
I don’t understand why there aren’t emergencies for the Melbourne Cup.
On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
– Rodney Dangerfield
Leftist Professor Writing for Atlantic Magazine Wants to Let Bygones be Bygones and Accept a “Pandemic Amnesty” – Sorry, Not Happening
October 31, 2022 – sundance
Brown University Professor Emily Oster, writing for The Atlantic wants to heal divisions created during the COVID-19 pandemic, let bygones be bygones and accept a pandemic amnesty; now that the nonsense covid positions of the professional left are shown to have been built upon lies, falsehoods and social manipulation….
…. Sorry, not happening.
The professional political leftists are starting to rebrand themselves as having fallen victim to the “bureaucracy of COVID”, and according to those high-minded people who think very highly of themselves, we are supposed to embrace this new enlightenment from the same people who were demanding our acquiescence to their dictates and sneering at those who did not comply.
This example of “THE AWAKENING” from Brown University Professor Emily Oster is supposed to be something I am told to appreciate.
Fat chance.
I/We are expected to appreciate the same people who demanded our acquiescence to every policy that was created by their ridiculous fear, simply because they now admit ‘oops, my bad‘?
Sorry, not happening.
For two years they shoved their intolerant fingers in our faces, destroyed lives and livelihoods, made ridiculous demands in order to sustain their own fear, threatened our children, destroyed the economy, used COVID as an excuse to destroy families and steal an election, attempted to force us to kneel at the altar of their mask wearing and never-ending vaccine crap, took our jobs if we refused their mandates… and we’re just supposed to what, forgive them?
I want, heck, need, to see these people destroyed with the heat of a thousand supernovas.
The vulgar lies and verbal filth have been extreme for two years as these ideological parasites utilized their microphones and typeset in a brutal attempt to tear down our nation. We have all been witness. Anyone trying to convince us this assembly of our union is not tenuous might want to revisit their proximity to reason, because they’re not just out of the city – they’re also out of the same state the ballpark is located in.
David Mamet had a famous saying, I repeat it often because it helps people break the cycle of abuse. Essentially: …‘in order for democrats, liberals, progressives et al to continue their illogical belief systems they have to pretend not to know a lot of things’…
By pretending ‘not to know’, the professional left carries no guilt, no actual connection to conscience. Denial of truth allows easier trespass, and that is exactly what Professor Emily Oster is attempting in that article.
This hate-filled Democrat, leftist and social ideology relies on our willingness to reconcile their presentations and grant benefit within their seeds of doubt.
Sorry, forgiveness is for the next generation….
We need to destroy those who carried out this abuse.
Our parents were forced to die alone in isolation while we were forbidden from holding their hand or being with them.
Thousands never had the opportunity to say goodbye.
We know exactly what the covenant of marriage is all about; and it has nothing to do with being forced to stand outside hospitals, screaming in unbearable choking anguish, while our wives and husbands took their last breaths…. ALONE!
You want forgiveness for that?
I do not possess that capacity.
My newly discovered favourite history presenter, Philomena Cunk, has a new series coming out on Netflix: Cunk on Earth.
Anyone curious as to what that might be like can see this brief segment from Cunk on Britain about Francis Drake.
(It goes for about a minute and then moves onto another topic.
Sundance sums it up. That milquetoast piece from Oster was infuriating.
Mother Lode
I do remember.
And when the timeline wasn’t working for Ms Judd, she went with, “Can I add in another ten minutes, M’Lud?”
Fuck me dead.
If you wrote that as an appeal strategy in Criminal Law 201 it would come back with a lot of red ink and a yuuuge F-.
It’s Happening! Elon’s Twitter Just Fact-Checked Joe Biden’s Official Presidential Account
There was but she couldn’t get her shoes on and fell asleep on the Minister’s sofa.
He’s firing everyone. LOL
Joe Biden Is Lying To Americans About Medicare And Social Security’s Insolvency
Germany puts off transport emissions decision until 2023
Twitter – The New Wild West for Free Speech
From Armstrong Economics –
“All eyes are on Twitter after Elon Musk acquired the company for $44 billion. Musk took Twitter public but plans to make it available to shareholders in another five years as he believes he can reach one billion subscribers by that time. The eccentric billionaire began his takeover by bringing an actual kitchen sink to Twitter headquarters – and he indeed threw out everything “but the kitchen sink,” as the phrase goes.
First, the original board of misinformation was fired. The former CEO and many top-level executives were laid off. Twitter engineers were replaced with Tesla engineers who began working on changing the algorithm. That specific algorithm has been used to silence conservative voices and anyone going against the general narrative.
President Joe Biden was fact-checked for claiming that his Inflation Reduction Act would crack down on 55 corporations failing to pay their fair share in taxes. Twitter added context to his post and explained that only 14 of the 55 companies had earnings over $1 billion and would be the only companies eligible under the new tax law. The president or left, in general, would NEVER have faced a fact check. Musk even personally replied to a tweet from Hillary Clinton in a mocking way and obviously did not have his account banned. The left may still bash the right too.
Could you imagine if the algorithm that stifled COVID-free speech was alive and well from the beginning of 2020? People may have seen a different side to the story.
Some are worried that hateful speech will prevail on Twitter. After a certain derogatory word began trending, engineers discovered that it was part of a “trolling campaign” where around 300 bots were responsible for promoting that word in an effort to discredit the new platform. Bots or fake accounts will face bans, but people may speak freely on the platform.
Former President Trump is permitted to rejoin the social network, but he said he would stay on his Truth Social. It will be interesting to see what happens on Twitter now that all voices can freely speak without punishment.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/regulation/twitter-the-new-wild-west-for-free-speech/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Nobody wants to be seen buying them. I’m told it’s the same with porn.