Open Thread – Weekend 5 Nov 2022


Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859


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rickw
rickw
November 6, 2022 12:30 am

1980 Interview with Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Gr45Dpq2U

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 12:33 am

And The Departed now screening. Superb

Tom
Tom
November 6, 2022 4:00 am
Gabor
Gabor
November 6, 2022 4:36 am

custard says:
November 5, 2022 at 11:40 pm

Of course not, I’m talking about caravans.

Occasionally things free range a bit

This is the thing, many salesmen don’t realise how they lose customers when they venture outside sales pitch.
Same as woke companies.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 6, 2022 6:38 am

We can hope, at least, that whoever schedules these things that they reject Albo’s bid.

COP31: Chris Bowen announces Australia will bid to host United Nations climate conference in 2026 (5 Nov)

Australia will bid to host the United Nations conference on Climate Change in 2026, Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced.

Speaking at a press conference in Sydney on Saturday, Mr Bowen said Australia will market itself as a “renewable energy power house” in its bid to host the COP 31 summit.

Spare us, please!

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 6:44 am

Indolent:
Your link to the article “Ukraine is Paying a Heavy Price…” has the following comment:

Séamus Ó Néill says
Problem with all these amoral reprobates, that you’ve mentioned, is that when they acquire unimaginable wealth, they achieve the ability to purchase anything….and almost anyone and they begin to believe they’ve become invincible. Their ego and their rotting brains have them thinking they can play God with the rest of humanity, hence their de-population agenda and their satanic WEF. The creator, whatever nomenclature you choose to call him, has certainly other ideas. He’s the ultimate boss…. as these morons will undoubtedly discover as a time of his choosing.

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 6:56 am

ZK2A:

Pulling the legs of gullible “whitefellas” is considered fine sport by the indigenous…….

It stopped being a harmless sport, sport when it was realised a lot of money could be made.
Now it’s a way of life that leads to riches beyond avarice and a dysfunctional society beyond repair. While the upper echelons are rolling in the munni, it’s the kids who are copping it in the neck, and any other orifice the adults can find.
You think it’s a fine sport? It’s no longer innocent fun.
Just wait until these kids grow up and realise just how cruelly they have been treated and by whom.

Mater
November 6, 2022 7:01 am

COP31: Chris Bowen announces Australia will bid to host United Nations climate conference in 2026 (5 Nov)

That’s about 4 years off.
Yep, enough time for the consequences to be well underway and felt by all.
The Australian public should be sufficiently pissed off by that stage that it’ll make the event quite lively.
Bring it on, though one might suggest Bowen likely won’t be still Energy Minister in 2026.

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 7:16 am

Custard:
It may be a good article – here – but we’ve seen too many false dawns to be nothing but sceptical any more.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 7:19 am
rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 7:25 am
calli
calli
November 6, 2022 7:27 am

WIP goodness this week…thanks Tom.

They have one of my Favourites

And one I’ll save right beside it.

😀

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 7:31 am

Hmmm. This is my one. Both applicable.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 7:33 am
calli
calli
November 6, 2022 7:34 am

I told youse they were stockpiling firewood. Everywhere, not just Slovakia.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 7:37 am

COP31: Chris Bowen announces Australia will bid to host United Nations climate conference in 2026 (5 Nov)

psssh … how are they all supposed to get here? …Private jets???

Tom
Tom
November 6, 2022 7:37 am

Haha. What will Elon do next?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 6, 2022 7:38 am

Art in London.

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 7:39 am

Sorry. Slovenia. And Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro. Great piles of the stuff.

Didn’t get to Slovakia.

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 7:42 am

I love that photo of Musk, Tom.

It really demands a massive photoshopped periwig and frilly neckerchief. Plus a “let them eat dirt” style caption.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 7:45 am

Apparently activists have been succsssfully pressuring advertisers to leave Twitter, even though there’s been no change to content moderation.
Elon has commented about it.
Other than firing a bunch of people what had he done, other than be really rich?
I see Eric Idle also flounced leaving behind millions of followers.

Orman Faruqi, on a much smaller scale has scrubbed his feed.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 7:45 am

On a brighter note Rudd remains ranting re Rupert.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 7:46 am

If you don’t ask, how are you supposed to know that Coon is now Cheer?

Johnny Rotten
November 6, 2022 7:48 am

A couple were roaring down the road on a Honda motorcycle when the guy pulled over because his leather jacket had a broken zip.

He told his girlfriend “I can’t keep driving any more, the air hitting me in the chest is unbearable”.

His girlfriend said “Try putting your jacket on back to front”.

The boyfriend quickly made the change and they continued roaring down the road until the next bend! The boyfriend was going far too fast, lost control and the couple were both flung into a ditch.

A passing motorist stopped, rushed over to help, then ran to call the police.

The police telephone operator asked “Are they showing any signs of life?”

“Well” the motorist explained “the girl seems okay and her boyfriend was moving until I turned his head around the right way!”

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 7:48 am

Sure, NewsCorp are gonna let Andrews have both barrels this week, but it hardly makes up for the last 416 weeks spent sucking his cock.

Johnny Rotten
November 6, 2022 7:49 am

Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.

– Lewis Carroll

miltonf
miltonf
November 6, 2022 7:53 am

Bowen filth again gives away what drives him- to be part of the self appointed globull elite. Just like the Bishop slag. This trash is our enemy.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 7:58 am

There’ll be a Christmas Election in 2025.
The thinking is that since Labor are bringing the COP31 circus to Australia in a few months time, they should be reelected.

Mater
November 6, 2022 8:02 am

There’ll be a Christmas Election in 2025.
The thinking is that since Labor are bringing the COP31 circus to Australia in a few months time, they should be reelected.

And given what’s about to happen (in the energy space) between now and late 2025, it’ll have the opposite effect.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 6, 2022 8:03 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 8:06 am
Indolent
Indolent
November 6, 2022 8:08 am
calli
calli
November 6, 2022 8:10 am

Poor Eric Idle. Can’t afford $8 a month.

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 8:13 am

Sorry, that’s $8 a month to be able to edit your account and a couple of other features that escape me.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 6, 2022 8:16 am

Dozey

:
November 5, 2022 at 8:24 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
November 5, 2022 at 8:23 pm
At least 30 children in every Australian primary school died last week of unexplained causes.

Big if true.

Link?

The link s juicers.

Available in Kitchens and Appliances.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 6, 2022 8:17 am

Mid-term punts.
House: GOP at 240+ (but will take weeks to finalise).
Senate: GOP at 52 (but will include a run-off election, so won’t be finalised until early 2023).

Run-off elections are such a cash cow.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 8:18 am

https://babylonbee.com/video/californians-move-to-texas-episode-4-the-gun-range

Latest episode of ‘Californians move to Texas’ … 1-3 are very good too.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 6, 2022 8:23 am

The reason I’m at 52 not 53 is because I think DNC machine is just so invested in Fetterman in Pennsylvania.
Unlike other candidates where Trump endorsed late in the race, the Trump machine got involved with Dr Oz when it was still a hotly contested primary.
Maybe I’m giving the DNC too much credit.
Time will tell.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 6, 2022 8:27 am

Apparently those Albanian blokes catching zodiacs across the Channel aren’t fleeing war.
They’re fleeing an even greater mortal peril. Homophobia.
Some Roman bloke called Horace coined a phrase appropriate for this.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 6, 2022 8:28 am

Barabara Plett-Usher of the BBC, famous for crying when Yasser Arafat died, did a piece on the US elections, saying that there’s a nasty right wing Christian cohort that will “drag the Republicans further to the right”. People like Doug Mastriano, running for Governor in PA. He’s a Christian and ex-military! Terrible combination according to the Plettsker.
It’d be a very good thing if the Republicans were dragged further to the right of Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Lisa Murkowski.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 8:28 am

There’ll be a Christmas Election in 2025.
The thinking is that since Labor are bringing the COP31 circus to Australia in a few months time, they should be reelected.

And given what’s about to happen (in the energy space) between now and late 2025, it’ll have the opposite effect.

Huh?
You’re being Oppositional now.

Indolent
Indolent
November 6, 2022 8:34 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
November 6, 2022 8:35 am

Ed Casesays:
November 6, 2022 at 8:28 am
There’ll be a Christmas Election in 2025.
The thinking is that since Labor are bringing the COP31 circus to Australia in a few months time, they should be reelected.

And given what’s about to happen (in the energy space) between now and late 2025, it’ll have the opposite effect.

Huh?
You’re being Oppositional now.

Richard Cranium again demonstrates his own lack of self awareness.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 6, 2022 8:37 am

Will there be violence when the Republicans wipe the floors of both houses with the Demorags? Leo Hohmann thinks so.
Leo Hohmann: Biden Delivers Ominous Warning from His Globalist Puppet Masters – The Narrative Has Been Set for Election Chaos and Political Violence

So, in summary, when I listen to Biden’s speech what I’m hearing is this: They are giving us “one final warning,” that if we turn out in droves to vote for their opposition they will have to do something drastic, perhaps remove the pretense of democracy, the delusion that democracy still exists. Unleash hell’s fury.

I hope I’m proven wrong next week, but I have felt for some time that we already live under a dictatorship, a soft dictatorship perhaps, but a dictatorship nonetheless.

The defining characteristic of a dictatorship is that it does not go quietly. It does not allow itself to be voted out of power. Those holding positions of dictatorial power don’t see their roles as servanthood, but rather of privilege and entitlement. They don’t serve the people, as they see it, they rule over them. Why? Because they can. They control the armies and the police forces, in this case the national police force, which is the FBI.

And if we try to resist, meaning we vote in such numbers that even their built-in systemic cheating is unable to compensate for it, then they will call out the military wing of the Democrat Party, which is Antifa, and the FBI will look the other way.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 8:39 am

COVID Amnesty, eh?
I’m thinking Rosie is Emily Oster.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 8:45 am

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
@Ayaan

https://google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/11/03/hochul-harris-hillary-make-closing-argument-00064825

Hillary, Harris and Hochul as role models for girls? Heavens! No wonder so many are transitioning. No fun looking forward to that.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 8:46 am

Will there be violence when the Republicans wipe the floors of both houses with the Demorags? Leo Hohmann thinks so.
LeoHohmann is an idiot.
Mitch McConnell and his crew will increase funding for Ukraine, double down on GloboHomo, kickstart a 5th round of vaccinations, shut down the Coal Industry and keep the borders wide open.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 8:51 am

Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Face a Fine From the NFL for His Halloween Costume

“Commissioner Roger Goodell has made it clear that while coaches and owners can speak to the league office freely about problems with officiating, public comments are subject to fines — even when the refs are wrong,” I wrote back then.

It’s still the case, as Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is likely to figure out. The 80-year-old owner dressed up for Halloween as one of the hoariest of sports cliches: the blind referee.

“Oh, yeah, I had the cane and everything!” Jones told Sports Illustrated. “And I used it on some people, too!”

It’s pretty funny, even if it has been done to death, but the NFL might not think so. You see, the attitude that no one should dare publicly criticize the refs is still prevalent. In fact, the NFL issued a memo in 2019 reiterating that calling out refs is a big no-no. The memo specifically mentions as forbidden:

Jones’ son Stephen is hoping that the NFL sees that the costume was all in good fun.

“They have a very difficult job in real time,” Stephen Jones told The K&C Masterpiece podcast on Monday. “I do think they understand you can have some humor with this stuff, but I can’t imagine they don’t think there’s nothing but respect that comes out of the Cowboys organization in terms of how difficult their job is and what a good job they do, as well.”

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 8:56 am

Sudden vaxx deaths can’t be ignored anymore.</blockquote
Why not?
If it's not on TV, it never happened.

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 8:57 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 8:57 am
Rabz
November 6, 2022 8:58 am

“Clennell’s Chrystal Ball”

Give it a rest, you preposterous puffed up ponce.

Mater
November 6, 2022 8:59 am

Huh?
You’re being Oppositional now.

Actually, no.
Truthfully, I think you’ve had your broken clock moment this morning with a couple of comments.

The phenomenon won’t last. You’re too stupid and rely on Google too much.

Rabz
November 6, 2022 9:03 am

What next – “Nielsen’s Ninnyisms”?

Rabz
November 6, 2022 9:06 am

Incredible – the braindead lamestream meeja is still covering for that grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile in Disasterstan.

Once again, for those blessed with thick empty craniums- he had the shit beaten out of him, you loathsome fundament tonguers.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 6, 2022 9:07 am

An obsecne, blasphemous, Church-hating Marxist poofta child pornographer practitioner (taxpayer -subsidised) of The Yartz:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-06/paul-yore-word-made-flesh-exhibition-acca-australian-artist/101610312

What’s for the ABC – or the Victorian judiciary – not to like?

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 9:23 am

Rosie:
And if a bounty were placed on these scamming bastards of say 20% of their payout, then there’d be a lot less scamming going on.
Because these idiots have just got to brag about how clever they are on their social media.

Indolent
Indolent
November 6, 2022 9:26 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 9:29 am

EXPERT: IT’S TIME TO STOP CREATING ‘SUPERBUGS’ IN THE LAB

That’s a phishing site.

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 9:30 am

Rosie:

The two monasteries became lost to history as scholars believe Christians slowly converted to Islam as that faith grew more prevalent in the region.

A more accurate statement would be “The two monasteries became lost to history as scholars believe Christians were slaughtered and Islam grew more prevalent in the region.”
But, Christians – never missing a chance to refuse to support their religion.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 9:32 am

Piers Akerman from last week:

Opposition leader Peter Dutton is seeking an intelligent conversation on the role new age technologies may play in Australia’s energy mix.
To paraphrase the Irish joke (no offence intended), Canberra is the wrong place to begin searching.
Not only is the ACT the most woke capital in the nation (having just decriminalised heroin, cocaine and speed, it may also be the dopiest) but the FIFO Teals, Greens and ideologically-blinkered Labor MPs aren’t lifting its average IQ one iota.
Being the heaviest subscribers to the Guardian, Nine Media and the ABC, the Left’s print and broadcast services) means they just aren’t up with what’s happening in the real world.
Germany, where the Greens first won parliamentary seats, is dismantling a wind farm to make way for the expansion of an open-pit lignite, brown coal, mine to provide reliable base load energy.
That’s because former leader Angela Merkel’s illogical and disgraceful over-reliance on unreliable so-called renewables and scandalous dependence on Russian gas has left the German Green-Coalition government in the cold dark as winter approaches.
Here, Labor, the Teals and Greens are screaming to close cleaner black coal power stations without providing any reliable replacement energy sources.
The ABC’s Patricia Karvelas, may have been reading from Labor’s daily issued “talking points” when she scolded Dutton Friday morning for merely suggesting that there is a need to include nuclear energy in any discussion about meeting Australia’s power crisis.
Ignoring the fact (as checked by the ABC’s own Fact Check) that Labor didn’t inherit a trillion dollars of debt, Karvelas carped that small modular nuclear reactors were nowhere in service and that nuclear was the most expensive of all energy sources.
To parrot those same inaccurate government lines is to ignore the small reactors aboard nuclear submarines and the massive subsidies and the tens of billions of dollars that Labor’s proposed 28,000 kilometres of new high voltage green energy transmission lines through farms and national parks will cost.
Maybe she should get her information from someone other than the smirking, smug Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen and talk to some real experts.
Dutton made the point in his Budget reply that power prices during the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years rose on average by 12.9 per cent per year and that over nine years of Coalition government they rose by an average of 0.3 of one per cent per year.
She didn’t want to acknowledge another fact – during the election campaign Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised on 97 occasions that your bills would be reduced by $275.
Instead of going down by $275, as promised, Treasurer Jim Chalmers Budget calls for increases of more than 56 per cent over the next two years, with increases to your gas bill of more than 44 per cent.
The Labor, Green, Teal majority might take heed of another news item from Germany last week which stated that four separate century-old companies declared insolvency in a 24-hour period as energy costs and inflation continued to spiral across Europe.
Germany has the biggest economy in the European Union, with a GDP of over 3.57 trillion euros in 2021. Its position as the fourth largest economy in the world is based on exports of high-quality manufactured goods including vehicle construction, electrical industry, engineering and chemical industry.
Hobbled by the policies of its Green-tainted government, it stands to lose its status to China, which is rapidly overtaking over its automotive, electrical and engineering industries and is not bound by any net zero fantasies as it builds more coal and nuclear power plants.
The president of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI), Markus Steilemann, said that the country may become an “industrial museum” if circumstances continue to worsen.
Australia is in a worse position as almost all heavy industry has already been exported to China to the cheers of the Greens and Teals.
Labor with its hard-Left adherence to insane Green policies is leading the nation headlong towards the abyss.
A handful of Labor’s traditional supporters understand the catastrophe facing the nation unless pragmatic action is taken.
Dan Walton, the personable national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, is among them.
As the representative of 72,000 workers across the nation, Dan knows that without reliable, affordable energy, they will be out of work.
Further, when we spoke, he pointed out that unless the Labor government can ensure that householders and businesses have affordable power, the Albanese government will be unable to deliver on its big initiatives.
Like this nuclear power station in northeast China, Australia should consider all forms of energy.
All forms of energy must be considered if those big ticket aspirational goals are to be met, including nuclear, otherwise they will remain dreams for dreamers.
So, as your power bills continue to soar to stratospheric heights as summer air conditioning bills kick in, just contemplate the indescribably blind, deaf and above all ignorant Labor government in Canberra.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 6, 2022 9:35 am

Andrew Clennell described the Biden’s presidency as “less than impressive.”

Really? You don’t say.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 9:41 am

The reason I’m at 52 not 53 is because I think DNC machine is just so invested in Fetterman in Pennsylvania.

Seriously? Do you really think the machine can wheel out an obviously brain dead candidate once a fortnight (hiding him in his basement at other times) and their voters will buy it ? (sarc – for those who didnt know)

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 9:48 am

Christians – never missing a chance to refuse to support their religion

Nine Crusades over 275 years and the Reconquista over 780 years would seem to indicate that Christians of the time supported their faith quite a bit.

In terms of the Crusades, though, it could be fairly said that only the first one was really about reclaiming the Holy Land. The rest were either in support of the principalities and duchies established in Outremer, seen as politically advantageous or didn’t even get there.

Makka
Makka
November 6, 2022 9:52 am

More power to this grass roots movement;

But that’s what Moms for Liberty is all about. The group enlists members who have the “desire to stand up for parental rights at all levels of government,” and are lending their knowledge and experience to help parents fight those battles, Justice said.

School boards don’t always follow typical election cycles, and “that’s been something that our moms have really had to learn and focus on,” Justice said.

The group has become particularly suspicious of teachers’ unions. Many unions worked hard to keep children at home during the pandemic, rather than in classrooms. And recently, The Epoch Times reported that the National Education Association has been selling $2 wearable badges to teachers. Those rainbow-colored badges identify a teacher as a “safe person,” with whom children can discuss questions about sex, gender-identity, and the LGBT lifestyle, without worrying their parents will be told.

“But we’re wise to them,” Justice said of unions. “We’re wise to their game … and we’re coming.”

During the pandemic, parents got a glimpse of what was being taught in the schools and parental involvement was “amplified,” said Justice, the mom of four school-aged children. She’s also a former school board member in Indian River County, Florida.

As parents began reacting to pandemic policies, “we watched as microphones were shut off at school board meetings, and teachers’ unions worked with the government and the bureaucrats to keep schools closed,” she said.

Now, parents are more involved than ever in speaking out about school policies, Justice said.

“This is a parent revolution across the country. We are reclaiming public education and righting America.”

miltonf
miltonf
November 6, 2022 9:58 am

Thanks for posting BB- there are a few guys in the union movement who actually care about their members. Little autist shorten-clean-event-chiquita-mushrooms not being one of them.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 9:59 am

Amazing how Annelise Nielsen claimed Fetterman was ahead in the polls when even the RCP avg has Oz slightly ahead.

Oz has an advantage with Women voters, since they [think] they know him from the TV.
The thinking from the D camp might be to get some back by running Fett and his missus as a 2 for 1 deal, and the rest a sympathy vote.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 6, 2022 10:04 am

Big bricks are spin armed, you can hit them with a hammer all day lo…

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 10:09 am

Media identifies major beneficiary of Ukraine crisis

US defense contractors reportedly stand to gain the most from $230 billion in new defense-spending commitments by EU nations

Yahoo News has identified a major beneficiary of the Russia-Ukraine slugfest: the US military industrial complex, which is reaping a windfall even as the bloody conflict causes economic havoc, energy shortages and a looming food crisis around the world.

As the media outlet reported on Saturday, EU nations have committed to about $230 billion in new weapons purchases since the Russian military offensive against Kiev started in February. US defense contractors are poised to land the lion’s share of those orders, given their dominance as suppliers to European militaries, Yahoo added.

Many European nations turn to US arms makers for more than half of all their weapons purchases. Yahoo cited data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) to show examples of US dominance in European arsenals. For instance, US-made arms accounted for 95% of the weapons purchases by the Netherlands from 2017 to 2021. The ratios were 83% US weaponry for Norway, 77% for the UK, and 72% for Italy.

European weapons imports jumped 19% during the five-year period as then-President Donald Trump prodded his NATO allies to meet their obligations for defense spending. The Ukraine crisis is set to create an even bigger windfall, as President Joe Biden leads an international campaign to flood Ukraine with weapons and the conflict triggers accelerated steps by European nations to bolster their own defenses.

“This is certainly the biggest increase in defense spending in Europe since the end of the Cold War,” Ian Bond, director of foreign policy at the Center for European Reform, told Yahoo. The crisis in Eastern Europe dispelled the notion that war on the continent is no longer possible, he added. “They’re waking up to the fact that not only is it very possible, but it is happening, and it’s happening not that many miles away from them.”

Since Biden took office in January 2021, European countries entered at least the initial stage of negotiations for $33 billion in arms purchases, including $21 billion since February, Yahoo said, citing figures from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

US defense contractors will also benefit from Washington’s massive military aid to Kiev, as the Pentagon races to replenish stocks of artillery pieces, rocket launchers and other weapons. Biden has set aside more than $65 billion in military and economic aid for Ukraine since the conflict began.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 10:09 am

FMD. Tim Blair reports a bit of fuckwittery from Marcia Langton:

Indigenous leader Marcia Langton warns massive solar farms will have a bigger impact than mining on Aboriginal lands …
Professor Langton, who leads an Indigenous research team at the University of Melbourne, said the green economy could have worse consequences than land clearing because of the sheer scale of green energy projects …
“The fantasy about the green industry – the green energy economy – that is happening right now is that it is entirely good and will save the planet from self-destruction when we hit 1.5C increase or even 2C – that is not the case,” she said.
“These projects may indeed have a worse impact than land clearing. The kind of land clearing you see in Queensland.”
“The massive solar farms that are being proposed and hydrogen projects will deeply impact Aboriginal lands. Some of them are enormous … on present plans if they’re built you will be able to see them from space.
“So this is a big challenge for Indigenous communities who are landowners or have rights and interest in land. The footprint of the green economy will be so much greater than anything that anybody has seen before. Bigger than mines, bigger than tourism, bigger than urban expansion.”
Prof Langton said many Aboriginal people would not have a choice about whether they wanted to be part of the change.
“They will have these projects forced on them,” she said.
“But where they have the opportunity to freely be involved, there is the great advantage of being involved in an economy and being able to stay on their own country. So there will be economic development in the regions in a way that we haven’t seen before. In many ways more acceptable than say agriculture or grazing.”
However, she stressed: “The footprint of the projects will be an enormous problem to face.
“The environmental impacts will be enormous,” she said.
“Imagine a solar farm that covers 17,000sq km, that’s what they’re envisaging. Imagine a windmill project that covers 20,000sq km, they are literally envisaging projects of that size with the towers 2km apart so in that entire area there is no place where there is no noise because of the noise of these machines.”

Or maybe just don’t build these at all. Of course she is angling for more coin. Just a hideous woman.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
November 6, 2022 10:10 am

flyingduk says:
November 6, 2022 at 8:18 am

https://babylonbee.com/video/californians-move-to-texas-episode-4-the-gun-range

The whole series is a pisser

cohenite
November 6, 2022 10:11 am

rosiesays:
November 6, 2022 at 7:21 am
What would Tanya do?
Tanya Plibersek to reassess 18 proposed oil and gas projects to consider their climate change impact

The experts advising the drug dealer’s wife are old mates Karoly and Leslie fucking Hughes.

miltonf
miltonf
November 6, 2022 10:14 am

Melbourne Uni is not called the Parkville asylum for nothing. Ejucashun needs a complete rethink and clean out.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 10:15 am

Go on then. Cry your tears. Your sweet, sweet, emission-reduced tears (the Hun):

Australia’s shambolic defence of their T20 World Cup title is officially over.

Endorphins……. building…..

Although it was close in the end, truth be told, the Aussies never really deserved to make the semis and the fallout to the team’s lacklustre efforts in a home World Cup should be fast and brutal to avoid it ever happening again.

And:

Although the Australians only lost one match during the group phase, they never came close to replicating the same standards when they won the World Cup in Dubai last year.

That of course was when Justin Langer was in charge but the team’s T20 results have fluctuated since he was shown the door.

And:

Steve Smith, David Warner, Matthew Wade, Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell will all be in their mid 30s by the next World Cup so most of them – if any – won’t make it either.

The expected cull may not stop just at the players.

The new Australian coach Andrew McDonald and the selection panel should also expect to find themselves under the pump after some baffling decisions to stick with ageing players out of form.

That’s all three cheats out the door, in one format at least.

Nobody’s yet made the obvious statement. The players are on centre stage due to their ability. The exact second they started down the path of being influencers (and believing their own press in that field of endeavour) they turned to shit.

That is not what you’re there for, you cockheads. It’s hard to mouth off about wind turbines when you’re given the arse, all the media and Insta followers drop off and you’re doing commentary for the West Indies domestic competition.

P
P
November 6, 2022 10:16 am

Neil Oliver Responds to the Request for COVID Amnesty, “You want WHAT”?
November 5, 2022 | Sundance

Oliver walks through some of the more egregious examples of totalitarianism and dictatorial fiat from two years of the public-private partnership, and then outlines why it is beyond comprehension that Covidians would even fathom to request “amnesty” after their two-years terroristic campaign and shredding of individual rights at the altar of the Covidian religion.

Cassie of Sydney
November 6, 2022 10:18 am

“Amazing how Annelise Nielsen claimed Fetterman was ahead in the polls when even the RCP avg has Oz slightly ahead.”

I don’t take Annelise Nielsen seriously. A vacuous babbling lightweight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 6, 2022 10:20 am

Or maybe just don’t build these at all. Of course she is angling for more coin. Just a hideous woman.

I’ll bet good money she’s elected as part of any “Voice” to Parliament.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:20 am

FMD. Tim Blair reports a bit of fuckwittery from Marcia Langton:
Langton is talking sense, Tim Blair is just a Murdoch mouthpiece these days.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:24 am

Nobody’s yet made the obvious statement.
That neither Andrew McDonald or Aaron Finch understand bowling?
The players are on centre stage due to their ability.
Go on, is that right?
The exact second they started down the path of being influencers (and believing their own press in that field of endeavour) they turned to shit.
Garbage.
Once Wadey got the Captaincy, they kicked on, but it was 2 matches too late.

Makka
Makka
November 6, 2022 10:26 am

Of course , a feature not a bug;

Seth Dillon Retweeted
ripx4nutmeg
@ripx4nutmeg
A report has found that p3dophiles are able to hide previous convictions when applying for jobs in schools and nurseries by self IDing as transgender, because privacy rules mean employers cannot find out what ‘trans people’ did under their previous names

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:27 am

“The environmental impacts will be enormous,” she said.
“Imagine a solar farm that covers 17,000sq km, that’s what they’re envisaging. Imagine a windmill project that covers 20,000sq km, they are literally envisaging projects of that size with the towers 2km apart so in that entire area there is no place where there is no noise because of the noise of these machines.”

Marcia Langton

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:30 am

5,000 Wind Towers, each 2 km apart.
It’s just insanity.
And a massive earner for the CFMMEU.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 10:32 am

Once Wadey got the Captaincy, they kicked on, but it was 2 matches too late.

I know you’re still agitating for Bert Ironmonger to get another run. Langer might have picked him.

Please republish your thoughts on running between wickets.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 6, 2022 10:35 am

George does Paul.
He might’ve done VicPol too.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:36 am

Okay.
When batting, keep the pressure on the fielders.
When fielding, keep the pressure on the batsmen.
It ain’t rocket science, but it appears to be news to you.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 10:37 am

Ed I don’t think she has anything other than her bottom line in her thoughts.
You cannot advocate for green energy on one hand then turn around and say it will ‘harm’ Aboriginal communities on the other.
Langton of course thinks that a rather large amount of money is to be paid to these communities as compensation, of which she would seek some as a sort of middle man type figure in any deliberation.

Indolent
Indolent
November 6, 2022 10:39 am

Neil Oliver Responds to the Request for COVID Amnesty, “You want WHAT”?
November 5, 2022 | Sundance

This is one comment under that piece –

Mycroft
November 5, 2022 7:23 pm
Reply to Born Free American Woman

My GP says the county health dept shows up and jabs him. No jab they shut him down. He is up to SIX!

Stop The Madness!

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 10:40 am

It reminds me of Bob Brown.
All hot and horny for renewable energy, wind ‘farms’ etc but when there was one proposal for a site near his house, he didn’t want a bar of it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 10:41 am

It ain’t rocket science, but it appears to be news to you.

You forgot the bit about having a pocket full of mutton at all times.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 6, 2022 10:41 am

Said it yesterday, Fat Bastard is incredibly litigious and some of those projects Blibbersek wants to cancel are his. Big companies will likely go away quietly but Clivey will sue in blaze of media glory, more sovereign risk for Australia coming up on the heels of our Covid effort?

miltonf
miltonf
November 6, 2022 10:42 am

The experts advising the drug dealer’s wife are old mates Karoly and Leslie fucking Hughes.

I’m also told the former VC of the Parkville Aylum is Anal’s new right hand person. A gaggle of marxist dons. Apologies to geese.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:43 am

Langton of course thinks that a rather large amount of money is to be paid to these communities as compensation, of which she would seek some as a sort of middle man type figure in any deliberation.
Is that just your opinion?
A 20,000 Sq Km Windfarm is an environmental disaster, is what she appears to be saying.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 6, 2022 10:45 am

I don’t take Annelise Nielsen seriously. A vacuous babbling lightweight.

A pretty Polly parroting the narrative – not a serious contributor.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:47 am

17,000 Sq Km of Solar Panels [just one Solar Farm]?
More than enough to Extinct a few bird species, i’d say.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 10:49 am

I think you may be missing the point Ed.
You are correct in saying that these things shouldn’t be built. They are useless eyesores.
But as I said earlier, cannot ask for renewable energy projects then through the other side of your mouth say they shouldn’t be built near Aboriginal communities.

Cassie of Sydney
November 6, 2022 10:50 am

“A report has found that p3dophiles are able to hide previous convictions when applying for jobs in schools and nurseries by self IDing as transgender, because privacy rules mean employers cannot find out what ‘trans people’ did under their previous names”

How utterly unsurprising.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 6, 2022 10:52 am

I don’t take Annelise Nielsen seriously. A vacuous babbling lightweight.

She can predict a Fetterman victory for now, and in the future give hours of in depth analyses and accounting for the great upset where he loses.

The only problem I have with these people being in their own bubble is that somehow oxygen keeps getting in – otherwise their endless prattle with a limited supply of O2 would seem them speedily dispatched by their own deeds.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 10:55 am

But as I said earlier, cannot ask for renewable energy projects then through the other side of your mouth say they shouldn’t be built near Aboriginal communities.
Is that what she’s saying, though?
17-20,000 Sq Km Wind and Solar Farms are an Environmental nightmare, it shouldn’t be built at all, let alone near where people live.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 10:55 am

Poll: Liberal Women Experience Worst Mental Health of All Demographics

If you’ve ever had the misfortune to unwittingly sign up as a naïve adolescent for a sociology course at a mid-sized state university, waited too long to withdraw during the add/drop period, and so were forced to sit through a semester’s worth of frothing diatribes against the White Patriarchy delivered by a menopausal hippie divorcée with a neon-dyed bowl cut, as I have, these are the least surprising poll results in human history:

“The US polling, which was conducted as part of the 2022 American Family Survey, found that liberals were about 18 percentage points less likely to be “completely satisfied” with their “mental health” than conservatives. The problem seems to be particularly acute for liberal women, who registered the lowest levels of satisfaction with their lives and mental health.”

Parsing the data, sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox concluded that marriage and family status have a lot to do with the ideological and gender discrepancy: “Given that conservatives aged 18-55 are about 20 percentage points more likely to be married, as well as 18 percentage points more likely to be satisfied with their families, the lesson here is obvious. Marriage and family are strongly linked to happiness and to personal mental health in particular.”

Over-educated liberal women were already way more neurotic than the general population before COVID-19 struck. But based on other polling data published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the nonstop Public Health© fearmongering likely worsened that demographic’s mental health, as “women are more likely to perceive the pandemic as a very serious health problem and to agree and comply with restraining measures.” Other studies, unsurprisingly, consistently find that liberals are more compliant with COVID protocols than conservatives, which would indicate that they take the Public Health© doomsday prophesizing more seriously.

Another study examining why conservatives are less frightened by COVID-19 found that part of the cause is exposure to different media sources than liberals.

MatrixTransform
November 6, 2022 10:58 am

17,000 Sq Km of Solar Panels

reckon that’s only about 3 TeraWatts

Roger
Roger
November 6, 2022 11:02 am

Albanese has warned Palaszczuk there won’t be much federal money for 2032 Olympics projects.

This not entirely unexpected announcement comes on the back of Labor reallocating $1bn of Commonwealth funding for two major dams and several major regional road projects in QLD to other states.

I wonder if there was room on the back of the envelope for John Coates to factor in the possibily of a maxxed out Commonwealth credit card when he was exlaining to Pony Girl how she could make a profit on these games?

miltonf
miltonf
November 6, 2022 11:03 am

There are many things to dislike about the dicktator but the standouts for me are
Hazelwood
Blairgowrie

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 11:03 am

Poll: Liberal Women Experience Worst Mental Health of All Demographics

If you’ve ever had the misfortune to unwittingly sign up as a naïve adolescent for a sociology course at a mid-sized state university, waited too long to withdraw during the add/drop period, and so were forced to sit through a semester’s worth of frothing diatribes against the White Patriarchy delivered by a menopausal hippie divorcée with a neon-dyed bowl cut, as I have, these are the least surprising poll results in human history:

Sure.
Women tend to lean Left, then they go to Uni and find the Lecturers to be Sociopaths who would be at home running a Gulag.
Cognitive dissonance results.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 6, 2022 11:14 am

A little touch of winning.
Twitter employees being shipped out by the truckload.
Atlassian share price tanking.
The Alintastralian crickit team humiliated.
Good times.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 6, 2022 11:19 am

Ed, I think anything Langton says should be wearily looked upon. https://nuclear.foe.org.au/responses-to-marcia-langtons-boyer-lectures/
Like this link. Now I might be wrong but it appears Langton is an advocate for mining in reading this snippet. But a couple of years ago she was not in favour of Adani going ahead.
Again, just thinking that she only has one thing in mind. “What’s in it for me?”

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 6, 2022 11:21 am

Gateway Pundit has funny article about a Twitter HR employee crying when sacked and saying she loved the company.

But last Sunday she had posted on Twitter that she hated it there ! Seems she made their choice of who to fire much easier.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 6, 2022 11:32 am

KD no good having mutton in your pockets coz it makes the sandpaper soggy.

Winston Smith
November 6, 2022 11:33 am

An interesting aspect of Elon sacking:

Today is your last working day at the company, however, you will remain employed by Twitter and will receive compensation and benefits through your separation date of February 2, 2023.
During this time, you will be on a Non-Working Notice period and your access to Twitter systems will be deactivated.
While you are not expected to work during the None-Working Notice period, you are still required to comply with all company policies, including the Employee Playbook and Code of Conduct.

I like that last paragraph.
In essence, the laid off employee has to shut up until 2023, February 2nd.
(Or lose benefits?)

Zipster
Zipster
November 6, 2022 11:39 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 11:42 am

Ed, I think anything Langton says should be wearily looked upon. https://nuclear.foe.org.au/responses-to-marcia-langtons-boyer-lectures/
Josh Bornstein, eh?
Langton is encountering some interesting enemies, so she must be doing something right.

Zipster
Zipster
November 6, 2022 11:44 am

UK and EU Parliaments
Dr. John Campbell

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 6, 2022 11:55 am

Today is your last working day at the company, however, you will remain employed by Twitter and will receive compensation and benefits through your separation date of February 2, 2023.

So it seems those taking action because they haven’t been given 60 days notice under Cowifornian law haven’t read their own termination notices.
He has given them three months severance pay (which would be considered generous in the US).

Zipster
Zipster
November 6, 2022 11:57 am

UK and EU Parliaments
Dr. John Campbell

Everyone who has been vaccinated should be tested for blood clotting issues, heart damage and persistent spike protein, much of this damage can float beneath the surface of awareness until something pushes you over the edge with potentially fatal consequences.

Siltstone
Siltstone
November 6, 2022 11:59 am

Langton supported the Bruce Pascoe fraud

mem
mem
November 6, 2022 11:59 am

Ran into the Local Greens candidate yesterday at the community market. He was accompanied by what appeared to be his mum and dad. In front of his stand was a large sign, “stop coal”. I pointed out that he was a living advertisement for coal and oil. He appeared bewildered. Then I pointed to his jacket, his footwear, his folders, the plastic table, the tent he was under and even his glasses that were all made from coal or oil derivatives. I thought he might cry. He barely looked like he was out of high school shorts. Looked him up on the Greens site and yep not a lot of life experience. Here https://greens.org.au/vic/person/reuben-steen . While there, if you are Victorian, check out your Greens and chew them up.

P
P
November 6, 2022 12:02 pm

TheLastRefuge Retweeted
Conservative Momma
@conmomma
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57m
NO AMNESTY!
https://twitter.com/conmomma/status/1589045911313055744

Cassie of Sydney
November 6, 2022 12:05 pm

Marcia Langton is right about solar farms but it doesn’t change the fact that she’s a nasty piece of work.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 6, 2022 12:07 pm

A short list of people who should have played their last game of T20 crickit for Alintastralia.
Aaron Finch,
Davey “true grit” Warner,
Sookey Steve Smiff,
“Fragile” Mitch Marsh,
Matty “Sledger” Wade,
Pat “40 Watts” Cummins,
Kane “Where Did That One Go?” Richardson.
Probably more, but that would be a good start.

Roger
Roger
November 6, 2022 12:16 pm

Then I pointed to his jacket, his footwear, his folders, the plastic table, the tent he was under and even his glasses that were all made from coal or oil derivatives.

Until all of the above, including his Erko frames, are made from bamboo he’s not to be taken seriously.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 12:22 pm

The Greens, no doubt will find issues with bamboo too.
Monoculture, uses too much water, bad for indigenous species etc etc.
Someone else will have to go without.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 6, 2022 12:22 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
November 6, 2022 at 12:07 pm

A short list of people who should have played their last game of T20 crickit for Alintastralia.
Aaron Finch,
Davey “true grit” Warner,
Sookey Steve Smiff,
“Fragile” Mitch Marsh,
Matty “Sledger” Wade,
Pat “40 Watts” Cummins,
Kane “Where Did That One Go?” Richardson.
Probably more, but that would be a good start.

Going well after sacking Langer, not.

I have often said I would not have Marsh on my beach team.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 6, 2022 12:22 pm

So it seems those taking action because they haven’t been given 60 days notice under Cowifornian law haven’t read their own termination notices.

Logical. He had to get all those mad lefty activists off the Twitter servers immediately for security reasons. So they had to be booted out the door with a cardboard box. Hence the three months, being the 60 days plus a month severance.

What those Twits really want is to be able to create havoc and take down the whole company for 60 days.

We’ll see what transpires. If a partisan judge gets the case it could become a serious disaster.

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 12:24 pm

Until all of the above, including his Erko frames, are made from bamboo he’s not to be taken seriously.

Too fast. Bamboo must be harvested and processed. Erko frames and clothing fibre and footwear don’t grow in bamboo thickets. The processing is very energy intense and goes through many…many phases. Particularly for textiles, which then have to be manufactured using even more coal-based machinery.

He needs to sit on the ground or piece of hand woven split bamboo matting dreadlocked and butt naked (or in arse grass for modesty) for me to take his Stop Coal/Stop Oil idiocy seriously.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 12:25 pm

from two years of the public-private partnership

aka ‘Fascism’

to quote Mussolini: Fascism is best described as a marriage between the corporation and the state…..

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 12:26 pm

Doing my own research on Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu.
Pascoe did his research on the writings [and conclusions] of the Explorers.
No one is prepared to claim that the explorers made shit up, because what could be in it for them to have fabricated their observations?
So, until that happens, it’s another example of Andrew Bolt fostering division where there wasn’t any.
Let’s say on the one hand one Great Great Great Grandparent of his was an Aborigine [3%].
And on the other hand, let’s say they weren’t?
What’s the difference, his book still stands or falls on the research.
Which none of his critics want to address.

Roger
Roger
November 6, 2022 12:27 pm

The Greens, no doubt will find issues with bamboo too.

No doubt.

That will be fun, won’t it?

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 12:28 pm

Bugger btw – still too soft, just bogged tractor again. Took 2 lengths of chain and a full winch cable to pull it out. All hail Landcruisers.

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 12:32 pm

Ahahaha!

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
·
21h
Trash me all day, but it’ll cost $8

😀

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 6, 2022 12:32 pm

BS Ed.
Bolt and other publication like Quadrant have highlighted the fabrication and misrepresentation of explorers journals used by Pascoe in numerous articles.
There is no science to show the indigenous population ever selected superior plants for seed saving. They left plants to seed but that’s not farming.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 12:33 pm

Just had a look at Reuben James platform”

Hi, I’m Reuben
I am a Heathmont local, and have worked, studied, and volunteered in the area.

1) Not for the CFA I bet!

The rising cost of living is a major concern for our community, with a lack of affordable housing and rental stress affecting many local families. The Greens will fight hard to address these challenges

2) By demonising cheap power, which is the cornerstone of business activity, which funds all these things?

as well as pushing for better protections for renters

3) As opposed to the people who actually own the premises?

more local investment in public transport, health and aged care, and meaningful and immediate action to face the climate crisis.

4) See #2 above

As a science student

5) I stand before you as living proof that STEM is broken too now.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 12:33 pm

No one is prepared to claim that the explorers made shit up

The explorers laid out, in graphic and uncensored detail, the circumstances behind the sinking of HMAS Sydney.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 12:38 pm

A lot of moaning on twitter how wrong it was to fire people so close to Christmas.
How many Twitter employees are even nominal, let alone practising Christians?
Good to see they have a three month pay buffer to find new jobs though.

Zipster
Zipster
November 6, 2022 12:38 pm

https://twitter.com/TheRealMikeGi/status/1588327251875368961

Tom Fitton

@TomFitton
The following advertisers have stopped advertising on
@ElonMusk’s
@Twitter
after they seem more comfortable with Left censorship of millions of Americans:
@Pfizer
@GeneralMills General Motors
@Audi
@MDLZ (maker of Oreos)
@VW

rickw
rickw
November 6, 2022 12:39 pm

The two monasteries became lost to history as scholars believe Christians slowly converted to Islam as that faith grew more prevalent in the region.

I don’t think any Christian “slowly” converts to Islam. It’s normally a life or death decision.

Gabor
Gabor
November 6, 2022 12:40 pm

Ed Case says:
November 6, 2022 at 12:26 pm

I was going to reply, but what’s the point?
BTW what’s the point of your numerous posts?
You are wrong in fact most of the time.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 12:42 pm

I have a feeling that critics did indeed carefully explore the very careful curation of early writers by Pascoe.
It’s also very interesting that the Labor candidate for Richmond’s aboriginal credentials are being questioned by ‘First Nation’ people. Sauce for that goose should be sauce for everyone.
Incidentally Pascoe was born and bred in Richmond, iirc.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 12:44 pm

@Pfizer

Shocked, shocked I tells ya..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 12:44 pm

Journal entries from the renowned North American explorers Case and Gypsum, 1826:

Dearest Maud,

It is the 277th day of our expedition, which incidentally is the same score Brian Lara made against Australia at Sydney when he was run out after not following my advice on running between the wickets.

But I digress. Today we climbed the continental monument long told of by the natives, but which was never really believed by any white man. Until today.

As we stood on that summit, gazing upon the eternity laid bare before us as the Carthaginians were at Cannae, we reflected that 100 metres of bison-created topsoil really stinks.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 12:46 pm

we reflected that 100 metres of bison-created topsoil really stinks

Is that a literal 100m, or a Robin Williams 100m?

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 12:47 pm

Reuben James, eh?
[YouTube 2:47]

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 12:48 pm

‘Slow conversion’ usually means under the weight of punitive taxes, the jizya , and very unequal treatment under the law, over time Christians either converted or left.
The same happened in Andalusia and Egypt (in Egypt to the point to when one emir/caliph/sultan in charge banned conversions to preserve his tax base.)
The Copt remnant in Egypt have been quite extraordinary in holding out.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 12:48 pm

Is that a literal 100m, or a Robin Williams 100m?

Ed October?

Answer the man.

rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 12:51 pm
rosie
rosie
November 6, 2022 12:54 pm

I don’t suppose they could sell it to someone who knows how to make it profitable?
Entire state’s power system on the brink as Indian loan to Aussie miner Griffin Coal turns toxic

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 12:58 pm

It’s also very interesting that the Labor candidate for Richmond’s aboriginal credentials are being questioned by ‘First Nation’ people. Sauce for that goose should be sauce for everyone.
Huh?
Incidentally Pascoe was born and bred in Richmond, iirc.
Uh huh.
You’re gloating, is that it?

Tom
Tom
November 6, 2022 1:06 pm

The latest read from Roger Franklin on the US mid-terms: The Diamond and the Oval Office.

RTWT

Tom
Tom
November 6, 2022 1:09 pm

BTW, the choice of tune to close Saturday night’s Trump rally in Latrobe PA leaves little doubt about what he’ll be doing in 2024: Sam and Dave’s Hold On, I’m Coming.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 6, 2022 1:10 pm

I have a new book out on HMAS Sydney at the end of next year, Ed.

All of your questions will be answered.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 1:17 pm

Miles Mathis will likely have the real Sydney story out before then, Top.

dopey
dopey
November 6, 2022 1:22 pm

‘his book still stands or falls on the research..’ Sometimes you get it right Ed.

Zipster
Zipster
November 6, 2022 1:26 pm
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 6, 2022 1:26 pm

Could the end of the Ukraine war be in sight? US ‘is pressuring Volodymyr Zelensky to drop his ban on talks with Putin and negotiate an end to the fighting’ amid growing fears of nuclear war, new report claims

. The request is to ensure Kyiv maintains the support of its international backers
. Zelensky’s ban has created concern in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America
. US officials say several nations are worried about fuelling a war for many years

‘Ukraine fatigue is a real thing for some of our partners,’ one US official told The Washington Post.

2dogs
November 6, 2022 1:30 pm

US ‘is pressuring Volodymyr Zelensky to drop his ban on talks with Putin and negotiate an end to the fighting’

Russia’s strategy is working.

Makka
Makka
November 6, 2022 1:33 pm

‘Ukraine fatigue is a real thing for some of our partners,’ one US official told The Washington Post.

Lol. Yeah right, Sherlock.

The real thing is the very strong prospect of losing both the mid-terms and the WH.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 6, 2022 1:33 pm

Ed Casesays:
November 6, 2022 at 12:26 pm
Doing my own research on Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu.
Pascoe did his research on the writings [and conclusions] of the Explorers.
No one is prepared to claim that the explorers made shit up, because what could be in it for them to have fabricated their observations?

If you had done your research properly, you would have discovered that he was selective in his use of the explorers’ words, sometimes taking words from one page, and linking them with words from a different page, recording them as a single quote.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 6, 2022 1:38 pm

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is pledging $37 million for a new veterans card that will include $100 credit for car registration, free fishing and boating licences and access to employment programs.

It will also guarantee free public transport on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.

Mr Andrews said the scheme was particularly targeted at those not yet eligible for the commonwealth-issued gold card.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 6, 2022 1:44 pm

just contemplate the indescribably blind, deaf and above all ignorant Labor government in Canberra.

As a wise person said before the election, “labor in government will be like prison sex. You know it’s going to be bad; you just don’t know how bad.”

JC
JC
November 6, 2022 1:45 pm

Had never heard of them until I scrolled through Mollie Hemingway’s twitter feed.

The quiet achievers.

If Republicans Win On Tuesday, Thank The Election Integrity Movement

mem
mem
November 6, 2022 1:50 pm

Tomsays:
November 6, 2022 at 1:06 pm
The latest read from Roger Franklin on the US mid-terms: The Diamond and the Oval Office.

Many thanks he writes so well.

cohenite
November 6, 2022 1:50 pm

Doing my own research on Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu.
Pascoe did his research on the writings [and conclusions] of the Explorers.
No one is prepared to claim that the explorers made shit up, because what could be in it for them to have fabricated their observations?
So, until that happens, it’s another example of Andrew Bolt fostering division where there wasn’t any.
Let’s say on the one hand one Great Great Great Grandparent of his was an Aborigine [3%].
And on the other hand, let’s say they weren’t?
What’s the difference, his book still stands or falls on the research.
Which none of his critics want to address.

Very droll crotchless. Firstly, pascoe is not 3rd nations:

Last week, Andrew Bolt drove possibly the last nail into the coffin of Bruce Pascoe’s Aboriginal persona. He secured agreement from Michael Mansell that Pascoe was not a Tasmanian Aborigine. He secured agreement from Jason Briggs that Pascoe was not a member of the Boonwurrong clan. And Aboriginal lawyer Josephine Cashman, who is married to a Yuin man, agreed that Pascoe was not Yuin either.

Secondly, his thesis is complete bullshit: one of many thorough rebuttals.

Now stfu about things you are ignorant of and deal with the real issues: which types of crotchless panties are best for preventing chafing on the hairy, pudgy legs of middle-aged, snivel-chuffers like yourself.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 6, 2022 1:52 pm

I have a new book out on HMAS Sydney at the end of next year, Ed.

Put me down for a signed copy, T.E.

JC
JC
November 6, 2022 1:53 pm

Now it’s absolutely certain the Demonrats are going to try and cheat. Schiff is blaming the other side of potentially cheating. Schiff is the go-to-one when they want to lie and cheat.

https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1588323476628201473

Mater
November 6, 2022 1:55 pm

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is pledging $37 million for a new veterans card that will include $100 credit for car registration, free fishing and boating licences and access to employment programs.

If it’s all the same to Dan, he roll all his irrelevant giveaways into a tiny balls, light them on fire, and plug them ever so slowly up his Marxist arse, one after another.

This is the man who choose to exclude me from the society that I had gone to war for. This is the man who removed the freedoms I thought I was fighting for. This is the man who coerced an untested concoction into my children under threat of permanently damaging their future, removed my ability to defend them from it, and told me I was irrelevant to any future society.

To respect serviceman, you must first respect what they thought they were serving. It’s clear he doesn’t. Transparent virtue signalling.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 6, 2022 1:56 pm

Last week, Andrew Bolt drove possibly the last nail into the coffin of Bruce Pascoe’s Aboriginal persona. He secured agreement from Michael Mansell that Pascoe was not a Tasmanian Aborigine.

… ahahahahahah .. Michael Mansell … ahahahahahahahaha

He secured agreement from Jason Briggs that Pascoe was not a member of the Boonwurrong clan. And Aboriginal lawyer Josephine Cashman, who is married to a Yuin man, agreed that Pascoe was not Yuin either.

That’s it?
Sounds more like Andrew Bolt went on a grifter hunt and struck the Mother Lode.

cohenite
November 6, 2022 1:59 pm

rosiesays:
November 6, 2022 at 12:51 pm
The Guardian
Muslims taking offence back in fashion
Muslim student allegedly forced to watch offensive cartoon of Muhammad at Melbourne school

Maybe the chalkie should have had a few photos the ISIS crowd holding the heads of Kurdish women instead of the image of the old goat who started the islamic gift to humanity.

cohenite
November 6, 2022 2:01 pm

That’s it?

Concentrate crotchless. The issue of chafing. Or is the inflammation on your pudgy little thighs too distracting.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 6, 2022 2:02 pm

Bit of a problem when a windfarm interrupts your Dreaming track. Blackfellas get sucked into the Greenwash again. Seen this all before.

cohenite
November 6, 2022 2:03 pm

JCsays:
November 6, 2022 at 1:53 pm
Now it’s absolutely certain the Demonrats are going to try and cheat. Schiff is blaming the other side of potentially cheating. Schiff is the go-to-one when they want to lie and cheat.

Do we still have that bet head prefect: the mid-terms get cheated to oblivion by the demorats. The loser has to wash crotchless’s panties for a week; hand-washing optional.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 6, 2022 2:08 pm

Tell you what.

The Cloggies are about to knock the Saffers out of the World Cup.

Unprecedented.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 6, 2022 2:11 pm

I have often said I would not have Marsh on my beach team.

I would.
He would be like the golden retriever.
Fetch it when it goes in the water.
But that is as far as it goes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 6, 2022 2:12 pm

Another tale from the public health system. My PEG stomach tube fell out Friday night (they basically fail without warning) and after going through Emergency was up to the wards. Looks like I will be here till Monday. Last time M – F was in and out in about 4 hours. Up on a general ward full of geriatrics getting some running repairs.

Bluey
Bluey
November 6, 2022 2:13 pm

Travelling along the vaunted Beach road of Melbourne this weekend I spotted what appears to be the Labor government response to complaints of increased crime in Brighton.

One of those trailers mounting programmable signs reminding people to lock their cars and houses.

I’m sure that’s going to go down well.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 6, 2022 2:14 pm

Bagging the Marsh brothers is as Australian as a Hills hoist. Should be on the citizenship test.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 6, 2022 2:14 pm

Andrews pledges $37m ‘thank you to our vets’
Owen Leonard
OWEN LEONARD

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is pledging $37 million for a new veterans card that will include $100 credit for car registration, free fishing and boating licences and access to employment programs.

It will also guarantee free public transport on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.

Mr Andrews said the scheme was particularly targeted at those not yet eligible for the commonwealth-issued gold card.

He said it would ease cost-of-living pressure on veterans as well as repaying them for their service.

“I can’t think of a better way to invest $37 million to say thank you to our vets. We’ll be proud to deliver it if we are successful on November 26,” he said.

“This is a way in which we can thank those who have served our nation, those who are the best of us, to help them with the cost-of-living, but also send that very clear message that we value their service, we value their sacrifice.

“We want to make sure that every veteran … gets that streamlined access into employment. It only makes sense for us to utilise those skills when we’ve got workforce shortages.

“No other state does this. Hopefully others will follow.”

I’m with you, Mater – I hope veterans tell Andrews to stick his patronizing effort up his arze. Free public transport on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day, B.F.D.

Tom
Tom
November 6, 2022 2:15 pm

Now it’s absolutely certain the Demonrats are going to try and cheat.

JC, that link is to the Babylon Bee.

Johnny Rotten
November 6, 2022 2:18 pm

A young man’s mother was now living in the big city and he didn’t see her that often. His father was no longer around and he was worried that his mom was lonely.

For her birthday, he purchased a rare parrot, trained to speak seven languages. He had a courier deliver the bird to his dear mother. A few days later, he called.

“Ma, what do you think of the bird?”

“The bird was good, but a little tough. I should have cooked it longer”.

“You ate the bird? Mom, that bird was very expensive. It spoke seven languages!”

“Oh, excuse me. but, if that bird was so smart, why didn’t it say something when I put it in the oven?”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 6, 2022 2:20 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

November 6, 2022 at 2:08 pm

Tell you what.

The Cloggies are about to knock the Saffers out of the World Cup.

Unprecedented.

Boers vs Bores.
The spirit of Hanse Cronje lives on!

calli
calli
November 6, 2022 2:22 pm

Poor Bear. Hope it’s all resolved fast.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 6, 2022 2:22 pm

What has Bruce Pascoe ever done to deserve Groogs help? Even by his standards that seems harsh.

Johnny Rotten
November 6, 2022 2:23 pm

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

– Lewis Carroll

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 6, 2022 2:23 pm

Russia’s strategy is working.

Wait till their winter offensive starts….

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 6, 2022 2:24 pm

Thanks calli – really just a lot of hanging around and bad hospital food.

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