The Mansard Roof, Edward Hopper, 1923
I think Bolt needs another holiday. He is not coping well with the changed world.
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Why am I left with the feeling that the parents of those demanding a “Free Palestine” were those chanting “One…
John Fund, a US columnist, being interviewed by Sharri is sporting a black eye. I wonder who socked him.
Fap, fap, fap. Cap’n, I canna give her anymore! If I do, she’ll BLOW!
WTF is going on with power in Qld? https://www.ergon.com.au/network/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/ It looks like half the state is out. There’s 3 houses…
Wally – Equol isn’t Ivermectin. The latter is structurally extremely complex but easy to make since you just feed the bacterium that makes it.
Like the Semisonic track, haven’t heard it before.
First time I’m learning about Thomas Dolby beyond what I’ve heard on the radio. Hmmm…
Thanks, Bruce.
Nelson – Seriously good music:
My Brain is Like a Sieve – Thomas Dolby (1988)
ZK2A:
They didn’t think of that before they went down this path?
Stupid, stupid people.
And unfortunately YT doesn’t do justice to these songs. It loses the full stereo and upper and lower stuff. The CD track is awesome with the volume up to 11.
Lol.
Michael Atherton the revered commentator sez Pakistan are sharp in the field
Erm, no they are not
Remember some good posters on Bolt and Blair’s blog. Alan of Sydney. Peter of Sydney (or maybe of Eastern Suburbs) who may have been a former local member. A couple of trolls too. Barry Bones and Big Ted. Both rather Numbersesque.
Nelson K-P I assume your name is based on the Tim Blair discussion on hyphenated Adelaide names. I think I remember the name generator formula.
BoN
November 13, 2022 at 9:52 pm
At least his leftiness is acknowledged… 🙂
My missus was a huge Thomas Dolby fan back in the day. I pretended to be to make her like me. I ended up liking his stuff. “Airhead” is a great song and clever satire.
MatrixTransform says:
November 13, 2022 at 8:12 pm
You are wrong there, trolls are relatively easy to control.
Forums die from lack of posters/visitors, content.
Real Deal says:
November 13, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Wasn’t it Peter of Bellevue Hill? I think he got ousted from the seat of Wentworth by one M Turnbull. Cassie can likely confirm.
Being the cuckoo seems to be MT’s only genuine talent…
Oh, and my name does reveal certain demographic information to a select few and proves I’m not really from Adelaide. 🙂
All the best to Flyingduk in coming court case.
Hopefully gets good coverage as expecting him to win.
Shatterzzz:
Too lenient, shaterzzz.
I’ve dealt with the idiots who thought they could handle it and watched as they worked up the line from enthusiastic weekend user, to outright procurer of underage kids for prostitution.
Fuckem.
Every tenth shot a hottie.
You want to ‘pull rank’ on this one, mUnter?
Here’s where the caper started:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/we-are-all-adelaideans-now/news-story/dcba482d15d1a43237faeda4783e69e7
“Remember some good posters on Bolt and Blair’s blog. Alan of Sydney. Peter of Sydney (or maybe of Eastern Suburbs) who may have been a former local member. A couple of trolls too. Barry Bones and Big Ted. Both rather Numbersesque.
Nelson K-P I assume your name is based on the Tim Blair discussion on hyphenated Adelaide names. I think I remember the name generator formula.”
Alan of Sydney still posts at Tim Blair’s blog (as I do). Tim Blair keeps a very tight rein on leftist trolls, they do try but they are swiftly dealt with. Many commentators on Blair’s blog, myself included, have made it clear that if there’s a troll infestation, as there was on Bolt’s blog, we’ll stop commenting and depart the blog. Tim Blair understands this.
“You are wrong there, trolls are relatively easy to control.
Forums die from lack of posters/visitors, content.”
Correct….and this is why Tim Blair keeps a tight rein on the leftist/progressive trolls on his site.
Correct Nelson. Peter of Bellevue Hill it was. And yes, I assume it was that Peter.
Nelson Kidd Players:
I found it after Tim Blair decided he wanted to be a blogger less than a ‘personality’ driving around the US and ignoring his blog site.
He may not have liked it but attending to the blog is the bread and butter – swanning around the US with weird strangers is not. And it wasn’t as if he couldn’t push himself away from the bar long enough to reply to posts for 3 or 4 days at a time.
DLS will overtake the soap-dodgers if they keep this up.
Rain not far off. Radar says it’s in Gisborne and heading straight for the G.
I’m glad they’re still active on Tim’s site, Cassie – as you are. I left when it was paywalled. I still miss it but couldn’t justify the monthly subscription for reading his blog and nothing else in the Tele.
The Players bit of my handle is a bit of an improvisation, since all forebears had stopped smoking by then. I had a Players tin for my coloured pencils.
Better Players than Tally-Ho.
She’s going to love the wonderful new intellectual world she’s creating for herself. As long as she stays balanced on that log, that is.
Dunno. He’s still getting decent coin – moreso, apparently, from the Tele than he was getting on his Pat.
Maybe he just likes getting paid.
He may not have liked it but attending to the blog is the bread and butter – swanning around the US with weird strangers is not. And it wasn’t as if he couldn’t push himself away from the bar long enough to reply to posts for 3 or 4 days at a time.
Bit harsh, Winston. Tim’s pretty constant with posts. His only absent times are when he has holidays. Everyone is entitled to a break.
Good luck getting Cats to face reality, George.
Does Tim still have the clown shoe? Or his licence?
Better Players than Tally-Ho.
I wanted to use a made up name and say i was from Adelaide.
“Donstan Kidley-Feidler”.
But in the end I thought it was tasteless.
I think Tim is fighting a losing war. You look at the Tele and it is off with the fairies these days. Then, at the bottom of the website is Blair’s take. Dramatically opposite to the rest of what transpired above.
Poor guy. He’s the last to leave who has to turn out the lights.
Yes….I do think Peter of Bellevue Hill and Peter King were one and the same.
Peter King is a lovely man.
Blair’s blog is doing well. As for the Telegraph…..I prefer it to the Oz.
He’s not kidding. Agree 100%.
He has a great read on the culture too.
And the fellas. After being asked to respond.
Anyone know what’s SSRIs
Peter King is a lovely man.
Indeed, and another stabbed in the back by the smartest man in the room.
Oh, antidepressants.
BUT
Unmarried women voted Dem/Rep 68/31
Yup.
We’re seeing in real time a section of society go mad.
The young’ns also voted demorat in the high 60s. Being young brings self-centredness, inexperience, susceptibility to propaganda.
The single women thing is different. I sat next to a middle aged, single woman in a doctor’s surgery once. The conversation turned to how alarmism was harming society. Her face went bitter and she said we had it coming. I saw similar expressions in the most hotly disputed family law cases. Women for the last few years are killing children at a higher rate than men. Andy Capp said women can act cold while thinking hot. I think they are more susceptible to the breakdown in social values and roles. The slapper was Australia’s worst PM. And a lot of single women are teachers.
Poms almost home. 11 from 17 they need, in front of 80,200 punters.
That’s 200 Barmy Army and 80K Pak-a-by-Crackeys.
Better than nothing. That equation is getting strained though.
Tim should retire and move to somewhere nice, like Samoa.
Far from the fascist crowd.
Jizzlane Maxwell having a wow of a time in the pen it seems and befriending some class acts too.
In recent months, she has befriended high-profile prisoners such as Narcy Novak, 65, a Florida woman serving life for orchestrating the murders of her millionaire husband and his mom.
Maxwell has reportedly also gotten close to Linda Morrow, who helped her plastic surgeon husband scam insurers out of millions, the source said.
Whoops : part should be in quotes.
Story is here:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/11/ghislaine-maxwell-hosts-checkers-contest-with-her-powerful-inmate-pals/
Poms salute the judge.
The Pakis will be on the plane home tomorrow morning, where no doubt Imran Khan will have them all shot.
The skyshow stayed over the bay and away from the MCG, at least.
Would they have to take 30 minute’s cover if they hear thunder within 30 seconds of a lightning strike?
the other one is not giving a shit
They were a must read back in the day. I chose my screen name after someone in the media deigned to notice Blair’s blog and damn it with very faint praise.
Blair was patronisingly given a little praise but many of his commenters were dismissed as “oafish and infantile”.
I decided to be a local oaf from then on.
(Employing my skill in time traveling, I reached the apogee of my fame in season 7, episode 13 – whilst grappling with Bush senior, Gorbachev showed up with “present for warming of house.”)
Portugal has better outcomes without treating the issue as a crime at all.
The results are very good.
Less drug deaths per capita than the rest of EU.
Drug related crime dropped by almost two thirds.
Drug use consistently below EU average.
FTX , ceo’s girlfriend. These idiots were the real life cast of the Big Bang Theory.
https://twitter.com/HowieBTC/status/1590905563692806144
Re. PayPal accounts, in case you are not aware of this, If you cancel an incoming payment, subscription with the provider, that was set up as auto payment previously via PayPal, make sure you cancel it at PayPal as well.
Had a very nasty surprise a few minutes ago, a payment was processed by Paypal that I cancelled 10 months ago with the provider but not with PP.
Incidentally, I tried to close the account but can’t and no personal helpdesk until Monday morning. Cancelled my cards instead and connected one with just a nominal amount on it.
Znayet moj nachalik.
God help the investors because she’s wasn’t.
Classmates with Elizabeth Holmes???
Polyamory?
Very busy err, knees.
universal suffrage the gift that keeps on giving
SSRIs = Selective Seratonin Re-uptake Inhibitors. Think of Seratonin as the happy drug, or like drinks your brain puts on the bar- the re-uptakers are your mates looking out for you when you’ve had too many, or it’s closing time, and they’ll take excess drugs away- the Inhibitors tackle your re-uptaker mates when they go all wowser on you and starve your ego of the good stuff. The Selective bit is a sign that it’s all a bit of a bar-room brawl.
I’m only an onlooker for all this chemistry stuff… thanks for playing a straight bat Bruce, I’m flattered… but the way that the human brain and body works as an interconnected net of hormones, messengers, release, distribution, inhibition, and re-uptake is fascinating stuff. I’d reckon all that I know came from various long-form RN programs, before they ripped off the mask and purged the everyman.
I know four grown-up women on SSRI’s, related to manic depressive cycles, they have been on and off for decades. I suppose that they are settled chemistry, as far as it goes. Every now and then they’ll be mentioned for a teenager in our circles… I don’t know the rate of use, but in the current Australia of anything-goes schools and parents, I’d say it’s a growth industry.
LOL. Yeah sure.
No. This is systemic cheating on a grand scale. The pessimist in me tells me that it is now too late to stop.
Dot, what does your boss know?
It’s the Russian spoken on the Simpsons when Gorbachev saw Bush wrestling with “local oaf”.
They really want you dead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu1LCrc9w5U
How can Pennsylvanians actually vote for a guy who knows so little of English that he thinks Fetter-woman is clever?
Damon says:
November 14, 2022 at 12:01 am
I have a feeling that it genuinely does not matter how you vote over there, the apparatus will allocate votes according to a prearranged* algorithm.
*Only half serious here.
🙂
Seriously, if you think back to the last presidential election, Joe was nowhere to be seen or, if, then he was surrounded by journalists and hardly any one else while Trump drew crowds in the tens of thousands.
And yet Biden is president and Trump is fading rapidly if we can believe the noise.
Wow, it’s looking like the entire crypto industry is based on systemic fraud. Hilariously (given the “hard money” bias of crypto spruikers), it seems that many of them have been engaged in the equivalent of fractional reserve banking, except unlike real world FRB, the assets they are tying up the deposits in are worth absolutely nothing. This is a criminal industry that must be shut down and all its major players jailed at once.
A law must be passed at once banning the use and exchange of bitcoins or any other crypto-currency, forever.
My take on the God Emperor is that he’s an instinct-driven businessman and politician, and this prompts his communication and commentary. He’s followed his nose in business and had an empire full of triumphs with some stuff-ups… and his record on the hustings is full of triumphs with a fair few stuff-ups too.
I’d reckon the only sure-fire way for Trump to regain the Whitehouse would be to forsake the written word. Step away from the smart-phone, quit Truth, don’t be tempted by twitter. It’s not a good look for a grown man, and it’s a hazard of death by a thousand cut’n’pastes.
Get Back to the stadiums and rallies, get some instant feedback from the Plumber Joes, tour the boonies, meet the peeps, press the flesh.
The grassroots will grow to meet him, and christ knows the GOP needs someone to inspire some service to knock on doors and man the booths.
Exactly, Fisk. We need to take precisely that kind of sensible, moderate, middle-of-the-road approach to the issue.
Also, if you ban Bitcoin, you’ll massively piss off the BTC hoarders who are almost universally insufferable bores and weirdos. It’s worth doing for that alone, really.
It’s hardly surprising. Think of those Bitcoin ‘banks’ where you earned 6-7% interest on your BTC deposit. Where is that extra money coming from? Apparently they lend the money to BTC day traders and speculators but are they really getting a return on this lending that allows them to pay 6% interest to depositors? Doubt it. They’re Ponzi schemes.
You know, I’ve never understood the cyrpto world. It always sounded like bullshit to me, but then that’s just me and I always thought I was too old to get it.
Not all, but a decent part of it (FTX at least) sounds more and more like a money harvesting operation by the demonrats. The FTX bullshitters need to go to jail.
Fisk, you don’t need to ban it as a large slab of that world is gone for now at least.
Another point to remember is that it’s very new and new things go through terrible tempests before they’re established.
Sam Bankman-Fried. With a name like Bank man fried… sounds like the simulation is having a bit of a joke.
The story is that the fucker took a couple of billion worth and gave it to his girlfriend to cover losses. Her hedge fund lost a couple of bill. Nice.
What a screwed up world we live in at times.
Not with you Fisk. I figures, if there’s a sector of society which wants to hunt Pokemons, swap bitcoins and mine NFTs, they can go for their lives.
I’d back the abolition of digital currency though, all the way from ink-drunk governments to bank holdings which have no gold stitched in, to the hipster bar which only takes card payments. It’s immoral to compel a population into counting on make-believe wealth.
I’m just sick and tired of friends of mine spruiking BTC all the time and insisting it is a very wise investment decision to rack up credit card debt to buy their shitcoin. Maybe the market crash will put an end to it.
It appears that the winning strategy for American elections these days is to avoid interviews at all costs, and to say as little as possible. Joe would be an exemplar.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn. Brilliant.
Bob Gorrell.
Steve Kelley.
Robert Ariail.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
The day before Easter, an old man in Norway calls his son in Australia and tells him “Son, I’m really sorry but I have to tell you that your mother and I are splitting up. We can’t live with each other anymore”.
The son is distraught and shouts down the phone at his father “Dad, what are you talking about?”
The father replies “It’s just that we can’t stand the sight of each other anymore. And I’m sick of talking about this, so will you call your sister in Japan and tell her?”
The father than hangs up, and the son frantically calls his sister, who’s equally distraught and exclaims “Like fuck they’re getting divorced! Leave it to me, I’ll take care of this”.
So she calls her father and shouts down the phone at him “You are not getting divorced! Don’t you dare to do a single thing until I get there. I’m calling my brother, and we’ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don’t you dare do a thing about this. Do you hear me Dad?”
She then hangs up, at which point the father hangs up his phone, turns to his wife and says “Okay honey, they’re both coming for Easter and paying their own airfares”.
Thanx, Tom.
Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.
– Mae West
Johnny Rotten says:
November 14, 2022 at 4:41 am
JR, hate to tell you this, but you have to update your joke library to the current century.
We are feeling this right now too, Ankor. Thankfully somewhat insulated from it by being in Florida. As soon as you cross the border you sense it’s a different place. We’re now in the Tampa Bay area, which is looking extremely prosperous, and just the sort of place to attract Californians fed up with the rot set in there. The beach areas over some causeways are called St.Pete’s, an outer area of St. Petersburg, a satellite town of Tampa; another causeway takes you to Treasure Island, a narrow strip with a beach where I now sit in a condo looking out from the balcony to the bay. Yesterday it was blue and beachy, with a spectacular sunset, but today it is green-grey. The sand is not as pure white as that on the outer bluff of Panama City Beach, our last beachy stay. This area is more akin to the Cocoa area on the East coast. We have cancelled our trip back there as the Artemis launch was cancelled due to the recent storm surge of Nicole. This side got some winds and you can see where Hurricane Ian came in, worse down the coast though. These coastal holiday areas in Florida are like our Gold Coast, and very crowded as there is not much else.
As for the mid-terms, all signs are grim and we are feeling fairly disenchanted with excitement – it seems the fix is in. Hairy tells me Albo is making theatening noises about taking hard-earned wealth from our generation, and I’m glad we’re coming home Business Class. Encouragement to spend it while you’ve still got it, and hand it over to the kids sooner than later, if you ask me.
Death duties on the horizen? They are going to have to fund Net Zero boondoggles somehow.
Looks like the gravy train for exporting energy to the grid that no-one wants might be ending.
Here comes the sun tax for rooftop PV – and it’s not alright
Herald sun paywall
Metro Tunnel cuts deliver major blow for commuters in Melbourne’s west
Melbourne’s west will be worst hit by cuts to the Metro Tunnel project, with services to be slashed in growth suburbs due to budget blowouts.
Great idea… make it an ‘omnibus bill’ banning all other crimes also – assault, theft, rape – forever.
Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?
Comparative Risk of Myocarditis/Pericarditis Following Second Doses of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Vaccines
Dan Andrews. What’s the message? NDIS funding isn’t enough? More spraying other people’s money around like confetti?
Why yes, yes he is, with more useless public servants he’s going to call NDIS Navigators so more and more families can find a way to get on to the NDIS teat..
The secrecy of Andrews.
He has a party launch today.
Reporters are collected at corner Elizabeth and Victoria st and taken to an undisclosed location .
Mystery bus ride to a basket ball stadium In cranbourne.
He doesn’t want the public to know where he is.Hecklers on the way
Breaking, all right
BREAKING: Today the Victorian Greens announced their comprehensive, costed plan to tackle the climate crisis.
This includes no new coal and gas, climate-friendly transport, ending native forest logging and a clean manufacturing revival.
T’was always going to be.
Superannuation, too. Those trillions are just too delicious to ignore when you’re up to your earlobes in debt, and promising the public even more.
They may have their Trumpatross (see Garrison) but we have the Albotross.
Conclusions
Myocarditis/pericarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is rare, but we observed a 2- to 3-fold higher odds among individuals who received mRNA-1273 vs BNT162b2. The rate of myocarditis following mRNA-1273 receipt is highest among younger men (age 18-39 years) and does not seem to be present at older ages. Our findings may have policy implications regarding the choice of vaccine offered.
Offered? Fucking offered? The only ‘offer’ I received was between bankruptcy/losing my family and spinning the cylinder in a game of vaccine Russian roulette. My kids were ‘offered’ a choice between an education, and the same spin of the cylinder.
You’ve just admitted that both the bloody things give heart problems to young men, and you think that it acceptable to just adjust the ‘offering’ rather than scrap the whole, dishonest, stinking, corrupt edifice.
Fucking animals.
I have assumed all Super will be stolen for some time now – not overtly, more likely they will ‘respond to overwhelming public desire for safety and security of superannuation funds in these troubled times’ by ‘centralising’ all super funds into one single ‘government guaranteed’ fund , then freezing withdrawals (‘temporarily’) and paying you a (constantly decling in purchasing power) ‘super pension’ instead
How the Australian media are handling the US elections:
Trump rages as Democrats retain Senate!
Joe Biden’s Democrats have retained control of the US Senate and Donald Trump has again lashed out with unfounded claims of ballot rigging.
I think the way to oppose this proposal is accelerationism on this point.
Argue that if this measure passes, we will continue to fight it by (falsely) claiming to be Aboriginal.
I’ve never put one red cent more into Super, than I was forced to, for this very reason.
Tax breaks are great, until the inevitable stroke of that pen.
The constant adjustment of the conditions under which you can access your own Super, provides ample evidence of the fragility of your ownership of that money.
Well said Mater above.
No, it’s just “battery owners”. How can you “export” in the evening?
Our 20 panel system (no battery) with an east-west array generates enough power to run washing machine, pool filtration, dishwasher and other appliances during the day, when we have them running. Virtually nothing is exported, which is the way we set it up…just enough.
With a battery, I imagine that rather than importing for refrigeration, lighting (very low useage) and maybe TV and other devices, we’d break even again rather than being net importers. But that would mean putting on a few more panels to achieve it.
“No. This is systemic cheating on a grand scale. The pessimist in me tells me that it is now too late to stop.”
Agree. Please excuse my pessimism but it is a Monday morning. I think the great American experiment is over. I’ve just checked Fox’s midterm online site, in the House the GOP haven’t budged from 211 seats for two whole days whereas the total Demonrats tally in the House is growing daily and now stands at 204 seats. And of course, as we know, the Demonrats now have control of the senate.
It’s very clear that massive wide scale voter fraud is now entrenched. Covid gave the Demonrats the perfect opportunity to implement mail in ballots. You gotta admire the left, they never waste any opportunity whereas the right waste every opportunity. Mail in voting and early voting suit the left.
Whilst some states like Florida offer a ray of sunshine, last Tuesday’s results confirm the serious decline of the USA. In a time of spiralling inflation and energy prices, out of control crime, open borders where thousands are streaming across every day, Americans voted for the same? I say bullshit.
Joe Biden’s Democrats have retained control of the US Senate
House is looking the same.
Weird how the Dems seem to be winning all those slow counts.
“No, it’s just “battery owners”. How can you “export” in the evening?”
It means that people with excess capacity who export during the day will pay to do so rather than be paid.
Mater, it was “offered” in the States. It was mandated here.
And yes, I too am worried about my young men who have been vaxxed. The difference between you and me is that mine took it willingly because they were lied to. Words are not enough to describe the disgust I feel for our government, their tame “experts” and the medical profession.
I understand that rosie.
It just amused me that they implied that people with solar only could export at night. And I explained why.
Republican governors have the opportunity to reform the electoral system to end vote harvesting.
Others may be forced to follow suit.
It’s not over, not with these turn out rates.
Put another way if Democrats went all in to harvest mail out ballots this midterm, then perhaps they won’t have as much influence in a presidential election when ‘natural ‘ turnout is higher.
And two years of rampant inflation might sour the most rusted on Democrats.
Turnout among young voters was the second highest for a midterm in past 30 years, somewhere between 27 and 31%
“Zipstersays:
November 13, 2022 at 9:38 pm
The Liberal World Order Is Dead. National Conservatism Offers Our Best Hope for the Future
The New Culture Forum
Zip posted this last night and I’ve just finished listening to it. It’s a very good discussion between Yoram Hazony and Peter Whittle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAeyT3-OOI&list=WL&index=3
Then the pressure will be on for people to install batteries.
Seem to recall some people boasting about making a decent profit off their every inch of the house covered solar panels.
One of my old customers had signed up for a deal where she was paid 57c per kWh, she was having a barney with her energy company who’d reduced the payment to 30 odd cents per kWh.
If the pull shat shit I’ll just disconnect the solar system.
that 😛
Quite so (continuing the Blair fest of last night).
“And two years of rampant inflation might sour the most rusted on Democrats.”
Maybe. But progressivism doesn’t operate the way the old left operated, in fact it bears no relationship to the old labor parties such as UK Labour, Oz Labor and the US Democrats. In 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected and he received lots of votes from traditional blue states and blue districts, this isn’t happening. The old working class left was patriotic, it believed in borders and the nation state, most were religious, most valued the family, the old left were even more anti-abortion than the east and west coast elites. No, the modern day progressive cult is a pure unadulterated Marxist ideology. It is destroying the West. Over the next two years you could…actually will….see a tsunami of millions of illegals, catastrophic inflation, blackouts and so on and yet young progressives, particularly young females, will still vote for the Demonrats because to them, so brainwashed and so utterly captured by this Marxist cult, there’s something more important than putting food on the table or turning on the light, and that’s abortion, abortion, abortion.
The other option is to match the load with a resistor. That will fuck their plans up.
My question though, if householders get paid 8c per kWh for their evening battery output, then some else is getting the megabucks?
Mater, i couldn’t agree more. A few years back when I was greener in more ways than one our accountant recommended we go into a tree investment scheme. I pushed back saying the whole thing didn’t add up. He dragged out the government tax break ruling and worked through the numbers. I signed up. Three years later the govmint reverses the tax decision and the whole thing collapses. Leaving us with a debt of $100k and no asset. We were financial cripples for 7-8 years until we got out from under that rock.
There were many factors but what swayed my decision was the government endorsement.
Since then I no longer trust government and those fucking lunatic Greens. Older and wiser.
jupessays:
November 13, 2022 at 11:39 pm
Interesting to speculate on how that fits with the idea of vote harvesting. We think of this happening in the projects where the Dem machine is well oiled but perhaps it’s a larger issue and not organised subversion of the vote.
LOL. Yeah sure.
No. This is systemic cheating on a grand scale. The pessimist in me tells me that it is now too late to stop.
m0nty-fa disagrees, m0nty-fa sees no (DemonRat) evil, hears no (DemonRat evil, speaks no (DemonRat) evil.
By his silence does he support DemonRat evil, therefore, m0nty-fa is evil.
It occurred to me as I was pumping the second cup of heartstarter – we are living in a time that may not even be recorded by history, at least not accurately. A record of we are witnessing may only survive by word and mouth and family folk tales.
The winner gets to re-write the history, and Orwell described it best.
And those of us paying attention knew this was a risk at the very beginning.
Anyone who advocated for injecting children should be flogged.
My “resistor” will have the pool heated 24/7. Ker-splash! 😀
They might also get older and wiser.
I don’t know if Dodd is going to remain a hot topic.
It’s back in the political sphere, the people now decide abortion rights via the political system not the whim of a few in the legal system.
Real Deal:
Not harsh at all.
Remember I referred back to about 15 years ago when Tim was neglecting his site and did it repeatedly for a couple of months. I’m not referring to whatever it is now, and don’t care. Any blog owner will tell you if you don’t put the effort into the job, people will walk.
Another aspect is that if you set rules, you’d better bloody enforce them – not tolerate trolls or disruptive elements who will continually push the boundaries because they feel entitled.
Even Monty admitted yesterday that he would not like the US voting system here in Australia which seems to be a tacit admission it is corrupt.
I’ve got to watch anything that taps into the “So what you’re saying is….” zeitgeist.
Never do anything that doesn’t add up on its own merits. Government “endorsement” is a contract written on water with invisible ink.
currently the ROI for batteries on your rooftop PV is a shitty 12 to 15 years
assuming your batteries would last that long.
another way to lever punters into installing battery systems is to burden them with new costs
if they get away with this then whats the bet that the export tariff is structured to bring a private battery’s ROI down to 7 years.
…or the lifetime of a battery system
this is not a market
it is the socialization of start-up and/or running costs of Regulated Generators for the special classes
Its a big generator … and you dont own any of it
this not a market.
its a protectorate for big investors
about 10 years ago we had a customer install what they call a Tri-Gen system in their building.
gas gen (100kVA), high grade heat recovery for an absorption chiller, and low grade heat recovery for hot water reclaim. Excess Killer Wasps were to be stuffed up the grid.
yeah well, the electricity export idea was murdered in the crib.
penalties for export were so high that they had us reprogram the system so that it tracked electricity usage all day and then turned off at night.
net export == zero.
So I hear that aphasic old goat, Biden, now believes the US Federal Government is in Washington DC (District of Cambodia).
Explains the corruption, the nepotism, the political persecution, the politicisation of state institutions, the aversion to democracy, and the open tampering of elections to consolidate power.
Although I think Cambodia has come a long way since they were in Washington’s putrid state.
Calli’s on to it
But cryptocurrencies are the real scam.
Yes, shut them down!
A totally normal reaction from mentally balanced people.
Bernie Madoff surely then is proof we need to shut down equity markets entirely, right!?
I mean, that wouldn’t affect the standard of living in day WA at all, would it?
The picture wireless says there’s been an explosion in central Istanbul. Six dead.
Early reports indicate a fatal combination of steroid-based overload and that last set of bicep curls at a gym.
Exporting to the grid?
How do a suburban battery systems get significant energy into the grid past the first transformer?
Jupes:
It’s too late to stop the cheating without violence, Jupes.
I suppose that’s one person who has gone from pessimist to realist.
We either fight to win or we’re just playing as if there are no consequences for failure.
Laurie Connell would approve.
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@catturd2
– Pfizer wants you to know their vaccines are safe.
– Election officials want you to know the elections are fair.
– Fact checkers want you to know their facts are the real facts.
– The media wants you to know they never lie.
– The government wants you to know you can trust them.
and
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@catturd2
I wish I owned a private jet so I could believe in climate change, too.
The young, both here in the US, and here might grow wiser as they grow older but as I said above, progressivism is a Marxist cult that uses cult like tactics. It’s very effective, the young are severely brain damaged by it.
Back in May, even before the formal SC Dobbs decision became public, when the leak came out, I watched a video that Andy Ngo had put up of some particularly aggressive young females who’d turned up at a Seattle Catholic Church. The church clearly anticipated trouble and was closed. The church had wisely employed security but this didn’t stop the young harridans from standing on the steps, screeching and screaming insults and everything was about their body rights and abortion, abortion, abortion. They tried to get past the security and failed, one female was pushed back firmly and then the same harridans started screeching “assault, assault, assault”. The females clearly wanted to storm the church and vandalise it. It was disturbing to watch.
Victor Davis Hanson has spoken and written about these young women. They are Marxist zombies, like drones they’ll turn up to harass and intimidate. They’re either all attending or they’re graduates of universities, almost all come from middle class or wealthy families, they’ve studied utterly useless crap at universities, they all speak a certain way and where do they end up? They make their way into the HR departments of large corporations to spread their Marxist cult ideas about equity, diversity and inclusion. Antonio Gramsci was a genius, it’s all working to plan.
I hope these young women grow wiser as they grow older, but I won’t hold my breath. This new cult is radically different to the working class labour movements of old.
because Thevenin said so
And there are also young mantilla wearing women who attend mass in those Catholic churches.
They are the ones getting married and having babies.
Not the few Pussy Rioters.
Cassie
young progressives, particularly young females, will still vote for the Demonrats because to them, so brainwashed and so utterly captured by this Marxist cult, there’s something more important than putting food on the table or turning on the light, and that’s abortion, abortion, abortion.
If only their mothers had led by example, but as Saint RBG confirmed, they principally wanted abortion for eugenic (racial) reasons.
Razey:
It may be worthwhile getting a reconditioned EV battery bank and just setting it up for the panels. Don’t export at all.
You are confused by other events. Witches vote for the parties of the left. In turn witches cause global warming to help the parties of the left achieve power.
CO2 is not the problem. Witches are the problem.
And an official history penned by someone like Numbers Bob, and we know how his recollections of the ‘truth’ turn out.
Matrix, my knowledge of things electrical is half of bugger-all, but are the limitations to battery inputs based on efficiency rather than “can it be done”?
I suppose if something is subsidised, cost effectiveness goes out the window.
Thevenin
You’ll have to spell it out Maxi for us folk not versed in power grid operation.
I was told that you can only export to the same voltage not back into the high voltage lines and the transformer is the bridge.
Cassie:
You have uncharacteristically missed the point.
Rusted on Democrat votes won’t be counted by the same mechanism that Republican votes aren’t.
I’m not confused by anything.
“And there are also young mantilla wearing women who attend mass in those Catholic churches.
They are the ones getting married and having babies.”
True. It is the religious of the world who are having babies.
We appear to be having a baby boom at our little church too. Never short of a “Baby Jesus” for the Christmas pageant!
I believe planning for the event starts around Feb-March. 😀
Official Data confirms the COVID Vaccine is killing Children – Europe has suffered a 552% increase in Excess Deaths among Children ever since EMA first approved the Pfizer Jab for Kids
Tesla car takes off at high speed while trying to park in China, killing 2 people
As if we didn’t know.
You’ve Been Gaslighted – Democrats Just Stole Another Election
Communists Play Smash-Mouth: Laxalt Announced Dem Opponent Would Have to Get an Impossible 63% of Remaining Ballots to Win – THE NEXT DAY SHE GETS 63%
ATAGI
Under thirties not recommended for a fourth jab because of the increased risk of myocarditis.
Not true but now true.
So all the “experts” on the airwaves who told us that the risk was minimal were taking through their mortarboards.
NFC
No fucking clue.
‘Masks reduce racism’ study is latest sign US medical establishment is insanely, perilously woke
NSW, still wheeling it out via some ‘health professional’ or other on the teev.
Work from home.
Wear a mask on the train and at the shops.
Covid will kill you all.
It’s for the old people.
Ahahahaaaaa, ha ha go fuck yourself.
actually Calli
at pool water temperatures on the condensing side, a heat pump would probably be great
just needs to be big enough to overcome your heat losses.
so guessing probably about 20kW
but then you’d also need a truck-load batteries for the solar
and yr 20-panel PV array… what’s that maybe 7kW if yr lucky?
sorry … to heat your pool your gonna need a smaller pool
Straight out money laundering.
Ukraine invested in top Dem donor’s crypto company FTX as Biden admin funded war effort: report
Problem is that the states with GOP governors were probably not subject to the Democrat ballot shenanigans. Where it occurred it will have benefited the governor and they will have no interest in investigating.
At the same time where cheating was used to get a Democrat over the line the reality of preponderant voter sentiment will be Republican. This means that, if people are convinced that the balloting was rigged, there will be popular demand for an audit but executive refusal.
If there is a Republican Governor who won despite a suspicious tide of Democrat ballots they could start an investigation and, if it can be shown that there was cheating and that the cheating was coordinated with or by out of state actors then surely cases could then be taken to the SCOTUS as it will no longer be merely a state issue.
Insiders Stunned After Twitter Eliminates 4,400 of its 5,500 Contractors with No Notice
Tucker Carlson: Democrats Have Conditioned Americans to ‘Passively Accept’ ‘Election Theft’
Pelosi Says Biden Should Run in 2024 – ‘He Has Been a Great President’
I have a heat pump. It works like a charm. It’s timed to go on with the filtration system (one of those SOTA “smart systems”). I can manually disconnect it, natch. The trick is to ensure that we aren’t drawing power from the grid.
Being in sand strata, it doesn’t take long into the season before the concrete shell heats up to the point where the ambient temperature keeps the pool “warm” at night. We just need a couple of weeks of hot days, which we haven’t had this year. It has all been an exercise in observation and adjustment.
Put witches aside for the moment. (Just one moment)
The democrat mega-vote rigging is rather well done given how blatant it has been in the last two elections.
The left wing in Arsetrailer (most parliamentarians) always copies democrat behaviour.
What makes you think that Arsetrailerian elections are straight?
But not radically different to the shock troops of Madam Mao or Brother Number One.
‘Any combination of sinusoidal AC sources and impedances with two terminals can be replaced by a single voltage source e and a single series impedance z’
what ever you do, don’t mention sqrt(-1)
anyway … current flows
it doesn’t have to “get” past the transformer as such
from the POV of yr battery system, current flows out rather than in
from the pov of the transformer up the street, less current flows out
and besides, transformers work both ways
not that your battery system could energise a big HV tranny … the iron and z losses would crush it
FFS. Scratching for atrocities now. This is right up there with Babi Yar – or perhaps not.
A bloke in Kherson’s on the moan about how he is the victim of ‘war crimes’.
He is complaining to the apparent war correspondent that when the Russians were there, they stole his truck and crapped in the street. Also, they smashed his computer. What the dastardly Russians failed to take into account, however, was that the crafty Kherson bloke got footage of some of it on his phone.
Saved the day. That’s all right then. We’ll see those bala-clad Russian blokes in The Hague at some point in 2051.
Taking faux outrage to a new level. Somebody please get Cher’s opinion.
Describe how a Colpitts oscillator operates and show all workings.
noice !
So no peacekeepers from New Zealand or India?
Nineteen killer wasps of noice.
Russians left open one of my windows last night so with the downpour overnight some of my carpet got wet.
This shit is getting real.
not a chance … wiki hates me
I haven’t done any math like that for 25 years
and every time I open an excel spreadsheet, its pre-filled with all the things I dont kwon
LOL
Cope.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/top-10-countries-in-the-world-for-car-theft-according-to-research-on-tweets-0641d19e-017a-4d52-955e-fd27e185086a
No one is tweeting from Haiti, everything must be idyllic there.
Scrutineers.
JCsays:
November 14, 2022 at 12:56 am
You know, I’ve never understood the cyrpto world. It always sounded like bullshit to me, but then that’s just me and I always thought I was too old to get it.
Not all, but a decent part of it (FTX at least) sounds more and more like a money harvesting operation by the demonrats. The FTX bullshitters need to go to jail.
Ukraine, a Ponzi Scheme, and a Top Democrat Donor Raise Serious Questions
As RedState reported, crypto-exchange FTX collapsed after its much-lauded founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, appeared to make improper transfers of customer money. Somewhere between $1-2 billion of that amount has now gone missing and Bankman-Fried also has disappeared.
What makes this so interesting, though, isn’t just that a lot of really wealthy people got scammed. It’s that Bankman-Fried also happens to be one of the top donors to the Democratic Party. In fact, outside of George Soros, no one has done more to bankroll Democrat efforts since the 2020 election. Joe Biden alone received a whopping $5.2 million.
But here’s where things get even weirder. Apparently, while the United States was bankrolling Ukraine and its war effort, that country’s leaders were investing money into FTX.
It was also revealed that FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts within days of Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer dollars to the country. Ukraine invested into FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the US.
There are so many questions that arise from this. For example, why is Ukraine, which we are all assured is broke and needs US taxpayer money, playing around with a Democrat-linked crypto company? This wasn’t just about accepting donations through the portal. The report specifically says that Ukraine actively invested money in FTX.
While that was happening, FTX’s founder was handing out tens of millions of dollars, from the Bahamas, to help elect Democrats back in the United States.
That is one of the shadiest things I’ve ever witnessed in politics.
Democrat Raskin is Terrified Trump Could Become Speaker of the House (VIDEO)
Rep. Raskin discussed Kevin McCarthy, the Freedom Caucus and the Republican leadership moving forward.
Raskin said Republicans in the Freedom Caucus are looking for new leadership and could vote for Trump to be House Speaker.
“One potential candidate who’s name has been floated is Donald Trump himself because the Speaker of the House does not have to be a member of the House,” Raskin said.
Scrutineers may indeed be our last defence. However, if scrutineers are compromised, excluded or their reports suppressed*, what then?
* as in the 2020 US election – complaints made and ignored
I think Cats really need to lean in to this growing hatred of unmarried women. That is going to solve all your problems, and will make you extremely popular and mainstream.
Early voting up and running in Glen Waverley, at Brandon Business Park. The adjacent Sette Bello restaurant should offer pasta snack packs. May be a winner!
Over in Mulgrave, the Stairman has pole position on the ballot somehow among 14 candidates. Ian Cook is near the top but the Freedom Party candidate, Aidan McLindon, who’s banners are widespread, got the ballot wooden spoon.
callisays:
November 14, 2022 at 9:17 am
Scrutineers may indeed be our last defence. However, if scrutineers are compromised, excluded or their reports suppressed*, what then?
* as in the 2020 US election – complaints made and ignored
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Poll Pads Caught Adding *Hundreds* of Voters in Real Time as Poll is Being Closed
and
EXCLUSIVE: The Cause of Arizona’s Machine Tabulator Failure Identified – Ballots Larger than Printer Parameters – Willful Incompetence?
and
Another Democrat Miracle! Maggie Hassan Wins 1,100 Votes from Town with Population Under 700
Local officials are now calling this a “glitch” and they corrected it locally. But the number is still being reported in the totals.
Being a Democrat has its perks.
Our system seems reasonably robust based on comment from Cats in the past, both scrutineering and conducting a polling place. Is this still the case?
I am surprised by the seemingly complete lack of Russian shelling of Kherson. Maybe they assume that any launching points would be quickly pinpointed and destroyed by HIMARS etc so don’t bother. Good for the locals, they can celebrate their liberation in the open without fear.
Lots of bombing on the eastern front though.
To an extent if people aren’t angry about this they are giving tacit approval to it.
Because that is so ridiculous the vote counters or Democrat “scrutineers” should be arrested on the spot. They’ve been caught red handed.
Just appalling.
Further Calli re * as in the 2020 US election – complaints made and ignored
Either way, until we address the 800lb gorilla in the room of intentional mass distribution of state and federal election ballots, to low agency or non-existent recipients, for early gathering, trying to amass enough ‘votes’ to defeat a large scale and industrial ‘ballot’ gathering operation is futile.
“The main issue is ballot harvesting [legal gathering] and no-excuse universal mail in ballots. Republicans need to spend big cultivating harvesting operations in key districts across the country where it’s legal until they have enough power to outlaw it, along with no-excuse mail ins.”
[…] Remember, a ballot isn’t the same as a vote and the Democrats GOTV machine know this much better than Republicans seem to. Not saying it’s right, but it’s reality and we can’t live in fantasy land.
[Tweet Thread]
…and this is what they voted for.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/joe-biden-being-creepy-with-kids
Saw an interview with him on Sky.
An impressive grass roots candidate.
He made the point that thanks to recent legislative changes the largest donation he can accept from an individual donor is $4k (iirc), whereas Dan has access to union funds.
Victoria: State of Corruption.
So Trump lost the midterms?
I am amazed at what I am seeing. President Trump goes 174-9 on endorsements and it’s his fault it was a Pink Mist, instead of a Red Wave?
Cocaine Mitch is the one who held back the money and support. Was he out campaigning? Nope. Could Mitch ever draw the crowds Trump has? Nope.
Sorry — that dog will not hunt. In my humble opinion, what you’re now seeing is the establishment hacks, media, and big money globalist hedge fund hooligans like Ken Griffin trying to get rid of Trump and coronate DeSantis, before either has even announced.
Oz Media Diary:
Faine’s curly solar question for Andrews
The high-profile cameos have continued on Daniel Andrews’ “DOING WHAT MATTERS” campaign bus.
Hot on the heels of Andrews’ wife Cath handing out of sandwiches to somewhat surprised journalists during the first week of the campaign came the unexpected presence on the bus on Thursday of former ABC Radio Melbourne morning presenter Jon Faine.
In his Sunday Age column on the weekend, Faine revealed he had hopped on the bus to gain “some insights into the tensions on the campaign”.
One insight he gained was about Andrews’ love of toying with the reporters on the campaign trail. “Correcting journalist’s questions or explaining where they have missed the target is part of his fun,” Faine wrote.
At the end of the day’s campaign press conference, he also couldn’t resist asking the Premier (amid his announcements of new green power initiatives): “Have you got solar panels on your house?”
When Andrews replied: “No I don’t, no I do not.” Faine couldn’t resist interjecting: “So you’re encouraging everyone else to do something — but you haven’t done it yourself.”
Touché.
“Our system seems reasonably robust based on comment from Cats in the past, both scrutineering and conducting a polling place. Is this still the case?”
The all knowing know it’s already worse here than in the US.
Anyone who is concerned should either volunteer to scrutineer or sign up to work for the AEC at the next election (probably too late for a gig at the Victorian election)
Calli:
During the latter part of the eighties, I tried to get onto the scrutineers team at Manly Hospital. I was told not to bother because unless I was in the Teachers or Nurses Union, i wouldn’t get in.
Nothing formal – just I wouldn’t get a position scrutineering.
I’ve never forgotten that. And people think the system is safe because scrutineer.
It seems to me that the system has been corrupted for a long time.
How many scrutineers are Union Members/PS?
Arizona on my Mind
Election Day is increasingly looking like election month, and frankly, unless state residents under our federal system get control of this, I see no end to it. In the worst cases, ballots are emailed to everyone who has ever been registered to vote whether or not they’ve died or moved away, faulty ballot printing results in valid ballots being tossed, equipment failures misregister votes, ballot drop boxes are left unmonitored, and so on — all of which contribute to an atmosphere in which corruption flourishes. The more this happens, the more voters believe they cannot vote themselves out of policies and politicians with which they disagree. That is not an insignificant problem.
Arizona once again leads in sloppy election handling. One can blame incompetence, but as these sloppy procedures seem to always favor the Left, there’s reason for suspicion.
President Trump has called for the Arizona election to be rerun.
So in Maricopa County they’re at it again. Voting machines in large numbers didn’t work, but only in Republican districts. People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands. Even Kari Lake was taken to a Liberal Democrat district in order to vote. Others weren’t so lucky. This is a scam and voter fraud, no different than stuffing the ballot boxes. They stole the Election from Blake Masters. Do Election over again!
Flopping Aces calls Arizona the “most corrupt state in the nation.” Certainly, the state faces some stiff competition in that regard, though its election handling places it in the top rung.
The Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was in charge of this election, and as a candidate for election to governor she should have recused herself.
To put this mashup in perspective, Ryan Petty tweets:
Ryan Petty
@rpetty
In the time it has taken California, Arizona and Nevada to count 70-80% of the votes from this election, Florida counted 100% of millions of votes, had a hurricane and already rebuilt a hurricane damaged highway.
Let that sink in.
OldOzzie bemoaned:
As was pointed out in 2020 by Barnes and yesterday by Baris, several states where shenanigans appear to be happening have election regulations designed by Republicans. Georgia is one example.
In 2020 Republican candidates lost in elections controlled by Republicans. So the party doesn’t matter, there is some trans-party establishment clique that calls the shots. Is there a better explanation?
If you can disappear a car accident, then making a few thousand votes (in critical electorates) appear should be a piece of cake.
If you can convict an innocent cardinal, then making a few thousand votes (in critical electorates) appear should be a piece of cake
If the police are convinced that the droner done nuffink rong, then making a few thousand votes (in critical electorates) appear should be a piece of cake
America’s Neo-Nazi bedfellows in Ukraine are latest in long line of odious allies Washington has used against Russia
From pogrom-mongers to Hitlerites to radical Islamists, the US has collaborated with repugnant partners for more than a century
Long and Interesting read of history
By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written and edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers.