My wife’s a vet. I work from home. The rest is a radom sentence generator.

Random

Wally Waffles believes upticks are for real.

Lol

Waffles

You really need to come up with a better nickname. Think harder.

Rick,

Just watched the Making of the Battle of Britain that you reposted upthread.

Excellent, thanks for posting.

Does anyone understand why there’s a large numbers of Musk worse-wishers telling us the system will collapse anytime soon as there’s a lack of engineers specializing in particular areas. My basic understanding of software is that stuff only breaks when there are changes made or someone messes around with the code. If I’m right then who would Twitter collapse?

Ed Case says:
November 22, 2022 at 5:39 am

No wonder in the the decade he ran his blog, driller has 87 page views and a total of 4 comments over the 10 years.
Only 4 made the cut, eh?
A typical Post from Sal?
Sacked the barmaid yesterday, she only had one day to go to get her Long Service.
Three cheers for me!

Lol,

She took took it to FairWork, but because I’m so brilliant, I didn’t need a lawyer to represent me as I did it all myself. The FairWork adjudicator said in these very words, “Mr. Pubbler, you’re so smart I am giving you the win, but please , please wash the bed sheets”. She never stood a chance.

Fury as Anthony Albanese signs Australia up to a $2trillion fund to pay poor countries affected by climate change: ‘Start helping Australian families instead of giving away their money’

No more than a giant wealth redistribution scheme, corrupt* politicians in the western world pitchforking their peoples wealth to corrupt politicians and grifters (BIRM) in countries that haven’t got their shit together yet.
The ultimate welfare state which will not help the little people in those places in the long term.

*Corrupt morally as well as in some cases monetarily.

He’s just really good value. So good. Plus he fired a whole bunch of leftwing idiots.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Hope all judgy hall monitors stay on other platforms – please, I’m begging u

and

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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2h
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Twitter is fun ? ? ??

Mater,
Stop being a fascist.

I’m damned near Hitler.

You’re practically sitting next to him. (On his right, of course)

Shitcoins getting belted again.

I can top that.
Atlassian (TEAM) down 2.5% and looking like it wants to test the recent lows again. If those two meatheads don’t do something drastic soon in terms of cutting back like all the other techs, the stock will be cut in half at the next quarterly meeting in January.

Nothing but nothing tops Atlassian getting a hard kicking. There could be a mass exodus of the engineers if the stock sinks much more. If so, then they’re done. I read they pay a large amount of comp in stock options. Options have a strike price which means they’re essentially worth very little below the strike. There are a lot of pissed off folks working there at the moment.

New Zealand and Scotland’s Progression into a Life Controlled by Digital IDs

Catturd ™
@catturd2
If Facebook, YouTube, or Jack Dorsey’s version of Twitter was around in 1977 – they would’ve suspended anyone who denied there was an ice age coming – calling them climate deniers.

SBF, WEF, and the mile of red yarn
every time you think you’ve seen the bottom of the FTX rabbithole, the bottom drops out again

Look, it’s a fair comment Mater. The thing is though, gerbil warming is the central issue of the western left at the moment. Every major global and domestic institution is married to madam Climate Change.

Heath’s sister was some sort of church ‘whistle-blower’ and her problems seem to stem from marrying a same sex attracted man from their congregation who was encouraged to not be and get married.
Now, not surprisingly, quite bitter.
In a state where praying for the same sex attracted is illegal you can see where the nazi crap is coming from.

House Republican Resolution to Audit Ukraine Aid Gains Steam

I’m damned near Hitler.

Is that called Hitler-Adjacent, or Hitler-Curious?

Make one of those your gender (pronouns sieg/heil) and you will instantly be beyond reproach.

I know what you’re saying there, JC.
It shouldn’t stop political figures who are not corrupt to stand up and call it out. Like all things socialist if enough people stand up and tell the truth the whole rotten edifice collapses.
By corrupt I mean those who are solely in the game for the monetary gains and fat super payouts and to hell with what they have to believe in to achieve that. The majority know it’s bullshit but don’t have the balls to call it.
Same goes for overseas.

Matthew Guy reacted to Nine Media’s smears with an adolescent statement that “if Heath is elected (she will be) then she won’t be allowed to sit in the party room”.

Augustus supposedly said of Herod the Great:

It is better to be Herod’s pig than son

Meaning that since Herod was Jewish his pig was safe from being killed and eaten, whereas he was more than ready to kill his own sons.

Vic Libs are like that.

“We’re disappointed,” Kane said. “I said yesterday we wanted to wear it. That decision was taken out of my hands today. I turned up to the stadium with the armband that I wore and I was told I had to wear that [the official Fifa one]. It’s out of our control as players. I’m sure the FA and Fifa will continue those discussions but most importantly today we focused on the game and got a great result.”

No, the choice was entirely in your hands Mr Kane. You had the choice but refused to be strong enough in your conviction under threat of a sanction from FIFA.
You would have got a yellow card, red for continued adornment of the rainbow armband. Which is a light sentence, compared to what homosexuals suffer there.

The article title at the top is fun: “Beyond Detente: Why We Can’t Beat The Soviets”. Which Reagan did twelve years later with the fall of the Wall.

It is funny how over time certain assumptions become unchallengeable – immovable stone monoliths of realpolitik.

Until someone turns their head a little to the side and realises many of them are just plasterboard.

When I was a kid in the days of President Carter I remember being dispirited by the stories in the newspapers that made it look like the West was on borrowed time. Maps showing military strength in Europe showed the USSR to be thick with soldiers and missiles and tanks and pointed sticks that made the West look hopelessly outmatched. Never crossed my mind (I was a kid!) to wonder how the journos knew so much and so well about the Soviets. No idea that already much of that equipment was outdated and poorly maintained.

And America seemed morally defeated. Maybe that is why it was such a time of excess – the last hoorah.

Then came Reagan. And the rest is history.

Trump did much the same. Manufacturing was coming back to the US, peace deals were being struck between nations that had been implacable enemies as long as I could remember, and the American economy was booming. That was not supposed to happen again. President Carter Obama said so.

But, somewhere in the dark shadowland on the other side of the mirror where the Democrats are, there was also malign glee at the discovery they did not need to win votes to win office. They had looked at the problem and discovered it was only trust, goodwill, and enforcement of laws that that held that system in place, and there were ways around it.

I see a gunman killed five people and injured 18 in a gay club in Colorado.

So, the clock has started ticking until the MSM reluctantly (and in as muted terms as possible) reports that it was not a MAGA conservative homophobe, but something like an angry tranny pissed off that gays don’t accept them, or a disturbed loner whose reading list consists of Marx and Antifa docs.

Or a hammer salesman driven to rage by his products being tarnished by association with that Pelosi fellow, or customers being afraid the hammers might go off for no reason.

Bob Hawke called those players ‘traitors’. I know it’s Wikipedia but quite a few sides toured

Bob Hawke called those players ‘traitors’.

A bloke who was later “unwittingly” induced by Chinese spies to do the CCP’s bidding.

Tragic accident mars futures of potential architects and engineers.

Former members of Amy Coney Barrett’s secretive faith group…

These religious types…

If they venture into the public square they’re “imposing their beliefs on others.”

If they retreat into privacy as demanded they’re “secretive.”

If only they could just disappear altogether, eh?

I know some of you don’t like Cory but this is on the money, read the full report at the link.

This is just another step toward a global digital ID and the attached social credit system which will be used to determine your individual rights.

The global ID will be linked to the forthcoming Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) which will utilise blockchain technology to enable restrictions to be placed on how you spend your money.

A CBDC is a totalitarian’s dream and a nightmare for those who value freedom and privacy.

Here’s how a social credit system works in China and this Orwellian overreach is even before the introduction of a CBDC there.

https://www.corybernardi.com.au/posts/the-nightmare-is-just-beginning/?ref=the-weekly-dose-of-common-sense-newsletter

MatrixTransform says:
November 21, 2022 at 5:39 pm

Saw your comment just now and had a good laugh, thanks.

I found out that the same principle crossed over into medicine far too late.

And just in case there are any recalcitrants, the Liberal National Party in QLD recently conspired with the ALP to prevent medical practitioners from contradicting public health advice on pain of being named and shamed and prevented from practicing in the state, preumably on the basis of a disgruntled patient informing on them to authorities.

I’m sure they look forward to the day when robots directed by algorithms will replace human medicos altogether, at least at the general practice level.

The untold story of the day JFK was assassinated

We all know John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, but often neglected is the story of the second murder that took place that day in Dallas, Texas.

By Alan Howe

From Inquirer
2 hours ago

We are already almost 60 years into all their dead tomorrows. In 1963, two Americans at work, one aged 39, the other seven years older, were shot dead on the streets of that country’s ninth biggest city. One at 12.30pm, the other 46 minutes later. The younger man came from rural East Texas poverty; the other from educated generational privilege. Each served their country in World War II, but oceans apart. What else they had in common was the man who killed them: Lee Harvey ­Oswald.

At least the facts of the murder of Dallas police officer JD Tippit are uncontested. Moments after the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Friday November 22, 1963, as the presidential motorcade swept through the city, Oswald left the Texas School Book Depository on Dealey Plaza, caught a bus and a cab heading towards Oak Cliff off the southwest border of the CBD. Much of the area was blocked off as many thousands lined the route for a glimpse of the president and his glamorous wife Jacqueline. (Conveniently, the president’s route from the airport through downtown had been published by the Dallas Morning News, a newspaper founded by George Dealey after whom the infamous Dallas landmark had been named. His statue overlooked the plaza that day as history unfolded.)

Soon after the shooting, a police dispatcher radioed for patrol cars to head towards Oak Cliff, a then homogenously, some would say defiantly, white, middle class precinct that would produce singer songwriters Michael Murphey (Wildfire), Edie Brickell (now Paul Simon’s wife) and guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Tippit was in the area when the dispatcher announced over the police radio what had happened at Dealey Plaza and for officers to look out for the suspect – a witness had seen Oswald at the window before and moments after he heard gunfire, another as Oswald hurried down the street. Combining their recollections, police described the wanted man as a “white male, approximately 30, slender build, height 5 foot 10 inches, weight 165 pounds”. That’s a man about 1.75m weighing 75kg. Oswald was just 24, somewhat shorter and weighed precisely 68kg – as detailed at his autopsy two days later. But Tippit’s 11 years in uniform had honed his detective senses and he recognised something amiss about the furtive stranger. Six witnesses to what was about to happen agreed that the man they later knew to be Oswald suddenly turned around to walk in the other direction, perhaps he’d seen the marked police vehicle.

Tippit – the JD initials did not stand for anything, his father had read a book about a character called JD of The Mountains and liked the sound of it – knew the president had been shot, but not that he had died. Kennedy was declared dead at 1pm at the city’s Parkland Hospital. Tippit had 16 minutes to live; the fellow he was approaching just two days and seven minutes. It was a one-man patrol, so Tippit was in the driver’s seat. He pulled up alongside the kerb and summoned his suspect to the car through the passenger-side window.

Tippit left the car and walked around the front and engaged Oswald in conversation for up to 20 seconds. Then Oswald produced a .38 revolver and shot him three times in the chest. When Tippit fell to the ground he shot the officer in the right temple, killing him.

Oswald sprinted off dropping spent cartridges from his pistol. Shocked witnesses kept an eye on him, another used Tippit’s crackling police radio to tell the dispatcher what had happened.

Oswald was seen entering the Howard Hughes-owned Texas Theatre where he sat inconspicuously in the third back row and watched the Korean War drama War is Hell. Police were there in minutes to arrest him. “Well, it’s all over now,” a resigned Oswald muttered indistinctly. He had no idea.

That night, a still shocked and grieving Robert Kennedy, the US Attorney-General and the president’s brother, gallantly called the Tippit family home to speak to the officer’s widow, Marie. Robert said that he and his sister-in-law were “extremely sorry and wanted to offer our deepest sympathy in this time of grief”.

At first, Marie, a mother of three children aged 13, 10 and four, held up well. She told the president’s brother “I certainly know how she feels. But, you know, they were both doing their jobs. They got killed doing their jobs. He was being the president and JD was being the policeman he was supposed to be.” The next day, Lyndon B Johnson, not 24 hours into his presidency, also called Marie.

Days later, Jackie Kennedy wrote to Marie, but by the time the letter arrived Marie was traumatised, had been prescribed tranquillisers, and was unable to respond. The note stated the ­Kennedy family felt partly to blame for Marie’s husband’s death and added: “I hope you’re not bitter toward us because of what happened.”

Marie never was. A friend responded, with her approval, and, in answer to Jacqueline’s offer to contact Marie if there was any help she could give, asked if the former First Lady might send a photograph of the Kennedy family. Not long after a package arrived with a framed photograph of the Kennedys at their holiday home on the Massachusetts coast. Beneath it, Jackie had written “For Mrs. J.D. Tippit, with my deepest sympathy and the knowledge that you and I now share another bond – reminding our children all their lives what brave men their fathers were – With all my wishes for your happiness, Jacqueline Kennedy.”

Jackie explained that the eternal flame she planned for her husband’s grave would also burn forever for Marie’s husband.

Marie, who went on to marry another policeman, died from heart failure after contracting Covid last year aged 92.

So when she was asked about the federal government’s plan to reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 and for renewable energy to make up 82 per cent of electricity generation, her reply was disquieting: “It may not be possible. But I think we’ve got to try.”

So we have to try. For what result? Surely this is what should be considered before any action is undertaken.

So what IS the result if the government successfully implements its policy of reducing Australia’s emissions by 43%.

Currently atmospheric CO2 concentrations are about 400 parts per million (ppm).
Human contribution to this is 3% or 12ppm. Australia’s contribution to this is 1.3% or .156 of 1ppm. By reducing our emissions by 43% we will reduce global CO2 concentrations by .067 of 1ppm.

This is barely measurable yet we are going to die in a ditch over it. Schott has been gulping the koolaid or she is seriously deficient in mathematical knowledge.

The fact that you even need a word like “girldick” suggest there might not be much “progress” in being “progressive”. I do like the Germanic compound nature if not the mental picture.

Having a freeway terminate into a major CBD and onto local roads would not be regarded as road network best practice. Hard to believe it ever was.

Mater

I think we should have gone hard and aligned with Trump’s position in respect to gerbil warming when we had a chance, throughout his term. We could’ve gone some of the way but there are also other parties to console. The other parties being the EU and the Demonrats.

Here’s the problem as I see it. We depend to an enormous extent to protect on the US – our sea-lanes and accessibility to the rest of the world. Like it or not they’re our protectors.

Imagine the Demonrat’s reaction towards us – particularly this current twisted administration- if we walked from the climate accords. Imagine what the EU would do. Being small, population wise- is nice. Roads aren’t as congested, airports are great and our cities are livable in the sense that you have more space in a relative sense. You get the idea. It’s also shitty if you want your voice heard. I wouldn’t put it past the current lot of demons and the EU to disown us if we didn’t play cute.

Bear – What would the compound word for “involuntary transgenderization”?

I’ll leave that to others, although I expect “delumpen” would be in there somewhere.