Dark Forest, Ivan Shishkin, 1890
Better late than never. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo (Timeless Version) … Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Open Thread – Weekend 19 Nov 2022
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1HV4b0ccg David Bowie and Tina Turner…”Tonight.”
Bronte Beach was on the news last night. Packed to the hilt with Pommy/Euro backpackers and whatnot. No mueslis.
Don’t shit me.
Nice lady.Would be great as kindergarten president.Opposition leader not to much
Ed Case says:
November 20, 2022 at 8:52 pm
Just finished watching a docco on Durham Cathedral. Massive windows with the image of St Cuthbert. I did not St Cs robes had swastikas running down each side.
I take it, you are trying to be funny?
Monty @4:19
Your greasy, slimy way of doing things.
My aversion to be injected with a not yet fully tested and approved vaccine gets me labelled by you as “anti-vaxxer”, eh?
Like I’ve said before, you just don’t realise the sort of person you are.
You really are a dog of a human.
I take that back.
Dogs make far better people than you.
Flying duck – I hope you are financially independent.
Congrats if you are and your stand.
Admirable and the real example of bravely standing up what you beleive in.
I have met one person that has done this – unfortunately not financially independent.
You people are the example.
As for the rain, this is what scientific and man of action people like your self can divert your immense talents to.
700 mm in the Wimmera amazing.work out how his can be each year
Gabor asserts:
I take it, you are trying to be funny?
You don’t know much history, I take it?
The Monkees’ Show, 1969 – the only live guest they managed to get on.
It’s a hint for the theme of the next radio show – which is not that far off …
Full page of memes. Cocaine Mitch needs a red hot poker up his shrivelled clacker.
I nearly wrote:
Cuthbert asserts
How about
Gabor confidently asserts, without having any clue at all, probably after a long session on the turps:
I take it, you are trying to be funny?
LOL!
Praise KEK.
OMG – 60 Minutes – fuck n hell – why is there not a doco on labor greens the Sydney morning herald abc etc.
Basque Cross looks like bit like a swastika
lauburu
Kiewa Valley, hasn’t been without rain for many months, coldest, wettest winter/spring since the 70’s, I’m over it. Massive flooding in SA in a month or so.
Robs – hee hee heee – reference to that French film.
My kids hero is Otto Von Bismarck. Not exactly sure why that is haha.
LOL, do people still watch TV? Haha
Has the amphibian been gently pushed from Ten?
“132andBushsays:
November 20, 2022 at 9:14 pm
You really are a dog of a human.
I take that back.
Dogs make far better people than you.”
Ah yes, dogs are noble creatures. He’s a slug.
This point of debate to go to Lizzie and the girls.
Earlier this week some one provided a link to the liberal party gay group.
I was surprised by the photo – they were clean cut, neat, non threatening, looked
they they would do the right thing and no harm to anyone, they looked happy.
My question is if you looked like this wheather you are a target for sustained physical and verbal assault.
The only other person you can connect with was some else who endured this.
Being badgered as a mummy’s boy or goodie two shoes leaves you embarrassed with connecting with some one of the opposite sex.
From a few meetings I have had with gay people they had issues at home some atricious and had medical issues.
I look forward to your input.
When will the amphibian be charged?
Common in my British family in the 1800’s. I have an example of three Elizabeths (15 children, 8 survived to marry).
Hey, Johnny – get out of your comfortable retirement and recompose this magnificent anthem, given the ascension of chilla big ears the stupid.
You know you want to.
Basque Cross looks like bit like a swastika
lauburu
Could be.
Vandals (>[V]Andalusia) were followers of Arianism and ruled most of the Mediterranean.
Source:
The parents of this dead child have named their new babe after her dead sister…..
Yep, good mate has named his surviving daughter as a very close variant of her still-born sister. I think it has helped both put that episode to a place of peace, and given the deceased’s story another living sequel.
Ah, the Yoof …
So tastee. 🙂
With electrickery from a battery, if there’s any justice in this woild. 🙂
Origin of the name Bruce, from the link above:
Yep, Im good – I’ve spent some time insulating myself from whatever risks get thrown at me.
Miss Gordo:
Hey, Kool Thang:
Every other wallee on the planet: “Yeah of course, now be quiet and fabricate me a tastee nutritious treat, with lots of meat. You know you want to.” 🙂
fmd Louis
have you been on the bongs?
I haven’t Ed.
Please point me towards long term evidence of Vikpol ……. brutalizing the populace, choking young girls, accosting pregnant mothers at home, menacing grannies in parks, stomping on citizen’s heads.
It’s a great feeling, knowing you have the wherewithal, not to have to tolerate fools or the incompetent.
The fascist regime there is:
“Brutalizing the populace, choking young girls, accosting pregnant mothers at home, menacing grannees in parks, stomping on citizen’s heads, running over mentally challenged individuals”
Why you trying to get crazy with us, Squire – don’t you see I’m loco?
Reasonably priced Myford for QLD Cats:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/burpengary/miscellaneous-goods/lathe-myford-ml7-tri-leva/1304394620
Ten jettisons about 95kg of cellulite, disguised as Lisa Wilkinson quitting The Project.
It’s almost as if they learned Wilkinson was about to be charged with something and put an ultimatum on the table.
Here, Lisa. Here’s that great big box of attention you wanted.
Return the Cullinan diamond to South Africa, see it sold and the proceeds finish up in Cyril Ramaphosa’s Swiss bank account…
Or, allowing females to excel in the written word to the detriment of males who usually perform in the way your daughter did..
Cassie
The amphibian complaining about “toxic scrutiny”. Now that is the definition of chutzpah.
And she has the hide to mention attacks on members of her family. Does BL have a Mum and Dad, siblings, a girlfriend?
As for her family, I walk past a chemist in a shopping mall near me that has a cosmetic advertisement featuring the Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice. She was effectively run out of the country by a campaign led by FitzSimons after an unfortunate tweet by her. She coaches in the USA rather than here. Lisa can take her botox, mascara and olympian hubris to Antarctica for all I care.
Aging TV tart:
Then you should have shut your gaping pie hole. My God, I sincerely hope you’re jailed.
Any of the bush lawyers on the Cat help out? Could La Wilkinson face charges over her remarks about a certain rope trial?
From the ABC. So three deaths with Covid in a week all in 80/90’s. According to the article staff and Unions want more jabs. In unrelated news most Health Depts are complaining about staff shortages. Must be those that dont want more jabs. My worry is that actual medical staff think 4/5 jabs in just over a year is effective. It would be interesting to know what %age the majority is. 95% or could be 51%.
“South Australia has recorded another jump in COVID-19 cases ahead of an expected peak next week, as SA Health implements a new vaccination policy for staff.
A total of 8,346 new infections were reported over the past week, up from 6,867 the week before and 3,797 in the first week of November.
Three new deaths were reported, all of people in their 80s or 90s.
New modelling released by SA Health on Tuesday predicted about 1,200 new cases per day by the peak next week, or about the same number as was recorded this week.
They are expected to fall again by Christmas.
A new vaccination policy that comes into effect for SA Health staff today requires everyone working in patient areas to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Chief Public Health Officer Professor Nicola Spurrier said the policy was made with input from staff and unions.
“The majority of people were supportive of this approach,” she said.
“We had a lot of feedback that the old policy was difficult to read, difficult to follow and so it’s given us an opportunity to streamline it, and really make it very clear in black and white what are the requirements for different categories of staff.”
SA Health had previously been operating under a South Australian Public Health Act direction that required healthcare workers to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
It was set to expire next Wednesday.
Private healthcare operators will have to come up with their own policies around vaccinations from that date.
Inactive AFLW player and nurse Deni Varnhagen lost her bid to challenge the mandate on Tuesday.
She lost her work as a nurse in both a private and public hospital last year after refusing to get vaccinated”.
Copied and pasted
Interesting timing.
Trump is under a second Special Counsel investigation and said he will not cooperate.
If he doesn’t cooperate I would assume he’ll be charged with obstruction of justice.
He said previously, if he’s indicted, he doesn’t think the people will stand for it.
Will his arrest usher in the long-awaited storm?
If so, would he go back on Twitter only to tweet the message anons have been waiting for?
Samuel Bankman Fried May Have Started the Demolition of the Deep State
OSC, not sure what you’re getting at… writing is taught in English, and kids who are keen on it can, and do, churn out plenty in their spare time. If you think there is some sort of cultural bias against girls writing…? I think that was kinda self-serving fibs when JK Rowling (M. Eng Lit) tried it at the start of launching her “accidental” juggernaut. SE Hinton never whined about it.
The dumbing-down of education affects all subjects, and is a disservice for boys and girls alike.
custard says:
November 21, 2022 at 1:03 am
Interesting timing.
And what message would that be, pray-tell?
Inciting for rebellion for real this time?
Don’t be daft, I don’t think even the Don is that stupid and reckless.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran. Brilliant.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Robert Ariail.
Steve Kelley.
Ben Garrison.
Angry young woman seen at a protest with placard.
What did it say ? Abortion Saves Lives.
At my local library a prominent display of books about transgenderism and trans people as heroes. Librarians (middle aged women all) have sprinkled around printed messages telling us not to be afraid, it’s OK to be gay/ trans whatever.
No wonder the birth rate is what it is.
Regarding Wilkinson, a couple of weeks ago on the Tim Blair/Nick Cater podcast, Tim was strongly hinting that some sort of action against FitzSimons was on the way. Could it be related?
He’s probably broke. Divorce, hookers, drugs – I’d guess it’s all gone.
I don’t understand all the continual, loud support for body dysmorphia. It’s a tiny percentage of the overall population.
Ordinary folks don’t give a rats about them until they began to rattle the kids.
Et tu, NYP?
Story at American Thinker is that the New York Post’s management is leaning more left and anti-Trump just when things look like getting interesting with House investigations led by Repubs!
Watch out Miranda!
That’s the problem, they do!
Had a laugh when I visited Dymocks in the Melbourne CBD on the weekend.
All the usual sections, History, Non-Fiction, Fiction, LGBTQI+ Fiction, Cooking, Biographies, etc
Yep
I see both Monty and Head Case exceeded their two comment per day limit yesterday.
Spewing rubbish and necessitating cleanups all day.
What the hell is that?
Lisa tried to sabotage R v Lehrmann.
Supposedly, she was a friend of Higgins, but since Higgins’ interest was in the Trial going ahead, logic tells us that Wilkinson’s motivation wasn’t to help Higgins out.
FDA now backtracking and saying that not taking Ivermectin for covid was only a “recommendation”.
Gateway Pundit
I dared not look. I guess their fiction is different.
The inclusion idea is going well.
The TGA reclassified it as a poison to ensure it couldn’t be dispensed without the script of remarkably specialised individuals.
Just in case you didn’t catch it last time, here’s Jay Valentine’s article on the anatomy of voter fraud 2.0, the same as in 2020 with the same lame response before and after from the dozy Repubs.
Stories of LGBTQI+ folks who DON’T parade their sexual proclivities for all to see.
https://www.tga.gov.au/resources/publication/scheduling-decisions-final/notice-amendment-current-poisons-standard-under-paragraph-52d2a-therapeutic-goods-act-1989-0
Some insurrectionist!
Trump’s tweets from January 6 2021 revealed.
Is Invermectin dose specific?
I think it is.
Bottom line:
There is no Covid, it’s a hoax.
The Qantas story in the Oz about getting the A380s back in service took me to this story. I thought it was a joke, but it’s real. There is such a thing.
Meet the Airbus BelugaXL
That implies she actually cared about the case, one way or the other.
No, she exploited R v Lehrmann.
Watch it if he starts calling you citizen and wearing purple ties.
“I don’t understand all the continual, loud support for body dysmorphia. It’s a tiny percentage of the overall population.
Ordinary folks don’t give a rats about them until they began to rattle the kids.”
Firstly, because it’s a core tenet of queer theology to sexually target children. Under queer theology, children can consent, either to sexual practices with adults or to having their bodies mutilated, through drugs such as puberty blockers and through surgery, so you see young girls consenting to have their breasts hacked off or boys having their penises removed. Once on this path, there’s no turning back, the children are mutilated for life. Apart from the surgical mutilation, the drugs are devastating, these children will never ever experience sexual excitement and they will never orgasm.
Secondly, as for adult men putting on a frock yet still dangling their cocks, it wasn’t until they decided they were women and that this gave them the right to access women’s spaces such as toilets and change rooms that women such as myself said, NUP, NOPE, NYET. Besides these men don’t suffer from gender dysphoria, they are autogynephiles (or in plain language….perverts), a term which describes men who like to dress as women for sexual purposes, they get sexually aroused when they put on female clothing. These kinds of men are perverts and are dangerous but, thanks to the eternal stupidity of the left and many idiots on the right, these perverts have been successful in pushing their agendas and are succeeding in eradicating biological women from language, examples such as “individuals with a cervix”…or the fact that last week, at a senate estimates session, Brendan Murphy verbally stumbled, ummed and aahhed and refused to give a straight answer when asked by Senator Alex Antic “can only a woman give birth”.
Idiot times, dangerous times.
So…you’ve given up the pretence of talking about freedom over one’s own body as a principle, and are down to just squabbling over the severity of the punishment/consequence if we, as individuals, choose to retain it?
Once you break a principle, the rest is just a matter of degrees.
Not only are you a clown, your cognitive dissonance is at record levels.
Yes if a cool wine aunt has one abortion, but her sprog would have been a turbo thot, it may inadvertently save 30 or so lives.
I suspect the amphibian from Mosman has been given a gentle push.
That’s cool TGA but I will buy Starmec regardless, please shove your decree where the sun don’t shine.
This always makes me chuckle.
Surely one of this blog’s finest hours.
Never has so much been owed by so many to so few.
Indian brand?
I don’t think they were.
Hopefully Pfizer loses money on Paxlovid.
Dot
I bought a pack of anti-virals before heading to the US. It cost me $1,150!
Maybe he could take Lisa’s spot?
Chris Uhlmann has never been afraid to express views that could see him shouted down in the era of ‘‘just add water’’ outrage.
Even during his time as Nine’s political editor, Uhlmann memorably attacked “identity warriors of the left” and “cardboard cutout Trots”, particularly on social media platforms like Twitter, where he labelled some users “hypocrites as well as flogs”.
And less than two months into retirement, Uhlmann is showing no signs of backing away from challenging the politically correct.
Uhlmann has already returned from an epic 5500km solo return drive from Canberra to Cooktown, in what some of his former Canberra press gallery colleagues have dubbed his “anti-woke tour of Australia”.
Among some of the memorable highlights: his sending of happy snaps from Queensland’s largest coal-fired power station to his ex-Canberra press gallery colleagues, followed by his adventures retracing the sailing of the now-cancelled Captain James Cook to the place where his ship Endeavour ran aground on a coral reef at Cooktown.
When Diary reached Uhlmann, he confirmed his expedition to the giant NRG Gladstone Power Station, 550km north of Brisbane. “I poke my nose into things that interest me,” he told us mischievously. “I went on an industrial tour of Gladstone, particularly to witness its reliance on fossil fuels and other things people seem to hate. It’s a very wealthy town.”
As Uhlmann notes, wind farms or solar power don’t fire the Gladstone Power Station’s massive turbogenerators. Its website says the station is instead powered by “four million tonnes of coal” each year, which is “railed to the station from coalfields in Central Queensland”. In total, its six “coal-powered steam turbines” generate up to 1680 megawatts of electricity. After his industrial visit to Gladstone, Uhlmann drove another 1500km to Cooktown, from where he emerged with a favourable view of Cook’s 48-day stay there after the Endeavour ran aground.
Uhlmann defends Cook’s expedition to Australia.
“The entire trip to Australia was a scientific trip,” he said. “They were enlightened people who had enlightened views. They were not disparaging of the Indigenous people they met.”
Uhlmann said his trip was slightly curtailed by the Queensland floods, with roads he described as “destroyed by the rain”.
Meanwhile, the former Nine political editor is proceeding with his post-political journalism career as a self-described “retired gentleman”.
In April, he will publish his first children’s book, called The Useless Tune, about a magpie looking for a home, with illustrations by his younger brother Paul, before heading off on a lengthy European trip.
Lisa tried to sabotage R v Lehrmann
Correct.
No, she exploited R v Lehrmann.
There’s that, too.
Riddle me this, though?
Lisa had interviewed Higgins before going live, so she knew that Higgins
hadn’t been wearing underwear on the night in question.
Why, then, did she put Higgins on the spot when they were live by asking her:
And then he [Lehrmann]removed your panties??
Look out!
The Spycatcher is on the prowl.
I learned a new word today. Thanks Cassie.
Yuck. Revolting.
One of Woody Allen’s very funny movies was about a hairy dude always wanting to dress up in his wife’s underwear and was caught. It was hilarious.
https://youtu.be/GlO2mVuNchg?t=34
Is is body dysmorphia or gender dysphoria? Cassie used the latter, but can the former also be used?
There’s nothing to riddle, Edderly. The lizard is old. She would have forgotten.
Every possibility Lisa was expecting Channel 10 to pick up the tab for any legal bills, a la their ABC and Milligan, and then cut up rough.
The amphibian from Mosman is now crying about “toxic scrutiny”, unbelievable chutzpah.
The amphibian was always the “star” in the saga of Brittaneee the Knickerless. The amphibian deliberately used a young woman and her dubious story to score a political hit job.
From the beginning it was a targeted political assassination, aimed at bringing down the Morrison government. It worked a treat, firstly because the Liberals are the always stupid party and secondly, because the left, the MSM and so on all could all now shout, scream and wail in unison how Morrison and the Liberals had a women problem. It was political manna from heaven. But from the beginning it was only ever about Leeeeeeesaaaaaah the amphibian and her equally grotesque husband. It was another resource for them to make political, media and financial capital. Both are hideous grifters, ugly ugly people, both lacking in any talent whatsoever except to big note themselves and to daily sneer, smear and ridicule conservatives, Christians and any Australian who might dare to disagree with one of their opinions. Both don’t even try to hide their toxic biases or their hypocrisy, they are both putrid despicable people.
The only person who’s endured any toxic scrutiny in this awful saga is the alleged, Bruce Lehmann. His life is ruined, thanks to the amphibian and her meddling in a story which should never have seen daylight. Meanwhile his accuser swans through life, and we now have the far-left ACT government changing laws to enable her lies, in the process trashing the presumption of innocence, as C.L. said here and on his blog, the proposed change in the ACT is akin to a Bill of Attainder. Lehmann will be tried and tried and tried until he’s found guilty, just like Pell they will crucify him. As for the accuser, let me just state here and now, she’s lying about what happened on that couch, of that I am sure.
I know it’s wrong to wish awful things on others but I make an exception for the amphibian and her husband. I hope that one of their children is accused of a crime, just like Kristina Keneally’s son has been. Perhaps then they’ll wake up in the morning and they’ll cry out the words “presumption of innocence”.
The bint is from Cremorne, isn’t she?
There maybe no end of doctors’ wives and their ilk in Mosman, but saying that Pirate Pete and the Plastic Bag live there is beyond the pale.
Interesting about Uhlmann. Did Gai go with him on his tour, or was it a solo effort? His connection to the Labor Party has always been there, but it may be more old-style Labor than the new “woke” brand.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he’s now to the right of the Liberals in his thinking.
Canada’s nuclear power turns heat up on energy ignoranceNICK CATER
Australia is shutting down coal-fired power stations at the same time as Germany is embracing coal at sites like the Garzweiler lignite open cast mine, above, near Luetzerath, western Germany. Picture: AFP
Late last month, energy company AGL lodged an application to blow up its Liddell coal-fired power station in NSW. It’s a shame it can’t be dismantled and packed into shipping containers because the Germans would take it in a flash.
At Garzweiler, near Cologne, the demolition crews are chopping down wind turbines to get to the coal beneath the ground. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced the reopening of five power plants burning low-grade lignite. The life of three nuclear generators is being extended.
Yet Australia, apparently, has so much energy to spare that it can close its fourth-largest coal generator in five months’ time and the lights won’t even flicker. We’ll see.
In June we witnessed a dress rehearsal of Liddell’s closure. A series of outages by coal generators coinciding with rising winter demand brought the National Energy Market to the brink of collapse. The situation was so dire that NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean went on the radio to plead with customers to avoid using their dishwashers until after the evening peak.
At 6.55pm on June 12, the Australian Energy Market Operator ordered Queensland coal generators to turn up the throttle. By 6.30 the next morning, the interconnector from Queensland to NSW was running red hot. At 7am electricity was flowing at three times the safe capacity.
As the sun rose, solar panels offered some relief, but the emergency was far from over. At 6.30pm on June 13, desperate for every megawatt of dispatchable power it could muster, the AEMO ordered Snowy Hydro to crank up its turbines at Colongra on the NSW Central Coast. In normal circumstances, Colongra runs on natural gas. Since the price of gas had gone through the roof, however, the turbines were running on diesel.
So much for a smooth transition from hydrocarbons to clean energy. NSW avoided blackouts last winter by turning to one of the dirtiest forms of fuel available. What happened on June 13 was far from an isolated incident. At the peak of the grid crisis in the second week of August, diesel was generating 2 per cent of dispatchable power in the NEM.
If any grounds remain by which the federal and NSW governments can prevent AGL committing this act of industrial vandalism then it must use them, because even if Liddell stays open, the grid will be stretched to the limit. Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen should insist demolition is postponed until AGL replaces like with like. Instead, we’re being fobbed off with puffery about AGL’s investment in wind and solar and its plans for green hydrogen.
AGL scrapped its plan to install gas generators on the site some years ago but it isn’t abandoning Liddell completely. The company has promised to install a 500MW lithium-ion battery in partnership with Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Future Industries.
Even if it were up and running by the time Liddell closes, which it won’t be, it will be virtually useless in the kind of emergency that came close to blacking out NSW in June. A 500MW battery stores the equivalent of 0.01 per cent of NSW’s weekly energy consumption.
Blowing up Liddell will be just the start of our woes. In August 2025 the country’s largest generator at Eraring will be replaced with another fizzer of a battery. Others must follow if the AEMO is to stay on track with its plan of retiring 60 per cent of coal capacity by the end of the decade.
For a moment, let us put scepticism aside and assume Bowen’s plan to install 64 million solar panels, erect 3800 wind turbines and string up 28,000km of transmission lines is the solution. But unless he can get them up and running by April, Bowen must abandon wishful thinking and face facts. The laws of physics and the challenges of engineering mean the near-instant shift to zero emissions many expect simply cannot occur. The modern world was built to run on hydrocarbons and transition will take much longer than we have so far imagined, if it can be achieved at all.
Not every Western country is making such a hash of things. The government of Ontario announced the closure of its coal-fired power plants in 2003. The Thunder Bay Generating Station, the final coal plant in Ontario, stopped burning in 2014. Today the province remains the powerhouse of the Canadian economy and a centre for manufacturing.
Ontario seized the advantage by investing in nuclear power and a relatively light touch with wind and solar. The province is home to five of six Canadian nuclear reactors including the largest nuclear power station in the world.
Ontario has become an early adopter of small modular reactors, the first of which is under construction at Darlington Point, adjacent to an existing nuclear reactor. The first SMR could be in operation by 2028 and will have a life of 60 years. Australia’s wind and solar infrastructure will need to be replaced three or four times in that period, if we were foolish enough to persist on that path.
SMRs would be the best possible replacement baseload generators for Australia’s remaining coal-fired power plants if we had a government bold enough to rise to the challenge. Four SMRs, stacked in sequence at Liddell covering as little as 18ha, would comfortably cover the gap left by the withdrawal of coal.
Bowen claims the adoption of nuclear would push up power prices and crowd out cheaper and cleaner technologies, insisting that firmed renewables are quicker to build and cheaper to operate. “Those who say otherwise are either dangerously ignorant or simply seeking to perpetuate the climate wars,” he says.
In fact, the retail electricity price in Canada was about the same as the price in Australia in 2005 before the renewable energy investment boom began. Today, Canadians are paying half as much as Australians and enjoy the third-lowest prices in the OECD. Energy ignorance runs deep.
Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre.
Oz
Will an Economic Pearl Harbor Destroy America? :: By Britt Gillette
Same-sex marriage bill opens the door to American persecution
Breaking the back of inflation requires energy policy changes
Just to be sure, and for absolute clarity:
I do NOT condemn 2019 Brih-nee Commando for leaving her jocks at home on the eve in question. Not one single bit.
I would suggest, however, that for 2022 Brih-nee jocks are a requirement rather than an option.
Reuters piece sucking up the Hiden. Further proof that voting shouldn’t be for everyone , especially 71% of demonrats.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/as-biden-turns-80-americans-ask-whats-too-old
Ian Cook has a bus just like Dan’s
Apropos of Uhlmann:
Excellent.
Cook? Cancelled? The fuck he is.
Matersays:
Look out!
The Spycatcher is on the prowl.
JCsays:
There’s nothing to riddle, Edderly. The lizard is old. She would have forgotten.
Perfidious Albinosays:
Every possibility Lisa was expecting Channel 10 to pick up the tab for any legal bills, a la their ABC and Milligan, and then cut up rough.
Cassie writes:
From the beginning it was a targeted political assassination, aimed at bringing down the Morrison government.
It’s a pretty straightforward question, yet nobody wants to address it.
So, let’s try again:
Why, then, did she put Higgins on the spot when they were live by asking her:
And then he [Lehrmann]removed your panties?
When she knew that couldn’t have happened, and that Higgins was unlikely to say on National TV [and didn’t]:
Hang on, I wasn’t wearing underwear, I told you that half an hour ago.
Not just another Labor incompetent but a nasty piece of work to boot.
Matersays:
November 21, 2022 at 6:59 am
m0nty says:
November 20, 2022 at 3:37 pm
Mater, this is why I normally ignore you. Equating a long gaol sentence for murder with getting stood down temporarily from one job is utterly ridiculous by you. You are a clown.
So…you’ve given up the pretence of talking about freedom over one’s own body as a principle, and are down to just squabbling over the severity of the punishment/consequence if we, as individuals, choose to retain it?
Once you break a principle, the rest is just a matter of degrees.
Not only are you a clown, your cognitive dissonance is at record levels.
A clown who rejects the Nuremberg Code, while perpetually babbling on about the danger of garage Nazis. A clown who supports at least some of the actions of Nazi doctors, our very own m0nty von Mengele.
Out of all of them, who are the spooks, Ed?
Via Instapundit a couple of interesting links about what is happening inside Twitter.
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1594101861564534784
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593434329153245185.html
The second one took an age to come up for me, so it may be being ddosed, but is worth the read. Certainly fits my experience from similar episodes in companies I’ve worked for.
What did she say she had endured? Toxic scrutiny?
I think this reveals how the word ‘toxic’ has been misused, deployed as ‘colour’ word, to lend a sense of something being bad without actually seeing if it makes sense.
That appalling howling harbinger used her various pulpits on Channel 10, on that forgettable awards thing, and and I would guess Twitter and other avenues to smear Lehrmann as a rapist while he has never had a comparable platform (or even legal opportunity) to put his own side.
She has flited about like the guardian angel of lady victims everywhere even while she victimised a guy who has still not been found guilty – a muddle helped by her ravings over the air waves. She inserted herself into the story lured Brittnah along with book deals and the promise of fame.
And she complains about cruel scrutiny and toxicity? She has only been asked about what she has done in plain sight.
Channel 10 might be cutting her loose because of some pending legal action, or it may be that they are afraid that they might be on the hook for something malodorous bat squeaks when the case is heard again.
Or she may have left them because they said they will not countenance her shenanigans any more, and she considers it is more to her benefit to be an avenging angel for woman accusers everywhere than stay on that rank cesspool of a program. Seriously, it touts Squalid Ali as an intellectual.
VIC Premier and deputy getting flak from the Jewish community for trivialising the use of the term Nazi.
The ABC is claiming that independent MP Catherine Cumming made a death threat to Andrews. Scum liars, but we know that.
Playing the US political game grates on Australians. It’s a sign of panic or he’s been told by the millennials on staff that’s it’s a winner.
Eddles
Why are you trying to turn “riddle me this” into Everest? Where are you going with this?
The most likely explanation is the the Lizard forget as there’s no way it/she would have attempted to get Miss Hippo into legal jeopardy.
Which one is the spook?
Oh, I just saw this. Snap!
Somebody missed the Wendyball chief’s speech.
Apparently she remains on their payroll.
Presumably she’ll pop up on the tele again some time in 2023 after the trial.
It’s going to be very satisfying if England don’t make it through the first round.
Not that I’ll be watching.
The ABC is claiming that independent MP Catherine Cumming made a death threat to Andrews.
I wish I’d known that before I sent in my postal vote. I would have put her number 1
JCsays:
November 21, 2022 at 6:50 am
The Qantas story in the Oz about getting the A380s back in service took me to this story. I thought it was a joke, but it’s real. There is such a thing.
Meet the Airbus BelugaXL
Meet your American Cousin
Airbus Beluga Vs Boeing Dreamlifter – Which Fuselage Transporter Is Better?
and its original Older American Cousin
Super Guppy
Wilkinson’s attempted to work off some of that gargantuan arse by flogging the dead horse one last time, and it didn’t work. The patronage of her idiot husband has not saved her.
Perhaps if she’d rung up Tracey Spicer or Grace Tame and asked about the shelf life of this sort of thing she’d still be in the smug bubble.
When the Beloved complains about my holiday shopping, I’ll show him those photos, OldOzzie.
My prediction for 2023 is that the MSM shill dummies declare 2022 was the hottest year EVAH! making an unbroken run of gaslighting normal people.
Is Multiculturalism Destroying Western National Identities?
by Giulio Meotti
November 20, 2022
. Today, 90% of British demographic growth comes from immigration.
. The same shift is taking place in Sweden. In 2015 alone, Sweden welcomed 163,000 immigrants, the equivalent of 1.65% of its total population. Combined with other years, it is a demographic revolution: As of 2015, approximately 17% of the population were foreign-born.
. “Therefore, there has been a huge cultural change in the immigrant population, as its largest group has gone from being Finnish to being Muslim… with immigration unchanged, ethnic Swedes will be a minority in 2065.” — Kyösti Tarvainen, professor at the Aalto University of Helsinki, Folkbladet, April 13, 2021.
. That is why Swedish people recently voted in a conservative government. It is their last chance to stop an unprecedented national self-destruction.
. “Brussels is no longer Belgium…. There are more Brussels residents of Moroccan origin than Flemings or Walloons”. — Philippe Van Parijs, Belgian academic and economist, De Standaard, September 5, 2022.
. A country facing demographic suicide (1,707 kindergartens in Italy closed down in the last ten years) cannot afford to be overwhelmed by mass immigration without losing its national identity.
. The West is at stake. The choice Europeans urgently need to make is whether they would like to transform their countries into a wholly different culture — as the people who inhabited Turkey did after center of Christendom fell to the Ottoman Empire, or as Egypt did from being the land of the Christian Copts to that of a state where the Copts now face non-stop persecution.
. Unfortunately, Europe, whether it likes it or not, has virtually no time left to decide whether or not it wishes to continue embracing open borders, multiculturalism and globalism, and, through passivity, find that its hard-won Judeo-Christian values, freedoms and identity will be quickly made extinct.
Twenty years ago, the United Nations published a document titled “Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?”. It was not a right-wing conspiracy theory, but a sophisticated working plan for Western democracies dealing with demographic aging. It has since gone mainstream. Just read what Richard Thaler, a Nobel laureate in economics, said this month: “We need more immigrants to pay pensions”.
A recent article by Elsa Fornero, former Italian Minister of Labor, also explains the mentality of those who govern Europe and how they prepare the demise of its civilization
Western elites openly treat immigration as a mere economic resource to support welfare systems that would otherwise be bankrupt. They also forbid any discussion of the impact that these immigration numbers are having on the culture, customs and identity of a society. The very concept of “identity” is viewed with suspicion and branded as a “racist” fantasy.
Emanuel Macron at APEC Summit: “We Need a Single World Order”
The APEC Summit opened on Friday in Thailand, the last of three world summits hosted in the region this month.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for stability, peace and the development of a “more just world order.”
French President Emanuel Macron spoke at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Bangkok. This was despite the fact that France is not a member of the APEC nations.
Macron called for a new global order where neither the US or China side wins.
Emanuel Macron: Are you on the US or the Chinese side? Because now, progressively, a lot of people would like to see that there are two orders in this world. This is a huge mistake. Even for both the US and China. We need a single global order.
So how does that look? And do any of these leaders actually believe China will concede to anyone at this point?
China is in the driver’s seat and they know it.
It is one of the great truisms of life that once-legendary rock bands, having spent fifteen years or so at their peak, incrementally devolve into Peter Pan-esque late middle-aged enormously rich derros still detoxing from the panoply of drugs and fame, and to the embarrassment of all who know them*.
From Shabooh Shoobah in 1982 to Kick in 1987, and possibly X in 1990 INXS were on top of the tree. Then, the inevitable (the Hun):
For fuck’s sake.
*The only probable exception is Def Leppard.
I propose Dan Andrews through legitimate, constitutional and democratic means, be legally declared a noxious weed, it’s all legal so it isn’t a death threat, plus apparently bills of attainder are cool now, so there’s that (human rights no longer exist). Also you can’t be charged for threatening a weed with triclopyr.
Maybe declaring him an invasive mollusk is more appropriate.
WAYNE ROOT: Why Does Everyone in DC Swamp, Deep State, DNC and Even RNC Hate Trump? Because They’re All Power Hungry, Control-Freaks, Evil, Slime Balls Who Hate YOU.
Lady Pages. Unfiltered delusion curated by me, for you.
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Married Women Should Behave Like Single Women
So it’s only fair the same applies to married men.
Okay, why should anyone get married then?
It’s all about the dress, silly.
In my early career ‘Bob Brown’ moment, I was in the ER of an Adelaide Hospital when the lead singer of an internationally known rock band was brought in, having developed ‘behavioural issues’ mid tour.
His manager, a small man with a thick cockney accent, had a contingency plan for this, providing his medical history and also the contact details for his Harley Street physician. Said singer was quite psychotic and a colleague (not me) detained him under the mental health act.
This caused his manager to pace about, wringing his hands and holding his head and incanting, in his cockney accent; ‘oh no, this is going to cost me a LOT of money..’
He was only in for a couple of days, then released, where they propped him up in front of the mike and the tour went on.
Ozzie, reading that, more and more I think that the human race can be divided into Heinlein’s camps of those who wish humans to be under their control, and those with no such sociopathic desire.
Actually, more and more I think “HOP time!” or “that new idea about dragging 100 people on to the street… you could kick that off in Thailand now, imagine the convenient co-location and concentration of Lizard People…”
For a mental excercise, a few small changes- replace Macron with Zemmour, Trudeau with Harper, Biden with Trump, Albanese with Abbott. Or invite a Meloni, Orban, Kristersson. If a single one of these “world leaders” were fundamentally conservative or nationalist, they could throw a spanner into this endless carousel of Lizard People dressing up bright in resorts and coming together at the end of the third day with another announcement that they can easily control war, weather and money, if they are simply given the concession of being allowed to control all humans.
Just heard Kanye has announced he’s running in 2024.
With Milo as campaign manager.
Sounds promising. Milo at his best when he is taking aim at enemies.
Felling of Mitsubishi 1000A Wind Turbines – Controlled Demolition, Inc. – 2 Mins
Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA, acting as the explosives design and performance Subcontractor to the Main Demolition Contractor, performed the successful explosives felling of almost 100, Mitsubishi 1000A Wind Turbines in the southwestern United States.
While none of the wind turbine foundations were to be retained, CDI experimented with different methods to preserve foundations and wind farm infrastructure on more than a dozen units.
CDI’s crew felled almost 100 units in two (2) mobilizations to the site, in a total of just nine (9) working days, while permitting the Wind Farm Owner a 2-month window to complete salvage of blades and drive-train elements from an additional 19 wind turbines as replacement parts for similar units they operate at other wind farm locations. The units were safely felled, exactly per plan, and ahead of schedule.
Probably won’t be used in the Maximum Leader’s re-election campaign art.
Speaking of cultural identity:
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They only come up to your knees,
Yet they’re always friendly, and they’re ready to please.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
There’s nine hundred million of them in the world today.
You’d better learn to like them; that’s what I say.
I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
They come from a long way overseas,
But they’re cute and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.
I like Chinese food.
The waiters never are rude.
Think of the many things they’ve done to impress.
There’s Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and Chess.
So I like Chinese.
I like Chinese.
I like their tiny little trees,
Their Zen, their ping-pong, their yin, and yang-ese.
I like Chinese thought,
The wisdom that Confucious taught.
If Darwin is anything to shout about,
The Chinese will survive us all without any doubt.
I was told on the weekend by a young relative that it is a racist song and should not be sung.
Okay, my nephew is now a Laird in Scotland (dumb Christmas gift).
They try to sting you a recurring 8 USD per month for each title though!
No pal, I’m not paying that. I’ve already bought something worthless.
Oh noes. Groogs discovers his inner superhero.
DD
November 20, 2022 at 3:24 pm · Reply
While reading about the latest ‘the end is nigh’ hysteria (what’s the current one again?) I was reminded of the following passage (emphasis added) from Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds:
An epidemic terror of the end of the world has several times spread over the nations. The most remarkable was that which seized Christendom about the middle of the tenth century. Numbers of fanatics appeared in France, Germany, and Italy at that time, preaching that the thousand years prophesied in the Apocalypse as the term of the world’s duration were about to expire, and that the Son of Man would appear in the clouds to judge the godly and the ungodly. …
The scene of the last judgment was expected to be at Jerusalem. In the year 999, the number of pilgrims proceeding eastward, to await the coming of the Lord in that city, was so great that they were compared to a desolating army. Most of them sold their goods and possessions before they quitted Europe, and lived upon the proceeds in the Holy Land. Buildings of every sort were suffered to fall into ruins. It was thought useless to repair them, when the end of the world was so near. Many noble edifices were deliberately pulled down. Even churches, usually so well maintained, shared the general neglect. Knights, citizens, and serfs, travelled eastwards in company, taking with them their wives and children, singing psalms as they went, and looking with fearful eyes upon the sky, which they expected each minute to open, to let the Son of God descend in his glory.
During the thousandth year the number of pilgrims increased. Most of them were smitten with terror as with a plague. Every phenomenon of nature filled them with alarm. A thunder-storm sent them all upon their knees in mid-march.
It also reminded me of the passage in Douglas Adams’s Restaurant at the End of the Universe in which he tells of the origins of humanity.
Earth’s inhabitants, you see, are all descended from aliens who were banished from their home planet, because … well … because they were useless, being telephone sanitisers, management consultants and holders of an assortment of other non-jobs.
When they established themselves on Earth, they decided they needed a currency and they chose leaves to be that currency. It wasn’t too long before someone realised that the great abundance of leaves would lead to inflation, so they burnt down all the forests.
Does this all have a familiar ring to it?
You can download a copy of Charles Mackay’s book here:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
I had a squiz on Goolag about the Pirate to verify where they lived. (This is probably the most prosperous time of the year for him approaching Christmas and children desperate to come up with something to give their fathers now the defaults of socks and ties are too obvious.)
His Wikipedia page states “FitzSimons has identified himself as an atheist and a republican.”
Identified himself? Who writes like this? What is the difference between being an atheist and identifying as one? He has some image of an atheist and, to his own satisfaction, considers it best resembles him?
Anyway, there are some people who are atheists who proceed from their own situation and come to the conclusion that there is no God. It is a mental process. Some of them are even pained by the outcome.
I cannot think of Pete like that. I cannot imagine him searching inside himself, crying out inside himself begging for the Almighty to reveal himself.
He will have become an atheist because he thinks that is what the cool kids do.
I also think he could not become religious – again, he lacks the capacity to reflect and discover it.
He would say he identifies as an atheist because there is no conviction (one way or the other) that is so important in him that it demands to be expressed clearly so he is understood. Imagine the Catholics here being characterised as being ‘like’ a Catholic, or ‘claiming to be’ a Catholic. They would correct anyone right there that they ‘are’ a Catholic because it matters to them. (And unlike the Catholic Under Nominal Terms that was here a couple of days ago.)
FWIW, the Wikipedia page also notes his nickname Pirate Pete. I would think a creature like him keeps an eye on his page, so perhaps he thinks it lends an air of notoriety. Perhaps he thinks the people who call him that are frustrated by his fish-wrapper dialectic and his Christmas Stocking fecundity, rather than laughing at him as they are.
Perhaps he thinks there is actually something of the pirate about himself, the swashbuckling renegade, bowing to no man, scourge of capitalist merchantmen and angry fathers, who breaks upon gentlewomen like a storm at sea, so wild and tempestuous, tossed on waves, flashes of lightening, clawed at by fierce winds, and gone before daybreak.
Who knows with a guy like that, who ‘identifies’ as a human.
All drugs are on the schedule of poisons.
The change really applied to PBS scripts.
Using drugs off label has always been permitted, until now.
We could always write a private prescription for Ivermectin (non PBS) until this was made criminal offence punishable by 6 months jail by state governments around August 2021.
There is NO other medication (apart from hydroxychloroquine), that carries a 6 months jail sentence if prescribed.
Plus if convicted of a criminal offence, you are unable to practice.
Ivermectin has one of the safest drug profiles with >3.6 billion doses given worldwide and a Nobel prize for medicine (not horse medicine.)
Doses at 5x normal are remarkably non-toxic.
It is amazing how much scrutiny a safe proven voluntary drug, ivermectin, received versus how little scrutiny was required for mandated unproven novel treatment, the mRNA jabs, nor the expensive experimental new antivirals.
If ivermectin did not work, there was never a problem.
There was no danger. No other treatment was recommended initially.
Stay at home unless you cannot breathe.
calli at 7:51 – Mr Brodtmann was always the most balanced when at the ALPBC and has called out fellow j’ismist variously over the years. Increasingly rare these days.
The Study of Economics Could Learn a Lot From Science Fiction
From Leaf Currencies to Gift Economies: A Reading List
Although science fiction writers have a long history of tackling economic concepts, from the gig economy to post-scarcity, economists have rarely turned to science fiction for inspiration. (Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman’s semi-serious paper, “The Theory of Interstellar Trade” and Trekenomics (2016), about the economics of Star Trek, are fun, lone exceptions.)
If economies are built using the tools of fiction, then they can be reimagined using those same tools. Science fiction can remake the realm of economic possibility, whether by dreaming up new currencies or experimenting with radically different systems of exchange. The books on this list all engage in this kind of narrative speculation and offer glimpses of a more sustainable and just society.
– Nisi Shawl, Everfair
– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
– Cary Neeper, Webs of Varok
– Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
– Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
– Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
– Charles Stross, The Family Trade
As is the case usually,
“Where are you going with this Mr Gargooglery? “
FWIW, the Wikipedia page also notes his nickname Pirate Pete. I would think a creature like him keeps an eye on his page
People who obsess over nicknames- having them and bestowing them- have always struck me as blowhards. Albo, Pirate Pete, Shantaram, Briggsy. I mean, FitzSimons struck me as a A-grade tosser regardless, but you know what I mean.
Plenty of ‘the end is nigh’ adherents on both the Left and the Right – albeit for different reasons. Some of them comment here.
Closely related are those whose ‘concern’ is a thin disguise for hoping for civil war, especially in the US. I can remember people years ago at Doomie’s salivating for just such a disaster before and during the Trump presidency, and they have not gone away.
The desire for some sort of ritual purging of what is perceived as evil, no matter what the cost, is not unique to any part of the political spectrum.
Pirate Pete is a richer and dumber Phatty Adams. Possibly not richer. Both better unread and unheard.
Why, then, did she put Higgins on the spot when they were live by asking her:
And then he [Lehrmann]removed your panties?
When she knew that couldn’t have happened, and that Higgins was unlikely to say on National TV [and didn’t]:
Hang on, I wasn’t wearing underwear, I told you that half an hour ago.
Because, now it is in the mind of the airheads that watch her that he removed them. Creating the narrative for the prosecution. Within 30 minutes of the show finishing, the narrative would be all over every gossip page on Facebook, so establishing that it “really, truly, happened, I saw It on TV.”
callisays:
November 21, 2022 at 8:56 am
Okay, why should anyone get married then?
It’s all about the dress, silly.
Calli,
yeah – but Princess Diana’s Wedding Dress????
Acquiring a Pre-Loved Vehicle
Yes, my clumsy writing.
I believe there is a bias against boys in education.
The intuitive, sharp and direct responses which are often the domain of boys’ intelligence are deliberately ignored by teachers in favour of languid descriptions of the process of arriving at the response. This latter methodology favours the descriptive skills of females.
Boys’ strengths are subjugated not celebrated.
Yep, and it’s also true that for western europe the Arts were the proper domain of a lady, men were more yoked in thrall of Apollo’s golden mean.
Boys subjugated not celebrated- 100%, you’re on the money there.
Just reading the Paywallian weekend real estate stickybeak column. Melbournibad top sale a, no doubt lovely, restored 1870s property at 12 Marks Street Fitzroy North. $3.7m for a suburban semi? Google Maps it for yourself.
I am still at a loss to understand how you can have Global Warming when your part of the world has got colder. Anyone care to explain? I am interested in the theory of this.
Again, if players and teams in the World Cup feel strongly against Qatar’s human rights record, why are they playing? The Hun:
For weeks captains of the world’s biggest teams have said they will push on with their plans to sport a rainbow armband while playing at the World Cup.
It seems they may yet be forced to abandon making their intended statement with FIFA threatening yellow and red cards as well as bans to anyone breaching rules.
There are increasing reports that FIFA will issue heavy sanctions instead of fines and so it’s all eyes on England captain Harry Kane who will be the first to test the mood in their opening clash against Iran.
“We’ve made it clear as a team and a staff and organization that we want to wear the armband,” Kane reiterated. “I know the FA are talking to FIFA at the moment, and I’m sure by game-time tomorrow they will have their decision. “We’ve made it clear that we want to wear it.”
England maintain they wrote to FIFA almost three months ago stating their intentions and are yet to receive a response.
Gareth Southgate said on Sunday that England will take the knee before their World Cup matches in Qatar to send a strong message of “inclusivity”.
On the eve of England’s Group B opener against Iran in Doha, Southgate once again found himself fielding as many questions about politics as he did on his team’s prospects.
The build-up to the tournament has been dominated by concerns over the Gulf state’s treatment of migrant workers, women and the LGBTQ community.
England did not take the knee — a gesture against racism and other forms of discrimination — in their most recent matches in September.
The gesture has also been scaled back in the Premier League but Southgate’s players have agreed to repeat it before their World Cup matches.
“We feel it’s a strong statement that will go around the world, to young people in particular, to show that inclusivity is very important,” he said.
England are one of several European teams who aim to show support for the LGBTQ community.
Old School Conservativesays:
November 21, 2022 at 9:40 am
Wally Dali says:
November 21, 2022 at 1:36 am
OSC, not sure what you’re getting at
Yes, my clumsy writing.
I believe there is a bias against boys in education.
The intuitive, sharp and direct responses which are often the domain of boys’ intelligence are deliberately ignored by teachers in favour of languid descriptions of the process of arriving at the response. This latter methodology favours the descriptive skills of females.
Boys’ strengths are subjugated not celebrated.
OSC,
totally agree and that is why – my parents before me, myself and my son and in-law males all went to Single Sex Boys Schools, as did my daughters and their Daughters go to Single Sex Girls Schools
Social Interaction at School to School level occurs through Musicals, Plays, Dances, Debates, Science and Maths Comps, etc
It is a joy to watch my currently 4 out of 6 boys enjoy and benefit from the stimulation and competition with their peers of a Single Sex School – the remaining 2 will cross over in 5th Class when they reach that age
Barnaby Joyce and Tanya Plibersek in fiery exchange over power price hikes
The federal government has been accused of floundering over power prices in a heated exchange between two politicians.
A fiery exchange between Tanya Plibersek and Barnaby Joyce has left the former deputy prime minister accusing hte government of “cuckoo land power policy”.
With time ticking for the federal government to find a solution to high energy prices before its self-imposed deadline of Christmas, Mr Joyce hit out at the Environment Minister on a Channel 7 panel for failing to explicitly lay out the plan.
Ms Plibersek said the government was “working very hard” with gas companies and state and territory governments to bring down the price of energy, but the long-term priority was to invest in renewable energy because “we know that it is the cheapest form of electricity in human history”.
Mr Joyce interjected, saying: “It’s not. It’s just not, that’s wrong.”
“It’s ridiculous saying it. Look at your power bill – that is the reality of it.
“If you want power prices to go down, don’t listen to the Labor Party – look at your power bill, it’s going through the roof.
“This whole renewable issue, making out like power is going to be free – it’s never been dearer before in our lives.
“It is ridiculous.”
Ms Plibersek said the issue was that the infrastructure was not in place, and once it was power bills would not spike to such high levels.
She blamed the former government for a decade of inaction, saying it was the reason so many Australians were now hurting.
Ms Plibersek said Mr Joyce had been responsible for “shutting power plants” before an alternative was established.
“What did you do to stop it?” she said.
Mr Joyce responded by saying: “You’re the government.”
Mr Joyce finished the exchange by saying Labor’s energy policy was “cuckoo land”.
Easy.
Every social revolution requires an enemy from which the chosen elite are going to save you from. Something so sinister and dangerous it justifies handing over your freedom and rights in order to slay that dragon. The enemy can take many forms, depending on the particular aim of the social revolution (Jews, the Bourgeoisie, Kulaks, etc, and, now, the Weather).
Weather is a particularly useful enemy, because it doesn’t ostracise a particular human group (handy when you are looking longing towards a world government) and is so varied, messaging can be continually tailored to the changing needs of the elite.
Wally Waffles is quite self aware it seems.
Today
A couple of days ago.
A house husband on anti-depressants.
Why American is swirling down the Drain and these Single Women Voted DemoCrap
Singles can snuggle this giant emotional support bear — and it doesn’t snore
“We women are often left alone for various reasons,” the company says. “Sometimes it’s a personal choice, bad luck or fate, but we all need someone’s presence or a hug, especially at night before falling asleep or on the couch in front of the TV.
“That’s why Puffy is made with a human shape and size to replace as much as possible the lack of physical presence when we need to hug or lean.”
The company even pointed out that the human-size bear offers some benefits over the company of a man.
“He doesn’t snore, he doesn’t grumble or get angry” — all things actual humans do.
Covid was pretty handy for them, too!
Boys benefit from being socialised with girls, but both receive a lesser education through the constant striving for attention from the opposite sex. Girls in particular form cliques and exclude others.
The perspective of the oldest living culture in the world benefits everyone.” How, precisely?
Piers Morgan is shitty
Waffles.
There’s a little secret with nicknames that I taught Donald Trump when I was a nickname consultant.
Sleepy Joe, Low Energy Jeb, Driller, Turtlehead, Adonis, Waffler, Rooster etc.
They have to have a tinge of recognizable truth to them.
The only exception to that rule would be Cronkite. I found , at times that when I keyed , Cohenite, auto-correct would take me to Cronkite.
Continue waffling.
It would be entertaining but would you learn anything? Hopefully it did not involve micro bikinis, jelly or Akubras.
Emily Blunt has come out denouncing current fixation with ‘Strong female leads’ in movies, saying she rolls her eyes as soon as she sees it in a script.
And, sure enough, I really liked her in Edge of Tomorrow (whatever its merits as a movie) largely because she did not have to diminish Tom Cruise’s character and he did not diminish hers.
When Hollywood decides to push a female character to make her ‘strong’ it is always clunky and obvious. They think being a strong woman means ‘beating’ men, but then the men are invariably clunky and obviously (read incredibly) lame and stupid. So it proves nothing.
I saw Alien when it first came out. I was in my middle teens I suppose. For all the patriarchy I was supposedly steeped in I never had a problem with Ripley being a female, and did not have disquieting sense that it would have been better if a man had finally confronted the alien. In the movie it was her character that made sense to be the one.
And in the next movie, Aliens, she was great. As well as bequeathing to us one of the greatest lines: “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.” Applies equally to nuclear reactors housing hordes of vicious aliens and to Parliament House. Perhaps I should give an example with more contrast.
I never really liked the first Terminator movie but I liked the second. Linda Hamilton was no wilting flower.
I liked those movies. Now I have trouble stomaching anything from about 2015 on. They stopped trying to tell stories and instead went to lectures.
If you want a strong female get a tranny.
I believe he means cloud-cuckoo land – although the cloud might impact solar power.
Talking about waffling.
I walked past a newspaper dispenser box thing today for… “China Daily”. China Daily in NYC? I don’t get it.
Amen, preach it brother!
I belong to a Computing Teachers Facebook page. Someone posted a whinge from a girl in the UK doing Computer Science, as evidence that Girlzz are being excluded from technology. I was as popular as a fart in church when I suggested that what she was complaining about is actually CS, and what she suggested as changes is actually the field of Information Technology. CS, IT and software development are 3 seperate and distinct subfields recognised by the Aust Computer Society.
Love is love.
The Beetrooter would make an excellent PM of cuckoo land. Or cloud cuckoo land. You’d give Bob Katter a Ministry too.
Yes, Aliens is one of the best SF movies of all time. Ripley’s character was strong without it being too overt. I liked the women Marines – they were believable as combat personnel.
Storms have again played havoc with interconnectors causing prolonged outages in rural areas. The fragility of the system can only get worse with more renewables and transmission networks installed to connect to wind and solar factories* ( factories formerly referred to as farms in order to disguise these grotesque structures of metal, cement and other unnatural imports to the environment). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/sa-interconnector-repairs-delayed-due-to-bad-weather/101677018
Oi! Go easy on the bear love. It’s breakfast time still in the West.
One advantage is that it would not have to wait for events to happen to report them.
Propaganda departments can write their stories before things happen – or even if they don’t.
Competing with the NYT its own terms.
So should we segregate boys and girls in the workplace?
At what stage should girls and boys be trained and trusted to digest the sexual and social allure of their opposites and get on with everyday life?
My waffly answer would be, all the way through school and life beyond. Boys are not rutting animals, girls are not on heat. And single sex schools give us awfully entitled people like Gillard* and Spender after all.
The Paywallian has another opinion from possibly Australia’s only constitutional law clown, George Williams. Curious that this aspect of the circus Arts never really gained momentum.
The law of supply and demand takes over. When the kids leave the environment of limited supply of opposite sex, they are like a fox in the hen house.
My experience is that girls schools are bicycle production facility.
Sorta like, but not as accurate as, Dunning-Krugman.
Just loved this comment from a Powerline article on COP 27-“I tried to follow the science, but it was simply not there. I then followed the the money, that’s where I found the science.”
Maybe declaring him an invasive mollusk is more appropriate.
For true justice declare him this.
Native to Europe, the black slug is an invasive species in Australia, Canada (British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec), and the United States
Via the paywalled Daily Terror.
England intend to wear ‘OneLove’ armband at World Cup as FIFA talks continue (21 Nov)
Get your bags of popcorn ready Cats, this could be some fine entertainment!
Oh Look, The Driller just randomly strolled into the site. Uncanny.
The “investigation” bender which education is on is of a piece with truths, ways of seeing, stories my nanna told me … all a direct rejection of not only the 4000 year old tried and true method of direct instruction by a master, but also empirical truth itself. The most time-wastey one is “collaboration”, which might be a wimmins-cirlce love-in in concept, but is a massive waste of time which usually drags all down to the lowest ability and pace of work. Firstborn recently had an in-school maths comp- she nailed a particular instantly, but could not get her team to shut up for a minute and listen… for which they dropped off the podium, she was admirably filthy. It was a lesson learned for her- honey, you might need to kick some shins in this life, and never hold back saying “i told you so”.
Which brings me to the other masculine workplace/schoolroom practice of “dark collaboration” or hazing. Ie, like i have done and i may or may not do on this blog, you find someone’s weakness *cough Shantaram cough* and poke it until they either address it themselves and get over it, or get out of the ring. It’s potentially traumatic sure, but i’d reckon girls who want to be in a man’s world should be taught to anticipate it… else they’ll find themselves grasping for strawmen like glass ceiling, institutional sexism and harrassment.
Mother lode.
I didn’t look closely, but I think it was in English. Strange.
Poofs, towel heads and Pommy soccer fans without a beer. Beats the Beetrooter and Plibbers what ever way you look at.
I have an idea for a TV show:
“Tumbril Time”
I’m sure it would be a big hit and we have a steady supply of failed politicians.
Boris, Joe, Droner, Dan of the Dead …
I can see it now: “Daniel Andrews, Come on Down!” (Although I wanted to save that line for my other show, “Welcome to Hell”)
KD
INXS musician Kirk Pengilly has revealed in Listnr’s Behind The Hits podcast that Hutchence spoke to him in the guise of an owl days after his death.
“Michael visited me in a dream as an owl in a field and he said that he is fine and he is free and not to worry sort of thing,” Pengilly said. “I woke up and it might have been 2am or 3am and I went outside and kind of bawled my eyes out and in some ways that was a massive help to me.”
“Mr Hutchence later shared with Kirk that while he did enjoy the benefits of being an owl (being able to fly big distances and having keener eyesight than everyday people), there were downsides.
“I don’t really enjoy a diet of mice and horseshoe bats, he said. Plus, being an owl means living in a hole in a tree, rather rustic, but not the same as a Double Bay villa. Plus while I enjoy the female owl I’m paired with, jumping on her back and mating with her is not the same as getting a leg over Kylie Minogue or Helena Christensen. Still, it means I don’t have to put up with Paula endlessly whining about Bob Geldof.”
“Hoot, Hoot!”
Waffler.. I couldn’t care less about that stupid nickname. It just doesn’t make any sense like say waffler or Driller which leave a sting. I was highlighting what a fucking idiot you are because under your own parameters, you’ve self described as a blowhard. Good effort, dickhead.
I should’ve clicked first – DT haven’t paywalled the story. Here’s their version
After the FIFA prez a couple days ago spent an hour saying he feels a whole lot of people, it’ll be fun to see if his love extends to Mr Kane. I wonder what Iran is going to do about all this?
Just watching Fox News. There was a meet up in Vegas this weekend. All the GOP big names were there and Trump came on through video. It was the Republican Jewish Coalition. How about that!
A Fauxborigine controversy involving Chairman Dan!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/lauren-odwyer-labor-candidate-aboriginal-heritage-claim/101675786
Perhaps something like It’s A Knockout.
But with Claymores.
And a flensing deck.
Oh yeah, Waffle sure does hurt. I have tears of raging self-hate, everytime the auto-fill anticipates it.
Okay, Waffles. We believe ya.
FMD, you’re boring.
About a decade, the Chinese Communist Party decided to increase its propaganda effort in the West so it contracted newspapers like the New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald to publish supplements from China Daily, the CCP’s English-language propaganda service.
The NYT and the SMH had no objection to the arrangement as they were already publishing communist propaganda free of charge because it reflects their guiding revolutionary ideology.
They just didn’t tell the NYT and SMH readerships first because admitting it would mean admitting pushing communist ideology when they’re supposed to be simply reporting the news.
Sydney Morning Herald
It is so good that we have a prime minister we can be proud of, not only for his deft diplomacy overseas but also for his appointment of capable ministers, like Jim Chalmers, Chris Bowen, Tanya Plibersek and Linda Burney.
All the ministers are on top of their briefs are six short months.
Andrew Macintosh, Cromer
…then why oh why do you keep reading my posts, Shantaram?
Watch, everyone, he’ll “anticipate” my third-last parry and switch back to “Walter” soon.
Fly like a butterfly!
Sting like a bee!
J-C! J-C!
LOL.. Thanks Tom. Is it also available in Australia?