Boulevard Montmartre – Spring Rain, Camille Pissarro, 1897
Dover’s spaminator is censoring everything.
Open Thread – Weekend 26 Nov 2022
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Sergio Leone made ponchos cool.
And from your over excitable comments, what exactly can this machine do? Well, you could get rid of the ladyboy…
When it’s done Bruce.
Radio check, over.
Rockdoctor, you may find interesting; Recollections of a Regimental Medical Officer by H.D. Steward. (1983, but likely available on ebay or other 2nd hand book marts)
Regardless of which unit your G/F was in, it is a very hands on, front line, set of memoirs from the middle east (Syrian campaign) & on to the Kokoda trail.
Written in a style that makes it very easy to relate to the entire book.
The man was very close to the troops & he was in much the same boat as the padre, technically an officer yet “one of us” with the men.
It’s so long since I read it I’ll have to give it another go one of these days.
Disasterstan 2022:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Wolfman, may I nominate Kind Hearts and Coronets for the Ealing list ? Young chap 17th in line or thereabouts for a title sets about knocking off his relatives one by one so that he can then marry the girl of his dreams. The same actor plays the murderer and his many victims (Dennis Surname escapes me).
Also, I’ve long thought an unrecognised but interesting genre was British films made immediately after WW II where the writer has come out of the military and it shows in their work. King Rat for example.
Monty, a real life spiv and landlord calling all liberal voters ‘spivs and landlords’.
I’m also willing to bet a very large percentage of professional s who vote LaborGreen are real life spivs and landlords, and complete lifestyle hypocrites when it comes to saving the planet.
Yes, Monty walked the family to WA for their recent holiday.
A cooker is a foldable thin metal contraption, which when folded closed perfectly holds a box of hexamine tablets.
Excellent with a 24-hr pack.
Anything else, I don’t really understand.
The working class still vote Labor in huge numbers. Spivs and landlords vote Liberal, but there just aren’t enough of them to support a majority government.
Actually dickless, in the US the opposite is occurring: the elites now are the basis of the demorats along with kids, especially young white women and a decreasing number of blacks who have been subject to broken homes caused by demorat policies. On top of that the demorats cheat. The working class and large numbers of the minorities have shifted to Trump’s GOP.
Australia is slightly different because a government employed and subsidised middle class still dominates the voting. Along with over educated fools and clever idiots and brainwashed kidlets. And of course folks like you: the dickless.
He looked a lot like Che Guevara …
The Kriegsmarine, under Plan Z was to have 4 aircraft carriers, and 10 battleships by 1944.
Alec Guinness would be the droid you’re not looking for.
It’s particularly schizophrenic to claim Labor gets 60% of preferences as justification when it’s not a proportional system but a multi electorate system with numerical quotas.
I have a friend who is a j’ismist who went off-tap a while ago
climate, vax, gender, chiner … the whole gamut
I got sick of being called pejoratives
and gave up
not long ago he ‘reached out’ and SMS’d me to explain that he’d been a bad friend and wanted to … something, something, something
I ignored it
didnt even get to the end of the text
see, people like my (old) friend make a great noise about excommunication, and get busy writhing and posturing about the The Commons or what ever idiotic social justice cause occupies their brains today
and its all a solipsistic wank
while youre the one they agonise against to prove their piety to themselves, theyre a happy bunch, but take away pragmatism and common-sense, theyre all at sea in a lifeboat surrounded by clueless mongs.
and they know it
put your personal relationships on the line and see how they like it.
…that’s what they try every day with you.
Sounds an awful lot like forming a new nation out of the ashes of the old…..
I’m also sick of how Monty grasps the latest nasty pejorative and applies to everyone he doesn’t like.
It’s pretty obvious that it’s the Montys of the world that are making modern politics so very unpleasant in their constant demands for the rest of us to shut up with their constant screaming of cooker nazi right wing extremist.
He doesn’t collect dividend imputations though Rosie, so he’s virtuous.
Kind Hearts And Coronets is one of my favourite movies. Dennis Price played the murderer whereas Alec Guinness played all the parts of the relatives he murdered.
Will definitely do a post on this movie and Ealing in general in the next few weeks.
Spot on about bourgeois lefties, Rosie. I have it from a very reliable source that Whitlam’s middle-class fraud of an attorney general after Murphy, Kep Enderby (aka Crap Endlessly), was a slum landlord in Redfern.
Enderby wanted to legalise not only buggery but also incest. I well remember one of the last of the genuine blue-collar Labor MPs at the time being absolutely stunned at the idea. He said Enderby was typical of the middle-class trendy ratbags who made the Whitlam government such a fiasco.
Landing at Tarakan with a properly sized and supported force vs. parachuting a Battalion in to rescue a POW camp without the ability to withdraw them to safety immediately?
MacArthur, while being a total dick, wasn’t an idiot.
I though a ‘cooker’ was somebody who smoked too many bongs
Well that would be Christian Szell played by the magnificent Laurence Olivier.
Very curious.
This never happened.
And I forgot to mention that the leftist prophet and seer Manning Clark was rackrenting a student living in his garage at the same time as he was churning out his purple prose denouncing venal philistine capitalism.
Dio – I disagree, Squire.
WW2 in Europe played out exactly as planned (or unplanned) by the ranting lunatic.
We consider ourselves to be so much more “sophisticated” than the Germans in the lead up to WW2 yet here we are, willingly being gifted utterly useless imbeciles such as that foul syphilitic ol’ geriatric in the US and Luigi the Munificent here.
While willingly tolerating a grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile declaring that we will exist in an open air prison and be grateful for it (or else). 😕
Is that the one where one old codger chases another in a Mercedes sedan through intersection after intersections, on empty NYC streets at night?
I’m currently reading the latest? John Sandford where a bunch of self righteous bitcoin billionaires are murdering people they’ve decided don’t deserve to live, a nasty street person, a right wing politician who pays prostitutes and a grasping capitalist whose crimes include buying a factory and former farmland for building developments, her crime is putting the factory workers and truck farmers out of work but there is oddly no mention of the hundreds of tradies who would have been employed on the developments.
Maybe Sandford doesn’t care about massive plot holes.
Well…for a start. Create a seperate economy, as best you can.
Remember, Dan created a vaccine economy to exclude the unvaccinated. You just follow his example. The template was laid by the businesses on Facebook who defied Dans order and advertised that they wouldn’t discriminate. Nothing wrong with preferencing businesses and services of the like minded, when you can, and using others when there’s no alternative. The left use this tactic (think BDS). Basically, a mini version of the buy Australian campaign, an economy within an economy. We don’t have to completely separate ourselves from society, the economy or the services we are forced to pay for.
The real issue is how you identify such businesses and services without them drawing the attention of unsavoury types like Monty, and his punchy mates. It almost needs to be an underground network, but it’d be impossible to maintain the low signature of such a thing.
Personal networks of like minded individuals is the starting point. Know who they are, what their expertise is and draw on them, as a preference. If that person has a network, you can utilise their contacts.
Vic Cats have been using this system during the lockdowns. It was only small example, but it worked.
Just virtuously negative gearing right?
OL – I went out with a goil who used to rent the lower third of Eva Cox’s massive Glebe terrace.
Unrepentant hypocrites.
I’m amazed at the degree of near spite that’s shown whenever the subject of dividend imputation arises.
It’s as though they are seen as some tool of the very rich to deprive the working class of their daily bread…
Thank you Mater.
Andrews’ third reich getting up has to be in part blamed on Slomo. Had he not bankrolled Andrew’s lockdown, things may have been somewhat different in the Caliphate of Victoria.
Excellent description! I have two minds about MacArthur, but it was totally obvious that Blamey had one, and only one job after Pearl Harbor. Which was MacArthur-wrangling. He was pretty good at it actually.
The US is built on these guys: MacArthur, Patton, Sherman, Grant. Weirdos, but absolute masters of what they could do for their country. We need more dragons’ teeth.
On that line, I am looking for roof and ceiling repairs in the Monaro region, in case any Cats happen to be providing such services.
Mater, I’ve seen pretty much that happen with some of the old PUA/alt right types. They formed networks of like minded people and eventually arrived at the same position you’re advocating there. Eventually, I reckon it will give rise to entirely new nations, or replacement governments at the least.
Some sheila in Ukraine calling Zelenskyy a Walrus Dick and a Faggot.
BitChute 1:25
My question is to SpongeBob:
Spongey, what’s a Walrus Dick?
Sounds like a plan. Another one is to avoid any businesses putting pronouns in the email sig. It’s good they out themselves like this.
Goose Morristeen.
Right near the top of my lengthy list – the top ten being “very fungible”, so to speak.
Never forget, never forgive.
A common reaction of those who consider investing to be something they do at the lotto or the track.
ZK2A:
Even the ability to get out of bed and onto a tractor seat would give – say – a a 40% time saving over harnessing a horse team in the morning and unhitching them at night.
I actually need some paving done around the house and some roofing re-pointing done. If anyone knows anyone on our wavelength. Let me know pls.
Spivs and landlords vote Liberal, but there just aren’t enough of them to support a majority government.
m0nty=fa
Aren’t you a landlord?
Wolfman,
BINGO!
If I could, I would send you a box of my Famous Cinnamon Rolls.
It was a real surprise to see that picture I can tell you. Olivier was absolutely, brilliantly vile in that role.
Very glad my dentist isn’t like him. whew.
It’s so important to be up to date with the current slang. It validates you and your position.
I think they call them Marines these days.
Boambee John:
Bags I watch you fire one of them at a bunny.
Andrews’ third reich getting up has to be in part blamed on Slomo
HorseShit!
The Feds can’t intervene in a State’s affairs.
Scotty told Andrews he couldn’t sign on to Belt & Road, so he did well.
Anyway, it’s the UniParty, remember?
It wasn’t Liberals turn to win, but they won the psychological war by putting Labor last in the House.
Crop production goes through the roof with a tractor, coz the nags eat a lot of the harvest.
Can someone please tell me WTF ‘cookerism’ is…or at least Monty’s interpretation of the term?
Perhaps he should publish the glossary that comes with the talking points.
Monty,
First lesson of propaganda, people need to understand it!
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 27, 2022 at 8:04 pm
Sorry, just got to this bit. Do you really think that the US position on recalcitrant Japanese forces would have been tender and loving?
BJ – If you read the history it is completely apparent what the respective policies were.
I have read the histories, both the OH and several written since the war. The best argument for the campaigns in New Guinea, New Britain and Bougainville was to free, or at the least reduce the burden on, native populations owed protection by the Australian government (under a League of Nations mandate) or the British government.
That said, I have no doubt that even if the Australians had followed the US policy, the Japanese garrisons would have surrendered when ordered.
Recall that from September 1945, MacArthur was effectively co-Emperor of Japan, and would have taken the necessary action if required. Recall also that Hirohito sent emissaries out to confirm the surrender order. Senior officers would without doubt have followed that order, and any junior soldiers with different ideas would soon have been put in their place.
Your idea is an interesting concept for an alternative history, but does not reflect reality.
Painting too.
I’ve been doing that most of my adult life. It’s not a big deal. It’s easy. Most people do it almost unconsciously(cue Libet, cue McGilchrist!).
One reactionary in the Eastern Wheatbelt was using a horse team as late as 1960. He always maintained that “those newfangled tractors ” would never be any use.
Cats, it’s time to don the Soviet Grey Levi’s jacket and black tactical turtleneck while wielding a mighty cherry red Gibbo in an Art Deco public transport facility, as one does on a Sunday night.
You know it makes sense 🙂
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
One of the 15 films listed in the category “Art” on the Vatican film list.
A National Catholic Register “Video/DVD Picks” film.
Some of Ealing’s classic comedies were drolly subversive crime stories, and some of them featured Alec Guinness. Three films met all these criteria: Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Ladykillers.
Each of these films is excellent, and each has its defenders as the best of Ealing’s crime comedies. Probably the most popular today is the first, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and certainly it is the darkest and most subversively satirical, with its story of a disgruntled distant heir to a peerage (Dennis Price) methodically killing every relative (all played by Guinness) that stands between him and the title. Perhaps it was a bit too dark for the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which selected the The Lavender Hill Mob for the 1995 Vatican list of selected important films.
I am off to bed, but I will try to catch up in the morning.
That’ll be getting some attention at party headquarters. Our own Chairman will be sleeping more easily. Maybe there is something in this democracy stuff.
Zatarasays:
November 27, 2022 at 8:32 pm
The 1st Australian Parachute Battalion was prepared for a jump there, but MacArthur would not provide the aircraft. But he made enough landing ships and craft available to put a heavily reinforced brigade ashore on Tarakan.
Landing at Tarakan with a properly sized and supported force vs. parachuting a Battalion in to rescue a POW camp without the ability to withdraw them to safety immediately?
MacArthur, while being a total dick, wasn’t an idiot.
Use the landing force and associated shipping to take a beach head near the camp and send elements inland, drop in the parachute unit to kill the guards, and escort the prisoners to the advancing landing force.
Did not the US 6th (check number) Ranger Battalion carry out a similar operation in the Philippines?
Diogenes:
I have to disagree with you on that, Diogenes. Whilst that may have been the official German economic theory, it didn’t stop them from trading with the French, nor did it stop them from trading machinery for Russian oil and wheat. Romania was happy supplying oil to Germany and would have supplied more if they could get it out of the ground.
Speaking of birds. My darling wife and I have been observing a pair of Eurasian Coots at Queens Park over the last few weeks. We watched them build a nest on the lilies, then, next time we saw them, they had two chicks and one egg. We went back the next day and there were three chicks. A week or so later there were two chicks, so maybe the bastard Kookaburras had taken one (I’d witnessed a Kooka take a duckling from the same pond a bit earlier). A week later and they had none! The chicks hadn’t made it. Nature is cruel.
Yesterday, the same pair still had their nest, the male was sitting on it while the female was out eating, leading us to think that they must have a new batch of eggs! A hardy pair indeed. Here’s hoping they have better luck this time.
If you are suggesting that they refused to surrender with all that implies, no. They would have promptly had a mudhole stomped in their asses. After which the survivors would have joined the rest of the Japanese forces who were returned to mainland Japan as shipping became available.
My opinion of the man is jaundiced – in 1935, as Chief of Staff of the Army of the United States, he was assured that, should the Philippine Islands be captured by the Japanese, in the opening stages of any future Pacific War, relief of the Islands was no longer first priority of the United States.
He then resigned, and took up the Post of Commander of the Army of the Philippines, where he assured the Filipinos that the United States would never desert them…
Well fellow Mousketeers,
I am back earlier than promised as my television reception is on the fritz. Living in the sticks does have its drawbacks but, I have an extensive book collection and Starlink so all is not lost. If the power goes, I have lanterns and charged batteries.
Reading back through the comments, I wonder if I inadvertently gave the impression I was a prepper. Far from it. I followed my heart and my interests as a teenager (horses, dogs, horses, bush), and have ever since learned as much as I can about basic self-sufficiency. A prime example was during the toilet paper shortage. As any mother who had babies during the cloth nappy years can describe, lack of bog rolls is barely noticeable. Also as any of the awesome farmers, landholders, food producers, (I could go on, you know who you are) can attest, being able to get by and look after yourself, your family, animals and livestock is just par for the course. I love living in and off the land. I love being able to grow and provide my own food.
Preppers believe that if you store enough cans, freeze dried pouches and seed, that you will survive an apocalypse. The fact that they have never grown a bean or a lettuce, milked a cow or lit a fire without a match is totally incidental to them.
I preserve because I love it. I bake because I love it. I garden, grow vegetables, have various poultry for eggs and meat because I love it.
If the electricity goes I can cook my dinner with LPG or with wood. I would have to draw water from the tank to flush the toilet, but it still beats using a Thunderbox, which I have no qualms about using.
As for Cassies’ alternate society, she is correct for the most part, I have discovered over the past year there is almost a secret handshake to test if you are a Covid believer or denier. As for the Society for the Enslavement of Peasants and Plebs, they will cease to have power over us when Tradesmen refuse to deal with them. A lot of tradies were dead against the Stab Mandates. A lot of employers, although demanding the stab, looked the other way when there were deadlines to meet.
Ed Casesays:
November 27, 2022 at 8:48 pm
Some sheila in Ukraine calling Zelenskyy a Walrus Dick and a Faggot.
BitChute 1:25
My question is to SpongeBob:
Spongey, what’s a Walrus Dick?
The reproductive organ of a male walrus? Didn’t you learn the whole birds and bees thing?
My review on the Cat . . .
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-31/
In the upper house, Victoria has 8 regions spread over the state , each with 5 members. To get a member voted in , you need 20% of the votes. Typically each region gets 2 LNP , 2 labor and an independent/green .
My question is what happens to the votes over the 20% mark that has secured a seat ?
Do they trickle down to a random independent that you’ve never heard of ?
Had a flash back to world funniest movies animal edition in channel 9? in the 90’s, Had animals playing with their private parts’, got taken off air when the CEO found out about it.
Or a board game, but that’s about it.
An entirely different operation. In the case of the Cabanatuan Camp rescue the Rangers and guerillas could not only take the camp but safeguard the POWs as they evacuated them to major US land forces who weren’t far away. The POWs lived because the Japanese had no chance to kill them once the operation commenced.
While the intent to do so was excellent, the realities of an operation to do something similar in Sandakan without giving the Japanese time to wipe out their prisoners were overwhelming.
Reminds me of a comment by Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit Friday:
“In the words of Robert Heinlein: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” “
I can do most of those things. Never butchered a hog, but if I had to I think I could.
rosiesays:
November 27, 2022 at 8:28 pm
I’m also sick of how Monty grasps the latest nasty pejorative and applies to everyone he doesn’t like.
It’s pretty obvious that it’s the Montys of the world that are making modern politics so very unpleasant in their constant demands for the rest of us to shut up with their constant screaming of cooker nazi right wing extremist.
Monty is winning here.
You are being played with the need to respond.
Parallel, not separate, but unless you can wield political power they can still railroad you.
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In another great result for the Schlockeroos, France beat Denmark this morning. We may yet be able to blunder on through to the final sixteen.
For the unbelievers, think back to that legendary contretemps against those crazy Croats in 2006. The first (and hopefully the last) time a player was gifted three yellow cards in a woild cup match.
6:00am tomorrow morning – ESP V GER. A clash of the titans. If the latter lose, they’re out.
Wolfman,
I remember your review. It was great. I pondered at the time whether they had received the idea for Gandalf’s “is it hidden, is it safe?”, bit of dialogue from that scene you described.
The archetypal cookers are sovereign citizen types, those who fly red maritime flags around Canberra and shout imprecations at the Governor-General’s residence across the pond every morning. Hoodie, Guru, Bosi, those types are the leaders but it’s a grass roots movement held together by everyday people who are just a bit funny in the head.
They tend to livestream every protest every day, as a means of attracting paid followers to fund their gypsy lifestyle. This has led to a community of cooker watchers, who sit on Twitch and make fun of the streamers.
It’s a whole subculture in itself, very insular but anyone can join if they are a true space cadet.
“Parallel, not separate, but unless you can wield political power they can still railroad you.”
Yes, thanks DB, that’s a better description…parallel society.
“butchered” has such negative connotations these days.
Ya reckon?
It was a damned near thing that they did surrender on the Emperor’s order, if you have read the history. Being demoralized, hungry and under maximum pressure would’ve helped this decision.
But the US policy of no contact if not attacked would not give any impetus for the Japanese local armies to accept the surrender order. They were already self sufficient. Men think ever so much more clearly when someone else, like an ANZAC division, grips their balls in their hand.
There is a big crossover between cookers and anti-vaxxers, as their conspiracy theories tend to converge. I suspect that the energy that anti-vaxxerism has brought to the cookers will dissipate after this year’s multiple electoral wipe outs. The likes of the Freedom Party and Angry Victorians got very little traction among the normies.
Had a flash back to world funniest movies animal edition in channel 9? in the 90’s, Had animals playing with their private parts’, got taken off air when the CEO found out about it.
Razey,
that was Doug Mulray’s Funniest Home Videos Special. Kerry Packer hit the roof and had it cancelled mid program. I remember watching it at the time and was about to change channel when the clip with Islanders running along a beach with shitty toilet paper hanging from their arses was aired.
I miss Kerry Packer.
Bruce O’Newk:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/28/the-veterans-were-desperate-gen-macarthur-ordered-u-s-troops-to-attack-them/
This MacArthur?
This Eisenhower?
This Patton?
This Hoover?
I have only one mind about them and their actions on that day.
The Army should strip them of their honours, dig them up and feed their remains to the pigs.
Just as there is a total crossover between fascists and collectivists.
Oh and mUttley – your embarrassing ignorance of the scientific method has been noted, again.
Nope. Every lie he emits is another victory for us.
Lies are an indication that the liar has lost a fight.
If he is lying to himself that is a problem for him.
Winston – I suspect Blamey dreaded getting up each day, such was his job of Doug-wrangling.
My appreciation of FM Blamey is rather high after the years he spent doing this thankless task.
MacArthur is not my favourite person but he got the job done, which is what you need.
Do you have a reference for such an order? I’m asking because the US didn’t seem to have any issues rounding up various island garrisons and even armies from the Asian mainland to be shipped back to Japan post-war.
Did they miss a few? Yep. The last individual WWII Japanese soldier that I know of was Lt. Hiroo Onoda who was captured in Guam in 1974. 30 friggin years hiding out doing a bit of sabotage when you have the strength. He got bagged with a perfectly maintained rifle. Have to respect that.
Many peoples tell you they’re friend.
Until they aren’t.
So you’d better watch out …
your friend …
Cassie:
Yes, but unlike European Jewry prewar, armed to the teeth and prepared to use their weapons.
Watching that Stranglers film clip, who gets around in all black nowadays? I banned it decades ago.
Funereal and depressing.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 27, 2022 at 9:42 pm
Monty is winning here.
Nope. Every lie he emits is another victory for us.
Lies are an indication that the liar has lost a fight.
If he is lying to himself that is a problem for him.
That has been pointed out ad nauseum. The need to respond to him is strong…he loves it.
“Nope. Every lie he emits is another victory for us.
Lies are an indication that the liar has lost a fight.
If he is lying to himself that is a problem for him.”
Correct BoN.
Yeah, the reality that some veterans were convinced by socialists that they deserved their bonuses years before it was supposed to be paid.
The military was called in hopes of resolving it because that was vets talking to vets. The socialists won, some vets rioted, and the military cleared them out of their camps.
mUnter is in the same boat as Liability Bob and Bird.
The doctrine of ‘truth by assertion’ cannot stand. The issue of all three of them being serial wrongologist attention-seekers is very much an amusing sideshow.
Miss Planet.
Just an exquisite brunette siren. 😕
Zatara – I am referencing the Australian official war history for the Aitape, Cape Gloucester and Torokina enclaves in north New Guinea, New Britain and Bougainville respectively. You can look up the wikis. Australian forces replaced the US regiments to free them up for other duties, but once they arrived the Australian policy was offensive, which came as quite a surprise to the Japs. The US posture was clear in all three locations: maintain the perimeter especially around the strategic aerodromes and don’t push out from it. That’s a reasonable strategy if you are American, but Canberra had a duty to the locals under their UN mandate and also a desire to influence geopolitics after the completion of the war. The interests of Australia and the US did not quite align, which caused Blamey a great number of headaches trying to wheedle assets out of MacArthur. Quite amazing how much you can do with one or two supply ships and a few LSIs.
It’s late so I won’t try to find the actual passages, but the Australian War Memorial and others have the text available on line. I have the hardcovers which a friend bequeathed to me, which made it more fun to read.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
November 27, 2022 at 9:58 pm
Who is the most evil Jewish person in the world that you know about? Is asking that question a problem? Will you play the anti-Sematic card?
If so, please elaborate. No need to remind you that Israel and its citizens were treated as lab rats.
The definition of a cooker:
https://twitter.com/wil_lockhart/status/1595180761501421568
Nor did they. On 20 October 1944 MacArthur landed in Leyte. On 3 September 1945 General Yamashita Tomoyuki formally surrendered the Japanese forces in the Philippines.
23,503 Americans died defending the Philippines.
Zatara – Missed that bit sorry.
Rounding up a garrison over 100,000 men is a tad difficult if the very well-armed sheep don’t want to be rounded up. Aitape-Wewak was three Japanese divisions (20th, 41st and 51st) plus supports, Bougainville was about two as I recall, and Rabaul four or five. Rabaul was something like 150,000 guys. The Aussies were outnumbered in each campaign, and the Japanese numbers were seriously underestimated by intelligence. But with good artillery, air support, supplies and doctrine beat the shit out of the Japs. Casualty rate was about 1:10 throughout the three campaigns.
Understandable, but if I understood you correctly you were speaking of post-war reparation of Japanese forces to the home islands. US operations did exactly that and shipped hundreds of thousands home.
Hard to do with a no-contact order I’d think.
Zatara – The no contact policy ceased once the American regiments were replaced by the Australian divisions. There was a lot of controversy about that at the time.
Perhaps they would’ve voluntarily repatriated, but my impression from reading the history was it wasn’t a done dinner, not at all. And that was after the Japanese 18th Army in Wewak was exterminated, and the 17th Army in Bougainville squeezed into a roughly 10 km x 10 km pocket in the far south by Aug 1945. The 5th Div in New Britain just took everything up to the Gazelle Peninsula in the NE and held a line there since one division against four isn’t odds you would like, even if the defenders are poorly supplied.
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Another massive quarantine camp is being built in China’s Guangzhou city, which can detain 70,000 people.
The Chinese government can flip a switch to turn your QR code to red, then send you off to a quarantine camp… Did you say something? or ill? Doesn’t matter.
Channel surfing before farter time, and currently having a look at the Johannesburg Open in the golf.
Or, as it should perhaps be known, the Fat Bastard Open.
Seriously. I’ve cast the peepers over a dozen of the player so far, and not one is under 35 and/or 115kg. I have no idea what they’re serving up for lunch there, but jeez.
Reading one of the WW2 histories on the 2/16th and a quote from a Jap captive showed the importance of supplies.
From memory “ every time you shot at an Australian your back would be hot with bullets”
Couple of others showing the desperation/ fanaticism was one Jap who was out of ammo so was throwing empty bottles at Aussies till he was flamethrowered to a stop.
Another was going cave by cave with flamethrowers and one lot throwing water at the flamethrower trying to put it out.
Enough to make you feel sorry for the poor buggers.
AFAIK Monty and myself are the only outsiders left here. You have your separate culture. Good luck with that.
Steady on.
KD
This is at the ass end of the Kokoda campaign.
They were trying to fight with literally nothing left and resorting to cannibalism to not starve.
They may have been invading assholes but by that stage they were 9/10ths dead.
It used to be called Western Civilisation and it did pretty well until the Marxist infiltration.
Bruce of Newcastle
Wewak is part of the pre-war British Protectorate of New Guninea, a responsibility of Australia. So yeah, that sounds like an Oz thing to deal with.
The US Marines had cleaned New Britain as far as it needed to be cleaned (4/5 of the island and no need to shed blood when you can just starve them out). The allies had bombed Rabual 24 hours a day since like 1943 and had stopped the import of all food, weapons, or bubbas for years.
The remnant Japanese on Bouganville in 1944, and there weren’t many despite their title, had been driven into a hungry corner by Marines. So much so that they left it to the army.
In all, they were a massively and unquestionably defeated starving army by Sept 1945. Nobody else seemed to have a significant issue policing the remnants up, I can’t imagine the ADF did.
But perhaps I missed your point?
Not bloody likely.
Calli, I use the Christmas ham hock to cook aspic which is so welcome and delicious for the hot January days.
John H. What’s your story, who are you, & why are you an ‘outsider’ from “you lot”?
Has your bum been up your arse for the last several decades of Federal funding for specific State responsibilities?
ffs
what a fucking tosser
I’ve never been able to affiliate with a political orientation.
ha.
seriously?
oh. you are serious
you must be fucking stupid.
or on the bongs again
and you aint called Bong John for nothing
in one post you literally made a political affiliation
then immediately posted that you’ve never been able to do that
this joint has gone to shit
I knew you were going down that road so I am prepared. You are so boringly predictable.
Alcohol ‘more damaging to brain health than marijuana’
fucking tosser
You are so dim you’d dig ditches with the wrong end of the shovel.
In Max Hastings’ book Retribution, he suggested the last two Japs were located in Thailand in the early 90s.
Do I remember this correctly?
Thanks, KD. I think she is genuine. Some sufficient indications of that in querying her current situation and discussing her past employment and residence; plus she has as good references as others that I have taken in on trust. We have had a few catsitters from this site over the years, all of them honest people, a few of them travellers. I have taken her full photo ID on my phone. She also offered her Covid vaxx on Service Australia which I didn’t ask for. Our good neighbours below us will keep an eye on things for this first six-day sit over next weekend, the January one depends on how this goes. My jewellery and anything else of great value is not being left anywhere on the premises, and not mentioned. As far as she is concerned my only jewellery will be the stuff left in the trinket box. Our personal papers including ID’s and Hairy’s laptop and some couture items will be either locked in the car in the locked garage or left at my lawyer son’s place. I take my laptop with me. If we were ever to become concerned, which hasn’t happened so far, we would simply change the front door locks. That said, our place is otherwise very hard to burgle. It’s the penthouse. My view is that you have to have an element of trust in life.
If she kidnaps Attapuss she will soon beg us to take him back.. 🙂
Actually, I was wrong. Lt Onoba was bagged in Lubang in the Philippines.
I’ve seen reports of some others but they hid their IDs and hung out among civilians (Nakamura, died 1979). He was on Morotai.
Well done Senator Pocock.
Your “independent” tag just took a severe battering after agreeing with Labor to introduce the new industrial relations changes.
But the delay you caused did get you a lot of free publicity.
Then you’ve certainly not got anything in common with Monty, who is affiliated with a political orientation, one that could kill his children, rip his bluddee arms off, and he would still vote for them and vehemently advocate for that political orientation.
This article is being shared around by the rapidly declining ‘MAGA’ movement (who are now almost universally pro-Putin) as a reason why the US should presumably abandon Ukraine, yet they strangely don’t draw the obvious conclusion from it – the US is winning handsomely from the war in Ukraine. Clearly, if the MAGA movement seriously object to the spectacular defenestration of a major rival to the US without the loss of a single American life, plus the huge sums of money to be flowing from future arms sales, then do NOT want to Make America Great Again! Sad.
Top European Official Blasts Biden, U.S. For ‘Profiting’ Off Of Russia-Ukraine War
Oh look the Oz is reporting lockdown and Covid policy protests now. In China. Maybe if Melbourne or Canberra etc has any future protests they should ensure protesters are Chinese so media covers it properly.
Crowds have chanted “down with the Communist Party” and “Xi Jinping, step down” in an extraordinary wave of protests across China sparked by anger at draconian Covid restrictions.
Anti-government protests on a scale not seen since 1989’s Tiananmen massacre broke out on Saturday in cities including Xi’an, Nanjing and Shanghai, three of China’s most politically influential cities.
“Down with the Communist party” an angry crowd chanted on Saturday night in Shanghai, a city of more than 25 million people that was brutally locked down for three months earlier in the year.
Public opinion is likely changing in Western Europe, because they never really wanted to deter Putin in the first place, but that doesn’t really count for much – only a tiny fraction of arms transfers to Ukraine are coming from the countries that would most like to freeze the war to save Putin’s hide. The US, UK, Poland and Baltics are doing all of the heavy lifting, and it just so happens that they have the most to gain from inflicting further crushing defeats on Putin.
As the Putinists around here like to say – Have a Nice Winter ™! But that also applies to middle-aged Russian conscripts whose sleeping bags never arrived because they were flogged off on the black market…
It’s wonderful to see so many Chinese people have finally had enough. XJP’s “extraordinary” management of COVID was always overblown, and the returns are now in – it’s an unmitigated failure.
Name the defense industry stocks which have risen since Putin attacked the Ukraine.
Oh, a not named senior official quoted by Politico? Well there ya go, take that one to the bank.
Zatara, if you would like to argue that the US has been supporting Ukraine out of its selfless generosity, I can see the upside of pushing that line too.
Nope, just asked you to back up what you posted.
You can start by answering the question.
I don’t need to back up anything. I’m simply passing on an article that has been doing the rounds of MAGA types who are looking for excuse to hand Putin the W – when they clearly don’t realise what an own goal it is for them to be claiming that the US is “profiting” from the war in Ukraine!
What a nice little war this is – decimating Putin’s army for basically spare change down back of the Pentagon sofa, and making a tidy profit on oil revenues and (eventually) arms sales as NATO members’ stocks will inevitably have to be replenished with up-to-date US kit. A great little money-spinner!
Forgot to mention I am devastated over the news some Amazon shops might close.
As far as Amazon goes I am a “pure blood” as refuse to buy anything from them.
Yeah, sure that was what you were doing. Bot-like really.
Zatara, you forgot to close with the mandatory “enjoy winter, brrrrrr!” etc. This place has really gone off the boil!
Wow. Bezos is quaking we he read the Rooster refuses to buy from his website.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
I see some people have been whining again about other people responding to Monty.
Because its not?
Sweden has never treated the climate crisis like a crisis,” said Anton Foley, spokesman of the youth-led initiative Aurora, which prepared and filed the lawsuit.
It has always been about free money
China must pay into a new fund for poor countries stricken by climate-driven disaster on the basis of its high greenhouse gas emissions and large economy, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said.
Calling it The Utter Crap Report
The report by the global accounting giant, obtained under the state’s right to information regime, also suggests Queensland could have a bright economic future should it rapidly decarbonise in coordination with the rest of the world.
Pea soup.
Here’s the thing. You need to start with pigs trotters (2 or 3, depending on size) for the flavour and gelatin, hamhocks are fine for flavour, but that’s all. No good for texture.
My Dutch secret family recipe includes leeks, onions, carrots, potatoes – well, guess the rest.
It is magnificent, and takes hours to cook. Any army could march for days on it.
That said, the Campbells pea and ham in a can is edible.
A Jewish boy comes home from school and tells his father he has a part in the play. The boy’s father asks “What part is it? The boy says “I play the part of the Jewish husband”. The father scowls and says “Go back and tell the teacher you want a speaking part”.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then again, we elected them.
– Lily Tomlin
A very unfortunate second name.
johanna says:
November 28, 2022 at 4:58 am
Pea soup.
Smoked trotters ?
Zatara:
Zatara, this was in 1932. The bonuses were supposed to be paid in 1945. These ex troops were out of work, hungry in the Great Depression.
Government even then had a reputation for cheating its soldiers, do you realistically think they would wait another 13 years, 27 years from the time the war ended, for Congress to actually come good on its promises?
No, they had legitimate claims and the four – MacArthur, Eisenhower, Patton & Hoover were willing to kick them out of Washington.
The fact there were socialist agitators in their ranks is irrelevant – had the government lived up to their promises, they would have been ineffective.
A new day.
Probably more egocentric whack-a-moles yet again (lack of results over many years being immaterial) as though Donald Trump should have individually replied to his millions of critics. Because something.
Own up. You enjoy it, it makes you feel good. Apart from that, it achieves nothing.
If I’m wrong, tell us what it has/is/will achieve?
From Bloomberg and 12ft ladder can’t crack it:
Germany has set out its plan to claw back 90% of the earnings from some clean power generators as the government seeks funding for its consumer aid package.
The government is planning to skim earnings above €130 a megawatt-hour for solar, wind and nuclear, according to a draft law seen by Bloomberg News. Politicians are trying to reclaim some of the profits that companies like RWE AG are making from high power prices.
The windfall tax will be applied to electricity producers based on the fuel they use. Lignite plants will be taxed on earnings above €82 a megawatt hour and oil plants above €280. The measures will apply for 10 months, backdated to start of September 2022, until end June 2023 and could be extended to end of 2024.
Germany set out a €54 billion package on November 22 that puts a cap on gas prices for companies and households from next year with more earmarked for electricity. The aid for bills will be partly financed by the windfall tax, from which the government expects to raise a double-digit billion-euro amount, according to officials.
The level proposed is lower than the European Commission’s suggested level of €180 a megawatt hour. Renewable generators in Germany have warned that such a levy will deter investment needed to help the nation wean itself off imported fossil fuels.
The more than 200-page-long law proposal, which is supposed to pass cabinet on Friday, has already provoked widespread criticism from energy lobby groups. Andreas Jung, a lawmaker from the oppositional Christian Democrats, said that the levy will “suffocate” renewable energy companies because they have been investing a lot of money in new technology.
The law is scheduled to pass the upper house on December 16 so that it can go into effect on January 1.
dover0beach:
November 27, 2022 at 9:31 pm
And therein lies the problem. Ultimately the government has a monopoly on the use of force.
From The Wall Street Journal and 12ft Ladder unable to crack it as well.
3) WSJ: Europe Pays for Green-Energy Illusions
The Wall Street Journal, 22 November 2022
Europe is struggling to keep its lights and the heat on this winter, and fuel supply is only half of the energy crisis. The other half, now coming into view, is the ruinous fiscal cost associated with the failure of green-energy flights of fancy. European taxpayers will pay this bill for years to come.
Governments across Europe have announced €674 billion ($696 billion) in handouts and subsidies to alleviate the burden of skyrocketing energy prices between September 2021 and October 2022, according to Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank. The money includes €264 billion in Germany alone and the equivalent of €97 billion in the United Kingdom. This is on top of what households and businesses are paying in higher energy bills even after the subsidies.
Some policies will help. Almost every European country has reduced excise taxes on fuel. This is a rare instance of the energy crisis forcing a beneficial rethink of green fixations—in this case, Europe’s tendency to treat energy levies as a green “sin tax.” But for the most part the money is subsidizing households and businesses directly or indirectly. One common tactic is to impose a retail price cap, with taxpayers plugging the gap between the costs that utilities must pay for energy and what they’re allowed to charge consumers.
A special dishonorable mention goes to countries such as France and Germany whose energy policies have dragged the government directly into the utility business. Paris has turned majority-state-owned utility EDF into a subsidy slush fund, using state control to limit retail prices today while apparently hoping taxpayers won’t notice plunging dividends or a big equity injection tomorrow. Berlin may nationalize Uniper and is offering tens of billions of euros in subsidized credit to other utilities.
This tabulation assumes “temporary” subsidies will expire on schedule, such as Britain’s energy price cap that’s due to end in April. If you think politicians will do that willingly, we have a hydropower dam in the Sahara to sell you.
This tally doesn’t include costs associated with the race to build new energy infrastructure, especially to import natural gas from sources other than Russia. Governments seem to be in denial about how to encourage private investment to shoulder more of this load.
Politicians still claim their medium-term plan is to ramp up renewables such as wind and solar. But those subsidies will skew incentives against investing in gas terminals or pipelines and the like. Taxpayers may end up footing bills that private investors would have been willing to pay if politicians hadn’t promised to put fossil fuels out of business within 10-15 years. Governments also are rushing to impose windfall taxes on the profits from the fossil-fuel investments they say they want to encourage.
Add it all to the tab. It’s impossible to say how much money Europe has wasted on its failed green-energy transition over the past few decades. Estimates for Germany alone start in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Taxpayers shouldn’t be surprised if their total bill to bail out that failed energy transition tops $1 trillion in coming years. When it comes to green energy, the motto is “pay, and pay again.”
Having trouble with Mail Chimp, the Net Zero Watch is being blocked somehow.
If someone else has the ability, much goodness today.
Haha, good luck with that Gordon.
Europe is a larger version of Argentina in the 30s when it went from one of the richest per capita nations on earth to quite poor. The insanity of this emissions thing is going to destroy them. However, I doubt they will change gear as this emissions fanaticism is now embedded in their DNA.
Pogria:
November 27, 2022 at 9:19 pm
I am not really sure of the precise definition of the term ‘prepper’, but your description does not quite tally with my own understanding (which might well be wrong).
I had understood the term to mean a person who endeavours to be prepared in all relevant ways, including learning and practising the skills of growing, hunting, trapping, and foraging one’s own food; making fires using various techniques and in adverse conditions; etc.
Biden takes aim at most of America’s guns
They’re all ‘assault weapons’ now
Written by:Teresa Mull
President Biden just said he wants to “get rid of” tens of millions of firearms owned by law-abiding Americans. Biden, of course, is not known for making sense when it comes to guns (this was true even pre-senility), but his latest rant can’t be dismissed as another glitch in the ol’ gaffe machine.
“The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no social redeeming values. Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturer,” Biden said on Thanksgiving Day. He added, “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”
Congressman Mark Alford of Missouri called his words “sheer ignorance,” and Breitbart editor Emma-Jo Morris tweeted that Biden “clearly doesn’t know what semi-auto is.” I don’t buy it. Biden has been calling for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” for years, and like a bad guy at the end of a Scooby-Doo cartoon, he’s finally taking off his gun grabber mask.
The question that never gets answered, of course, is what exactly constitutes a so-called “assault weapon.” The term is intentionally and dangerously vague. The NRA has labeled it “a meaningless and politically elastic term.” There’s a reason so many of Biden’s appointees have been unable or unwilling to define it.
By definition, every weapon is made for assaulting someone or something. It’s the equivalent of referring to a “sleep bed” or a “drive car” or a “dig shovel.” People who understand firearms and actually use them have been explaining the true definition of an assault weapon with the repetitive fortitude of Mike Lindell. We should all know by now that the “AR” in AR-15 does not stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite Rifle,” the company that pioneered the AR-15.
We should also all know that “assault weapon,” until the left perverted the term, referred to a gun with selective fire capabilities, meaning you can switch it from automatic fire to semiautomatic fire. These types of weapons are largely reserved for military usage (true “military-style” weapons). They are not for sale at your local gun store, and acquiring one as a civilian is very costly and difficult to do, as they’ve been heavily regulated since the passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934.
Even Joe Biden must know these basic facts, yet he and fellow liberals insist on using the term “assault weapon” to refer to any gun they’d like to see banned. Which is all of them. And Biden just admitted to that by saying there’s no reason to own a semiautomatic weapon. As many have pointed out, “most modern guns” are semiautomatic. The NRA notes, “Semi-automatic pistols are America’s favorite category of firearm. Moreover, pistols chambered in Biden’s dreaded 9mm are the most popular pistol in this category.”
There are tens of millions of semiautomatic 9mm handguns (one of the least powerful manufactured semiauto cartridges, by the way) alone in America, not counting the tens of millions of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, and various other caliber handguns. How exactly Biden intends to “get rid” of these weapons, the vast majority of which, obviously, are owned and used by non-criminals, is anybody’s guess (though getting your “sister-in-law-turned-lover” to toss your gun in a random dumpster seems to do the trick).
The left is done trying to define “assault weapon.” No longer content simply to outlaw “America’s rifle,” they are now taking aim at the rest of America’s guns. They’re all “assault weapons” now, because an old man who talks to the dead doesn’t think there’s “a single, solitary” reason so many law-abiding Americans — a growing number of them “liberal, female, and minority” — should continue exercising their Second Amendment rights by owning a firearm.
Here’s the thing, though: the vast majority of Americans use their guns responsibly, and to punish tens of millions of good people for the heinous crimes carried out by a handful of evil villains is, dare I say… discriminatory.
What’s more, we don’t have to prove “rationale” before exercising our constitutional rights. We don’t have to list our reasons for assembling peaceably, or speaking freely, or exercising religion before the government deems us worthy of doing so (at least not yet). Even if we did, the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that “the US Constitution protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.” And the District of Columbia v. Heller ruling established that the Second Amendment “guarantees an individual right to possess firearms independent of service in a state militia and to use firearms for traditionally lawful purposes, including self-defense within the home.”
If these rulings aren’t “rationale” enough for the president, let’s humor him. Since Biden took office, violent crime has surged across the country. The DEA sounded the alarm last year that criminal drug networks in Mexico are “flooding the US with deadly fentanyl.” The homelessness crisis is, reports the New York Times, “getting worse.” Many homeless people — about 30 percent, according to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — suffer from mental illness, and about 50 percent are substance abusers.
It’s the sad truth that, in nearly every instance I can think of, a bad guy with a gun is stopped by a good guy with a gun: either an armed citizen shoots the gunman, the police show up and shoot him, the police show up with a gun and the gunman gives up, or the gunman knows it’s over and shoots himself. With the rare exception of an NFL linebacker being present, a gun is required to stop a shooter, which is why 98 percent of mass shootings happen in “gun free” zones.
If Biden doesn’t think these are valid reasons for people to defend themselves and their families, then he probably hasn’t been out and about lately in the nation he is supposed to be governing.
By Teresa Mull
Teresa Mull is an assistant editor at The Spectator World.
That Leak cartoon is classic.
From Gateway Pundit:
Diphtheria Cases Are Returning to the UK at an Alarming Rate Following the Death of a Migrant in Asylum Center – Other Migrants with Suspected Cases Are Being Transferred to Hotels Across the UK
“Our thoughts remain with the family of the man who has died and all those affected by this loss,” a government spokesperson said. My thoughts remain with the British children who will catch this disease thrust on them by a government who refuse to control their borders in case someone calls them names.
So how does the government deal with this highly contagious disease?
The government is deliberately spreading this disease among the general population. There is no other explanation for this action.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-waited-over-a-year-to-fully-investigate-jan-6-pipe-bombs-house-judiciary-republicans_4885857.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRGQLJM
Europe is a larger version of Argentina in the 30s when it went from one of the richest per capita nations on earth to quite poor. The insanity of this emissions thing is going to destroy them. However, I doubt they will change gear as this emissions fanaticism is now embedded in their DNA.”
I’ve been thinking the Argentina analogy applies to Australia.
Zatara, what you say about Bougainville especially, and New Britain, isn’t anything like what the AWM history describes. The post war estimate was the Japanese had 170,000 servicemen in PNG at the time of commencing the Philippines recapture, and they were substantially self sufficient in food due to extensive gardening activities.
Volume VII – The Final Campaigns (1st edition, 1963)
That’s the volume covering those three campaigns (plus Borneo), if you click on each chapter there’s a link to a PDF. It’s cumbersome to read PDFs but probably easier than getting the volume itself.
As did the Czars, and it didn’t end well for them.
But you don’t need to step outside the law, or draw attention to yourself to start building a parallel community. Nothing illegal in it, and as it grows it gathers influence, including amongst those who would administer that force.
It’s just a reverse revolution.
That’s why you attack Lizzie?
Texas Gov. Abbott Sends Two More Buses of Illegal Migrants to Liberal ‘Sanctuary City’ Philadelphia
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/texas-gov-abbott-sends-two-buses-illegal-migrants-liberal-sanctuary-city-philadelphia/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-11-27
Considering that Latinos appear to be voting more toward Republican these days, is he having a go at toppling the Democrat cities? 🙂
Apparently engaging in debate discussion what have you with persons of other political persuasions is the new cardinal sin.
Personal anecdotes and vaccine mania are so much more interesting.
The VEC website is no longer posting provision who won stats for the upper house or have they moved them?
Heart warming
An Adelaide dad is considering legal action against Elon Musk’s Tesla after an 18-month nightmare with his $220,000 Powerwall solar energy installation.
Chris Firgaira, 33, says he is at the end of his tether and simply wants a refund from the electric car giant, which has failed to fix ongoing problems with his off-grid battery set up for the past year-and-a-half.
a review of UK government energy numptying
From https://www.corybernardi.com.au/posts/the-curley-effect/
Earlier this month, it was reported that Rishi Sunak was on the verge of signing an agreement with Joe Biden that could see the US supply billions of cubic feet of natural gas to the UK over the winter months. A week earlier, he had confirmed that the UK domestic fracking ban would remain in place under his administration, but perhaps he is confident that the imports will consist solely of the one-third of US gas production not derived through hydraulic fracturing.
Sigh.
Worshippers left ‘in tears’ as Cambridge dean claims Jesus was transgender (27 Nov)
“Church worshippers shouted “heresy” and were left “in tears” by a sermon suggesting Jesus could have been transgender. A University of Cambridge dean, Dr Michael Banner said the view Christ could have been misgendered was “legitimate”.
…
Heath’s PhD was supervised by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Worshippers told The Telegraph newspaper the controversial pitch had left some of the congregation feeling excluded from the Christian church and some were “in tears”.”
The Church of England is a broad church, but some bits of it look more like a gay bar these days.
Teals take two?
$200,000 for a recharging station for a car? In which universe is this a plus?
Nope Mornington is liberal and Hawthorn is liberal by a slim margin.
OK, I misunderstood, it’s not a car charger but a storage battery. It is still horrifying that it would cost $200,000. Somehow I think we will end up paying for it when it is used as a business tax deduction regardless of its usefulness and efficacy.
What’s even more heart warming:
He might be an IT expert, but his maths sucks!
22 years worth of electricity bills upfront (yes, I know inflation and price rises). The batteries might last 7-10. This is renewable economics, a worthy adjunct to the vaccine economy.
so true.
Just exactly when do we realise the current Australian taxation split (fed/state) is broken ? Will it take someone like Andrews pushing the limit, or do we end up with 6 mendicant states and territories propped up by a couple of mining giants ?
Victoria is 25% of Australia’s population. It will drag the country down with it.
Wouldn’t this make Church of England very narrow by offending and chasing away reasonable worshippers?
More like a race to the bottom, especially after Labor wins NSW in March.
Well, given the whole Trinity thing, technically Jesus’ pronouns were they/them.
At least we’ll have ALP at both federal and state level, and the fed. ALP pushed for even more covid largess, so there’s only so much they can blame on the SFL’s.
Very funny m0nty.
Now do one about Mohommad.
Mohammed was a rock spider. Happy?
“132andBushsays:
November 28, 2022 at 6:34 am
Own up. You enjoy it, it makes you feel good.
That’s why you attack Lizzie?”
Indeed.
I am not really sure of the precise definition of the term ‘prepper’, but your description does not quite tally with my own understanding (which might well be wrong).
I had understood the term to mean a person who endeavours to be prepared in all relevant ways, including learning and practising the skills of growing, hunting, trapping, and foraging one’s own food; making fires using various techniques and in adverse conditions; etc.
Hugh,
the term I should have used earlier was “self-reliant”. What most of us were taught to be by our parents, those of us of a slightly older bent. Preppers tend to be slightly paranoid and have bug out bags etc in case of “enter disaster natural or alien here”.
Self-reliant are more like the Amish in their way of living. You are confident you will get by because you have learnt to look after yourself. If bad things happen, you don’t run away, you buckle down and wait it out, or in the case of really bad things, you fight.
Good Farmers around the world are self-reliant. Look at our Aussie farmers on the giant stations, and not so giant farms, if they should run out of tea, coffee, bog rolls they don’t panic and jump into the land cruiser and fang it for 500ks to the nearest seven-eleven.
Most of our country communities are self-reliant because come flood or fire, they know they have to rely on themselves.
People can even be self-reliant in the City. The way things are going with electricity, which also drives water to our dwellings, you need a few simple things to get by in case of major blackouts. As simple as a small butane fuelled camp stove, half a dozen bottles of water and very heavy duty garbage bags. The bags are for lining the toilet so you can do your business when there is no water for flushing.
We all saw how panicked society became two years ago when we ran out of toilet paper.
Self-reliance is confidence in being able to deal with anything life throws at you.
Sorry about the sermon, but a lot of young people can’t even use a can opener.
Awesomely awesome.
25 degrees, cool light winds and steady rain with 56mm in the bank overnight.
Finally.
You could have gone the whole hog, Fatboy.
Pun intended
m0nty says:
November 28, 2022 at 7:28 am. Biden is a rock spider. Happy?
Pedro the Loafersays:
November 27, 2022 at 11:18 pm
Enough to make you feel sorry for the poor buggers.
Not bloody likely.
Sergeant Leonard Siffleet of M Special Unit. This and some other photos were taken from a dead Japanese by US soldiers. The uniforms indicated the dead man was Australian, but he could not be identified.
After the war, the Army published another photo, taken after Sifleet and a couple of Melanesians were captured, asking for help in identifying him. His fiancee recognised him.
Mater:
November 28, 2022 at 6:31 am
I can see the merit in what you are saying, but we are still limited to those actions which the government permits, which are becoming fewer by the day.
Supposing the government legislates that all transactions must be conducted using a CBDC linked to a digital ID and a social credit score, then how will I pay my rates? Ultimately the choice would be to comply or lose my property.
While it is obvious, I think it is still worth mentioning that the Bolsheviks did not overthrow the Czars by forming a peaceful, legal, parallel community.
(And no, ASIO, I am not inciting violent revolution. I am engaging in an academic discussion.)