I generally agree with Rowan but I do wish somebody would tell him that a lecturette is not a question. Let your guests speak, ffs. A common problem on Sky.

That’s what drives me spare about Rowan. When he gets wound up he won’t stop. He talks over Rita and repeats himself too much. He’s on our side but goes on with hyperbole.

Lizzie – re bridge replacement.

Years ago a dentist told me the same thing – “it is failing”, he said. Since it had been installed by a well known prosthodontist in the city, I was very doubtful and refused to have it replaced. It is still functional (touch wood!) some 15 years later.

Said dentist had embarked upon a (then) $40,000 replacement of fillings etc. He didn’t get past 1 sector of mouth after causing immense pain through faulty work. He refused to acknowledge one crown was faulty when I had referred pain up one side of my face. I eventually consulted an endodontist who opened up the crown and found infection beneath it. He solved several months of facial pain and, to this day, I regard him as an angel.

The careless dentist who caused the problem has now had to move to modest premises as patients progressively left the practice. I have now a very good dentist and a fantastic oral surgeon in the same practice who recently installed an implant. I had always been fearful of implants but he did a wonderful job.

” [Dis]Honourable Mr. Bowen.”

While “Honourable” is traditional, although very debatable, “Member” is clearly more often than not accurate – never forget they are a Member!

renters move away from gas in their homes.
Why is this ridiculous statement from the gummint being given a pass by the media? ..
Renters have NO say, whatsoever, in the energy supply to premises and, definitely, no input regarding choice .. yet Labor makes a misleading & ludicrous statement and it gets a ‘free” ride! ..

in Australia it’s ‘provisional approval’.

local oafsays:
December 15, 2022 at 2:17 pm
Two tricks:
The “job” (both parts) need to be hot enough to melt the solder.
If you have a concave meniscus it’s probably a good job, if it’s convex it’s probably bad.

They taught us that the first rule of soldering, was to make sure that both parts were thoroughly clean and in good mechanical contact.

And don’t forget the flux otherwise you may well flux it all up.

Police officer Zach Rolfe has to answer Yuendumu shooting inquest’s questions, NT court rules

By KRISTIN SHORTEN
Investigative Journalist
@itsKShort
2:13PM December 15, 2022

The Northern Territory Supreme Court has ruled that the police officer who fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker at Yuendumu can be compelled to answer questions at the coronial inquest into the Indigenous teenager’s death when the hearing resumes in February.

During his first day of evidence at the inquest last month Constable Zachary Rolfe claimed “the penalty provision” over 14 categories of evidence to which he objected to answering questions about because his testimony could result in disciplinary action.

Most of the 14 categories of evidence to which Constable Rolfe claimed the “penalty privilege” relate to specific use of force incidents but also include questions about drug use, the use or misuse of body-worn video, “arguably racist, sexist or homophobic” text messages and his deployment to Yuendumu on November 9, 2019 when he shot Walker.

Constable Rolfe’s lawyer Luke Officer argued that his client should not be compelled to answer questions about incidents that could incriminate him and expose him to further internal disciplinary proceedings within the NT Police.

The inquest heard that Constable Rolfe and another officer – who also refused to answer the coroner’s questions – applied to the Supreme Court for a judicial review of the nature and extent of penalty privilege.

On November 23 and 24 Judge Judith Kelly heard the application for declarations that common law penalty privilege is not abrogated by the Coroner’s Act and that, notwithstanding s 38 of the Act, in respect of any questions the answers to which would tend to subject or expose the plaintiffs to a penalty the plaintiffs are entitled to refuse to answer the question(s); and the Coroner cannot direct or compel them to answer the question(s).

The Territory Coroner, Attorney-General of the Northern Territory, Northern Territory Police Force, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and lawyers for Walker’s relatives all intervened in the proceedings to argue that the police officers should be compelled to answer questions at the inquest.

Judge Kelly on Thursday published her judgment, delivered on December 12, refusing the declarations which means that penalty privilege does not extend to giving evidence at a coronial inquest.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “further developments” following the trial of Zachary Rolfe proves “heads must… roll” over the rush to charge Constable Rolfe with murder. “This rush to charge Rolfe stank of politics, not justice.

“It would subvert the whole purpose of s 38 since, in the case of police officers and other public officials, almost all criminal acts would also have potential disciplinary consequences with the result that the Coroner could almost never require police officers (and others) to answer such questions on the provision of a certificate under s 38(2),” Judge Kelly said.

“Given the expressed object of the Act to implement recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and the key role of police officers in such proceedings – and others under the Act – and given the expressed object of the 2002 amendment to make it easier for the Coroner to ascertain the truth by limiting the ability of witnesses to refuse to answer questions, such an interpretation would not advance the objects of either the original Act or the 2002 amendment; rather it would subvert those objects.

“The plaintiffs’ application for declarations is refused.”

Constable Rolfe had been one of four Immediate Response Team members deployed from Alice Springs to Yuendumu to execute an arrest warrant for Walker on four charges including assaulting police with an axe and breaching his suspended sentence.?

During the arrest, the young cop shot Walker three times after the teenager stabbed him with a pair of scissors.?

In March Constable Rolfe was acquitted of murder and two alternative offences.

He will return to the witness box when the inquest resumes at the Alice Springs Local Court in February.

Sky isn’t perfect but imagine life without it? Imagine being dependent on their ABC for news? That scenario is vomit inducing.

I am not sure that Sky is what it was a couple of years ago, but still better than the rest in Australia.
Most of the hosts give lefties a chance to have their say, unlike the ABC where the conservative view is NEVER heard.
I gave up on ABC for anything 2 years ago so cant comment on how they are now.

We’re back at Parliament today to take action on energy prices.

And a wasted decade of opposition to renewable energy has left Australia vulnerable to these global shocks.

Lol did he really say this shit? Australia, you’re standing in it

Would it seem reasonable to interpret the difference between Sky in the daytime and ‘Sky at Night’ as reflecting a change in audience? At night the can cater to people who work during the day.

Live footage of some sort of gas leak on the International Space Station – happening now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-1iMrdIj3Q

(I blame Putin)… 😛

Climate change causes Russians.

You heard it here first!

Real Deal says:
December 15, 2022 at 2:57 pm

struthsays:
December 15, 2022 at 1:58 pm
F*ck off Calli.

The courtly gentleman, St Ruth, gives us his charming best.

Do you speak like that to all the women you have dealings with? Or is that you have a problem with words that have lots of syllables?

Struphid is well “Trained”. You missed what the Train sibling called her yesterday.

Albo needs a rest from all the hard work, so another holiday is in the winds. The Hun:

Anthony Albanese has spoken out on Australia’s relations with China, admitting they were once not “healthy”.

The Prime Minister said he was open to visiting China in early 2023 during an interview with Sky News on Thursday.

“We of course will examine any invitation that come in,” he said.

“That makes a big change from the previous term when there was no contact, not even phone contact and that’s not a healthy situation.”

He said a delegation of Australian MPs visiting Taiwan was not intended to taper the two countries’ relations.

“This wasn’t a government-to-government visit by those MPs,” Mr Albanese said.

“I think this year has seen a better relationship, clearly, with China.

“When I met with President Xi Jinping in Bali, what we’ve said was that we would continue to look at measures to move forward together.”

Mr Albanese said a strong relationship with China was paramount for Australia’s trading place within the region.

“What I’ve said about China is we should co-operate where we can but be prepared to disagree where we must, and we will always of course seek to stand up for Australia’s national interest.”

It comes days after Australia committed to making a security deal with Vanuatu public in direct contrast to the contentious arrangement forged between China and the Solomon Islands earlier this year.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong made the promise in Port Vila on Tuesday after signing a deal with Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau that secures Australia as the island nation’s principal security partner of choice.

Terry McCrann all pissed and on fire:
It’s just a wild guess, but I’m assuming that the 97 statements prime minister Albanese made through the election campaign, promising a $275 cut in all your electricity bills, are now, all of them – in the famous word of Nixon’s press secretary Ron Ziegler – “inoperative”.

As far as I can judge none of the trio who now own – and I mean capital-O capital-W capital-N, OWN – not just the gas and coal price-capping package, but the catastrophic wider and deeper energy future it will rush us towards, have actually said as much.

Indeed, the now ‘inoperative’ nature of the promise certainly didn’t find its way into any of the press statements, issued by our leadership trio since last Friday.

Maybe they still cling to the promise remaining, well, operative.

That after the average electricity bill soars anywhere between $800 and $1000 through 2023-24, oodles of ‘free’ electricity will then come pouring out of wind turbines and solar panels and deliver a magical $1075 to $1275 cut in 2024-25.

So, ‘just in time’, we will get what’s needed to end up with an averaged $275 cut by the end of 2025, relative to electricity prices before the election.

In broad terms, of course; I can’t give you a more precise figure, as I lack Treasury’s fine grasp of utter statistical ineptitude and idiocy.

Now, before the clearly utterly undeliverable promise – even if PM & Co won’t admit it’s now ‘inoperative’ – disappears into the political miasma, it is important to emphasise that it was made well after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The invasion was in February, the election was of course in May, with the campaigning – and the promise stated 97 times, and probably counting – through April-May.

So, none of the trio could claim the government was ambushed by unforeseen left-field events in the gas and coal markets.

If Russia’s responsible for soaring coal and gas prices in Australia – and ultimately it’s not: we are – then it was all out there and visible well before the promise was made.

Furthermore, the promise does actually remain entirely deliverable, if the government wanted to keep it. It would simply need to write out a – true, JobKeeper-level gi-normous – cheque, to all electricity users. That is to say, everyone.

That would of course also be an exercise of such fiscal vandalism and economic madness, it would finally top the 1974 Whitlam budget – which has stood for nearly half-a-century as the absolute and un-matchable, far less top-able, exercise in fiscal lunacy in our history.

Clearly the government is going to reject that option; it’s made that clear in the structure of the current package.

But is what it is proposing really any better?

It started as a dangerous interference in the market – a merging, as I wrote yesterday, of short-term stupidity and long-term lunacy – and is now cascading into broader and really seriously dangerous energy chaos.

We now learn that the 12-month price cap on gas will actually be permanent. That producers will have to offer gas at “reasonable” prices, and with such prices consistent with a mandatory code.

Further, free-basing, PM Albanese mused Tuesday that the government might actually move to a policy of gas confiscation.

He said “reservation” – forcing gas to be sold into the domestic market at those “reasonable” prices.

But if walks like confiscation and quacks like confiscation, it is banana republic-style confiscation.

And it’s taken barely six months for the PM to get there.

Indeed, if we adjust the time-frame for all the weeks our peripatetic PM has spent overseas, it’s really more like three months, ‘peripatetically adjusted’.

Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill, was restrained but devastating; actually suggesting, in print, that the policy could lead to the lights going out.

In a fundamental sense, they already have.

Gypsum.
Gypsum everywhere….

I figured as much. Thank Groogs for our local prophet.

John of Mel says:
December 15, 2022 at 3:46 pm

Re the ‘they’, even the Ukrainian sources are sounding pessimistic at the moment,

At least Zelenskiy’s wife is optimistic and has a deep purse to prove it.

She’s a pretty decent looker, John.

“They taught us that the first rule of soldering, was to make sure that both parts were thoroughly clean and in good mechanical contact.”

Well yes, that is certainly true.
But even so, the “tricks” I listed help get a good joint first time.
As in, if you just put a blob of solder on the iron and try to transfer it to the (cold) job, it won’t be a very good joint, and will likely have the convex meniscus as described.
There are other indicators as well – the finished joint should be shiny, not “frosted”, for example – that is indicative of a “dry joint” (bad connection), where the tin/lead solder has not alloyed with the copper and/or may have crystalised on cooling.
This is of course also only regarding hand soldering through-hole PCBs, wires etc – surface mount PCB repair is usually done by “reflow” with an IR lamp, and is a totally different kettle of fish. Presumably anyone using such specialised equipment is already trained in what is required and how to do it.
Most people don’t use a temperature controlled iron, nor flux remover afterwards either, but that doesn’t mean the handyman needs to do so to get something working again – it may not be a totally “professional” job, but it will likely keep working for quite a while, even if not as long as if you had used such tools/chemicals.
Soldering is not something I do every day any more, but I did do it every day for more than a decade, so I have some idea what to do 🙂

Fair comment Cassie.

Albo is dead wrong on coal and Russia.

And the lying, the bullshit and dissembling begins. It’s roots must be FNQ.
it never stops with these arseholes.

That’s likely bullshit, Rodney Rottenhead. Armstrong is a unrepentant felon, convicted of large scale fraud and cannot be trusted about anything. Stores in NYC, at least in the decent areas, are protected by guards and or cops. Street walking cops are very visible. Smaller stores simply lock their doors and look at you up and down before you’re allowed a walk in. Bloomingdale has cops stationed at front and rear entrances. Bergdorf Goodman has private security to keep out potential theiving riff raff like yourself.
While crime in NYC is elevated, it is nowhere the dystopia your crooked buddy suggests it is. Stop posting that bilge, you idiot.

Twitter Exposing the Real Threat – Leftist Revolution

From Armstrong Economics –

“The revelations coming from Elon Musk gaining access to Twitter demonstrate that the LEFT is the greatest danger we face to civilization and there is absolutely no reason still stand for the United States to remain as one nation. The hatred of the LEFT is so pervasive it is off the charts – but then again, the LEFT historically always seeks to oppress all opposition.

The LEFT has been the source of countless wars to dominate society. The 1848 Revolutions devastated most of Europe. The American Revolution which lasted 8.37 years and the French Revolutions were against Monarchy – not a LEFTIST philosophy, which rose again during the mid-19th century. What most people have no idea about is that this philosophy of suppressing human nature has been around for a very long time. The 1848 Revolution was precisely on time and our model on LEFTIST Revolutions begins with the birth of Sparta around 889 BC. The very word “SPARTA” means self-restraint. As I have written before, Sparta NEVER issued any coinage. They lived under a rigid oligarchic constitution and this is when they hayed Athens and waged the Peloponnesian War against them for their capitalistic freedom despite the fact that it was Athens that defeated the Persians in 480BC. It was Sparta’s constant LEFTIST philosophy that led to the invasion of Rome in 146 BC and their conquest of the Peloponnese at the Battle of Corinth: The Romans under Lucius Mummius defeated the Achaean League near Corinth. Corinth was destroyed, and the Achaean League dissolved.

Just as the LEFT claimed that Putin interfered in the 2016 election and 70% of Democrats ended up believing that story, even the exposure of ‘RussiaGate’ as a total fraud has not changed the minds of the LEFT – they just ignore the fact. Ironically, CNN went after Trump to remove him from office in 2020 because they were actually manipulating the news back in 2016 always giving Trump more time over 17 other Republicans because they thought he would be the weakest candidate and Hillary would win.

Now we have Musk dumping the Twitter files that reveal once again the LEFT interfered in the election. The latest release of Twitter files reveals that their employees did not believe former President Trump had violated Twitter’s policies. Nonetheless, they yield to the LEFT to ban Trump from Twitter to manipulate the election. This release shows:

“I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement.”

They added: “It’s pretty clear he’s saying the ‘American Patriots’ are the ones who voted for him and not the terrorists (we can call them that, right?)…”

Another staffer agreed, writing: “Don’t see the incitement angle here.”

“I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” was the comment written by Anika Navaroli, the Twitter policy official.

“I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no vios for the DJT one.”

In fact, the LEFT rose up again in Paris for another Revolution. They created the Commune Movement in Paris where there was to be no property and everyone would be happy – i.e. Klaus Schwab & the WEF. Indeed, the very term “Communist” was coined there in Paris. Karl Marx was initially a socialist. It was the French who convinced him that all private property should be owned by the state creating a Commune.

Ironically, the last turning point of or Leftist Revolution Model was in 2009. It was at the WEF in 2019 that they release the Build Back Better slogan for all governments to use. The next one is actually in 2032 but it will start to accelerate from 2024. We can clearly see how polarized society has become. This is also the Sixth Wave so we are looking at a major attempt to suppress society under the same philosophy pf the Oligarchy that seized control of Sparta. The elites are behind this own and they always make it sound like they are doing this for us. But in truth, this is all about their power and total control.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/twitter-exposing-the-real-threat-leftist-revolution/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

So from a Twitler (A play on Adolf) with rampant censorship, we are now seeing the emergence of a ‘free speech’ in Twitter.

The funniest thing I experienced was heading into a Broadway show through metal detectors with big red lettered signs on the machines saying “NO WEAPONS”.
That’s why you have to love America. They have to remind folks not to take a magnum 45 or AR15 to a Broadway play.

Nice play called Leopoldstadt:

Leopoldstadt frames the narrative of a Jewish family in Vienna over a period of some 50 years. The main set is the drawing room of a wealthy family. There are five acts occurring in the years 1899, 1900, 1924, 1938 and 1955.

It’s quite moving.

Knuckle Dragger says:
December 15, 2022 at 5:02 pm

Jacqui Scruby has announced she will be the independent candidate for the seat of Pittwater

Please let this be the daughter or niece of the CEO, founder and sole director (and member) of the Australian Pedestrian Council, Harold Scruby.

Harold, the most boring human being south of the equator.

Please let this be the daughter or niece of the CEO, founder and sole director (and member) of the Australian Pedestrian Council, Harold Scruby.

Hop to it KD. There’s a Walkley or at least a 2 page spread in Good Weekend in it.

Mole, that story about what happened to Harry is freaking hilarious.

I want Dutton to succeed. He could start by opposing the Voice.

He need only channel the true voice of actual liberalism.

Make a point that we are all equal and true equality comes down to people – it happens at grass level. A governmental body or similar simply does not have the mechanisms to make that happen. They have rules, penalties, ad campaigns, awards for select people, and frankly they also have politics, wheeling and dealing, favours, infighting, squabbles, and an ever-replenished old guard. All the wrong stuff to bring about actual equality.

And more than this, any institution will have its own need to survive. It would be fatal for the problems to ever be solved. It would be in its own interest to stoke divisions and antagonism to make itself increasingly important and deserving of increasing funds.

There is nothing in ‘The Voice’ that would put it beyond the legion of illnesses that infected ATSIC.

It is in fact the exact opposite of a solution.

As a nation of equals we would welcome celebrations of difference, where people take a special pride in their heritage and ancestors – Italians, Greeks, Chinese, Indians, and so on, all take pride in their traditions, and they are all equals.

The Voice will never deliver equality or respect. It will only encourage division, resentment (and, by God, don’t we see this already?) and breed more pestilent laws to stifle any discussion of what we might think.