The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873
Chris Rufo from the Manhattan Institute is always a good read. In fact all of Manhattan Institute is a really…
Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022
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Clean green wind power, environmentally safe, NOT.
Sure, the millions of wind turbine blades headed for landfill will leave a toxic legacy for centuries to come, but these things create an even more immediate threat. Their 40-90m blades naturally erode during operation, spreading tonnes of microplastics far and wide. The epoxy compounds they shed contain toxins that are finding their way into the oceans and our drinking water.
Mark Twichell spells out the poisonous truth about wind turbines below.
https://stopthesethings.com/2022/12/17/clean-energy-scourge-wind-turbine-blades-shedding-tonnes-of-toxic-microplastics/
rickw – but it saves on US training costs.
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December 17, 2022 at 9:52 pm · Reply
Tons of GREAT memes right here..
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2022/12/16/friday-edition-21/
Enjoy!
I liked the Nancy Pelosi second one down!
Have you ever seen a sea turtle swallow a turbine blade?
Too late, too late, the maiden cried…
This particular iceberg hasn’t just appeared in the past week.
Judging by the comments reported from last week’s parliamentary sitting, it’s apparent the Government has for quite some time been looking hard and lustfully at an Australian version of the UK’s Online Safety Bill.
Good comment.
However, it seems that to have legitimate “discussions of what motivated them” might very well result in accusations suggesting “some sort of diminished responsibility or extenuating circumstances for murdering a police officer in cold blood”.
We seem to no longer be able to have such rational, detached discussions on this forum, without
1. first needing to state the bloody obvious, and/or
2. the risk of such unfounded accusations.
A sad state of affairs.
Never been, but daughter has been making noises about moving there more or less permanently. Lost her business during Covid and now very bitter about Dan. Has a girlfriend who maintains homes in both countries who is very encouraging. Currently, daughter is visiting her friend checking it out.
When in Rome…
He didn’t even have a spa.
Just noticed this from the diatribe, a slur tucked away in the slew of ad hom:
No, it isn’t “sort of what [I’m] getting at”.
I’m content to hear all voices but one. Made that perfectly clear yesterday afternoon and said why.
The person you have created in your mind bears zero resemblance to me. If I wanted to tell you to shut up I would, in so many words.
Stop shifting the narrative.
To a home mechanic, they are “adjustable hammers”.
Bloke up the road was notoriously rough. As a joke Dad made him a shifter with strike face of a ball pien hammer welded to the back side of it. He loved it!!!
I stopped off in the Adelaide hills for a few days with a cousin
When in Rome…
Just spat out my coffee!
Ronald McDonald house does good work AFIK.
I bet that the Elites will still have Private Jets and Private Airfields.
They will have Private Jets and exclusively use the Public Airports previously built and paid for by your taxes and tickets.
Et tu Mater?
The odd thing is that, over the past few days I have been cogitating on what you said and have come around to your way of thinking.
N was the younger brother and as I considered the little I know about the family set up, I started to think that his older brother was the controlling influence over both brother and wife/ex. It appears to be borne out by his on line statements.
It appears that I offended you. I am sorry for that.
Would think long and hard about moving to Bali. Reeks of going to live on the Gold Coast which is always a bad idea unless you are a 30 something AFL footballer who enjoys crowded surf and looking to kick start your amateur porn career.
Food of the Gods.
There’s a chip shop in Glasgow that makes custom tatty fritters – either spread with something, or sandwiching something, before being battered and fried. There is a wide range of savoury and sweet somethings.
Ideal after 10 pints of heavy.
The recent police shooting will be used as a media cudgel to garber public support for more gun control.
It will be used to pass laws that have been ready for ages, just waiting for an event/excuse.
The Cat really needs a dedicated Adelaide correspondent.
Chrissy Pyne and Alexander Downer can share the roster.
Some time ago I pointed out that Stephen Conroy, Adam Bandt and I think it was Victor Dominello – a minister in the NSW govt -all had a noticeable “swollen” upper eyelid, which looked odd.
The other day Celine Dion announced that she has Stiff person syndrome. Stiff person syndrome, which is only found in 1 in a million people, is on Pfizer’s own list of the many side effects of its covid mRNA vaxx. Steve Kirsch, one of the champions of full full disclosure by the CDC and Fauci etc., of the real number of deaths and serious side effects, put up a screen shot of that part of the list showing Stiff person syndrome. Below that condition was, among so many other things, swelling of eyelid.
Pity the roaster.
On pies and bakeries (well, mostly bakeries) and “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”. I have only experienced Beechworth Bakery in a couple of places, in Beechworth where I was residing for a couple of months some years ago, and in Echuca, where it seems to be a focal point for the social life of my friends and acquaintances. I think I’ve had one of their pies at some stage, but did like their bread.
Tom the Baker used to do motivational talks, one of which I attended. His story would tend to support Callie’s argument of taking what options are available. As I recall, his wife left him and their four small children, he was unemployed. Somehow he got hold of the shop in Beechworth and his empire grew from there. I presume that the four small children are grown now and Tom is probably living on his yacht sailing the Greek isles.
The talk was given to a group of managers in professional firms. I’m sure that there were other interesting points in his talk about such things, but the one I remember is that the different varieties of bread are never placed on the same shelf in the same area of the store. It used to drive me batty when buying bread, but the point was easy enough to extrapolate out to professional services firms which need to engage in cross selling where they can.
Here one of the sad outcomes of the floods earlier this year is that Crust & Co at Newmarket went under and the owners were not able to resurrect it. They did excellent bread and pastries and sweet pies, but savory tended to be mushroom, egg, bacon etc. Flour & Chocolate is good, they do v expensive pies and lots of excellent sweet stuff. They have outlets both sides of the river, so are easily accessible even if you are unfortunate to live on the other side of the river.
Yeah,nah. It does have a certain appeal though. Pyne could provide one of those sped up videos of the submarines being built for the next 30 years with cost underneath whirring round like a petrol pump.
“Are there any real charities left in Australia?
Ronald McDonald house does good work AFIK.”
Yep, and there are still lots of good charities. I’m very careful as to what charity I give money to. Any charity promoting and speaking progressive woke wank doesn’t receive a cent from me, and at the top of my woke wank list to avoid is the RSPCA (which saddens me), Red Cross and Vinnies.
Germany’s Gas Reserves “Emptying At Record Speed” As Country Struggles To Keep Warm, Lights On
Germany’s gas reserves are emptying at record speed: 1% per day as the current wind/solar energy lull means more gas gets burned for electricity, heating.
16. December 2022
Pleiteticker.de here reports how Germany’s natural gas reserves “are emptying at record speed” because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks. This means gas turbines have had to jump in to pick up the slack in electricity production – not one the German government had hoped as it wrestles with the heightening energy crisis.
“Germany is converting gas into electricity in record quantities,” pleiteticker.de reports. “Thanks to high pressure system ‘Erika’, the current December is colder than it has been for years. […] In recent days, gas storage facilities have therefore been emptying much faster than before. From December 12 onwards, more than one percent was withdrawn from gas storage facilities in Germany every day.”
“Last week, almost one third of all electricity was generated from natural gas. These are record figures,” writes pleiteticker.de.
If the cold persists through the winter, gas reserves threaten to become extremely tight before spring arrives.
But instead of blaming the energy woes on failed government policies, federal network agency head Klaus Müller criticizes the situation on the consumers, and worries “the gas storage may not last the whole winter.”
The Future for Australia under Elbow & Bowen-Head – Over 800 million euros paid for unproduced energy in 2021
The problem with wind power is that either too much or too little is produced, due to the weather. As mentioned above. the past weeks have seen little wind power being produced, and so gas turbines had to be fired up to keep the grid supplied.
But when it’s too windy, something needs to be done to keep the grid from being overloaded: wind turbines have to be shut down. That’s costing Germans 807 million euros this year because the excess electricity that could have been fed into the grid by the wind parks legally has to be compensated.
Pleiteticker here writes: “For the amount of electricity that the operators could have fed into the grid, they still receive compensation from the grid operators according to the statutory tariffs. And this sum is higher than ever this year: 807 million euros. Record value. For electricity that never existed.”
And the problem is getting bigger, according to the Federal Ministry of Economics.
I wrote a decent missive at 12:10 AM this morning re the Trains.
There seems to more going on than is packaged for sound bytes.
Indeed, I reckon some Low and Mid Level QLD Pol are looking at their organisations dealings with the Trains in retrospect and going “Oh fuck…..”.
This is not to excuse what the Trains did, it was disgusting and cowardly, but it usually takes two to tango, and my guess is that the records will show way more earlier involvement by QLD Pol than they would have liked.
Nor would this be the first time that Australian Police have poked and prodded delusional loners until bad shit happened.
“Where there is life, there is Hope.”
He just mis-spelled the word. Hype
Published 15 hours ago on 16 December, 2022Paul Joseph Watson
https://summit.news/2022/12/16/over-400-hotels-being-used-to-house-illegal-boat-migrants-in-uk/
Current status of gas supply in Germany
Status report (as at: 1 PM, 16 December 2022)
. Since 23 June 2022 the alert level of the gas emergency plan has been in place.
. The gas supply in Germany is currently stable. The security of supply is safeguarded at present. Overall, . the Bundesnetzagentur still views the situation as tense and cannot rule out a further worsening of the situation. The Bundesnetzagentur is monitoring the situation carefully and is in close contact with the system operators.
. Gas is mainly being taken out of storage. The total storage level in Germany is 90.23%. The storage level at the Rehden facility is 91.15%.
. Gas consumption in the week beginning 5 December 2022 was 5,2% lower than average consumption in the past four years and up by nearly 11,8% compared with the previous week. Consumption was well above that needed to meet the gas saving target. Temperatures were 2.7°C lower than in the previous years.
. The temperature-adjusted consumption in the weeks beginning 28 November and 5 December was just 12% lower than the reference value of the past four years and is thus in the critical range.
. Temperatures this week are forecast to be -3.18°C and thus in the critical range, so significantly higher consumption is expected.
. Wholesale prices are fluctuating greatly and have recently seen a slight decrease. Businesses and private consumers must continue to adapt to a significantly higher price level.
. The Bundesnetzagentur stresses the need to save gas. Avoiding a national gas supply emergency this winter depends on three things: cutting gas consumption by at least 20%, LNG terminals starting operation at the beginning of next year, and the winter decrease in imports and the increase in exports – which are currently at a particularly low level – being relatively small.
It saddens me, too: the RSPCA has been captured by the animal liberation lunatics, who are opposed to all forms of animal husbandry and are campaigning through the Australian Greens to shut down the horse-racing industry and the hundreds of thousands of people it employs.
Suspect you’re right. Few more Covid societal chickens still coming home to roost yet.
Qld Pol, the Trains or both? Getting harder than ever to avoid being caught up in Big Government.
Tom – capture by the Left is hard to avoid. And in the case of Fabians an explicit goal. Witness the 1960s and 70s ALPBC.
My impression is that there never was a mass slaughter of turtles cause by plastic bags.
It was originally a report saying that offcut pieces of nylon fishing nets cast into the sea, working exactly as designed, were entangling turtles and preventing them returning to the surface to breathe.
This then went through a sort of Chinese whispers among some of the most stupid people on the planet: greenies, j’ismists, and politicians.
There may have been studies afterwards although I don’t see what might have prompted such because the narrative was so eagerly embraced as fact, certainly before a more rigorous and focussed study could be carried out. And then there would be the danger of discovering it was not as bad as touted. That would be dangerous because those three species of stupidest people I mentioned before also happen to be the most egotistical and would never confess to error, especially while they are sitting back watching people jumping through hoops and bending over backwards in obedience to their words.
My impression is that there never was a mass slaughter of turtles cause by plastic bags.
COVID masks are an entirely different matter!
Qld Pol, the Trains or both? Getting harder than ever to avoid being caught up in Big Government.
Way more Qld Pol prior interactions with the Trains than would seem reasonable in retrospect.
Global Coal Consumption Hits Record High Amid Green Agenda Induced Energy Crisis
Don’t Tell Elbow & Bowen Head! – summed up by Nigel Farage
‘We’re Led by Idiots’ – Farage Slams Green Agenda as Reserve Coal Power Stations Fired Up
Global use of coal climbed to a record high this year as the energy crisis in Europe saw some supposedly ‘green’ countries forced to burn coal amid reductions of natural gas flows from Russia.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual report on Friday that global coal use surpassed 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time on record after increasing by 1.2 per cent in 2022. The Paris-based agency said that when looking at current market trends, the energy source will likely remain steady through 2025 and therefore remain the most common form of carbon dioxide emissions “by far”.
Europe, which has been heavily impacted by Russia’s sharp reductions in natural gas flows, is on course to increase its coal consumption for the second year in a row. However, by 2025, European coal demand is expected to decline below 2020 levels.
“The world is close to a peak in fossil fuel use, with coal set to be the first to decline, but we are not there yet,” said Keisuke Sadamori, the IEA’s Director of Energy Markets and Security.
“Coal demand is stubborn and will likely reach an all-time high this year, pushing up global emissions. At the same time, there are many signs that today’s crisis is accelerating the deployment of renewables, energy efficiency and heat pumps – and this will moderate coal demand in the coming years. Government policies will be key to ensuring a secure and sustainable path forward.”
Yet it was arguably decades of foolhardy pursuit of implementing a green agenda across Europe that left it vulnerable to the energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine.
Countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom, among others, have banned fracking for natural gas domestically while attempting to transition to unreliable energy sources such as wind and solar — both of which are heavily dependent on Communist China.
This makes me wish the lyrics of Run for the Hills were reversed.
“Red man came, across the seas
He brought us pain, and misery”
From TimCast. “Family drag show turns into sex act.
https://youtu.be/NVSqNXD9ISU
Where are the arrests?
There has always been plastic shit floating around in the oceans. As kids we used to get excited find a Japanese detergent bottle washed up on the beach by the winter storms walking the dog. Like the koalas it’s just marketing.
Never been, but daughter has been making noises about moving there more or less permanently. Lost her business during Covid and now very bitter about Dan.
Don’t get bitter! Get out!
Organise it so you get to relish never paying taxes to these communist filth ever again!
Eight big batteries to be built by 2025
Rachael Ward
Eight large-scale batteries to store renewable energy will be built around Australia to support the grid and help keep energy prices down, the federal government says.
The government-owned Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will provide $176 million in funding to the projects, Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced on Saturday.
It’s estimated the batteries will lead to a tenfold increase in storage capacity, with Mr Bowen saying it would revitalise the energy market.
“Some people say the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow and that’s true, but we can store renewable energy for when we need it.”
“Renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy, the more renewable energy we have in the system, the cheaper bills will be,” Mr Bowen told reporters outside the Transgrid battery in Western Sydney.
The batteries will come online by 2025 and together would be big enough to power Tasmania for about three hours.
Three will be in Victoria – at Gnarwarre, Moorabool and Mortlake – while one will be at Liddell in NSW.
Queensland will be home to two, at Mount Fox and Western Downs, while South Australia will also have two, at Bungama and Blyth.
They range from 200-300 megawatts each and will have grid-forming inverter technology, which provides stability to the grid usually offered through coal and gas.
The government estimates the total value of the projects at $2.7 billion.
Mr Bowen said the projects would be some of the biggest batteries rolled out in Australia in the near future.
ARENA CEO Darren Miller said the batteries could underpin the transition to renewable energy in Australia.
“This pipeline of grid-forming projects will help move us closer to an electricity grid that can support 100 per cent renewable energy in the (National Energy Market),” he said.
Thank you, Calli.
I appreciate that.
Less offended, and more bewildered. I simply couldn’t reconcile how my analysis could be interpreted that way.
All’s good AFAIC. Business as usual.
You can laugh at “… known to police.” but it cuts both ways. That said, a disproportionate amount of crime is committed by a few people. Just another example of a power law at work. Expect a carefully massaged view will emerge in time.
Elizabeth Hurley addresses rumor she took Prince Harry’s virginity
She wasn’t the one who shagged him.
Elizabeth Hurley is clearing her name ahead of the release of Prince Harry’s explosive memoir.
In an interview with the Saturday Times magazine, the 57-year-old “Austin Powers” star was asked if she was the unidentified “beautiful older woman in the countryside” who Prince Harry, 38, reportedly lost his virginity to as a teenager.
The revelation allegedly appears in “Spare” — his 416-page autobiography due out Jan. 10.
“Not me. Not guilty. Ha!” Hurley told the outlet. “No. Not me. Absolutely not.”
Following the tell-all Netflix series “Harry & Meghan,” the royal family is reportedly “hugely nervous” about the impact of the memoir.
Indian CHADS @ work on the CCP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQkz9z0JzM
I watch the cop shows like RBT more as a comedy as I cannot bring myself to pay for TV and am stuck to a bottle for nearly an hour around that time. You can see the frustration in some toothless meth head pulled over for a loose battery and given a few hundred bucks in fines you know are not going to get paid and will only see him pulled up at some point in the future.
One hopes HRH is not getting Warney’s sloppy seconds.
The turtle thing about getting caught in nets is real. What is not real is the method derived from a few being found tangled in a certain area and then extrapolated across the oceans. The only models I trust have enough flesh on them to be comfortable and ask them to introduce me to their mother or grandmother.
Twitter’s top ranks riddled with ex-FBI employees
Twitter’s top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.
More than a dozen former feds flocked to the company in the months and years prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the social network in October.
The Post found FBI influence was considerably more significant than just James Baker, the FBI’s former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. He was recently fired by Musk for interfering in the billionaire’s efforts to come clean about past transgressions at the company.
The news comes on the heels of the latest Twitter Files disclosures which show how the agency dedicated dozens of agents to pressuring the company to remove political tweets it found objectionable.
In some cases, the former G-men and -women held positions that would have put them close to company leadership directly involved in censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden coverage in October 2020.
Ah, no. I mentioned both, but didn’t conflate them.
I don’t think you’re racist, St. Ruth. You just hate everyone who isn’t exactly like you.
P.S. Charlie Pride is shit. He’s only one rung above Chad Morgan in the country music stakes.
Thank you very much, Robert. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours as well and a blessed New Year.
Mark the date in your diary: Rowan Dean casually announced at the end of the last show for the year this morning that Sky Outsiders will return on Sunday, January 22.
It’s the only show on Sky that I never miss — it was Sky’s top-rating show in 2022.
That and the lectures given by the cops for the cameras. It’s not the positive PR they think it is, Bear.
Bear at 9.35:
The Cat has a dedicated Adelaide correspondent. He’s been phoning it in from regional Quenthland.
St Ruth still on board the Train train, I see.
In the dining car, of course.
I’m beginning to think that the only reason the US political establishment is against TicToc is because that’s the last social media platform that is not controlled by the US intelligence “community”.
And about 99.99% of it from Asian and Pacific nations that DGAF about the oceans either. But, silly green leftist developed countries ban everything regardless because fake hysteria on the socials and MSM.
100%.
I understand that these halfwits are not held in high regard by their compatriots. The reason is that by doing this they are celebrating the pinch of an average punter, or at best a gormless halfwit which apparently makes for better TV. You never see them pulling over someone with a severed head or four sawnoff side-by-sides in the boot.
There’s a reason the proper cops call them ‘jury fuckers’.
UKRAINE WAR
3 reasons why the CIA will not order Putin’s assassination
As a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer specializing in Russia, I often am asked why the United States doesn’t just take out Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s president is clearly a bad dude. So far, in his barbaric 10-month war against Ukraine, Putin’s forces have bombed maternity wards, tortured civilians and abducted their children, shipping them to Russia by force. His missiles have pounded vital infrastructure, leaving Ukrainians without electricity or drinking water amid freezing winter temperatures.
His illegal invasion has also led to a global energy crisis and exacerbated skyrocketing inflation across the West. US leaders watch the conflict nervously, worried it could spiral into World War III.
For many, getting rid of Putin seems like an easy fix. But while the United States maintains a doctrine — albeit a secret one — that permits, in exceptional cases, targeted killings of foreigners, Washington will almost certainly not order the assassination of Russia’s strongman.
Here are three reasons why.
First, the US Constitution prohibits the use of lethal force outside of armed conflict zones unless it is used against an individual who presents a concrete, imminent threat of grave harm to the United States and is participating in hostilities against the homeland — and only as a last resort. Putin does not meet this requirement.
It is true that the Central Intelligence Agency has targeted foreign leaders for death in the past. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, the CIA maintained a top-secret counter-terrorism assassination program against high value targets such as al Qaeda commanders. Authorized by former President George W. Bush, this covert mission was performed by private paramilitary contractor firms that employ ex-Special Forces operatives.
Second, even if the CIA did get authorization for such an operation, it would be extremely difficult to execute. Putin and the members of his inner circle are under constant protection by the Federal Security Service. Putin himself is protected by guards from the Presidential Security Service, or “People in Black.” National Guard — or Rosgvardia — is responsible for the survival of Putin’s entire regime.
Third, as an operative with decades of service in the KGB — one of the world’s most brutal intelligence services — Putin is highly primed for an attempt on his life, and he has likely concocted various contingency plans to ensure his survival.
“the RSPCA has been captured by the animal liberation lunatics, who are opposed to all forms of animal husbandry and are campaigning through the Australian Greens to shut down the horse-racing industry and the hundreds of thousands of people it employs.”
Yep, and they want to shut down kosher and halal slaughter. About a decade ago, I had a confrontation with a little runt of a man (who looked a lot like Adam Bandt), he was nasty little RSPCA Stalinist apparatchik. It was over the question of religious slaughter. When I politely asked him why he and the RSPCA wanted to cease religious slaughter, I remember him staring at me with cold eyes and he said, like the political ideologue he was, “we will end it”. I was quite taken aback and so I said “fine then”, “you’ll never get a cent from me”. I found him chilling. I walked away convinced that he doesn’t love animals and he doesn’t want to protect animals, no, he’s just using the charity to push his hard-left beliefs.
The correct spelling is “rooster”.
UKRAINE WAR
3 reasons why the CIA will not order Putin’s assassination
From 1945 till approximately 1970s, the CIA ran covert operations targeting foreign leaders deemed a threat to the US. Among the targets were Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, President Sukarno of Indonesia and President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. Lethal viruses, explosive cigars and other spy-thriller type tactics were all used.
Around 1954, the CIA had 58 names on its “A” hit list of those to be assassinated, as part of its covert $2.7 million program code-named PBSUCCESS, aimed at the overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbentz.
But, following President Gerald Ford’s 1976 executive order that banned political assassinations by US government employees, the agency largely got out of this dirty business.
A year prior, an 89-page report titled “Summary of Facts – Investigation of CIA Involvement in Plans to Assassinate Foreign Leaders” was removed from the National Archives.
When I see pictures of Bandt, I’m always reminded of images of Himmler. A stone cold ruthless bastard. Some people are just evil incarnate and IMO Bandt qualifies. Should he ever get hold of real power , our suffering would be immense.
It’s official, you’re all fucked
Liberal journalists suddenly care about Twitter censorship — because they’re the ones banned!
By Post Editorial Board
“Twitter’s suspension of several journalists last night was unprecedented,” the Axios newsletter said Friday. “There’s never been an attempt by a major social media platform to suspend so many journalists all at once.”
Axios must have gone to the Jennifer Lawrence school of “there’s never been a female action lead before me,” because that’s just baloney.
Remember when Twitter banned an entire newspaper — this one?
That happened two years ago, and the response of the rest of the media at the time was “aw, too bad, anyway . . .” The New York Times called it a “misinformation test,” even though our coverage of Hunter Biden was 100% accurate.
Flash forward two years and most of the press, including the Times, completely ignore The Twitter Files, which detailed how the social media company arbitrarily, and in many cases wrongly, censored and banned conservatives. Not a story, they say.
Then Thursday. Elon Musk bans some journalists from Twitter for sharing the location of his private jet.
The media LOSE THEIR MINDS.
Suddenly, statements fly about how terrible this is for a free press, how dangerous for Democracy, how vital the media are. It’s a crisis!
” Should he ever get hold of real power , our suffering would be immense.
Bandt already does have hold of real power, and our suffering is inevitable and will be immense. Did you miss what happened in Canberra last Thursday? Labor is effectively governing in coalition with the Greens.
I don’t bother to argue with charity collectors now they are not buxom Dutch backpackers with an aversion to restrictive undergarments, a trend I wholly approve of. It’s always a polite “Not interested” or “Fuck off” if I’m having a bad day. The Sea Shepard guy and I had an arrangement to ignore each other as I went to get my bread from a very good bakery at the Saturday farmers market.
Corporate Media Can Stomp And Cry All It Wants, Its Special Twitter Privileges Are Ending
Corporate media ‘journalists’ are crying like children because they no longer get special permission to dox their political enemies.
Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, corporate journalists freely persecuted their political enemies by posting their identities and locations to enable in-person harassment, but not anymore. This week, Musk decided he’s no longer allowing anyone, including journalists, to jeopardize people’s safety via Twitter, and he began temporarily suspending the accounts of offending members of the press.
“Everyone’s going to be treated the same. You’re not special because you’re a journalist,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post.
The crackdown on doxxing is personal for Twitter’s CEO. On Wednesday, Musk reported that his 2-year-old son named “X” was followed by a “crazy stalker” who had mistaken X for Musk. According to Musk, the stalker blocked the car driving his son and “climbed onto the hood.” The incident motivated Musk to suspend several high-profile journalists guilty of doxxing.
This caused the corporate media to fly into hysterics. “Elon Musk censors the press,” said one CNN headline.” “[U]nprecedented,” stated the flabbergasted Axios. “Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk,” alleged The Associated Press. “Musk has begun banning journalists who have criticized him on Twitter,” whined Washington Post TikTok reporter Taylor Lorenz.
All this outrage is performative. Firstly, Musk made it clear why the journalists are suspended, and it’s not because they “criticized” him, as Lorenz said. “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not,” wrote Musk.
Secondly, the propaganda press doesn’t care about freedom of the press or free speech. They cheer on and instigate the de-platforming of competing journalists and news organizations. The only thing the media cares about is losing its monopoly on digital discourse and the special treatment it received from pre-Musk Twitter staff.
Before Musk, the corporate media enjoyed gross privileges awarded to them by their ideological allies at Twitter. When Lorenz outed the identity of the formerly anonymous woman who runs the “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account, Lorenz was never disciplined. As the “The Twitter Files” reveal, if Twitter staff did try to sanction left-wing users for violating Twitter rules, senior executives at the company would swoop in behind the scenes and protect them.
Meanwhile, countless conservative journalists were subject to random suspensions, locked accounts, and bans for harassment-free thought crimes.
I think it’s guaranteed that the federal government will draw all the wrong conclusions from this incident, probably because those conclusions are pre-loaded.
That being said, there’s quite a positive discussion going on among academics who train police about the long-term unproductive nature of measures that escalate police-community tensions.
Can also confirm via no. 1 son’s friend who recently transferred out of Chinchilla police station to become a detective that the presence of two units indicates the Trains were “known to police.” Whether that relates only to the previous report (two weeks prior to the incident?) of gunfire from the property directed at a neighbour walking his dog or is more extensive will no doubt be revealed in the subsequenbt inquiries.
Earlier:
I’ll blame the fans.
What sort of fuckwit brings flares – generally used in marine rescues and similar – to a soccer match? This is not an individual thing, it is a part of the culture – so much so the stadia hosting them lay on a supply of buckets to extinguish them in before they burn the joint down, because rest assured that when it happens it will be someone else’s fault, not the moron bringing it and or sparking it up.
The ‘supporters’ of both teams playing had tacitly agreed to stage a walkout at the 20-minute mark to protest at a decision to move the socka GF to Sydney.
Instead, the dorks associated with one particular team (the Melbourne Victory) decided to light a bunch of flares, and peg them at the opposing goalie. Rest assured, if someone throws a lit flare at me I’m sending it right back where it came from.
The designer-trackie-dressed crowd poofs don’t mind standing next to someone waving one of the things, so they can cop one coming back the other way.
But no. Invade the pitch, smack the goalie with one of the aforementioned buckets and the ref with something else, causing the game to be abandoned and throwing any remaining chance their GF would remain in Melbourne into the ocean.
‘The world game’. Hahahahaaaaa.
Speaking of shifty spanners, I cleaned up an old one I found in the shed.
“Diamond Calk Horseshoe Co, Duluth Minn.”
It still goes alright.
It has a serrated hole on the end of the handle for hanging it up, but I think it probably doubled as a ring spanner.
But it shalt not be used as a hammer, nor shalt it have pipe sleeved over the handle for leverage.
There has always been plastic shit floating around in the oceans.
And about 99.99% of it from Asian and Pacific nations that DGAF about the oceans either.
I can confirm that Maldives has zero plastics recycling. Interesting given the population density and the fact that pretty much everyone buys their drinking water in 4L plastic bottles.
Damn right. More so than any member of the clown car that passes as Cabinet. Hawke passed legislation with the Lieborals rather than be lead around by the nose by those communists and loonies. A long time ago now.
New evidence confirms the Blob’s hawkishness
Proximity to Washington leads to more support for military intervention
Washington’s foreign policy circle is a famously tight network. Comprising government officials, academics, and think tanks, this group (known as the ‘Blob‘) has developed a reputation for hawkishness and support for high levels of military spending.
There are hundreds of think tanks based in Washington, making it difficult to tell where the policy comes from: the White House or unelected officials. During the Reagan era, for example, there were almost 200 employees at conservative think tanks who served as government officials or consultants for his administration. But what do they actually believe?
New research by Richard Hanania and Max Abrahms has found that think tanks are much more hawkish than International Relations scholars, even controlling for ideology.
Taking a comprehensive survey of the most influential scholars and top 20 think tanks, the two researchers discovered that the closer a think tank employee was to power (both geographically and professionally), the more likely they were to be militarily interventionist. According to Hanania and Abrahms, for all the think tanks located within three miles of Capitol Hill, every mile further away is associated with a -0.48 deviation in militant internationalism:
The researchers posit that the reason for this is the increased likelihood of socialisation with government officials:
These kinds of contacts can take the form of, among other things, panel discussions, interviews with the media, and access to social, business, and networking opportunities with influential figures…Those closer to the center of power are more likely to be part of the foreign policy community (Walt 2018). We do not expect to see a relationship between distance and political preferences within the category of professors, whose job description does not necessarily involve influencing public opinion, being close to media centers, and meeting with powerful figures.
Something we can all agree on.
A few years ago plod in Canberra admitted most crime was committed by 2 families, now expanded to the AFP giving false evidence and not being prosecuted for lying. Also government of all persuations. I’ve come round to the idea of crime does pay. We have Constable Rolfe being compelled to give evidence in a sham court compared to desperate dan of the dead not knwing how 24 mil pass paid to spread the coof. Countless grannies dead and no one is responsible.
That being said, there’s quite a positive discussion going on among academics who train police about the long-term unproductive nature of measures that escalate police-community tensions.
Good. They have two years worth of “what not to do” material to work with.
Obituary: Harry Griffiths – Radio’s funny man who coined a national catchphrase
Harry Griffiths and Roy “Mo” Rene’s McCackie Mansions was the most listened to 12 minutes in the history of Australian radio. “Cop this, Young Harry”, uttered by Mo to Griffiths, became part of the Australian language.
cop this, young harry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rhAhtX1hg
Not recommended for shifters unless you have not yet returned the neighbours oxy set.
Italians have/had a funny name for a shifting. They call (literal) the “English Key”.
Mother Lodesays:
December 18, 2022 at 10:36 am
There is studies showing otherwise but good luck finding them with Google’s algorithms. I had some bookmarked on my home PC that is 8000km atm. There is even a 2007 productivity commission report on plastic bags that actually uses the words religious to describe the ban movement.
In Thailand Tesco Lotus & Big C have banned bags. Elsewhere not a chance. Nice to have plastic straws again too.
Only a week ago two people ended up in hospital after getting a flare in their faces after “Whirled Cup celebrations” at Fed Square.
FMD, I can’t buy penny bungers for Guy Fawkes day, but these fuckwits can bring rescue flares into a crowded space?
All because “colourful cultural tradition”.
Much as I hate regulation, these things should be banned unless you can “show cause” that you have a legitimate need for them.
Like being a boat* owner on your way to go fishing.
…
* Preferably a 16-footer you picked up cheap in Queensssland.
Not sure why.
The Stupid Boy gave most of the joke away to Oprah, for free.
The Harryandmeghan Netflix Shock Horror Imbroglio has passed in the UK with a yawn – and with little, or no extra skin knocked off the Monarchy.
Nobody actually reads books any more – and Hazza is now firmly cast amongst the broadcast media reviewer class as a whining twat.
What the World is actually waiting for is The Marriage Breakup – How Charles and William sooled MI6 onto Dianna 2.0 and forced her into the arms of….
Crack on with it.
The cops are on a hiding to nothing either way. Look at Malmo. Right mUnty?
As pointed out by others above, Bandt aready has real political power. The Liars needed his vote to get through the latest fascist intervention in our power grid, which has been hippiefied with windmills feeding it junk amperage it wasn’t designed to accept.
All thanks to the Marxists running our secondary schools and their mainstream media megaphones who have convinced a generation of frightened children that the world is about to end.
The Greens are the party of athiest anti-science narcissistics who have convinced themselves the human race can control the climate – but only if the Marxist ALP big government they are riding on as its fleas destroys our way of life and standard of living first.
Hence my reference yesterday to the Albanese/Bandt government.
Albanese is dumb enough to think it’s smart politics but I’d say he’s just signed his political death warrant.
A Labor-Green alliance doesn’t play well in Qld.
The mess we’re making of energy presages a national decline
State ownership, regulation and higher taxes are suddenly back in vogue and we will all pay the price.
Tim Wilson and Jason Falinski
Australia’s self-made energy crisis won’t be solved until it dawns on business that it is downstream from the political demography that’s already consuming Canberra and state capitals.
If Churchill was right and Americans only get it right in war after trying every other option first, then the same quip is true in Australia’s contemporary approach to energy.
The speed at which we are decommissioning reliable energy is only matched in the volume of ministerial press releases announcing insufficient small-scale renewable projects, but never in gigawatt hours.
During a cost-of-living crisis, the government had to choose between being the bad guy and taking the gas industry to the cleaners, and it is unsurprisingly passing the buck. Now it has added coal to the docket.
A country that faces a choice between being a fossil fuel superpower or a renewable one is struggling to be either. Instead, we are concurrently surrounded by an abundance of the world’s cheapest energy resources from the ones that carry an extraction cost to those that can be captured, yet we have some of the world’s most expensive supply.
The problem with Australia’s energy market is not a gluttony of greed, but a gluttony of stupidity.
Inaccurate costings
Whether through idiocy or ignorance, ministers happily compare energy costs like the cost of growing apples with the network supply chain costs of delivering pineapples.
And that assumes those costings are accurate. It won’t take long before the federal government’s Rewiring the Nation policy will make the back-of-the-napkin costings for Kevin Rudd’s NBN seem credible. And commitments to bring down power prices pretend these costs won’t be passed through to the consumer.
Similarly, Anthony Albanese suffocated the entirely reasonable push by South Australia’s premier to talk about energy’s N-word that could deliver what Australians claim to want: low emissions, reliable and affordable power.
To be fair to politicians, they’re downstream from the demands of the polity. By the middle of the decade half of the electorate will be under 40: they weren’t around when the debates of state corporatism versus privatisation were fought and won, so they didn’t even have the chance to forget them.
Dan Andrews figured this out and Victorians are about to live with what around 65 per cent of them claim to support and virtually no one opposes: state ownership, where decisions on electricity investment are based on politics, not consumer need.
Generational dynamics
Industry super funds should get ready to be the punchline in a joke that starts with: “Which investors chanced members’ money on a state government plan that let ideology trump physics?”
A generation denied the opportunities of the past sees no risk in repeating past mistakes. The current generational dynamics at play risk national decline.
That might sound hyperbolic, but younger voters think the system is rigged against them, so they have no stake in the future, which means decisions lack trade-offs and public ownership is aligned with their wealth interests.
Where state ownership, increasing regulation and higher taxes would have been rejected a decade ago by anyone with a stake in national prosperity, it’s now back in Vogue akin to when Madonna released her 1990s track.
And we can be confident they didn’t learn Milton Friedman’s dictum that “one of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results”.
The counter-balancing forces to economic irresponsibility don’t exist when it’s always someone else who should be shouldering the cost. The challenge for creators of Australia’s wealth is how to respond.
To make long-term investments, business needs certainty, but the only certainty they’ll get is how little sway they’ll have in the corridors of power.
If they think they can just lean on ministers to stop proposals, as in the old days, they’re showing the awareness of someone standing on a beach waiting for a demographic tsunami to consume them.
Winter is coming for business
The mineral industry’s 2010 campaign against the mining tax won’t work in 2023. First because young people don’t think miners pay enough tax, and also because they don’t watch TV.
If you want to win a debate, it has to be won in the community, not Canberra. That’s the lesson the billionaires and hereditary millionaires who established Climate 200 learned.
Climate 200 members financed highly malleable candidates to campaign on “integrity” and now have MPs voting on the floor of the House to boost the values of their failing investments.
Business is probably going to need to learn the hard way that it’s too late to change an MP’s mind with a billboard outside Canberra Airport when they’re put under pressure by the community that elects them.
As a pro tip: MPs don’t notice the billboard as they look at their phone in the back seat of their chauffeur-driven Comcar, and scoff at the naked high rotation campaigns on Canberra TV and geotagged social media advertising.
And while it is too early to tell, the most likely outcome after the next election is a federal Labor government with Greens holding the balance of power.
If you want to know what that’ll be like, don’t look back to the Gillard years – look to the Greens’ current demand for rent capping. As they say in Game of Thrones: Winter is coming for Australian business.
malevolent actors in charge
The end point is policing becomes a game. Which is where it has reached in the Kimberley and for various groups around Perf on Friday and Saturday nights.
What would it achieve? Inevitably, the United Russia party would still hold the presidency. The attack would make it even more popular.
If you’re running a lunatic fringe party dependent on the protest vote cooperating with any government doesn’t bode well. Ask Janine Haines.
I want to hear more about the adjustable wenches. Though the South Australians calling them “potato scallops” seems fair.
Fortunately for Bandt, Albo is somewhere in the post-Whitlam wilderness and will give them more enough to claim a few more Liars seats before they’re finished.
Opened up my “Hawk” 31” portable sawmill crate yesterday, 15hp Lifan engine. This is the saw head only, going to make the rails.
Quality looks great, all 6mm and 5mm thick laser cut plates. This is what I like about dealing with the CCP, they’re pretty straight shooters, I negotiated a spare blade, sure enough, spare blade in the box.
If this was a subcontinental purchase, almost zero chance of the spare blade being present.
From what I hear Victoria will be impervious to any of this, rick.
From what I hear Victoria will be impervious to any of this, rick.
Victoria is beyond hope. Unlike Qld, police recruiting hasn’t stalled, plenty of tattoo’d and pierced Hitler Youth in the que for a license to shoot and beat the shit out of ordinary folk.
Have I explained my theory the white Renault was actually being driven by Prince Edward? Although I expect Prince Andrew will probably take the fall now.
Magistrates presiding over revolving door courts doesn’t help.
For versatility how about a pipe wrench?
When you have really burred and tight nuts.
Correct.
Elbow has just confirmed what everyone in the middle class outer suburbs — not the rich doctor’s wives in the inner suburbs who voted for the Teals — feared about a Labor government: they can’t govern without the support of the Greens.
The explosion in electricity bills in the next year will confirm people’s fears. Elbow can’t head off high power prices when he supports the ideological madness that’s causing them.
Anecdotal, but my neice in Melbourne dated a guy who ended up joining VicPol. She broke it off shortly after his graduation, citing a change in his personality.
I want to hear more about the adjustable wenches.
We have a massive Dowidat shifter that lives jammed between the foot rest and mudguard on the fordson power major. His name is Fred, no chance of using a piece of pipe on him, to thikk. (True story!)
The door ceases revolving if that Magistrate has been a victim of street violence.
Funny about that.
“It’s all about the law & not influenced by personal experiences, blah blah blah.”
Sure.
Bandt already does have hold of real power, and our suffering is inevitable and will be immense.
Tim Blair last week referred to the Greens as the senior member in the coalition with the ALP. That’s quite true. The ALP does what the Greens tell them to, but the Greens won’t do what the ALP might tell them to.
That sounds to me like the Greens are the senior partner. If the libs had any brains ( an oxymoron, I know) they would start exploiting this meme immediately.
Albanese is dumb enough to think it’s smart politics but I’d say he’s just signed his political death warrant.
Roger. I reckon that this guy would have an office full of yes men. I worked with someone who knew him in young Labor and he is apparently a very nasty man.
IMO deep down they know exactly what they are doing and bringing it to a head.
Cite you the magistrate in the Kimberlys, a few years ago, who told one young First Nations offender, charged with stealing bicycles “If I find you “Not Guilty”, will you promise not to steal any more bikes?”
In my TA days (the source of many great stories) it was always the oxy set and a trip to stores. After you had broken someone’s socket set of course.
All of us Who Know, know that Andrew actually was Second Lambretta.
But he’s expendable.
Anecdotal, but my neice in Melbourne dated a guy who ended up joining VicPol. She broke it off shortly after his graduation, citing a change in his personality.
I have no doubt, they all come out pretty much the same. Clearly they have worked out how to identify and recruit malleable individuals, in a bad way. There is a vast gulf between old Vikpol and New Vikpol, the only saving grace is that for the moment, New Vikpol respects the guidance of old Vikpol (in small matters).
flair
???????
Try flare.
Flair is something you will never have.
rickwsays:
December 18, 2022 at 11:56 am
Opened up my “Hawk” 31” portable sawmill crate yesterday, 15hp Lifan engine. This is the saw head only, going to make the rails.
Quality looks great, all 6mm and 5mm thick laser cut plates. This is what I like about dealing with the CCP, they’re pretty straight shooters, I negotiated a spare blade, sure enough, spare blade in the box.
If this was a subcontinental purchase, almost zero chance of the spare blade being present.
rickw,
is this the model? – https://cnhawk.en.made-in-china.com/product/PwCfWyAdSIpZ/China-Hawk31g-Horizontal-Portable-Band-Sawmill-31-Inch-with-15HP-Gasoline-Engine.html
Hawk 31g Horizontal Portable Band Sawmill 31 Inch with 15HP Gasoline Engine
Reference FOB Price / Purchase Qty.
Get Latest Price US $1,800 1 Piece
What was landed price?
Always wanted to use Portable Sawmill to cut Mugla Trees on the Roads up to Coober Pedy in SA – Beautifully Grained Wood and Hard as Nails
How does it compare to Australian Made – https://hardwoodmills.com.au/gt34-drive-away-package
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AUD $13,355.00
rickw mill looks ok. Make the rails as long as you can. Extendable if possible. Long lengths are more valuable. My mate in NZ recently picked up 500 cube of seasoned macrocarpa (Monterey Pine) at 1/3rd the price of unseasoned. Sold it making a 200% profit. The bloke who brought it ran it through the moulder for weatherboard and the small stuff for fence pickets. You have the space to mill odd stuff for table tops and air dry it yourself. I had on my block a side boundary of hawthorn. $16k a cube to furniture joiners. Fiddly but well worthwhile. This was 25 years ago.
I’m amused that during the election campaign Albo gravely announced he’d never work with the Greens.
Then at the first opportunity he does a deal with Bandit.
That’s all you need to know.
Way more Qld Pol prior interactions with the Trains than would seem reasonable in retrospect.
It’s called “hunting”.
The Trains weren’t even arms length from any criminal activity, but the cops were intimidating them with pointless visits anyway.
Sounds like Gareth Train was a whistleblower.
rickw,
is this the model? – https://cnhawk.en.made-in-china.com/product/PwCfWyAdSIpZ/China-Hawk31g-Horizontal-Portable-Band-Sawmill-31-Inch-with-15HP-Gasoline-Engine.html
Hawk 31g Horizontal Portable Band Sawmill 31 Inch with 15HP Gasoline Engine
Reference FOB Price / Purchase Qty.
Get Latest Price US $1,800 1 Piece
What was landed price?
Yes, that’s the one. I can’t remember exactly the landed price, but it was roughly US$2,000 including shipping. With important duties etc. and freight for home delivery it was probably around A$3,000. That leaves quite a bit of spare $ for the rails, plus I can get continuous rails if I want or make mitre joined rails in sections, which could be much heavier than the ones offered, plus it made the purchase cost and shipping much less.
Mr. Jones is attending a medical conference at London. He goes to reception and finds out from the receptionist that his room is on the fourteenth floor of the building. Exhausted from his long flight from New York City, he immediately proceeds to the elevator.
There, he is greeted by the jolly elevator attendant with a huge smile. “Good day, Sir. Need a lift?” “Lift?” Mr. Jones asked in amusement. “Indeed, Sir” replied the man.
“You mean elevator?” Mr. Jones asked smiling. The elevator attendant responded “Well yes, Sir. But here, we call it a lift”.
“You really should call it an elevator, you know? Because as it was invented in our country, it’s called that way” Mr. Jones quipped.
The good attendance gave him a cheeky response “I hear you, Sir. But as the language was invented here, it’s called a lift”.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
– George Carlin
I’m amused that during the election campaign Albo gravely announced he’d never work with the Greens.
Then at the first opportunity he does a deal with Bandit.
That’s all you need to know.
Albanese did what he wanted to anyway, Bandt gave him cover.
Pocock played a similar role in the IR legislation.
Basically, the Greens leadership is an arm of the Labor Party, but their voters have bought into the Dutton/evilRightwinger/bad narrative and can’t see where their best interests are.
I think the electorate already knows it and the Liars get elected when the Lieborals are so bad you simply cannot vote for them. A point SloMo reached about 2 years before being ejected. The opposite is true in Victoriastan.
Thanks rickw
Make the rails as long as you can.
I can get 8m travel in one length (90X90X 8 or 10 thickness.)
It was not the case with KRudd. People just got bored with Howard and his government had made governing seem easy. Which makes his refusal to hand over power even more egregious.
Twice in two days Groogs. Has your account been hacked?
That’s because elections are all legit and above board.
This has been a socialist country officially since 2020.
A communist tyranny..
But you believe in elections.
God help us.
You’re full of piss and wind Calli.
What you said was disgusting and dismissive of the people you couldn’t hold a fucking candle to.
Those who’ve had their lives ruined for taking a stand against tyranny.
Millions of them.
But that’s ok, their still breathing says Calli………..
At least when Victor Pierce and his associate decided to randomly murder two young men because they had problems with Victoria Police, they didn’t kill a neighbour as well.
How does it compare to Australian Made – https://hardwoodmills.com.au/gt34-drive-away-package
GT34 Deluxe Drive Away Package
I’m not sure these are made in Australia, I seem to remember seeing basically the identical looking machine on Alibaba. FYI – I went the 31” because it seemed to be the sweet spot in pricing. Not much more than 28” and way less than 34”.
Qld police recruiting has stalled for the same reason teacher recruiting has stalled… Out of control yoof crime. One of the scrotes gets hurt trying to get away, it’s the cops fault, scrotes get hurts without a copper within 100km, why don’t the cops do sumfink? Cops catch scrotes, magistrate lets him out again. Story last week one 13yo had 92 charges this year alone, magistrate gives him bail, despite the fact that 2 days earlier he had been given bail for another set of offences.
Ruthy frustrated.
Grey Ranga.
When you spray your warped monologues of insanity basing them on your own imaginings, you’ll get no response….you’re just emotion driven.
You’ve convinced yourself your lies are reality.
Much like KD does.
And then you go off criticing your fantasy subject that doesn’t exist.
Except in your own mind.
Boo.
Straya being rolled through steadily by the Jaapies. Captain Alinta gorn for a duckski.
Watch Warner in the second dig. I know I hate the miniature cheat, but his demise in the first innings, but his first innings dismissal (a glorious golden duck) is exactly how top order bats finish their careers.
He is an opener who can no longer handle better than average pace, and his opposition know it. The ball he got wasn’t that high, and wasn’t excessively fast. If you look at it from side on, he pushes the bat out in front of him – a cardinal sin for top order players against the new pill.
Worse, he took his eye off the rock. When he returns for Round 2 there’ll be a silly mid-off as well as a short leg under the lid, and he’ll be barrelled with chin music by six foot eight proper quicks, not the West Indies trundlers he failed against as well.
It will be grating, disorganised train wreck, which the nation will rejoice in.
Oh my lordy. That was awful.
“If I find you “Not Guilty”, will you promise not to steal any more bikes?”
And what happened?
Calli made a very good point, many people in history have faced terrible government inflicted adversity, through no fault of their own, had to pick themselves up, dust themselves and start all over again.
I remember a former colleague telling me of his arrival in Australia after escaping from Vietnam where he had been a respected professional until he became a persona non grata, a perilous sea journey, three years in a refugee camp living under a roof made from rice bags he arrived in Australia with a wife a baby and wearing his only clothes, a pair of shorts and a pair of thongs.
He didn’t ambush and kill three people at random because he he was angry.
When bird turns up here, all of a sudden no one mentions the “crazies at the furniture store”…funny that.
4 GREAT MEN’s COMMERCIAL’s 1 Min 58 Secs
Not sure about the Toyota Man’s decision, but the Beer ads were great
Never seen the – BeerTender from Heineken and Krups B90 Home Beer-Tap System – before
. Home beer-tap system for use with a 5L Heineken DraughtKeg
. Silent cooling system keeps 5L keg at ideal serving temperature of 38 degrees F
Memories – Aussie Beer Commercial – Best Ad Ever – 59 Secs
and
Bugger – BANNED Toyota TV commercial – Both ads – 1 mins 11 secs
That’s because fully half of the Furniture Store’s contributors are here. Which is because there’s no audience there. Which is because those contributors are nuffies.
Local Woolies has a notice up that they are trialling cameras at the self service checkouts check you haven’t made a mistake /make sure people are putting items through correctly.
It’s a loss prevention measure.
I wonder how much self service is costing them?
Sounds like the camera Aldi in London.
And what happened?
The kid said
Thanks a million,Maximilian
and treddled off into the sunset.
Said offender was found “Not Guilty”, much to the fury of the police prosecutor, who had a very thick file of his misdeeds, graduated to stealing cars, and was last heard of in tronk.
Blithely saying “you always have options” doesn’t cut it, especially when it’s Government that turned peoples world upside down. That’s something when the most powerful authority in the land has decided to fuck you out of the blue.
Tom @ 10:27
It saddens me, too: the RSPCA has been captured by the animal liberation lunatics, who are opposed to all forms of animal husbandry and are campaigning through the Australian Greens to shut down the horse-racing industry and the hundreds of thousands of people it employs.
Previous to covid, when people’s lives would sometimes go A over T they did have options. Big downturns/recessions lead to people having to sell, move, change jobs, and do as Calli said, get up and have another go. Serious illness and family break-ups can do the same. Usually, however, when these things happen, there a still some social supports to help you through – family, friends, your church, and sometimes government assistance is available.
But when everyone around you, your employer/main contractor you sub to/businesses you purchase from/social connections/friends, family & neighbours- but all leading back to a supposed democratic government – tell you that “it’s over” and “you must accede to the request,” and if you don’t that’s it, you can’t operate as a normal member of society. That is not the same thing as taking bad fortune, whatever its stripe, on the chin and “getting up again.”
It’s not you saying “I’m gonna fall in a heap.” It’s what they’ve said. Probably, you want to keep going, to go to work, see your family, contribute, but they wouldn’t allow you to, unless you bowed down. The two things are entirely different.
I remember writing a post after Gladys the Gone stated in October 2021 that the people of NSW would not have any rights if they refused the vaxx. Then, I wrote about how, for example, the demos would feel about the govt/health bureaucracy refusing someone medical treatment because of their vaxx status. In that post I asked would a two-tiered system be acceptable in an existing democracy – a democracy like outs – one that values egalitarianism and fairness?
This is not a rant against those who for whatever reason, decided to get the jab. Everyone has reasons, and financial survival of the family, or to see one’s elderly relos, are all legitimate, as is a genuine desire to protect oneself from a supposed dangerous virus. But I can understand why people haven’t got over it.
Pencils and no ID to vote.
A full blown shit show.
Pure evil again.
Apparently if you have had your life ruined by the government AND those who submitted to tyranny, thereby empowering it, if you are still breathing you should STFU, your future is not lost according to the jabbed Calli, and then this vile also jabbed creature comes in suggesting anyone upset about what the government has done over the last few years is a cop killer.
This from the good nazi pass, Frau Notaclue.
The arrogant dismissal of who really are their betters, is born of an inabilty to reconcile what they have done to their country and themselves.
My Support Worker is the son of Somali refugees. Lovely guy. His father was quite high up in the military, there was a change of government and they had to flee. After some time he ended up in Australia aged 6. Have met a variety of people from Africa in healthcare following my stroke unsurprisingly.
Thank you rosie. That was the point I was trying to make, albeit clumsily.
I hope he doesn’t mind me quoting him, but here’s the other –
That’s from his own blog.
Make of it what you will. I agree with him.
Dopey KD, I was commenting at the old cat about 5 years before you turned up.
You’re a relative newby.
I comment wherever I feel like and am n ot tribal with it.
That’s your leftism and insecurity showing again.
You need to belong, don’t you petal?
Exhibit A:
Total posts on the FlashCat OT from midnight yesterday – 943.
Total posts on The Furniture Shop from midnight yesterday – 6.
But I can understand why people haven’t got over it.
Before anyone takes that final sentence as a condoning of what happened in Qld, it’s not.
He didn’t ambush and kill three people at random because he he was angry.
Why would he? He’d just escaped the government that had been oppressing him.
No one is disputing that most people can make it through immense personal adversity and not do anything stupid. Some however clearly can’t, and that fact doesn’t suddenly absolve government and police from scrutiny of their actions in the lead up to this tragedy.
A person’s “future is destroyed” when they die. Up until that moment, they have a future.
Claiming that losing a job/career/vocation/sunshine lollipops rainbows is losing your “future” is pure hyperbole. Using that to then justify cold blooded murder is something else again.
The Vietnamese refugee experience isn’t the right comparison at all
Entirely different
What there were no empowering non government regular people type communists in Vietnam?
As Diogenes pointed out the situation for unvaxxed teachers in QLD ended up a four week loss of pay.
Had she wished to return to her teaching position Mrs Train could have done so in June 2022.
And what was stopping Mr Nathaniel Train returning to a teaching job in Queensland or even NSW in June 2022 as well?
Oooooh, blog seniority. The egg_roomba ‘1000 posts at the old Blair’ method.
By your rationale, Liability Bob should be a revered icon instead of a perpetually wrong coward.
I agree, it is different because it was significantly worse, involving living though many years of war, in many cases experiencing the death of loved ones and being forced to abandon everyone and everything you ever knew.
I do not want people to “got over it” BBS, just trying to fend off a bunker mentality that send people over the precipice.
The only blame I place on police is not correctly assessing the risk posed by the Trains.
No-one else bears any responsibility for what the three of them chose to do
I’d almost feel sorry for you struthpid but you’re such a drama queen and dropkick. Becoming more and more unhinged by the day.
If that’s possible?
Until Sinclair shut down his blog, then you couldn’t all register over there quick enough.
Sheep.
Then, proving the need sheep fell to “belong” when it all came good they decided to go back as the good blog put up by NFA to keep the right wingers he thought they were back then together, was constantly sneered at by the little sneering gang of sheep.
The great thing about that blog and what worries the sneerers so much about it is it’s format.
They can’t 24/7 control any thread, they can’t twist and muddy the waters.
The format scares them.
I like it because it’s very subject orientated but also very poster orientated.
So if you like reading Peter Campion’s letter to the editors, you can do so all in the one spot.
There may be nuff nuffs there, there may not be.
Let he without nuff nuffs cast the first sneer.
It’s about freedom.
No one gets banned, there is no blocking unless they say something that may be seen as inciting violence, which bird does.
CL’s blog is great as well and many others.
But the arrogant denialists are mostly here…the biggest nuff nuffs of all, and need my help in being woken up.
Don’t thank me now, you will later.
Dopey KD, I was commenting at the old cat about 5 years before you turned up.
You musta been a veteran then, KD was calling himself MK50 since c. 2009.
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Dr. John Campbell
Well, you lot do like to entertain him. Freedom and all that, remember?
And you’re a prize fuckwit grey Ranga.
Opinions are like arseholes……….
I have never “registered” at any blog. And never will.
Dover knows my email, as does Adam and C.L. because I comment there. I trust them.
Struth, you might not want to be chucking stones about in that glasshouse in the back garden.
Glass is expensive, and Mrs Struth won’t appreciate micro-shards in her tomatoes…
ABC programming giving us a taste of what’s coming for Christmas 2022.
Lotta carols in Aboriginal. Lotta didgeridoo. Lotta ochre face paint on Father Christmas.
Or was that Bruce Pascoe.
I don’t “believe in” elections, whatever that means.
But I draw some solace from seeing the fear in a politician’s eye when one draws near and they realise they’re about to be held to account, however imperfectly.
For that reason I’d also have magistrates, judges and police commissioners elected.
How’s that for the blinding ignorance of the jabbed and compliant, to the trials of the unjabbed.. the New Nazis.
FUCK ME DEAD.
This is a low life.
And this has nothing to do with the Trains.
I expect not a word said to notafan by the gutless here.
But that’s fucking low and that no one takes umbrage with it is telling.
Ah, no. Quite a few seemed to recognise the Faulty-inspired shitbox for what it was, and is.
Despite the losses, Woolworths must think that self service is cheaper than employing more staff. And they’re conditioning people to do the work for them, I’ve just walked home from the local shopping centre and picked up a few things from Woolies. Only two of the six main checkouts were open and had people with full trolleys waiting at them, the self service checkouts had a line of 15-20 waiting to use them and the express checkouts had two staff working them with no one waiting. I walked up with my couple of items and got served straight away.
bespoke says:
December 18, 2022 at 1:04 pm
I do not want people to “got over it” BBS, just trying to fend off a bunker mentality that send people over the precipice.
Bespoke, no-one should want to encourage that type of mentality.
But not to acknowledge what the state through every aspect of society has done to the people is itself a form of bunker mentality.
And take a lesson from it doodle head.
Anyone is free to make any comment.
Bird is welcome on a freedom blog until he incites violence against Jews etc
That is called free speech.
Vagabond
That sounds to me like the Greens are the senior partner. If the libs had any brains ( an oxymoron, I know) they would start exploiting this meme immediately.
Dutton should start referring to either the Greens/Labor government or (better) the Bandt/Albanese government. And keep doing it, at every opportunity.
The only blame I place on police is not correctly assessing the risk posed by the Trains.
Huh?
It turns out there was no Welfare Check, it was just more pointless harassment that had been happening for years.
No-one else bears any responsibility for what the three of them chose to do
How do you know what they did?
From watching TV?
I would call that real influence, not power.
By power, I mean he has the authority to make/pass legislation without resorting to other parties in a coalition.
THEN we will know totalitarian suffering to a degree far higher than we’ve ever known.
Just when wounds start to heal Ruthy pops up. He is the guy in the crowd calling to storm the capital then slinks away.
Richard Cranium
Sounds like Gareth Train was a whistleblower.
Not a Spook? Or is a whistleblower a form of Spook?
Who will be the first here to get the bivalent vaccine?
Do not do it.
Geez.
I have to brave a shopping centre full of machete-wielding junior Fourth Nationers, looking for a Christmas present for my 12 year old nephew.
The Sunday before Christmas.
I may be gone for some time.
Dutton should start referring to either the Greens/Labor government or (better) the Bandt/Albanese government. And keep doing it, at every opportunity.
How fucking stupid are you?
Dutton is winning the Politics 4 months straight with questions about the promised $275 Power Bill savings.
Your suggestion is so poofy it’s beyond laughable.
It has been acknowledge over and over again, BBS.
Yeah, nah.
You don’t have to physically ban someone, Struth, to discourage them from being somewhere.
Your personality is no less toxic over there than here.
In fact, but for the mutual abuse and slander of everything and everyone you and your fellow nuffies don’t like about Australia, the wider world or here, you’d all repel each other.
Salon opinion is a real thing. This place and its contemporaries are no different, but the Cat at least makes an effort to appear open to more perceptions and opionions than just the immediately obvious orthodoxies of the most frequent posters.
Something you find personally offensive. Otherwise you would not be here every morning, ritually abusing everyone who ever disagreed with your Red-Faced Guard pronouncements.
I was repeatedly refused service by various local doctors because of being unvaxed. I had to shop around to find one that would see me. The one that did allow me to visit, reception made me wait on the street and later refused anything except telehealth phone calls. The entire episode was disgusting and unforgivable.
Fire up, St. Ruth.
Let the Dark ‘N’ Stormies flow through you.
Good. Goooooood.
By the way, I picture you as Quenthland’s George Costanza. With a hat.
Boambee John
Dutton should start referring to either the Greens/Labor government or (better) the Bandt/Albanese government. And keep doing it, at every opportunity.
Absolutely correct. Let’s hope some one from that side of politics is reading this and takes heed. Dutton has nothing at all to lose by doing that!
We won’t know that was the case until we know what intelligence the police had on them, rosie. Risk assessment can only be based on known hazards. If someone overlooked a known hazard – as with Mon Manis – that will come out in the inquiries.
Possibly more to come:
Police shooter Nathaniel Train breached Queensland border in a car carrying weapons months after school resignation
A few pointers there for the local constabulary.
And while we’re at it, improve the quality of your insults.
You proclaim to be my superior, yet you are utterly inarticulate, intellectually limited and boringly repetitive. How am I supposed to feel my inferiority when you are so beige?
Lift your game. Questioning my masculinity and wishing I was vax-sick doesn’t cut it any more, you dribbling mediocrity.
Waylay your fears oh timid one, for Struth has only ever called for disobedience as a peaceful way to end this.
Yep, that sent the likes of KD into tears of fright.
He had a “sovcit” on his hands and one of them had rooted his ex and he had to flee to Darwin.
We’re still working on him, he quivers at the mention of individual thought and action, trying to get over the indoctrination of Vicplod.
And disobeying is tantamount and clumped in with cop killing.
And who said there’s no mental issues here.
S.A. 2/3, 66 behind, Australia still has another Innings.
2 day Test Match likely in Brisbane.
In your dreams, lame brain. Like Dan was going to be booted from Govt in Vic, a surer thing there never was.
It may change but Dutton is playing small target politics probably because when the recession hits next year he figures his dry powder will be enough to sway the horrible polls he’s generating. Given the SFL’s track record and his team of numpties, I’m not so confident.
Richard Cranium
Your suggestion is so poofy it’s beyond laughable.
Still smarter than your perpetual references to Spooks and Flamers. Which of the two are you? My bet is on the latter.
Which would have happened much further upstream in the security apparatus than the general duties police commander in Chinchilla, I should add.
Actually…yes.
Vagabondsays:
December 18, 2022 at 1:32 pm
Boambee John
Dutton should start referring to either the Greens/Labor government or (better) the Bandt/Albanese government. And keep doing it, at every opportunity.
Absolutely correct. Let’s hope some one from that side of politics is reading this and takes heed. Dutton has nothing at all to lose by doing that!
Don’t let ‘Ed Case hear you saying that.
Only when the power goes out in the basement, Grigs goes to light a candle with a match and accidentally ignites all the formaldehyde fumes.
Grigs likes Redheads…
At the Sunday morning church service, the minister asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers.
A lady stood and walked to the podium. She said “I have a Praise. Two months ago, my husband, Tom, had a terrible bicycle crash and his scrotum was completely crushed. The pain was terrible and the doctors didn’t know if they could help him”.
You could hear a muffled gasp from all the men in the congregation as they imagined the pain that poor Tom must have experienced.
“Tom was unable to hold me or the children” she went on “and every movement caused him terrible pain. We prayed as the doctors performed a very delicate operation, which lasted for over five hours, and it turned out they were able to piece together the crushed remnants of Tom’s scrotum, and wrap wire around it to hold it in place”.
Again, the men in the congregation were unnerved and squirmed uncomfortably as they imagined the horrible surgery that was performed on Tom.
“Now” she announced in a quavering voice “thank the Lord, after six weeks, Tom is now out of the hospital and the doctors say that with time, his scrotum should recover completely”.
All the men sighed with relief.
The minister rose and tentatively asked if anyone else had something to say. A man stood up and walked slowly to the podium.
He said “I’m Tom”. The entire congregation held its breath. “I just want to tell my wife that the word is STERNUM”.
See what I mean about being an utter mediocrity?
Reduced to playground tit-for-tat over minutia, and can’t refute anything else without resorting to name calling?
And you think you are my superior…
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
– Johnny Carson
Insult appreciation is to be found in the eye of the beholder.
Tomato, tomarto.
McGowan’s little bitch or Sanchooooo……it’s how it flows off the lips….it’s an art.
Keep trying.