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Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, John Ruskin, 1847


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Dot
Dot
December 21, 2022 11:22 am

Jorge

That’s a terrible song from Kelly. Might have to revise my opinion.

It is probably his worst. Very bad, awful.

Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 11:22 am

Option 1) The ACT doesn’t want to look like Victoria’s legal system; or
Option 2) The ACT wants to look worse than Victoria’s legal system?

If this review doesn’t look into why two Ministers were told not to give personal evidence by the Attorney General who’d already declared his support for Britnah in Hansard, then it is Option 2.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
December 21, 2022 11:22 am

Gun violence seems to follow a pattern

Last year, nearly two-thirds of gun deaths involving children — 2,279
Most homicides involved Black children, who make up a small share of all children…

Last year, suicides made up nearly 30 percent of child gun deaths — 1,078. Unlike homicides, suicides disproportionately involve white children, mostly teenage boys.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 21, 2022 11:23 am

Battery of the Nation. If that doesn’t make Tasmanian’s chests fill with pride and stop leaving the joint I don’t know what will.

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 11:25 am

The idea that Ukraine is any Western countries first priority is as absurd as it is cynical.

Rishi Sunak has requested an audit of UK military aid to Ukraine.

Whatever his rationale is, it’s made the warmongers in Whitehall anxious.

Arky
December 21, 2022 11:26 am

bespoke says:
December 21, 2022 at 11:16 am
OK we can’t compete in an international market

..
They are considered a geopolitical asset and countries are willing to pay to have those industries.
Stalin was prepared to starve half the country to leverage grain exports into a fledgling manufacturing base.
Has the advancement of technology made such attitudes outdated? Possibly.
But the point is moot when you take into account the billions of dollars now being wasted on crap like the jabs, rooftop solar rubbish and all those government nanny state adverts.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 21, 2022 11:28 am

McConnell: “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans.

Bankrupt-Fraud laundered taxpayer money through Ukraine to both the Dems and the RINOs.
The place is a corrupt pollie’s wet dream. Which is why they’re doing their darndest to make Hunter’s laptop go away, seeing as it has the Bursima stuff on it. So many other leftist pollies will be caught up if the lid is lifted on the can of worms.

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 11:28 am

Arkysays:
December 21, 2022 at 11:18 am
Some of the cash earmarked for renewables and related activities:

There is no generated real economy cash as it is all borrowed money. The taxpayer(s) are/is already overloaded. More debt, more debt, more debt as far as the eye can see…………………….

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 21, 2022 11:29 am

It makes more sense to pay UK politicians to clean out their duck moats on their country properties. At least that creates local work and the ducks aren’t swimming in muck.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
December 21, 2022 11:32 am

Some of the cash earmarked for renewables and related activities:
$20 billion for upgrades to the electricity grid

From 2012…

At the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a proposal that she says would cut household power bills by up to $250 a year. The Prime Minister said the plan would try to stop the so-called “gold plating” of the electricity network, which is the over investment in poles and wires.

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 11:35 am

Peru Uprising

From Armstrong Economics –

“The rise in inflation is causing riots around the world and people are also fed up with corrupt governments everywhere. As our model has been forecasting, the rise in civil unrest is the precursor to the collapse of governments. This is people chasing the military who was protesting the Peru Government. As in the Russian coup when Yeltsin stood on the tank and told the troops not to shoot their own people, once the troops backed down, the coup collapsed. It all depends on the military and whose side do they defend – the people or the corrupt politicians as they have done in Venezuela. Civil Unrest is what unfolds at times as Revolution.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/peru-uprising/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Zipster
December 21, 2022 11:35 am

This is scary.
Paul Joseph Watson

Arky
December 21, 2022 11:35 am

$345 million Electric Car Discount – exempts eligible electric cars from fringe benefits tax (FBT) and the 5 per cent import tariff (where applicable).

..
That’s right ladies, you are still subsidising cars, only now the factories are elsewhere, and the cars are electric.
How do you feel? You went from complaining about subsidising Australians to make cars to complete silence about now subsidising other countries, including our biggest regional threat to make your cars.
Bravo.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
December 21, 2022 11:37 am

They’d be well advised to be diplomatically silent, and let the monomanic twit dig himself into a hole lot of “invite to essential ceromonies only” lists. He’ll be there for a while, ie probably for the loss of PM Albanese and the second ascension of Trump

Ken opines about this question in his usual subtle way.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 11:38 am

Agian you’re assuming we wouldn’t have both I don’t, Arky. Look bottom line it’s the lack of cheep base load power that is the problem. Fix that manufacturing will return but not on a grand scale you like but it will.

Arky
December 21, 2022 11:41 am

bespoke says:
December 21, 2022 at 11:38 am
Agian you’re assuming we wouldn’t have both I don’t

..
I don’t assume anything.
I know that everything, everywhere is always, always, AWAYS corrupt.
If you are waiting for some hypothetical, pure, free alternative to begin, you will never do anything.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 11:44 am

Both owe scenarios are hypothetical, Arky mine doesn’t add to the mess.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
December 21, 2022 11:46 am

What future?

Three 13-year-old girls, three 14-year-old girls and two 16-year-old girls have each been charged with second-degree murder. They can’t be identified due to a provision in the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The girls appeared in court on Sunday and are scheduled to appear in court again on Dec. 29.

They were remanded into custody.

Police haven’t identified the victim, who is from Toronto, as they are working to notify his next-of-kin.

Browne said what’s alleged to have happened is “swarming-type behaviour” but said he wouldn’t call the group a “gang.”

He said the group of girls met each other on social media and come from different parts of the city. It’s not clear how long they have known each other, he said.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9362489/teen-girls-charged-downtown-toronto-murder/

HT
HT
December 21, 2022 11:47 am

Crossie says:
December 21, 2022 at 10:01 am
HT, I remember mid-80s we used to go on picnics on Labor Day weekend in short sleeves and shorts. Though only ten years earlier I wore my long winter coat the same weekend. It depends, 70s we’re cool, 80s and 90s were warm and we are back in the cool period again.

This cyclic pattern of warm and cool periods is what infuriates me about the climate change worshippers. The naive ones are used by the renewables carpetbaggers to push for their financial advantages. Always follow the money.

Winter always starts ANZAC Day. Always! I know because as a soldier we remained in summer uniform until the following Monday after ANZAC Day (no stuff ups changing into winter uniforms). 4:00AM on the 25 April of any year is ?

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 11:48 am

McConnell: “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans.

It’s the number one foreign policy priority, yes. Extremely good ROI for what it is: severely degrading the military capability of a hostile empire without having to risk one American life. The US could hardly envisage a more favourable scenario.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 11:48 am

Zyconoclastsays:
December 21, 2022 at 11:32 am
Some of the cash earmarked for renewables and related activities:
$20 billion for upgrades to the electricity grid

From 2012…

At the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a proposal that she says would cut household power bills by up to $250 a year. The Prime Minister said the plan would try to stop the so-called “gold plating” of the electricity network, which is the over investment in poles and wires.

Note that the $20 billion is the taxpayer “co-investment” towards what the gummint said was an $80 billion project.

The CSIRO has since estimated the total could be up to $500 billion.

Also, this is not the “gold plating” that Gilliard spoke of. This is new networks to connect remote, low energy density, intermittent generators to their customer base.

Arky
December 21, 2022 11:48 am

bespoke says:
December 21, 2022 at 11:44 am
Both owe scenarios are hypothetical, Arky mine doesn’t add to the mess

..
Sorry, I didn’t pick up on what your alternative is.
Can you outline it quickly?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 21, 2022 11:49 am

Ken opines about this question in his usual subtle way.

Prof. Doherty being a lefty probably has no idea what he means.
You have to read more um, widely for that.

Speedbox
December 21, 2022 11:51 am

GreyRanga says:
December 21, 2022 at 8:46 am
When I was a nipper the kid next door had one of those tops that spun and then would flip over on its axis.

Could happen!!!! (just messing with ya 🙂 ). Way back in 1976 American author Allan W Eckert wrote The HAB Theory. The guts of the story is that about every 6,000–7,000 years the Earth’s polar ice caps become over-burdened with ice, creating such an imbalance in the planet’s centre of gravity, that the Earth’s poles and the Earth’s equator shift positions. The former poles are consequently located somewhere between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. Needless to say, you can imagine the devastation and mankind is all but destroyed – especially as the global capsize occurs in a single day. Only a few survive and…….

Anyway, if you can find a copy, it’s a cracking science fiction read.

Also this at Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_HAB_Theory

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 11:51 am

Turns out Musk’s story about a crazed stalker jumping on the roof of his car was bulldust. Actually it was his own security team mowing the bloke down.

Musk’s Security Team Sought for Questioning Over Vehicle Assault
South Pasadena police say 29-year-old man was hit by vehicle
Musk has called incident a threat to his family’s safety

Police are investigating an incident in which a person believed to be a member of Elon Musk’s security team allegedly hit a man with his vehicle, the latest information about a confrontation that the billionaire has said represented a threat to his family’s safety.

The incident occurred the evening of Dec. 13, when authorities in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon involving a vehicle. The alleged victim told officers that another driver confronted him, accusing him of following their car on the freeway, according to a statement Tuesday from the South Pasadena Police Department.

Zipster
December 21, 2022 11:52 am
Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 11:52 am

A lecturer teaching medicine was tutoring a class on ‘Observation’. He took out a jar of yellow-coloured liquid. “This” he explained “is urine. To be a doctor, you have to be observant to colour, smell, sight, and taste”. After saying this, he dipped his finger into the jar and put it into his mouth. His class watched on in amazement, most, in disgust. But being the good students that they were, the jar was passed, and one by one, they dipped one finger into the jar and then put it into their mouth. After the last student was done, the lecturer shook his head. “If any of you had been observant, you would have noticed that I put my second finger into the jar and my third finger into my mouth”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 21, 2022 11:53 am

So Monty are you in favour of the Republicans’* intention to appoint an inspector general to audit and oversee Ukraine spending?

* Some of them, anyway.

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 11:54 am

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

– Julius Caesar

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 11:56 am

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 11:58 am

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 11:48 am
McConnell: “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans.

It’s the number one foreign policy priority, yes. Extremely good ROI for what it is: severely degrading the military capability of a hostile empire without having to risk one American life. The US could hardly envisage a more favourable scenario.

m0nty=fa thinks that risking the start of World War III will not “risk one American life”.

m0nty=fa is a fascist idiot who is happy to see millions die to satisfy his urge to be the world’s greatest chickenhawk.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 11:59 am

So Monty are you in favour of the Republicans’* intention to appoint an inspector general to audit and oversee Ukraine spending?

Sure, fine. Not as if the US has anything to hide. They are funding Ukraine’s war effort to a large extent, this is all out in the open.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 11:59 am

Remove subsidies for ‘renewables’ and allow base load providers to complete unhindered, Arky.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 12:01 pm

It is peculiar that Putin chose to wait until after Trump left office and Biden was settled in to invade Ukraine. His timing was execrable; that was the worst possible time to start the war. Maybe he’s not a strategic genius?

Arky
December 21, 2022 12:05 pm

I get the feeling that with the way capitalism is now being portrayed in the media and schools, that you will soon look back with fondness to the days when we had privately run factories making anything, subsidised or not.
The fashion now is to demonise any sort of production, and to either outlaw it or do a Dan and turn it into a state owned asset.
These aren’t your grandfather’s state run assets either. Bad as that was. In them days the excuse was that the working class was to share in the bounty. Now a days their story is that you, your history, your family and your future are Ill formed and evil and they are seizing the assets to save the world from your continued existence.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 12:06 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 11:59 am
So Monty are you in favour of the Republicans’* intention to appoint an inspector general to audit and oversee Ukraine spending?

Sure, fine. Not as if the US has anything to hide. They are funding Ukraine’s war effort to a large extent, this is all out in the open.

Head firmly inserted in his fundament, m0nty=fa ignores recent events, including the FTX scandal, because they are not mentioned in the DemonRat talking points.

None so blind ….

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 21, 2022 12:06 pm

Interesting article by Dr Phillip Altman and other Aussies over at Trialsite News.

Did National Security Imperatives Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Safety?

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 12:07 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 12:01 pm
It is peculiar that Putin chose to wait until after Trump left office and Biden was settled in to invade Ukraine. His timing was execrable; that was the worst possible time to start the war. Maybe he’s not a strategic genius?

Putin might not be a “strategic genius”, but you are definitely a strategic nincompoop.

alwaysright
alwaysright
December 21, 2022 12:08 pm

Remove subsidies for ‘renewables’ and allow base load providers to complete unhindered, Arky.

Abolish excise, get rid of the state royalties on coal, the state gets their money when the coal is bought for electricity generation (and on it flows). In short, remove all extra taxes on energy and remove all the subsidies.
May the most reliable and cheapest provider win.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 21, 2022 12:08 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

December 21, 2022 at 8:58 am

Today, 21 December, is apparently How To Make Gravy Day.

That soppy rainbow-themed socialist cretin Paul Kelly ruins Christmas every fucking year.

Kelly has some OK songs.
That is not among them.
It shits me that it has been turned into “a Christmas tradition” by Chipple-Jay (h/t Rabz) and his record company.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 12:09 pm

Arkysays:
December 21, 2022 at 12:05 pm

Yes it’s mess and the chance of a correction is getting slimmer every day.

Arky
December 21, 2022 12:12 pm

bespoke says:
December 21, 2022 at 11:59 am
Remove subsidies for ‘renewables’ and allow base load providers to complete unhindered, Arky

..
Agreed.
Unsubsidised they don’t exist, at which point the question becomes nuclear or coal or gas.
But is any of this now politically possible, given that a large chunk of the population have bought the green scam?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
December 21, 2022 12:12 pm

Well strike me down with a feather! whod a thunk it, the ABC biased?

ACMA chair Nerida O’Loughlin said the national broadcaster did not give viewers the opportunity to “make up their own mind”.

“Both audiences and participants are entitled to the full picture. In this case, by omitting information the ABC did not do justice to the story or provide all relevant facts to its audience,” O’Loughlin said.

“Current affairs programs such as Four Corners are not precluded from presenting a particular perspective …but that needs to be balanced against requirements to gather and present information with due impartiality. The ACMA considers that ABC could have taken greater care in striking that balance in this program to avoid perceptions of partiality.”

The ACMA found two breaches of ABC’s Code of Practice, criticising the national broadcaster for “materially misleading” its audience by omitting relevant context about the appearance of two Fox News presenters at a campaign rally for Trump.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 21, 2022 12:14 pm

Sure, fine. Not as if the US has anything to hide. They are funding Ukraine’s war effort to a large extent, this is all out in the open.

So Monty if the Republicans want an auditing Inspector General why is it that the Dems don’t?
Do you support the Democrats in their position of rejecting the appointment of one?

Zipster
December 21, 2022 12:14 pm

you have to hand it to him, like clockwork, smutley is always on point with the latest woke talking points.

alwaysright
alwaysright
December 21, 2022 12:17 pm

given that a large chunk of the population have bought the green scam?

Abandon hope.
We are rooted.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 21, 2022 12:18 pm

Extremely good ROI for what it is: severely degrading the military capability of a hostile empire without having to risk one American life.

How?
Would Russia annexing a chunk of the Ukraine hollow out Americas industrial base, steal massive amounts of its IP, embed spying capabilities in its equipment?
..oh wait thats China.

America is engaged in classic humiliated bully tactics. Having scuttled away from Afghanistan like a whipped cur its military saw Putins (unjust/unjustified) attack on Ukraine as a godsend to avoid having to run the post Vietnam experience all over again.

Monty is turgid thinking of dead Ukrainians and Russian conscripts, while the American political class and military make out like bandits.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 12:19 pm

But is any of this now politically possible, given that a large chunk of the population have bought the green scam?

I wish it wasn’t so but crises usually focuses people’s priorities.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 21, 2022 12:25 pm

It is peculiar that Putin chose to wait until after Trump left office and Biden was settled in to invade Ukraine.

Its a mystery..

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 21, 2022 12:26 pm

The [mining] companies said ministers didn’t understand the tax

Once the regulations for the carbon tax came out the confusion was even worse. We were meant to estimate the emissions of methane, carbon monoxide & dioxide from a pit. Impossible task, the guy interpreting the regulations in the end said pluck a believable figure out of the air and use that as there was no guidence on any measurement metrics or any requirement to show workings.

I see that rotund dimwit Beazley featuring again. He epitomises Snrs quip about the dregs of the middle class. Before he opened his trap I heard there was anger in the veteran community which is likely to inflame now.

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 12:27 pm

There was a farmer who had a brown cow and a white cow and he wanted to get them bred, so borrowed his neighbour’s bull and turned it loose in the pasture. He told his son to watch and come in and tell him when the bull was finished. “Yeah daddy, yeah daddy” said the little boy.

After a while the boy came into the living room where his father was talking with some friends. “Say, Pop” said the boy. “Yes” replied his father. “The bull just fucked the brown cow”.

There was a sudden lull in the conversation. The father said “Excuse me?” and took his son outside.

“Son, you mustn’t use language like that in front of company. You should say ‘the bull SURPRISED the brown cow’. Now go and watch and tell me when the bull ‘SURPRISES’ the white cow”.

The father went back inside the house. After a while the boy came in and said “Hey, Daddy”. “Yes, son. Did the bull surprise the white cow?”

“He sure did, Pop! He fucked the brown cow again!”

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 12:29 pm

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

– Confucius

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 21, 2022 12:35 pm

Over at the Oz, Ernie Dingo finds Australia Day “Divisive.” I’ve news for you, Ernie, I find “Welcome to Country” downright insulting.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 12:35 pm

So Monty if the Republicans want an auditing Inspector General why is it that the Dems don’t?
Do you support the Democrats in their position of rejecting the appointment of one?

No, I do not support the Democrats on that one.

They really should appoint one themselves rather than let the Republicans choose one.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 21, 2022 12:37 pm

– Confucius

Wonder if we’ll be getting any of this from k d wrong over the next few days.? If you want to be wrong for a day read the paper. If you want to be wrong for three years vote Liars. If you want to be wrong for a lifetime ask a teacher.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 12:38 pm

America is engaged in classic humiliated bully tactics. Having scuttled away from Afghanistan like a whipped cur its military saw Putins (unjust/unjustified) attack on Ukraine as a godsend to avoid having to run the post Vietnam experience all over again.

The humiliated bully here is Putin. His military planned for a Gulf War I style sprint to Kyiv and a quick round of victory medals for the generals. Instead it’s the Somme all over again.

Yes, Ukraine was a massively favourable opportunity for Biden. Why did Putin deliver it to him on a silver platter? Was it because Vlad believed his own bulldust?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 21, 2022 12:43 pm

Having gotten Monty to support the MAGA Republicans and condemn the Democrats, for my next trick I’ll get him to support Trump and damn Joe.

That red pill is looking very yummy Monty don’t you think?

lotocoti
lotocoti
December 21, 2022 12:47 pm
Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 12:48 pm

Over at the Oz, Ernie Dingo finds Australia Day “Divisive.” I’ve news for you, Ernie, I find “Welcome to Country” downright insulting.

But it is okay to have a day in Australia, thanks to P Kelly, dedicated to making a British “sauce” that covers meat?

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 12:51 pm
Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 12:54 pm

I think the smoking ceremony was when the whitefella visited indigen lands and, as a way to open up a conversation, would say…

“Anyhow, have a Winfield.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 21, 2022 12:54 pm

But it is okay to have a day in Australia, thanks to P Kelly, dedicated to making a British “sauce” that covers meat?

Sorry, I haven’t listened to Paul Kelly for many years now.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 12:56 pm

That red pill is looking very yummy Monty don’t you think?

Bruce, you may think that you have to support every single thing your man does lest you be judged unworthy as a partisan apparatchik, but that kind of Stalinism is not how everyone thinks.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 21, 2022 12:56 pm

Yes, Ukraine was a massively favourable opportunity for Biden.

And here Monty of Malmo celebrates Biden starting a war by green lighting a “minor incursion” because he hates Russian/Ukrainian conscripts.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 12:57 pm

mole

Monty is turgid thinking of dead Ukrainians and Russian conscripts, while the American political class and military make out like bandits.

Remember when letfards hated US “imperialism” and perpetual war? m0nty=fa doesn’t, and is now happy for the US to provoke Wussia, regardless of the number of casualties. He is relaxed that up to 120,000 Ukrainians might have been killed, and probably a similar number of Russians, with multiples of those numbers injured, including permanent mutilation.

No wonder modern leftards don’t care about the working class these days, they are too busy with corruption and warmongering.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 12:58 pm
Zipster
December 21, 2022 1:02 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
December 21, 2022 1:08 pm

Some good letters from today’s Oz:

Just back from the UK where short days and bitter cold are bringing out the puffer jackets and the wealthy are turning up the home heating.

British news reports are concerned with the energy crisis causing average people to decide on increased debt, zero home heating, petrol for the car or a walk to the pub where the atmosphere is warmer. A lucky few are lighting wood or coal-burning fires at home to keep icicles and huge power bills at bay, and be damned with the air pollution.

Meanwhile, down in Devon and Cornwall, the rain, fog, calm and cloud make redundant the solar farms that cover thousands of hectares of fertile farmlands, and wind turbines stand immobile. It’s a calamitous situation for any country, especially those Western nations trying their best to balance net zero against the cost of people’s lives due to the cold or indeed the heat.

While so-called cheap renewables supply some power sometimes, any person capable of rational, non-activist, non-political thinking will realise the answer to true non-polluting power has not been discovered yet and the current crop are a great big failure.

Peter Robinson, Brighton, Vic

Len Cox (Last Post, 19/12) declared his solar panels generate up to 5500 watts; his power bills are never more than $7; he can charge any future electric car effectively for free. The next day no fewer than five correspondents queried his claims, but none appears to have checked the energy needed to charge an EV. On average, 40 kilowatt hours would allow him to travel 100km, requiring eight hours of sunshine. How would he power his fridge, stove and airconditioner that day? He doesn’t mention a (very expensive) battery – does he read by candlelight in the evenings?

Roslyn Phillips, Tea Tree Gully, SA

What will the Americans make of Kevin Rudd’s programmatic specificity?

David Crommelin, Strathfield, NSW

The Ego Has Landed.

Shaun Miller, Prahran, Vic

So we are sending Kevin Rudd to Washington. Haven’t the Americans suffered enough?

Shane Hughes, Shenton Park, WA

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 21, 2022 1:09 pm

http://www.geoffstuff.com/knee.jpg

Most politically incorrect, but a bloody good laugh!

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 1:09 pm

This is exactly the sort of thing that made America great.

Naked Man Interrupts Several Chicago Online Court Proceedings Masturbating with “Unknown Item” Inserted Up His B*tt

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 1:10 pm

Cronkite, just stop. You can’t interrupt court cases doing that stuff. Enuff!

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 1:12 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 12:56 pm
That red pill is looking very yummy Monty don’t you think?

Bruce, you may think that you have to support every single thing your man does lest you be judged unworthy as a partisan apparatchik, but that kind of Stalinism is not how everyone thinks.

Sez the fool who could never, ever, bring himself to make an unequivocal condemnation of the crimes of communism (over 100 million dead).

To quote m0nty=fa, LOL.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 21, 2022 1:17 pm

It’s called a mousetrap Monty. I caught you in it. I was having fun.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 1:21 pm

Bruce of N

Interesting that a mousetrap can be used to teach a leftard to tap dance. It’s fun to watch m0nty=fa desperately trying to avoid being cancelled by his maaaaaates (as happened when Steve from Brissy and Homer P effectively drove him from his own blog).

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 1:28 pm

Winter always starts ANZAC Day. Always!

Folk in these parts always advise newcomers that first frost is around ANZAC Day.

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 1:29 pm

…that kind of Stalinism is not how everyone thinks.

So take that, you lot!

LOL.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 1:36 pm

I was having fun.

Ah yes, the callsign of the troll who just got caught out on his bullshit.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 21, 2022 1:42 pm

Frank Chung has another article at News com au about Phelps and her criticising AHPRA.

Best mainstream media journalist reporting on Covid for past 2 years.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 21, 2022 1:42 pm

You should all know that Gravy Day is a just consumerist appropriation of the ancient solstice rituals of eating rabbits and releasing scapegoats. Cmon you guys.

Kneel
Kneel
December 21, 2022 1:43 pm

“…this is not the “gold plating” that Gilliard spoke of.”

They never wanted to “gold plate” it – they wanted to create redundancy so the entire grid was reliable and serviceable (as in: able to be maintained).
Look what happened to SA when a storm dropped an interchange feeder – statewide blackout. After that, they want to add extra lines just in case, but when they are looking for more cash for their pork barrelling, it’s “gold plating” the network.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
December 21, 2022 1:51 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
December 21, 2022 at 12:35 pm

Over at the Oz, Ernie Dingo finds Australia Day “Divisive.” I’ve news for you, Ernie, I find “Welcome to Country” downright insulting.

So does Ernie, he laughs and says it was “invented” recently and has no basis in Aboriginal heritage.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 21, 2022 1:52 pm

China is ‘opportunistic’ about what ‘concession’ Labor government can give them
[Seems that the Sky subeditors are fluent in Chinglish]

Hudson Institute Fellow John Lee says China is being “opportunistic” to see what kind of “concession” they can get from the new Labor government.

Straight off the bat: the ‘Uniquely unpleasant and inept’ Kevin Rudd is thrust into Australia’s official relationship with the USA.

In Beijing, Emperor Xi smiles slightly…

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 1:58 pm

Frank Chung has another article at News com au about Phelps and her criticising AHPRA.

I note that yesterday AHPRA announced bureaucratic cuts to fast track foreign doctors, nurses & midwives into practice in Australia. But iirc, the bureucratic process was tightened some years ago after a number of dubious cases were revealed in the press and, in one notorious Qld case, in the criminal courts.

duncanm
duncanm
December 21, 2022 1:59 pm

Mrs Snowcone and Four Corners get a Yellow Card from ACMA. About time but better late than never.

yeh, but ‘we did nuttin!’,

The ABC said it stood by its journalism and disagreed with all three breaches

our internal review said it was A-ok!

ACMA’s findings contradict an ABC review of the complaints outlined by Fox News which dismissed all of its concerns

Zipster
December 21, 2022 2:00 pm

China Health System Under Pressure From COVID Surge, Other Countries Fear Possible Virus Mutations
China in Focus – NTD
01:53 China Health System Under Pressure from COVID-19 Surge, Other Countries Fear Possible Virus Mutations
05:03 How One Chinese Man Became a Twitter Sensation Amid China’s Anti-Lockdown Protests
08:30 World Bank Cuts China Growth Outlook
09:14 Apple to Shift Macbook Production to Vietnam in 2023
10:00 Lighthizer Calls for ‘Strategic Decoupling’ from China
11:47 Taiwan’s President Meets U.S., EU Delegations
13:18 Foxconn Could Face Fine for China Investment

Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 2:02 pm

When I was a Trot in my younger days, I was such an elitist and thought “people are idiots.” I was so well-read and fashionable. I wore a red arm band.

It’s only taken me 15 subsequent years of ongoing conservatism to see that the Left don’t think people are just idiots. They just want people dead – and no generalisation: That’s all Leftists.

From the unborn (abortion), screwing up the young (pro pedos/trans), to the teens (“self realisation” = self harm), to the elderly (suicide) to those of us inbetwixt: Overpopulation, Heat Vs food, Cool Vs drive, Tax Serfdom Vs Outcast, Vax Vs Jobless,…

Some people may be idiots and now I’m pretty sure its the generic Left because all of these Left policies only support wealthy Leftists who want to live in trouble free cities and burbs devoid of any nuisances…like, other people.

Munt: That means the Left will eat you (and there’s plenty to go around) and you don’t even realise it. Sad.

Zipster
December 21, 2022 2:07 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 21, 2022 2:09 pm

ACMA’s findings contradict an ABC review of the complaints outlined by Fox News which dismissed all of its concerns

So one of them is less credible at assessing complaints. Who do we normally turn to for unbiased judgement? A person involved or a person not involved.

custard
custard
December 21, 2022 2:11 pm

#TheirABC has no link to Phelps vaxx injury.

duncanm
duncanm
December 21, 2022 2:11 pm

Lots of Higgins popcorn will be required over the next few months.
Bruce Lehrmann is contemplating suing the ABC over its decision to live broadcast a statement made by Brittany Higgins outside court after his trial was aborted.

Lehrmann has personally asked the ACT bar to investigate ACT DPP.

ACT govt. inquiry into the whole sordid mess.

duncanm
duncanm
December 21, 2022 2:15 pm

#TheirABC has no link to Phelps vaxx injury.

strange, isn’t it.

Just this September they were lauding her Covid advice: NSW Premier’s call to scrap COVID isolation rules is ‘dangerous’, says high-profile GP Kerryn Phelps

Then again just last month for promoting medicinal cannabis

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:16 pm

Elon Musk @elonmusk
I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.

LOL, I tipped this.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 2:18 pm

LOL, I tipped this.

So did everyone else, you fat idiot. He was never going to hands on run Twitter. Get back in the basement and remain there until Brett Sutton says you can leave.

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 2:19 pm

China is ‘opportunistic’ about what ‘concession’ Labor government can give them

Mz. Wong is a woman of steel.

She’ll be right.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:20 pm

He was never going to hands on run Twitter.

Hahahaha, you and the other jokers here were all in on Musk running it day to day.

He obviously got a tap on the shoulder from his investors, who pointed at the free-falling Tesla stock price and his upcoming margin calls.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 21, 2022 2:21 pm

custardsays:
December 21, 2022 at 2:11 pm
#TheirABC has no link to Phelps vaxx injury.

Heres the last story, according to their own search function, that mentions her.

Hemp research push begins with consortium keen for crop expansion
Posted Mon 7 Nov 2022
Professor Kerryn Phelps has been chosen as the cooperative research centre’s chair-elect due to her long-standing connection with hemp and medicinal cannabis as well as her support for the environmental benefits of the crop.

Professor Ash said Professor Phelps, a former federal member of parliament, would bring her expertise as a politician and author to the role.

Prior to that..
2 Nov 2022
15 Aug 2022
22 Jul 2022
2 Jun 20222
11 Mar 2022

And the article where shes still an expert on covid..
31 Dec 2021
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-31/dr-kerryn-phelps-on-navigating-covid-19/13693170

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 2:23 pm

Just this September they were lauding her Covid advice: NSW Premier’s call to scrap COVID isolation rules is ‘dangerous’, says high-profile GP Kerryn Phelps

And on 7 November they described her as the “renowned doctor” who was leading a consortium hoping to make hemp one of Australia’s top crops.

Roger
Roger
December 21, 2022 2:23 pm

Snap, mole.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 2:26 pm

Hahahaha, you and the other jokers here were all in on Musk running it day to day.

He will run it, but day to day doofus. He will call the big shorts.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 21, 2022 2:26 pm

Roger
Both snapped by duncanm

flyingduk
flyingduk
December 21, 2022 2:27 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 21, 2022 2:28 pm

China is ‘opportunistic’ about what ‘concession’ Labor government can give them

Expect much kowtowing then.

Zipster
December 21, 2022 2:28 pm
Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 2:29 pm

Wow Custard! That’s pretty big news in Georgia!!!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

OMG, just had a skim through the Cat for today.

Despite each of these ID have differing characteristics, is there any end result difference between the sheer dickheadsmanship of M0nty, Ed Case & Bird?

(i.e. is there anything to gain by reading any of those three?)

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 21, 2022 2:33 pm

Heading here today:

https://www.travelfish.org/sight_profile/thailand/central_thailand/sa_kaeo/aranyaprathet/4133

Apparently full of mines till recently. Also in a disputed area but unlike other complexes apparently Cambodia is relaxed with Thai presence there.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 2:33 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Elon Musk @elonmusk
I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.

LOL, I tipped this.

You tipped that Twatter would collapse within a short period after Musk took over, too.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 2:37 pm

Despite each of these ID have differing characteristics, is there any end result difference between the sheer dickheadsmanship of M0nty, Ed Case & Bird?

Yes, they are idiots, but they’re not embarrassing blowhards like you. They haven’t gone around defending plagiarists, lying about what others say, blowharding by telling us they’re Labor Royalty and predicting Prince Andrew would be treated like a hero.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:37 pm

Zelensky en route to Washington. I expect the Cat will enjoy seeing Republicans fawn all over him.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 2:38 pm

Whoops

But not day to day..

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 2:38 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 2:37 pm
Zelensky en route to Washington. I expect the Cat will enjoy seeing Republicans fawn all over him.

You mean swamp RINOs, of course?

Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 2:39 pm

You tipped that Twatter would collapse within a short period after Musk took over, too.

BAHAHAHAAH!!!!!

Zipster
December 21, 2022 2:43 pm
m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:46 pm

Twitter has been collapsing. Certainly in revenue terms, as well as less tangible measures like brand value and public trust. Plus its resale value has plummeted. Admittedly, I was half expecting some site downtime by this stage, so good job on that one Egon.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:49 pm

The next question is who in their right mind would take on the job as CEO of Twitter. You have a fool as an owner, a braying mob of customers and a crater where the business model used to be.

Andrew Thorburn, come on down.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 2:51 pm

Twitter has been collapsing.

Evidence please.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 2:53 pm

JC

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 2:46 pm
Twitter has been collapsing. Certainly in revenue terms, as well as less tangible measures like brand value and public trust. Plus its resale value has plummeted. Admittedly, I was half expecting some site downtime by this stage, so good job on that one Egon.

m0nty=fa is trying to muscle in on your financial reporting role, and he’s not doing a very good job.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:53 pm

Evidence please.

Musk wouldn’t be stepping back if things were going well!

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 2:55 pm

m0nty=fa

a braying mob of customers

No, he’s got rid of the DemonRats, FBI, CIA, and many of the other leftard braying donkeys. The rest provide the basis for a useful system, open to a wide range of opinion.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 2:55 pm

m0nty says:
December 21, 2022 at 2:53 pm

Evidence please.

Musk wouldn’t be stepping back if things were going well!

Of course he would. He doesn’t actively run any public company he’s involved with. on a day to day basis. Moreover, you’re a big fat idiot.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 2:57 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 2:53 pm
Evidence please.

Musk wouldn’t be stepping back if things were going well!

LOL, this is what serves as “evidence” in leftard world.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 2:57 pm

It hasn’t even been two months yet and already Musk is stepping down. He literally gave it everything and the kitchen sink. He leaves the company a shattered husk of what it was. Who would take on that job? You would have to give that person a ton of equity to make it worth their while. And not just of Twitter stock, they would need something a bit less unstable.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 21, 2022 2:59 pm

Evidence please.

JC out himself as a white supremacist colonialist nazi sexist transphobe by doubting montys own truth.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 3:03 pm

If you don’t already understand that Twitter has been a disaster under Musk’s leadership given everything that has happened, it’s going to be hard to convince you. Since it’s a private company I can’t point you to canonical revenue reports or a share price – though Tesla’s plummeting stocks are a big red flag.

Vagabond
Vagabond
December 21, 2022 3:04 pm

Rosie said:

I’m not at all impressed with Phelp’s public bleating now, when it pretty doesn’t matter any more because the mass vaccination program happened in 2021.
All we will perhaps see now is more people finding excuses to dip into the taxpayer’s pocket.
The partner was sick last year and, just a wild guess, her pre existing auto immune issues were exacerbated by the vaccine.
Maybe Phelps should have done a bit more research.

I predict that Perfesser Phelps will become an expert in COVID and COVID vaccine related “long” syndromes and will open a special clinic to treat unfortunate victims with permanent disability. Sufferers will flock to it from far and wide. She will be a sought after celebrity and spearhead the campaign for a special medicare item number to treat these conditions as well as government funding for ancillary services such as home help and income support etc.

But what would I know? – I’m just a cynical old former senior doc.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 3:05 pm

It is also hard to convince you lot because you still haven’t got the taste of billionaire boot out of your mouth, not that you even want to because it’s apparently so yummy. The stanning of the super-rich around here is out of control… and of course goes against the other talking point you like to front with, that the Right is on the side of the working class.

turnip
turnip
December 21, 2022 3:09 pm

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

– Mahatma Gandhi

…and Deadlifts. Don’t forget the Deadlifts.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Yes, they are idiots, but they’re not embarrassing blowhards like you. They haven’t gone around defending plagiarists, lying about what others say, blowharding by telling us they’re Labor Royalty and predicting Prince Andrew would be treated like a hero.

More stories Shantaram tells.

Just as with M0nty & his Musk/Twitter analysis – so too Shantaram will be unable to back up with actual evidence any of those claims.
Any of them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 3:10 pm

m0ntty=fa

goes against the other talking point you like to front with, that the Right is on the side of the working class.

Well the leftards certainly aren’t, they are too busy hobnobbing with the Big End of town, implementing actual, as defined, fascism. That leaves the working class to the right, or to One Nation. Which is your preference?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 21, 2022 3:11 pm

Missing in action: two thirds of Germany’s top military kit unusable
Oliver Moody, Berlin
Tuesday December 20 2022, 6.30pm, The Times
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Two thirds of Germany’s most modern artillery kit is unusable, according to a leaked defence ministry assessment that emerged days after an entire contingent of infantry fighting vehicles broke down while training for a Nato mission.

The twin fiascos have drawn attention to the poor condition of the German armed forces’ equipment, just as Berlin begins plugging some of the gaps in its capabilities with a €100 billion rearmament fund.

The Panzerhaubitze 2000, an armoured, self-propelled howitzer developed by Germany’s two biggest arms manufacturers in the 1990s, is regarded as one of the most advanced weapons of its kind in the world. With a range of up to 25 miles when loaded with regular shells, or as much as 40 with rocket-assisted ammunition, it is prized for its high rate of fire and manoeuvrability, which makes it ideally suited to the “shoot and scoot” artillery tactics seen on the battlefields of Ukraine.

Yet at least six of the 14 German howitzers given to the Ukrainians have been sent to Lithuania for repairs, amid a shortage of spare parts.

Similar problems appear to be plaguing the inventory of Germany’s howitzers, owned by the Bundeswehr. Of the 105 Panzerhaubitze guns remaining in German hands, only 73 are currently available to the army, according to an internal government report cited by the Bild newspaper. Roughly half of those are said to be operational. Another 18 are being fixed in the arms industry’s workshops, the report claimed.

Germany has also put its plans to invest in the Puma infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) on hold after all 18 of the vehicles deployed for manoeuvres stopped working over the course of eight days of training. The Bundeswehr’s Pumas, acquired for a total of €6 billion, or €17 million apiece, are said to be the most expensive IFVs in existence.

They were meant to be the backbone of Nato’s German-led Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, a brigade-strength unit that is supposed to be rapidly deployed to guard the alliance’s eastern flank in the event of an invasion.

Yet the German army will have to use the Marder, the Puma’s 50-year-old predecessor, instead after disastrous breakdowns during exercises on a Bundeswehr shooting range. One vehicle was disabled when its wiring caught fire.

The defence ministry had intended to spend several hundred million euros upgrading its fleet of Pumas but the investment has been put “on ice” until the manufacturers can identify the underlying problems.

Field Marshall’s Rommel and Von Manstein would be turning in their graves…….

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It is also hard to convince you lot

Some of us have actually run a business Monty.
Some have significant experience in pulling a business out of a tight spot.
Some have even taken over a distressed business & pulled it out of the hole.
Some have experience with running multiple businesses.

You’re not going to have any ‘cut-through’ with them.
You’ll just look like a naive twit, who has never walked the walk.

Something for you to reflect upon.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 21, 2022 3:14 pm

Boambee Johnsays:

December 21, 2022 at 10:56 am
….
Same here. Start by taking back local government …

I note several people making that point here recently, but the problem lies with local government employees as much as councillors.
Typically council officers lean left, and Green-Left councillors often have public sector or union jobs which afford them considerable time to engage in political activity.
Conversely, conservative councillors often run businesses or work in the private sector and have limited time to devote to political manoeuvring. They will encounter a lot of foot dragging when they ask council officers to implement a conservative agenda, or even find recommendations being put forward by council officers which are diametrically opposed to the explicit intent expressed by councillors.
How do I know this?
I have just engaged in a six month battle trying to prevent several millions of ratepayers money being pissed away. OK, the battle was won in the end, but it was fucking exhausting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 21, 2022 3:16 pm

JCsays:

December 21, 2022 at 2:55 pm

m0nty says:
December 21, 2022 at 2:53 pm

Evidence please.

Musk wouldn’t be stepping back if things were going well!
……..
Of course he would. He doesn’t actively run any public company he’s involved with. on a day to day basis.

This is true.

Moreover, you’re a big fat idiot.

This is really, really true.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Conversely, conservative councillors often …. encounter a lot of foot dragging when they ask council officers to implement a conservative agenda…

Conservative councillors have to treat it as they would their business:
Two options for them to choose from:
1) Musk – sack them.
2) Trump – fire them.

Easy for me to say. Nice theory of mine, reality may differ somewhat.
However, that is what it takes.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 3:19 pm

Sally, I’m sure your vast experience in vacuuming dried vomit off of carpets at 6am would come in really handy for Egon right now.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Sally, I’m sure your vast experience in vacuuming dried vomit off of carpets at 6am would come in really handy for Egon right now.

What a stupid comment.
Besides, Musk does not require my advice or assistance.
He’s sacking underperformers far more ruthlessly than I ever have.
He’s turning the business operation around very swiftly.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 3:22 pm

He’s sacking underperformers far more ruthlessly than I ever have.

He just sacked himself, LOL.

struth
struth
December 21, 2022 3:24 pm

Monty states that Musk is leaving the company which begs the question. ….just how thick do you have to be to be a leftist?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 21, 2022 3:25 pm

JC can you tell us if the Munster is as stupid in real life as he is on a blog. What did you talk about when you wining and dining him. Look if it’s too painful I understand.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

He just sacked himself, LOL.

Handing minutiae & leg work off to a subordinate is not “sacking yourself”

As said above, you’re not at a meeting of arts students now.
There are people on this page who run businesses.
Who have a shedload of skin in their own game.

You want to make stupid undergraduate level clueless comments about how a business operates, go to a union meeting or a gathering of arts students.

You just make yourself look clueless & naive.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 21, 2022 3:29 pm

China is ‘opportunistic’ about what ‘concession’ Labor government can give them

Mz. Wong is a woman of steel.
She’ll be right.

On the road and listening to ABC Radio National this morning, I was mildly alarmed to hear the commentariat discussing the prospects for an imminent reawakening of trade with China. Apparently, the Chinese punters are still gagging for Australian lobsters and wine and barley – and they are taking their cues from the warming relationships between the XiXiP and the Abronese Government.

All that needs to be done, apparently, is for Australia to withdraw its WTO complaints against China, plus a few other tedious bits and pieces, and we’ll all be right. It seems that China is a huuuge potential market for all sorts of Australian goodness.

No sympathy for anyone who decides to build out a Springtime strategic dependency on Xi’s China. Darwin gotcha.

bespoke
bespoke
December 21, 2022 3:29 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
December 21, 2022 at 2:26 pm
Roger
Both snapped by duncanm

Fruity!

rickw
rickw
December 21, 2022 3:34 pm

Australia:

Not enough money to fix the deteriorating Hume Highway.

But enough money to install some new revenue cameras.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 21, 2022 3:35 pm

Buggeure. I have just had a run in with a massive garbage truck in one of Redfern’s narrowest streets, while backing out super-slowly from delivering food to my son and inspecting his dog’s messy ear. They were backing too fast (say I) all the way down this narrow street, for they have no hope of turning in it, and my vision was partially obscured by an illegally parked car. Have organised a vet for the dog but not any repairs yet to the poor little Sporty Beamer’s wonky right-side rear. I will try to put the tail light back together with some sticky tape and check everything still works so (with luck) we can still go down south in it on Christmas Day. Otherwise, travel plan B. I drove it home ok, a little in shock I think. It could have been worse. Hairy proffers a big hug when I get home, so that’s some consolation. Drive safe this Christmas, Cats, and I hope no unforeseen events such as mine happen to you.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
December 21, 2022 3:43 pm

Neither did Daily Telegraph or Herald Sun. Oz did have easy to miss article in paper edition today but Courier Mail only covered it online.

This should be getting much more attention than it has and is further proof of how media all in on the Vax narrative.

TheirABC has no link to Phelps vaxx injury.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 21, 2022 3:53 pm

He just sacked himself, LOL.

He owns it, LOL OMG OMFG ROFL.

lol. LOL.

kthxbai

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 3:54 pm

This MontyPox Virus on the Cat after eating too much Junk food…………………..

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rn2zkf5uwy1w5pr9j.mp4

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 21, 2022 3:54 pm

Sal are you suggesting munty is The Lying Slapper in drag. Could be?

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 3:54 pm

m0ntysays:
December 21, 2022 at 3:19 pm
Sally, I’m sure your vast experience in vacuuming dried vomit off of carpets at 6am would come in really handy for Egon right now.

Well, it is quite likely that many of the former leftard censors who got the sack for colluding with the FBI, CIA, DHS and other government organisations to deprive citizens of their Constitutional rights must have been spewing as they left the building. Strangely you seem uninterested in the occurrence of such minor illegalities under the “old” Twatter.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 21, 2022 3:55 pm

Musk wouldn’t be stepping back if things were going well!

Major mUnty of Malmo making the CEO calls. Just another day in fantasy football offseason.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 3:57 pm

There are people on this page who run businesses.
Who have a shedload of skin in their own game.

I run my own business Sally, have done for 18 years. You can’t get me with that one.

Johnny Rotten
December 21, 2022 4:00 pm

I run my own business Sally, have done for 18 years. You can’t get me with that one.

Yes, but are you running it into the ground with your business ‘wisdom’ being shown here on the Cat?

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 21, 2022 4:03 pm

I run my own business Sally, have done for 18 years. You can’t get me with that one.

Also mUnty, I brought no assets to the marriage.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 4:08 pm

I’d never heard of him until a couple of days ago. How can you possibly make the call as to who’s the best player ever.

The trophy in his hands, shining as bright as that smile, proves it.

“He’s the best in history, no doubt about it, and he showed that in the game. He’s been showing it during the whole tournament,” Rodrigo De Paul told Argentina TV station TyC Sports after Messi and Argentina defeated defending champion France in a penalty shootout in Sunday’s World Cup final.

Speedbox
December 21, 2022 4:10 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
December 21, 2022 at 3:35 pm

Cars are just metal and plastic Lizzie, and the good news is, they’re still making them. As long as nobody was hurt, the rest will sort itself out.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 4:12 pm

You want to make stupid undergraduate level clueless comments about how a business operates, go to a union meeting or a gathering of arts students.

I’ll have you know, young Salvatore, that m0nty=fa is a BIG businessman. Despite failing Economics 1, he successfully runs one of Australia’s top fantasy football websites. Executives of Black Rock shudder and bow in respect when his very name is mentioned around the boardroom table.

Cassie of Sydney
December 21, 2022 4:18 pm

Musk isn’t going anywhere. He’ll simply hand over the day to day running of Twitter to others. He can concentrate on other things. He’s successfully exposed how corrupt and censorious Twitter was prior to him taking over, and he’s enabled a clean up. Well done Elon.

Victor Davis Hanson, in his Youtube discussion the other night with Laurence Fox, compared Elon Musk to progressive hero and all round criminal Sam Bankman-Fried. Musk has built real and tangible things, he’s created companies that build products and create jobs. The progressive hero and all round crook Bankman-Fried has built nothing, although he did create something, an elaborate ponzi crypto scheme to scam money so as to give to progressive causes which earned him kudos. It’s interesting how the left, including the fat fascist fuckwit here, hate Musk because he opened a much needed window to Twitter yet they are still loathe to call out the real criminal here, Sam Bankman-Fried. The left’s hypocrisy knows now bounds.

I should add that Musk isn’t perfect, nobody is, but I’ll take a thousand Elon Musks over one slimy, slithering, duplicitous, criminal progressive named Sam Bankman-Fried.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 21, 2022 4:20 pm

Major mUnty of Malmo. Rake and Bar. How embarrassment. A dribbling idiot who never fails to stop dribbling.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 21, 2022 4:22 pm

Executives of Black Rock shudder and bow in respect when his very name is mentioned around the boardroom table.

Executives of Broken Hill and Wesfarmers go weak at the knees when his very name is mentioned.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 4:22 pm

including the fat fascist fuckwit here,

I can’t imagine who that is, Cass. Don’t leave me in suspense.

duncanm
duncanm
December 21, 2022 4:28 pm

Anyone who’s worked in a large sclerotic organisation, never mind one that is so political, can’t fail to be impressed with the astounding speed at which Musk has wielded the scalpel and exposed all the alphabet-agency criminality.

m0nty’s like the monkey at the zoo flinging shit at the keeper because his rubber toy which he’s been inappropriately abusing was taken away.

duncanm
duncanm
December 21, 2022 4:29 pm

We need a musk at the ABC.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 4:29 pm

SBF is not a progressive. He is just a crook. His “effective altruism” philosophy is just Republicanism by another name, trickle-down economics with extra Peter Singer bullshit, dreamt up by rich people as a post facto justification for their immense wealth.

And don’t throw “oh but he donated to Democrats” at me, well yeah he also donated to dark money Republican PACs too, he was covering all his bases.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 21, 2022 4:31 pm

Top Endersays: December 21, 2022 at 9:47 am

PM needs to recall sad resources saga
PAUL KELLY

Kelly treats us to an essay on how previous governments have fucked up by not understanding the detail behind a complicated, easy to demonise, industry that props up the Australian standard of living.
He ends with this insightful analysis:

In the past week the Albanese government introduced in the teeth of industry hostility a 12-month cap on gas and coal prices plus a longer-run price control system. If the similarities between the Albanese government’s intervention and those of past Labor governments are striking, then so are the differences. Albanese must decide what sort of relations he wants with the sector. The viability of Labor’s policy will hinge on its actual impact.

Similarly to the rest of the MSM, Kelly here assumes that the issue is simply that the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Gas Market) Bill 2022 imposes a 12-month $12/GJ cap on gas producers – who are whinging bastards.
So, no biggie.

What he (and the rest of his colleagues in the Opinion Writer industry) misses is the bigger issue of the Gas Market Code, whereby the Minister may, from time to time, as the fancy takes xer, make regulations covering:

– A positive obligation on the gas producers to negotiate with anyone who claims to be a ‘gas market participant‘ (whether the ‘buyer’ is a hopeful $12 gas buyer, a tyre-kicker, or a Greens activist seeking to clog up the works);
– An as yet undefined required contractual framework;
– Mediation by a government agency between the parties if things get sticky;
– If necessary price arbitration by a government agency – fixed on a price that suits government policy at the time;
– Any other shit that looks like a political goer – down to obtaining a Court Order enforcing supply of gas on imposed terms.

And all evergreen.

So, goodbye free market; hello commercial and operational uncertainty.

Kelly’s ABC colleague, Ian Verrender, agrees as he cheers Team Albanese:

At least the hyperbole has been entertaining.

Santos boss Kevin Gallagher last week described the federal response as “Soviet-style” and “a form of nationalisation” which, given the company is profiting from Russian military aggression, seemed a little rich.

Irony aside, the basic thrust of his argument is that governments shouldn’t interfere in free markets.

Unfortunately, Australia’s east coast gas market is anything but an efficient free market. A quick check of the economic textbooks will tell you that one of the defining characteristics of a “free market” is “many buyers and many sellers”.

When I last held an economic textbook, “many buyers and many sellers” was a characteristic of ‘perfect competition’ in a market – a different economic concept altogether. In Econ 101, a ‘free market’ is usually characterized by the absence of government control in setting key terms between participants.

We are so well served by our Free Market media.

Cassie of Sydney
December 21, 2022 4:37 pm

“SBF is not a progressive. “

Confirmed, the fat fascist fuckwit is a clown, and that perhaps is unfair to clowns.

JMH
JMH
December 21, 2022 4:40 pm

duncanmsays:
December 21, 2022 at 4:28 pm

Anyone who’s worked in a large sclerotic organisation, never mind one that is so political, can’t fail to be impressed with the astounding speed at which Musk has wielded the scalpel and exposed all the alphabet-agency criminality.

Yes. As I said a few days ago, Musk will appoint a front-man, but his hand won’t be far from the controls. In my mind, Musk has done the world an enormous favour – at his own financial expense.

Lysander
Lysander
December 21, 2022 4:44 pm

You’re right Munted, you have no evidence for twitter “going down.” So let’s hypothesize… Let’s say he lost the Nike account worth a few mill and a couple of other accounts (let’s be random) valued at, say, $50M in total (which I think is waaaaaaay overestimated).

Then let’s look at the 7500 employers he’s fired and presume they’re mostly young undergrads with some tech/social/policy background so am presuming an average of $117,000 as rated by Payscale: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Twitter/Salary

Let’s drop that a little cos you’re probably only gonna get paid $30k-$40K as a secretary/admin but this doesn’t take into account twitter’s $17p.a. bonus so I’m going to settle on an average salary of $75K.

That’s a $562,000,000 saving straight up. So, over the course of an average budget cycle of four years, he’s going to save over $2,000,000,000Bn.

If you think I’m being to generous, even with an average salary at a paltry $30K (about your level) he’s still saving $252,000,000 (yes I know savings and earnings aren’t the same but hardly “going down the drain” fatboy).

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 21, 2022 4:46 pm

Monty has ripped the SBF poster from above his bed and put in in the cupboard next to the Barbie & Ken holiday camper.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I run my own business Sally, have done for 18 years. You can’t get me with that one.

Then start acting like it. (just a tip)
Does the business have some capital value, or it is all the value in (snork) “Goodwill”?
How much capital do you have tied up in this “business”? (in multiples of average annual adult wage)
How many permanent staff do you employ?

custard
custard
December 21, 2022 4:48 pm

How long before this #TheirABC presenter NT is cancelled?

https://twitter.com/eleni_roussos/status/1605066852031672320?s=20&t=-wdOWPRxGmP_8XWyDoHDRw

Cassie of Sydney
December 21, 2022 4:52 pm

“Musk has done the world an enormous favour – at his own financial expense.”

Yep.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 4:56 pm

m0nty says:
December 21, 2022 at 4:29 pm

SBF is not a progressive. He is just a crook. His “effective altruism” philosophy is just Republicanism by another name, trickle-down economics with extra Peter Singer bullshit, dreamt up by rich people as a post facto justification for their immense wealth.

And don’t throw “oh but he donated to Democrats” at me, well yeah he also donated to dark money Republican PACs too, he was covering all his bases.

Yep, agreed. He comes from a family of hardcore Republicans. The fact that his parents are mentioned as left-wing Stamford academics is fakenews. He was a closet Trump supporter.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 4:57 pm

Oh God.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 4:59 pm

duncanm

exposed all the alphabet-agency criminality.

We haven’t heard for days from m0nty=fa about the Twatter Files being a big nothingburger, nothing more than photos of Hunter Grunter’s “nine-inch hog”. Then the ex-FBI General Counsel was turfed when it became obvious that he had censored the first release, followed quickly by clear evidence of collusion (real collusion, not Wussia, Wussia, Wussia, pseudo-collusion).

Later releases exposed clear denial of Constitutional rights by a (genuine fascist) arrangement between Big Security State and Big Social Media, with the tentacles also going into FarceChook and other supposedly neutral companies. Had the bias been against the leftard users, there would have already been trials and executions.

m0nty
m0nty
December 21, 2022 5:02 pm

Lysander, your analysis is a bit simplistic.

Musk himself has tweeted that the company is losing US$4M per day due (he said) to the drop in revenue. Now admittedly it was still losing around US$0.6M per day last year, so it was not profitable, but its operational losses are now additionally weighed down by the US$13B debt load that Musk himself brought in to finance the takeover.

Of course there are short-term hits from the severance packages for all those lay-offs, so that will ease off once those flow through (assuming he doesn’t stiff them, Trump style). But doing things like firing entire compliance teams leaves the company open to massive fines, particularly from the EU, for flouting their regulations. He is gambling that the fines will be lesser than the money spent to comply, but that’s a risky proposition because Europe does like to levy big fines and they can hurt his other businesses too.

Whoever the new CEO is – assuming that he can even find someone willing to take on the job – has a very long table in front of them with buckets of shit lined up for frequent consumption.

JMH
JMH
December 21, 2022 5:02 pm

Oh God!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 21, 2022 5:03 pm

Also mUnty, I brought no assets to the marriage.

Bam. Snork.

cohenite
December 21, 2022 5:04 pm

JCsays:
December 21, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Cronkite, just stop. You can’t interrupt court cases doing that stuff. Enuff!

What are you talking about?

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 5:04 pm

Oh look, it’s Angry Karen making an appearance.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 21, 2022 5:05 pm

We need a musk at the ABC.

Been tried with Howard and Sheir. It’s like punching custard. Pretty ineffective against the Hive.

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 5:06 pm

What are you talking about?

The comment just above. This one I posted. I suspected it was you.

JC says:
December 21, 2022 at 1:09 pm

Naked Man Interrupts Several Chicago Online Court Proceedings Masturbating with “Unknown Item” Inserted Up His B*tt

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Boambee John
Boambee John
December 21, 2022 5:06 pm

Salvatore

How many permanent staff do you employ?

I recall that m0nty=fa mentioned once that he employs casuals. This form of employment is anathema to the ALP and the unions, but m0nty=fa is clearly not committed to these annoying elements of leftard philosophy (just as he is not committed to the “difficult” elements of Catholic doctrine).

Clearly a genuine Kulak, they’ve got a little list, they’ve got m0nty=fa on their list.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I recall that m0nty=fa mentioned once that he employs casuals.

Huh?
Employ them full time in a secure job, you cheapskate exploitative wage thief!

JC
JC
December 21, 2022 5:11 pm

You can employ 1000’s of people, B John. What matters is the marginal productivity you extract from each hire. I pretty much doubt an idiot sitting in the middle of FNQ posting jibes on a blog who claims to have had his twitter account stolen (wasting more time) is running the most productive business in the rain forest. That’s just me though.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 21, 2022 5:11 pm

Well well well. This could never, ever be foreseen (the Hun):

The author of the explosive Hawthorn racism report could face criminal charges for allegedly stealing from a body set up to help Indigenous communities, in a major twist in the damaging AFL saga.

Victoria Police detectives have been investigating former Richmond forward Phil Egan for several months over claims he fraudulently obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from Murray Valley Aboriginal Cooperative, including through a bogus invoices scheme.

Nooooo. He would never.

A lawyer for one of the Hawks officials accused of racism said the development could be a “game-changer”.

“Storm clouds are gathering over the integrity of the Hawthorn FC-commissioned report,” the lawyer said.

“If Mr Egan is proved to have engaged in serious wrongdoing, such as to have harmed his own First Nations’ community by the removal of funds, what confidence can anyone have in any investigation process he has managed?”

The grift. It’s relentless.

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  1. Four men have been charged over the theft of a police officer’s gun and ammunition from an unmarked police car…

  2. My insightful comment about Boomers and service station toilet paper kyboshed by Teh Paywallian I’m afraid.

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