Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
1,623 thoughts on “Open Thread – Christmas Weekend 2022”
I think it’s just too hard for some older owners.
I rented an apartment in Lisbon which the guy sublet from elderly people next door. They owned the block of three but refused to take any new tenants in the two upper storey flats because the last couple of tenants had been a nightmare.
Obviously didn’t need the rental income.
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Omaha Beach and Ponte du Hoc;
Villers-Brettoneux;
Walking both those places is one of life’s experiences – I was surprised that anyone made it off Omaha Beach alive.
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JCsays:
December 27, 2022 at 9:55 am
Rosie
We’re thinking of spending June in St. Jean in the South of France
Pack your riot gear.
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You ain’t gonna be getting much change off CentreLink if you own commercial property of any sort …..
Possibly. The assets test and income test work very differently. Not all Centrelink recipients are on the bones of their asses eating cat food out of a tin.
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Pack your riot gear.
If you want to go sheila gawking in the summer, I can’t imagine there’s a better collection anywhere in the civilized world.
I’m glad you can howl with “pureblood” laughter at your daughter’s plight.
All I can do is weep for my little grandchildren who have had no choice in the matter.
The NSW Liberal Leftie was out pretending to be in charge – announcing a made up bag of bullshit green policy … curiously timed – just as the Premier of the state went on annual leave.
This is typical Kean.
Undermining, big noting, photoshoots – aimed at looking like he’s in charge.
In truth, he’s sending all the lemming MPs who turned up as props – quickly into Opposition.
Note how they’re all dressed casually with colours assigned ….but Kean is in a suit. By the way, he has a taxpayer funded photographer taking these photos.
Is there a bigger turd in Australian politics?
From the Comments
– These scum don’t belong in the Liberal Party. They need to be flushed.
This BS spread by the likes of Turdbull and Kean that all state elections were lost because the LNP were moving further to the right is nothing but lies. They will be decimated at the next election because they stand for nothing! They have worked at destroying Menzies legacy!
After Keans performance during the last Federal election he does not deserve to remain in the party let alone be deputy premier.
They are on the road to destruction!
– Wot, no red or green? Investment and jobs? Let’s see how that wanker of an idea pans out! The real cost to the economy and the people will be calamitous. FKNIDIOTS.
– Michael, You asked the question “Is there a bigger turd in Australian politics”
The answer is “Yes, Daniel Andrews”
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Anyone who cannot see what is taking place here is blind. The West NEEDS war to terminate the monetary system as it stands today. They are looking for a war with Russia and China so they can call Bretton Woods II and craft their digital currency managed by the IMF and install their one-world government administered by the United Nations. We will completely lose all freedom and any right to vote whatsoever. Keep in mind that in ALL parliamentary systems, the people never vote for who shall be the head of state. That is unique to the United States. They want to eliminate that ability, Our computer has been warning that we will soon end the right of Americans to vote for a President.
What a delusional prick.
Marnus Labuschagne.
Our latter-day Graeme Wood.
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The plan was to be in Bergerac in July. BA (an airline that merely pretends to be top tier) cancelled the flight from Southampton.
Now it’s a Planes, Trains and Automobiles script to get over there for the booked holiday.
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I am only just getting over Christmas night. We had booked into the best corporate-style accommodation in Nowra, all we could get, which probably for legal reasons in this tale should remain nameless. There was no room at my nephew’s place, there never is at Christmas, temporary beds everywhere including one for my adult son. When in Nowra for Christmas Hairy and I always book a room in town, though usually in a favoured family-style motel not the business-style one.
Thus, after a long lunch that drifted into the early evening, at 8.30pm Hairy and I called it quits and departed for some peace and quiet alone. When we’d checked in that morning they told us that Reception would not be open after 3pm. At 8.30pm this booked-out place was very quiet, most people were still ‘out’. It felt weird walking into dark corridors which then lit up with harsh sensor lights; the room itself turned out to be very contemporary but rather bleak. I said I thought we should turn the aircon on, as the day had been hot and the room faced west. As per instructions, we closed the open wind-in window first, pressed the aircon remote to on – and nothing happened. That continued for the next few goes, although the battery was definitely live and working. While we determined what to do, we tried to reopen the window but it had locked itself fast. The room quickly grew increasingly stuffy and airless. After a further fifteen minutes of it we had to open the door to the corridor, which was also not air-conditioned and thus stuffy too.
We rang the emergency contact number listed on a card in the room. It went to a recorded message, so we left a message. Over the next two hours we left six further messages, of increasing desperation and concern, hoping that the number would be checked and some assistance given to us. At 10.30 I gasped to Hairy that I couldn’t sleep in this room, even with the door open. I’d already tried the one person arriving in our corridor to ask to borrow their aircon remote, but that didn’t work either. Hairy went down to reception to check the emergency number on the closed glass door. It was the same number we were using. He went outside to check the emergency entry voicemail, which also gave that same number, where he left a message saying crossly how was anyone with a non-working keycard able to get in (fortunately our keycards were ok). It was abundantly clear that the night emergency phone was unattended.
What to do? Drive back to Sydney? Not really. Turn up at nephew’s place? No room at all. Go elsewhere? Not a room left in the town, we already knew that. Sit up all night in the airless room? Have to take turns trying to sleep, with the door open to intruders (Nowra is the sort of town where windows are barred). But still the room would be unbearably hot. With us in it breathing it was getting hotter and hotter.
Let’s go to the police, I suggest in desperation, for the Station was walkable, as we checked on our phones. They may know someone responsible for the place. A long shot, but off we trudged into Christmas night. No room at the inn, lol. The woman constable was lovely, sympathetic, tried to ring the same number, saying a gee up from the police might help, but we knew the phone was unattended. She agreed that these large premises accommodating many people should not be left unattended, and noted it down. We returned to the room after a spell in the cool at the Police Station, and I was just bemoaning the situation to another guest in our corridor when a woman with wild hair in bare feet and what stood in for black shorties pajamas came running up saying I’ve just got a message. You’ve got me out of bed, she accuses. Turns out she was somehow in charge, although not really, but not on the number put down for Emergencies. She said she’d put up her number on the inside of the glass door of Reception, and yes, there it was, on a sheet of quarto paper held by one piece of sticky tape in the middle, a telephone number in 12 point typing. That sheet had curled around itself in the heat and was both unnoticed and unreadable. The usual Emergency number was still prominently displayed – and as we had found out, useless.
After checking that our room was totally dysfunctional as claimed, this lady did manage to get into the computer system and put us into a new room with working aircon. We never found out how she discovered our plight. She was more bothered than apologetic. Reception the next morning as we checked out were slightly more concerned, saying their night system was still being ‘sorted out’, but adding that a non-working aircon didn’t strictly come under the category of Emergency. Even if the window has locked down fast? I snapped. We’ll make sure you get a better room with good aircon next time, the two new women at the desk assured us. Fat chance, I didn’t say, that we’d ever deign to set foot in the place again.
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JCsays:
December 27, 2022 at 9:55 am
Rosie
We’re thinking of spending June in St. Jean in the South of France
If you need a car go Eurolease which also applies in US
I don’t think the fraud believes any of the crap. He’s just persuading sub-normal minds, which appears to be pretty easy going from who’s posting this bilge.
Armstrong is really off his bonce.
1. Fake news (“muh supercomputer sez da globalists are going to make the US have a Parliamentary form of government!”)..
2. Makes shit up as he goes along (no Parliamentary govt. system elects their P-resident).
3. Easily deboonked (1. is laughable, 2., see below).
All Irish citizens may vote in presidential elections if they have the right to vote in elections to Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas or parliament).
You’d be a mug to take his “forecasts” seriously, read his columns for advice or invest money with the insufferable twerp.
He’s an amateur, a crook, a conman and a fantasist grifting from and parasiting off the poor saps who want good news, any news re Trump, etc.
Thanks, we may get one locally, but we’ll probably train it down.
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Yep. I would call a commercial shopping strip with excessive vacant tenancies where it is better to leave buildings vacant and unmaintained a market failure. Perhaps not for a text book but certainly socially for the people who live nearby. It’s no surprise that urban renewal often takes place when rents become so cheap artists and others begin to make use of the spaces, attracting yuppies and the cycle begins again.
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I hear tales about Parisian streets covered in excrement but have never seen them ditto smelled droves of malodorous ladies.
Perhaps because I tend to stay somewhere around the 8th and 11th in my three four days before heading home.
Favourite spot is Place de Vosges.
KD should you go to France and are forced to stay in Paris, add Hotel des Invalides to your list, the military museum is pretty good, and if you have any interest, the Shoah memorial in the 4th.
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You’re right JC.
He just popped up in around October 2022, ready to say the correct keywords and memes to fleece gullible conservatives and dissident free thinkers.
He does not believe in what he writes and he does not give a shit.
He stole 3,000,000,000 USD. You’re a braindead moron if you trust him.
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On the Bergerac stuff…the up side is that it has been fun auditioning the various transport scenarios to achieve something that once was very simple…invade France from England.
I reckon D Day had nothing on our reconnaissance of timetables and landing points. I shall make sure I have my mini Bible in the breast pocket in case of stray bullets. The Beloved will have a hip flask for emergencies.
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It’s no surprise that urban renewal often takes place when rents become so cheap artists and others begin to make use of the spaces, attracting yuppies and the cycle begins again.
Come on, man!
That is a huge waste of money and nearly always taxpayer funded yartz! crap.
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Let’s go to the police, I suggest
Ah geez.
She agreed that these large premises accommodating many people should not be left unattended, and noted it down
I will confidently wager the head of my son and heir that whatever it was the ‘lovely’ (i.e., temporarily relieved from boredom in night-time Nowra) Constable noted down, it wasn’t about airconditioning in motel rooms.
The oldest trick going around. ‘Yes, yes madam, I’m writing it all down.’
Excellent story.
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Vaginas aren’t going to start knitting by themselves.
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Sir Donald Bradman is on the latest cancel/kill/woke list.
Unsurprisingly Phat Phil is at the top of the list of woketards commenting.
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Come on, man!
That is a huge waste of money and nearly always taxpayer funded yartz! crap.
Artists haven’t starved in low rent garrets since Gough Whitlam came on the scene.
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‘Sad. Lost letter from Bradman to Fraser after Whitlam’s dismissal reveals “the Don” to be a RWNJ [right-wing nutjob],’ ABC personality Phillip Adams tweeted.
We should immediately build a golden statue of him in Sussex St.
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St Jean near Nice?
Very pretty coast line around there, you have a family connection to the area too, no?
I haven’t ventured right out the cap to St Jean when I stayed in Nice, never enough time to do everything.
Sir Donald Bradman is on the latest cancel/kill/woke list.
It’s really about cancelling the old Australia.
Just wait until the Voice debate gets underway.
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KD should you go to France
Dependent on Powerball, as mentioned.
and are forced to stay in Paris
Only if I could travel back in time to 1941-43 when the market was booming and collaborationist tarts were 20 francs a dozen.
The reason people riot in Paris every second day is obviously because it’s shit.
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It’s a beat up, as should be expected.
Some nonsense about ‘refusing’ to meet Mandela when Bradman was old and out of the media spotlight.
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Letter from Don Bradman to new PM Malcolm Fraser
15 December, 1975
Dear Mr Fraser,
Amidst the pile of congratulatory letters you will be receiving this may well be near the bottom, but it will be high in sincerity. A marvellous victory in which your personal conduct and dignity stood out against the background of arrogance and propaganda indulged in by your opponents. And if I may say so, the charm and bearing of your wife came through with great credit to you both.
Now you may have to travel a long and difficult road along which your enemies will seek to destroy you.
As a non-political person, but a passionate advocate of freedom from socialism (or worse) I do hope your Government will shun attention to trivial matters and concentrate on vital principles.
What the people need are clearly defined rules which they can read and understand so that they can get on with their affairs.
The Statutes Book is currently a nightmare for business, with the Trades Practises Act one of the worst in that even those administering the Act admit they don’t know what is and is not legal.
You have stated you will abolish the P.J.T. I hate it as much as you do and of course it ought to go, eventually. But you know Labor will rant and rave that you cannot have wage restraint if you don’t have control of prices.
Even though their argument is fallacious in that wages set by the Arbitration Court are the MINIMUMS one may pay, whereas prices set by the P.J.T. are the MAXIMUMS you may charge, the Union leaders are past masters at distorting the distinction.
The great enemy today is inflation which, if not brought under control and quickly, will ruin our economy and destroy private enterprise.
You cannot control inflation without controlling wage increases and of course people will object to controlled wages if prices go on rising. By some means or other a way must be found to preserve the purchasing power of money – today’s money, not tomorrow’s money – because otherwise savings, life assurance, superannuation and such like gradually become meaningless.
The way things are presented in the press is most important.
I am Chairman of Directors of a Company which had its years result portrayed in the press as a “bonanza”. I felt constrained to rebuke this description by pointing out that less than 7% on funds after all the work, risk, tribulations etc. was hardly a bonanza when Government Bonds would pay us 10% to do nothing.
The public must be re-educated to believe that private enterprise is entitled to rewards as long as it obeys fair and reasonable rules laid down by Government.
Maybe you can influence leaders of the press to a better understanding of this necessity of presentation.
I hope also your Government will be able to protect “freedom to work”. In society where men are compelled to lose employment unless they are unionists (which has happened recently in this State), where they are prevented from entering premises where they want to work by a handful of “pickets”, there is something radically wrong.
It will be wonderful if we can have three years of Government where you and your Ministers stand above petty squabbles and bickering, but instead concentrate on policies and principles.
Good luck and best wishes in the great and difficult task ahead.
Yours sincerely,
Don Bradman
He was absolutely correct. Hawke and Keating agreed with him; they weren’t perfect, but they were not a complete disaster like the Rudd-Gillard “government”.
The joke of all of this being that Fraser was arguably more left wing than Hawke or Keating and the lefty twitter mob just does their two minutes of hate without any reflection on reality or the nuances of what really happened.
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JC, re your defence of Rosie’s minimising the Paris situation.
What you forgot to do was put together the no-go areas with the current rioting. Drama queens and others can easily see that Paris is not the safest city in the world right now, and ignoring the obvious hyperbowl of “Paris has fallen” (a line from the movies) does your argument no justice.
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The DNA and archeology say that there was never an invasion.
Rubbish! .. England was invaded regularly prior to William the Conqueror settling the matter once and for all! .. Saxons, Vikings, Romans even Picts they all took their turns .. Where I come from Geordieland things were so bad for several centuries that all there ever was was scattered villages cos anything larger got sacked & burned every weekend …….!
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A family member began her journey out of moronic leftism because of Milo. His mockery and ability to pick his way through arguments and make a case was transformative. It takes all kinds. When he appeared on stage in Melbourne astride a Harley Terminator style it was meant to be entertaining. Imagine if he presented as the Liberal candidate for Kooyong. Gay, ‘married’ to a black guy, traditional Catholic, bound to be welcomed by a pre selection panel who are looking to widen their appeal beyond old white guys.
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Writing to the PM is up there with shouting at clouds. I’m still a few years off this. Although being here doesn’t help.
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Sir Donald Bradman is on the latest cancel/kill/woke list.
That’s because he was a bigoted flog, but it doesn’t mean he should be cancelled.
Staunchly anti-Mick, he influenced the selection of friends and co-Proddies in the Strayan team until he became a selector himself. He made oodles of cash from personal tours within tours and gratuities he never allowed for his teammates.
He was a nasty, vindictive midget who hid his nature underneath the image he needed to build his cult. He held grudges against the sons and nephews of his on-field rivals – that is, anyone who took a modicum of attention away from him – in the manner of a feudal lord.
Bradman is yet another example of the tenet that the extraordinarily gifted are not necessarily extraordinary people.
Keep his statues, but use them as both a remembrance and a warning.
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Rubbish! .. England was invaded regularly prior to William the Conqueror settling the matter once and for all! .. Saxons, Vikings, Romans even Picts they all took their turns ..
You can’t argue with DNA. People in English villages are essentially the same as their ancestors in pre-Roman times.
The Irish (Scots) and Danes (Lindisfarne, Danelaw) genuinely invaded.
The Saxons and Picts were most likely there the whole time, before and after the Roman period.
England was once connected to the continent by Doggerland and the Channel. People likely turned up as soon as the Ice Age ended sufficiently, for perhaps 7,000+ years.
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The aircon system in this hotel was individual to each room, so no-one else was having the problem we had and any corridor aircon was turned off. They told us when we checked out that they’d already found the problem in our original room – the aircon was definitely malfunctioning and unable to be switched on, the problem was not with the remote. It’s a shame it happened in one of our hottest rooms after a very hot day, said the receptionist consolingly.
Yes. It was.
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Letter from Don Bradman to new PM Malcolm Fraser
I don’t recall the names, but Bradman’s letter was one of half a dozen Fraser received from prominent Australians, laying out what steps should be taken to rebuild Australia, after the Whitlam Reign of Terror.
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Just don’t wander round Republique in the afternoon evening and you’ll be quite safe.
I quite like Paris, but accommodation is very expensive and there are many many other beautiful towns to visit.
though
Musee D’orsay
Louvre
Sainte Chapelle and its copy in the burbs with another military museum
Day trips to Fountainbleau and Versailles
The tower of St Bart’s
The bus soixante-neuf that takes you from Pere La Chaise along Rue de Rivoli past Place De Vosges and Hotel Sully, Hotel de Ville, Notre Dame, Louvre, Musee D’orsay, Hotel des Invalides and ends in the park of the Eiffel then you can walk and stand on the Trocadera in the same spot as Hitler when he made his fleeting visit.
It’s not so bad.
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Rent our beachhouse for about a $1k a night. We don’t do less than 3 nights. We do offer a discount fo a week. This year across the board rentals are down. This is the lowest occupancy in 7 years. To boost numbers we offered a lower rate but less discount amounting to the same net. Had a scammer trying to rent it for $51k for 3 months. They are the stupidest scammers. Claiming to be overseas but wanted to inspect first. The other thing is renters trying it on to go off platform. We always report them. The platforms are hopeless and we have about 1/3rd private rentals anyway. Pay a heap of tax but the deductions make it still worthwhile improving the place. Capital expenditure only to claim when the place is sold. Having to share with the ATO on the capital gain is going to piss me off. The rate of tax goes down after we live in it. Hopefully going to live there shortly. Waking up to the birds and sun on the water is great. Any damage that gets reported we don’t charge for but if they try to get away with it thinking we won’t notice we charge them. Family is the worst for damage.
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anything larger got sacked & burned every weekend …….!
Nothing like a weekend with the boys and bit of looting, pillaging and defiling.
It must be the viking genes.
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Keep his statues, but use them as both a remembrance and a warning.
‘Progsives’ just don’t get this, KD.
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Well said, Dot, at 11.38.
Some villages in the North added more Scandinavian genes to those already there.
Unlike genes, languages can be acquired, so the linguistic story is very varied.
I’m with Professor David Oppenheimer from Oxford University, who thinks a Germanic language was spoken in parts of England and Scotland alongside Celtic languages, well before the Roman Conquest. Thus my theories about the name origin of Arthur interest him and he has been in contact with me re them.
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“anything got sacked or burned every weekend” ………until I left.
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Minimising?
Like I said we’ve heard this song before.
Srr used to post footage of Termini in Rome saying that was finished too.
Don’t hang around Termini, don’t hang around Sainte Denise and notorious parts of other big cities, not even Melbourne.
French police don’t take too much crap from rioters, a few hundred Kurds is not the beginning of the end.
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He’s an amateur, a crook, a conman and a fantasist grifting from and parasiting off the poor saps who want good news, any news re Trump, etc.
In the old days hed be grifting to a select mail list advertised in the “truth” newspaper sending out mimeographed tracts for his dozen followers.
dear Don Bradman
I am interested in your views and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. By some means or other a way must be found to preserve the purchasing power of money – today’s money, not tomorrow’s money – because otherwise savings, life assurance, superannuation and such like gradually become meaningless.
Inflation rate when the letter was written.
15.11%
Good to see government took his advice to heart and preserved the purchasing power of the little aussie bleeder so well.
https://www.officialdata.org/australia/inflation/1975?amount=1
Value of $1 from 1975 to 2022 $1 in 1975 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $8.01 today, an increase of $7.01 over 47 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 4.53% per year between 1975 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 700.73%.
This means that today’s prices are 8.01 times as high as average prices since 1975, according to the Bureau of Statistics consumer price index. A dollar today only buys 12.484% of what it could buy back then.
The inflation rate in 1975 was 15.11%. The current inflation rate compared to last year is now 7.30%. If this number holds, $1 today will be equivalent in buying power to $1.07 next year.
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Rent our beachhouse for about a $1k a night.
Ours simply became a nuisance. We didn’t try short term rentals with it, kept it for our own use. Let it for a couple of longer term rentals while we lived interstate or overseas for a more than four to six months.
Having the money to spend on travel is much more fun than having the beachhouse.
We can lease someone else’s problem now when we want a week at the beach!
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England was invaded regularly prior to William the Conqueror settling the matter once and for all
And after William I. Regularly, and not counting Scottish land-based invasions and assorted reaving, and also not counting the Channel Islands and smaller raids during the Hundred Years’ War:
The last Danish invasion, 1069;
The French, 1215 (the future Louis VIII was temporarily crowned);
The French and Scottish, 1385;
Henry Bolingbroke (IV), 1399;
The French, 1405;
Henry Tudor (VII), 1485;
Perkin Warbeck and the Flemish, 1495, 1496 and 1497;
William III, 1688; and finally
The French again in 1797.
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Six of the youths — boys aged 14, 16 and 17 and girls aged 12, 13 and 15 — were arrested and taken to hospital for minor injuries.
Police said a number of the youth were known to police.
Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill said strong action will be taken against the offenders.
“We’re outraged. Don’t tell me that a 17-year-old doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong — it’s just unacceptable,” Ms Hill said.
“These offenders need to be, especially at the age of 16 and 17, treated as young adults. These juveniles think because they are juvenile that the courts will be lenient with them.
One of the worst leftist “reforms” that seems to have flown under the radar is the move to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14. This will mean that any offender under 14 will have an immediate get out of jail free card without any assessment or testing to see whether they understand what they have done and form criminal intent. Under the current system children over 10 are not automatically liable, but they need to be developmentally assessed first. Some children in that age range are not all cutsie-pie little angels. Ask any teacher or health professional who works with young people. There is a cohort with serious behavioural disorders that may not be able to be legally diverted into treatment programs if criminality is not recognised at an early enough age. (The effectiveness of such programs is another issue entirely.)
I see the dictator of the democratic people’s republic of Victoriastan has vowed to implement this change immediately and there has been no pushback or adverse comment. It does not bode well.
There is little value in having your best and brightest shunted into regulatory jobs.
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The best beach house, boat, farm … is always someone elses. If invites are a bit sparse, just go the beach.
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You can’t argue with DNA.
Whenever inferences are drawn from data, which is to say in all aspects of science, including DNA analysis & interpretation, there is a discussion to be had.
Beginning Jan. 6, 2021, the government-media deep state cabal sharply pivoted from accusing President Donald Trump of “colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election” to “incitement of insurrection,” a charge for which he was impeached a second time and now the farcical January 6 committee is recommending criminal charges.
As for Trump’s supposed role, in his January 6 speech, he promoted the First Amendment’s protections of “freedom of speech and assembly” and “the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Here are his exact words, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Trump went further tweeting, “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!” How exactly was this a call for a violent overthrow of the government?
This was not a call for violence, revolt, or rebellion. In fact, President Trump authorized National Guard troops, but only Speaker Pelosi or D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser could order deployment. And neither did. The January 6 Commission ignored this.
Capitol Police welcomed protesters inside the U.S. Capitol building, and the only death was at the hands of a Capitol Police officer, fatally shooting an unarmed female military veteran.
As the FBI admitted to embedding informants in the January 6 protests, it begs the question of the FBI’s role in inciting this so-called “insurrection.” How did the FBI know to place informants there? It takes months to train and embed informants, suggesting that the FBI knew these protests would happen, well in advance, but did nothing to stop or prevent them. Or did they play a role in creating these protests through their informants? Did the FBI aid and abet this “insurrection”?
Questioning or challenging election results is hardly unusual. Just ask Al Gore who mounted all sorts of legal and media challenges in 2020. Or Democrats who contested Trump’s 2016 electoral college victory.
Were these insurrections?
What’s the common theme? Government agencies actively promoting one favored political party while damaging their political enemies, Soviet-style, to influence elections and disrupt Constitutionally based government. In other words, an insurrection.
It seems we have a new fourth branch of government, coined “the deep state,” made up of most government agencies and corporate media, all organized and coordinated to run the government, picking electoral winners and losers, from a state and local level to Congress and the White House. Are elections even relevant today or just theater?
How Trump got elected in 2016 is a mystery, as it caught the deep state by surprise. But never again as subsequent elections demonstrated.
Republican leaders are happy to go along with it all, possibly due to their lack of resolve, but more likely as they are a part of the deep state cabal, enjoying the perks of power and wealth in exchange for offering only a façade of resistance.
It’s Donald Trump and his 80 million supporters who are the last bulwark against the deep state embedding its tentacles so deep in government and society that the pretense of a Constitution and Abraham Lincoln’s government of, by, and for the people is relegated to the ash heap of history.
Instead, the focus is on Trump and his supporters, silencing them in a financial or judicial gulag via special counsels, indictments, raids, harassment, and censorship, making a mockery of the Constitution.
Who again are the real insurrectionists?
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“You cannot argue with repeated accurate and precise results from many different independent laboratories using several different methods and have independently verified & audited analytical procedures, following quality guidelines and verifiable, open source, best practice statistical methods, algorithms and software…”
For the those getting high on pedantry.
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The best beach house, boat, farm … is always someone elses
Preach it! 😀
The staff here are currently resting between meal services while the lodgers sun themselves on the beach.
The maintenance crew has just re-dynabolted the gate to its pillar. Mr Three decided to swing on it so hard it lifted out of the masonry.
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How does it impact you personally if a couple of queers want to tie the knot? It has none and the world hasn’t ended. Leave them alone.
The issue is basic values and their subversion. At the time of the gay marriage debate I spoke to an (ex) gay friend and I asked him why he and his mates were bothered with this nomenclature change bullsh.t. I said defacto relationships had the same status as marriages and gay relationships were defacto relationships. He thought about it and then he said they were going after marriage for revenge, for all the oppression gays had to endure. Since then of course we’ve seen the gender perversions: children mutilated, men in female change rooms and prisons, on sporting fields and trannies with dildos on their heads cavorting in front of kids. Bureaucrats on $million salaries won’t define what a woman is and wokism generally is rampant. All of this is part of the march through the institutions and from the Voice to alarmism basic values and institutions which underpin democracy are getting reamed.
You leave them alone.
Also, you’re too focused on homosexuality.
No, it’s focused on me. I’m very handsome.
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New OT at 1pm.
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it wasn’t about airconditioning in motel rooms.
Too right, KD. I think she simply took our names, noted time of arrival and reason for visit. That was good enough for me. She was just a very nice human being who wanted to help if she could and did call that number to offer the arm of the cops to our case. She agreed that premises like that hotel should not be left unattended, for reasons of safety. She was especially concerned when I mentioned my eighty years of life and said that struggling on in the unbreathable room could have given me a heart attack due to my ‘asthma’ (bronchiectasis), for she thought I was very much younger. No-one wants old ladies popping off in the night. Sometimes looking still very spry is not an advantage.
We still don’t know how that sleeping ‘night manager’ got woken up and alerted to our distress.
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Don’t old turds like Adams ever go away?
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Rosie, Menton is a good place to stop too. You can get good accomodation between water and railway which will take you into Nice via Monte. Or the other way into Italy.
Price points are reasonable. We stayed at the Hotel de Londres a couple of years ago. Not fancy but cute.
Bear I’ve had all 3 of them. Each has suited at the time. I still miss the yacht. Not as much as the Hartley of course, nobody would.
St Jean near Nice?
Very pretty coast line around there, you have a family connection to the area too, no?
I haven’t ventured right out the cap to St Jean when I stayed in Nice, never enough time to do everything.
Yea, St Jean Cap Ferrat. We went through there ages ago and promised we’d go back and stay.
1/2 my mother’s heritage is from Nice. The frogs took it over in the 1850s/60s and there was an ethnic cleansing or more accurately, a political cleansing and her grandma was chucked out when she was a kid with her folks. The old house is probably still around. The French Riviera is basically Italian anyway. 🙂
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In fact, O’Reilly summed up his feelings when he complained to a board member, “You have to play under a Protestant to know what it’s like”.
O’Reilly followed Fingleton’s footsteps to become a journalist, and kept following them further while criticising the great man relentlessly. Funnily, the two anti-Bradman friends were in the Press Box together when the master was bowled off the second ball by Eric Hollies in his final Test innings, and they have been reported to have become hysterical with laughter.
Nevertheless, O’Reilly claimed that he was silent about his deepest feelings about Bradman. “You don’t piss on statues,” as he put it.
However, Bradman’s genius with the bat shone through even through the most unpalatable bitterness. O’Reilly did go on to say that compared with Bradman, batsmen like Greg Chappell and Allan Border were mere “child’s play”.
KD’s appraisal of “a nasty, vindictive midget” is overly generous.
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He thought about it and then he said they were going after marriage for revenge, for all the oppression gays had to endure.
Yep. Most of the activist gays don’t want tolerance, or acceptance – they want victory. To defeat and destroy their enemy, Christianity.
Many of the non-activist gays might be decent people who just want to be left alone, but how would anyone know? Our friends in the media only present the other mob to us.
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Over 70 Chinese warplanes cross Taiwan median in biggest incursion so far
It’s a good thing we’re resetting our relationship with them.
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I mostly agree with you cronkite. But a couple of fags tying the knot? No one takes that nonsense seriously anyway.
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If you want to go sheila gawking in the summer, I can’t imagine there’s a better collection anywhere in the civilized world.
Any tips for the uncivilised world?
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Any tips for the uncivilised world?
Who cares? 🙂
Most of the activist gays don’t want tolerance, or acceptance – they want victory.
That well known Irish philosophe and raconteur Dave Allen predicted this back in the 1970s.
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Damn straight, areff.
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Any tips for the uncivilised world?
The whole world is uncivilised…
Doesn’t matter where you go 🙁
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KD’s appraisal of “a nasty, vindictive midget” is overly generous.
Did he have red hair as well??
Most of the activists don’t want tolerance, or acceptance – they want victory. To defeat and destroy their enemy, Civilization..
Feminism, environmentalism, QWERTY people, the In-Voice, all can NEVER be appeased. Nothing can be remaining as its all caused hurty feelings to someone, somewhere, sometime.
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I’ve always wondered why Texas governor, Greg Abbott , is in a wheel chair.
Now I know why.
Many Texans ask why Governor Greg Abbott is in a wheelchair. His story is one of triumph over tragedy.
On a summer day in July 1984, Governor Greg Abbott, a 26-year-old recent law school graduate, decided to take a break from studying for the bar exam by going for a jog in a west Houston neighborhood as he’d done many times before. While out running, a large oak tree along his path cracked and fell on Governor Abbott’s back, leaving him forever paralyzed from the waist down.
After being rushed to the hospital, doctors discovered several crushed vertebrae splintering into his spinal cord, broken ribs, and damage to vital organs.
As he lay in a hospital bed, throttled with incomprehensible pain, doctors worked to piece his vertebrae back together. They inserted two steel rods near his spine, which will remain there for the rest of his life. During his harrowing recovery process, Governor Abbott was reminded of lessons he’d learned all his life, especially the lesson of perseverance.
Through this experience, Governor Abbott learned that our lives aren’t defined by our challenges. Instead, we define our lives by how we respond to those challenges. His triumph over tragedy shows that Governor Greg Abbott doesn’t back down from challenges, but uses his lessons in perseverance to overcome them.
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The whole world is uncivilised…Doesn’t matter where you go
Two world wars didn’t help.
By c. 1960 I think we were fast running through what was left of the civilisational capital built up by previous generations.
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Many of the non-activist gays might be decent people who just want to be left alone, but how would anyone know? Our friends in the media only present the other mob to us.
Happens in all groups.
Always regard self appointed leaders with suspicion.
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“He was a nasty, vindictive midget who hid his nature underneath the image he needed to build his cult. He held grudges against the sons and nephews of his on-field rivals – that is, anyone who took a modicum of attention away from him – in the manner of a feudal lord.
Bradman is yet another example of the tenet that the extraordinarily gifted are not necessarily extraordinary people.”
That’s what I’ve heard too. Sid Barnes was a close friend of my grandparents. He didn’t think much of Bradman as a human being.
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You can’t argue with DNA.
You can and win, if you’ve got enough dosh.
See: O.J. Simpson. People in English villages are essentially the same as their ancestors in pre-Roman times.
You’re a bit mixed up there.
DNA analysis of graves from the 6th C. in some English villages shows the people then are the same as todays, but the 6th C. was a few hundred years Post Roman occupation.
A QLD police spokesperson told NCA NewsWire no arrests have been made in relation to the incident and investigations are ongoing.
Could police possibly be any more useless and yet dangerous? Why people should always retain the right to sort shit out themes.
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Themselves.
Auto screw up set on high.
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rabz. Probably a bit late. Anyway.
Apply the rule of “which course of action will I regret the least”.
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Oh KD, one thing I forgot to mention that the helpful constable in Nowra did was, as this hotel was part of a franchised chain, to call the Wollongong one and see if they perhaps had a contact for the local Nowra franchise owners. Sadly, they didn’t, but it was a good shot to try with the force of the cops behind it. Maybe that’s how we finally got some action – who knows?
I am very much in favour of the police as a community service. They are great. In past times, given my various rellies and their proclivity for mental outbursts, I have had to call police for assistance. They are trained and very good at this job. With teenagers, they are better than any counsellors. Wayward teens respond well to a kindly but authoritative cop, that’s been my experience, whereas they scoff at counselling. In the old days I think the local cops working in communities did a lot to set kids straight.
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“He was a nasty, vindictive midget who hid his nature underneath the image he needed to build his cult. He held grudges against the sons and nephews of his on-field rivals – that is, anyone who took a modicum of attention away from him – in the manner of a feudal lord.
Bradman is yet another example of the tenet that the extraordinarily gifted are not necessarily extraordinary people.”
One guess who wrote this shit.
It’s a hard world out there and Cricket isn’t a Ladies Game.
Bradman wasn’t in great health by 1946, and he didn’t want to continue playing Cricket, but he was talked into it by the Board.
That was the reason for the Knighthood in 1949.
Sid Barnes wasn’t a team player and he’d managed to alienate pretty much all his supporters by the time the NSWCA ended his career in 1952.
Could police possibly be any more useless and yet dangerous? Why people should always retain the right to sort shit out themes.
Only reason to call police these days is if you’re short on money and can’t afford to have your dog put down humanely…
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A beautiful sunny and windy day here in South Australia, already hit 40C.
We’re only producing 80% of our electricity though!
Please you guys in the eastern states, keep the coal and gas going won’t you?
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The window catch in that room was also faulty as well as the aircon, the Receptionist admitted to me.
Why don’t they check these things?
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Rush has interesting doco on Venice and the crusades.
Time for forget about it all now and head for the new fred.
When it’s up.
Sad Case defends Adelaide’s Nibelung.
No surprise
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Please you guys in the eastern states, keep the coal and gas going won’t you?
So you want to buy some kilowatt hours? Made with COAL.
You being from SA and all, it will cost a leetle more.
Wait until QLD ditches the interconnectors. That’s when you will find out what a barbwire canoe looks like.
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And the winner is.
Can’t be long before “known to police” is mentioned.
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I’ve day tripped to Menton, much preferred staying in Nice, where we were near the port and just around the hill from the old town.
Menton seemed, dare I say it, a little dull in comparison, though quite pretty between the sea and the snow, and walking up the hill on our way back to Nice, to get that first view of Monaco, superb.
Just as Ottawa publicly acknowledges that its assisted suicide regime might have gone too far, critics have highlighted the existence of a little-known medical assistance in dying children’s activity book that was funded by the Canadian government.
We’ve seen dystopian stories of who exactly Trudeau’s government has targeted with their euthanasia program — those suffering from hearing loss, the poor, etc. — but now, children are in the crosshairs.
Hopper asserts that the publisher declared the activity book was not meant for children themselves seeking assisted suicide, but rather for “young people who have someone in their life who may have MAID” — but the social conditioning of the publication is conspicuous (the target audience is children between the ages of six and 12)
Per Hopper:
Children are guided through the “three medicines” that constitute the lethal injection process, and are urged not to attempt to change the mind of a family member who has opted for assisted death.
“As much as other people may want to change their mind, the person who is choosing MAID probably wishes just as strongly that they could change their illness or condition and how it is affecting their life,” it reads.
The booklet explains that, “The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep. They may yawn or snore or mumble.”
(A tone of innocence to cover over the suffering of a patient and premeditated murder.)
See images below:
The writing is on the wall. Conceding to depravity doesn’t buy a ceasefire, it just buys you the slightest bit of time. Wickedness is never satiated, and believing so would be pure folly. Governments throughout history hold the record for mass murder: age has never mattered, why would it now?
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Yes, Roger. I recall Dave Allen when the UK legalised homosexuality: ‘Fair enough, as long as they don’t make it compulsory.’
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JC at 10:53.
After I left trading , I learned a new thing in life. There are a lot of complete dickheads populating the world.
You didn’t discover this whilst you were in trading world?
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On cricketers’ reminiscence, a journo once asked that kindest and most genial of men Stan McCabe if he was planning to write memoirs. ‘No,’ replied Stan, ‘I’ve never hated anyone enough.’
Driving down a Melbourne inner suburbs road just now, and overtaken by an electric scooter travelling at least at 60 kph.
But the rider was wearing a helmet so that’s OK.
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On travel to Paris.
Yes, there are places I wouldn’t go within the city. As a rule of thumb, any arrondissement with a number in double figures deserves close scrutiny.
But if a city having a “no – go” or precautionary area is the criteria for putting a red line through it, I would suggest there are no large cities in the Americas and most of Europe you would visit.
As for citizens in rural and regional areas being more accommodating than those in the cities, that is true the world over too.
And the arrogant, rude French? Outside a few toffy restaurants and hotels, where some staff raise indifference to customers to the level of an art form, that is also a myth.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
December 27, 2022 at 11:12 am
Marnus Labuschagne.
Our latter-day Graeme Wood.
5 run-outs in 55 innings.
As a young bloke I used to open the batting with a “class batsmen” who was also a shit runner.
One particular day we bowled the opposition out on day one with 20 minutes to bat before stumps.
Got away to a good start and knocked off 25-30 of the target. One over to go and I tell him I’ll take it and “no silly short singles”. It was almost as if the mere mention of suicide runs triggered something in his lizard brain. I push one just a little bit away from cover and call a loud “NO!”.
Nek minnit, without uttering a call, he is right on top of me. I take off and get run out by 7-8 yards.
After that, I and others in the top order made a pact (without telling the coach) that we would stand our ground and let him burn himself.
Three run-outs in a season and he was cured.
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KD at 11:23.
Yes.
The real test would be to ring the Nowra station and ask for the police report number.
Because, if there is no number, they have not “written it down”.
A Bic ballpoint moving up and down on the back of a Maccas bag is not “writing it down” in any meaningful way.
It goes along with 000 calls for “there’s a huntsman behind my sun visor”.
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Wait until QLD ditches the interconnectors. That’s when you will find out what a barbwire canoe looks like.
Yep. Been saying this for a while. As soon as it becomes politically advantageous to keep domestically generated electricity for intrastate use it will be real Lord of the Flies stuff (particularly with Pony Club generators still government owned).
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The demise of my Christmas has resulted in a shortage of leftovers and a surplus of Toblerone. I suspect I won’t be in great shape later today without some self restraint.
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The demise of my Christmas has resulted in a shortage of leftovers and a surplus of Toblerone.
Tell me it’s not one of those huge shiny blocks found in duty free, that Chinese love.
it will be real Lord of the Flies stuff
And on top of all that a whale will take out the bass strait cables, so no Tassie hydro.
Lots of fried whale turns up on Van Dieman’s Land beaches.
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Don’t think I have had my best idea by playing bowls today. Very thermal on the green but seeing as though I drove, I can’t cool down from the inside out. Have to make do with soft drink lol
Goodness gracious me. The Hun:
A storm has erupted over the sensational backlash towards Australian icon Sir Donald Bradman.
There has been significant twist in the public debate with many Australian commentators coming forward to defend the legendary cricketer after calls on social media for “The Don” to be “cancelled”.
Bradman, known as one of history’s greatest sportsmen, has been dead for 21 years. But now, a dusty old letter addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, two days after the 1975 dismissal election, has apparently “exposed” the former cricketing great as a “right wing nutjob”.
In the letter, which was unearthed by Federation University’s Verity Archer, Bradman urged the new PM to scrap regulations on capital and warned of the risks inflation poses to Australia.
“A marvellous victory in which your personal conduct and dignity stood out against the background of arrogance and propaganda indulged in by your opponents,” Bradman wrote.
“Now you may have to travel a long and difficult road along which your enemies will seek to destroy you.”
Bradman — who was 67 at the time of writing the letter — also warned Mr Fraser about the power of unions and urged for the public to be “re-educated to believe private enterprise is entitled to rewards, as long as it obeys the rules”.
“What the people need are clearly defined rules which they can read and understand so that they can get on with their affairs,” Bradman continued.
“The public must be re-educated to believe that private enterprise is entitled to rewards as long as it obeys fair and reasonable rules laid down by government. Maybe you can influence leaders of the press to a better understanding of this necessity of presentation.”
A swarm of commentators and Twitter users have now leapt to his defence.
His reputation as a magician at the crease helped pull through Australia through the Great Depression of the 1930s — and his record 99.94 average is still far and beyond the most iconic statistic in a game ruled by numbers.
So it’s no surprise the attempted pile-on — on Boxing Day no less — was met with pushback from public figures across the country.
Federal Liberal Party Vice President Teena McQueen told Sky News host Rita Panahi: “It’s absolutely disgraceful that they are now trying to cancel one of the greatest Australians. It’s unbelievable”.
Panahi said the “woke” current cricket team led by Test captain Pat Cummins should be more like Bradman.
She said Bradman’s views have been misrepresented and described the backlash as “quite disgraceful”.
Renowned Indigenous leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine wrote on Twitter: “It’s actually a LWNJ attack”.
Nationals MP and former deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack was among those pushing back on Twitter.
The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair wrote in a column: “We need more statues of Bradman”.
ABC reporter Gareth Hutchins wrote: “There are other Bradman letters worth writing about. Like his letters to protesters in the 70s, in which he asked them to explain to him why they didn’t want the apartheid-era South African cricket team to tour Australia. He listened to them, and he ended up cancelling the tour.
“What an enormous s**t take,” founder of Cato Advisory Tim Findlay said.
“Focusing on the opinion of others yet no criticism of the actual message in the letter which, given the state of the economy and Bradman’s role as a company chairman, was to be expected of a man doing his job.”
Social media users and journalists were earlier divided over the famed member of the 1948 “Invincibles” team’s views.
Former Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula posted.
Sydney Morning Herald writer Daniel Brettig described the letter as “extraordinary” and said it showed Bradman’s attempt at an “intervention at an explosive moment in Australian political history”.
Broadcaster Phillip Adams wrote, “Sad. Lost letter from Bradman to Fraser after Whitlam’s dismissal reveals ‘the Don’ to be a RWNJ [right-wing nutjob].”
Others social media users said The Don was well known as a “thoroughly nasty piece of work”.
Former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Clem Jones previously described Bradman — who claimed to live a “non-political” life — as a “bigoted right-wing politician”.
“Bradman was quite right-wing,” Mr Jones told Inside Story in 2007.
“He was the best chairman of any organisation I’ve had anything to do with, absolutely outstanding. But he was a bigoted, right-wing politician. People say he wasn’t political — he was, and very much so.”
” I love Paris in the springtime…” is in a minor key for a reason. My tips:
Don’t forget to stay in La Chapelle – it’s near the centre of Paris. You get to see Mogadishu close up without having to go there. As an aside, and I am certainly not making any generalisations, but , er, if you are a young woman don’t go out on your own. By the way some of the train drivers refuse to stop there.
When you get hassled by gypsies and the like, yell in Arabic ( “Emshi, emshi) – that stops them in their tracks as the Arabs do not tolerate them.
The train to and from the airport – put any jewelry and wallets in a place that can’t be grabbed easily. Get a seat where you can hold your bag.
Finally when the Parisians are rude and impatient, go slow, take your time and watch them fume. The place is a tinder box. The Olympics will have to be an armed encampment. see 2022 UEFA Champions League Final, Bataclan, Stade de France..
The churches are empty or set on fire. There is a reason they are heading to Australia. But if you are situationally aware, adventurous and tough, you’ll…..love Paris ever moment of the year.
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he was a bigoted, right-wing politician. People say he wasn’t political — he was, and very much so.
If The Don had written a congratulatory letter to Whitlam (eg) he would still be a great Australian, adored by mouthy bigots like Adams.
I’m guessing the Don doesn’t give a rats after being dead 21 years. Happy to be proved wrong. It’s never too late to get cancelled.
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JohnJJJ – almost as good as ScMo’s Lara Bingle ad.
Alas it is so hard to fellate the memory of The Great Man now. Ask Mavis.
Hey guys,
is there some secret meeting going on here? I know you know there is a new fred, I have seen some of you there.
Do you need to know the password and the secret handshake to join?
Knuckles 27/12 @, 11.37
I must apologise , I totally mis read you.
A young manager was leaving the office late one evening when he saw the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in her hand. “Listen” said the CEO “this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work?” “Certainly!” said the young manager. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper and pressed the start button. “Excellent, excellent!” said the CEO as her paper disappeared inside the machine. “I just need one copy.
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I talked to a homeless man this morning and asked him how he ended up this way. He said “Up until last week, I still had it all. I had plenty to eat, my clothes were washed and pressed, I had a roof over my head, I had TV and Internet, and I went to the gym, the pool, and the library. I was working on my MBA on-line. I had no bills and no debt. I even had full medical coverage”. I felt sorry for him, so I asked “What happened? Drugs? Alcohol? Divorce?” “Oh no, nothing like that” he said. “No, no… I was paroled”.
I think it’s just too hard for some older owners.
I rented an apartment in Lisbon which the guy sublet from elderly people next door. They owned the block of three but refused to take any new tenants in the two upper storey flats because the last couple of tenants had been a nightmare.
Obviously didn’t need the rental income.
Walking both those places is one of life’s experiences – I was surprised that anyone made it off Omaha Beach alive.
Pack your riot gear.
Possibly. The assets test and income test work very differently. Not all Centrelink recipients are on the bones of their asses eating cat food out of a tin.
If you want to go sheila gawking in the summer, I can’t imagine there’s a better collection anywhere in the civilized world.
I’m glad you can howl with “pureblood” laughter at your daughter’s plight.
All I can do is weep for my little grandchildren who have had no choice in the matter.
Snake-in-chief leftist Matt Kean at it again
Few people in Australian politics need to be flushed more than Matt Kean.
The NSW Liberal Leftie was out pretending to be in charge – announcing a made up bag of bullshit green policy … curiously timed – just as the Premier of the state went on annual leave.
This is typical Kean.
Undermining, big noting, photoshoots – aimed at looking like he’s in charge.
In truth, he’s sending all the lemming MPs who turned up as props – quickly into Opposition.
Note how they’re all dressed casually with colours assigned ….but Kean is in a suit. By the way, he has a taxpayer funded photographer taking these photos.
Is there a bigger turd in Australian politics?
From the Comments
– These scum don’t belong in the Liberal Party. They need to be flushed.
This BS spread by the likes of Turdbull and Kean that all state elections were lost because the LNP were moving further to the right is nothing but lies. They will be decimated at the next election because they stand for nothing! They have worked at destroying Menzies legacy!
After Keans performance during the last Federal election he does not deserve to remain in the party let alone be deputy premier.
They are on the road to destruction!
– Wot, no red or green? Investment and jobs? Let’s see how that wanker of an idea pans out! The real cost to the economy and the people will be calamitous. FKNIDIOTS.
– Michael, You asked the question “Is there a bigger turd in Australian politics”
The answer is “Yes, Daniel Andrews”
What a delusional prick.
Marnus Labuschagne.
Our latter-day Graeme Wood.
The plan was to be in Bergerac in July. BA (an airline that merely pretends to be top tier) cancelled the flight from Southampton.
Now it’s a Planes, Trains and Automobiles script to get over there for the booked holiday.
I am only just getting over Christmas night. We had booked into the best corporate-style accommodation in Nowra, all we could get, which probably for legal reasons in this tale should remain nameless. There was no room at my nephew’s place, there never is at Christmas, temporary beds everywhere including one for my adult son. When in Nowra for Christmas Hairy and I always book a room in town, though usually in a favoured family-style motel not the business-style one.
Thus, after a long lunch that drifted into the early evening, at 8.30pm Hairy and I called it quits and departed for some peace and quiet alone. When we’d checked in that morning they told us that Reception would not be open after 3pm. At 8.30pm this booked-out place was very quiet, most people were still ‘out’. It felt weird walking into dark corridors which then lit up with harsh sensor lights; the room itself turned out to be very contemporary but rather bleak. I said I thought we should turn the aircon on, as the day had been hot and the room faced west. As per instructions, we closed the open wind-in window first, pressed the aircon remote to on – and nothing happened. That continued for the next few goes, although the battery was definitely live and working. While we determined what to do, we tried to reopen the window but it had locked itself fast. The room quickly grew increasingly stuffy and airless. After a further fifteen minutes of it we had to open the door to the corridor, which was also not air-conditioned and thus stuffy too.
We rang the emergency contact number listed on a card in the room. It went to a recorded message, so we left a message. Over the next two hours we left six further messages, of increasing desperation and concern, hoping that the number would be checked and some assistance given to us. At 10.30 I gasped to Hairy that I couldn’t sleep in this room, even with the door open. I’d already tried the one person arriving in our corridor to ask to borrow their aircon remote, but that didn’t work either. Hairy went down to reception to check the emergency number on the closed glass door. It was the same number we were using. He went outside to check the emergency entry voicemail, which also gave that same number, where he left a message saying crossly how was anyone with a non-working keycard able to get in (fortunately our keycards were ok). It was abundantly clear that the night emergency phone was unattended.
What to do? Drive back to Sydney? Not really. Turn up at nephew’s place? No room at all. Go elsewhere? Not a room left in the town, we already knew that. Sit up all night in the airless room? Have to take turns trying to sleep, with the door open to intruders (Nowra is the sort of town where windows are barred). But still the room would be unbearably hot. With us in it breathing it was getting hotter and hotter.
Let’s go to the police, I suggest in desperation, for the Station was walkable, as we checked on our phones. They may know someone responsible for the place. A long shot, but off we trudged into Christmas night. No room at the inn, lol. The woman constable was lovely, sympathetic, tried to ring the same number, saying a gee up from the police might help, but we knew the phone was unattended. She agreed that these large premises accommodating many people should not be left unattended, and noted it down. We returned to the room after a spell in the cool at the Police Station, and I was just bemoaning the situation to another guest in our corridor when a woman with wild hair in bare feet and what stood in for black shorties pajamas came running up saying I’ve just got a message. You’ve got me out of bed, she accuses. Turns out she was somehow in charge, although not really, but not on the number put down for Emergencies. She said she’d put up her number on the inside of the glass door of Reception, and yes, there it was, on a sheet of quarto paper held by one piece of sticky tape in the middle, a telephone number in 12 point typing. That sheet had curled around itself in the heat and was both unnoticed and unreadable. The usual Emergency number was still prominently displayed – and as we had found out, useless.
After checking that our room was totally dysfunctional as claimed, this lady did manage to get into the computer system and put us into a new room with working aircon. We never found out how she discovered our plight. She was more bothered than apologetic. Reception the next morning as we checked out were slightly more concerned, saying their night system was still being ‘sorted out’, but adding that a non-working aircon didn’t strictly come under the category of Emergency. Even if the window has locked down fast? I snapped. We’ll make sure you get a better room with good aircon next time, the two new women at the desk assured us. Fat chance, I didn’t say, that we’d ever deign to set foot in the place again.
JCsays:
December 27, 2022 at 9:55 am
Rosie
We’re thinking of spending June in St. Jean in the South of France
If you need a car go Eurolease which also applies in US
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I don’t think the fraud believes any of the crap. He’s just persuading sub-normal minds, which appears to be pretty easy going from who’s posting this bilge.
Armstrong is really off his bonce.
1. Fake news (“muh supercomputer sez da globalists are going to make the US have a Parliamentary form of government!”)..
2. Makes shit up as he goes along (no Parliamentary govt. system elects their P-resident).
3. Easily deboonked (1. is laughable, 2., see below).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_presidential_election
All Irish citizens may vote in presidential elections if they have the right to vote in elections to Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas or parliament).
You’d be a mug to take his “forecasts” seriously, read his columns for advice or invest money with the insufferable twerp.
He’s an amateur, a crook, a conman and a fantasist grifting from and parasiting off the poor saps who want good news, any news re Trump, etc.
Thanks, we may get one locally, but we’ll probably train it down.
Yep. I would call a commercial shopping strip with excessive vacant tenancies where it is better to leave buildings vacant and unmaintained a market failure. Perhaps not for a text book but certainly socially for the people who live nearby. It’s no surprise that urban renewal often takes place when rents become so cheap artists and others begin to make use of the spaces, attracting yuppies and the cycle begins again.
I hear tales about Parisian streets covered in excrement but have never seen them ditto smelled droves of malodorous ladies.
Perhaps because I tend to stay somewhere around the 8th and 11th in my three four days before heading home.
Favourite spot is Place de Vosges.
KD should you go to France and are forced to stay in Paris, add Hotel des Invalides to your list, the military museum is pretty good, and if you have any interest, the Shoah memorial in the 4th.
You’re right JC.
He just popped up in around October 2022, ready to say the correct keywords and memes to fleece gullible conservatives and dissident free thinkers.
He does not believe in what he writes and he does not give a shit.
He stole 3,000,000,000 USD. You’re a braindead moron if you trust him.
On the Bergerac stuff…the up side is that it has been fun auditioning the various transport scenarios to achieve something that once was very simple…invade France from England.
I reckon D Day had nothing on our reconnaissance of timetables and landing points. I shall make sure I have my mini Bible in the breast pocket in case of stray bullets. The Beloved will have a hip flask for emergencies.
Come on, man!
That is a huge waste of money and nearly always taxpayer funded yartz! crap.
Ah geez.
I will confidently wager the head of my son and heir that whatever it was the ‘lovely’ (i.e., temporarily relieved from boredom in night-time Nowra) Constable noted down, it wasn’t about airconditioning in motel rooms.
The oldest trick going around. ‘Yes, yes madam, I’m writing it all down.’
Excellent story.
Vaginas aren’t going to start knitting by themselves.
Sir Donald Bradman is on the latest cancel/kill/woke list.
Unsurprisingly Phat Phil is at the top of the list of woketards commenting.
Artists haven’t starved in low rent garrets since Gough Whitlam came on the scene.
We should immediately build a golden statue of him in Sussex St.
St Jean near Nice?
Very pretty coast line around there, you have a family connection to the area too, no?
I haven’t ventured right out the cap to St Jean when I stayed in Nice, never enough time to do everything.
It’s really about cancelling the old Australia.
Just wait until the Voice debate gets underway.
Dependent on Powerball, as mentioned.
Only if I could travel back in time to 1941-43 when the market was booming and collaborationist tarts were 20 francs a dozen.
The reason people riot in Paris every second day is obviously because it’s shit.
It’s a beat up, as should be expected.
Some nonsense about ‘refusing’ to meet Mandela when Bradman was old and out of the media spotlight.
He was absolutely correct. Hawke and Keating agreed with him; they weren’t perfect, but they were not a complete disaster like the Rudd-Gillard “government”.
The joke of all of this being that Fraser was arguably more left wing than Hawke or Keating and the lefty twitter mob just does their two minutes of hate without any reflection on reality or the nuances of what really happened.
JC, re your defence of Rosie’s minimising the Paris situation.
What you forgot to do was put together the no-go areas with the current rioting. Drama queens and others can easily see that Paris is not the safest city in the world right now, and ignoring the obvious hyperbowl of “Paris has fallen” (a line from the movies) does your argument no justice.
The DNA and archeology say that there was never an invasion.
Rubbish! .. England was invaded regularly prior to William the Conqueror settling the matter once and for all! .. Saxons, Vikings, Romans even Picts they all took their turns .. Where I come from Geordieland things were so bad for several centuries that all there ever was was scattered villages cos anything larger got sacked & burned every weekend …….!
A family member began her journey out of moronic leftism because of Milo. His mockery and ability to pick his way through arguments and make a case was transformative. It takes all kinds. When he appeared on stage in Melbourne astride a Harley Terminator style it was meant to be entertaining. Imagine if he presented as the Liberal candidate for Kooyong. Gay, ‘married’ to a black guy, traditional Catholic, bound to be welcomed by a pre selection panel who are looking to widen their appeal beyond old white guys.
Writing to the PM is up there with shouting at clouds. I’m still a few years off this. Although being here doesn’t help.
That’s because he was a bigoted flog, but it doesn’t mean he should be cancelled.
Staunchly anti-Mick, he influenced the selection of friends and co-Proddies in the Strayan team until he became a selector himself. He made oodles of cash from personal tours within tours and gratuities he never allowed for his teammates.
He was a nasty, vindictive midget who hid his nature underneath the image he needed to build his cult. He held grudges against the sons and nephews of his on-field rivals – that is, anyone who took a modicum of attention away from him – in the manner of a feudal lord.
Bradman is yet another example of the tenet that the extraordinarily gifted are not necessarily extraordinary people.
Keep his statues, but use them as both a remembrance and a warning.
You can’t argue with DNA. People in English villages are essentially the same as their ancestors in pre-Roman times.
The Irish (Scots) and Danes (Lindisfarne, Danelaw) genuinely invaded.
The Saxons and Picts were most likely there the whole time, before and after the Roman period.
England was once connected to the continent by Doggerland and the Channel. People likely turned up as soon as the Ice Age ended sufficiently, for perhaps 7,000+ years.
The aircon system in this hotel was individual to each room, so no-one else was having the problem we had and any corridor aircon was turned off. They told us when we checked out that they’d already found the problem in our original room – the aircon was definitely malfunctioning and unable to be switched on, the problem was not with the remote. It’s a shame it happened in one of our hottest rooms after a very hot day, said the receptionist consolingly.
Yes. It was.
I don’t recall the names, but Bradman’s letter was one of half a dozen Fraser received from prominent Australians, laying out what steps should be taken to rebuild Australia, after the Whitlam Reign of Terror.
Just don’t wander round Republique in the afternoon evening and you’ll be quite safe.
I quite like Paris, but accommodation is very expensive and there are many many other beautiful towns to visit.
though
Musee D’orsay
Louvre
Sainte Chapelle and its copy in the burbs with another military museum
Day trips to Fountainbleau and Versailles
The tower of St Bart’s
The bus soixante-neuf that takes you from Pere La Chaise along Rue de Rivoli past Place De Vosges and Hotel Sully, Hotel de Ville, Notre Dame, Louvre, Musee D’orsay, Hotel des Invalides and ends in the park of the Eiffel then you can walk and stand on the Trocadera in the same spot as Hitler when he made his fleeting visit.
It’s not so bad.
Rent our beachhouse for about a $1k a night. We don’t do less than 3 nights. We do offer a discount fo a week. This year across the board rentals are down. This is the lowest occupancy in 7 years. To boost numbers we offered a lower rate but less discount amounting to the same net. Had a scammer trying to rent it for $51k for 3 months. They are the stupidest scammers. Claiming to be overseas but wanted to inspect first. The other thing is renters trying it on to go off platform. We always report them. The platforms are hopeless and we have about 1/3rd private rentals anyway. Pay a heap of tax but the deductions make it still worthwhile improving the place. Capital expenditure only to claim when the place is sold. Having to share with the ATO on the capital gain is going to piss me off. The rate of tax goes down after we live in it. Hopefully going to live there shortly. Waking up to the birds and sun on the water is great. Any damage that gets reported we don’t charge for but if they try to get away with it thinking we won’t notice we charge them. Family is the worst for damage.
Nothing like a weekend with the boys and bit of looting, pillaging and defiling.
It must be the viking genes.
‘Progsives’ just don’t get this, KD.
Well said, Dot, at 11.38.
Some villages in the North added more Scandinavian genes to those already there.
Unlike genes, languages can be acquired, so the linguistic story is very varied.
I’m with Professor David Oppenheimer from Oxford University, who thinks a Germanic language was spoken in parts of England and Scotland alongside Celtic languages, well before the Roman Conquest. Thus my theories about the name origin of Arthur interest him and he has been in contact with me re them.
“anything got sacked or burned every weekend” ………until I left.
Minimising?
Like I said we’ve heard this song before.
Srr used to post footage of Termini in Rome saying that was finished too.
Don’t hang around Termini, don’t hang around Sainte Denise and notorious parts of other big cities, not even Melbourne.
French police don’t take too much crap from rioters, a few hundred Kurds is not the beginning of the end.
He’s an amateur, a crook, a conman and a fantasist grifting from and parasiting off the poor saps who want good news, any news re Trump, etc.
In the old days hed be grifting to a select mail list advertised in the “truth” newspaper sending out mimeographed tracts for his dozen followers.
dear Don Bradman
I am interested in your views and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
By some means or other a way must be found to preserve the purchasing power of money – today’s money, not tomorrow’s money – because otherwise savings, life assurance, superannuation and such like gradually become meaningless.
Inflation rate when the letter was written.
15.11%
Good to see government took his advice to heart and preserved the purchasing power of the little aussie bleeder so well.
https://www.officialdata.org/australia/inflation/1975?amount=1
Value of $1 from 1975 to 2022
$1 in 1975 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $8.01 today, an increase of $7.01 over 47 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 4.53% per year between 1975 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 700.73%.
This means that today’s prices are 8.01 times as high as average prices since 1975, according to the Bureau of Statistics consumer price index. A dollar today only buys 12.484% of what it could buy back then.
The inflation rate in 1975 was 15.11%. The current inflation rate compared to last year is now 7.30%. If this number holds, $1 today will be equivalent in buying power to $1.07 next year.
Ours simply became a nuisance. We didn’t try short term rentals with it, kept it for our own use. Let it for a couple of longer term rentals while we lived interstate or overseas for a more than four to six months.
Having the money to spend on travel is much more fun than having the beachhouse.
We can lease someone else’s problem now when we want a week at the beach!
And after William I. Regularly, and not counting Scottish land-based invasions and assorted reaving, and also not counting the Channel Islands and smaller raids during the Hundred Years’ War:
The last Danish invasion, 1069;
The French, 1215 (the future Louis VIII was temporarily crowned);
The French and Scottish, 1385;
Henry Bolingbroke (IV), 1399;
The French, 1405;
Henry Tudor (VII), 1485;
Perkin Warbeck and the Flemish, 1495, 1496 and 1497;
William III, 1688; and finally
The French again in 1797.
Six of the youths — boys aged 14, 16 and 17 and girls aged 12, 13 and 15 — were arrested and taken to hospital for minor injuries.
Police said a number of the youth were known to police.
Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill said strong action will be taken against the offenders.
“We’re outraged. Don’t tell me that a 17-year-old doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong — it’s just unacceptable,” Ms Hill said.
“These offenders need to be, especially at the age of 16 and 17, treated as young adults. These juveniles think because they are juvenile that the courts will be lenient with them.
One of the worst leftist “reforms” that seems to have flown under the radar is the move to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14. This will mean that any offender under 14 will have an immediate get out of jail free card without any assessment or testing to see whether they understand what they have done and form criminal intent. Under the current system children over 10 are not automatically liable, but they need to be developmentally assessed first. Some children in that age range are not all cutsie-pie little angels. Ask any teacher or health professional who works with young people. There is a cohort with serious behavioural disorders that may not be able to be legally diverted into treatment programs if criminality is not recognised at an early enough age. (The effectiveness of such programs is another issue entirely.)
I see the dictator of the democratic people’s republic of Victoriastan has vowed to implement this change immediately and there has been no pushback or adverse comment. It does not bode well.
Can you imagine if this was proposed, let alone implemented in Caberrahhhh?
Utah axes degree requirement for 98% of civil servant jobs
There is little value in having your best and brightest shunted into regulatory jobs.
The best beach house, boat, farm … is always someone elses. If invites are a bit sparse, just go the beach.
Whenever inferences are drawn from data, which is to say in all aspects of science, including DNA analysis & interpretation, there is a discussion to be had.
There Certainly Was an Insurrection, But Not by Trump
Beginning Jan. 6, 2021, the government-media deep state cabal sharply pivoted from accusing President Donald Trump of “colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 presidential election” to “incitement of insurrection,” a charge for which he was impeached a second time and now the farcical January 6 committee is recommending criminal charges.
As for Trump’s supposed role, in his January 6 speech, he promoted the First Amendment’s protections of “freedom of speech and assembly” and “the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Here are his exact words, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Trump went further tweeting, “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!” How exactly was this a call for a violent overthrow of the government?
This was not a call for violence, revolt, or rebellion. In fact, President Trump authorized National Guard troops, but only Speaker Pelosi or D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser could order deployment. And neither did. The January 6 Commission ignored this.
Capitol Police welcomed protesters inside the U.S. Capitol building, and the only death was at the hands of a Capitol Police officer, fatally shooting an unarmed female military veteran.
As the FBI admitted to embedding informants in the January 6 protests, it begs the question of the FBI’s role in inciting this so-called “insurrection.” How did the FBI know to place informants there? It takes months to train and embed informants, suggesting that the FBI knew these protests would happen, well in advance, but did nothing to stop or prevent them. Or did they play a role in creating these protests through their informants? Did the FBI aid and abet this “insurrection”?
Questioning or challenging election results is hardly unusual. Just ask Al Gore who mounted all sorts of legal and media challenges in 2020. Or Democrats who contested Trump’s 2016 electoral college victory.
Were these insurrections?
What’s the common theme? Government agencies actively promoting one favored political party while damaging their political enemies, Soviet-style, to influence elections and disrupt Constitutionally based government. In other words, an insurrection.
It seems we have a new fourth branch of government, coined “the deep state,” made up of most government agencies and corporate media, all organized and coordinated to run the government, picking electoral winners and losers, from a state and local level to Congress and the White House. Are elections even relevant today or just theater?
How Trump got elected in 2016 is a mystery, as it caught the deep state by surprise. But never again as subsequent elections demonstrated.
Republican leaders are happy to go along with it all, possibly due to their lack of resolve, but more likely as they are a part of the deep state cabal, enjoying the perks of power and wealth in exchange for offering only a façade of resistance.
It’s Donald Trump and his 80 million supporters who are the last bulwark against the deep state embedding its tentacles so deep in government and society that the pretense of a Constitution and Abraham Lincoln’s government of, by, and for the people is relegated to the ash heap of history.
Instead, the focus is on Trump and his supporters, silencing them in a financial or judicial gulag via special counsels, indictments, raids, harassment, and censorship, making a mockery of the Constitution.
Who again are the real insurrectionists?
“You cannot argue with repeated accurate and precise results from many different independent laboratories using several different methods and have independently verified & audited analytical procedures, following quality guidelines and verifiable, open source, best practice statistical methods, algorithms and software…”
For the those getting high on pedantry.
Preach it! 😀
The staff here are currently resting between meal services while the lodgers sun themselves on the beach.
The maintenance crew has just re-dynabolted the gate to its pillar. Mr Three decided to swing on it so hard it lifted out of the masonry.
How does it impact you personally if a couple of queers want to tie the knot? It has none and the world hasn’t ended. Leave them alone.
The issue is basic values and their subversion. At the time of the gay marriage debate I spoke to an (ex) gay friend and I asked him why he and his mates were bothered with this nomenclature change bullsh.t. I said defacto relationships had the same status as marriages and gay relationships were defacto relationships. He thought about it and then he said they were going after marriage for revenge, for all the oppression gays had to endure. Since then of course we’ve seen the gender perversions: children mutilated, men in female change rooms and prisons, on sporting fields and trannies with dildos on their heads cavorting in front of kids. Bureaucrats on $million salaries won’t define what a woman is and wokism generally is rampant. All of this is part of the march through the institutions and from the Voice to alarmism basic values and institutions which underpin democracy are getting reamed.
You leave them alone.
Also, you’re too focused on homosexuality.
No, it’s focused on me. I’m very handsome.
New OT at 1pm.
Too right, KD. I think she simply took our names, noted time of arrival and reason for visit. That was good enough for me. She was just a very nice human being who wanted to help if she could and did call that number to offer the arm of the cops to our case. She agreed that premises like that hotel should not be left unattended, for reasons of safety. She was especially concerned when I mentioned my eighty years of life and said that struggling on in the unbreathable room could have given me a heart attack due to my ‘asthma’ (bronchiectasis), for she thought I was very much younger. No-one wants old ladies popping off in the night. Sometimes looking still very spry is not an advantage.
We still don’t know how that sleeping ‘night manager’ got woken up and alerted to our distress.
Don’t old turds like Adams ever go away?
Rosie, Menton is a good place to stop too. You can get good accomodation between water and railway which will take you into Nice via Monte. Or the other way into Italy.
Price points are reasonable. We stayed at the Hotel de Londres a couple of years ago. Not fancy but cute.
Bear I’ve had all 3 of them. Each has suited at the time. I still miss the yacht. Not as much as the Hartley of course, nobody would.
Another look at the ChinaVirus hoax Twitter files
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1607426112895987712?s=20&t=8n4yok5TC2MefUlHoalaNQ
Over 70 Chinese warplanes cross Taiwan median in biggest incursion so far | DW News
Yea, St Jean Cap Ferrat. We went through there ages ago and promised we’d go back and stay.
1/2 my mother’s heritage is from Nice. The frogs took it over in the 1850s/60s and there was an ethnic cleansing or more accurately, a political cleansing and her grandma was chucked out when she was a kid with her folks. The old house is probably still around. The French Riviera is basically Italian anyway. 🙂
In fact, O’Reilly summed up his feelings when he complained to a board member, “You have to play under a Protestant to know what it’s like”.
O’Reilly followed Fingleton’s footsteps to become a journalist, and kept following them further while criticising the great man relentlessly. Funnily, the two anti-Bradman friends were in the Press Box together when the master was bowled off the second ball by Eric Hollies in his final Test innings, and they have been reported to have become hysterical with laughter.
Nevertheless, O’Reilly claimed that he was silent about his deepest feelings about Bradman. “You don’t piss on statues,” as he put it.
However, Bradman’s genius with the bat shone through even through the most unpalatable bitterness. O’Reilly did go on to say that compared with Bradman, batsmen like Greg Chappell and Allan Border were mere “child’s play”.
more here: http://cricmash.com/conflicts-controversies/2015/1/24/don-bradmans-rifts-with-his-teammates-especialy-bill-oreilly-and-jack-fingleton
KD’s appraisal of “a nasty, vindictive midget” is overly generous.
Yep. Most of the activist gays don’t want tolerance, or acceptance – they want victory. To defeat and destroy their enemy, Christianity.
Many of the non-activist gays might be decent people who just want to be left alone, but how would anyone know? Our friends in the media only present the other mob to us.
It’s a good thing we’re resetting our relationship with them.
I mostly agree with you cronkite. But a couple of fags tying the knot? No one takes that nonsense seriously anyway.
If you want to go sheila gawking in the summer, I can’t imagine there’s a better collection anywhere in the civilized world.
Any tips for the uncivilised world?
Who cares? 🙂
That well known Irish philosophe and raconteur Dave Allen predicted this back in the 1970s.
Damn straight, areff.
The whole world is uncivilised…
Doesn’t matter where you go 🙁
KD’s appraisal of “a nasty, vindictive midget” is overly generous.
Did he have red hair as well??
Most of the activists don’t want tolerance, or acceptance – they want victory. To defeat and destroy their enemy, Civilization..
Feminism, environmentalism, QWERTY people, the In-Voice, all can NEVER be appeased. Nothing can be remaining as its all caused hurty feelings to someone, somewhere, sometime.
I’ve always wondered why Texas governor, Greg Abbott , is in a wheel chair.
Now I know why.
Two world wars didn’t help.
By c. 1960 I think we were fast running through what was left of the civilisational capital built up by previous generations.
Happens in all groups.
Always regard self appointed leaders with suspicion.
“He was a nasty, vindictive midget who hid his nature underneath the image he needed to build his cult. He held grudges against the sons and nephews of his on-field rivals – that is, anyone who took a modicum of attention away from him – in the manner of a feudal lord.
Bradman is yet another example of the tenet that the extraordinarily gifted are not necessarily extraordinary people.”
That’s what I’ve heard too. Sid Barnes was a close friend of my grandparents. He didn’t think much of Bradman as a human being.
You can’t argue with DNA.
You can and win, if you’ve got enough dosh.
See: O.J. Simpson.
People in English villages are essentially the same as their ancestors in pre-Roman times.
You’re a bit mixed up there.
DNA analysis of graves from the 6th C. in some English villages shows the people then are the same as todays, but the 6th C. was a few hundred years Post Roman occupation.
A QLD police spokesperson told NCA NewsWire no arrests have been made in relation to the incident and investigations are ongoing.
Could police possibly be any more useless and yet dangerous? Why people should always retain the right to sort shit out themes.
Themselves.
Auto screw up set on high.
rabz. Probably a bit late. Anyway.
Apply the rule of “which course of action will I regret the least”.
Oh KD, one thing I forgot to mention that the helpful constable in Nowra did was, as this hotel was part of a franchised chain, to call the Wollongong one and see if they perhaps had a contact for the local Nowra franchise owners. Sadly, they didn’t, but it was a good shot to try with the force of the cops behind it. Maybe that’s how we finally got some action – who knows?
I am very much in favour of the police as a community service. They are great. In past times, given my various rellies and their proclivity for mental outbursts, I have had to call police for assistance. They are trained and very good at this job. With teenagers, they are better than any counsellors. Wayward teens respond well to a kindly but authoritative cop, that’s been my experience, whereas they scoff at counselling. In the old days I think the local cops working in communities did a lot to set kids straight.
One guess who wrote this shit.
It’s a hard world out there and Cricket isn’t a Ladies Game.
Bradman wasn’t in great health by 1946, and he didn’t want to continue playing Cricket, but he was talked into it by the Board.
That was the reason for the Knighthood in 1949.
Sid Barnes wasn’t a team player and he’d managed to alienate pretty much all his supporters by the time the NSWCA ended his career in 1952.
Only reason to call police these days is if you’re short on money and can’t afford to have your dog put down humanely…
A beautiful sunny and windy day here in South Australia, already hit 40C.
We’re only producing 80% of our electricity though!
Please you guys in the eastern states, keep the coal and gas going won’t you?
The window catch in that room was also faulty as well as the aircon, the Receptionist admitted to me.
Why don’t they check these things?
Rush has interesting doco on Venice and the crusades.
Time for forget about it all now and head for the new fred.
When it’s up.
Sad Case defends Adelaide’s Nibelung.
No surprise
So you want to buy some kilowatt hours? Made with COAL.
You being from SA and all, it will cost a leetle more.
Four males questioned after woman killed in home invasion in North Lakes, in the Moreton Bay region
Place your bets.
And the winner is.
Wait until QLD ditches the interconnectors. That’s when you will find out what a barbwire canoe looks like.
Can’t be long before “known to police” is mentioned.
I’ve day tripped to Menton, much preferred staying in Nice, where we were near the port and just around the hill from the old town.
Menton seemed, dare I say it, a little dull in comparison, though quite pretty between the sea and the snow, and walking up the hill on our way back to Nice, to get that first view of Monaco, superb.
Women-only swimming sessions and lessons:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-27/migrant-swimmers-join-women-only-lessons/101805708
But don’t you dare suggest any recognition of the cultural sensitivities of Christian fascist bigots.
Canada’s euthanasia program sets its sights on children
Just as Ottawa publicly acknowledges that its assisted suicide regime might have gone too far, critics have highlighted the existence of a little-known medical assistance in dying children’s activity book that was funded by the Canadian government.
We’ve seen dystopian stories of who exactly Trudeau’s government has targeted with their euthanasia program — those suffering from hearing loss, the poor, etc. — but now, children are in the crosshairs.
Hopper asserts that the publisher declared the activity book was not meant for children themselves seeking assisted suicide, but rather for “young people who have someone in their life who may have MAID” — but the social conditioning of the publication is conspicuous (the target audience is children between the ages of six and 12)
Per Hopper:
Children are guided through the “three medicines” that constitute the lethal injection process, and are urged not to attempt to change the mind of a family member who has opted for assisted death.
“As much as other people may want to change their mind, the person who is choosing MAID probably wishes just as strongly that they could change their illness or condition and how it is affecting their life,” it reads.
The booklet explains that, “The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep. They may yawn or snore or mumble.”
(A tone of innocence to cover over the suffering of a patient and premeditated murder.)
See images below:
The writing is on the wall. Conceding to depravity doesn’t buy a ceasefire, it just buys you the slightest bit of time. Wickedness is never satiated, and believing so would be pure folly. Governments throughout history hold the record for mass murder: age has never mattered, why would it now?
Yes, Roger. I recall Dave Allen when the UK legalised homosexuality: ‘Fair enough, as long as they don’t make it compulsory.’
JC at 10:53.
You didn’t discover this whilst you were in trading world?
On cricketers’ reminiscence, a journo once asked that kindest and most genial of men Stan McCabe if he was planning to write memoirs. ‘No,’ replied Stan, ‘I’ve never hated anyone enough.’
Bari Weiss gets schooled
https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1607510903905259520?s=20&t=8n4yok5TC2MefUlHoalaNQ
Dimitry makes some 2023 predictions/sarc
https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487338401206273?s=20&t=8n4yok5TC2MefUlHoalaNQ
Driving down a Melbourne inner suburbs road just now, and overtaken by an electric scooter travelling at least at 60 kph.
But the rider was wearing a helmet so that’s OK.
On travel to Paris.
Yes, there are places I wouldn’t go within the city. As a rule of thumb, any arrondissement with a number in double figures deserves close scrutiny.
But if a city having a “no – go” or precautionary area is the criteria for putting a red line through it, I would suggest there are no large cities in the Americas and most of Europe you would visit.
As for citizens in rural and regional areas being more accommodating than those in the cities, that is true the world over too.
And the arrogant, rude French? Outside a few toffy restaurants and hotels, where some staff raise indifference to customers to the level of an art form, that is also a myth.
5 run-outs in 55 innings.
As a young bloke I used to open the batting with a “class batsmen” who was also a shit runner.
One particular day we bowled the opposition out on day one with 20 minutes to bat before stumps.
Got away to a good start and knocked off 25-30 of the target. One over to go and I tell him I’ll take it and “no silly short singles”. It was almost as if the mere mention of suicide runs triggered something in his lizard brain. I push one just a little bit away from cover and call a loud “NO!”.
Nek minnit, without uttering a call, he is right on top of me. I take off and get run out by 7-8 yards.
After that, I and others in the top order made a pact (without telling the coach) that we would stand our ground and let him burn himself.
Three run-outs in a season and he was cured.
KD at 11:23.
Yes.
The real test would be to ring the Nowra station and ask for the police report number.
Because, if there is no number, they have not “written it down”.
A Bic ballpoint moving up and down on the back of a Maccas bag is not “writing it down” in any meaningful way.
It goes along with 000 calls for “there’s a huntsman behind my sun visor”.
Yep. Been saying this for a while. As soon as it becomes politically advantageous to keep domestically generated electricity for intrastate use it will be real Lord of the Flies stuff (particularly with Pony Club generators still government owned).
The demise of my Christmas has resulted in a shortage of leftovers and a surplus of Toblerone. I suspect I won’t be in great shape later today without some self restraint.
Tell me it’s not one of those huge shiny blocks found in duty free, that Chinese love.
And on top of all that a whale will take out the bass strait cables, so no Tassie hydro.
Lots of fried whale turns up on Van Dieman’s Land beaches.
Don’t think I have had my best idea by playing bowls today. Very thermal on the green but seeing as though I drove, I can’t cool down from the inside out. Have to make do with soft drink lol
Goodness gracious me. The Hun:
A storm has erupted over the sensational backlash towards Australian icon Sir Donald Bradman.
There has been significant twist in the public debate with many Australian commentators coming forward to defend the legendary cricketer after calls on social media for “The Don” to be “cancelled”.
Bradman, known as one of history’s greatest sportsmen, has been dead for 21 years. But now, a dusty old letter addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, two days after the 1975 dismissal election, has apparently “exposed” the former cricketing great as a “right wing nutjob”.
In the letter, which was unearthed by Federation University’s Verity Archer, Bradman urged the new PM to scrap regulations on capital and warned of the risks inflation poses to Australia.
“A marvellous victory in which your personal conduct and dignity stood out against the background of arrogance and propaganda indulged in by your opponents,” Bradman wrote.
“Now you may have to travel a long and difficult road along which your enemies will seek to destroy you.”
Bradman — who was 67 at the time of writing the letter — also warned Mr Fraser about the power of unions and urged for the public to be “re-educated to believe private enterprise is entitled to rewards, as long as it obeys the rules”.
“What the people need are clearly defined rules which they can read and understand so that they can get on with their affairs,” Bradman continued.
“The public must be re-educated to believe that private enterprise is entitled to rewards as long as it obeys fair and reasonable rules laid down by government. Maybe you can influence leaders of the press to a better understanding of this necessity of presentation.”
A swarm of commentators and Twitter users have now leapt to his defence.
His reputation as a magician at the crease helped pull through Australia through the Great Depression of the 1930s — and his record 99.94 average is still far and beyond the most iconic statistic in a game ruled by numbers.
So it’s no surprise the attempted pile-on — on Boxing Day no less — was met with pushback from public figures across the country.
Federal Liberal Party Vice President Teena McQueen told Sky News host Rita Panahi: “It’s absolutely disgraceful that they are now trying to cancel one of the greatest Australians. It’s unbelievable”.
Panahi said the “woke” current cricket team led by Test captain Pat Cummins should be more like Bradman.
She said Bradman’s views have been misrepresented and described the backlash as “quite disgraceful”.
Renowned Indigenous leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine wrote on Twitter: “It’s actually a LWNJ attack”.
Nationals MP and former deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack was among those pushing back on Twitter.
The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair wrote in a column: “We need more statues of Bradman”.
ABC reporter Gareth Hutchins wrote: “There are other Bradman letters worth writing about. Like his letters to protesters in the 70s, in which he asked them to explain to him why they didn’t want the apartheid-era South African cricket team to tour Australia. He listened to them, and he ended up cancelling the tour.
“What an enormous s**t take,” founder of Cato Advisory Tim Findlay said.
“Focusing on the opinion of others yet no criticism of the actual message in the letter which, given the state of the economy and Bradman’s role as a company chairman, was to be expected of a man doing his job.”
Social media users and journalists were earlier divided over the famed member of the 1948 “Invincibles” team’s views.
Former Victorian Sports Minister Martin Pakula posted.
Sydney Morning Herald writer Daniel Brettig described the letter as “extraordinary” and said it showed Bradman’s attempt at an “intervention at an explosive moment in Australian political history”.
Broadcaster Phillip Adams wrote, “Sad. Lost letter from Bradman to Fraser after Whitlam’s dismissal reveals ‘the Don’ to be a RWNJ [right-wing nutjob].”
Others social media users said The Don was well known as a “thoroughly nasty piece of work”.
Former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Clem Jones previously described Bradman — who claimed to live a “non-political” life — as a “bigoted right-wing politician”.
“Bradman was quite right-wing,” Mr Jones told Inside Story in 2007.
“He was the best chairman of any organisation I’ve had anything to do with, absolutely outstanding. But he was a bigoted, right-wing politician. People say he wasn’t political — he was, and very much so.”
” I love Paris in the springtime…” is in a minor key for a reason. My tips:
Don’t forget to stay in La Chapelle – it’s near the centre of Paris. You get to see Mogadishu close up without having to go there. As an aside, and I am certainly not making any generalisations, but , er, if you are a young woman don’t go out on your own. By the way some of the train drivers refuse to stop there.
When you get hassled by gypsies and the like, yell in Arabic ( “Emshi, emshi) – that stops them in their tracks as the Arabs do not tolerate them.
The train to and from the airport – put any jewelry and wallets in a place that can’t be grabbed easily. Get a seat where you can hold your bag.
Finally when the Parisians are rude and impatient, go slow, take your time and watch them fume. The place is a tinder box. The Olympics will have to be an armed encampment. see 2022 UEFA Champions League Final, Bataclan, Stade de France..
The churches are empty or set on fire. There is a reason they are heading to Australia. But if you are situationally aware, adventurous and tough, you’ll…..love Paris ever moment of the year.
If The Don had written a congratulatory letter to Whitlam (eg) he would still be a great Australian, adored by mouthy bigots like Adams.
Laughable!
No mention of 3rd nations:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/teen-boys-charged-with-qld-mum-s-murder/ar-AA15GzHo?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=55287c752e3e4592a64a9cc186405d0f
I’m guessing the Don doesn’t give a rats after being dead 21 years. Happy to be proved wrong. It’s never too late to get cancelled.
JohnJJJ – almost as good as ScMo’s Lara Bingle ad.
Alas it is so hard to fellate the memory of The Great Man now. Ask Mavis.
Hey guys,
is there some secret meeting going on here? I know you know there is a new fred, I have seen some of you there.
Do you need to know the password and the secret handshake to join?
Knuckles 27/12 @, 11.37
I must apologise , I totally mis read you.
A young manager was leaving the office late one evening when he saw the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in her hand. “Listen” said the CEO “this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work?” “Certainly!” said the young manager. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper and pressed the start button. “Excellent, excellent!” said the CEO as her paper disappeared inside the machine. “I just need one copy.
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I talked to a homeless man this morning and asked him how he ended up this way. He said “Up until last week, I still had it all. I had plenty to eat, my clothes were washed and pressed, I had a roof over my head, I had TV and Internet, and I went to the gym, the pool, and the library. I was working on my MBA on-line. I had no bills and no debt. I even had full medical coverage”. I felt sorry for him, so I asked “What happened? Drugs? Alcohol? Divorce?” “Oh no, nothing like that” he said. “No, no… I was paroled”.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
– Milton Friedman