Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
March 2021.
Open Thread – Christmas Weekend 2022
- Bumtree #1
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- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
Bang on Milonf he idiot student union with its hedonism of sex, substance addiction and entitlement to a bougise lifestyle…
Wow. Will the corporate media drop everything and hound Albo every hour of every day until names are named?
Feminism has come full Circe and it’s a joke. female jobs in essence have not changed. women have allways worked…
Linked to this article by Samantha Maiden which should be shared far and wide before the eSafety Commissioner gets the…
New Thread of Hope.
From the OOT:
NATO command is effectively the US. I think every Supreme Commander has been drawn from US Army. NATO would fall apart without US leadership. Setting that aside, I wasn’t talking about NATO above, but the West.
Classic Xmas anthem:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nud2TQNahaU
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Jeremy Clarkson joins the David Rowe derangement club.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Andy Davey.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Heartbreak for Elon
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/toxic-tesla-customers-turn-backs-on-musk/news-story/8113aa8c2914c85c6faf80ac04d1e475
Thanks Tom!
“Our enemy dug in not only in the Kyiv province of our native Malorossiya, it is in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand – and a whole number of other places that pledged allegiance to the Nazis.”
Seems pretty accurate. What’s wrong with just letting baddies v baddies slug it out?
Heartbreak for Elon
Looks like Elon needs to build a hybrid Tesla with a hot V8! Imagine the acceleration possible with his current drivetrain.
The woke won’t hear any criticism of their poisonous leprechaun, Fauci.
You’ve been waiting for it, as 1984 is made real!
Well, finally, Thought Crime is here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abU1mmUN_6o
Elon, like Trump, infuriates the humourless.
rickw says:
December 24, 2022 at 5:25 am
Yup two peeps complained.
There is a waiting list for the stupid things.
A V8 might spread the interest but.
This one was fun:
Liberals Who Ditched Tesla And Bought Chevrolet Bolt Now Hit With Recall Over Fire Risk (22 Dec)
I’m sure that EV owners in the US are just loving the current frigid weather. Brrr:
Ryan Maue@RyanMaue
Lower 48 states more than 20°F below average at 1130 AM ET.
Coldest compared to normal: Kentucky and Tennessee more than 40°F below normal for midday.
4:10 AM · Dec 24, 2022
Christmas Eve morning, up early and bright.
Some presents to wrap still to take down the south coast tomorrow.
Our garage man has replaced the blinker globe and taped together the destroyed rear light on the Sporty Beamer and we are fit to travel again. The blinker and stop light both work and it is driveable. The full repair including the whole bumper back panel which is a mess from arguing with a huge garbage truck will wait until we return to Oz in February.
A peaceful and reflective Christmas Eve to yez all.
I’ll believe it’s a serious issue when they start handing back their Starlink Dishys.
Best wishes for a very merry Christmas spent with family /friends and a healthy and happy 2023 to all contributors and lurkers here on the Cat, and a big thank you to Dover for this forum.
Tesla….. ?
The market will sort out whats what. Inclusive of risk and what is to become little reward.
Awesomeness!
Mark Serbu on Tucker Carlson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVDr_SHtPg
Elon Musk is the worst businessman in the world.
Papa Putin is the most Christian ruler of all time.
Zelensky has no redeeming features and literally Hitler.
Joe Biden is the most competent leader Americans could have possibly picked in 2020.
Q is real.
Keep ‘em coming guys. This is hilarious.
Irony of ironies that a German bank should say this…
Deutsche Bank report: ‘A Certain Degree of Eco-Dictatorship Will Be Necessary’ in order ‘to move towards climate neutrality’ (23 Dec)
A pseudoscientific dictatorship didn’t work out too well for you last time, did it?
Out in the paddock loading a truck.
You would think there was a shower last night as a heavy dew has made the straw wet. That’s highly unusual for 24th Dec in north western VIC.
You would think there was a shower last night as a heavy dew has made the straw wet. That’s highly unusual for 24th Dec in north western VIC.
Dew and fog in NE VIC this morning.
A pseudoscientific dictatorship didn’t work out too well for you last time, did it?
Talk about stuck in a rut…
Deutsche Bank, Sieg Heil. This time we will get it right.
Yesterday I received a card from a woman in the north of the United States whom I minded a lot with my own two boys when I was a single parent and later after I married the Hairy One. Her father was a Cambridge man gone troppo in Queensland, having been sent down (‘rusticated’) from Cambridge for riding his motor bike into Kings Hall and other misdemeanors. Hairy knew of him already via a mutual friend. His child lived with her mum in Cairns but had access visits regularly in Sydney. Whenever he was in strife, which was frequently, he would arrive any any hour, often 2am, with her bundled sleeping in his arms, and she’d stay with us for a while. We took her with us sometimes on holidays. She stayed at our place recently with my oldest son when he was catsitting in May this year while we were in the UK, and we were sorry to miss seeing her then.
I’ve just received her Christmas card with some heartfelt thanks and memories written into it. She married well and has two mid-teenage children. The card itself made me cry. It is one of those old-fashioned mid-winter sort you don’t see much today. A snowy green-glittery Christmas scene, a gold-framed painting of a snug house on a winter’s night, with three wandering deer in front of it, a pale moon through mist glistening on leaf-bare branches of trees sprinkled with green-glittering fallen snow. In the foreground, in front of the little dwelling, its snowy roof glistening, a natural tree dressed up in red and orange and gold standing out in bass-relief, a firey shining symbol of a light in the world beyond light itself, for Christmas. A real Christmas card indeed, says Hairy admiringly. Like the magical cards of my own childhood, a Victorian dreaming, featuring snow such has just fallen again all over the UK. And a Christmas blast from the past for me in more ways than one..
It’s felt like harvest conditions down near Geelong, not the Riverina three weeks into summer.
What was the problem with the header, Gez?
Finally done here and preparing to move south.
The card has a sort of radiance. I see on the back that the painter is renowned in America for his work with light and natural settings. Chocolate box stuff perhaps – but hey, it’s Christmas!!
It’s kinda ironic that cancelling your Tesla order is now nearly as big a virtue signal as ordering one in the first place.
The Phelps’ can’t work out if the vaccine or the disease is the worst, but they’d like to bitch about pretty much everything.
I’m glad the Daily Mail is getting stuck into the hypocrits.
Honestly, how can you tell? Rowe’s ‘old white men’ broken record trope renders them all the same.
Arkysays:
December 23, 2022 at 8:13 pm
I’m not sure why the West’s Ukraine policy is such a point of friction for us.
Not a damn thing anyone here thinks will make a shred of difference.
Assuming, which I think is pretty evident, that so much of the opinions shared originate from Moscow sponsored sites and accounts, it is still strange that the Russians would think that those influence efforts would matter a tuppenny damn. After all, even after all the actually true revelations about Biden and Clinton and the FBI are in the open, the cathedral bulldozes along completely unhindered.
Arky
Ukraine is an excuse for both sides to parade their prejudices.
It is also an excuse for the DemonRats to divert attention from their own corruption and incompetence. For confirmation, see the routine regurgitation of DemonRat talking points by m0nty-fa.
Dangerous Insurrectionists Seize Capitol Building
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s government was thrown into turmoil last night after a small band of insurrectionist traitors stormed the Capitol building while waving the flag of a foreign power.
Challenge accepted … just note that the ‘hybrid’ bit hit the cutting room floor.
https://youtu.be/x-6kHjF1U1E
A Man Of Memes
@RickyDoggin
Traitors to America
I’m a bit dim about the woke protocols, but surely if the non-doctor wife is Ms Strickler-Phelps, the other wife should be a Strickler-Phelps too. Or perhaps Dr Phelps-Strickler, if there is an identity issue.
Otherwise it all seems to be making the point that Ms Strickler-Phelps is the chattel property of Dr Phelps. Or one partner is proud to nominate the pairing, the other not…
Totes awks.
2ND CITY BANS NATURAL GAS (AS PEOPLE FREEZE TO DEATH)
quick updates on covid vaccine fertility issues
timing and independent reason to suspect cause
Tucker Carlson: Lawmakers applauding Zelensky clapped ‘like seals’
A union man arrives in Vegas, and the first thing he wants to do is check out the ‘houses’ he’s heard about and see if the ladies are getting a proper deal.
So he goes to the first house, the Madame answers the door. “Good day” he says “I was wondering, if I gave you a hundred dollars for a girl, how much of that hundred would go to the house, and how much would go to the girl?” The Madame answers “80 dollars would go to the house and 20 dollars to the girl”.
Being a union man, he decides that it isn’t fair, and declines the Madam’s offer to enter the preemies.
He goes to many such houses, and the answer is pretty well the same each time he asks the question. Then at one house he asks, the Madame tells him that 80 dollars would go to the girl, and 20 dollars would go to the house. This impresses the union man so much, he enters at her invitation, and immediately notices a beautiful blonde with big tits and beautiful body sitting on the couch. He pulls out his wallet, hands the Madame a hundred dollar bill and says “I would really like to be with that blonde over there”. “I’m sure you would” replies the Madame “but 65 year old Edna sitting over there has seniority!”
The EU Plans To Impose Direct Carbon Taxes On Individuals
Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.
– Peter Ustinov
Bush
Wiring shorting and that blew fuses which stopped the rotor under load. Selector forks in rotor gear box stuffed. Sensor problem was from the wiring as well, not enough power getting to the sensor.
We got going last weekend, finished canola and into barley. Heavy yields, wind & rain flattened crops, cutting it off at nearly ground level. Feed quality, too much black tip.
How’s the battle gone up there?
The naked truth on the Hunter Biden laptop coverup
Traitors
The thing that deeply shocks me is that the brash, can-do, confident and proud US has gone. The truth, justice and the American way US. And the filth responsible for this have been around since before I was born. I’m talking about Pelosi filth, Biden filth, Fauci filth, Clinton filth etc etc.
Guggenheim Partners CIO Scott Minerd dies suddenly at 63 after heart attack during workout
Cold winter exposes climate frauds: Germany returns to coal
What does this remind you of?
BARR: Banks Might Start Closing Accounts Of Customers Who Buy Too Many Guns Or Too Much Ammo
Bankman-Fried’s Incredible Shrinking ‘$250 Million Bond’
Was Obama the Architect of the FBI and Big Tech Illegal Censoring Machine?
the pharma inquisitors are coming
Miltonfsays:
December 24, 2022 at 8:26 am
The thing that deeply shocks me is that the brash, can-do, confident and proud US has gone. The truth, justice and the American way US. And the filth responsible for this have been around since before I was born. I’m talking about Pelosi filth, Biden filth, Fauci filth, Clinton filth etc etc.
Yes, and when in trouble, they all plead the Filth Amendment……………….Seems to work nicely for them all.
The lies, myths and billions of dollars being used to remove our rights and freedoms through WHO’s Pandemic Treaty
This one also.
Nolte: Facial Recognition Tech Gets Mom Booted from Christmas Concert — a Preview of Our Coming Social Credit Dystopia (22 Dec)
Doing nothing wrong, just legally representing someone the company doesn’t like and gets picked up instantly by facial recognition software. Not at all creepy…
Actually, she wasn’t even ‘legally representing’ that client. She has nothing to do with the case, but is merely an employee of the same law firm.
Very nasty and vindictive indeed.
I’ve always wondered how they intend to enforce these life bans from attending sporting events, etc.
Probably the only reason to wear a surgical mask.
Precisely.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
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“People are suffering. They didn’t do the testing that they should have, and they’re still not doing the testing. It’s like they don’t want to know.”
—Senator Ron Johnson
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
@P_McCulloughMD
WHO Propaganda falling flat; data clearly shows those who deferred on unproven products are consistently doing much better than those ill-advised took risks promoted by governments. Heart damage, blood clots, neurological syndromes unfortunately must be added to orange bars.
Expert warns of mRNA jab link to acute heart issues
Have we hit peak doctor’s wives? Ticks all the boxes.
Via Instapundit:
Three New Hilarious Papers On The Coronadoom Vaccine (22 Dec)
It’s hard to see the portrait through Xray but the still life is extraordinary.
Cézanne Self-Portrait Hidden Under a Still Life Is Discovered After Almost 160 Years
Have just read a report on WA’s just announced exclusion zones. How this was ever approved confounds me. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-24/wa-protected-entertainment-precinct-laws-take-effect/101801540 Is it just another way of restoring WA’s permit system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Prohibited_Area
that future dystopia is already here
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House issued a dire warning this week, reminding the nation that Elon’s continued ownership of Twitter means they now only control 97% of the media.
“We can’t overstate how dangerous this is,” said Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. “Yes, we still control Facebook, Google, Apple, Instagram, YouTube, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Hollywood, TIME, USAToday, The Wall Street Journal, and pretty much all the rest, but we don’t control Twitter. This is dangerous to democracy.”
The entire intelligence community at the CIA, FBI, and NSA concurred with the warning, stating that “Elon’s ownership of Twitter leaves America vulnerable to dangerous opinions we do not approve of.” Leaders with the agencies are recommending immediate investigations to bring down the Twitter CEO provided their planned drone strike doesn’t work first.
“Democracy is at stake,” said all the agency leaders in a shared statement in which they all recited the words simultaneously in a robotic monotone. “We must do something. Democracy is at stake.”
At publishing time, several watchdog groups had underscored the warning, pointing to a 128% increase in exposure to unapproved opinions since Musk’s Twitter purchase.(Babylon Bee Reporting).
Don’t worry. They’re working on that too. Something about the eyes.
Study Shows Kids Who Are Homeschooled Could Miss Out On Opportunity To Be A Gay Communist
You may need a bucket to spew into. Alarming amount of sop.
That’s why I call it the Sydney morning vomit.
This is how the CCP’s MSS manages to control 1.4 Billion people. The west is learning. Fast.
Israel is a major surveillance tech developer and now putting applications in drones. For obvious reasons but the tech is being sold globally. Read up about Pegasus.
At least Clarkson wasn’t depicted naked.
Well, his head’s naked.
Boambee at 7.57, successfully condensing ten months of pixels and yelling:
Get your fully? tested and approved? jab jab booster…………………….
Corporate crime tracking data shows that US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its subsidiaries have paid over $10bn in penalties for 91 regulatory violations from the year 2000 until the present. The most common offenses include drug safety violations, false claims, and foreign corrupt practices, with payouts ranging from $5,000 to $2.3bn and a record high of $3.75bn by a subsidiary prior to acquisition.
Pfizer Inc. is a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation with 52 locations around the world and headquarters in New York. As of the first nine months of 2022, the company has made over $76bn in revenues from both the parent organization and all its subsidiaries.
Despite being such a large corporation that many rely on for life-saving medications, Pfizer –and its subsidiaries – has been implicated in a whopping 91 regulatory violations since the year 2000 that have resulted in the payment of a monetary fine.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/pfizers-regulatory-violation-fines-exceed-10-billion-but-operations-continue-5aeed5d5
Then take aim at the FDA and Big Pharma lobbyists , Ron. Those grubs are bought and paid for by Big Pharma precisely for delivering this exact result. Combined with Govt mandates for vaccinations and job security, you have a billion$ ($Trillions potentially) money making making machine.
Three footy fans were walking back from the MCG when one noticed a foot sticking out of the bushes by the side of Jolimont Road. They stopped and discovered a nude female unconscious and near death so one of them phoned the police and also requested an ambulance.
Out of respect and propriety, the Hawthorn fan took off his cap and placed it over one of the female’s breasts. The Kangaroos fan took off his cap and placed it over her other breast. Following their lead, but with great reluctance, the Collingwood fan took off his cap and placed it over her girly part.
The police arrived first and an officer began to conduct his investigation.
First he lifted up the Hawks cap, replaced it and made an entry in his notebook.
Next, he lifted the Kangaroos cap and replaced it; making more notes in his book.
Then the officer lifted the Collingwood cap, replaced it, lifted it again, replaced it, lifted it a third time and replaced it one last time, shaking his head in disbelief.
The Collingwood fan was extremely annoyed and challenged him “What are you, a pervert or something mate? Why do you keep lifting and looking, lifting and looking?”
“Well” said the officer “I’m a little surprised and confused. Normally, when you look under a Collingwood cap you’ll find an arsehole”.
Black Ball, you should know that the former Fairfax newspapers now exist only as propaganda parasites for the loony left Greens riding on back of their new host, the ALP government, which is currently hopping into bed with the Chinese Communist Party to hearty Greens approval.
The only time the former Fairfax papers will attack the Elbow regime is if it’s not radical enough. For example, why hasn’t it nationalised our bird-killing hippy Nimbin power grid?
Just don’t ask about the Uyghurs as it upsets the CCP.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
– Peter Ustinov
What is going on with our immune cells after COVID-19 infection?
Tom I would go further than your excellent analysis and say that the Greens are the real government. No legislation is possible if it weren’t for those anti capitalist, anti human arseholes.
Add the so called independent David Pocock and most people can see that Australia are standing in it. Deeply.
B of Newk:
German banks and dictators>
Hitler and his “buddies” had a VERY close arrangement with the German banks of their time.
The “money trail” during and after that era is still tangled.
All those precious metals, pillaged artworks and “Juden-frei” real estate, stack up to numbers that read like extended ISD phone numbers.
And, considering the spirit of the Abwehr still haunts several German agencies, anyone getting too close to the trail will probably meet an unfortunate and untimely end.
Journalisticians journalising (the NT Indy):
The rarest of birds – a j’ismist not wanting to mouth off.
Strongly support. Denies wrongdoing. Sacked by New Year.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to all Cats.
Rita Panahi in the Hun:
Every year the war against Australia Day — waged by activists, the media and increasingly the corporate sector — intensifies, and yet the majority of Australians remain supportive of the national day remaining on January 26.
And, as the loud minority continue to agitate for a date change, they ignore and distract from far more consequential issues afflicting indigenous communities.
Just this week we saw these two headlines on Sky News Australia’s website: “NT man who raped 12-year-old girl — causing her to become pregnant — eligible for parole less than four months after he is convicted of the offence” and “NT teenager who raped seven-year-old girl while on parole for arson to be released less than two months after being convicted”.
The headlines are bad enough but the details are even more grim.
It’s hard not to feel thoroughly depressed after reading about the devastating cycle of abuse and the lenient sentencing such horrific crimes can attract. Let’s be honest, if the victims were blonde, blue-eyed children in Sydney or Melbourne these cases would lead every news service for days. And, there’d be widespread outrage about the manifestly inadequate sentences handed to the offenders.
We know the rates of abuse and neglect for indigenous children is markedly higher than non-Indigenous kids, and we know that indigenous women are 3000 per cent more likely to be hospitalised due to domestic violence.
Yes, 3000 per cent — more than 30 times — that is not a misprint but a shameful fact ignored by media, celebrity and corporate activists who every year push their divisive anti-Australia Day rhetoric, supposedly for the benefit of Aboriginal people.
They prefer to focus on Australia Day, the anthem, the flag — anything but the consequential issues that could save lives.
You won’t hear the head honchos at Channel 10 bringing attention to what really matters; they’d rather focus on demonising Australia Day.
The low rating free-to-air network – home of programs like The Project, The Real Love Boat and other quality fare like “10 News First Breakfast” which earlier this year set a record for the worst-rated program in Australian TV history with just 44 viewers in Sydney— is effectively banning Australia Day.
Ten’s chief content officer Beverley McGarvey panned Australia Day in an internal note to programming and editorial staff last week; in fact she finds the national holiday so objectionable she refuses to call it by its name, referring to it simply as “January 26”.
In the note, co-signed by the network’s chief commercial officer Jarrod Villani, the Ten boss wrote: “We aim to create a safe place to work where cultural differences are appreciated, understood and respected … For our First Nations people, we as an organisation acknowledge that January 26 is not a day of celebration.”
Really? This woman seeks to speak for all indigenous Australians, even those who proudly celebrate Australia Day and do not buy the activist narrative. How patronising and utterly vapid; no wonder the network makes one poor decision after another.
The email continues: “Whether you choose to work on January 26 or take the public holiday, we ask that you reflect and respect the different perspectives and viewpoints of all Australians.”
How about Ten bosses reflect on holding a fringe position that is at odds with the overwhelming majority of Australians. In reporting the Ten news, the activist media were quick to quote a mickey-mouse poll taken in the City of Melbourne that showed 59.8 per cent favoured a date change, but that poll is a clear outlier.
Most polls show a majority back the national holiday and want it to remain on January 26, including one published by Deakin University this year and polls by Roy Morgan, CoreData and others commissioned by news organisations.
The Roy Morgan poll this year found two in three wanted Australia Day to remain on January 26.
But Ten has decided to stand with the fringe-dwelling self-loathers, not the mainstream, which included Premier Dan Andrews, who cautioned local council against their anti-Australia Day positions.
“I think we can respectfully acknowledge our past, but also come together and celebrate what modern Australia is all about,” he said.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price had these sage words of advice for the corporate elite who seek to speak for the indigenous community.
“I’m sick to death of all these privileged individuals who have decided they know what’s best for us and who assume that as a group … indigenous Australians all think the same and see ourselves as victims,” she said.
“It’s really denigrating, it removes our agency and it suggests of course that they know what’s best for us and our needs. It’s disgusting; I’m done with it.”
One would take Ten’s corporate virtue signalling more seriously if it devoted some energy to adequately cover the devastating stories of child sexual abuse and domestic violence in remote communities.
But as Senator Price said this week, the media-activist class prefer to “push the woke agenda” rather than cover the substantial issues facing indigenous communities.
Morning Doomlord!
Good to see you back!
Well, I’ve hosed the red dust off the Hyundai, given the dog some water and kibble and verbal instructions (he can’t read), and set off to the south coast for Christmas with the in-laws. I’ve mentally prepared myself with a set of bon mots, non sequiturs, one-liners and comebacks ready for three days of sensitive people tiptoeing around- and occasionally bludgeoning with- sensitve subjects- realizing in my old age that he who cheerfully keeps swinging can never truly lose an argument. Or standing.
Merry Christmas everybody!
In Bah, Humbug news, their Laura Tingle waves us into the Summer Festival.
Uluru Statement co-author makes the case for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
OK, but how?
So, there’s a lot of information about what the Voice should look like.
But no detail.
This is what humbug looks like.
Maybe not.
“I went to the Network’s legal training seminar and they didn’t say I couldn’t impersonate a police officer.”
What are you…a racist?
Trust them.
Bonus Bob Moran.
On the subject of impersonations:
As this wide brown land’s premier journalist, Mike Moore said on Frontline:
‘Mmmm. Disturbing trend.’
Energy expert advising Channel 9 viewers that rolling blackouts are on the cards for the eastern grid if temps warm up in January and people reach for their air-con remotes.
And that unreliable electrickery is going to be more expensive too.
Then comes the punchline…
It’s the fault of unreliable coal generators! and the Liberals! and we need more renewables!
And the joke’s on you, Australia.
Fine work good doctor.
A question Cats and Kittehs. How much moolah has been spent on Teh Voice crapola? Maybe, just maybe Albanese is holding off on the referendum because he sees it as doomed to failure?
I’m happy to be proved wrong, but I’ll bet good money on the referendum into the Voice as succeeding. There will be a long and maudlin campaign about 60,000 years of the worlds oldest living culture – it isn’t – and how Aboriginal souls will be crushed if the referendum doesn’t succeed, and they don’t have their say….
Perfesser Davis is twice the woman Tingle is. You have to search the article carefully to find her name is Megan. My guess was Lizzo.
So the renewables aren’t working so well?
To fix this we need to decommission and demolish coal fired power stations at a faster rate.
That will fix things. [giggles]
December 23, 2022
Trump issues a fiery rebuttal to January 6 committee
A few days ago, the unconstitutionally conducted January 6 committee referred Donald Trump for criminal prosecution. Yesterday, it published its final, detailed report. In true Trumpian fashion, Trump came out swinging, calling out the lies and omissions that fueled the committee’s ludicrous referral. No wonder Trump’s supporters still stand by him.
The 845-page report looks comprehensive, but it’s not, and that’s one of the main points Trump makes in his statement. The report is honest about one thing, though. It insists that Congress must ban Trump from ever holding office again. And there you have the whole point of this exercise: Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans will do anything, no matter how corrupt, to keep Trump from returning to the White House.
It’s a silly recommendation because Congress lacks the power to ban Trump. The only limitations on a person’s running for office are in the Constitution: Thirty-five years or older, native-born American, a resident for 14 years and, via the 22nd Amendment, limited to two terms of office. Moreover, as noted here, we’ve already had a convicted felon run, so even a corrupt indictment and trial won’t stop Trump.
So, what does Trump have to say? Here’s his statement/rebuttal:
Ultimately, says Trump, the people aren’t going to stand for it. The “Unselect Committee” will be remembered as “a con job and a disgrace,” while we “make America great again.”
Trump may well be right. McLaughlin & Associates, a pro-Trump Republican polling outfit, claims that its poll, which looks at probable voters and properly balances party turnout, shows that Trump is as “strong as ever”:
John and Jim McLaughlin, who run McLaughlin & Associates, recently released their poll that shows the former president ahead of DeSantis 48%-23%, just as popular as he was on Election Day last month, and leading Biden 48%-45%.
As a wise person suggested, Trump won by such a large margin that the Democrats had to round up so many votes in the wee hours of the morning that Biden, a decrepit, demented, corrupt fossil, ended up allegedly winning by the most votes in history.
It’s certainly going to dent his popularity, which seems to be based chiefly on the fact that he’s not Scott Morrison.
If things don’t go to plan the measured, statesman-like will slip and he won’t be able to resist lecturing Australians in his winning “just go home” style.
Deaths Among CCP Elites Rise as COVID-19 Wave Hits China
https://www.theepochtimes.com/deaths-among-ccp-elites-rise-as-covid-wave-hits-china_4941364.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=Aomb-2022-12-23&src_cmp=Aomb-2022-12-23&utm_medium=Aoemail&est=LsFqUdqkNbsbjJUP0yTfocAvhaPnBQHmKucRNl9dDZQr%2BVvbyNfzESv%2B7UQDzKzbBQ%3D%3D
“Yang was one of a long list of prominent figures tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who died amid a surge in Omicron sweeping China, after the regime abruptly loosened its years-long draconian COVID-19 restrictions that had shuttered businesses, crippled China’s economy, and made it a challenge for the Chinese population to sustain their basic lives.”
“Funeral parlors across the country are running around the clock to burn bodies, and health authorities are encouraging medics who retired over the past five years to rejoin the workforce to ease the staff shortage. Many medical staff on duty are sick themselves with COVID. A top Beijing hospital surgeon told Chinese media that around 70 percent of health workers at his unit were sick, including himself, but that he had to keep working.”
“Maybe you think it isn’t a big deal, but the CCP is a crime syndicate,” he told The Epoch Times, adding that the recent uptick in cases should make people reconsider their ties with the regime. “
mask
And gait analysis – you need to put a ball bearing in your shoe if you want to fool that
I agree. The guilt ridden 18- 20 somethings will get it over the line. The white guilt is very prevalent in our youngsters, thanks to our wonderful education system.
Humans and dogs have similar digestive systems, feed either of them on ‘kibble’ instead of meat and they become fat and chronically ill.
Lots of fossil fuel energy needed to burn all those bodies in Chy Na.
In Australia, we have crocodiles and sharks to handle the peak loads.
Gez,
Mixed bag here.
Field peas – drowned. 1t
Lentils- Partially drowned 1.5t overall
Long season wheat – down graded b/c rain 3.5t SFW
Mid season wheat – just made AUH2 @ 3.5t
Barley – excellent and could be a WML grade 4t
Durum- standout on dryland @5.3t D2
Irrigated Durum – drowned 5t but excellent protein D1 with scope to blend with the D2
Irrigated canola- drowned 2.5t
Dryland canola – excellent 3t save for the paddock of “Spark” which only went 1.9t due to bad seed. (Compensation pending)
If it only wasn’t for all that rain that was never going to fall again.
Latest Dr John Campbell clip is on the agreement between UK Government and Moderna to create a production facility in UK which will produce 250 million jabs per year for next 20 years.
Campbell goes through the relevant points and clearly not excited by the idea.
I guess we should be grateful the planned Moderna facility in Melbourne, construction already started, is only going to produce 100 million jabs per year. However when you do the ratio to population both countries will be producing about 4 jabs per person. What are the odds at least one per person will be mandated in some way.
Meanwhile in Australia the TGA has quietly removed Moderna jabs from the list of approved jabs (source : lawyer Tony Nicolic’s Twitter) Now I wonder why they would have done that. Moderna was not approved by a number of EU countries for younger people. If I remember right it’s dosage was higher than Pfizer.
Scoot faster.
No repeats for effect must mean Ivan’s finally run out.
Right?
mUnter!
Put the kibble down!
JD 760A news:
Dad went to start it yesterday, click!
I managed to get it started with a screwdriver to do an urgent job.
Starter motor solenoid is shot! Two 1/4 bolts away from getting it off without removing the starter motor. But no! Despite being on the engine side of the starter and soaked in oil they’re stuck fast.
30lbs of oily starter motor needs to come out along with a whole lot of accessories to gain access. Great!
mUnter!
Put the kibble down!
Does kibble also make you into a lesbian?!
The teacher asks the kids in her 3rd grade class: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Little Petey says: “I wanna start out as a Marine Pilot, then be a billionaire, go to the most expensive clubs, find me the finest hooker, give her a Ferrari worth over a million bucks, an apartment in Copacabana, a mansion in Paris, a jet to travel throughout Europe, an Infinite Visa Card, and all the while banging her like a loose screen door in a hurricane”. The teacher, shocked, and not knowing what to do with this horrible response from little Petey, decides not to acknowledge what he said and simply try to continue with the lesson… “And how about you, Sarah?” “I think I wanna be Petey’s hooker”.
The UK today…
Elderly freezing to death at home in the UK due to exorbitant electricity costs;
Meanwhile , in warm hotels across the UK;
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
– Mel Brooks
Duk, I’ve got no doubt that what you say is true…
but please, take it as given that I look after my dog, and he’s tip-top.
Meanwhile in Australia the TGA has quietly removed Moderna jabs from the list of approved jabs (source : lawyer Tony Nicolic’s Twitter)
Interesting to see if the TGA, Politicians and Drug Companies can extract themselves from this disaster without massive compensation payouts and public lynchings.
My kids were thoroughly sick of the indoctrination by the time they graduated.
Good heavens…have I raised outliers!?
The red pilling of the formerly ‘nice’ and ‘right thinking’ Dr Campbell has been painful to watch
100% – they are going to switch many if not most ‘vaccines’ to the mRNA delivery system as soon as they can, because it is so easy to manufacture new drugs made this way. That is one of the forces underlying the Great COVAX push – it cannot be allowed to fail as future opportunities are endless.
Man, that’s some festive swearing lined up right there.
The UK today…
If you’re a native, you’re hated and earmarked for disposal.
Yeah I noticed something about this report:
Penny Wong criticises Taliban for banning women from universities, as they further tighten restrictions in Afghanistan (Sky News, 22 Dec)
Weird her sudden interest in human rights and fundamental freedoms. Doesn’t seem to stretch to unpeople though, since there was no mention at all about those people who must never be named.
An authoritative link for this please.
Man, that’s some festive swearing lined up right there.
I’m on a swearing reduction break right now. Reading the manual and slowly comprehending how much ancillary shit needs to be removed!
Seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to watch an AFL game.
😀
You are not too far off the mark! The combination of environmental (plant phytoestrogens in soy etc) and social factors (the emasculation of men by demonising masculinity) keys in nicely with the ‘mouse utopia’ experiments, where high densitiy living in a mouse ‘welfare state’ basically led to the male mice becoming impotent and feminised, and the females becoming aggressive -a role reversal we are seeing in our world also.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/
Genuine question, sparked by this from the Tele:
The only boat owner (or ex-owner) I know here must be off with Big Corporate again, so as a question for the nautical – what does ‘wettest boat’ mean?
Aren’t they all wet?
“The UK today…”
All under a “Conservative” government, a Conservative government that’s been in power since 2010.
Here’s my prediction, for what it’s worth, the Tories will be electorally annihilated and they’ll never ever win the “red wall” again, a gift that squandered by Blob Johnson.
These MAGA tears are delicious!
Bruce – I had a look at the wiki for Deutsche Bank this morning. Rather fruity.
Having lent money to the Gestapo to build Auschwitz you’d think they might just be a little more careful about advocating “eco-dictatorship”.
That’s obviously the plan.
A handpicked expert panel opining that there are no unintended constitutional consequences*, irrespective of whatever tedious detail the Albanese/Bandt Government applies = a cost free, feel good, tick the box exercise.
Then everyone can look on sadly as the cultural elites gorge, governance falls in a hole – and fucking nothing is achieved to actually improve the lives of the marginalised and disadvantaged.
The only consolation would be that the kiddies get to own the problem.
* Amazingly, give the Langton/Calma model requires the Voice to operate at all three levels of government.
How bad did Dan Andrews cheat though?
He’s thoroughly hated and wins in a landslide?
Australian elections have been rigged to an extent since John Macarthur.
Sounds like its not a proper farm machine as it doesnt have a crank handle?
My old grey fergie *could* be crank started (with a 50:50 chance of a kickback and a broken forearm) – it would fire on one cylinder, then 2, then 3, then eventually 4. I am still amazed that after 60 years the engine block still kept the water and the oil separate.
Entirely predictable and nothing to do with the UK’s laser-focussed energy policy; the ungrateful old bastards do that every year.
Xi smiles benevolently uopn Australia…a penny for your thoughts, sir?
Nuttin’ sez Chrissie like an AWESOME tree! .. 1951 ..
https://ibb.co/RNhtcqG
Almost as tasty as your tears of joy for the Pervert in Chief’s kiddy grooming efforts in the WH, eh mOron?
That’s something I’m looking forward to – an increase in the rate of the G.S.T. to fund “compensation” and “reparations?”
But Sean Hannity said under oath that he didn’t believe for a moment that the 2020 election was stolen.
And with those dyspeptic comments, Ho, Ho, Ho and off to a happier place – and a Merry Christmas to Cats, one and all.
As she touched down from Beijing, Ms Wong took to social media to “stand with the women of Afghanistan” and condemn the measures.
But not quite concerned enough to divert her flight to Kabul and discuss the matter in person .. LOL!
A suckhole for unfettered state power.
Regarding my earlier post about Moderna and request for source.
Tony Nicolic Twitter has link to Govt web page covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au which appears to be a site helping you find clinics. Below is copied from that page :
Please note: The ‘Moderna (6-11 years)’ and ‘Moderna (12 years +)’ vaccine types will no longer be available in Australia from mid-December 2022. Other COVID-19 vaccine choices are available for all people aged 6 years and older”
However I had a look at Moderna page on TGA site and no mention of that.
It reminds me of John Campbells clips in August where one Government site said Ok to Vax pregnant women and the other said no.
Security News This Week: Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid
You’re such a cynic, dot.
I’m sure His Holiness Kyrill, the Patriarch of Moscow, will vouch for Vlad’s Christian bona fides.
(Where’s the irony button on this blog?)
Interesting to speculate what would happen, since she’s a lesbian “married” to another lesbian. I doubt the Taliban would take kindly to that, especially since we gave them so much curry in Oruzgan.
Does kibble also make you into a lesbian?!
It’s a contributing factor…. along with the Hyundai
These a reason every government since Howard has kicked this can down the road. And remember The Golden Rule – no votes in blackfella issues.
Vlad has as much chance of being a Christian as Wong does. But he recognized fairly early that the Orthodox Church was a valuable binding agent for Russia. That was almost a Constantine-level bit of statecraft, and very laudible in this day and age of international paganism and Gaia-worship.
I’d be surprised. I still reckon we’ll never see the inside of a ballot box with pencil in hand.
Hey dot, Danisbad voting had something in common with US elections.
They overdid the rigging to point where the results were unbelievable.
KD, did you see this article in the NT Independent? (h/t Shy Ted at Adam’s)
It names names like nobody’s business.
and
‘He’ is Kent Rowe, former Secretary of the ALP, and ‘she’ is a younger relative of his who he abused for years while she was a minor. The whole story is sickening, especially as she confided in several people over a long period and nobody did a damn thing to help her.
Rowe was convicted, BTW. The NT ALP is a fucking cesspool.
mis-fits
No need to look so far back for inspiration…it’s straight out of Stalin’s WWII playbook.
Oh yes. Long, but not boring.
It perfectly encapsulates the failed local businessmen and bored housewives that make up the NT Government, along with the shameless nepotism and fierce ignoring of rank criminality only achievable in a small jurisdiction without attracting significant scrutiny.
And yes – names, names and names seeded all the way through it.
Reporting evidence under oath at trials helps. Prevents a lot of problems later on.
Crash Craddock has picked his World XI and it’s hard to argue against.
Usman Khawaja (Australia)
Imam ul-Haq (Pakistan)
Marcus Labuschagne (Australia)
Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)
Jonny Bairstow (England)
Ben Stokes (captain England)
Rishabh Pant (India)
Marco Jansen (South Africa)
Kagiso Rabada (South Africa)
Jimmy Anderson (England)
Nathan Lyon (Australia)
Rabada is very good. To average 20.4 per wicket is the stuff that very few have produced.
In fairness, the ‘adults’ have gifted the kiddies the bill for every other problem: unpayable debt, NDIS, big government, the nanny state, unfunded liabilities, 30 years on the pension etc etc etc
Japanese conquered America.
Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas (23 Dec)
The arrow and spear points are quite beautiful, and obviously were produced carefully by the knappers to enhance that beauty.
May the thief have a most unhappy Xmas:
A $12,000 reward has been offered for the safe return of documents and medals belonging to lauded military figure Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop.
The items were stolen in a safe heist after the Toorak home of Sir Edward’s granddaughter was broken into last week.
A distraught Diana Dunlop has since announced the generous reward in the hope of having the items, including a World War II briefcast, returned to her.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
December 24, 2022 at 7:34 am
and at 7:41 am
This reminds me the article I came across this morning re
Christmas Eve Fly By,
Painting by Bonnie White,
Painted in 2018
Reflection on the Folk Art Painting (Luke 1-67-79)
Remember, Zechariah who could not say anything since the angel of the Lord appeared to him, now regained his voice and today’s Gospel reading tells us how he breaks out into a great hymn of praise. This is the reading that the Church gives us the day before Christmas. The Church wants us to realise how God decided to visit his people to redeem them. After the angel visiting Zechariah, and then visiting Mary and then Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth, the time has come now for God to visit us. That is what visiting means, to go to a place in order to look at it, or to a person in order to spend time with them. God wanted to come into our midst to tell us how much he loves us and spend time with us.
And that is what Christmas is, a great time of visitation where we see family and friends, in rejoicement of how God visited us in the first place. So Zechariah’s song begins by declaring that ‘God has visited his people’, and he concludes by proclaiming that ‘the Dawn from on high will visit us’ again. Everything else is squeezed between these two verses.
Today’s painting is by American folk art painter Bonnie White. Bonnie spent 30 years living and working on her family’s horse farm in Canaan, N.Y. before taking up painting again, something she started in her youth. Her artworks have become very popular over the years and can be found on magazine covers, jigsaw puzzles, framed prints, calendars, advent calendars and Christmas cards. Our painting shows people on their way to visit family and friends. It is an utterly charming, atmospheric scene.
Christian Art
It means it punches through the water instead of bouncing on top, so a “wet” boat would be a semi displacement hull or full displacement hull.
Hope that helps
That Rabada stat was for this year only
the miata is a give away
Ahhhh.
Appreciated, Carpe.
One of Rita P’s most powerful articles linked to above, about the ratbag just released from jail after a juvenile rape in Tennant Creek.
NT News has just reported on it, after the Daily Mail did four days ago, so maybe an appeal will happen.
Absolutely disgraceful, but the Voice will fix it.
The Titanic is a very wet boat.
The wettest.
Did somebody say festive swearing?
Yer man might be right, unless the Rah thought there was a dollar to be made.
quoting anti vaxx loons as a reliable source of information. Here’s the Australian Government health website, where exactly has moderna spikevax been removed?
As opposed to the cesspool of the ALP in other states?
*carefully not looking at Vic*
Soon I’ll have to ask my local land council if I can take a shower.
The lie of ‘nobody’s water’ prevails in Australia: Indigenous water reserves are not enough to deliver justice (Phys.org, 23 Dec)
Sacred and alive, eh? Get lost panhandlers, and take your wet black armbands with you.
What the hell has happened to us. One of the most gorgeous ads ever. Wonderful.
American Xmas; turn your grandson trans.
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The indoctrinators knew what they were doing. They pushed on through relentlessly.
Your children probably went through in the early stages. 2005 – 2015 students still mocked the indoctrination, because they hadn’t had it all the way through. Then, around the time of the Trump election we were getting kids who had been indoctrinated since Year 1.
The humour disappears. They accept the contradictions of the ideology. They don’t talk back or argue. They have no previous thing to compare it to. It just is they way things are.
You should all be terrified.
The last two years should have finally woken you up.
Notice that a lot of things just aren’t funny anymore?
Notice that a Babylon Bee article that would cause a chuckle before just isn’t funny now, even though you “get” it?
Not a lot of humour in the New Testament either. Jesus wasn’t the Rodney Dangerfield of his time, eh? I guess when you are no longer the Romans, but take on the role of the occupied people then it really isn’t the same feeling. Roman soldiers and Vicpol. How you feel about them and how funny they are depends on your status.
A pity he’s let down by their batting, but he appears to be takin git philosophically.
As it happens, we’re hosting a young South African for Christmas lunch tomorrow. I hope he’s into cricket so I can surprise him with how much I dislike the Australian team.
In a just world, these mothers would be behind bars now;
https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1604591203709644800
the rise of neo-primitives is complete
what a relief for rosie
Gait analysis be damned.
Practice your Keyser Söze .
There is actually, but it’s tempered by Jesus being surrounded by people who are dying and being condemned to Hell. Which makes it slightly difficult to be comedic. But the wedding feast in Cana and the rich young ruler episode are dryly funny. Also Peter’s various hilarious comments.
The Pythons drew upon this brilliantly in Life of Brian, plus all the ancillary history and the quirks of a classical education in the sixties.
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The premise of Life of Brian, like Dave Allen, is antithetical to Christian belief.
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appartment porn. for a cool 250 big ones
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Nice footage cohenite. Nice counter battery fire. Target round with first ranging shot. Unless they were already ranged in. Hear the culmination of the fire mission close to the end with 4 or 5 pops.
Happy to be corrected by military cats. Mate once explained artillery/mortar to me. Apparently you range in with single shots bringing on to an imaginary line between you & target then walk the fire forwards or back till you get target round then the actual barrage. Nothing like movies & if said unit is quick they can get away.
Usually at the expense of the disciples.
Which is significant, because if you were going to start a sect on the basis of made up stories, you wouldn’t want your scriptures to portray you as rather dim-witted and even cowardly.
You should ask the Architectural critic what he thinks of the apartment, Zip. Totally coincidentally stalks two critiques -both where he believes I live and the beach house area. More like an architectural stalker. Seriously off the planet weird.
My nephew:
I will take the science juice, but I don’t want politics in movies. She Hulk is a Mary Sue.
There’s a glimmer of hope.
Thank you.
There is no more humour because real humour is a lubricating mechanism to allow folks to get along.
You might have noticed that those who oppose your Christian values no longer wish to get along with you.
Which makes the New Testament far more relevant to our times than it was to the times fifty or 100 years ago.
If you want to keep your head while everyone else gets angry or insane, and endure the coming age, it’s all in there.
Ben Stokes is very popular in India.
Arky – Not actually. They were exquisitely careful. There was a lot of outrage at the time from brittle Christians, but there’s absolutely nothing in it that is unChristian when it comes to Christianity. They do mercilessly go after politics and human stupidity though, which is common to all cultures.
I agree regarding Dave Allen as I recall, although it’s a long time since I watched his shows.
(You may need to read Josephus, if you haven’t already, to get a better feel where they were coming from.)
Maybe if someone does a woke remake of Brian they’ll call it “Life of Greta”.
Might be less funny though.