Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
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70 yo female aged care resident strangled by 19 y.o. worker.
No mention of the name of the perp, so it’s inconvenient for The Narrative.
Perhaps they could blame King Leopold?
His rule inspired Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad’s harrowing indictment of colonial plunder and brutality.
No.
Conrad was initially condemning, but his experiences in The Congo
informed the conclusion of his novel.
Which was, The Congo couldn’t be transformed from savagery to European Style peace.
All the best for Christmas and the New Year!
Carl’s Jr opened just up Millers Road from me, but the franchisee needs to be whipped. Sometimes their burgers are beaut, good as the ones I recall from Califiornia — big, meaty, properly cooked. Other times, like Monday, the beef was overcooked to the point it resembled and tasted like an old inner sole. Onion rings were hard, as if coated with shotgun pellets, and the chips were cold. They also get the order wrong or leave out items — tomato sauce, no matter how often you request it — about 25% of the time. Ask for no-sugar coke and you’ll get the regular sort, which is far too sweet for my tastes.
I was so angry after throwing the inedible burger in the bin I filed a complaint with Carl’s HQ.
Perhaps typically, almost a week has passed and I have yet to receive a response.
Roger Casement had Spook written all over him.
Wasn’t he hanged as a spy? For Once, Richard Cranium has been accurate in designating someone as a Spook.
Congratulations, stopped electronic calendar!
Is the biggest story in the world Brazil?
Also my local.
Carls HQ won’t do crap, they must find it hard enough getting any staff at the moment.
Getting really sick of the judgemental personal invenctiveq served up here as comment.
How is my travelling to Europe last year ‘selfish’ or make me ‘horrible’?
Or was getting a booster selfish and horrible?
What pathetic nonsense.
It didn’t make an iota of difference to government policy, and wouldn’t have even if two million people got up and flew out though, incidentally, the number of people travelling internationally at the time was minuscule because most people were put off by the omicron surge, which is obviously why I got a booster before I left.
After two years of utter crap living in Melbourne, the details of which are none of your business I promised myself I would leave Danistan as soon as practicable and for as long as practicable, so I did.
I predicted by the way that by the time I got home most covid restrictions would have been removed and so they were.
Some of you are so uncharitable not even the Christmas season can blunt your nasty natures.
This blog is running dead on Brazil
Quiet at the Cafe birdwise. The noisy miners are busy feeding chicks…managed to get a chick to accept food from my hand today for the first time! But I’m down to one currawong and even the kookas are too busy – they have at least one newly hatched chick in the Cafe nestbox and are totally besotted.
The magpies have been turning up, they’re going well. The nicest thing is a female koel cuckoo has started to come by in the last week. She’s my latest project! She’s now approaching within half a metre for lumps of Coles mince. Female koels are breathtakingly pretty, especially from only half a metre away. Like avian Persian carpets.
Starter out in about 2 hours. Not great but could have been much worse.
Taco Bell eh. One in the ‘ville now on Woolcock st The Lakes in the old Sizzler building. I haven’t graced one since my last trip to the US over 20 years ago now.
Good thing is after the Franchise Wars we’ll be so privileged to still have somewhere to eat out even in NQ.
its on socialist media whiteout
FMD.
Just found out one of the farmers got reported to DOCS for giving one of his kids a wack with a plastic fly swat for misbehaving. Had to lawyer up to get out of it. Changing schools because was reported by the commie idiot teacher.
I know his kids, they play with the little bloke when he’s on the farm, and it’s going to take more than a few belts with a fly swat to straighten one of them out.
Fucking Australia.
Not much we can do about it but watch. The Left are doing the usual. Pretty clear they stole the election, but reversing such things is a cross-the-Rubicon action with consequences not seen since 1917.
Thanks Zulu and to you as well.
A good one there again by the sounds.
Ed Dowd
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Some of you are so uncharitable not even the Christmas season can blunt your nasty natures.
Rosie, you’re the one with the “unvaccinated can suffer the consequences”. No one else.
Nor was it taken out of context. I remember reading it at the time and thinking, this is exactly what is wrong with Victoria and Australia.
Merry Christmas!
A merry Christmas to all Cats!
Especially to dover & his family.
With many thanks for hosting us at his blog.
Yes thanks heaps Dover. Merry Christmas to all.
Her Ladyship of the Burgundy Jaguar
Hunted down and dealt with by the CWA. Not the CIA, the CWA. 🙂
‘Most disturbing’ Twitter files revelation yet: Sol Wisenberg
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Just a friendly reminder to be very careful when celebrating the Holidays this year, folks.
You don’t want to die from “Happy Heart Syndrome.”
So be safe and have a moderately Merry Christmas.
I remember going to a McDonalds in rural Indiana once and the bacon was fried until it was dark brown… wouldn’t get away with that here these days.
Govern me harder daddy! I’m an obese idiot with no self control!
Fucking Australia.
Incorrect. Brazil nuts are part of many a Christmas dinner.
Merry Christmas to Dover and everyone here, and a big thank you to Dover for this wonderful site, which enables us, in this increasingly awful and polarised world, to come here, vent and in my case to rant!
Many thanks Dover
Merry Christmas everybody.
areff at 8:20 – franchising is a real skill. Got to have the right business and the right people. I think a lot of these American franchises fail at the master franchise level in Australia. Which makes Maccas even more of a success story.
I wouldn’t call them rants, Cassie.
Impassioned declarations…and looking forward to more in 2023!
😀
“farmers got reported to DOCS for giving one of his kids a wack with a plastic fly swat for misbehaving. “
Given the many occasions when my mother used to wack us with her large, strong French wooden spoons, today she’d be charged, tried, and sent to jail to serve a life sentence.
Lizzie and P, I remember as a child the family receiving Christmas cards from my dad’s cousin in the US. Those cards were the most beautiful ones I had ever seen and I kept them for ages. Ah, all those decades ago when America was Christian.
I remember going to a McDonalds in rural Indiana once and the bacon was fried until it was dark brown… wouldn’t get away with that here these days.
Govern me harder daddy! I’m an obese idiot with no self control!
Fucking Australia.
why don’t you give it a rest- you’re turning into Germaine Greer
Custard been following but till the army is out of the barracks and I’ve been in the country I am in Thailand, after civil unrest and the army in the streets. I’ll keep my wait and see approach.
Coup d’etat can either go smoothly deposing of the Shinerwatra Government in 2006 or very messy 1992 coup that saw mass unrest and troops firing on crowds in Bangkok. Indonesia & Philippines ditto for other of our neighbours with a similar path.
My 2c worth having done 2 contracts for Vale and having worked with Brazilians. They aren’t stupid, the Generals would be acutely aware any removal of the President is likely to bring the wrath of Eurotrash, probably Biden as well and all the other tinpot dictators in the neighbourhood like Venezuela & Cuba. Then there is the desire to keep out of politics which is easier said than done in the developing world.
The parliament leans strongly right, the armies allegiance is murky from what I have seen but generally leans right and now the Supreme court has been nobled the Generals may allow things to run their course. Seen it happen in other countries before.
My 2c for definitely what it is worth.
We did a consulting job (actually didn’t go anywhere) for a burger joint – Perf Cats would know it, it was a bit of an institution. Turned out a mate at EY had seen it too. I expect the bank (who they were into for about $5m unsecured when that was real money) had told them to get an act. Trouble was they wanted about $1m in Capex to get a franchise up and running. They didn’t really to offer a franchisee much either. Apparently they went bust at some point. I came out of a meeting with them referring to them as the Munsters. We just fell about laughing and found something else to do.
Islam never rests. Jihad Watch
knock it off today rosie … its xmas eve
it ain’t a victim-totem … its a Christmas tree
why don’t you give it a rest- you’re turning into Germaine Greer
I love how Australian’s are so accepting of government slithering into every single crack in the fabric of life, whilst being completely incompetent at core shit like maintaining roads.
When I first posted on Doomlord’s site, I was told to harden up. It was sage advice.
Rosie, don’t get your pantaloons in a twist.
Your only reason for the jab was for overseas trips
With all the evidence at hand, it’s impossible to come to another conclusion.
And no there was never ‘invective’
I wouldn’t mind being a government bacon inspector. Not that I would ever last in the public service.
Peace on earth and goodwill to most cats.
I expect I would go rouge allowing excessively brown bacon to be foisted onto the burger buying public while allowing rubbery undercooked bacon to be served at hotel bain-maries.
rogue even
Thanks for the airports chaos update.
Have flown Xmas eve, day, Boxing day & NYE international regularly, don’t remember many cancellations even connecting on domestic majors either. IMO a recent phenomenon that I noticed creep in just before COVID as I was stung twice by Qantas link where I had international connections out of Cairns. Seems to be catching.
Mmmm. Bacon kickbacks.
Aren’t you guys taking the “we don’t like Rosie” stuff a little far tonight?
How about a little peace on earth and good will? Or is that too much to ask?
It didn’t make an iota of difference to government policy,
But it did.
You caved to the jab to travel. The powers that be made sure of that. Government said you couldn’t travel if you didn’t have it
Rosie this is not invective as you incorrectly explain. It’s you being silly and adhere to edicts which have nothing to do with health.
Remember, a simple “Fuck Off” goes a long way.
Christmas Carols on TV were OK until then they put on that little twerp Anthony Callea and he must tell us about his husband who is about to perform with him. Changed channels.
Years ago as a kid, one day my wayward brothers let go a stream of colourful words that Mum heard from upstairs.
She stormed down all aprons and stirring spoons determined to nip that shit in the bud.
Somehow she worked out that it was me that coaxed the toddler into cussing (I may, or may not, have had some form in the area)
anyways. I copped that silver plated spoon right on the forehead between the eyes.
tonight, I’m putting together a sparkling shiraz jelly
and I literally just stirred that jelly as it cools ready to pour on top of the rapsberry off my raspberry tree jelly
using the exact same spoon
Aren’t you guys taking the “we don’t like Rosie” stuff a little far tonight?
Calli no.
If I make an egregious statement, I would expect to be flayed on this site.
So no.
After three years of on-off lockdowns flying is a little advanced for me. I started last month with a road trip to Melbourne. It was a bit harder than I remember it from previous years.
Merry Christmas and Goodnight All!
Have a wonderful day tomorrow!
(Dover, thanks for the sterling work on keeping this going!)
Flay away.
No one knows the ins and outs of other people’s “motives” or their lives, only what they choose to reveal. We fill in the blanks as best we can. Most of what we believe about others is imagination. And even if they tell you the entire truth, we can discard the stuff that doesn’t suit.
There’s a lot of picking and choosing going on. Pay attention and you’ll see it.
Sun dipping over the horizon & not a Christmas tree in sight. That part I miss about being in a Buddhist region at this time of year. Though children make Christmas IMO.
Merry Christmas to all. Was planning to cook a pork roast hangi style tomorrow for my hosts but finding one was impossible.
I’ll share some thoughts on why I think the welfare system is setting us up for failure as a nation tomorrow. Just some things I have observed in last couple weeks where the other extreme is in play. In advance feel free to maul like always at the Cat. 🙂
PS Loved JC’s synopsis of Jetstar today. I chuckled because it is so true but hey, I’ll still use them because they are cheap.
Happy Christmas to all at The Cat and many blessings for the new year.
Thank you Dover for keeping this blog going.
A Merry Xmas to all Cats, and thanks to Dover for managing this blog.
Anyway, I have dodged the gluten bullet and sank mucho grog and a steak sandwich.
Merry Christmas to all and sundry, I love you guys and gals, except monty and Ed.
Merry Christmas Black Ball. It was great catching up in person last weekend.
Merry Christmas to all the Cats and Kittehs, even to Monty, Ed and even the thankfully quiet Struth. May your day be full of peace and joy with loved ones.
Luke 2:11
Takes me back. MPH in the 80’s. Mainly medicos doing it.
Not at Harvard but Syd Uni, Faculty of Medicine.
Not on my agenda to think about that tonight though. Hairy deeply immersed in Britten’s Ceremony of Carols – his ritual on Christmas Eve, for he used to sing it himself in a famous choir as a schoolboy. He’s doing the hallelulias out loud as I type. We’ve already sat together looking out over the harbour in a warm dusk after he returned from the footie game at Moore Park, he with a Scotch and me with a G & T, listening to carols, enjoying our Christmas lights. Then we had a meat pie. A good quality purchased one, meat baked in a casing, just as they had in the Tudor Christmas re-enactment show I watched last nite. Pies were big festive fare back then. So was a stuffed boiled pig’s head. We had the last of our ham on the bone today, turned into pea soup which I spent time making yesterday. A success.
The best I ever heard on Carols by Candlelight was Debbie Byrne 1991:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY0d98scrLI
That Tudor Christmas show reminded me of visting Hampton Court on Twelfth Night in the early nineties with our children still young primary schoolers. The Lord of Misrule, dressed as a decked out lord but really the Court Jester, singled Hairy out in the watching crowd, saying as he whacked his own backside that he was looking for a man who was ‘the arse’. Be you the arse? he asked Hairy to our gobsmacked children’s horror and amazement. Such was the power of a ‘rude’ word on them and the crowd laughter it evoked. They’d never heard anything like it. Nor had I, for that matter.
Tudor ribaldry. 🙂
I once worked for an organisation which had a ‘facility’ in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Apparently it was a ‘test town’ for chain restaurants. You open one there and in 5-6 other test locations across the US. If the numbers are good you get finance and open a thousand.
From time-to-time it had some weird and wonderful establishments open, only to sink without trace.
Knoxville also had a body farm, were donated cadavers would be left in the open air and used by forensic scientists for research.
I make no connection.
Great evening mc. Will need more in the coming weeks
Had a good Christmas laugh as two gays in velvet waltzed about the stage singing a song about ‘finding the girl’ while directing melting looks at each other. That followed the abo choir singing in vogon. Christmas, eh.
I think you might have over the last couple of days, and avoided a flaying.
So chill.
And have a Merry Christmas.
Sleep well all for the big day tomorrow. Thinking of those attending church services worldwide.
Santas at home may now head for the nightcap of wine or whisky left out for him.
Shades of taming the hobgoblin in that.
Don’t forget to give that carrot a chomp either, for Rudolf.
Some entrepreneur has even invented chocolate reindeer poo.
All in all, I think not.
God Bless, everyone.
Still one of the nicest ways to say goodnight.
Merry Christmas.
This is probably true.
Or not.
Who can say.
And thanks to Mr Dover for wrangling the troublesome Cats during the year.
A happy and holy Christmas to you and yours, and may you prosper in the new year.
…
PS. Can I get a refund of my Cat subs for the six weeks I was dead.
Rex also wants to know about refunds for the temporarily deceased as well.
Thanking you in advance.
God Bless you, Rosie, and have a Merry Christmas. You are a stalwart Kitteh, always.
There is no shame in travel or wanting to do it safely and well or blogging about it here.
Nor in taking a recommended vaxx in the face of an unknown viral pandemic.
Everyone makes their own decision, at the time. Mandatory vaxxing is always an outrage.
Back to good cheer now. Looking forward to a kiss under some Mistletoe.
It would turn you red?
Australia: Queensland Police Killing used to Call for National Gun Registry
Sliante! Geseënde Kersfees en ‘n voorspoedige nuwe jaar aan almal op die Kat!
Merry Christmas everyone and may the Good Lord see fit to grant us 2023 to be better than the last few years.
May you get the gifts you were hoping to get in tomorrow’s unwrappening, eat, drink and be merry, within reason.
Thank you Dover for hosting this fractious and the most knowledgeable bunch on the internet and may Santa be generous to you in return.
Gaslighting is behavioural lapse; must be countered
Almost went with tradition and watched Die Hard but didn’t.
Settled for Nobody (a poor man’s Wick) and the classic Lock Stock, which is sort of Christmassy if take into account the ganja and gambling and shooting.
A merry Traitormas to all.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
This is my favorite picture of Dr. Fauci
Merry Christmas all.
I started chrimbo today. Am full of turkey, roast potatoes, and what goes with them. Also mince pies and Bundaberg rum custard. And taitinger and pol roger. And grapes and chocolate.
Generally, my attitude to Christmas is that if you ignore it, it will go away; so far it always has. It’s some sort of excuse for eating and drinking too much, but I’ve never needed an excuse.
Anyway, I’m a day ahead of you guys who are ruled by the calendar.
So Berry grease bus, udder abbey dew dear, as they say in pomland. And yes, Dover is a great man.
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei
merry xmas ya bunch of crotchety old nannas
exspecially dover the cat wrangler
Just sipping a little port before hitting the sack.
Merry Christmas to all.
Speak to JC.
Covid Christmas is looking dire. Either $12 cans at the Casino or park drinking over the road. I’m torn.
Merry Christmas to all, this is one more I’ve got to see.
Thanks Dover, splendid job trying to herd the narcissist and bullies and still maintain your temper.
Bless.
No fucking chance, then.
Christmas Day! God rest ye, merry gentlemen, likewise merry ladies.
It’s the first Christmas ever in my adult years that I can’t have a drink due to taking medication. And they’re not even interesting drugs. At least I will be free to be my family’s designated driver.
Reminder.
I need to decant my bottles of Felton Road and Mt Difficulty into empty Giesen 0% alcohol bottles to discourage the wine pilferers of Christmas past.
Offer to paint his lawn.
Good to see you all clinking glasses to the founder of the feast- Merry Christmas Dover.
Merry Christmas all!
When we “had the farm” I was known to keep my private stock of single malt under lock and key, in a cupboard bearing a skull and crossbones……..
Just back from the midnight service at my not quite local but quaint old fashioned church. Which apparently my post covid spirit craved. Who knew?
Merry, merry Christmas to the Dover Cat and all who sail in her. Special salute and bonus rum ration for Captain Dover and the excellent work he puts in to keep all this bunch of old reprobates in line.
Now half past midnight. Everybody is out, pub cleaned & prepped ready to open Boxing Day morning.
We’ll all take the rest of the day off.
Santa pillowcases prepped & ready to lay near sleeping heads.
Not in a whisky mood, it’s a stiff rum instead!
Merry Christmas all.
(& extra to the immediate upthread, Megan, Zulu, Wally & HB)
We opened a bottle of Moet only to discover it was corked.
Prolly something to do with being in Darwin for several years, and then transported 5000 k’s by road. Oh well.
Thanks Dover for your magnificent efforts this year, and Merry Christmas to all.
Week In Pictures.
Australia: Queensland Police Killing used to Call for National Gun Registry
The commie swill that run this country are yet to concoct any sensible rationale for this latest piece of 1984.
Any police turning up to a property would do well to assume that firearms may be present, regardless of what the registry says.
Per primo – Buon Natale a tutti gatti e gattine
. It is always the same the swill make the rules and the policy – when their rules and policy fuck up as it inevitably does, then it’s the fault of the people not the policy — it’s the Sir Humphrey Appleby effect,
Sturgeon filth.
Merry Christmas Cats Best Wishes for Health and Happiness in 2023
#metoo. I suspect not though…she might be close to the end, but I see no river.
A Christmas meme they missed.
Thanks Tom
Good Morning and Merry Christmas to all Dover’s Cats, wishing you all good things. Now for a cuppa and a mince pie – loooxury.
Yes.
The ones most likely to brass up police, are the ones least likely to give them advanced notice of their capability.
A National Database? What would that have changed? Weren’t they doing a welfare check AND following up a warrant for Nathaniel. Didn’t that warrant include firearm specific references? Are they trying to claim they didn’t know that he was a firearms owner?
My spider senses are tingling with that unmistakable waft of bullshit.
A typical sop to the ignorant (but well meaning) public, to give the illusion of progress, whilst further stripping away the freedoms of the innocent. A good old fashioned twofer. Never waste a crisis.
Merry Christmas to everyone!
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
– Isaiah 9:6
And a Happy Christmas Day to all.
Off to the family feast at lunchtime on one of my favourite days of the year. I’m the eldest of five and I love all my siblings to bits. Best of all, there are never any blues – it’s always very enjoyable meeting the new nephews and nieces with their endless energy.
It’s at brother number 3’s place so we’ll be eating way too much food around a beautiful in-ground pool precinct as the temperature heads for thirty degrees.
I hope all Cats have a beautiful day and get to reflect on what we’re celebrating – the 2022th year of the greatest story in the history of the world.
Merry Christmas to all Cats,
Thank you Dover for running this blog.
Happy Festivus
GoofBall babbles:
Merry Christmas to all and sundry, I love you guys and gals, except monty and Ed.
Ed Case writes in reply:
Fangul!
yule tide felicitations
Merry Christmas to all Cats.
It has been an eventful couple of years.
Special note to our beloved DoverLord, Cat Herder Extroardinaire!
God Bless us Everyone!
Merry Christmas everyone.
Thank you Dover, the Cat continues to shine it’s light.
None so blind as those who won’t see.
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Sums it up
Almost the time of year that there are top 10 lists that come out. This isn’t one but it’s the press secretary moppet
Merry Christmas Cats.
My wife tried to worm a couple of pet cats this morning. She crushed tablets and blended it into their favourite tinned food.
I think you can guess the result.
Here is a top 10
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“Emergency Talk” used to implement Covid restrictions will be repackaged and weaponised again
Hope she didn’t use Ivermectin, it’s a horse de-wormer you know.
Feliz Navidad to all.
Lovely still night. Slept with upstairs windows propped open after painting yesterday. Cool air on skin so refreshing. Took the dogs out for a stroll earlier and off to mass soon. Beautiful sunny day with blue skies. Glad we’re not in the northern hemisphere.
Cats vs Christmas trees
Attapuss has been off his food for two days now. All he will eat is his kibbles. His tray is still well used, and he has been merrily chasing insects on the verandah. Maybe he’s eaten some bad ones.
I hope a trip to the vet will not be required. We will give him till after Boxing Day.
We are off as soon as Hairy gets moving after his usual Christmas night music fest and single malt.
Safe travels to those travelling, and then God Rest Ye Merry, Ladies and Gentlemen.
M0nty and Ed, you too.
Farmer Gezsays:
December 25, 2022 at 8:13 am
I hope they weren’t the $22 a pop ones! I have had good results crushing all-wormers into fine powder and mixing it thoroughly into a small amount of beef mince.
Merry and safe Christmas, Cats. Here and everywhere!
Glad we’re not in the northern hemisphere.
I’ve got rellies in Buffalo, NY they been warned to expect around -10C Chrissie eve …….
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Happy, happy Christmas Cats! The best day of the year.
I hope a trip to the vet will not be required
One of my pair had been limping on 3 legs for several days .. no idea why .. but this morning not a sign of it he’s back to galloping around like a thoroughbred .. cats .. ya gotta luv ’em! .. LOL!
Lead item on the Hun website. Pay attention Knuckle Dragger (chortle)
A stubborn David Warner says the end of his Test run drought is imminent ahead of his 100th match at the MCG on Boxing Day.
Warner said his lean home summer had partly been caused by poor mental health ahead of the first West Indies Test in Perth, accusing Cricket Australia of failing to provide support as he addressed the media on Christmas Eve.
Warner, who has made 105 runs at 17.5 this summer and is yet to pass 50, said his headspace had improved and he felt a turn in on-field fortune was just around the corner.
“Leading into the Perth Test, my mental health probably wasn’t where I needed to be at, to be 100 per cent,” he said.
He said the aborted appeal process to have his leadership ban overturned had been “challenging” to deal with as he approached the Test series.
“If I had it my way, we would’ve had (the appeal) all sorted,” he said.
“From the CA point of view I didn’t really have any support — but my teammates and the staff, our team were absolutely amazing and my family and friends, so that really got me through that period.
“I’m in a great headspace now, we’re getting ready for this training session, I’m pumped to walk out here and play another Boxing Day Test … but more importantly we’ve got a series that’s on the line and we can put that away if we win.”
Warner said he was extremely proud of himself just to have played cricket for Australia, let alone 100 Test matches, as he reflected on his early childhood ambitions.
“The young boy from the housing commission at Matraville … growing up through the housing commission taught me how to fight hard and achieve the goal that you wanted … I’m living every housing commission boy’s dream,” he said.
“I wanted to play cricket for Australia, I’m doing that now. My back’s up against the wall but it’s in my DNA to keep being competitive and take it up to any opposition I’m going to face.”
Despite only passing 50 twice in his previous 19 Test innings, Warner said he was getting into “great positions” in recent matches and had been the victim of “a little bit of misfortune”.
“You look at some of the chop-ons … I’ve been in great positions when I’ve been snicking off, so there’s nothing you can actually do about that.
“People write me off — you know that one day game here (at the MCG) and I went out and scored a hundred on a pretty dicey wicket.
“I feel like I can get through anything.”
Australia looks likely to name an unchanged side for the Boxing Day Test, with the Gabba pace attack of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Scott Boland bowling to the team’s top order while Josh Hazlewood stretched on the sidelines early at Saturday afternoon’s training session
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growing up through the housing commission taught me how to fight hard and achieve the goal that you wanted … I’m living every housing commission boy’s dream,” he said.
Luigi sez, “hold my beer” .. LOL!
Merry Christmas Cats.
My wife tried to worm a couple of pet cats this morning. She crushed tablets and blended it into their favourite tinned food.
I think you can guess the result.
They are dearer but the “squeezey” type save a lot of hassle …..
Davey shoulda retired 2 years ago.
He’s not picking the ball up early anymore and he’s only hanging round for the money.
Of course, that’s hardly news anymore, the Waugh twins, Ponting, Clark played years longer than they shoulda, money was the only reason.
Merry Christmas to Cat Posters & Thanks to Dover for the Blog.
Joys of Christmas living with 3 Grandkids (At least they did not wake me when, according to my Son-in-law, they got up at 0420)
Christmas Dinner last night
The Sharing of Family presents this morning, perhaps a hint from my Son – Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny Port
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NEW — Just released CDC Mortality Data shows a statistically significant increase in death rates across all age ranges in 2021 with heart disease, cancer, COVID-19, and sudden infant death syndrome being some of the leading contributors
Davey shoulda retired 2 years ago.
He’s not picking the ball up early anymore and he’s only hanging round for the money.
Of course, that’s hardly news anymore, the Waugh twins, Ponting, Clark played years longer than they shoulda, money was the only reason.
Yes Ed.
I listened to Ian Healy on Gerard Healy’s radio show and he said what you just did now, about picking the ball out of the bowler’s hand.
He can still make a lot of moolah jetting around the world in the Twenty20 comps.
Indolent,
thanks for the cat video. I used to hang my tree from the ceiling also. It isn’t Christmas until the cats have knocked over the tree at least 3 times!
Farmer Gez,
as shatterzzzzz wrote, they are more expensive but the squeeze-on is easier and takes out fleas, ticks, external parasites as well as worms.
A Merry Christmas to all Cats and lurkers. A wonderful time of the year , the best. Enjoy and be happy!
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We’ve resorted to me holding the cat by the scruff of the neck and my wife shoving the tablet down the throat.
It’s like a mini covid injection mandate with teeth.
It is not known where the camel came from.
It was Christmas Eve, for goodness’ sake.
Fortunately, the lady is in a stable condition.*
*Channels Ronnie Barker.
A Merry Christmas to one and all.
Indolentsays:
December 25, 2022 at 8:40 am
HAS NATO’S STRATEGY TO BLEED RUSSIA BACKFIRED?
The United States and its European allies have been deceived by their use of military force over the last 30 years. They have never had to fight a peer nation with the capability to produce all of its own military equipment that is on par with what the West relies on. They have deployed their military forces against ill-equipped, poorly trained armies that lacked air power and effective artillery and tank forces. The United States and NATO were lulled into a state of complacency.
Compounding the problem was the decision of the West to shift much of its manufacturing capability to foreign countries. American can no longer do what it did in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, when the United States switched its massive industrial base into manufacturing tanks, planes, ammunition, battleships and air craft carriers.
Modern day America specializes in producing grotesquely expensive, unreliable weapons that take months and years to appear on a battlefield.
This also is an intelligence failure. It appears the CIA bought into the nonsense that Russia had a small, weak economy and would crumbled in the face of Western sanctions. A real analyst would have raised the fact that sanctions, historically, have been ineffective in forcing regime change. Cuba and Iran are primary examples. It looks like the CIA donned its cheerleading uniform, complete with Blue and Yellow pom poms, and parroted the lie that Russia could not produce the rockets, artillery shells and precision missiles to support a long war.
We are ten months into Russia’s “Special Military Operation” and they continue to shred Ukraine’s troops and infrastructure like a lethal Energizer Bunny — those pesky Rooskies keep going and going.
We enter the New Year under a dark and dangerous cloud. The failure of the United States and NATO to stop Russia may lead the Western alliance to act with more desperation and recklessness. Russia, for its part, admitted as much this week and is taking steps to bulk up its forces in the event this escalates into a World War.
I continue to pray for peace, but there are no Western leaders embracing that approach.
To add to the above – interesting article on Let the Patriot Games Begin
Pepe Escobar – Strategic Culture – Sat, 24 Dec 2022
It’s idle to dwell on the cringe-worthy visit of the Kiev clown to Crash Test Dummy at the White House, coupled with a “Churchillian” speech at the War Party dominions in Capitol Hill.
History will ridicule this Hollywood soap for centuries ahead.
Way more juice is provided by the latest War Party P.R. show, sponsored by Raytheon Productions. After all Lloyd Austin, the current Pentagon head, is a former Raytheon weapons peddler.
After much fanfare, it was established that the Pentagon will provide not a collection, but a single Patriot battery to Kiev – either with four or eight missile launchers, and either the PAC 2 or PAC 3 version.
A Patriot battery comes with radar, lots of computers, power generating equipment, and an “engagement control station”.
Instead of training Ukrainians at a U.S. Army base in Grafenwoehr, in Germany, the Pentagon is mulling the possibility of training them at a U.S. base, most certainly Fort Sill in Oklahoma, where most instructors actually live, side by side with their integrated training simulators. Up to 90 military are required to operate and maintain a single Patriot battery.
Considering the extensive training required to operate such a costly ($1 billion) and complex system, if they are on the ground during the first semester of 2023 this will mean, ominously, that the operators may be American, or at least NATO mercenaries.
The implied consequences are self-evident. Especially when the Russian Ministry of Defense has already pointed out that the Patriot will be considered a legitimate target.
So assuming all of the above will happen in practice sometime in 2023, it will be a blast to compare the Patriot performance in Ukraine with the Patriots at work in the lands of Arabia – which were routinely dribbled like Messi on an average match by Iranian and Houthi missiles. The Houthis always had a ball targeting Saudi oil installations.
What may change it that unlike in the Arab peninsula, all the collective West’s intel, recon and satellite firepower is in a state of alert in Ukraine 24/7.
The inestimable Andrei Martyanov has already came up with the essential breakdown of all Patriot essentials.
Let’s focus on a few intriguing details.
Another key issue is who’s gonna pay for this P.R. op.
The current modified version of Patriot launchers costs roughly $10 million. A single missile costs a whopping $4 million. Russia already spends de facto pocket money on drones – and will spend even more. Firing a $4 million missile at a drone worth at best $50,000 does not even qualify as a joke.
So what is this for? Once again: Empire Escalating, mindlessly, with no end in sight.
Putin and his circle, in over two decades, have tried absolutely everything to integrate Russia to the West. Russia was rebuffed every step of the way.
Now this strategy has been declared null and void – ever since the American non-response response a year ago to the official Russian letters requesting a serious discussion on “indivisibility of security”. No wonder the Empire is freaking out.
Merry Christmas Cats. Have great day . Love your work .
The Dan Andrews treatment.
If Santa didn’t bring you a lathe, try this! (NSW Cats):
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bullaburra/power-tools/myford-super-7-lathe-/1305973920
Wot! Still you won’t talk about it?
We’ve resorted to me holding the cat by the scruff of the neck and my wife shoving the tablet down the throat.
The Dan Andrews treatment.
Then you throw him down the stairs ..!
A blonde and a lawyer are seated next to each other on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. The lawyer asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde, tired, just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists and explains that the game is easy and a lot of fun. He says “I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me five dollars, and vice versa”. Again, she declines and tries to get some sleep.
The lawyer, now agitated, says “Okay, if you don’t know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you $500”. This catches the blonde’s attention and, figuring there will be no end to this torment, agrees to the game.
The lawyer asks the first question “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?” The blonde doesn’t say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a $5 bill, and hands it to the lawyer.
“Okay” says the lawyer “your turn”. She asks “What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four legs?” The lawyer, puzzled, takes out his smartphone, connects to the inflight wi-fi and searches Google, Wikipedia and Orsm… no answer. Frustrated, he sends emails his friends and co-workers, tweets and posts it on Facebook to no avail.
After an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $500. The blonde thanks him and turns back to get some more sleep.
The lawyer, who is more than a little miffed, stirs the blonde and asks “Well… what’s the answer?”
Without a word, the blonde reaches into her purse, hands the lawyer $5, and goes back to sleep.
A Win for the Amish – Farmer Gez interested in your thoughts re “Raw Meat”
Amish farmer Amos Miller wins battle in war for food freedom in US Appeals Court
U.S. Appeals Court says Amos Miller won’t be spending Christmas in jail after all, drops $300,000 fine, and allows him to sell meat again, so he doesn’t go bankrupt while a long-term solution is negotiated!
In what feels like a Christmas Miracle, a major food freedom case took a turn for the best.
The Amish typically shy away from publicity, as a part of their humble religion, but Pennsylvania farmer Amos Miller decided the USDA’s war against him and other small, organic farmers is the hill he will die on and is prepared to take his battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
The USDA (aka Big Ag) has been harassing Miller for years – first for his sale of raw milk, and now for his sale of truly raw meat.
Many of us have become aware of the difference between raw, grass-fed milk straight from the farm, and the pasteurized garbage approved by the FDA… but not many of us realize that the expensive, grass-fed, “raw” beef we are buying at the grocery store isn’t really raw. If it’s USDA-approved, it’s been treated with antibiotic chemicals, which are not accurately labeled as such.
Miller’s spokeswoman Anke Meyn told us on a phone call last April:
“The USDA processing plants require the meat to be treated with a chemical cocktail of citric acid, lactic acid and peracetic acid. It’s not citric acid from oranges or lactic acid from sauerkraut.
It’s all created in a lab. It’s a synthetic sterilizer that causes many health problems.”
Ironically, because Miller does NOT use antibacterial chemicals to sterilize his meat, the USDA considers it “adulterated,” and convinced a federal judge to force him stop selling it several months ago.
The judge also sentenced him to jail for “contempt of court,” starting December 16, and was going to shut down his farm if he did not immediately pay over $300,000 in fines.
If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
– Mel Brooks
Outstanding WIP Tom – although I will question the historicism behind the Pearl Harbour meme which indicated it happened in 1945.
This is not your doing, obviously – rather, some chap with the same sense of military history as Liability Bob.
I forgot to link to the greatest Christmas Carol of all time.
Now recitfied.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do every Christmas.
“rectified!” sheesh, I haven’t even started on the turps yet!
Interesting stuff OldOzzie. Thanks for posting
It’s idle to dwell on the cringe-worthy visit of the Kiev clown to Crash Test Dummy at the White House, coupled with a “Churchillian” speech at the War Party dominions in Capitol Hill.
A grotesque spectacle- the TV quiz show clown checking in with the decaying, geriatric puppets of the military-industrial-congressional complex. Boy oh they really want a big war.
I will do a bit of blue-skying here, and surmise that:
Any jack going to any property – and particularly a rural property, where:
1. They think someone they want to speak to lives; but
2. They don’t know who else might be on that property; and
3. They don’t know for sure whether there are firearms registered to that person, and if so where those firearms actually are, OR whether they have guns The System doesn’t know about, OR whether the wild cards have guns or not, registered or otherwise:
And doesn’t assume there are guns on that property – if for no other reason than it’s a rural property, as mentioned – is a fucking idiot.
Trump Excoriates McConnell Over Omnibus
forbes
Scott Ritter: Ukraine cannot win this war. It’s a ‘fantasy.’
A 40 minute video well worth watching IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCR-Phtgx0k
And doesn’t assume there are guns on that property – if for no other reason than it’s a rural property, as mentioned – is a fucking idiot.
Which of course begs the question as to what the registry actually does?
If you were actually looking to have a registry that did something, it would be a registry of stolen firearms ONLY.
Of course they don’t want a registry that functions in a practical sense, they want a registry suitable for 1984.
Barnaby of course has been shilling for this, just incase you didn’t realise what a treacherous toad he is.
In one of the best examples of imperialist colonialism seen to date – on this day in 800AD, Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
In Aachen. Present-day Germany.
We should have seen the signs, and crushed the Krauts there and then.
Nice shooting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU9WzydHsMw
so they sent a bunch of greenhorns to confiscate firearms from ppl that hated government corruption and overreach and hated cops, was always going to end well
Joyce was happy to be deputy pm to Michael rumble. No more needs to be said.
what this tells us is that the next world war the west has no choice but to go nuclear
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@Lukewearechange
Transhumanism is the end game!
Angels We Have Heard On High
Over A Thousand People Came Together To Break a Record And Bring This Moving Christmas Hymn To Life.
Thank you, all, for your Christmas wishes. And a very Merry Christmas to you all. Enjoy and revel in the food and company of the day.
Daily Mail.
Painting himself as the underdog. A carefully orchestrated – no doubt by a manager – media campaign designed to resurrect this midget cheat’s image. From BB:
Averaging the same as a half-decent No.8. The ‘mental health’ aspect is knowing he’s gone mentally, which is showing in his technique – particularly against the short pill.
Look at his golden duck (ha) again. He’s dropped the bottom hand off the bat to bring the ball straight to ground, but he’s pushing the bat at the ball, fending it away rather than down.
The ‘lack of support’ he’s citing from CA is not only entirely justified, it’s a direct lift from Monkeygate where the late Andrew Symonds got fuck all from CA who caved to India.
To be clear, he is attempting to engender public sympathy using the name of a dead former colleague who was twice the cricketer and ten times the man Warner is. If there was something that could make this odious little left-handed Lord Farquaad more disgusting, this is it.
I have many many battle scars from cats and worm tablets.
I think the cats won.
Not everybody has a roast turkey and taittinger breakfast on Christmas day.
Linus explains That’s What Christmas is all About Charlie Brown 1 Min 18 Secs
In the Third World, people are still tethered enough to basic reality that the worst poisons of the American psychological empire can’t take root. You know what I’m talking about: the transgender frenzy is the ultimate “First World problem,” a development so absurd that only a wealthy country could get away with indulging it for a moment.
In 1943, United States shipyards launched the equivalent of the inventory of the Imperial Japanese Navy, at the outbreak of World War Two…
Boland stays in for tomorrow.
The Hoff stays out.
The ‘lack of support’ he’s citing from CA is not only entirely justified, it’s a direct lift from Monkeygate where the late Andrew Symonds got fuck all from CA who caved to India.
Bit of a longbow drawn there, digger.
Plenty of Test cricketers got shafted by the ACB, including Norm O’Neill, Bill Lawry and Simmo.
Sledging is a 2 way street, Symonds could hand it out, but he had such a gigantic sook when he copped some back that CA had to finish him up.
I also note Mr Nick Papagiorgio will be gracing the screen tonight.
Interesting Article & Viewpoints of the West Moral Decline Today
Vladimir Putin: Leading Humanity Through the Transition
Putin speaks out as a voice of reason and truth against the Empire of Lies.
”The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United States.
In certain countries, the ruling elites voluntarily agree to do this, voluntarily agree to become vassals; others are bribed or intimidated. And if this does not work, they destroy entire states, leaving behind humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies. They don’t care. All they care about is their own benefit.[…]
[…]I want to underscore again that their insatiability and determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia. They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.” ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)
SATANIC TAKEOVER
”Let me repeat that the dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves. This is a challenge to all. This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a “religion in reverse” – pure Satanism. Exposing false messiahs, Jesus Christ said in the Sermon on the Mount: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” These poisonous fruits are already obvious to people, and not only in our country but also in all countries, including many people in the West itself.” ~ Vladimir Putin (Source)
The current global confrontation is also taking place in the spiritual/religious arealm. Russia is at war with an anti-religious Western civilization that is itself at war with God and attempting to overthrow the very foundations of spiritual and moral values: God, the Church, the family, gender, man. The anti-Christian Western “woke” elites are bent on the destruction of Christian Russia, a war against the last Christian bastion.
Putin is unapologetic about Russia’s determination to defend Christian values and maintained that it is very important to defend Christianity against the corroding influence of Antichrist-type ideas that are causing people to lose their human dignity.
Metaphorically-speaking, the world is one big schoolyard with a single, big, bad bully. Until now, the majority stood with the bully, either out of fear, cowardice or because they are sadists themselves.
Only a few stood against him, but they were largely powerless to change the status quo. Now a newcomer has arrived who has not just stood up to the bully, but given him a black eye. The bully knows he can’t take on this newcomer in a fair fight, so he calls on his followers to denounce the newcomer and banish him. Slowly but surely however, more and more of the bully’s “allies” are starting to figure out that the bully is scared and weak, and will not defend them should the newcomer also take aim at them over their immoral and spineless behavior. One by one, they begin to rethink their positions.
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Santa’s Sleigh Mistakenly Shot Down By Ukrainian Missile
so they sent a bunch of greenhorns to confiscate firearms from ppl that hated government corruption and overreach and hated cops, was always going to end well
Queensland police command are in some very very deep shit.
This goes a long way to explaining their bluster and the launch of the national firearm registry distraction squirrel.
If we didn’t have such partisan media, Queensland police command would be getting the reaming of their lives.
NATO and the US especially are draining their armories of all the old crap stock they have, sending it to Ukraine. There’s much more to go. Those arsenals have to be replenished at some point. The Military Industrial Complex is going to be wallowing in taxpayer dosh for years.
In 1943, United States shipyards launched the equivalent of the inventory of the Imperial Japanese Navy, at the outbreak of World War Two…
It wasn’t junk either. We had a collection of aircraft and tank parts on the farm. It was all beautifully made.
Sadly correct, KD. Warner’s 36-year-old reflexes are a few microseconds slower than they were when he was 22. You can’t hide when you’re an opening batsman.
I wish David Warner no ill will. It’s tragic that his demise is playing out in the glare of Australia’s biggest sporting stage, the Boxing Day Test.
P, that clip was glorious! Thanks for linking to it.
The Nativity scenes were beautiful, especially the early one where small children portrayed the Nativity. Tear inducing. The children dressed as Angels and the three Kings shedding a tear. Not to forget of course the joyful music and lyrics.
Thanks again P. Merry Christmas.
Yep.
Sometimes you can substitute numbers for experience.
Sometimes.
Veteran police would be thin on the ground out there. The western Downs is a training ground for recent acadamy graduates. That might be something to look at in the reviews.
so they sent a bunch of greenhorns to confiscate firearms from ppl that hated government corruption and overreach and hated cops, was always going to end well
Huh?
The original story was a welfare check.
Now it’s unauthorised entry to Qld during the Covid border closure, plus being in possession of unregistered weapons.
So, those 4 cops had Warrants, right?
Course they fucking didn’t. it’s just more lies and bullshit.
Hun just now:
Josh Hazelwood has been lauded for his selflessness after taking a potentially brutal selection call to leave Scott Boland out of the Boxing Day Test away from selectors’ hands.
Boland will have the chance to reprise his heroics against England 12 months ago against South Africa this time around after Australia announced an unchanged side from the outfit that won the helter skelter first Test at the Gabba inside two days.
Intrigue had lingered all week as to which of Victorian fan favourite Boland or the reliable Hazlewood would combat the Proteas, but Hazlewood decided after training on Christmas Eve that he was not quite right to return from a side strain, ensuring Boland could keep his spot.
Physician, heal thyself.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Cats. And if you’re a goat…
their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies
Hmmm were Americans using Sam Bankman-Fried CEO FTA & his Girlfriend Caroline Ellison, CEO of Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried’s privately-controlled hedge fund, to destroy a CryptoCurrency to create doubt about CryptoCurrencies, that America could not Control
BREAKING: Secret Back Channel Between FTX and White House Closed the Day After FTX Filed for Bankruptcy
Now we’ve learned that FTX and the Biden White House participated in a back channel that was closed the day after FTX went bankrupt.
This all came from a report at far-left Politico. They reported on Thursday that Democrat operative and close advisor to Bankman-Fried named Sean McElwee had a direct backchannel setup with the White House.
Sean McElwee had a Slack channel at DataForProgress “that became a rolling convo between McElwee, Biden Admin officials, & some well-known reporters” & “the day after FTX filed for bankruptcy & SBF resigned as CEO, McElwee abruptly shuttered the channel.”
Secret Backchannel Between White House and FTX Operative Revealed, Raises Serious Questions About Biden Involvement
and
There is something about this whole FTX scam that is deeply disturbing, yet isn’t getting enough airplay. Something new right? As if we don’t have enough deeply disturbing questions lying around unanswered.
My due diligence goggles have lit up in every direction pointing to the same conclusions. Putting aside the basic frauds committed and who precisely enabled these three children to do what they did, I want to know other much more interesting details that are being buried in the noise:
As I understand it, FTX was the second largest donor to Brandon’s campaign. In addition, others affiliated with the Party of Clinton and Obama were also generously endowed. This is no trivial matter. Right Maxine?
A. How was this all booked and how was it reported to the Federal Election Commission?
B. Who received what? And why was Hitlery’s actual meeting with Gensler scrubbed from his diary?
C. How did the donees book what was received?
D. How were the proceeds laundered and spent?
E. If diverted for personal use, like all slush funds usually are when the Party of Clinton and Obama and all their pals are involved, how was this reported on tax returns. And make no mistake, from my way of thinking, crypto wallets stuffed with millions of coins are by definition slush funds.
F. Did Maxine give SBF a rim job? How much Maxine?
G. What was diverted to Ukrainians.
canuck dystopia
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From the Oz. Unkind souls have been unkind enough to point out that neither the United Kingdom, nor New Zealand, actually have constitutions….
the reports said they had warrants, the standard proceeded when firearms are not protected as specified by law as has been alleged, ie they were dumped in the flood, then the license is cancelled and any remaining firearms are confiscated.
So while they haven’t told us what the warrant was for, we can be almost 100% sure that it was for confiscation of any remaining firearms.
form there it’s a short step to “pry them from my cold dead hands”