The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840
An interesting observation of Jordan Peterson today on the sharing of a meal at the table. This has meaning for…
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Glorious tale of woe! High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol (25 Nov)…
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https://x.com/search?q=Swans%20&src=typed_query Yep. Swans the food of Kings and migrants.
“Inside government ranks, some MPs have privately expressed concern at the outspoken approach their former colleague may take in his new diplomatic role, suggesting he could become a “second foreign minister” based in Washington.”
A certainty.
m0nty says:
January 5, 2023 at 9:43 am
To whom?
As to his ability to pick duds?
Yup, it’s well known, you have to wonder if cheating would’ve been enough to oust him, had he picked better people?
This was obvious to anyone with half a brain since day 1, that obviously exclude pretty much the entire woke endlessly fawning, echo chamber NPCs
“Don’t forget: only grooming by priests is evil and must be condemned, not grooming by Muslims and leftists, which doesn’t even exist, and is only a right wing moral panic. So say the most moral among us.”
Grooming by Muslims is a step up, not a step down, it’ll even get you promoted by UK Labour and the NHS.
gobbledygook written by absolute morons
Desperate attempt by Monty to rationalise failure of ‘the Squad’ on Medicare. As for grandstanding claim, surely that applies to first impeachment attempt and arguably the second. And any attempt to defend them would apply to Medicare.
Duk, there are plenty of commercial single pilot operations, generally in smaller aircraft. Also in EMS helicopters. I know the one Toll runs for NSW Ambulance is single pilot. The pilot does have a crew person to help tune radio to next frequency etc. The operation is high workload, day/night/VFR/IFR as required with minimal time for flight planning, as you would know.
There are also military operations with large drones controlled from the ground such as our MQ4C Tritons. As I understand it initial large aircraft single pilot ops will be for cargo only. Likely the aircraft will be routinely monitored from the ground with the single pilot for emergencies. Eventually I can
see getting rid of the pilot for those ops.
For passengers pilots will be retained. You really want people up front whose hides are on the line and who want to live (one reason why ground based air traffic control is a dangerous concept). This is why pilots who eat with a knife and fork are a good idea. Last thing you want in an emergency is for the guys up front to declare “inshallah”.
Gaborsays:
January 5, 2023 at 9:49 am
m0nty says:
January 5, 2023 at 9:43 am
Trump hitching his wagon to McCarthy may prove to be very costly.
To whom?
As to his ability to pick duds?
Yup, it’s well known, you have to wonder if cheating would’ve been enough to oust him, had he picked better people?
It hardly seems two months since m0nty=fa was sneering at Trump because not everyone he supported was elected. Now he is screeching that the Republicans should elect the candidate supported by Trump.
Make up your tiny mind, m0nty-=fa.
in other words the only way to protect the west will be to use nukes as we have sold out our industrial capacity to china
Watched that on the way back from town just now.
The first cracks in this rotting edifice are starting to appear.
Keep getting those children jabbed, monty.
in other words the only way to protect the west will be to use nukes as we have sold out our industrial capacity to china
That won’t protect the West, merely get it incinerated.
Er, no…they want reform of the speakership in order to make House processes more democratic by devolving power to members and fear that with McCarthy it will be business as usual.
You’re welcome.
Zippy – An irony of the Z war is that it has given the old military industrial complex a new life. I’m sure China is unhappy with this as all sorts of production lines are being started up again. Vast numbers of AA, AT and AS missiles, plus artillery and drones. Poland yesterday placed another order for more Abrams. Also the Dems recognize the vast graft opportunities from necessarily opaque military equipment orders. The trouble for China with all this is they aren’t ready – they’re frantically expanding their navy but it has a long way to go to be tough enough to stand off the USN.
Plus corruption in the Chinese military industrial complex is pretty bad too it looks like.
China Hits Pause Button On Investment-Heavy Approach To Support Chipmakers Amid At Rivaling US (5 Jan)
As we saw with the baby formula scandals Chinese entrepreneurs will take any opportunity to extract a buck, and with a vast amount of dosh from the PLA on offer I’m sure they would promise the moon and the stars to get at it. Unfortunately real high tech requires serious quality control standards for which cutting corners won’t work.
Clott Adams being owned by Salty and Garrison.
A commenter notes his self insertion into 2020 was very inorganic!
https://youtu.be/FsHMrHsronU
Scott Adams was wrong because he’s smart!
You were right because you’re dumb!
The most awesome deposit of Dotonium uncovered, and its Australian.
And yes, apparently thats her real name.
What does an invisible woman know about passion?
ByMelinda Coxhead
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Out of nowhere, the fifty shift has taken over my body. It’s brutal as it breaks down my reproductive ability one perimenopausal month after another. Occasionally teasing me with a token period, like the last of my sad little eggs are waving and shouting: “Wait … don’t forget us, we’re still here!?? Not to mention all sorts of brain fog and uncontrollable rages.
Fifty has taken my once-heaving breasts and tenderised them into schnitzels. Forlorn nipples facing my knees in defeat. Middle age has slackened my jawline, lined my neck and deepened my wrinkles overnight.
I’m trying to love myself whilst dealing with being less attractive. It’s true what they say about becoming invisible as I notice people see me less and less.
….
Which leads me to the next shift. What has happened to the men in my demographic? Collectively they have left me scratching my head. I’ve racked up my fair share of pathetic first date stories, but these most recent experiences have me rattled.
Now let me remind you, I’ve been single for 15 years and I’m not used to a man in my space. It was a cold Melbourne night and I was all rugged up. I had just greeted him when he said “let me take your coat”.
I wasn’t ready, it was meant to be my security blanket for the first few minutes before I took it off when I felt comfortable. He rips it from my back, one of my arms gets caught and I’m flapping it about in the intimate, dimly lit restaurant. He pulls it free, along with my scarf and runs off to hang it up … I may as well be naked. I left my hat on to compensate.
We have a polite conversation, there’s not a lot of laughter, but the conversation flows and he is interesting. Until it also becomes apparent that he is quite rich. And refers to it to the point where I become uncomfortable with my poor status. I mean every girl wants to meet a millionaire but, in the end, his big talk is just tedious.
Then we got up to go. He runs to get my coat which he helps me with. But then he positions his arm in a way so I must loop mine through it. It’s so forced and awkward I walk stiffly out of the restaurant. Suddenly, I’m cast back to regency England like we are taking a turn about the room before the men retire to the drawing room for cigars.
I managed to get my hand out as we bought gelati after dinner. He offers his arm again, but I say, “Sorry, no I can’t do that. Um, don’t take it personally.” Insert nervous laughter. I see him grimace. Cue few minutes of discomfort, thank God we are walking back to the car.
Cats, so many cats in her future.
The apparently nice, considerate millionaire didnt make he vay-Jay tingle on the spot, so is consigned as a ‘dud”.
…
Have men given up? Or is there such a man shortage they think they can get away with this lacklustre behaviour? My hands are in the air. I give in.
So, I’m baffled. I know what you’re thinking, I must be fussy, unrealistic, indecisive. What is wrong with me? I’m not desperate, lonely, or sad. I have a full life. But these experiences have galvanised my resolve to search for nothing less than butterflies, desire and anticipation.
When I do meet my life partner, I know it will feel like coming home. I need it to feel like coming home. We just haven’t found the way home yet.
The last line is even better if you imagine it being spoken like fredo from the godfather.
Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec
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Trump testifying before Congress in 1991. Notice how they are actually asking him substantive questions
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1610701077787164676
Interesting replies.
stupid bint expects a successful 50yo male to behave like a 20yo. you are 30 years too late dear, you swapped your life’s evolutionary mission for a “career”, welcome to equity, enjoy a cat or a poodle
Snork!
Kevin McCarthy Rejected By Scott Perry On House Floor
I feel a great disturbance in the force.
Like millions of eggs have been flushed down the funny.
This is a 100% predictable foretaste of Ambassador Rudd’s MO.
“Speaking specifically as a private individual, not, I might add, in my official capacity as Australia’s Ambassador, let me just say…”
The light goes on for hapless village idiot Birmingham:
What is it about Australian Leadership that makes experiential learning so necessary?
How many times do they need to ponder: ‘I wonder what happens if I stick this fork in that power socket?’.
Why are they allowed to do this with Australia’s best interests?
There’s certain among the local swampies here that are looking for a well established man, preferably with his own house, and plenty of money – they want someone who will be a father to their children, but “they aren’t taking on some other woman’s slops.”
What an appalling woman. A man with excellent manners, kindness, and consideration…but just not enough of something or other. And a female so dumb she writes about it as though it’s something horrid.
I wonder what his version of events would be?
Sir, you have dodged a bullet.
Body Language: Jim Jordan, Standing His Ground
Body Language Ghost
Because we let them.
Gee. So difficult to pin it down.
Hmmmmm. This might be a clue.
Hmmmmm. Another clue. No need for the reminder, it was a given.
There’s a meme for all that, of course.
In a very different way, it reads something like those letters to editor of old men’s magazines.
Barely believable but designed to evoke a specific response from the target audience.
Ardent feminist reaches middle age & finds herself left on the shelf.
It’s a mystery.
Where would we be without the ABC to give us the really important news of the day?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-05/dane-swan-criticised-for-male-tampons-tweet/101828252
In Covid crisis, PLA prepares for war over Taiwan. East Asia is to become a military hotspot in 2023
China Insights
Regardless of how or when the Russian-Ukrainian war ends, the Russian military has been greatly damaged and will sooner or later fall from the second position of world military power, making another major war in Europe less likely. And as long as the CCP remains in power, the hot spots in East Asia won’t subside. The U.S., Russia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea are currently considered the top six military powers in the world, followed by Britain and France. From the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, and the Philippine Sea to the Korean Peninsula, the military hotspots in East Asia will only get hotter.
Now that the CCP is in constant internal crisis and has to confront and start an arms race with the US and Japan simultaneously, the CCP will only be dragged down more quickly, which should become another gas pedal, fueling the fall of the CCP regime.
Well, she sucked me right in. But then I don’t read old men’s magazines. They sound horrible and likely to smell a bit. Eeeeew.
Dunno about “barely believable” though. Insecure narcissists are everywhere, and some are *gasp* columnists.
Devolving power… to them specifically. Not members in general, just them.
Go long Wkiskars.
The end of that Bloomberg piece:
There are at most 20 people voting against McCarthy, and they are acting like they are the majority of the Republican caucus. It would be hilarious if… actually, yes, it’s just hilarious.
Erm…that’s not the way it works, munty.
dwnews
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday presided over the launch of a warship armed with new hypersonic cruise missiles on a training mission to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean.
“I am sure that such powerful weapons will make it possible to reliably protect Russia from potential external threats and will help ensure the national interests of our country,” Putin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.
“We will continue to develop the fighting potential of our armed forces,” Putin said, adding that the Zircon missile system on the ship “has no equivalent”.
Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu took part via video conference in a ceremony for the launch of the mission of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate.
“The main focus of the mission will be countering threats to Russia and supporting regional peace and stability together with friendly countries,” Shoigu said.
Rogersays:
January 5, 2023 at 10:22 am
The Gaetz faction are achieving nothing at the moment except some grandstanding and ego stroking. Which is probably their primary goal.
Er, no…they want reform of the speakership in order to make House processes more democratic by devolving power to members and fear that with McCarthy it will be business as usual.
m0nty=fa supports centralised dictatorial control, as long as it is by fascists (=DemonRats and their allies in the GOP Establishment). He is appalled at the very idea of allowing a wider range of voices to hold positions of power.
That’s one helluva camel!
She was bitching about ‘no spark’ yada, yada.
I’ll bet he was screaming inwardly “Beam me up, Scottie!” before entree arrived.
mUnty thinks everything operates like a kindergarten does.
let’s keep having votes, says the Kindergarten teacher, until we get the correct outcome
“hapless village idiot Birmingham:”
Generous. Bummingham is a scumbag of monumental proportions. He’s the epitome of the “uniparty” in Canberra and why it must be smashed, actually not smashed, rather obliterated until there’s nothing left. Everyone knew from the moment of the announcement that Rudd wasn’t just an appalling choice, he will do untold damage to the relationship
This is why I’m enjoying what’s going on in Washington. McCarthy and co are just more of the same and it needs to stop. Sooner or later politicians of the so called right need to stop the tiptoeing, the bending over and the constant capitulation and instead start to stand up for for some right-wing principles. If chaos ensues, so be it.
Well played, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
I like how that Cochran woman still thinks she is going to get a life partner.
And that she thinks he rich and successful, debonair, cultured, and kept himself available (despite having been desirable to women for decades) for a woman who by her own reckoning is past her prime.
‘Cos that is what guys are like – waiting on the sidelines for women to tire themselves out and decide that it would suit them to keep a man permanently now.
To the idiots on the left, conventional weapons largely make nukes redundant. If all you have is a hammer…..
Coxhead.
WTF is it with Auto-corrupt? If I got a letter wrong it changed most of the letters to ‘correct’ it.
He’s going to be a turkey, for sure, but even Rudd can’t wreck the US-AUS alliance.
The Americans will simply work around him if necessary.
And this is the best person to next represent Australia in Washington DC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyTCKoiYk7w
LOL. Well done Albo, you pillock………………..
My favourite KRuddy video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PguhkVG49To
Rogersays:
January 5, 2023 at 11:41 am
Everyone knew from the moment of the announcement that Rudd wasn’t just an appalling choice, he will do untold damage to the relationship
He’s going to be a turkey, for sure, but even Rudd can’t wreck the US-AUS alliance.
The Americans will simply work around him if necessary.
It only seems like a few days since m0nty=fa was claiming that this appointment was an act of genius by AnAl.
Out of nowhere, the fifty shift has taken over my body. It’s brutal as it breaks down my reproductive ability one perimenopausal month after another. Occasionally teasing me with a token period, like the last of my sad little eggs are waving and shouting: “Wait … don’t forget us, we’re still here!?? Not to mention all sorts of brain fog and uncontrollable rages.
What a winning combination! If you’re a bloke, and you’re keeping in good shape, the exact opposite of this is happening!
So, what we got here is someone who has pursued her career, ‘passions’ and personal gratification for thirty years. She now realises two things simultaneously:-
.1 Her choice of career has not delivered financial security; and
.2 Her Plan B of marrying a rich bloke is no longer viable because the goods on offer are showing signs of wear and tear.
Interesting that apparently her latest target “talked constantly about how rich he was”.
Sure.
I’ll bet he was being interrogated non-stop with indirect questions of wealth indicators – job, house, car etc.
As Bear implies, this has got cat lady written all over it.
Well outside my lane here, but I see Russia’s conventional military being snotted by a citizen’s army (albeit the Russian B-Team, with the Ukraine, supported by heavy donations of old stock weapons, taking a terrible flogging) as more, rather than less likely to end up with a major war in Europe.
The Poot has arguably knocked the Red Army reputation off its pedestal. However it seems to me that the learning for Russia is likely to be that any direct trouble with NATO is going to receive tactical nukes toot sweet.
With Invincible Horror Weapons as a psychological backup.
A masterstroke on both the domestic and international fronts!
Meanwhile, the American embassy will already have warned Washington what they’re in for, if they didn’t know already.
Extraordinary video from inside helicopter involved in deadly Gold Coast crash | 7NEWS
I was hoping the authors were Wang, Dong and Ho.
Bionic penis: Synthetic tissue restores erections in pigs (Phys.org, 4 Jan)
Yes I’m sure the related need is huge, especially in China.
Tee hee
Andrews and Perrottet unite in bulk billing venture and urge Albanese government to reform ‘broken’ national Medicare system
Perrottet working with Andrews tells you all you need about Perrottet. Same, shit slightly less hideous package.
Two options – 1. It’s all on finance because the first wife got most of it; or
2. He is surrounded by toys because he is single and ain’t going to jeopardise that now. You might be allowed to play with them for a few weeks if you’re under 30 till something better comes along.
True…a threat which might result in a standoff, the least worst outcome.
A lot of rhinoceroses will be holding their breath. And a few tigers.
The root of the problem is that two of Australia’s 21st century prime ministers have egos you can see from the moon — Kevin Rudd, who, without an ALP faction to watch his back, kicked off the national deficit-borrowing binge in 2007 before the party sacked him because he didn’t have a faction watching his back; and Malcolm Turnbull who made it his personal mission to destroy the Liberal Party (his second choice after the ALP rejected him as a member) — first as PM, then as king-maker via his surrogate, Scott Morrison, who implemented the ALP policy platform to protect the Turnbull family’s investments in renewable energy.
“Now, we have actually a recording of Pemulwuy singing it, and he’s really good,” she says, before singing it, too: “Barrabula barra ma …”
Amazing. A recording made in Sydney before 1802 of an Aboriginal man? And silly me thought the first recording of the human voice was of Au Claire de la Lune, recorded 58 years later by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
Wtf is this shit? Did anyone ever test the veracity of the claim? A recording dating to 1802. FMD
It actually angers me. To get paid to regurgitate this crap is an affront to every taxpayer in the land.
Looking at the damage to the front end, it’s remarkable that pilot was able to land.
Yes. I hope that’s the way it works.
MAD still seems to be the backstop.
Big brother is watching your dog.
Best of CES 2023: Electric skates, pet tech and AI for birds (via Phys.org, 4 Jan)
Poor dogs. The electric skates sound like a great way to fill hospitals with damaged humans.
She’s even claimed membership of a “nation” in southern Queensland that doesn’t exist in the anthropological records.
Perhaps they were victims of genocide?
Not that age yet but I do have those laser eye and galaxy brain things now.
BB it further illustrates the complete degeneration of hiya ejucashun
Something more to cherish than fabricated recordings from 1802:
Derek Dawson was an Englishman from Blackpool, who settled in South Australia, but despite his longevity and accomplishments in both places, his name will be etched in time alongside that of Normandy on the coast of France.
At 97, the southern suburbs RSL stalwart was one of the last South Australian veterans of the famed 1944 Normandy landings which began the downfall of the Nazi scourge in Europe 11 months later.
Derek died on December 20, and was honoured by family and the RSL at a funeral in Morphett Vale yesterday.
At the service, Daughter Emma Sampson paid tribute to her father’s life in the UK and SA, where with her mum Nessie and brother Barry the family moved in 1967.
“Dad you have had a long ride, been a gentleman to the end, so rest in peace, give Mum a hug for us and enjoy your next journey. Love you forever,’’ she said.
The funeral service included The Last Post, Ode of Remembrance, and one minute’s silence, along with references to Derek’s WWII service.
This began when he signed up as a Driver for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in July 1943, aged just 18, and ended helping rebuild a shattered Germany until 1947, well after the end of the war in 1945.
Normandy is remembered as the turning point of the war. The successful liberation of Europe turned on creating and holding five beachheads won with the tenacity and sacrifice of those like Derek and his comrades.
In the first wave, at his Gold Beach landing point alone, 350 of Derek’s 24,000 fellow troops who made it to shore on D-Day, or attacked German defences from behind enemy lines, did not make it past the heavily fortified defences.
But by the end of the first day of the battle, 156,000 Allied troops had survived the onslaught, and Europe would soon be liberated.
The Royal Engineers were part of the second wave on the beaches soon after, in charge of making sure machinery and weapons functioned properly.
The Royal Engineers were part of the second wave on the beaches soon after, in charge of making sure machinery and weapons functioned properly.
Derek met his wife Nessie, also in the army, just before returning to civilian life. In 1967, as economic conditions worsened in the UK, the Dawson family, including Emma’s brother Barry, were bound for Newcastle where Derek was to work as fitter with BHP.
“Dad and Mum made the decision to make a better life for their family, paid their ten pounds, but a week before they were due to leave England Dad got a letter saying he would now be working in Whyalla South Australia,’’ she said.
“In February 1967 we left the UK on the Fairstar Ship to make the 6-week journey to Australia, this would be the last time dad and mum ever saw England.
“While in Whyalla until 1992 dad worked at BHP in the Coke Ovens as a Fitter and our mum owned her own women’s clothes shop.”
Speaking at a gathering of friends and family at the Port Noarlunga and Christies Beach RSL club, President Jason Tank, said it was the role of the organisation to honour people like Derek.
“The RSL is all about acknowledging the service and the lives and the sacrifices these people made,” he said.
“A lot of these people here today were best mates with Derek and it is a honour to attend his funeral and pay tribute.”
In 2016 at the age of 91 Derek was part of a small group of 12 veterans who were awarded the French order of Merit – Frances highest decoration “The Legion of Honour” at an Adelaide Town Hall ceremony.
Barry Dawson said his father continued to honour fallen comrades each year after the war.
“Dad would always attend Remembrance Day Service and the Dawn Service and ANZAC march in the city were on his calendar every year, rain, hail or shine,’’ he said.
“On Sundays Dad was on parade at the RSL. To everyone who is not sure, “On Parade” means being with his mates at the club.”
Probably the best thing was it completely smashed out the windshield, giving him a forward view.
But, yes, regardless of what went before, a good job to set it down on the nearest available patch of ground*.
Not sure if that is the video I saw, but there was one where a second row passenger taps him on the right shoulder and he turns to that side. In hindsight, a tap on the left shoulder might have been more helpful.
* Years ago an Irish flying instructor gave me some blunt advice regarding a quite long “Engine Failure After Take Off” checklist.
“Feck dat. Just get it to best glide speed, switch de tanks and check de fuel pump and mags. Den look fer somewhere to land. Dere’s no feckin’ time for any of dat udder shit.”
It actually angers me. To get paid to regurgitate this crap is an affront to every taxpayer in the land.
You’re not alone.
Zipster and Roger.
That is the video I saw.
The video the ATSB will be keen to get a look at is the guy with the i-pad or tablet in the left hand seat of row 2.
Unless he was just playing Fortnite.
Was in the supermarket this morning and overheard a woman mention her power bill. ‘Its just come in its $880. We don’t have the money. I don’t know what we are going to do.’
Welcome to Victoria 2023. You get what you vote for. This is going to get rough people.
Rogersays:
January 5, 2023 at 12:19 pm
Wtf is this shit? Did anyone ever test the veracity of the claim?
She’s even claimed membership of a “nation” in southern Queensland that doesn’t exist in the anthropological records.
Perhaps they were victims of genocide?
Jurassic Park IV, the Indigenous Recovery?
Turn it off.
Live free!
Welcome to Victoria 2023. You get what you vote for. This is going to get rough people.
Universal poverty incoming! Maybe this will wake Victorian’s the hell up.
“You get what you vote for.” Clearly Prictorians have not worked that out yet and appear ready willing and able to bend over and spread em!
Feelthebern:
OK, I don’t follow popular culture that much. Even less do I follow tennis. Who was the magnificent offensive lineman Detroit drafted out of Oregon?
I could do with a larf…
Tucker Carlson: This is one of the most important stories of our time
Melbourne to become Australia’s most populous city by 2033 amid Sydney exodus
A good brother
Old Ozzie:
Reminds me of that famous photo of the incoming Labor government that didn’t.
Now that was embarrassing for them. But it was OK – we all got the joker.
This was not about principle at all, just your normal horse trading by careerist politicians. So much for draining the swamp.
Mind you I wouldn’t be surprised if McConnell pours more money in to compensate.
The trouble for China with all this is they aren’t ready – they’re frantically expanding their navy but it has a long way to go to be tough enough to stand off the USN.
Do PLAN ships run into innocent commercial shipping just minding its own business?
“The Duke of Sussex claims William physically attacked him in his London home after his brother labelled wife Meghan ‘rude’ and ‘difficult’.”
You know what I think, I think it’s absolute utter codswallop. He and the trailer park trash he’s hooked up with are both attention seeking whores and will say anything for a buck.
What happened to the days when Royalty used to keep such “trailer park trash” as mistresses?
Eyrie – The shipping container Q ships are a bit of a worry if that’s what you’re referring to. But I suspect the USN is well aware of them.
I was just observing that while the PLAN has got some carrier task groups going, albeit with limited practical experience, and likely less AEGIS-style missile defense, so far they’re very outclassed. Much more so than Japan in 1941. Which means the USN should eat them for lunch, provided they have an admiral with balls. That is not guaranteed in these days of wokeness, of course, either militarily or biologically.
The PLAN may be able to do a lot with nukes, but nukes do then then to lead to more nukes. If I was the ONI I’d be carefully working out where all the Central Committee’s various bunkers are located, and make sure I have enough penetrating nuclear munitions ready for all of them.
Indolent:
That would be the luckiest man ‘ve seen in over 30 years of A&E and remote area nursing. To have missed the major vessels in the neck would have required Divine Intervention.
See here.
A useful reminder is how the AEGIS destroyer USS Mason went when attacked by a total of 9 Silkworms in Oct 2016. I suspect the PLAN took very close notice of that encounter.
Eyrie – The shipping container Q ships are a bit of a worry if that’s what you’re referring to. But I suspect the USN is well aware of them.
I was referring to the two incidents where plain incompetence caused collisions between US Navy ships and commercial shipping. Hate to think how the USN will do if the shooting starts. Will the watch officer on the bridge get over her hissy fit with the officer in the CIC?
I wonder if the PLAN has the ship attack version of the Kalibre or a copy/close equivalent of? Mach 2.9 in terminal phase.
The Chinese are a people who can put up a space station and land rovers on the far side of the Moon. I’d say they have all the tech they need.
Haha, yes. That fiasco was amusing. Doesn’t seem to affect male watch officers quite to the same extent. 😀
I’ve commented on Chinese tech upthread. They’ve only very recently been able to build engines for their frontline fighters for example, previously they got them from the Russians.
The training and doctrine is going to take a while to mature. Whether they have enough for purely littoral security during an invasion of Taiwan, say, I couldn’t say. I suspect not…yet.
So, poor little Hazbeen was yelled at by his big brother*. Wouldn’t he have been yelled at plenty by the various training NCO’s and officers during his stint in the military? Pathetic!
‘He broke my necklace’ Not the necklace. Oh noes. Instant phone call to therapist for broken necklace.
Suicidal wife? Not calling the therapist because not a good look for the Firm.
Yeah, you utter drongo. Make it make sense.
*Wills has probably gained thousands more fans for this long overdue lesson for Harold.
For want of something better to do I was over on Ebay having a look at what is selling on American Civil war collectables in Oz .. pity I don’t need the money cos a lot of the CW bits & pieces I have are, apparently, worth money these days .. understandable, I suppose cos if your into this sort of stuff the O/S postage, nowadays, on top of the item price is enuf to put you right off …….
Watched the mini series, WITCHER, FIRST BLOOD last night .. only runs to 4 episodes & well worth watching if you liked Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon …….
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12785720/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Eyrie
The Chinese are a people who can put up a space station and land rovers on the far side of the Moon. I’d say they have all the tech they need.
Yet, oddly, Chainerr is still recorded as a “developing nation”.
“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,”
My opinion of Wills has gone up.
My opinion of Hazza couldn’t go down any further though.
Monty:
This was not about principle at all, just your normal horse trading by careerist politicians
It always gets me that when the left want to discuss what’s wrong with the wrangling/”failing” of their opponents it’s always the higher bar they set.
While they can be full on horse traders, because they do it behind closed doors to hide the cupidity of their own sausage-making, that’s all ok.
See, for example, Elbow giving the Australian Ambassador to the US job to Krudd. Made long ago, was that decision, and more than likely made during the election to ensure no leaks against his old party. So, no prize there as purveyors of temperance, reason and honest dealing.
And when it comes to our political parties jockeying here in OZ, we see the same phenomenon. The Liars always pointing out where the SFLs are going wrong in order “to help them regain their lost ground” – see, for example, Steven Conroy’s ad nauseum commentary on Sky on what the Libs must do to make them more electable. So it’s more ruinables; support the voice; female quotas, I tells ya!, (h/t Rabz) that will do it, Dutto!
What’s happening here, Monty, is that open egg breaking should get the right omelette. And if it doesn’t then the electorate will judge the matter accordingly.
“He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,”
I hope that he didn’t cause a ladder in Harry’s stockings. Or spoil his perm.
Sicktoria, ground zero for catholic bashing.
Victorian court allows abused altar boy’s children and wife to sue Catholic church
Unique case may set precedent as family alleges church’s failings caused man’s violence in later life
A Victorian court has paved the way for the children and wife of an abused altar boy to sue the Catholic church, alleging the church’s failings caused their father and husband to become a violent alcoholic and drug addict who beat them later in life.
The abuse victim, now dead, was an altar boy in north-west Victoria in the mid-1970s when he was allegedly raped by Father Bryan Coffey, a parish priest who allegedly used his role as the supervisor of the local school’s cross-country team to prey on children.
Coffey, who died in 2013, is alleged to have abused nine children across four parishes between 1960 and 1975. The church allegedly moved Coffey between various parish appointments because of “knowledge or suspicion that he was capable of child abuse”.
In the years that followed his abuse, the altar boy began drinking heavily and later developed a serious substance abuse disorder. He was violent and abusive to his wife, whom he married roughly a decade later, and their two children, according to court documents.
Now the wife and two children, who cannot be identified, have sued the Catholic church, alleging they are “secondary victims” of its failure to prevent Coffey from abusing children.
They allege the church should have known that failing to protect the boy from abuse meant that, if he went on to have a family, his immediate relatives would be left “vulnerable to the risk of harm”.
The case is unique in that it alleges the church had a duty of care to the victim’s immediate family members, despite the fact that the abuse happened more than a decade before he met his wife and before the two children were born.
If the argument is accepted at any trial, the case could set a precedent that would potentially expose the church to claims from other immediate family members who have suffered intergenerational trauma caused by clergy abuse.
Last month the church failed to have the claim struck out in the Victorian supreme court.
And if the abuse is alleged, then we have secondary claims for compensation based on unproven offences (to a criminal standard).
Slater and Gordon’s funding of the ALP machine is paying big dividends. Who would imaging just losing the files accusing a sitting PM of facilitating a crime to rip off orphans and widows would pay such long term dividends.
More than 30,000 people are expected to leave Sydney in 2032 – almost three times as many as are forecast to leave Melbourne – while international migrants are also going to favour the Victorian capital, helping it to reach a population of 6.1m within a decade.
Winter 2023 with Dickhead Dan at the helm could easily change this.
Harry had served in the Royal Marines, right? I haven’t heard that he was by any means a slouch when serving.
Does anyone else get the image in their head of Meghan holding the pinky of one hand to her top lip, laughing, while in the other hand she holds a giant theatrical syringe containing Harry’s extracted *air quotes* moe-joe.
Final thoughts on Linux install:
-As only about 2% of desktops are running Linux I expected a much more marginal experience, but aside from a lot of overly verbose and slightly mongishly aspbergers instruction videos and articles, it wasn’t.
– Highly recommended if you have time on your hands and have an old PC to breathe new life in or are on a budget build, even for non nerds like myself who prefer spanners to keyboards.
Jewellery on men is always a worry. A crown is OK at a coronation.
Melbournibad future demographics are a function of cow paddocks. If they surrounded Sydney you would be knocked down in the rush. Neither has a major city urban transit network. Catching a Sydney bus is a truly awful experience, all the delays of driving with none of the benefits.
On Harry: he should never dress in regimental dress uniform for any reason again. His behaviour in imitating a shrill, tweenie with issues, would bring shame on that which he has formerly worn.
Arky in a couple of years..
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My impression is Harry and William did well in their military service, and much better than their dad. But Meghan does appear to have a firm grip on the um, handle she steers Harry by. Not sure what her superpower is, but whatever it is it’s clearly quite potent.
In Ramp It Up To Eleventy Times Infinity Squared noos from the Hun:
An Omicron subvariant that has been tearing through parts of the United States was detected in Australia just before Christmas, health authorities have confirmed.
The highly transmissible XBB. 1.5 subvariant, which has been dubbed “The Kraken”, was detected in small numbers in the two weeks to December 24, NSW Health said on Thursday.
There is no evidence the subvariant causes more severe symptoms than the original Omicron Covid strain, but it is reportedly behind more than 40 per cent of new Covid cases in the US.
Data from NSW Health’s two-week Covid summary released on Thursday showed Covid cases had decreased 40 per cent in the week to December 31. Positive cases amounted to 22,281 compared to 37,371 in the previous week to December 24.
The BR. 2 Omicron subvariant was the most common source of infection, but XBB. 1.5 had been detected, a statement said.
Infectious diseases expert Professor Robert Booy told Sky News existing vaccination levels and natural immunity meant the subvariant would not be a major risk to the community.
“Our vaccines probably do protect against it and we shouldn’t be overly concerned although I’ve called it ‘extra bad boy’ – it’s just a way of remembering the name XBB.1.5,” he said.
“It’s more transmissible, it’s more active, young and able to get around but it’s not more severe it’s not more virulent, it’s not more likely to put you in hospital.”
He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor, his rough coarse workmans hands roamed my shivering heaving bosoms as I cried out “no, no, not while the budgie is watching”…
/Barbara Cartland eat your heart out.
The Kraken. Yet later it’s described as something more benign.
Zero pitty for him.
“And when it comes to our political parties jockeying here in OZ, we see the same phenomenon. The Liars always pointing out where the SFLs are going wrong in order “to help them regain their lost ground” – see, for example, Steven Conroy’s ad nauseum commentary on Sky on what the Libs must do to make them more electable. So it’s more ruinables; support the voice; female quotas, I tells ya!, (h/t Rabz) that will do it, Dutto!”
It’s very deliberate gaslighting, designed to make the Liberals unelectable because they know ruinables, net zero, quotas, the Voice and so on are electoral poison for the Liberals, particularly for the base. Remember how a little over a month ago, the day after the Victorian election, Lord Malturd of Point Piper went on Twitter and stated that the Victorian Liberals had moved too far to the right! The Turd of Point Piper knows he’s undermining the party that made him PM. But the SFLs always fall for it, particularly the likes of Bummingham, Bragg and the few remaining wets in the party who seem to have Dutton’s ear.
Some poetry of colossal intellect
Covid needs a holiday as much as everyone else.
I blame a fall off in testing, (mandatory or hopeful of sick leave).
The Kraken, huh? Misspelled Karen.
lol
Hannity spars with Lauren Boebert over McCarthy speakership race
Stop linking to the Vogons, Black Ball. Rabz won’t like it. No, sir-ee!
What the Lieborals do in Opposition is virtually irrelevant. The real question is whether Albo and the Liars can get a 2nd term. They just fell over the line with Gillard after dumping KRuddy. The next Federal election is a long way off in political terms. Things aren’t going to get any easier for Albo from here.
Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit?
There’s certainly a cadential similarity.
Back injuries you say?
Why on Earth is this not subject to a compo claim?
Stupid boy.
It would have been interesting to see how the Lieborals would have gone at the last election if they had dumped SloMo 18 months out. He was electoral poison.
Hannity is swamp.
Headline at The Australian:
Repatriated ISIS bride arrested and to face court on terrorism charges
I feel so safe. I’m glad we spent so much money bringing them halfway across the world to Australia.
Zipster:
Noticeable is the absence of the vertical chains for use in predetonating RPGs in urban environment.
00:54 ‘White Lung’ Phenomenon Among China’s COVID-19 Spike
03:44 Too Many Corpses: China’s New Cremation Campaign
04:59 Beijing Citizen Denounces Official China Death Rate
06:58 China Lashes Out at Countries’ Travel Restrictions
08:53 S. Korea Tests Chinese Travelers, One Goes Missing
10:01 Japan Toughens Border Control for China Travelers
11:27 World Health Organization: China’s COVID-19 Data Not Credible
15:27 NASA Chief: China Could Claim Moon Territory If It Wins New ‘Space Race’ with the U.S.
16:54 Man Sentenced: Plotting to Steal General Electric Secrets for China
attack on lungs not consistent with known omicron variants
Glenn Greenwald & Jimmy Dore Talk McCarthy Speakership & #ForceTheVote
Anti-McCarthy Republican Speaks Out On Backroom Speaker Battle
Err, I very much doubt that Harry “Just One of The Troops” Windsor copped any bollockings.
His own self-image might be of the brave front-line warrior but he would have been the most cosseted boy scout in the history of the British military.
The biggest danger he ever faced was the possibility of being beaten up by a pimp in Las Vegas.
You don’t cook an omelette by throwing rotten eggs across the House floor.
Actually living out the phrase “beaten like a red-headed step-child”.
“It would have been interesting to see how the Lieborals would have gone at the last election if they had dumped SloMo 18 months out. He was electoral poison.”
Yep, and who regarded him as poisonous? It wasn’t Labor voters, no, it was traditional Liberal voters who found him toxic and poisonous.
The Kraken, huh? Misspelled Karen.
Gold!
I am so over our media ABC,Herald Sun etc making up controversies about tweets by C list celebrities.
What ever happened to journalism?
To answer my own question I presume it was the universities.
I used to know quite a few journos smart guys erudite but mainly drunks
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-05/returned-is-wife-charged-with-entering-syria/101829534
ISIS bride brought home to Australia in October 2022 now arrested for knowingly entering Syria and knowing what ISIS (and her hubby Munty, were doing).
FMD – Not a good look for Albo Akhbar…
He was primaried out of his seat and look where he’s ended up.
As I recall he needs 16 of the 20.
I’m getting short of popcorn.
Funking hell this pink shit is out of hand.All the Austrslisn cricketers filing past a silver bowl and placing their caps in it.Like bloody religious ceremony.Its communion in reverse.
I presume that the caps will be auctioned but seriously they are not holy items
JC – one tweeter sums it up nicely:
“Imagine working your butt off for CNN for years only to be laid off before Christmas because they have no viewership and no revenue. Only to wake up one day in January and see KingZINGER, a hack Congressman, has been hired for $100’s of $1000’s more than you.”
Mole at 2:35.
That is poor reporting by the Gruaniard.
There is nothing alleged about what Coffey did. After fighting charges tooth and nail and used every trick in the book to discredit victims and their families, he was found guilty of multiple child abuse offences in Ballarat in 1999.
The punishment?
He was given a three year suspended sentence.
Didn’t serve a day in jail.
One of the first offences was on the very day of his ordination as a priest. A bit like rogering the flower-girl on your wedding day.
A total grub.
Whilst the prosecution of Pell was a total cluster, I really don’t care if the Church has to shell out on this one.
The ridiculously inadequate sentencing for a crime like that is a double blow.
As for people expressing “zero pitty” for the victim, get back to me when one of your young relatives takes it up the arse from a teacher/priest/scoutmaster.
H B Bearsays:
January 5, 2023 at 3:39 pm
It would have been interesting to see how the Lieborals would have gone at the last election if they had dumped SloMo 18 months out. He was electoral poison.
Hold on. Our top electoral commentator here, Richard Cranium no less, assured us that “Scotty” was playing AnAl like a fine Stradivarius, and had it all wrapped up. Didn’t he win?
It would have been interesting to see how the Lieborals would have gone at the last election if they had dumped SloMo 18 months out. He was electoral poison.
Perhaps there were no takers?
Scotty wasn’t the only problem they had.
Whitlam offered Hayden the PMs job in 1975 and Hayden told him no thanks, you can go down with the ship.
m0ntysays:
January 5, 2023 at 4:03 pm
What’s happening here, Monty, is that open egg breaking should get the right omelette. And if it doesn’t then the electorate will judge the matter accordingly.
You don’t cook an omelette by throwing rotten eggs across the House floor.
Indeed, you throw the rotten (RINO) eggs across the House floor, and use good eggs for the omelette.
Just a thought, here in the West in 2022 we’ve never been so well off materially and we’ve never been so worse off morally.
Indeed – many have written about affluence and comfortability allowing “other virtues” to arise.
“ISIS bride brought home to Australia in October 2022 now arrested for knowingly entering Syria and knowing what ISIS (and her hubby Munty, were doing).”
I reckon she’s just the first to be charged.
Sancho
Whilst the prosecution of Pell was a total cluster, I really don’t care if the Church has to shell out on this one.
The ridiculously inadequate sentencing for a crime like that is a double blow.
Any background on the sentencing judge?
There was once a sheep farmer who had a French farm hand working with him to help castrate his sheep. As the farmer castrated the sheep, the French farm hand took the parts and was about to throw them into the trash. “No!” yelled the farmer “Don’t throw those away! My wife fries them up and we eat them, they’re delicious! They’re called sheep fries!” The farm hand saved the parts and took them to the farmer’s wife who cooked them up for supper. This went on for three days… and each evening they had sheep fries for supper. On the fourth night the farmer came in to the house for supper. He asked his wife where the farm hand was and she replied “It’s the strangest thing! When he came in and asked what was for supper, I told him French Fries and he ran like hell!”
Any background on the sentencing judge?
Belonged to a worldwide Pederasty Cult?
Just a guess.
He’s been coming out with his 10 surprises for decades. These appear a little mellow compared to other years though, but then he’s well into his 80s.
As to the first one about the 24 election. I’m going with Newson v DeSantis and Newsom wins by cheating. The last bit about cheating isn’t really that much of a prediction but more of a certainty.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Richard Cranium
Gutsy call against an unknown judge, who might be a bit litigious.
Sancho Panzersays:
January 5, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Thanks, I was hung up on the allegedly word.
Ill assume in this case it means hes a convicted pedo, but died before this chaps case made it to court.
Still uncomfortable with the idea that a secondary party can claim to have been damaged.
And yes, a manifestly stupid sentence for what should have been “you can die in jail, so sad” case.
sfw:
Thanks for the support!
I mentioned several years ago that if I wanted to buy music of someone practising their scales, I wouldn’t.
ISIS bride charged on “newly obtained evidence”. Suggests she’s been shopped by someone.
JC
12. A technology breakthrough in reducing the carbon emissions of coal-fired plants takes the edge off the climate / global warming scare. This lowers the political pressure on emerging markets to make a rapid transition to renewable energy sources.
The whole Gerbil Worming crapola is nothing to do with Klimate or CO2, and everything to do with political control.
BJ.
I need to be careful here.
Some say he was “well connected in devout circles and the priest was never going to jail”.
(I know someone who was closely connected with the prosecution who is still spewing about the sentencing).
The idea that Groog’s spooks are across the Moozely threat to Australians is laughable.
I don’t believe this for a minute. The idea that even if Russia wins decisively the Russian military is greatly damaged makes no sense. Way too many Western commentators are talking their book.
ISIS bride apparently was arrested because:
1) She travelled deliberately to Syria
2) Knew what her husband was up to
3) Knew what ISIS was up to
Er… so, why is she the only one arrested?
It must fill real Republicans with a warm glowing satisfaction that they can see through such snakes.
CNN, of course, will promote him as their resident representative giving his insights into what is happening on the right, holding forth with extreme assuredness on what the right wing grassroots think (broadly the Democrat agenda) and how the leadership is betraying them, and then adding lies to his earlier lies to explain why his predictions did not pan out.
Er… so, why is she the only one arrested?
If you mean her husband, he’s dead. Killed in Syria a few years after she arrived.
1. 20+ years later the ex wife gets money as a third party?
2. Why was the sentence not successfully appealed?
True somewhat, but if say there’s some catch up technology in further upgrading super-critical coal fired stations, they won;t be able to stop the use globally. Once a few adopt it then it becomes irresistible to the rest.
Yes, he is.
His death isn’t relevant as this is a civil case against the Church.
It isn’t really such a stretch legally.
Imagine Qantas had a pilot who had been caught drinking on the job and had a couple of serious safety incidents. Let’s say Qantas move him to Jetstar NZ where he spears in, killing himself and 100 passengers, and his PM shows a BAC of 0.1%. The families of the passengers would definitely have a case against Qantas, and rightly so.
The guy turned to violence when most don’t that is why I have zero sympathy, idiot! Inquisitor.
It makes perfect sense. You’re not going to hold up Zelensky and smack him around, with tanks, artillery and new Russian soldiers being shaken out of his pockets.
Now you refuse to accept Western casualty estimates. If they’re correct this indeed is a phyrric victory.
Their conventional forces or demographics will not recover from this. Their economy is suffering badly. They’re not a banana republic so other sectors are suffering heavily.
The war is a total and utter embarrassment. Their territorial ambition will stop on the eastern bank of the Donets River.
A bit on Coffey.
http://brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/22
What the judge said
Sentencing Coffey, Judge Kelly said:
“In each case the prisoner [Coffey] was brought into the child’s realm by reference to his priestly profession, by his welcome in the home on a pastoral visit or a family occasion, and most shockingly by his training of boys to serve at the Eucharistic Sacrifice. In all these cases he acted with the full power and authority of the church, a power and authority which during the relevant years demanded and received unquestioning respect from the laity, especially from parents charged with the duty of bringing up their children in the Catholic faith. It is noteworthy that, with the exception of [complainant named], whose injury compelled inquiry and provided corroboration, the complainants assigned as their reason for making no complaint and seeking no assistance the believe that no-one would have believed them. Each of the complainants was a member of a Catholic family practising its faith, into which the notion that a priest would seek sexual gratification from a child would be an unwelcome invasion.
“The span of time, 15 years, the number of parish communities, four, in which it occurred, is significant. This was not an isolated surrender to temptation no a period of uncharacteristic behaviour occasioned by unusual circumstances or by some malignancy of the mind or body, by some stressful activity or by depression. These offences were part of the pattern of the prisoner’s life during his curacy at one parish after another.
“The betrayal of trust involved in these offences is as heinous as the trust was absolute. The prisoner betrayed the trust reposed in him by his church, both in its hierarchy and laity, betrayed the trust reposted in him by teachers at his school, who permitted children committed to their care to fall into his, and betrayed the trust of the children and betrayed the trust of their parents.”
Coffey sentenced
Judge Kelly gave Coffey a three-year jail sentence. However, the judge made this sentence wholly suspended in view of several mitigating factors — Coffey’s absence of previous convictions, the fact that the last of the charged offences occurred many years ago, the public humiliation suffered by Coffey by his conviction, and the termination of his priestly career.
The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed against the leniency of this suspension but in September 1999 the three-judge Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal by a majority of two to one. One of the majority judges claimed that Coffey had “stopped offending in 1975” and Coffey’s offences were “not the worst examples” of sexual crimes”.
When he attended this appeal hearing, Coffey brought a bag of belongings with him in case he was locked up if the appeal failed, but he did not need the bag and he left the appeal court to hand-shakes and back-slapping from a group of male supporters.
However, did Coffey really “stop offending in 1975”? In February 1998, police charged him with an indecent act on a boy, allegedly committed in the Sea Lake parish in 1993, but, fortunately for Coffey, this charge did not reach the courts.
Furthermore, some other charges against Coffey were indeed of the more serious kind. On 10 July 1998, Coffey appeared in the Ballarat Magistrates Court, charged with five counts of buggery allegedly committed against another boy at Ouyen in 1975 and 1976. However, the complainant was too shy to attend court, so, again fortunately for Coffey, these charges lapsed.
Police were told in 1997 that at least two Coffey victims have committed suicide after growing up with problems.
Look who’s back.
Long before the Ukraine conflict it was known the Russian military had pronounced personnel and hardware problems. The damage is not the losses from the conflict but the revelation of how serious those problems are.
There is too much distinction. The facts are not similar enough. You would need very specific and similar case law.
What he has is mitigation regarding his own sentencing, which a lot of (particularly conservative) ordinary people have a problem with.
It indicates though how toxic and far reaching abuse can be. It blights people’s lives in so many ways, and some victims are able to handle and live with it better than others.
Resorting to violence against one’s own children is at the extreme end. There is an element of agency involved though – you have to decide to be violent.
A couple of points here. The assertion that he “stopped offending” is not supported by the facts, and runs counter to everything we know about undetected pedos. He was charged with other offences alleged to have happened in the ’90’s, but these hadn’t made it to court by the time of the appeal.
As for “ending his priestly career”, again, that is a stretch. He didn’t get sent to another parish, but he wasn’t de-frocked or turfed onto the street as he should have been.
Gutsy call against an unknown judge, who might be a bit litigious.
Yeah, SpongeBob.
Anonymous commenters calling themselves Ed Case on a blog where other commenters regularly talk about skinning their mothers can’t be too careful.
Anyway, Judge Kelly was a member of Devers List.
No identifying initial given.
Hear hear. Hrmmph. Abso frickin lootly.
Australia to buy US-made HIMARS in boost to defense systems
The Australian government said the HIMARS it was buying included launchers, missiles and training rockets and would be in use by 2026. It said the system had a current range of 300 kilometers (186 miles), which was expected to increase with technological advances.
The government said it had also signed a contract with Norway-based Kongsberg to buy Naval Strike Missiles for navy destroyers and frigates, which would replace aging Harpoon anti-ship missiles from next year.
Forget about Quantum Electrodynamics
Another example of scientists following the herd.
This is the bit that sticks in my craw.
the public humiliation suffered by Coffey by his conviction (for diddling kids)
Try the same lines for some other offences
Molesting a dead horse
Installing hidden cameras in Montys bathroom
Aiding and abetting your boyfriend ripping off a widows and orphans fund.
In all those cases the public humiliation shouldnt be a mitigating factor, its part and parcel of getting caught.
Bruce O’Newk:
I understand the jigs etc for the Abrams hulls were destroyed to prevent more from being made. But have no evidence of this. I don’t understand why it would be done, but if anyone can correct me on this I would appreciate it.
If it’s the same Fr Coffey then he was up to no good in the eighties.
The girls in the local Catholic school classed him as a creep and complained to their mothers and the nuns.
The nuns went to the bishop and demanded he be removed.
An alternative to QED matched with quantised inertia (as an empirically tested alternative to bogus dark matter) and we could make major progress.
How much has the standard model held back nuclear and exotic propulsion technology?
Keep in mind string theory may even be impossible to empirically test.
Farmer Gezsays:
January 5, 2023 at 5:11 pm
The broken rites link includes allegations from the 80’s, so yes, the same chap.
The awful effect of shit sentencing on the people affected. Proving the turd diddled you and then seeing him allowed to walk out of court would be crushing.
Back to the capital punishment/sentencing argument, there is a definite component of needing to see punishment of a fitting kind inflicted as a large component of restorative justice.
The mental difference between “He rooted me and walked away from court” as opposed to “he rooted me and will likely die in jail of old age” would be huge
The BEST Table Saw Fence on the Market – Prove Me Wrong
It is. But at a cost.
No it doesn’t. It claims that whatever the final outcome the Russians still lose. Nonsensical on its face.
Why would I believe Western estimates given their past record?
They’ll do fine.
They’re already well past the west bank of the Donets. But if you mean the Dnieper and now the claim is that even controlling the east bank of the Dnieper constitutes a pyrrhic victory then its pretty clear that you’re not serious.
On the abuse thing, I think it’s fair to say the Bishop in Victoria (up until 1996) was very secretive about these terrible “goings on.” I think it was AB Little?
And not in any defence AT ALL, but I am sincerely yet to find one single institution that handled such cases well as, sadly, the prevailing wisdom/psychology of the time was “if you change one’s environs, you can change their behaviour.”
State/public, religious, private all thought this.
There are too many string theories to make a viable alternative.
Renormalization is a crock of shit.
Worse, though, was the prevailing thought (in seminaries and other educational institutions) was that men having sex with boys was ok. It was a Greek tradition after all!
And even worse, is that is exactly what they’re pushing openly for now.
“And not in any defence AT ALL, but I am sincerely yet to find one single institution that handled such cases well as, sadly, the prevailing wisdom/psychology of the time was “if you change one’s environs, you can change their behaviour.”
State/public, religious, private all thought this.”
A very good comment.
What is the difference today between somebody getting no more Vax and somebody who can’t wait for the next one.
The first is more interested in the information coming out of Germany and Cleveland about repeated Vax issues (see Dr Campbell etc) whereas the enthusiastic are reading about the latest variants in USA and booking their next jab.
Needless the say most mainstream media bleating about the new variant and quoting Dr’s who are known Vax pushers who would have us all taking them quarterly without question.
I can’t even..
https://thedirect.com/article/joker-pregnant-dc-comics-photos
That would be him.
And that is the crux of the claims Gez.
The Grub plied his fiddling career in the diocese of Ballarat almost entirely under the reign of Bishop Rotten Ronny Mulkearns (1971-1997). In a 30 year career, he was posted to more than 12 parishes, from the South West Coast to the Mallee and central Victoria. That is very, very unusual, to be shifted every 2-3 years. In Coffey’s case there is zero doubt that multiple parents from parishes hundreds of kilometres apart had made very explicit and detailed complaints.
Which were ignored.
The fact that the grub didn’t do jail time for offences against twelve (12) children, one aged five at the time of offending, might just be tilting the scales in these civil proceedings. Legally that shouldn’t happen but, in this case, it’s a big “meh” from me.
Shorter Dover:
Be a cheery fellow and the good old Russians will quickly take all of Ukraine and those massive military, financial and human lives costs you mention prove you’re full of crap!
but I am sincerely yet to find one single institution that handled such cases well
++ lots.
In most cases the damage to the kid/s was weighed against damage to the organization and the kids lost out.
Im sure lots were suddenly unemployed (rather than shuffled around) or left town after falling down stairs, but there didnt seem to be an idea that going to court/police was appropriate.
I found out decades later an assistant coach at our hockey team (he could have been a poster boy for “Mr Pervy old man”) described himself as “the queen of geraldton” yet was tolerated by the parents & coaches.
In hindsight he obviously liked looking at young fit blokes, but there was never a whisper (that i heard) of him doing anything to kids there.
The past is a different place, and it was the same years that one of the big nudie magazines was putting an underage Brooke Shields as the centrefold. Bizarre as that seems now.
Little was Archbishop of Melbourne, and was asleep at the wheel.
Rotten Ronny Mulkearns was Bishop of Ballarat and raised the practice of the Cover Up to an art form.
Mulkearns had a vast amount of evidence hidden under his Persian rug that this was not true.
And did nothing.
Ballarat diocese had long gone past the “isolated incident and we’re on top of it” delusion some time in the late ’70’s and early ’80’s.
Mulkearns simply placed the reputation and standing of the Church above the prevention of child rape.
It’s that simple.
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